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TEACHERS, WORKSHOPS & SCHEDULE 2026

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DAILY RHYTHM

THIS IS HOW YOUR AVERAGE DAILY STRUCTURE LOOKS LIKEYou will find more specifics about teachers, workshops and the program down below.

COFFEE & TEA07:00 AM - 08:00 AM

MORNING SESSION08:00 AM - 09:00 AM

SHARING & ANNOUNCEMENTS09:00 AM - 10:00 AM

BRUNCH10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

WORKSHOP (2-3 WORKSHOPS TO CHOOSE FROM)11:30 PM - 02:30 PM

WORKSHOP (2-3 WORKSHOPS TO CHOOSE FROM)03:30 PM - 06:30 PM

DINNER06:30 PM - 08:30 PM

EVENING WORKSHOP OR EVENT08:30 PM - 11:30 PM

THE SCHEDULE

INTENTION OF THE DAY: 

ARRIVAL & OPENING CEREMONY
Today, we arrive — not just at a place, but within ourselves. We begin to land softly in this shared space, get to know the rhythm of our breath, the faces around us and the gentle structure that will hold us. This is where the journey begins.

🌀 The Nest 

🌑 The Cave 

🌊 The Horizon 

6:30 PM - 9:30 PM 

OPENING CEREMONY

THE COCOON TEAM

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THE TEACHERS

REINHARD GAIDA
MIRIAM S. KOLLER
NIKO DEININGER
Richard West
Nora
Mazu
Kale Tadpole
ILDIKO VEGH
DELIA RUBICK
Lella‐Elayla Heindl
ANGELINE HEILFORT & RUBEM JOY FOCKINK
TILL & SHIRKA
Jeremias & Matilda
BERNHARD WEISS
Ottokar Lehrner
RUBY MAY
Sotantar
Naresh Moves
Roland Schürhagl
SAPHIRA FIRESHOW

Private Practitioners

Tabea Lehrner
Sotantar
MIRIAM S. KOLLER
ILDIKO VEGH
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May 3rd–10th, 2026 · Crete, Greece
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THE PROGRAM

TEACHERS, WORKSHOPS & SCHEDULE OF THE COCOON RETREAT

DAILY RHYTHM

THIS IS HOW YOUR AVERAGE DAILY STRUCTURE LOOKS LIKEYou will find more specifics about teachers, workshops and the program down below.

COFFEE & TEA07:00 AM - 08:00 AM

MORNING SESSION08:00 AM - 09:00 AM

SHARING & ANNOUNCEMENTS09:00 AM - 10:00 AM

BRUNCH10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

WORKSHOP (2-3 WORKSHOPS TO CHOOSE FROM)11:30 PM - 02:30 PM

WORKSHOP (2-3 WORKSHOPS TO CHOOSE FROM)03:30 PM - 06:30 PM

DINNER06:30 PM - 08:30 PM

EVENING WORKSHOP OR EVENT08:30 PM - 11:30 PM

THE PROGRAM

INTENTION OF THE DAY: 

ARRIVAL & OPENING CEREMONY
Today, we arrive — not just at a place, but within ourselves. We begin to land softly in this shared space, get to know the rhythm of our breath, the faces around us and the gentle structure that will hold us. This is where the journey begins.

🌀 The Nest 

🌑 The Cave 

🌊 The Horizon 

6:30 PM - 9:30 PM 

OPENING CEREMONY

THE COCOON TEAM

Location 1

Location 1

Location 1

Location 1

Location 1

THE TEACHERS

REINHARD GAIDA
DELIA RUBICK
Nora Mazu
Angeline Heilfort & Rubem Joy Fockink
Sotantar
Ottokar Lehrner
Roland Schürhagl
MIRIAM S. KOLLER
Kale Tadpole
TILL & SHIRKA
Richard
West
Ruby May
BERNHARD WEISS
NIKO DEININGER
ILDIKO VEGH
Jeremias & Matilda
Lella‐Elayla
Heindl
Naresh Moves
SAPHIRA FIRESHOW

Private Practitioners

Tabea Lehrner
Sotantar
MIRIAM S. KOLLER
ILDIKO VEGH

Ready to surrender into your cocooning journey?

Enter The Cocoon

Early Bird Ticket

€790

Last Tickets!
Registration closes 30st of April 2026, 23:59 (CET)

Full access to the 7-day Retreat
from 3rd to 10th of May, 2026 in Crete - Greece
7 days of workshops, rituals, movement, and integration
Support from experienced facilitators and staff throughout
Access to all event spaces: floors, open-air spaces, private beach
Access to community group before and after the retreat
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Your ticket includes the full retreat experience. Accommodation and travel not included. You’ll receive all details about the accommodation booking process after your ticket purchase.
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REINHARD GAIDA

Reinhard Gaida, MSc founder of Schwelle, empowers people to explore conscious relationships, intimacy and embodiment.

