This paper presents examples of my fieldwork in the sole Afro-Brazilian Candomble House of Germany for discussing th6 dynamics of safeguarding a cultural practice - an intangible heritage - outside of its cultural context. By learning the tradition myself I take account of the subjective process of embodying, beyond techniques and knowledge, values and meanings. Field notes focusing on dance show the development of my objective and bodily understanding of candomble, to which I felt bonding in the course of time. I argue that, if something is meaningful for someone and for a community, they will find strategies of preserving it, even if adaptations to the context are necessary.