Detail Workshops Friday 21th July 2017
In Western culture, myths about inspiration (as represented by the Muse) are traditionally heteronormative. Cultural institutions usually promote the norm and play down or even silence the margins. But inspiration knows no such boudaries. Through role-play, we will summon alternative muses and try to channel queer energy into verbal creativity. This workshop is about tapping into queerness as a source of creativity, and allowing the poet and the muse within us expression.
Vanasay is a playwright and stage-director working in France, where he trained as an actor and musician. Beside his work in mainstream theatre, where he translates and directs, among others, plays by Shakespeare or Howard Barker, he has developed a series of performances exploring queerness, hinging on the notion of metamorphosis.
She’s also a singer.
In this workshop it is all about gentle contact, contact to yourself, to your source, your body, your resources and your heart. We'll look into your very being to discover, that behind all these masks and ideas, fears and resistances, that there is so much to love and appreciate about yourself. With this process it gives you the opportunity to connect with your soul. Releasing thoughts of fear and anxiety, in other words, finding the most welcome balance. This of course gives you the grounding that is needed. You have the natural ability, to always support yourself in the way you breath, the way you are letting live force energy (oxygen) into your system, allowing life to support you. It is about enjoying life and bringing blessings into your world.
Roman Shamov is a Berlin based actor, singer and breath work therapist. His work is about assisting people in the process of getting to know themselves better and to appreciate their own company more and more in order to connect in a different way to other people and the world around them. He learned from a Hopi Indian Shaman in Arizona in 2003 and has worked since all around the world, recently he works in Japan, Turkey and Germany.
Four quarters in the room: one to be dressed, one to undress, one to be naked, one to put your clothes back on. Bodies short and tall, slim, beefy, hairy, smooth, older, younger. Scars, wounds, wholenesses. Big dicks, small dicks and no dicks. A ritual you perform in your own way and tempo, as often as you want. We all go through it, if we want, and all at the same time. We look at everything, we see each other, aware of the other man's and our own vulnerability. Witnesses/witnessed in the flowing stages of nakedness, (un)dressing, clothedness. No interaction, no words, no touch.
Shamanic practitioner for more than 25 years, Daan has studied with traditional healers and shamanic teachers from various cultures (Lakota, Southern Ute, Sami and others). Combining elements of shamanic ritual and family constellations, he developed Systemic Ritual®. Daan is the author of seven books, his writings have been translated in ten languages. He works worldwide, creating rituals for different communities and groups. He lives in Amsterdam and Berlin.
Through different breathing techniques and meditation, we achieve a modified hormone release in our body and experience its effect on our perception, sensation and emotions.
Julian originally studied acting, singing and dance before he discovered his passion for massage and bodywork. He regularly organises and leads courses for men and weekend workshops in Zürich under the title of “Men Bodywork”. The main areas of work are breath, voice, movement, touch, self-acceptance and the discovery and expression of your own needs as the key to a free and fulfilling (sex) life.
I want to hug you now, in Berlin, in Spain, picking pears, on the side, in a Zen way, devouring you, on my own, like a mother, like a bear… I truly want to hug you. Come and explore the multicoloured world of ‘hugs’. In this workshop you will experience hugging as never before. Do you dare to hug and be hugged?
David works currently as a trainer in a variety of areas ranging from conflict resolution to meditation techniques. David is a qualified Social Worker and has degrees in Political Science and Sociology. Originally from Spain, David has been living in Brighton (UK) for the last 14 years. His interests include, travelling, community building, music, books, art and communication skills.
Each of us has gay/queer ancestors, even if we do not know their names and faces. In this ritual, we experience the lineages of queerness as they stretch out throughout time. Monotheistic religion has tried to make us believe we are a mistake, but we are part of creation. Connecting to our queer ancestors gives us a new sense of belonging. Knowing where we come from, we discover unexpected roots and solid ground.
Shamanic practitioner for more than 25 years, Daan has studied with traditional healers and shamanic teachers from various cultures (Lakota, Southern Ute, Sami and others). Combining elements of shamanic ritual and family constellations, he developed Systemic Ritual®. Daan is the author of seven books, his writings have been translated in ten languages. He works worldwide, creating rituals for different communities and groups. He lives in Amsterdam and Berlin.