With over two decades of experience in therapy, breathwork, hypnosis and conscious intimacy, he guides people to uncover their true selves – embracing freedom, authenticity and joy beyond shame and societal norms.

His mission is to guide people in shaping relationships and intimacy that genuinely fit their individuality – embracing freedom, consciousness, and vibrant aliveness.

Reinhard envisions a world where love and connection are boundless and conscious intimacy becomes a wellspring of power, creativity, and joy. Through his work, people experience profound transformation – in body, mind, and soul.

Through transformative retreats, workshops and immersive experiences, he opens doors to new ways of loving and experiencing intimacy – helping joy and vitality to flourish from within.

His work has been featured in national and international media for advancing conscious sexuality and relationship culture.

More: www.reinhardgaida.com

Playfight
Holotropic Breathwork

MIRIAM S. KOLLER

Community Catalyst, Curator for Bliss, Schwelle and The Cocoon, Creatrix of ASPACETOAMAZE

I am a Holistic Trauma-Sensitive Integration and Empowerment Coach and Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner. I bring a big heart and a kick-ass mentality to my 1:1 work with clients, as well as into workshops, festivals and experience designs. With reference to my creative and communicative background, I bring tools and methods that turn your healing journey into a playground for being and becoming aware. Nervous system regulation, radiant authenticity, conscious relationships, somatic sovereignty, and boundaries, baby — these are just a few of my keywords that invite you into creation of life :)

More: www.aspacetoamaze.com

Ciao, Cacao!
Tittie Tea Time (♀)

NIKO DEININGER

Driven by an untamable lust for life, by the freedom of dance, connected with the world of the seen and unseen and in love with the people and beings of this planet, I create inner and outer spaces for unfolding, healing and pure joy of life — spaces that help overcome suffering and transform human existence into a profound and ecstatic celebration.

 

True Connection – A Men’s Workshop
WORKSHOP 1

Richard West

It’s my belief that we are at a crucial pivotal moment in our Earth’s history, as the very structure of our planet changes to allow higher dimensional energies to be integrated within us. 

It’s my commitment to be at the forefront of this change. Challenging the boundaries of identity, unleashing authentic soul-lead expression. Grounding real magic through intuition and flow in everyday life.

My authentic expression is often gentle and grounded, though I do push buttons if it feels invited. I find I have an intuitive sense for what is required for the field to be liberated, which I bring to my approach to workshops. It is my absolute joy to witness and facilitate real transformation in people and in the subtle field around me.

More: www.grounded-mysticism.com

Conscious Check-In
Inner Dynamics of Conscious Relating
Trigger Mastery

Nora Mazu

I am an ambassador of Here & Wow — devoted to the art of presence as a gateway into the magic of being fully alive. For me, diving into presence is not a concept; it is a lived experience, a practice, and an embodied remembrance. When we tap into intenseness or slow down enough to truly feel, the ordinary becomes extraordinary.

My work weaves creative connections between yoga and embodiment. I guide experiences rooted in pranayama, active meditation, and kriya as powerful somatic practices — not only as techniques, but as portals into deeper awareness. Breath is the guide. Movement becomes devotion. Sensations are the mirror of consciousness.

As a yoga teacher, I focus on Kundalini and Yin Yoga — two seemingly opposite yet beautifully complementary paths. Through Kundalini, we ignite intensity, activation, and transformation. Through Yin, we soften into mindful surrender, spaciousness, and deep listening. I love guiding students to travel to the edges of their experience — whether through fire or stillness, expansion or release — always with awareness as the compass.

My passion is inviting people into their excitement zone — that vibrant place where aliveness meets authenticity. I hold space for transformation not only on the mat, but also in ecstatic dances and ritual spaces, where I serve as both space holder and hypegirl, as i absolutely love to dance and see people in their free expression. I believe celebration is medicine. I believe movement is liberation. I believe community amplifies everything.

My work is an invitation: to feel more, to inhabit your body more fully, to trust your inner rhythm, and to dare to experience life at its edges. Presence is the key. Embodiment is the path. Magic is already here, lets unveil it! 

More: instagram.com/noramazu

Heartspace Activation
Conscious Connected Breath Journey: Breath & Release
Energy Expansion - Kundalini Breathwork
Smoothilicious - Rest & Restore

Kale Tadpole

Working as a se✗ therapist-, educator- and bodyworker, as well as a relationship coach, Kale brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to their practice.

