MOVING JOURNEY
Your life is enough. Feeling it is the missing part.
Start in your body versus your head
Find Joy Through Movement and Story
Bali Retreat What Actually Happens
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You land. The noise stops. Green fields. A river close by. No inbox. First full breath in months.
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Sunrise. Just you and your breath. No app telling you how to feel. No one needing you yet.
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Cold water at the temple spring. Weight you didn't know you carried. Gone.
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You move your story instead of explaining it. Where you started. Where you got stuck. Where you're headed. Your body knows before your head does.
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You find the parts of you you've been avoiding. Turns out they're the good ones. This is the work. It's also the relief.
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You move with people who aren't watching you. No one judging the shape you make. You forget to judge it too.
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The group builds something real. Not a performance. Not a project. Just true, made with your body.
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Someone works the exhaustion out of your shoulders. Tired you'd stopped noticing. You'll feel it leave.
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Last night: open-air theater, stars for a ceiling. You show the group what moved in you. No one's grading it.
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You go home with a story that's yours. And people who watched you get there. Not a souvenir. Proof.
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MOVEMENT & THEATER
WORKSHOPS & RETREATS
Experiences That Last a Lifetime
WORKSHOPS
INSPIRATIONAL RETREATS
POST RETREAT
We move. We laugh. We discover real friendship.
Old wisdom, real dance, for people who want more joy in their life.
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Dance Your Way to Joy
WORKSHOP
A workshop gives you a glimpse. A retreat gives you a rehearsal.
Three days is long enough to stop performing. Long enough that the managing gets tired and quits before you do.
You'll walk your own story, stage by stage — not as an idea, but as something you move through. With your body. In a room. With people doing the exact same thing.
You'll say the hard thing out loud. Probably cry. Possibly laugh right after. Both count. Sometimes both happen in the same minute.
You'll build a practice small enough to survive a Tuesday morning back home. Not a five-step system. One real thing you'll actually do.
And you'll leave with something a workshop can't give you: proof you can hold the new version of yourself for longer than an afternoon.
That's the difference. Three hours shows you the door. Three days, you walk through it — and come out the other side still standing. Steadier, actually. Maybe for the first time in years.
3-HOUR WORKSHOP
We all carry worries. Some sit so close, we stop feeling the weight.
What if, just for three hours, you treated yourself like your best friend? Gentle. Patient. On your side.
That's the whole shift. Like taking off a coat you didn't know you were wearing.
Picture this.
A room. Music. No one performing, no one getting it right — just bodies saying what mouths never could.
You laugh. You say one true thing out loud. You feel connected again — not small talk, just moving next to people who get it, for a few hours on a Sunday.
You don't have to be anyone here. Messy parts and all — that's welcome.
Nobody's cheering you to a finish line. They're just there. Real. Watching you become more you. Not less.
Come move with us. Even just for an afternoon. Come home to yourself.
Q&A
WORKSHOP FAQ (3 hours)
1. Q: What will I gain?
A: You'll move again — really move, the way you used to before life got so serious. We work with Buddhist philosophy and your own story, told through the body, not just talked about. In just three hours, you'll feel the shift. You leave lighter, steadier, and a little more like yourself.
2. Q: How will this workshop help me feel more balanced and joyful?
A: We open with something old and simple — a Buddhist principle that settles something in you before we even start moving. Then we move, we tell the true story, we sit with each other for a while. Nothing rushed, even in a few hours. By the end, your body knows something it didn't know when you walked in. That's where the balance comes from — not a lesson, a feeling.
3. Q: What makes this workshop a fresh start for me?
A: You get a few hours away from the version of you that manages everything. Old thoughts get some air. New ones get room to show up. It's not about becoming someone else — it's about remembering who you already are underneath all the holding-it-together.
4. Q: How does the workshop help me deal with worries?
A: We ask you to be as kind to yourself as you already are to everyone else. That's it. It sounds small. It isn't. Most people leave feeling like they've put down something heavy they'd been carrying so long they forgot it was there.
5. Q: Do we eat together?
A: Depending on the workshop, there may be a light shared bite or tea afterward — a chance to land, talk, and connect before you head back into your day.