This workshop will begin with everyone’s individual writing journey into themselves, answering questions with key words that characterize who you are in different constellations of your life. The exploration of ourselves ranges from superheroes and spirit animals to villains. In the second phase we are invited to dance, shake, express, and embody what the key words evoke in us, both in a group and as individuals, in order to celebrate our strengths, vulnerabilities and aspirations.
Tomi Paasonen is a choreographer, director and festival curator born in Helsinki, Finland. After his career as ballet dancer in Hamburg, San Francisco and Chicago, he founded KUNST-STOFF, an inter-disciplinary physical theatre and arts-event company in San Francisco, before moving to Berlin in 2003. His dance-, opera-, video- and photo works seamlessly blend fiction with documentary. Currently he is artistic director of a dance center in Finland he splits his time between Finland and Berlin.
In this workshop you have the opportunity to explore and embody various human attachment styles. We will do so on the basis of "attachment theory" - a psychological model that attempts to describe dynamics of interpersonal relationships. Feeling and being exposed to various attachment styles can generate very powerful insights, interests and consequences in regards to one's own relationship dynamics.
Kai is a breath therapist based on Prof. Ilse Middendorf's work, an authorized Continuum teacher, holds the German Heilpraktiker license for psychotherapy and co-founded the Somatic Academy of Berlin. He created Authentic Eros - Explorations for Men & For and Beyond all Genders and curates the STRETCH and the BODY IQ festivals. In 2016 he initiated a new Community Center in Berlin called Village. He believes that the conscious body and the reclaiming of Eros are crucial elements in our evolution toward an integral way of life. Kai teaches since 2002 in Europe and in the US.
Love is so beautiful and raw at the same time. In every relationship there is a desire to come home with each other. When there is love, inevitable, betrayal comes as well. Not meet reciprocal, sometimes unconscious, expectations. We seek out lovers who mirror our themes flawlessly. In this workshop Systemic Constellations we explore our fluidity in gender roles and wherever it goes.
Roef Mensink works as a communication coach in Doetinchem (NL) with systemic constellations, solution focussed partner work and massage. He is trainer/ actor in communication workshops about safety in families all over the Netherlands. In organizing touch events Roef creates opportunities for men in the east part of the Netherlands to experience intimacy and hearth connection in a physical way. He studied communication, psychology, physical education. He is certified by Authentic Eros as a Sacred Intimate.
A workshop based on sensual healing, exploring subtle and intimate touch. Through different body-awareness exercises we will focus on our personal healing capacities. Once connected with our hearts and invited to move to the beat of the shaman drum, we will encounter other men with whom we can exchange sensual and conscious touch. A workshop in which fun and Eros are the basics to help eachother enjoy our physical form and presence.
Robert is a massage and touch therapist with a background in Yoga, dance and theatre. He has been involved since 1997 in ritualistic work with Ayahuasca. As a passionate Umbanda practitioner and healer he travels Europe and Brasil to share his healing touch. After completing the Sacred Intimacy training he created his own workshops. Also known as an Erotic shaman he focuses on the healing aspects of conscious touch, pleasure, joy and gratitude.
During this workshop you will have an opportunity to Give and Receive a partnered touch meditation, building upon your capacity to hold presence. Holding presence when touching another human being can change our experience from mind numbing to mind blowing. Building a stronger connection between our genitals and heart helps us accept and allow feelings of vulnerability within our experiences of intimacy and sexual arousal.
Curt MasonIs a qualified and experienced Gestalt psychotherapist and certified Sexological Bodyworker. He has been a practicing meditator for over 15 years. Curt primarily works with gay and same sex attracted men with a focus on intimacy, sexuality, relationships, anxiety, trauma and group work. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and experience in a style that is simple, fun and easy to understand and practice
Vogue-Chi combines movement and cultural elements of both Voguing - a spectrum of dance and theatrical forms based on fashion- and Tai-Chi to create a dynamic, self-affirming, meditative practice. Vogue-Chi uses cat walking, voguing vocabulary, learning how to use energy via word reclamation, bending of social performativities, among other tools historically developed by LGBTQ+ people to engage positively in life and overcome institutionalized oppression, invisibilization and abuse.