Currently based in Berlin, they identify as polyamorous, slutty, a s** worker, kinky, genderfluid, and queer. With a background in education, science, creative art, Jeremy holds multiple university degrees and has facilitated numerous workshops on intimacy, relationships and pleasure. He is dedicated to support individuals, couples and relationship constellations of all orientations and gender identities, with a focus on respecting consent and boundaries. Jeremy brings a queer-positive, anti-racist and intersectional feminist perspective to the work, informed and inspired by the principles of decolonization, anti-patriarchy, anti-capitalism and pro-earth spirituality.

More: www.jeremyshub.com 

Water Welcomes You
Touch The Forest Ritual
Playful Games for Connection

ILDIKO VEGH

As a certified Somatic Bodyworker, intimacy coach and tantric masseuse (certified by TMV) I have been supporting people since 2012 on their journey toward a harmonious and fulfilling intimate life. I founded my first private practice for intimacy counseling and tantric massage in 2012. Since 2020 I have been working as an intimacy coach and tantric masseuse in Vienna.

I have realized what truly motivates me in my work: experiencing intimacy as fulfilling and joyful leads people to perceive and live with more vitality, zest for life, satisfaction and optimism in their everyday lives. Yes, that would be my message for humanity.

We humans are fortunate. We have the freedom to experience and unfold our intimacy in the way we wish. Yes, if we are ready for a journey of discovery through the wonderful world of our body and senses. Good intimacy can be learned!

More: www.sexualkultur.at

Deep Connection – A Journey into Presence and Intimacy
Tantra Massage – Level 1
Tantra Massage – Level 2
Ecstatic Trance Massage

DELIA RUBICK

I feel at home in many worlds, yet the one dearest to me is that of integral Tantra. My vision even led me to found the Vision Institute for Integral Tantra in Vienna.

It is a heartfelt mission of mine to create spaces where people can meet each other naturally and with appreciation, free from beliefs, ideas and expectations. In my seminars I therefore create special experiences again and again – breath journeys, oil rituals, women’s circles and massages where the magic of touch can be felt.

My therapeutic background lies in art and design therapy as well as body and energy work according to Milton Trager and Kaula Tantra Yoga.

More: www.tantra.vision

Quantum Light Breath
Bacchanal - Temple of Sin
Flow Touch – Multihand Massage
Tantric Ritual of Seduction

Lella‐Elayla Heindl

I dance in spaces where the heart, breath and touch light up like light in the moment and encounters unfold joy. I have been dancing in harmony with life since 1987. My path led me through energetics, Tai Chi, yoga, Lomi Lomi and finally, in 2009, to Contact Improvisation, an expression of presence in which encounter, joy and healing merge. 

My work is currently also influenced by Trager (bodywork according to Milton Trager i.A.) and neurosystemic integration (trauma-sensitive coaching according to Verena König i.A.). Organiser of Contact-in-Paradise.com

More: www.contact-in-paradise.com

Touch in Being
Colour on Skin – a Dance of the Moment
Touched – in the Space between

Angeline Heilfort & Rubem Joy Fockink

We – Angeline Anett Heilfort and Rubem Joy Fockink – form the core facilitation team of KuschelRaum.

We create spaces that invite people to open up in their own time – to feel safe, seen, and touchable. Our work weaves together trauma-informed coaching, conscious touch, and consent-based group processes. We offer embodied experiences that bring people into mindful connection with themselves and with others – guided by clarity, empathy, and somatic presence.

A central element of our approach is the Wheel of Consent by Dr. Betty Martin, which provides a clear and safe framework to translate touch, self-awareness, and mutual consent into lived experience.

Angeline brings many years of experience in bodywork, communication, massage, and emotional process facilitation.

Rubem is a cuddle, yoga, and trauma therapist with an intercultural background. His work is grounded in self-empowerment, caring intimacy, and somatic integration.

Together, we hold space for conscious touch, embodied intimacy, and self-discovery – through individual sessions, group formats, trainings and retreats.

More: www.kuschelraum.de

Wheel of Consent​
Conscious Touch – The Art of Embodied Contact
Conscious Cuddle Experience
Deep Connection – A Journey into Presence and Intimacy
Boundaries & Belonging – Sensing Limits, Cultivating Connection

TILL & SHIRKA

Till (all pronouns) and Shirka (she/her) invite humans to explore their desires, embrace their uniqueness and find a little more freedom in themselves.

Shirka comes from a background in music, performance and visual arts. In recent years, she’s also dived into bodywork and is on her way to becoming a Lomi Lomi practitioner. With many years in the se✗-positive scene, she has slowly but surely grown into her inner dominatrix – a role that once pushed her out of her comfort zone but now feels in her element. She loves inspiring others to discover their own expression.

