Odder is a small town approx. 25km south of Aarhus on the East Coast of Jutland/Jylland. If you choose to arrive by plane, check with your travel agent which airport would be best for you to arrive at, Billund or Aarhus/Tirstrup Airport (be mindful that the Aarhus/Tirstrup Airport is 1 hrs drive by buss north of Aarhus). Both airports have busses going to Aarhus regularly, dropping you off at the Central Train Station in Aarhus. Here just go to the last platform and catch the local train to Odder, which will take you to the combined train and buss station. Here you will find a buss no. 103 going to HOU - Samso. This buss goes right past the Institute, so you just need to ask the driver to drop you off at the MA-URI® Institute in Neder Randlev and you have arrived!



All Institute workshops start on Sunday mornings at 9:00 with the Powhiri ceremony. As a special service and gesture of hospitality to all students, the Institute offers everyone the possibility to arrive on the evening before the workshop starts, so that they can get settled in and have a good night's rest. The Workshop Centre will be ready and open for the arrival of students from 5pm Saturday evening. An assistant will be there to welcome you and help you get settled in. Make sure to get the timing of your arrival right. In case your arrival time in Odder does not coincide with the workshop arrival time, you may choose to spend some time in Aarhus or in Odder. Please let us know in advance if your arrival time will be after the formal Welcome Ceremony, the 'Powhiri', held Sunday morning at 9:00. Your travel agent would be able to check out all relevant train and buss schedules for you.



The Institute Workshop Centre can accommodate 24 people comfortably. Usually the Beginner Workshops (levels 1-3) you have been to in your own country have relatively small numbers. When you come to the Level 4 Workshop at the Institute, however, groups from different Beginner Trainers are brought together, so the number of participants now go up to approx. 24 students. This gives you added benefits in that you will now have more different people to practice your massage techniques on and do your dance training with.

Since 2004 Institute Trainers in Norway, Sweden, Poland and Hungary have been in charge of the level 1, 2 and 3 training in their country and all level 4 workshops are run by the Institute and offered here in Denmark.



All Institute workshops are live-in workshops where the students sleep on mattresses in the 150 m2 big training room like in the traditional Maori meeting houses, the ‘Marae’- or like in the Viking longhouses here in Scandinavia. Mattresses are available at the Institute for all students, bedding can be supplied to students coming from abroad against a small fee or they can bring their own.

Students are in charge of all shopping and preparation of meals during the workshops. Meals are prepared and consumed in the combined kitchen and dining room area. The group usually decides to put 350-400 Dkkr in a kitty to cover shopping expenses. During the workshop the students will be divided up into smaller groups and each group will be in charge of different ‘household’ chores each day. Here is an example: One group will do the shopping and prepare meals one day, set up training room for dance or massage practice next day, clean toilets & bathroom the following day and tidy up in the kitchen and dining room on the fourth day. Attending to these chores implies that you start applying the principles of Huna & Bodywork to everyday activities, so that everything you do and focus on becomes special and vibrant.



After breakfast at 8am and cleaning duties, formal training starts at 9am and goes through to 12 o’clock noon. Between noon and 3 pm students attend to their lunch and then decide which needs to focus on individually: rest, dance practice, walks or jogging for physical exercise, reading, solo meditation and breathing exercises or mind & body focus on belief and attitude changing. Training is resumed at 3pm and taken through to 6:30 pm usually, when one of the groups starts meal preparations. During the meal preparation the other groups attend to the indoor and outdoor areas applying their creativity to bring new expressions of beauty into these areas each day. After the evening meal there will be evening gathering (usually from 8:30/9:00pm to 10:00/10:30 in the evening) for summing up principles, teaching points, demonstration of certain techniques or simple exercises to balance and relax your body and mind. The Tutor is in charge of these evening activities. Finally, the day is brought to an end and the night welcomed with a blessing ceremony.

NB! The Institute reserves its right to change, improve and develop the Training Programme and any element associated with it whenever necessary.



In consideration of the student’s obligations to jobs and family, the Training Programme has been spread over 3 years with reasonable space in between set aside for personal development work, awareness and self discipline training, dance and massage practice, assignments as well as study of relevant literature. Or energy may be focused onto personal empowerment and ‘wound’ healing, relationship issues, ethics, shamanism and spirituality.

Kia Ora!