Carlos (Atabey) Maria Romero is a performing artist, pedagogue, curator and a member of Vividero Colectivo, a Colombian group of multidisciplinary artists and architects revealing narratives in which historically marginalized bodies, social practices and architectural goods can be (re-)claimed as cultural heritage. In 2016 Carlos in collaboration with artist/dancer Ted Roger created Vogue-Chi, a queer movement therapy with an initial emphasis on people aged 50+.
Detail Workshops Saturday 22nd July 2017
Naked YIN Yoga
Being naked is at times challenging for us, let’s come together and face our insecurities and perceived limitations and gently work beyond them to arrive in a space of letting-go and surrender, where we are invited to establish a deep and loving connection to ourselves. We store feelings like fears, shame, worries, resentments and traumas as tensions in our body. Through the practice of Yin Yoga along the Chinese meridians and with the tool of Buddhist mindfulness meditation our tension knots get released; thoughts, feelings and energies — balanced. This is a beautiful way to settle and ground. In this workshop you will work only with yourself. Flexibility and full nakedness are fully optional.
Saturday
11:00-12:30
Benjamin Kiss
Benjamin’s busy life has led him to become an actor, a director, a yoga teacher, a hairdresser, a fitness Instructor and a therapist for handicapped kids. Educated in Hatha-, Vinyasa-, Yin-, Forest and antiGravity-Yoga, he teaches since 2004, both privately and in various studios in Berlin.
Releasing the Belly
In this 90 minute class, Louka will give a short demonstration on how to touch and release holding in the belly and diaphragm and chest. He will then help you to sit properly, to align your own body and to work with your own breath so that you can feel a sense of energized streaming. From there he will help you come into connection with your partner and guide you on a journey into the landscape of their belly, diaphragm and chest.
Saturday
11:00-12:30
Louka Leppard
Louka began working with balancing postures as a way to release emotional and physical tension in 1995 and went on to found the techniques Tulayoga and Tulamassage. His interests are in the meditative and devotional aspects of healing through conscious touch and the power of calm relaxed presence.
Elemental Sensuality
Awaken to the erotic charge of the 5 elements within your own body! Discover how elements earth, water, fire, air and space live in your body and how they can be used as a formula for rich sensual exploration with yourself and other men! Enjoy a delicious flow of touch rituals, contact movement and conscious relating practices that support you to deeply connect with the forces of nature within you! This workshop involves optional nudity.
Saturday
11:00-12:30
Sadhu Valakhilyas
Sadhu is a sacred sexual priest, devoted to living the return of the ways of love in our world. His work emphasizes our profound capacity to collaborate & co-create with life, and each other. He has a deep passion for movement, touch, ritual, mythology, sexual expression and embodying the flow of life! He facilitates shamanic sexuality and other consciousness expanding workshops, events and individual sessions. Sadhu currently lives in Amsterdam. www.ExaltedHeart.com
The Forest
Would you like to play in ‘The Forest‘? You can tickle, slap, stroke or caress the bark of each tree. Explore their branches, their leaves, their scent or their taste. Sharing your love and attention between these great flora specimens. Then surrender yourself as you become ‘The Forest’. Experience the tickles, the slaps, the strokes and the caresses of loving hands with no faces. As the distraction of attraction hides in darkness, your pleasure can emerge into the light. How much can you let go? How much can you surrender? This workshop explores boundaries, consent, sensory deprivation of sight, working out of attraction, pleasure, surrender, generosity and community.
Saturday
13:00-14:30
Curt Mason
Curt MasonIs a qualified and experienced Gestalt psychotherapist and certified Sexological Bodyworker. He has been a practicing meditator for over 15 years. Curt primarily works with gay and same sex attracted men with a focus on intimacy, sexuality, relationships, anxiety, trauma and group work. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and experience in a style that is simple, fun and easy to understand and practice
Ness
Ness - a miracle of darkness, queerness, femness, otherness.
