• Sunday 21st of September: arrival starting at 15:00. Start of the retreat at 19:00 with dinner and an introduction meeting
• Monday 22nd to Friday the 26th : 5 full Workshop days
• Saturday 27th of September: end of the retreat, packing and brunch, departure at 13:00

The retreat will be happening outside the small town of Montesquiou. That’s 1 hour 20 minutes from Toulouse by Car, and 30 minutes from the Auch train Station.

We are very lucky to have a ***star Château Hotel with restaurant and 12-hectare park privately, for us!

There are many Hotel Rooms, Chalets, Mobile Homes and Camping Places availalbe.

We’ll have 2 swimming pools!

The buffets will be prepared by the Château staff. We’ll all have dinner together, and you can choose to take the Breakfast & Lunch Package, or prepare or arrange that yourself.

All levels, for any prop or activity are welcome to join! We’ll offer beginning, intermediate, and advanced options for most techniques. For the Poi workshops, we split the group into different levels.

To benefit the most from this retreat, know the basic poi moves, such as 3-beat weaves (forward and backward), windmills, watermills, hip-reels, and turns butterflies (same-time, split-time), and buzzsaws.

If you can’t do some of the moves listed above, don’t worry! We will teach you that. However, if you want to be prepared, look up some tutorials; we recommend Poi Tutorials.com, start as a beginner for only 4,95 per month.

You don’t need to know other attendees to share a room! (Only for the Royal Suite, if you want a twin, you’ll need to reserve with another person. For the Mobile Home, Triple and Twin Chalet, you don’t need to know other attendees to share)

If you want to share a room with other attendees, we’ll try to make a match. You can give us your preferences; if you want to stay with people with the same gender, we’ll try to find matching room-mates!

Coffee, tea and mint-water are included for everybody! It doesn’t matter if you take the Breakfast & Lunch Package or not.

You can also buy drinks in the restaurant if you want a cappucino or soft drinks.

And, we’ll also bring beer and wine (which will be cheaper as in the restaurant) and our self-service bar will be open all night, hahahaa.

There’s a little supermarket on 2,7 km from the Château.

Bigger supermakets are at 12 km.

You can borrow a Spinning Staff, Double Staffs, Dragon Staff, Poi, Fans, Contact Staff.

These are all practice, day props. We don’t have any fire props to borrow. But of course you can ask other attendees if you want to borrow a fire prop.