6. Q: How does Buddhist philosophy show up in the workshop? A: Not as theory. As something you feel in the room. Ideas like impermanence, non-attachment, beginner's mind — old and simple — show up through movement, not a lecture. You don't have to believe anything. You just try it, in your body, and see what settles.
7. Q: What role does dance play? A: It's not about steps or getting it right. It's letting your body say something your mouth hasn't found words for yet. In three hours, that's often enough to surprise you.
8. Q: Who will I be with? A: People like you — capable, a little tired of holding it all together, ready for something real. No performing here. Just people, in a room, being honest for an afternoon.
9. Q: How will creativity be encouraged? A: There's room to make something just because you want to — no skill required, no point to prove. You might surprise yourself with what comes out, even in a short afternoon.
10. Q: What's the overall vibe? A: Warm. A little loud with laughter. Real. There's a beat running through the room — in the music, in you. You leave lighter, and you carry a bit of that beat home with you.
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3-DAY RETREAT
Here's the thing about rest: you can't think your way into it.
Three days. No inbox. Nobody needing anything from you.
Meals are slow. Phones stay off the table. Mornings start with something other than a screen — a short practice, nothing to believe in, just something to try.
There's dance. Not performance. Nobody's watching how you look doing it, so eventually you stop watching too.
Most women notice it around day two. Breathing slower. Shoulders lower. Nobody teaches you that — it just happens when nothing's asking for your attention.
You'll laugh more than you planned to. You'll say something true out loud that you've been sitting on for a while.
Nobody here is fixing you. There's no finish line to cheer you toward. Just a small group doing simple things together — eating, moving, sitting still.
You'll go home tired, the good kind. And a little more like yourself than when you left.
1-WEEK RETREAT
Same idea. More room for it to land.
A week of slow meals, real food, phones down. Mornings by the water — same spot, most days — until it's not an event anymore. It's just your morning.
A short daily practice. Nothing to believe in. By day four, you're not "doing the practice." It's just part of the day, like brushing your teeth.
Dance, most days. By the end of the week, it's not the strange part — it might be the part you look forward to.
You'll laugh a lot. Saying honest things out loud stops feeling like a big deal. For a week, that's just how people talk here.
Small group. No milestones, no cheering section. Just people doing the same things you're doing, changing a little, day by day, next to you.
Three days gives you a taste. A week gives you a habit. That's the difference — long enough to actually believe it, and a real shot at keeping some of it once you're home.
Q & A
RETREAT FAQ (3 days / 1 week)
1. Q: What will I gain?
A: You'll move again — really move, the way you used to before life got so serious. We work with Buddhist philosophy and your own story, told through the body, not just talked about. And you'll make real friends. The kind you still call in five years. You leave lighter, steadier, and a little more like yourself.
2. Q: How will this retreat help me feel more balanced and joyful?
A: Each day is anchored in something old and simple — Buddhist principles that settle something in you before the day even asks anything of you. Then we move, we tell the true story, we sit with each other. Nothing rushed. By the end, your body knows something it didn't before. That's where the balance comes from — not a lesson, a feeling.
3. Q: What makes this retreat a fresh start for me?
A: You get a few days away from the version of you that manages everything. Old thoughts get some air. New ones get room to show up. Nothing here is about becoming someone else — it's about remembering who you already are underneath all the holding-it-together.
4. Q: How does the retreat help me deal with worries?
A: We ask you to be as kind to yourself as you already are to everyone else. That's it. It sounds small. It isn't. Most people leave feeling like they've put down something heavy they'd been carrying so long they forgot it was there.
5. Q: What kind of meals can I expect?
A: All meals are included. You'll eat good food — simple, local, grown the way it's meant to be — shared slowly with people who start to feel like friends before the meal is even over.
6. Q: How does Buddhist philosophy show up in the retreat? A: Not as theory. As something you live for a few days. Ideas like impermanence, non-attachment, beginner's mind — old and simple — run through everything: the movement, the mornings, the conversations. You don't have to believe anything. You just try it, in your body, day after day, until something settles that a lecture never could.