Vala will be guiding you through the darkness of our bodies, feelings and thoughts that have a potential to become a miracle. Can we surrender to the „ness” [in Hebrew ness means a miracle]? Can we question our comfort? Can we be asking and not knowing the answers? Can we just be as we are? In this laboratory we will be seeking different modes of encounter through touch, sound, dance and movement practices.
Saturday
16:00-17:30
Vala Tanz
Vala Tomasz Foltyn - performance maker, poetic choreographer, physical thinker, cultural anthropologist, queer activist, oral pleasure lover based in Krakow, Poland. He runs "Lamella - the house of queer arts" a nonstationary house for queer arts - a milieu for artists, thinkers and makers. It fertilizes the artistic, social and cultural development of Kraków's LGBTQIA community. It applies its mission by presenting, exhibiting, screening and documenting queer artists' works. Lamella is creating a safe space for reflecting queer identity and engages in the process of political, cultural and sexual liberation.
The Father's 'Yes'
Few gay-bi-trans-queer men have received a true and full 'yes' from their father. Most straight fathers do not know how to fully embrace their son's sexuality, and usually a distancing between father and son start as soon the first clear signals of the son's gay-queerness present themselves. This distancing can take many forms. At best it is a subtle fading out or an absence of active support, but it can as well become outright rejection, shaming and/or even violence. This workshop offers a flowing, interactive community ritual in which we will experience receiving and giving the transmission of a father's unconditional 'yes' to all that we are: our body, our soul, our sexuality.
Saturday
13.00-14.30
Daan van Kampenhout
Shamanic practitioner for more than 25 years, Daan has studied with traditional healers and shamanic teachers from various cultures (Lakota, Southern Ute, Sami and others). Combining elements of shamanic ritual and family constellations, he developed Systemic Ritual®. Daan is the author of seven books, his writings have been translated in ten languages. He works worldwide, creating rituals for different communities and groups. He lives in Amsterdam and Berlin.
Sensual Contact
Massage
In this workshop we will playfully explore the transition between sensual body work, massage and contact dance. By using different parts of the body, we will explore sinking into each other with our body weight and trust. Lightly dressed, our practice will lead to continuous body contact and interlinked touch, an experience which is like a soothing partner dance on the floor, yielding to and accommodating each other’s bodies.
Saturday
16.00-17.30
Zahiro Kai Esco
Zahiro Kai is a naturopath living in Berlin. Originally coming from dance and movement, he has been practicing and teaching for many years energetic and intuitive Thai Merian Massage. He learned this massage form along with other types of energetic bodywork at all important schools during his annual visits to Asia. He combines the balancing effect of his bodywork with his dynamic work as a movement and GYROTONIC® Teacher. He is one of the facilitators of the Queer Contact Lab and of the meditation evening at the Village. His special interest and his passion lie in combining Asian and Western approaches to harmonize the body.
Crying Action
You're invited to gather for a communal action where we will invoke all individual and collective forms and impetuses of crying. Ben and Jorge will support the experimental process by proposing techniques, encouraging energies or simply allowing the journey to take it's own course. There are countless reasons and ways to cry. We will explore this vulnerable, uncertain landscape in a care-filled space for 90 minutes. Come to embrace sadness, joy, anger, beauty, desperation, love,...
Saturday
16:00-17:30
Benjamin Block & Jorge De Hoyos
Jorge De Hoyos
is an American dancer & choreographer in Berlin since 2012. He studied Anthropology and Permaculture, but worked the last 10 years experimenting with the body and sharing knowledges from his communities of San Francisco and Berlin.
Benjamin Block
is a German dancer, bodyworker & certified somatic practitioner. He loves to empower humans to (re)connect to their qualities and potential by following the wisdom of their bodies, accompanying them in times of personal changes, transformations, and physical recovery.
Knitting Workshop
Through a knitting-learning experience, we will create a safe environment to analyze how gender stereotypes stop us from living free and happy in today's society. In addition, attendees will get in touch with new tools to start multiple journeys of love, creativity, introspection and self-reflection, by learning the basic steps of knitting.
