A self-experience year-long group: Journey into an Alternate Reality
Next Start, Saturday February 22th, 2020
Saturdays, 8 dates always from 11 – 6pm (incl. dinner 7pm)

Trance rituals as a way of coping with everyday life
Seminar Coach: Sabine Rittner
Assistance: Kathrin Stranghoener
Location: Burghof Stauf bei Eisenberg in der Pfalz

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This annual group offers participants the opportunity to get to know the salutary mind-opening potential of trance states, to explore them in depth and learn how to use them in everyday life, exploring both the path of tranquillity and of excitement (ecstasy).

Contents
The trance technique, re-discovered by anthropologist Felicitas Goodman, called “Ritual Body Postures”® will be at the centre of each session. In these rituals, which involve a rhythmically stimulated ecstatic state of trance, we experience visions and receive answers to questions asked. In a broader sense, these experiences will evolve around the topics of healing – metamorphosis – soul journey – speaking truthfully. In addition, we can let ourselves be carried away by the sound of ritual instruments, such as the pre-Columbian “Peruvian whistling vessels”.

Methods
“Ritual Body Postures and Ecstatic Trance”® by Prof. Felicitas Goodman, trance dance and drums, sound and trance, hypnosis, sufi meditation and shamanic dances, breathing, voice and body painting etc. We use creative means of expression (movement, painting, writing, playing instruments and using our own voice) and the sharing with the group to help shape, process, and integrate our impressions.

This annual group includes ten Saturdays from November 2017 to July 2018. Early registration is highly recommended.

Location
A long time empty Children’s home on a Celtic island Settlement square and castle hill in of the Northern Palatinate was supported by committed people both to a communal housing project (www.community-burghofstauf.de), as well as to one of the Guest House Retreat Centre (www.gaestehaus-stauf.de) with Seminar operation rebuilt. In this special place, surrounded by extensive hilly landscape and woods, you will find this annual group for advanced trance enthusiasts in the seminar room as well as in the in nature.

The view from our seminar room in the morning

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For participation, please fill out the form below. Registration is mandatory.
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You will receive a confirmation e-mail with payment information.

Time-out seminar day II
“The Call of the Drums” – A Ritual Day with Trance Dance and Trance Drums
Seminar day to (re-)discover the power of visions in a ritual of several hours with trance dance carried by the large circle of shamanic drums.

Sat., 10 October 2020 – 11.00 – approx. 19.30 hours
Seminar Coach: Sabine Rittner
Location: Heidelberg

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“The state of trance is a possibility of experience created in man. Trance is the biological door to the other, sacred reality.
Dr. Felicitas D. Goodman

On this seminar day you can immerse yourself for many hours in the wordless resonance space of the drumming pulsating community. In a ritualized, safe space, you will listen to the evenly pulsing sound of the drums and experience what they have to tell you, where they want to lead you. In the trance dance in the middle of the powerful circle of drums, you are free to dance, to follow your call, to inspire, to let yourself move. In this way you will allow your visions to show themselves, find them (again), follow them, explore them and embody them in the flesh by dancing.

In a shamanic ritual with a “ritual posture” according to Felicitas Goodman, accompanied by many drums, you can then go on a journey lying down.

Drum-trance-dance is probably the oldest ritual of mankind to get into changed states of consciousness. Research shows that ecstatic trance rituals offer our brain excellent creative possibilities to abandon old evaluation patterns and concepts, to “learn”, so to speak, in order to create space for visions and embodied new pathways (embodiment)¹. We will make use of this potential on this day.

“Trance is a state of
Mindfulness that only sets in,
if you stay out of your way and
fall down into your true self, so
deep that something inside clicks
and you’ll be and witness being at the same time.”
Gabriele Roth

The seminar is suitable for you, if you want to replenish joy, creativity, wildness and strength in the collective ecstasy of drumming and dancing. You can get surprising answers to a deep request you have made. Inspirations for completely different ways of healing can be shown to you. The seminar is aimed at you if you have an interest in self-awareness, if you want to open up resources within yourself again. So you can take new strength, inspiration and impulses for healing change processes into your personal everyday life.

Methods:

• Trance dance and trance drums under Community protection and
• a “ritual posture” of shamanic origin accompanied by many drums according to Felicitas Goodman.

Very little will be spoken, instead we let our breath, our voice, our body, our movements “speak”. We use creative means of expression (sounding, painting, writing) and at the end also the exchange in small groups to give shape to our experiences, to process them and to integrate them.

Previous knowledge is not required. This day is suitable for beginners as well as for experienced participants. You can bring your own frame drum, but there are also enough drums for everyone.

