12 days in-person Retreats & Teacher Training

12 days in-person Retreats & Teacher Training

For the ones who would love to get in-depth experience or get certified as Dance Alchemy Facilitator, we offer 12-day retreats. Our favorite places are Slovenia & Bali.

Check our website for dates of next retreats:

https://www.fichoinstitute.com/Dance-Alchemy-Facilitator-Training

In the retreat you will:

  • Experience magical moments of complete body awareness

  • ​Connect to your deep potential, release internal blocks to be more balanced and centered.

  • Learn games for establishing quick trust, connection, playfulness, and flow in the group

  • learn energizers for warming up the body and lifting up the energy and spirit

  • Experience power of presence, energy, and complete body awareness with a powerful mixture of Tai chi, Qi gong, and Pranayama breathing

  • Learn Dynamic muscles warm-up, stretch & yoga meditation

  • Get an in-depth understanding and embodying of Dance Alchemy Solo - Duet - Contact - Group Improvisation Tools that can be done by anybody, for your self-development or for teaching, facilitating, coaching, and working with the groups 

  • Learn some new tools, games, and exercises that are not in the Online course because the program will be also shaped by the needs of participants

  • Learn to improvise and express your creativity like never before

  • Gain a new embodied teaching & leadership skill set with higher emotional intelligence

  • ​Gain new holistic knowledge and ingenious ways to inspire and sustain a tribe

  • Step truly into your power to serve your students, clients, or your tribe from a place of total embodiment, dedication, and awareness

    Your growth in confidence will enable you to effortlessly guide a session that transmits a total embodiment of your authentic self and the topics you facilitate.

    • Create a solid ground and teaching framework to shape and structure your sessions, classes, workshops, programs… for more embodied & transformational results

    • Learn the 8-step structure and reverse-engineering approach to workshop, class, session... planning

    • Gain more hands-on experience in an effective well-rounded class, session, or workshop that is in sync with the abilities of your students / clients and the natural cycle of existence

    • We will look at how you hold the space, energy, presence, structure & flow of your sessions

    • We will look at language, at how you communicate when facilitating, and examine if this can be developed in a more simple and concrete way

    • You will be inspired and supported by how other participants facilitate and get honest feedback on your facilitation

  • You will also learn how to:

    • Use music and set up playlists in a simple way that will support your sessions as a journey

    • Leading online Zoom sessions, workshops...  in a way that everything works technically perfectly and that the sound & music are amazing

    • And you will learn a step-by-step process to turn your gifts and experience into a thriving practice & business (offline & online)



      ​Ficho Institute Dance Alchemy Facilitator Certificate 

After certification, you can use the certification as you want and you are not obliged to call your facilitation Dance Alchemy if you don't want to. And you can get an opportunity to collaborate and be invited by Goran Bogdanovski in facilitating opportunities. In the long term, we wish to create a strong team to run the Dance Alchemy Academy. 

CLICK HERE TO SEE TESTIMONIALS: https://www.fichoinstitute.com/testimonials

I hope our paths will cross and to be in sevice to help you on your path:) 

Love & Gratitude

Goran Bogdanovski

Online Dance Alchemy Teacher Training

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Welcome

  • A Letter from Goran
  • How to use this online course?
  • If Vimeo is not working in your country?

Program Overview

  • Program Overview

STEP #0: Preparation for leading a session, class, workshop...

  • Define the goal of the teaching
  • Set up an 8-step structure
  • Set up your musical playlist
  • Preparation ritual

STEP #1: Begin the Session

  • Create a safe space, Open the session & Set your rules

STEP #2: Ways of Establishing Trust, Quick Connection, Playfulness and Flow in the Group

  • Calling the Tribe
  • How Do I Feel?
  • Three Funny Icebreakers / 1. Meeting the white bear, Breath of the lamb, Duck walking up the spine and Revenge of the pig
  • 2. Passing the clap
  • 3. Celebrating with QUEEN (songs by the rock group QUEEN)
  • Can we all sit on each other’s lap at the same time?

STEP #3: Energizers – Warming Up the Body and Lifting up the Energy and Spirit

  • We have to become physically fast to calm down the mind!
  • What to do if somebody in the group doesn’t want to cooperate or is like a “trouble child”?
  • Clear information, Emptying the body (of fear) & Absorbing the impact
  • Playful Catching/Tagging Game
  • Floor Football
  • Alignment
  • Happy Feet Folk Dance
  • Over-Under-Around
  • Pressing Down / Lifting Up

STEP #4: Breathing as carrier of the awareness

  • How to use the breath?
  • Core Energy activation and working within flow of the energy
  • Exercise: Core Energy activation and working within flow of the energy
  • Another video: Core Energy activation and working within flow of the energy
  • *** What to do if some participants get afraid, dizzy … and want to quit the exercise?

