Rückenglück & Sense Appeal
Two complementary workshops with Michaela Kratky and Melanie Maar in cooperation with ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival
Rückenglück & Sense Appeal
Empowering female sensuality
Michaela and Melanie invite you to explore self-care as an active, physically grounded practice. By refining your perception, breath, and movement, you create space for clarity, enjoyment, and inner stability as the foundation for a self-determined, present experience. In this retreat, sensuality is not an aesthetic concept, but rather the ability to perceive, modulate, and trust sensations.
This retreat is aimed at anyone who identifies as a woman, of all movement backgrounds and ages (16 and up), who would like to explore movement and sensual experience in community as a resource for care and empowerment.
Feel free to bring a friend, mother, daughter, or sister along for this transformative week surrounded by unspoiled nature and an idyllic atmosphere. Both workshops can also be booked individually (always including the “Shared Moments”).
Rückenglück
We learn movements that strengthen, mobilize, and nourish the body without pressure. Michaela combines exercises from traditional methods with the latest findings in medical training theory. In this back happiness special, we focus on specific topics such as the pelvic floor and spine in order to experience our inherent intelligent structures through gentle movement sequences.
Sense Appeal
In Sense Appeal we follow our senses and their impulses in unfolding through a guided, relaxed perception. What effect does it have on our psycho-sensual self to slow down, to do nothing for a while, to see and be seen? Through Female Sexual Energy exercises from Qi Gong and various movement scores we increasingly feel our own inner guidance, vitality, and sovereignty in relationship. Through self-responsibility and care, a safe space is created within us to enable new risks and joys in the movements of our art-life process.
Shared Moments
In Shared Moments, Michaela and Melanie open a space to draw strength from and settle into ourselves. The grounding landscape and Artis Umbria's ecosomatic health oasis help to arrive fully in the here and now. Sessions of deep relaxation and regeneration alternate with trips to waterfalls and medieval towns, where we can experience an authentic Italy away from the tourist crowds. During the 'Share a Dance' evening, we celebrate and dance together with the local women. We experience community, personal growth, and simply the joy of being.
Workshops can also be booked individually
Meet your workshop leaders
Michaela is one of the most experienced back training experts in the German-speaking world, shares her holistic method for success in hybrid (studio & live streamed) training courses, individual personal training sessions, lectures and company training sessions.
Keywords Michaela:
Meditation morning routine // city person with a love of nature // coffee always works // ImPulsTanz enthusiast // mother of 2 school children // loves dealing with people // career aspirations as a child: “Something to do with movement” // needs time for herself // night owl by nature // one-at-a-time instead of multitasking // loves to immerse herself in good books
Training & activities: www.rueckenglueck.at/ueber-uns/
Michaela's personal story: www.rueckenglueck.at/michaelas-story/
Melanie Maar’s work explores sensual transience and personal myth through performance and facilitation. She works with groups and individuals in encouraging curiosity and transformations in our art-life processes. She was born in Vienna and has worked in New York City for nearly three decades performing, teaching and choreographing. Her training as a professional dancer, Qi Gong instructor (Universal Healing Tao), as well as her Somatic Sexology education (Body Electric School and Somatica Institute), gives Melanie a wide range of experience to draw from when guiding others in our relational, psycho-sensual experience.
Melanie received the Artist Award by the NY Foundation for Contemporary Art for her choreographic work and has been a regular teacher at Movement Research NY, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Tanzquartier and Impuls Tanz Wien a.o. She has also been offering her study program for performance makers ‘process as guide’ since 2017
- Accommodation for 7 days (6 nights)
- 3 vegetarian meals daily
- 5 movement sesssions with Michaela (~ 100 minutes each)
- 5 movement sessions with Melanie (~ 100 minutes each)
- Shared moments (~ 100 minutes daily)
- Talks with the teachers
- Access to pool and all other amenities of Tenuta di Poggiolame
- Shuttle to and from train station Fabro-Ficulle
Total costs for 7 days (6 nights) per person: from € 1,205 to € 1,895 (single or double room, private or shared bathroom).
Upon receipt of a deposit of 400 euro, the retreat is bindingly reserved. Please take note of our cancellation policy.