Saturday
13:00-14:30
Ricardo Higuera
Ricardo was born and raised in Santiago, Chile. He works as journalist, but last year decided to be part of a life-changing project: the foundation of Hombres Tejedores, a group of men who took knitting to the streets and public places. He strongly believes we need to break down gender stereotypes related to any kind of activity or artistic expression if we want to live (knit) a more respectful and kind society. He currently lives in Lisbon, Portugal.
Playfight
Play fighting is experimenting with our bodies in physical contact and conflict with one or more opponents. Fighting playfully can be dance-like, sensual, funny, overpowering,
childish, serious, scaring, deep, teasing, freeing, healing, or sexy. Play fight is a consensual bodily confrontation that allows us to feel our power and our partner’s power, to feel how physical we are in a unique, intensive way.
Saturday
18:00-19:30
Alexander Hahne
Alexander Hahne is a movement researcher by night and an acoustic engineer by day based in Hamburg. He is trained in Ballett, New Dance, Contact Improvisation, Butoh and Martial Arts. His main interests are inclusion and empowerment concepts on a physical/bodily basis.
The Bonobo
Experience
The Bonobo behaviour workshops teach us how to capture and highlight the interplay between Bonobo and human. As human’s we see how to live as Bonobos'. We learn group compassion, re-learn play, bond, groom and understand why sex and touch is a tool to keep the peace. Though this work we disrupt our mono-species experience with that of the bonobo, to uncover a past that is just under the surface but been forgotten. Bonobos live without war, murder, rape and infanticide. The females govern with wisdom, not brute force. I believe we are living out of balance and a Bonobo outlook may go somewhere to redressing this imbalance.
www.bonobohouse.org
Saturday
18:00-19:30
Bonobo Woodland
Bonobo's work is focus on group centred consciousness. He draws his experience from teaching the creative process to children and adults with behavioural and learning difficulties. He enables people to find new ways to interact with the world and one another. Bonobo has a first class degree in Sculpture, is trained as a Sexological bodywork practitioner (Sex coach) and Neuro linguistic programming life coach. He lives and works in Berlin, and is currently developing heart centered art/activism work with an emphasis on Bonobo behaviour and sexuality art installations for humans.
A Human
Experiment
Creating together a safe non judgmental space where we can explore and experiment with the topics of fear, shame, play and honesty. Be vulnerable and NOT having to be interesting, amazing, beautiful, funny, talented, smart or charismatic. The permission to show our so called "shadows" if we wish to. With respect and compassion for each-other. Possibilities: curiously playing with improvisation, exposure, sound, body, shaking, crying, voice, silence, nudity, touch with consent or anything else that arises.
Saturday
18:00-19:30
Amit Elan
Amit is a visual artist, performer, yogi, dancer, student of shamanic practices and plant medicines. He studied art in Tel Aviv where he also grew up. Amit is interested in exploring social taboos, breaking them and looking at the ways we have been programed by society. At the moment he´s curious to learn from fear, shame, imperfection and the topic of "failure". Doing that through improvised exposure within a supportive group environment.
TBA
Saturday
20:00-21:30
Detail Workshops Sunday 23rd July 2017
Meditation in Pairs
Come and connect to yourself and others from a place of self-observation. This workshop is about your inner-self. Using a mixture of presentation, discussion and experiential learning on your own and in pairs, you will have both a chance to meditate and get in touch with your essence and to share it with another.
Sunday
11:00-12:00
David Peña-Charlón
David works currently as a trainer in a variety of areas ranging from conflict resolution to meditation techniques. David is a qualified Social Worker and has degrees in Political Science and Sociology. Originally from Spain, David has been living in Brighton (UK) for the last 14 years. His interests include, travelling, community building, music, books, art and communication skills.
Pleasure Pilates
Pilates training for power bottoms and flexible tops.
Sunday
11:00-12:00
Michael Rolnick
Michael was born in London where he trained as a dancer at The Royal Ballet Schools. His dance credits include work with Northern Ballet Theatre, Scottish Ballet, The Lindsay Kemp Company, AMP and numerous others. Michael also works as a choreographer and makes visual art. He currently gives one-to-one bodywork sessions of Pilates, Gyrotonic®/Gyrokinesis®, Biodynamic craniosacral therapy and Thai Yoga Massage, as well as holding creative spaces as a choreographer and workshop leader.
