RETREAT
13 - 18 Sept, 2027
Italy
Transform the way you
Move | Feel | Live
A 6-Day Retreat to change the way you MOVE with your body,
FEEL in your body and ultimately, LIVE through your body.
13 - 18 September, 2027
Orsolina28, Italy
The Full SYNC Experience
The SYNC Retreat is the most complete way to experience SYNC — bringing together movement, nature, nourishment, rest and connection within the one-of-a-find eden landscape of Orsolina28 Art Foundation, in Italy.
Six days to step away from the speed of everyday life and into a different rhythm. A space to move, listen, rest, connect and experience what happens when SYNC moves beyond the studio and into the way you live.
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Guided by HUMANHOOD founders Julia Robert and Rudi Cole, the Retreat creates the time and space to go deeper — to move beyond constantly doing and discover what becomes possible when we begin receiving.
Live the Retreat
For six days, everything around you becomes part of the practice.
The way you move; the landscape you wake up to; the food that nourishes you; the moments you rest; the people you connect with.
This is SYNC beyond the studio.
Daily SYNC sessions with Julia Robert and Rudi Cole invite you to move beyond effort, form and the need to do — and into a deeper relationship with listening, sensation and receiving.
Alongside the 10:30am - 4:30pm studio SYNC practice, we will step outside for sunrise movement sessions, allowing the landscape, the air and the changing light to become part of how we move.
Learn to Receive Movement
Wake up with Nature
Set amongst the rolling hills of Monferrato, Orsolina28 gives us the rare opportunity to live, move and rest surrounded by nature. Stay in Orsolina28’s nature glamping accommodation, waking each morning within the landscape and allowing its rhythm to become part of your own.
After the SYNC sessions, slow down and restore with free access to the Eco-Spa, which includes sauna and a warmed pool, or choose to go deeper into your rest with the possibility to book a massage treatment during your stay.
Here, nature and restoration aren’t something separate from the Retreat. They are part of the practice.
The Retreat includes breakfast, lunch and dinner, prepared with fresh, seasonal and locally sourced ingredients — including produce grown within Orsolina28’s own garden — and shared together in its beautiful, bohemian restaurant the Lemons Greenhouse.
Coffee and tea are available throughout the day.
Meals become another moment to slow down, gather and receive.
Receive from the Land
People come to HUMANHOOD, and the Retreat, from all over the world, bringing different cultures, ages, backgrounds and experiences of movement — from those discovering this way of moving for the first time to those who have been moving for a lifetime.
One space to move, receive and discover together. It is within these differences that something powerful happens — we learn from one another, expand our perspectives and experience movement through more than our own body.
Create lasting Connections
For those who want to explore something more personally, there will also be the opportunity to book a private VIP session with Julia or Rudi during the Retreat.
A dedicated space to go deeper into your own movement, questions and experience of SYNC.
Go Deeper into SYNC
After returning home, you will receive access to an exclusive online SYNC Masterclass with Julia & Rudi, recorded specifically for Retreat participants. A way to reconnect with the practice, integrate what you discovered and begin bringing SYNC into the rhythm of everyday life.
The Retreat ends, but the practice continues.
Continue the Practice
At the heart of SYNC there is a simple but radical shift:
Stop doing movement,
Start receiving.
Begin to Receive
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During the Retreat, this shift begins with movement — but quickly reaches far beyond it.
Through daily SYNC practices, sunrise movement, nature, nourishment, rest and shared experience, you are invited to listen more, force less and become increasingly receptive to what is already there.
To the body,
to the surroundings,
to others,
to life.
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Throughout the Retreat, receiving becomes more than a way of moving.
It becomes a way of living.
Ready to Receive?
Step away from the noise, the pace and the constant doing.
Come move, rest, nourish, connect — and experience what becomes possible when you create the space to receive.
RETREAT
13 - 18 September 2027
Italy
✓ SYNC practice lead by Julia Robert & Rudi Cole
✓ Studio sessions from 10:30 am to 4:30pm and two sunrise outdoor sessions
✓ Accommodation in glamping with heating air conditioning
✓ Free Access to Eco-Spa, including sauna and pool
✓ Branded notebook, pencil and tote bag
✓ Shuttle included from Turin and Milan airports
✓ Possibility to book a 30min VIP session with Julia or Rudi
✓ Possibility to book a well-ness massage on the on-site greenhouse
✓ Discounted HUMANHOOD’s merchandise
✓ Access to Retreat Online Masterclass to continue the practice after the Retreat has ended
HOW OTHERS HAVE BEEN MOVED . . .
