To accept sensuousness is to lend one’s body to the world and accept its complexities, tastes, structures, and smells … sensuous scholarship is ultimately a mixing of head and heart. It is an opening of one’s being to the world – a welcoming.
— Paul Stoller: Sensuous Scholarship
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Oh, life!
Welcome back.
We went through something like hibernation. Carefully we now blink our eyelids, stretch our limbs, crawl out of our nests and dare to slowly open ourselves up to a new world. This is exciting. And overwhelming. And a fascinating chance to reinvent.
Where do we begin? Why not at the beginning: it all started with your breath and with your senses. Feeling, hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting.
Fundamental as they are they tend to be taken for granted. But once we give full attention to them they generate powerful visceral pleasures and carefully ground us as sentient beings in the here and now while at the same time unlocking delicious realms of imagination and dreams.
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Every day will start with breathwork, and each new dawn will be dedicated to one of the five senses with their very own materiality.
Lovingly we will guide you through playfully modified somatic bodywork treatments and inspiration for introspection, sensual nature walks and artful crafting of unconventional interconnections between ourselves, each other and the landscape. Think: massages guided by the most interesting sounds. Think: bacchantian blindfolded foodorgies Think: unheard of pleasures of dry poppyseeds carefully being poured over your closed eyelids and groins. Think: slowly making your way to another by following a scent rather than a thought...
With heightened awareness for our receptors and clairvoyant experiences every evening will harvest this potential in safer and braver containers: experimental playspaces, festive rituals of indulging what our bodies offer, sharing circles or nourishing me-time at the pool or fire.
Freed from efficiency we'll be inviting thinking that conspires with wildness, fusing the fundamental with elegant and creative approaches to giving a form to our fantasies. We’ll be guided by trial and error/eros, sense and non-sense, biting attention to details, surprise and letting-be, laziness and flow: a promise of life.
Watch this talk between Beata & Rebecca on the course:
SCHEDULE
Sat, 18.9.2021 - Arrival
Sun, 19.9. - Thur 23.9.2021 - Workshop
Fri, 24.9.2021 - Departure
LANGUAGES/SPRACHEN
English/Deutsch
DOWNLOAD a more thorough workshop description as pdf here.
WORKSHOP FEE
We are so much looking forward to spend embodied time together again that we didn’t want to make money a burden for people affected by the big C.
Regular prices apply if you are in a financially stable position despite it all:
WORKSHOP FEE PER PERSON
EUR 450,00
Early birds until 30.6.2020
EUR 350,00 per person
Lower prices for whomever couldn’t join otherwise, to reflect both the importance of this moment, and pay homage to the reality that many of us have faced financial difficulties over the past 18 months.
WORKSHOP FEE PER PERSON
EUR 290,00
Early birds until 30.6.2020
EUR 190,00 per person
Supporter prices for those that would additionally like to support our work!
WORKSHOP FEE PER PERSON
EUR 600,00
Early birds until 30.6.2020
EUR 500,00 per person
ADDITIONAL COSTS FOR ACCOMMOTATION & FOOD
to be payed cash on arrival
Please contact us via the “questions” button below In order to ensure the accommodation meets your personal needs!
Choose from 4 options:
EUR 250 per person for camping with your own equipment. (There are limited camping materials available to rent at an extra cost should you need)
EUR 330 per person in a shared dormitory
EUR 410 per person in a double or twin room
EUR 500 per person – single occupancy of double or twin
6 nights with full catering –
3 meals per day, vegetarian or vegan
THE LOCATION:
FURTHER INFORMATION
FACILITATORS
REBECCA is breath-work teacher, tantric masseuse and certified Thai yoga massage practitioner. Her work focuses on using movement, sound and breath as catalysts for and pathways to relaxation, pleasure and deep self-exploration.
BEATKA is conducting sensory ethnography of consent exercises in queer-feminist spaces as a researcher in cultural studies. Her theoretical interests are inspired by her practical experiences in Bodywork, Kink and Play. She arranges her workshops and sessions as collaborative processes. Seemingly silly questions and imperfections are warmly welcome, while harvesting the most interesting experience will be encouraged, so you can find your own unique style and situational nourishment.
DISCLAIMER
— The aims of our events are to learn together in a group and support collective processes as well as personal development. Couples and any other kinds of partnerships or constellations are welcome, but you should be aware of and open to the fact that the courses are not designed as partnership experiences and that we address each person as an individual. As an example: to include all participants equally, we usually work with random partner combinations in the exercises. Thus same, as well as differing gender combinations are likely to occur. Participants should be generally open to work with anybody and any body. Exceptions can be discussed in individual cases.
— Gender identity, sexual orientation, age etc. are no criteria in the registration process and the selection of the participants.
— It is required that you act with care, communication, consent and caution, and encouraged that you honour your boundaries and self-responsibilities.
— Hate speech will not be tolerated. Please bring candy speech.
— We reserve the right to ask participants to leave, should their behavior be harmful and we reserve the right to do that without explanations – though we will likely try to explain. Workshop fees would then be fully refunded, further claims are excluded.
— We do our best to meet different needs, though our resources are limited. Contact us if in doubt.
Read more on this here.
FEE, CANCELLATION & REFUND POLICY
When booking the event, there is a non-refundable administration fee of €20. To secure your place please pay the workshop fee. Accommodation fees are to be paid in cash upon arrival. If you need to cancel your participation for any reason, you can do so free of charge up to 8 weeks prior to the event (July 24). We retain a 20% charge for cancellations up to 6 weeks prior to the event (August 7). We retain a 50% charge for cancellations up to 4 weeks prior to the event (August 21). After this, there are no refunds but you are welcome to find someone to take your ticket and we will transfer the ticket to their name. In case of cancellation by the organizer, the course fee will be refunded in full. Further claims are excluded.
Should the Covid-19 situation worsen and borders close in September meaning that the retreat cannot take place, full refunds will be given. We define this as a force majeur.