Sabine Rittner
is a music therapist, psychotherapist (HP) and has been leading training, further education and self-experience seminars for 40 years. She is permeated and delighted by her decades of experience on the Sufi path with the Sufi Master and music therapist Dr. Oruc Güvenc since 1988. It is my great pleasure to continue this Sufi day in the Burghof Stauf in his spirit. More information: www.sabinerittner.de/zur-person/

The place:
In Heidelberg we have a very beautiful, large oasis room in the middle of the center, near Bismarckplatz.

Arrival:
– by train to Heidelberg-Hbf, then by tram approx. 10 min.
– by car with carpools, a list of participants will be sent out in time.

Seminar fee:
95,- € (reduced (with proof): 65,- €)

Times:
11.00 – 18.00 o’clock / afterwards until approx. 19.30 o’clock common comfortable dinner picnic in the beautiful premises of the Institute of Medical Psychology

Overnight stay:
If you would like to spend an overnight stay in Heidelberg before or after the event, I will gladly send you addresses of good, inexpensive overnight accommodations in the immediate vicinity together with the confirmation of registration.

Registration

For participation, please fill out the form below. Registration is mandatory.
Find here the conditions for participation
You will receive a confirmation e-mail with payment information.

The other time-out seminar days:

Time-out seminar day III: Saturday, 28 Nov. 2020
“Dive into the silence – in the center of the storm.”
A retreat day with Sufi meditations, ecstatic whirl dance, Sufi mysticism and silence. With live music from the Sufi music group Hosh Neva.
Large evening fire in the castle courtyard to round off the evening.
Place: Burghof Stauf in der Pfalz

The further seminar days in 2021:

Time-out seminar day I: Saturday, 6 March 2021
“The healing power of sounds”
A melodious feel-good day in the beautiful Burghof Stauf
with evening fire in the castle courtyard and free dance offer to the conclusion.
Place: Burghof Stauf in der Pfalz

Time-out seminar day II: Saturday, 5 June 2021
“Departure and renewal”
A day to revive healing vision and transformation powers in us with trance rituals, sounds, body work, creativity, nature experience.
Evening fire in the castle courtyard and free dance offer to round off the evening.
Location: Burghof Stauf in der Pfalz

Time-out seminar day III: Saturday, 9 October 2021
“Dive into the silence – in the center of the storm.”
A retreat day with Sufi meditations, ecstatic whirl dance, Sufi mysticism and silence. Evening fire in the castle courtyard.
Place: Burghof Stauf in der Pfalz

More information and pre-registration: SabineRittner@gmx.de

A self-experience year-long group: Journey into an Alternate Reality
Next Start, 31.10.2020
Saturdays, 10 dates always from 12 – 6pm

Trance rituals as a way of coping with everyday life
Seminar Coach: Sabine Rittner
Location: Heidelberg

Registration

This annual group offers participants the opportunity to get to know the salutary mind-opening potential of trance states, to explore them in depth and learn how to use them in everyday life, exploring both the path of tranquillity and of excitement (ecstasy).

Contents
The trance technique, re-discovered by anthropologist Felicitas Goodman, called “Ritual Body Postures”® will be at the centre of each session. In these rituals, which involve a rhythmically stimulated ecstatic state of trance, we experience visions and receive answers to questions asked. In a broader sense, these experiences will evolve around the topics of healing – metamorphosis – soul journey – speaking truthfully. In addition, we can let ourselves be carried away by the sound of ritual instruments, such as the pre-Columbian “Peruvian whistling vessels”.

Methods
“Ritual Body Postures and Ecstatic Trance”® by Prof. Felicitas Goodman, trance dance and drums, sound and trance, hypnosis, sufi meditation and shamanic dances, breathing, voice and body painting etc. We use creative means of expression (movement, painting, writing, playing instruments and using our own voice) and the sharing with the group to help shape, process, and integrate our impressions.

This annual group includes ten Saturdays from October 2020 to July 2021. Early registration is highly recommended.

Sabine Rittner

is a music psychotherapist, psychotherapist (HP), hypnotherapist specializing in working with altered states of consciousness and body-oriented therapy. She works at the Institute for Medical Psychology of the University Hospital of Heidelberg (teaching, psychotherapy, music therapy and trance research), as well as in her own practice (therapy, coaching, supervision).

She has been leading seminars at national and international level for 40 years. She has been a student of the anthropologist and consciousness researcher Prof. Felicitas Goodman for many years and is authorized to train in the method of “ritual posture and ecstatic trance”.

For participation, please fill out the form below. Registration is mandatory.
Find here the conditions of participation
You will receive a confirmation e-mail with payment information.