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“There’s something about the way Julia and Rudi hold space—it’s not just teaching, it’s transmission. They don’t ask you to copy them; they invite you to discover your own truth through movement. I came in expecting to refine how I move. I left with a completely different relationship to my body—and to myself.”
Amanda - Estonia
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“Next level embodied experience. It has changed my life forever.“
Adam - USA
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“I have finished the course with more energy than I started. A must try for any age or type of person."
Vicenç - Barcelona
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“Julia and Rudi lead with such clarity and presence. You feel both safe and completely stretched in their space. The way they guide—through silence, through precision, through deep listening—creates a space where transformation feels inevitable. I didn’t just move differently. I remembered parts of myself I didn’t know I had forgotten.”
Clarice - Germany
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“Once anchored in the body, no explanation is needed, the movement speaks by itself."
Baba - Portugal
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“This practice takes us on a movement journey, opening and bringing us to a beautiful dimension where our souls are free and connected with all of existence."
Tara - USA
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“This method is an honest way of connecting with your body in its simplest and most powerful expression."
Fanny - France
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“This practice has opened my body in new extraordinary ways. I have been wonderfully challenged."
Anna - Russia
About Julia and Rudi
Julia Robert and Rudi Cole are internationally acclaimed choreographers, movement directors, and world-class dancers, known for their immersive, transformational approach to movement. As co-founders of HUMANHOOD, their work blends contemporary dance, somatic intelligence, and energetic awareness into experiences that reach far beyond stage performance.
In the Movers Intensive, Julia and Rudi offer a rare combination of excellence and accessibility. Drawing from over two decades of global touring (including renowned theatres and festivals such as Sadler’s Wells or Venice Biennale), large-scale choreography, and deep personal practice in movement and dance, they hold a space where each participant is invited to move with clarity, confidence, and presence — regardless of background or ability.
With their grounded presence and their inspiring certitude they guide people into a direct relationship with their own bodies — through intuitive exploration, movement efficiency, and deep listening. The space they hold is intentional, precise, and deeply human.
This Intensive reflects everything they’ve come to believe through their work: that how we move reveals how we live — and that changing one inevitably transforms the other.
“We believe each human is a cosmic dancer,
with a unique gift: the body.
Here lies a Portal patiently waiting to reveal
the depth of our human potential.
Regardless of age, background, or ability, we all possess the artistry to access the transformative power of movement.”
— Julia Robert and Rudi Cole —
FAQ
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Form the 13th to the 18th September 2027, in Orsolina28, north Italy.
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Monday 13th is arrival and registration day, check-in into the domes is from 16h. There will be dinner provided at 19:30h.
The main SYNC studio sessions will start at 10:30h and finish at 16:30h, with a lunch-break in between. You will have access to eco-spa after the sessions.
There will be a minimum of two sunrise sessions in the outdoors stage, if weather allows.
Saturday 18th is check-out day, it includes breakfast.
Please note these specific times are subject to change depending on the flow of each day. Daily schedule will be sent by email closer to the date. -
The SYNC Retreat is for EVERYBODY. It will challenge both beginners as well as advanced practitioners to think outside the box and relate to their body in a completely new way.
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English.
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Please inform us in advance if you have medical or health issues. We aim to accommodate everyone, however it is important that you take extra precaution and make sure you consult with your healthcare provider before you attend this Intensive.
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Full board is provided, this included accommodation in shared glamping. Please note you can either book one bed and share the glamping with another participants, or book a full glamping between 2, 3 or 4 participants.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided as well as teas and coffee throughout the day. -
There is are shuttles included in the booking fee of the Retreat, from Turin and Milan Malpensa airports to Orsolina28. For the arrival day Monday the 13th September and the departure day on Saturday 18th September.
Times to be confirmed. -
No at all. As long as you have a body you are welcomed.
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Cancellations made up to 90 days before the event:
100% refund, minus a £25admin fee.
Cancellations made up to 60 days before the event:
50% of the amount paid is refunded.
No refunds will be made for cancellations within 60 days before the event.
In case of illness or injury, when you decide not to attend the Intensive, you will be provided with a voucher for the following year Intensive, after a medical documentation have been provided.