Did you ever observe what happens when somebody touches you while you stay connected with yourself? Sure, most of us know physical reactions like pain or arousal and the amazing effects of massage or holding. But there is much more to it when you allow yourself to notice all those somatic and emotional effects of physical contact. Here, we will explore mindful touch and support each other in a non-verbal and intuitive way.

Journaling and Creative Writing Workshop. Journaling is a self-development technique where you keep track of your feelings, thoughts and learning. It is particularly powerful for GBTQ men – because we were given the message as children that our stories don’t count. Involves a series of light-hearted writing exercises to build confidence, no prior experience needed and you can write in any language.

This workshop is a playful exploration of the serious business of how we feel in our body. The myth of the body beautiful can leave us feeling absolutely fabulous one day, unable to look in the mirror the next. Through exercises in perceptual practice, singing into the body and movement, we will explore how Alexander Technique can give us more confidence and presence as we strut the catwalk of life.

In this class, we’ll approach the body, contact, touch, and movement in the literal meaning of the word: We’ll focus on sensation. Receiveing and giving sensations is a wonderful and delightful way to fully and vividly arrive in the present moment, to open ourselves up for true encounters and for satisfying experiences. And then, there’s of course the dimension of very pleasurable and possibly erotic interactions which are embodied yet hightened through continuously bringing our attention to sensation and sensuality.

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 contact with your essence, and to share it with another through touch.

In this workshop you will have the opportunity to meet your own vulnerability in different ways. Through guided meditations, single and partner exercises we will create a safe space to look inside and care for ourselves. Can't we meet others only to the extend that we can meet ourselves? Connecting with our inner selves can be an interesting, healing journey for more balance.

The Wave is a massage workshop for both newbies and experimented masseurs who are looking for a massage inclusive of breath & movement. This two parts massage will consist of instructions on how to give a massage when the massé is on his side and will be followed by a guided active meditation where the masseur is invited to close his eyes and feel the massage as a wave. Each participant will experience both roles and both sides will be massaged. Workshop contains nudity and consensual intimate touch.

In times of right wing backlash, wars, climate change, fortress Europe and global capitalism queers must yet unite again to fight for liberation of everyone. The workshop explores queer liberation and radical social change using politicized somatics and radical bodywork. As our bodies are the starting point of liberation from oppression. Radical self-care and collective care, vulnerability and empathy as revolutionary forces for radical transformation. In our bodies - on the streets.

Pain and Pleasure are considered opposites by many, yet both can also simply be heightened states of awareness. We will explore how breath and movement can transform intense sensation into energy, impact into joy. We will create a safe container so that each person can explore this at their own level, no matter where it is. Whether You’ve only been curious about impact play, or an experienced player who wishes to cultivate the beginner’s mind, You are more than welcome - Smack!

A Casual Drag Tea Party with Victorian Parlour Games.
Costumes, Wigs, Make-Up..and...ACTION! A scintillating hour of shrieking, skill and subterfuge! We will have time to dress before Blind Man’s Buff, Squeak Piggy Squeak, Pass the Slipper, Cockfighting and many more...this will include forfeits, such as Kissing Rabbit Fashion, Making a Grecian Statue, Playing the learned Pig, Knobbing in the Corner etc. etc. etc.

This space is all about TOGETHERNESS and getting your basic needs of warmth, touch and connection met. Together we create a place of inclusion, consent and mutual appreciation; a place to forget about your worries or your latest man crush, let go and allow yourself to be held by the group. This cuddle puddle will be international, don’t miss it.

Romantic Move is a dynamic and reflective workshop of movement, which aims to bring up some constructive reflections about the meanings of love. Using music for inspiration, we will attempt to connect through our body in movement with those areas inside ourselves where authentic love resides. Artistic and creative expression will be a means to explore the issue of platonic love and romantic non-reciprocity. We will open a path to self-love and find ways to use it to communicate. Romantic move is a ritual of liberation for the heart and a chance to find other meanings for unrequited love.