If you have any questions about the seminar, please send me a message.
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Seminar: The Salutary Handling of Internal and External Limits
Friday, 13th – Sunday, 15th of November, 2020

An important seminar for people who work with people and want to stay healthy
Seminar Coach: Sabine Rittner
Location: Burghof Stauf in der Pfalz

Registration

Self-esteem and the capability to maintain relationships are rooted in the ability to build clear and transparent boundaries. If these are missing or have been put up too fiercely, we run the risk of burning or “starving” both physically and emotionally. Setting suitable boundaries happens between the extremes of mental overload / exhaustion and loneliness / isolation.

However, the most difficult drawing of boundaries involves the one regarding your own standards and the demands you place upon yourself. To distance yourself in a healthy and flexible way means rediscovering your inner centre, being centred.

Contents
This seminar offers the opportunity for intensive self-awareness regarding this topic. It will help shape our private life and will continue to significantly influence our long-term helping / pedagogical / therapeutic profession. The aim of these two days is to stimulate healthy change processes. The participants will learn simple and effective techniques which can then be transferred well into everyday life.

Methods
The ritual of Ritual Body Postures and Ecstatic Trance © according to Prof. Felicitas Goodman, sound trance, hypnotherapy, introspection and external perception exercises, partner exercises, contemplation and information. We use both creative means of expression (our voice, movement, painting, writing, making music) as well as partner and group discussions to help shape our impressions, process, and then integrate them.

→ All participants will receive information and exercise material for take-away purposes.

If you have any questions about the seminar, please send me a message.
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For participation, please fill out the form below. Registration is mandatory.
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You will receive a confirmation e-mail with payment information.

Time-out seminar day III in Mannheim

“Dive into the silence – in the center of the storm.”
A retreat day with Sufi meditations, ecstatic whirl dance, Sufi poetry and silence.

Live music by the Sufi music group “Hosh Neva

Saturday, 28 November 2020
11.00 – 18.30 hours
Management: Sabine Rittner
places: Mannheim-Sandhofen

Registration

This is the third seminar from the cycle of time-out seminar days within a year, which is dedicated to different approaches to forces of change and healing spaces in us.

Research shows that ecstatic trance rituals offer our brain excellent creative possibilities to abandon old evaluation patterns and concepts, to “learn” them, so to speak, in order to create space for visions and embodied embodiments. This ecstatic potential slumbering in each of us has been used by the mystical path of Sufism for almost a thousand years to achieve unity, to merge with the source of creation. It lets itself be in its origins also from ancient shamanic traditions of the Bakse, the shamans of the nomadic Turkic tribes of the Orient.

Beyond all conceptions, beyond what is wrong and right, there is a place: let’s meet there!
Dschalāl ad-Dīn Maulānā Rūmī (1207 – 1273)

On this retreat day we will learn the gentle, meditative and ecstatic trance techniques of Sufism with intensive breathing, singing, movement and dance, listen to Sufi poetry and stories and immerse ourselves again and again in silence. In the afternoon we will be accompanied for the sung mantra prayer (Dhikr) and the whirl dance (Mevlewi-Sema) by the rousing, ecstatic live music of the Sufi music group “Hosh Neva” from Mannheim.

The seminar is suitable for participants who want to treat themselves to a relaxing time of well-being, who have an interest in self-awareness, who want to open up resources within themselves again, who feel a deep longing for mystical reconnection (re-ligio) within themselves… They can take new strength, inspiration and impulses for healing change processes into their personal everyday life.

Sabine Rittner
is a music therapist, psychotherapist (HP) and has been leading training, further education and self-experience seminars for 40 years. She is permeated and delighted by her decades of experience on the Sufi path with the Sufi Master and music therapist Dr. Oruc Güvenc since 1988. It is my great pleasure to continue this Sufi day in Mannheim in his spirit. More information: www.sabinerittner.de/zur-person/

The musicians:
Hosh Neva is a very famous Sufi music group from Mannheim, famous for their intense, ecstatic music and engaged in the “Oriental Music Academy Mannheim”: www.orientalischemusikakademie.de

The place:

Unfortunately, the Burghof Stauf guest house is no longer available to us for this seminar day. After an intensive search, I found a very beautiful, large hall with a wooden swing floor in the Lutherhaus in Mannheim-Sandhofen, which was kindly made available to us.

Arrival:

– 30 minutes by tram from Mannheim main station

– in the car with carpools, a list of participants will be sent in time.

Seminar fee:
95,- € (reduced with proof 65,- €)

Times:
11.00 – 18.30 o’clock

Registration

For participation, please fill out the form below. Registration is mandatory.
Find here the conditions for participation
You will receive a confirmation e-mail with payment information.

If you have any questions about the seminar, please send me a message.
To the contact form