Faggots Fury
A space for role-play, discovery and communication. With easy, structured exercises leading to movement, touch and contact with a partner and the group, we will allow ourselves to play with a whole spectrum of energies that lay somewhere between sex and sensuality, defence and combat, expression and communication.
This workshop is for everybody, from the inner beast to the inner child. Going from the euphoria of domination to the pleasure of surrender: enjoy being the strong or the weak one in an equal way.
Sunday
11:00-12:00
David Garcia Garcia
is a physical actor, dancer and teacher. Born into a big family in a small village in the north of Spain, David studied physical theatre and dramatic art in Madrid and Bilbao. While studying at H.F.S. Ernst Busch in Berlin he learned Contemporary Dance and Contact Improvisation. Currently he co-facilitates the Queer Contact Improvisation Laboratory at The Village, and also works on creative projects as an illustrator, dancer and performer. David is passionately interested in how to enable personal development of the individual within a group dynamic, the springs that activate the connection of our body's creative impulses, sexual consciousness development in a mindful way, and the role of gender and sexual orientation in our society.
The Revealing-Self
'To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself.' _(Berger, 1971)
Through a series of questions and blind drawings we aim to challenge preconceived notions about how we see and feel about ourselves and others. No special skills required.
Sunday
12:30-14:30
Michael Rolnick
Michael was born in London where he trained as a dancer at The Royal Ballet Schools. His dance credits include work with Northern Ballet Theatre, Scottish Ballet, The Lindsay Kemp Company, AMP and numerous others. Michael also works as a choreographer and makes visual art. He currently gives one-to-one bodywork sessions of Pilates, Gyrotonic®/Gyrokinesis®, Biodynamic craniosacral therapy and Thai Yoga Massage, as well as holding creative spaces as a choreographer and workshop leader.
Restrictive
Intention
Bringing together the practice of 'Ichinawa' (One rope) and intention. Caritia will offer 120 minutes of basic tools to get you started or continue your journey into rope. Single, double column and no knot free form ties will be the aim, to bring the mind away from structure and into the body present and in front of you.
Sunday
12:30-14:30
Caritia
Caritia is a wildly erotic, London born, Berlin based artist/creative of Afro-Caribbean decent, with over 18 years of experience within BDSM. A conscious kink practitioner, a lifestyle Dominant, a presenter, and strong advocate of self-empowerment for all, working from a female led perspective. Caritia's aim is to share her knowledge and experiences from a perspective of honoring oneself (body, mind, spirit) through the vehicles of R.A.C.K - risk aware consensual kink, self-responsibility and open communication.
Ultimate
Singing Challenge
Karaoke is the art of letting go. Singing and dancing in front of a crowd can be intimidating. When we accept the challenge (no matter what the outcome is) we gain fierceness and fabulousness. On stage we communicate with the audience while working for ourselves. This workshop is not about how to "sing nice". This workshop is a no-pressure, safe lab to explore your performative side, learning to embrace the queer art of failure.
Because the simple truth is: Girls just want to have fun!
Sunday
12:30-14:30
Idan Sagiv Richter
Idàn plays with performance, dance, music and film, trying to figure out what material are connections made of. They practice "unlearning" as means of healing and self-empowerment for individuals, communities and spaces. Idàn creates, explores and improvises in Berlin.
On The Other Side
"On the other side" ("De l'autre côté") is based on my experience as a transgender person in a society where only two genders exist. I've been considered for thirty years as a woman and now people take me for a man, which made me somehow see "the both sides". In this workshop we're gonna explore genders, "the other" but also yours, first in using some everyday situations. Then, since gender is very much attached to body type and sexuality, we're gonna mix everything in some BDSM, sexual, body plays, to explore the multitude of possibilities. If you can think about an object, a piece of clothing,... that would make you feel "on the (gender's) other side" please bring it.
Sunday
16:00-17:30
Kay Garnellen
KAy Garnellen is an artist who works on the fields of gender and sexuality, as well as an activist for Trans* rights and a sex/bodyworker. He is poly-collaborative and loves working with other artists for their inspiration, motivation, and for developing new skills. Living in Berlin since 2010, KAy enjoys its creative life and all the possibilities and fun that the city still offers.