Her passion? Creating spaces where people can explore their intimacy and boundaries in a safe, playful way.

Till has spent years teaching – languages, theater, flow arts – while also setting stages on fire as a self-employed fire dancer and performance artist. Se✗-positive spaces became a place of deep personal growth for him and now he brings that energy into his workshops: amix of lightness, depth and a good dose of humor. He loves guiding people to the edge of their comfort zone, where they think, “Wait..! Can I really do this?” – only to realize, “Oh yes! And it feels amazing!”

Till & Shirka come from the “Burning Man” culture and highly value the principles of Self-Responsibility, Co-Creation, Immediacy and Self-Expression. Together, they host Workshops and Temples in Berlin, Vienna & Zürich – for everyone looking for sensual exploration, personal growth, playful fun and a juicy community.

More: www.tillshirka.com

Identity Alchemy
Temple Night
Deep Touch – Sensual Partner Massage Workshop
Curious Lips – Let's kiss
Tickle Me Softly & Laugther Circle
Flirt Like a Butterfly

Jeremias & Matilda

We – Jeremias and Matilda – are deeply passionate about Acroyoga. Moving together, carrying and balancing one another while consciously experiencing our bodies brings us a deep sense of joy in our shared presence.

Our acro journey began almost three years ago – on our very first date. What started playfully quickly became a shared passion. Since then, Acroyoga has been an essential part of our lives. Besides organising Acroyoga jams in Vienna, we offered workshops in Italy, Germany and soon Greece to share this experience with more people.

Acroyoga has helped us understand ourselves and each other on deeper levels. It reveals where trust grows, where we underestimated ourselves and helped us substitute performance pressure with joy. For us, it is more than a physical practice. It is a space for play, presence, and genuine connection – bringing us back to a childlike joy of movement while learning so much about our mind and body. 

More: @acroyoga.match

Acro Yoga

Bernhard Weiss

Bernhard Weiss is a percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, DJ and sound artist – a powerhouse who has been electrifying stages from Vienna to Tokyo for over 20 years. Trained by master drummers in West Africa and Cuba, he fuses raw traditional rhythms with modern ecstatic soundscapes.

With projects like Abarga, Kalan, Xalis, Consa and Cordion, as well as guest appearances with Mamadou Diabate’s Percussion Mania, Megablast Soundsystem and countless international dance and theater productions, he has set festivals ablaze – including Sziget (Budapest), Jazzfest Villach, Flow Festival, Afrika Tage Vienna, Electronic Arts Festival, Danse Ga Mitai (Tokyo) and many more.

As a composer he creates music for theater, film and contemporary dance, while his DJ sets ignite dance floors with a unique blend of deep beats and live fiery percussion. Intensity, depth, emotionality and transformation are at the heart of his work – whether on stage, in workshops or in sound concepts for performance and film.

More: www.bernhardweiss.at

Ecstatic Dance

Ottokar Lehrner

Ottokar is an actor and director for stage and film, a curator, and an international facilitator of workshops and retreats. He is also a therapist for se✗uality and relationships, specializing in relationship opening and men’s work.

Is our erotic reality the way we wish it to be? Is everything flowing — are we tapping into our potentials, living our desire fully and in all its richness, truly connected with ourselves and others? What is still waiting to be discovered—in us, around us, alone or with others? Where can I grow, and where do I want to grow?

There is power in lightness; cheerfulness opens doors in a playful way. And in a cheerful state, you can also fail well — stand up laughing and keep dancing. We are the decision-makers of our universe, the heroines of our lives, and the bosses in our own bodies. Reality is real, yes, but we can shift it, expand it, turn it into something vibrant, pleasurable, and positive. We keep our feet on the ground—but our carpet, that one can fly…!

It all revolves around presence and connection. When you truly see the other, when you are truly seen by another—seeing meaning: genuinely meaning it—there is a quantum leap in feeling, in desire, in lust, and in love. And all of that is so much bigger than the perfect ass or the most beautiful eyes. It leads you away from ‘I want’ into a shared moment, a magical dance, even if just for a single night.

I am fascinated by the vast, hidden potentials within us and by the paths that allow us to free them. My approach is a playful one—rooted in lightness, humor, empathy, and love. Love for myself and for human beings in all their facets.

