Dali Natural Art Parent-Child Summer Camp

About This Retreat

A natural art and body-awareness retreat in Dali for families, with yoga, dance, mountain walks, creative practice, and time beside Erhai Lake.

Since ancient times, Dali has been a passage for pilgrims traveling to Jizu Mountain, for caravans on the Tea Horse Road, and for travelers moving along the Southwest Silk Road. Legend says that the Buddha's disciple Kasyapa saw the beauty of this mountain and settled on Jizu Mountain, facing Erhai Lake.

The journey west once crossed the Himalayas, passed the sacred peak of Namcha Barwa, moved through Buddhist lands, and looked toward India, scriptures, and the Ganges. Dali carries this sense of passage: mountain, lake, ancient town, village life, and spiritual memory meeting in one landscape.

The body is a gift. It is the small universe of life, and every joy, discomfort, fear, or opening is a signal. In Dali, we listen to the language of the body through yoga, dance, walking, art, and parent-child connection. Thoughts are energy, emotions become movement, and the body becomes a doorway back to presence.

Dance is a central practice in this retreat. It can build strength, confidence, personal charm, and communication. It can also reduce stress, fear, anxiety, loneliness, and depression while improving circulation, breathing, and emotional release. Through movement, children and adults learn to meet each other with more openness and joy.

We stay in a renovated traditional retreat house near Dali Ancient City, surrounded by farms, gardens, mountains, and Erhai Lake. Daily practice may include yoga, Taichi, mountain hiking, hot springs, shamanic dance healing, tea ceremony, incense meditation, music healing, natural art, and quiet family time.