Wenn es um Sex geht, bewegen wir uns dabei innerhalb eines bestimmten - wahrscheinlich repetitiven - Verhaltensspektrums, in dem unsere Körper, Empfindungen, Gedanken und Vorstellungen beteiligt sind. Wir werden uns auf den Körper fokussieren und die somatische Methode des Continuum nutzen, um uns selbst zu begegnen und uns als vollblütige, ganzkörperliche, bewusst-lebendige Ereignisse zu begreifen … ständig atmend, pulsierend, strömend, sendend und empfangend. Ausgehend von diesem angeregten Zustand zellulären Lauschens, erkunden wir unterschiedliche Partnereinladungen  und können so einige Inspirationen für unseren sinnlich-sexuellen Ausdruck daheim und anderswo bekommen.

"be the one" is a physical solo erotic practice, which aims for developing honest and intimate dialogue with inner sexual voice. Acknowledging our needs is a step towards developing compassionate relationships with oneself and allows the individual to focus on what is substantial in their sexuality. This attentive and mindful encounter with oneself helps us better understand what gives us pleasure, what improves the communication about our desires and what can reclaim our freedom in satisfying our own sexual needs, independently from external factors.

In this workshop, we practice different forms of moving and silent meditation in order to get in touch with the body, own emotions and needs. Through biodynamic exercises and selected Yoga-asanas, you are able to explore body tension and blockages and discover approaches to solve blocked motions. After this, an approx. 20-30 minute silent meditation follows. A meditation experience is not required. Beginners are taught the basics of breathing meditation.

Strangely our high brain‘s creativity, its ideas and wishes often are in the way and censor our bodies‘ expression through movement. It often times prevents us from finding flow and effortless improvisation in our dances. An array of exercises will help us to open up many channels for our true originality and individuality to thrive and blossom. The direct feedback we get from dancing in contact with other bodies will serve as a guide, reminding us to be present and embodied and remain in touch with our visceral creativity during every moment of our enjoyable dance experience.

Your Hungry ghost is the animalistic part of you that is driven by intense emotional needs. It is that which saps your energy and feeds on your essence. In this workshop you will give your Hungry Ghost a voice, to dance it, to sing it and to fall in love with it. Fear not and transform your Ghost into a mythical figure and find new gifts within yourself.

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.

A workshop in which we will explore and experience healing in a different way. Through an active guided meditation we will connect to our Spiritguides, to our Totem Animals and to our bodies and hearts.
We will be working with the healing qualities of sound, herbs, flowers, water and smoke. Together with the Sensual healing touch from previous workshops (will be demonstrated) we will enter an enchanting Forrest where Magic, intimacy, pleasure and healing take place. In this Forrest nudity is welcome...

I would like to reflect with you on the injunction to masculinity that dominates the mainstream gay culture (and the rest of the world too) and creeps into our lives. As an alternative, in this workshop i would like to imagine with you how to see our friends and lover’s femininity, as well as our own, as attractive and desirable (and not only entertaining) We will discuss our own relationships with gender norms in small groups, and also use drag, runway walk & lap dance.

This workshop will teach us how to capture and highlight the inter-play 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 and rediscover a past that has been forgotten. 

This is a pants off workshop.

This Workshop will be photographed.

In this workshop we explore the qualities of the four elements in a four handed massage from two partners. Earth: through a sinking quality, related to solid forms in the body. Water: through melting and floating, related to body fluids and regeneration. Fire: deep treatment on "challenged" spots, related to metabolic processes. Air: through soothing and light strokes, related to the breath and the nervous system. We remain dressed, creating a safe, consensual space, respecting each other's boundaries.

Forbidden pleasures or experiences that might remain unlived because of social or cultural beliefs. In this workshop we ask ourselves what is forbidden and why? In the shadow could be lurking for instance, a hidden artist, a Diva, or a whole array of forbidden fantasies. Through structured exercises, and dynamic ritual we work in pairs and with the group to quiet the voice of the cynic and to discover a space where we are able to be as deliciously self-indulgent as possible.

Creating together a safer 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. Possible scenarios: curiously playing with improvisation, exposure, sound, body, shaking, crying, voice, masturbation, silence, nudity, touch with consent or anything else that arises.

Juan, Andre, and Jorge will co-facilitate a group process of mindful/heart-full undressing and touch in a nude and blindfolded landscape that will then turn into an open jam/play/interaction/social space.  Sex is allowed and embraced, but is not the goal or expectation here. Rather, our aim is to simply and openly instigate a naked and gay space for people to enjoy each other at many levels of care, respect, touch, sensuality, and yes, possibly sexuality, etc...

