We have the pleasure to announce... Our new teaching programme called “Creative Wisdom" is a training consisting of a foundation course and 3 modules of one-week, it is an in-depht study & experimental practice of the Fool at Heart approach designed to bring creative wisdom into daily life, the arts, education, therapy and businesses.  The Creatives Wisdom Foundation is... An experiential five-day workshop where you will be guided through a journey of Self-discovery, exploring the different aspects of the Fool at Heart. It includes an initiation into the wonder and innocence of the Sacred Clown........ (for course content click here to see leaflet) |  |
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Midsummer Clowning Retreat
Midsummer Clowning Retreat Tenerife 20 - 29 July 2019 With a public performance to live music An improvisation with nature During this summer clowning course, the Simpleton Clown will take you to the threshold of imagination, where the visible and the invisible merge. In that moment; past, present and future unite and embody the visual poetry of the Sacred Clown. The blessed grounds of “Casa Saraswati” will guide our senses, letting colours, smells, textures and sounds inspire enchanted play. Creative forms will emerge out of our group explorations and be offered as a performance in full make-up and costume to a local invited audience. This outdoor show will take place on the afternoon of Sunday 28th of July, to the inspiring music of the cello, the violin and the piano. There will be mime-clowning, music, dance, mindfullness, play, singing and stillness. Casa Saraswati is our newly opened Retreat Centre, an inspirational home for the “Fools at Heart”. It is a haven of peace where the inner and outer nature can merge in a delightful sense of Being. NOTE that this retreat is only open to those who have attended a minimum of two Retreats with Didier before this performance course. For more information contact us at: bookings@sacred-clown-as-healer.co.uk |  |
Sacred Clowning Retreat Tenerife Nov.2019
Sacred Clowning Retreat 14-21 Nov. 2019 To continue with last year’s topic, “the field of possibilities”, we will play with entering the sacred space (our stage) by exploring different elements of costume. From the ground of “Natural Presence” that we will nourish first, we will slowly tune into our body expression, our unique movements and postures, our jabber sounds; our enchanted clown poetry, spontaneous & unpredictable. Step by step, we will unravel our unique clown character and improvise solo and with others. As a group we will support each other to trust our heart by appreciating those special moments when you touch your natural humour, pleasure, play and fun. When you enter that clowning freedom, fear, simply disappears. Your Sacred Clown has been born. It is then a Joy to share it. For more information contact us at: bookings@sacred-clown-as-healer.co.uk |  |
Sacred Clowning Retreat 11-18 Nov. 2017
Sacred Clowning Retreats* at Casa Saraswati 11 -18 Nov. 2017 The Field of Possibilities Pure Expression & Humour With Didier Danthois This year the theme of the retreat is “The Field of Possibilities”. As winter draws in, the summer sun draws out. Mother nature takes us within that we may find fresh inspirations for the year to come. In today's fast and aggressive world, it is not so easy to know where and how to find fulfillment, peace or to simply touch the Wonder of Being. There are so many distractions on the way to “coming home” to our inner space. Rumi reminds us so beautifully in his poem how to create this inner space full of possibilities. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” * For those who have attended an Open Workshop previously. |
Midsummer Sacred Clowning Retreat July 2017
*FOOL at HEART* Midsummer Clowning Residential "An Improvisation with Nature: Through the Child´s Eyes" 21 -28 July 2017 Another very inspiring retreat where participants had the opportunity to deepen their experience of the Sacred Clown. This training included an exploration of make up and costume in order to let their unique clown shine through. The course ended with a performance shared with each other. Thank you to all the participants for making it possible! Here's what some of the participants said about this training: "A journey for the heart and soul. A learning process to be not only more creative but also more present, kinder and more aware as a human being." Laura Valenti "A really powerful way to become more spontaneous and present." Michael O´Connell |  |
Open Workshop London - Awakening the Fool at Heart
*FOOL at HEART* Awakening The Fool at Heart with Didier Danthois 21 - 22 Jan. 2017 London Buddhist Arts Centre A warm thank you to all the participants who came! Didier D.