Genital Meditation
In most of our sexual activities, we increase excitement in a short time from zero to 100%. With this partner exercise using genital touch we examine what happens if we stay consciously in the range between 20 and 80% over a longer period of time. What happens in our body? Are there any wishes coming up? How can I influence my arousal by breathing?
Sunday
16:00-17:30
Julian Martin
Julian originally studied acting, singing and dance before he discovered his passion for massage and bodywork. He regularly organises and leads courses for men and weekend workshops in Zürich under the title of “Men Bodywork”. The main areas of work are breath, voice, movement, touch, self-acceptance and the discovery and expression of your own needs as the key to a free and fulfilling (sex) life.
Sexual Identity
& Shadow
Most of us have not had a healthy initiation into the sexual identity of our choosing. In this workshop you’ll connect with your freedom to choose and create how you uniquely live in the world as a sexual being! Through an eye opening mix of meditation, partner dialoguing and ritual you are invited to release the hold of limiting labels of sexual identity and play with the vast possibilities of how you choose to engage with your sexuality.
Sunday
16:00-17:30
Sadhu Valakhilyas
Sadhu is a sacred sexual priest, devoted to living the return of the ways of love in our world. His work emphasizes our profound capacity to collaborate & co-create with life, and each other. He has a deep passion for movement, touch, ritual, mythology, sexual expression and embodying the flow of life! He facilitates shamanic sexuality and other consciousness expanding workshops, events and individual sessions. Sadhu currently lives in Amsterdam. www.ExaltedHeart.com
Oscillating The Body
In this workshop you will be guided in how to oscillate the body in time with music with applied pressure to specific release points.
In this way you can bring your partner into deep states of trance like relaxation and release deep subconscious holding and withheld emotion in the body.
Sunday
18:00-19:30
Louka Leppard
Louka Leppard has been a bodywork practitioner since his mid twenties and is the founder of Tulamassage and Tulayoga. His interest and practice are in the devotional and meditative aspects of healing through conscious touch.
Collective Dreaming
The world is changing rapidly in both good and bad ways, old structures are crumbling. New ones are not yet in place. Some questions are too damn tricky and too damn important to just leave them to the analytic mind. We will bravely delve into the deep waters of our collective unconscious by exploring a social dreaming matrix, and we will do dancy movement explorations to address questions like: How can we organize ourselves to un-fuck-up our ways of living together in a deeply troubled world? How do we want to relate to one another, as humans and non-humans, to contribute to an ongoingness of life on this planet? What kinds of bonds and commitments do we want to share, what kinds of families and communities do we want to build, what kinds of futures are we able to imagine? Let's not look for answers, but let's try and ask some of the right questions, and let's ask our bodies to help us find them. Let's dream together, let's dance a dance of the future, let's invite our bodies, souls, hearts and minds to collectively dream new realities into being.
Sunday
18:00-19:30
Jo Koppe
Jo Koppe is a freelance dancer, performer and facilitator, and is a self-appointed expert at navigating in-between spaces of many sorts. He is interested in creating spaces for unlikely encounters, feeding queer monsters, and building impossible bridges.
Transition
into yourself!
As Transmen we know what it means to cross borders, to transition into yourself. What is in you that you deny to see? That you miss and long for? That scares you, that is forbidden? That seems impossible but so important at the same time that you can not let go of it? Lets develop your personal initiation ritual into yourself! Get support and encouragement from the group to be you!
Sunday
18:00-19:30
Manuel & Alexander
Manuel FTM of color
Trans*activist and Architect
Autor of the book ""TransMan of the world""
Munich Germany / Chihuahua Mexico
Alexander is a movement researcher by night and an acoustic engineer by day based in Hamburg. He is trained in Ballett, New Dance, Contact Improvisation, Butoh and Martial Arts. His main interests are inclusion and empowerment concepts on a physical/bodily basis.
Closing Circle &
last Hugs
TBA
Sunday
20:00-21:30
TBA
STRETCH Summer 2017