The aim of this workshop is to experiment with the connections between the physical and energetic body. First we will tune into different partner's energetic fields by caressing their aura, using our voice to send vibrations into their bodies, connecting our hearts by expanding our breathing into a partner's heart. Then the principal Nadis (streams of energy in the body) will be located and drawn on our naked bodies with massage cream. We will give and receive: a subtle massage on these lines and then a powerful activation of the flow into the Sushumna Nadi (the central channel) using the whole body, voice and breathing. You will be able to gain a wider perception of the interaction between the subtle and physical bodies and how to put them into play. This approach can then be used in any kind of massage, bodywork, self healing or love making.

Moving from the Bones - a contemporary dance class

Moving our bodies communally is one of the most simple and enjoyable ways to spend time together. In this class, we will start from sensing the skeleton and explore how it can be used to create effortlessness and clarity in our movement. We will then move on to simple exercises and sequences to begin the day with the pleasure of moving. 

This workshop explores ways to address an increasing empathy and communication deadlock between various social identities, perspectives and agendas. Collectively, we are going through an important cultural process of bringing awareness to interpersonal and institutional oppression, neglect and abuse - some of which can be traced back many generations. A tremendous amount of collective shadow and trauma is rising to the surface and can hopefully gradually be healed. (...#metoo #brexit #trump #political correctness, etc...) Sometimes however this process comes with its own shadow, aggressive finger pointing and a new sense of rigidity, thus creating other forms of division instead of true inclusion. Through constellation witnessing and experiential shifts in perspective we explore how we can affirm ourselves and others despite varying world-views and ambitions.

The workshop invites us to explore the energetic frequencies which surround us. Starting with the physical body we connect more and more with our subtle bodies and the energies which are interfering with them. When we let go of thoughts, expectations, aims and goals everything is possible to happen. We can connect with an energy space, which has its own immanent intelligence to nurture, relax and rebalance our system.

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.

Pimp up your Pussy/Penis/Privates

Our pussy's/penisses/private parts are not just organs that can provide intense pleasure, they can also be the cause of feelings of insecurity, doubt and shame. Our p/p/p's can leave us in ecstasy but can leave us feeling judged and betrayed as well. In this workshop we will change the script of some of the sad, difficult and negative stories connected to our ppp's in the most concrete way. We will engage in a creative and probably hilarious artistic process of turning our genitals into the personalities and creatures we want them to be. Mini wigs, costumes, and added miniature body parts are just one of the endless options, any kind of material that has your fancy can be used. The process will guide you. Some material is provided but please bring anything that can be used by you or others as well - and your sheet/towel. 

Cats are inspiring creatures, sent to us by the gods.  If we let them, they can teach us wonderful ways of bonding, caring for each other and expressing affection gracefully. This workshop is about creating a (feline) space of intimacy, in which participants get to explore a more playful fashion of touch, physical closeness and communal care. 

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?

Our culture seems to be speeding up, things become more and more short-lived as our attention jumps around to absorb one bit of information after the next. How is our relationship to the nature of death and dying connected to this phenomenon? How is our relationship to issues like pollution, migration or climate change connected to how we relate to death and dying? We will explore what needs to die in your life so that something that is yearning to live personally and/or collectively can arise.

Unleash your creativity and make beautiful music together. This workshop is all about improvisation and letting go of your inhibitions, learning there is no such thing as mistakes and discovering the hidden depths of your voice. The reaction from most people who did this workshop last year: 'Where did that sound come from?' and 'I never knew I had so much power in my voice.' No singing experience is needed.

Emotions, touch, connections, intimacy, overcoming fears, community, tears. This and so much more is what we experience throughout 3 days at stretch. We encounter a loving tenderness between one another, we open up, we make ourselves vulnerable. This crafting space will give time to talk about and digest our experiences during stretch. We are going preserve this positivity and transform the stretch spirit and its energy to take it home with us after this magical weekend. 

As queer people, our experience of love often challenges traditional representations, especially those we find in love stories. This can be felt as a form of exclusion. But it can also be seen as an opportunity to invent new stories that no longer set us apart, but celebrate our uniqueness. In this workshop inspired by improvisational theatre, we will meet unexpected lovers, imagine new narratives and become the heroes of our own love stories.