“I found Didier a beautiful funny man accompanied by Sara and was delighted by his teachings. I loved that I did not have to speak but could absorb and communicate and explore through my body in silence. This all happened despite difficult group dynamics, and I was pleased to come along on Sunday morning and find in addition the benevolent energy of Glen exercising on the floor. I especially liked the singing and touching cheeks with Sara in the ending.” Alice “I took away so much from this two day course. I felt like I was able to connect with myself and explore my inner clown through physical exercises, learning specific breathing techniques and Raga singing. The clown exercises and work with red noses gave us the opportunity to look at different emotions and the world of our inner clown. The environment during this course was one of acceptance and nourishment. This allowed participants to flourish and be bold in expressing themselves and revealing their clown. It was also a great privilege to watch Didier and Sara work together..” Becky |  |
Open Workshop London Jan. 2017 - Awakening the Fool at Heart
Awakening The Fool at Heart with Didier Danthois 21 - 22 Jan. 2017 London Buddhist Arts Centre The Fool will walk us to the edge, beckoning us to play with the world and to discover a treasure in a grain of sand. The Fool liberates us from the shadows of old habits and fear of the unknown, helping us to embody the Sacred Clown as a way to awaken to the Wisdom of Innocence. This art form combines the practice of mindfulness with mime, clowning, dance and singing. "I feel very thankful to those moments of openness, fearlessness, playfulness, creativity and joy and that everybody of the group was in this quality of natural BEING." Monika W. (Nov. 2016) |  |
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London Open Workshop 21 & 22 Jan 2017 fn.pdf
Open Workshop London - Awakening the Fool at Heart
*FOOL at HEART* Awakening The Fool at Heart with Didier Danthois 01 - 02 Oct. 2016 London Buddhist Arts Centre This is an opportunity to take a moment to stop, and come back home, to uncover the creative Joy and Wonder of being right here in this magic moment. This is the art of the Sacred Clown. This art form combines the practice of mindfulness with mime, clowning, dance and singing. |  |
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London Open Workshop 1-2 Oct. 2016 fn.pdf
Open Workshop OSLO - Awakening the Fool at Heart
*FOOL at HEART* Open Workshop - Awakening the Fool at Heart 14 - 15 Mar. 2016 or Creative Wisdom Foundation (includes the Open Workshop) 14 - 18 of Mar. 2016 Oslo, Norway This was our first Creative Wisdom Foundation course. A dedicated group came together, It allowed a profound and inspiring experience to manifest. Thank you. Didier Danthois Here's what some of the participants said about this training: Bringing the mind to the body, and the body to a resting and receiving relating with earth, is just so fulfilling. It makes me feel gathered, peaceful, trusting and empowered, and from that place anything can happen. Hanne |  |
7 Day February Training Feb. 2016
*FOOL at HEART* Sacred Clowning "7 - Day Training" 18 - 24 of Feb. 2016 A beautiful gathering of sacred clowns. Thank you all. Didier Danthois Here's what some of the participants said about this training: The care and attention of Didier this week helped me to reconnect with my inner soul again: - from a very angry and isolated condition I was helped to feel again the joy of being alive. The grounding exercises were fundamental, to listen to my soul and be able to appreciate the clown in me. I treasure the moments shared this week – from deep human connection to pure bliss and magic. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.” Eugenia “Exploring clowning here this week has been a wonderful way to put the learning into practice and a great mirror showing me when I am connected and present and when I am not. It has been a great learning tool and so much fun! I really have enjoyed this exploration of connecting with myself and others through clowning and have experienced and learned much from it all……" (for more see "Testimonials") Maureen “It opened my eyes so much to clowning, that how one can teach it, learn it, use it, practice it, heal within it. My love for clowning has deepened..." (for more see "Testimonials") Saija |  |
Awakening the art of playful spirituality
*FOOL at HEART* " It seems that the timing for this workshop was perfect, we arrived together as a group very rapidly. People were simply very present and open to what was introduced, which lead us to experience together some precious moments of play, singing and healing with a little bridge to the stars. We could just take off with the "wonder" and innocence of the Sacred Clown. Thank you for your trust. " Didier Awakening The Fool at Heart with Didier Danthois 30 - 31 Jan. 2016 London | "I had a very healing time throughout - with intimacy, with the story I tell about myself, with how I feel about my body, with how I approach other people (often with fear, but you showed me what it's like to approach people with true love). Thank you for all of this, I feel profoundly moved still. I have been dipping a toe into meditation for a few years, with great resistance, but feel as if I have found a new way into mindfulness and meditation that excites me." Belinda Sherlock "I loved the connections I made with our group, so simple yet utterly profound. Finding intimacy with such acceptance and compassion is the gift I take away from the weekend." Rachel Rogers |
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