STEP #5: Dynamic muscles warm up & Dynamic stretch meditation

  • Guide your attention from inside of your breath, through muscles, mind, and emotion to balance your body, mind, and spirit
  • Dynamic muscles warm up
  • Dynamic stretch & yoga meditation
  • Dynamic muscles warm up & Dynamic yoga meditation

STEP #6: SOLO dance improvisation tools

  • Three Universal Movement Qualities (3Q)
  • Understanding Circular–Rounded–Spiral (3Q)
  • Circular movement quality / awareness inside of movements (3Q)
  • Circular movement quality / awareness inside of movements and outside in actions (3Q)
  • Understanding Architectural... (3Q)
  • Architectural movement quality / awareness inside of movements & connecting mind with movement (3Q)
  • Architectural movement quality / awareness inside of movements & relation with the architecture and objects outside of you (3Q)
  • One example of what you can do by using Architectural quality (3Q)
  • Understanding Traveling through Space vs. Being on the Spot (3Q)
  • Understanding Stable (3Q)
  • Understanding Unstable-Off balance (3Q)
  • 3Q Improvisation
  • TRACE - Training of Movement Perception
  • Trace for creating a choreography
  • Opposites as specific movement qualities
  • Impulse / impact
  • Fast / slow
  • Isolation / whole body
  • Finished / unfinished
  • Diagonal / same side
  • Opposite qualities in DUETS
  • Iintuitive opposites in DUETS
  • “Steal and integrate” to upgrade the quality of one's own movement capabilities and personal expression
  • The use of physical, emotional or thought dynamics as an experiencing or performing
  • Using one’s own habits for creation
  • Using one’s own habits for creation - Round #1
  • Using one’s own habits for creation - Collecting your own habits
  • Using one’s own habits for creation - Making a list of 3 habits that are repeating
  • Using one’s own habits for creation - Round #2 - Creating the opposite habits
  • Using one’s own habits for creation - Dancing the opposite habits
  • Using one’s own habits for creation - Conclusion
  • Surprise Breath, the connection of breath with movement and action
  • Surprise Breath - example improvisation performance

DUET dance improvisation tools

  • Decide – Respond
  • Leading & Following
  • Mirror / Leading–Following
  • Time, the expectations of the mind and the reaction time

CONTACT dance improvisation tools

  • About Contact Improvisation
  • Trust
  • Trust - example
  • Into My Water (elemental water)
  • Sensitive hands / The Samurai Way
  • Brush & Sculpture (elemental wind)
  • Dissolve & Build up
  • Shared Balance Dancing / 3 Centers + Switching between centers and using arms for transitions
  • Shared Balance Dancing / Rolling
  • Shared Balance Dancing / Tree & Leaf (Push and Pull)
  • Shared Balance Dancing / Going Down & Up / Using animal power and power of the floor
  • Shared Balance Dancing / Sliding & Resist the impulse in the slide
  • Shared Balance Dancing / Slide & Notice the opportunity when the lift can happen – The AHA! Moment
  • Shared Balance Dancing / Slide & Pendulum Weight
  • Give & Take the Weight in a Safe Way
  • Invite and Accept / Dance is in a Space Between
  • How much weight can you take?
  • “Dead” Weight and Protecting Your Lower Back
  • Climb on the Body & Support the Actions
  • Weight...for fun:)
  • “I want you here because of this.”
  • “I want you here because of that.” / example
  • Reading – Following – Adjusting
  • Loosening your head
  • “Dead Body” Playground
  • Flying the Angel
  • Q&A / Keeping your own dance in the contact dance
  • Q&A / I feel awkward in this exercise. What to do?
  • Q&A / While rolling, my breasts are touching my partner’s body. I feel uncomfortable. What can I do?
  • Q&A / The 8 Tool - My Space – Your Space
  • Q&A / Sometimes sexuality arises during contact improvisation, and people get confused and afraid. How to deal with that? What can you do?

some GROUP Improvisation Dance Tools

  • NetWork – Can a Network Operate without a Leader?
  • Three Events
  • Using Solo, Duet & Contact improvisation tools for a Group improvisation

STEP #7: Cooling Down

  • Short stretch, massage or meditation

STEP #8: Sharing & Closing the Session

  • Holding Space- The Art of Being Present with Others .pdf
  • Sharing
  • Sharing example 1
  • Sharing example 2
  • Sahring example 3
  • Closing the Session

Reverse-Engineering approach to lesson planning

  • Reverse-Engineering approach to lesson planning

BONUS: Economic Sustainability – Basic Kit

  • Treat your practice as a business
  • Mapping your "Business" DNA
  • Define your audience
  • Mission statement & Proprietary approach
  • Design your photos for Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, posters, flyers …
  • Where to get great royalty-free photos
  • E-mail automation
  • Design & Build an easy and free website, landing pages...
  • You need portal for your Online courses?
  • You need a funnel to create leads?
  • Zoom, Webinar...
  • Appointment scheduler
  • You want to turn your Gifts and Experience into a Thriving Transformational Online Business?

Congratulation you've reached the end of the course!

  • Ficho institute Certificate of completion of the course

Whats next?

  • 12 days in-person Retreats & Teacher Training
  • Dance Alchemy retreat -VIDEO trailer from previous years
  • 1 0N 1 PERSONALISED SUPPORT & COACHING with Goran