Number of participants: max. 16
A retreat in cooperation with ImPulsTanz
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Scaleni
28m² fits 2 people
Scaleni is part of the historic building and sits on the upper floor facing north and east. It features an open fire place and an open beam ceiling. Two beds (a single bed and a 140cm futon bed) furnish the room. Scaleni is directly connected to Axis, of which the guests will have to pass through Scaleni to get to the shared bathroom.
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Axis
18m² fits 2 people
Axis is a cute little double room (two single beds) facing east on the upper floor. It features open beams with terracotta tiles. It is connected to the front room (Scaleni), through which one will walk through to get to the hallway and to the bathroom, which is shared with Scaleni.
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Mana double
16m² fits 2 people
Mana double room looks out towards the pool. It is part of the Mana apartment which is a bit away from the other rooms. It shares a bathroom with Mana single.
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Alba
18m² fits 2 people
Alba is a double room on the upper floor of the original building with open beam ceilings and faces east and south. Its doublebed (160 cm wide) features a canopy. It shares a bathroom with Psoas and Vitus
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Psoas
16m² fits 2 people
The Psoas is a double room located on the upper floor of the original building with a historic open beamed ceiling. The windows face south and west. Psoas has a double bed (160 cm) and shares a bathroom with Alba and Vitus
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Gracilis
18m² fits 2 people
Gracilis is a double room and looks out the west side towards Montegabbione. It contains a double bed (160 cm wide). It shares a wheelchair accessible bathroom with Soleus, with whom it makes up an apartment
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Amiata
30m² fits 2 people
Amiata is a double room apartment with a gallery. Upstairs: double-bed (160 cm) & bathroom. Downstairs there are two single beds and a kitchenette. Private west terrace with a lovely view of our olive orchards and Monte Amiata.
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Iris
30m² fits 2 people
Iris is a double room apartment with a gallery. Upstairs: double-bed (160 cm) & bathroom. Downstairs there is a single bed and a kitchenette. Private west terrace with a lovely view of our olive orchards and Montegabbione
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Atlas
35m² fits 2 people
Atlas is a double room and located on the upper floor of the main building with windows and balcony doors facing north and south. It has a private terrace of 30 m2 with a view from Monte Peglia to Monte Cetona. It also has a huge double bed (180x200) made of solid cherry wood.
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Mana single
14m² fits one person
Mana single is a single room looking towards the pool. It features its own terrace looking directly onto an olive grove and is part of the Mana apartment which is a bit away from the other rooms. It shares a bathroom with Mana double.
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Vitus
15m² fits one person
Vitus is a single, east-facing room on the upper floor of the historic building featuring original beams. The bed is 140 cm wide. Vitus has its own terrace and entrance (outdoor staircase). It shares a bathroom with Psoas and Alba.
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Soleus
22m² fits one person
Soleus is a single room and sits at the south west corner of the terrace, with its own furniture on the main terrace. It contains a medium size bed (140 cm wide) and a kitchenette. It shares a bathroom with Gracilis, with whom it makes up an apartment.
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Alba (as single room)
18m² fits one person
Alba is a double room on the upper floor of the original building with open beam ceilings and faces east and south. Its doublebed (160 cm wide) features a canopy. It shares a bathroom with Psoas and Vitus.
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Psoas (as single room)
16m² fits one person
The Psoas is a double room located on the upper floor of the original building with a historic open beamed ceiling. The windows face south and west. Psoas has a double bed (160 cm) and shares a bathroom with Alba and Vitus.
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Gracilis (as single room)
18m² fits one person
Gracilis is a double room and looks out the west side towards Montegabbione. It contains a double bed (160 cm wide). It shares a wheelchair accessible bathroom with Soleus, with whom it makes up an apartment.
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Piriformis
12m² fits one person
Piriformis is a single room with its own bathroom. Piriformis has a north-facing private terrace, which is pleasantly cool in summer. Piriformis is close to the kitchen and is therefore best suited to guests who like to get up early or who don't mind kitchen noise.
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Iris (as single room)
30m² fits one person
Iris is a double room apartment with a gallery. Upstairs: double-bed (160 cm) & bathroom. Downstairs there is a single bed and a kitchenette. Private west terrace with a lovely view of our olive orchards and Montegabbione.