7. Q: What role does dance play? A: It's not about steps or getting it right. It's letting your body say something your mouth hasn't found words for yet. You'll laugh. You'll probably surprise yourself. And somewhere in there, with enough days to actually sink in, you'll feel connected again — to yourself, to the room, to something you'd almost forgotten.
8. Q: Who will I meet? A: People like you — capable, a little tired of holding it all together, ready for something real. You'll be with others who get it without you having to explain. No performing here. Just people, being honest, cheering each other on — for days, not hours, which is long enough to actually become friends.
9. Q: How will creativity be encouraged? A: There's room here to make something just because you want to — no skill required, no point to prove. Old ideas get some air. New ones show up when nobody's watching too closely, and with a few days to breathe, they tend to stick around longer.
10. Q: What's the overall vibe? A: Warm. A little loud with laughter. Real. There's a beat running through the whole retreat — in the music, in the room, in you. You come away lighter, and still carrying a bit of that beat when you get home.
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WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US
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They came in carrying things. Anger. A frozen body. A work problem that felt like it had no way out.
One woman said it plainly: her body had been frozen for a long time. The workshop melted it.
That's what the day did. It gave people a place to put down what they were carrying.
It didn't start easy. Some walked in unsettled. Out of their comfort. On ground they didn't know yet.
Then, somewhere in the middle, something shifted. People moved through stuck grief, boredom, anger
— not by talking about it. By dancing it. Choosing the movement that matched what they actually felt, not
what they thought they should feel.
Word and dance stopped being two things. Body and mind moved as one. And by the end, the room
felt different. Lighter. More open. People said they felt steady. Unafraid. Closer to themselves.
What made it work was the room itself. A place where people could be real — structured, but not rigid.
Enough room to let things come up on their own, instead of forcing them. Nobody needed fixing.
They just needed somewhere honest to feel it.
That's the thing to protect. Every single note came back to it — the honesty, the permission, the room
to just be. That's not a detail. That's the whole thing.
What makes me proud is simple. People walked in stuck. They walked out alive.
That's the work.
TESTIMONIAL
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BIOGRAPHY
Ubit Iskandar is a dancer, choreographer, and stage producer for over forty years. Trained in art history at Leiden and in modern and jazz dance at Codarts Rotterdam, she went on to study Sumatran and Javanese dance in Indonesia, building a language she calls Asian Contemporary — that combines East and West. Her stage work spans from dancing in Musicals to Dance Captain on A Night at the Cotton Club to her own choreographies, and continues today through independent productions and commissions across the Netherlands and beyond. Since 1993 she taught dance iat different schools and in 2000 founded Jazzdance4all. Today she runs Moving Journey, workshops and retreats, connecting philosophy to body awareness and movement. This is her speciality as it allows participants to experience this and know how to take effective action for their daily life. Her belief is: Your circumstances don't need to change. Your experience of them does.
MAXIM BROUWER
Maxim is a man of many communicative talents — a good writer and a fluent speaker.
As a connector, he is disarming and approachable. At the same time, he has a results- and client-oriented mindset.
Trust is one of his most important values. He is reliable and loyal, and pleasant to work with. With genuine attention for others. He adapts easily to changing circumstances and is creative, driven, and enthusiastic.
In our fast-changing world, he focuses his energy on skills that are essential in the 21st century — communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and social and cultural skills.
From his background and experience, he knows what it means to find his way in an environment that isn't a given. He has the emotional intelligence, the intuition, and the basic trust to focus on growth and development. Everyone remembers him as someone who makes you think and gives you concrete support in your development, who can inspire, who gives energy, and who connects people and worlds.
He is intelligent, engaged, and self-aware — a dedicated person who always sees potential and helps develop it, through new insights, by encouraging, and by believing in possibilities. He stands beside people to genuinely help them make things better by taking action.
Even when you don't know where to begin, or how. Even when you feel the discomfort of having to do even more than you already were. And even when things feel strange, different, and don't work right away, he encourages you to:
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dare to try things out with small experiments,
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dare to go deeper and sit with the problem,
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and dare to make abstract things concrete by making them visible.