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MIDSUMMER NIGHT: SLAVIC GYMNASTICS: THE POWER OF THE FEMALE CENTER
Dates
23.06 / Monday, 12:00

Dates
23.06 / Monday, 12:00
Duration
1 h 30 min.
Language
Polish
Accessibility
- Support from an assistant and audio describer is available during the event – if you require this support, please email: natalia.dabrowska@malta-festival.pl
Venue accessibility -> Riverside Glade (next to the Chwaliszewo Water Tram Stop)
Tickets
free entrance
Additional information
- No registration is required to attend the workshops.
- However, the number of spots is limited, so we encourage you to arrive early to secure your place.
- Please also bring your own mats and blankets for added comfort.
This event will take place as part of the Midsummer Night celebrations—a traditional Slavic festival of fire, water, and love that marks the summer solstice. For centuries, this night has been a time of rituals connected with nature, renewal, and communal joy. The gathering will begin at sunset and last until dawn. A central bonfire will burn throughout, symbolizing purification and unity in line with ancient traditions. The program also includes workshops in wreath weaving—a symbol of feminine energy and connection with nature—as well as sessions in Slavic gymnastics, which merges movement with spiritual connection to the natural world. Set in the open air by the Warta River, the event emphasizes the bond between the celebration and nature’s rhythm.
The gathering is intended for women and girls who have reached puberty (after their first menstruation).
Program:
- Training of deep and core muscles; building healthy postural habits
- Slavic gymnastics: a set of seven exercises corresponding to the strongest energies of a specific day, time, and place
Slavic gymnastics is a system of 27 exercises created exclusively for women. It is not practiced by men, as it does not correspond to their energetic or physical constitution. The practice has a profound effect on a woman’s hormonal system as well as her entire physical body and being.
There are three worlds in this practice:
- The Upper World (Pravi), the world of the gods—our superconsciousness, trained standing
- The Middle World (Javi), the human world—our consciousness, trained on the knees
- The Lower World (Navi), the world of ancestors—our subconsciousness, trained on knees and elbows
This system works deeply across many layers, improving physical health and influencing the energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies. With a strong physical core—including pelvic floor, abdominal, and back muscles—women feel more balanced emotionally and mentally, with increased life energy and vitality. The nervous system harmonizes, bringing a sense of peace, strength, and inner power.
Slavic gymnastics unites the three inner worlds, fostering inner harmony. It cultivates authentic self-worth (from the heart, not ego), softens the external while strengthening the inner. It sharpens the facial features and refines a woman’s entire being—her body, thoughts, emotions, actions, and relationships. It awakens intuition, allowing women to simply know—they become wise women, unmanipulable and empowered. This practice helps shed victim-persecutor patterns, replacing them with strength and self-awareness.
Its impact goes far beyond the individual: a healed, nurtured woman passes that strength to her family and wider community. Women nourish and energize the world. But trying to give from an empty vessel only deepens depletion. The Earth is our element—within us everything is seeded and born. Let us care for ourselves first, and only then for others.
Co-financed from the budget of the City of Poznań.
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