More: www.changingreality.life

Tent of Tenderness
Skinning Ritual
Shame

RUBY MAY

Ruby May is a British, Berlin-based coach, facilitator, and community weaver devoted to midwifing a culture rooted in body wisdom and right relationship with the world. Since training as a se✗ological bodyworker in 2010, she has researched and taught on intimacy and shadow work. Her years as a dominatrix sparked a deep inquiry into power and feminine leadership, leading to a focus on the role of the female body in personal and cultural transformation. Ruby serves as community lead for Red School’s alumni – the largest global network of women exploring feminine spirituality through the womb – and offers coaching and talks on menopause as a rite of passage through SABIA.

Central to her work is cultivating the relational skills needed to live with nuance, compassion and connection in an increasingly polarised world.

More: www.rubymay.co

In Love & Service to her
Turned On by Truth
Between Us

Sotantar

Sotantar’s path began during his medical studies, where he realized that true healing goes far beyond treating symptoms. For more than 35 years, he has been exploring the profound effects of sound, breath, rhythm and meditation on the body, the nervous system and consciousness.

In Australia, he discovered the Didgeridoo and with it the power of breath – a foundation that continues to shape his work today. Over 15 years, he spent extended periods in Bali, immersing himself in spiritual practices, massage, Rolfing and energy work, which deepened his own inner strength.

Today, Sotantar shares this wealth of experience in individual and group sessions. Through dearmouring, massage, breathwork and consciousness practices, he guides people toward their full potential, creating safe and nurturing spaces where trust, healing, and transformation can unfold.

More: www.armourlifting.de

Five Moving Meditations
Spinal Bliss Bodywork
Deep Head & Shoulder Release

Naresh Moves

My work always invites depth, playfulness, and real human connection.

I’m Naresh Marco Längst – group facilitator, yoga teacher, and founder of The Feel Club – The Gym for Your Emotions. 

The approach to my work is that I can only guide people into spaces where I myself have been, worked through and become familiar with. I see myself as a guide into your emotional world. For the last 15 years, I’ve used my own body as a teacher, studying movement, posture and the deep connection between body and mind. Over the past 5 years, I’ve immersed myself deeply into the world of emotions, integrating the way of the heart into the body-mind complex. I’m a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher and deeply influenced by the work of the Osho Humaniversity, where I’ve spent significant parts of the last three years living, learning and facilitating.

More: www.naresh-moves.com

Yoga & Breath
AUM: Emotional Release Meditation

Roland Schürhagl

I am fascinated by the way we humans are and become, change, evolve, unfold, stumble forward, connect, disconnect, pull the wool over our own and each others eyes while trying to see clearly – navigate life and its trappings and fail and grow and reorient along the way. How we work towards what works and work out what is true – for each of us individually and then together, in pairs, groups – etc.

Along my own crooked path I found deep meaning in sharing what I’ve learned and keep refining – occasionally facts but, more importantly, ways to connect that open up possibilities for profound and meaningful change, both in conversation and in bodywork.

This is how I support others on their journeys. My toolbox is informed by somatic practices, movement, sexological bodywork and different approaches to coaching. In my work as a coach I predominantly support individuals and couples in their struggles around relationships and sexuality.

More: www.sinneswandel.cc

Anal Mapping

SAPHIRA FIRESHOW

I am Saphira from Lower Austria — always on the move, traveling between worlds, and immersed in the play of fire, light, and motion.

What began as a tiny spark when I was 13 has grown into a blazing passion. As a fire dancer, I perform both solo and together with my crew, bringing flames to life through rhythm and presence.

Dance has been with me since childhood; to me, it is the most natural expression of freedom, joy, and flow — a language beyond words that connects body and soul.

Alongside movement, I cherish the quiet power of touch. As a massage therapist, I offer people moments of deep relaxation and connection — experiences that touch me just as profoundly in return.

I also create intimate dance spaces where people themselves become the dance. My vision is to let these spaces for movement, connection, and flow grow and evolve together, opening pathways for authentic expression and shared presence.

More: www.saphira-fireshow.com

Tabea Lehrner

Tabea offers Tantra Massage,  Lomi Lomi and Thai Foot Massage. Tabea Lehrner has been deaf since childhood and perceives the world primarily through touch, presence, and deep bodily awareness. Guided by her heart, she communicates and connects through her hands and her sensitivity to the subtle language of the body. More than 14 years ago she discovered Tantra, which has since become an important path toward mindfulness, self-awareness, and self-love. Her work focuses on conscious, sensual touch that nurtures body and soul. Through slow, attentive contact — using hands, bare skin, soft fabrics, feathers, and warm cloths — she invites the body into relaxation and connection. Her massages are sensual yet not explicitly sexual, and may also include elements of Lomi Lomi and Thai foot massage, supporting deep relaxation, circulation, and a sense of inner balance.

More about Tabea and her offers

Sotantar

Sotantar offers two types of De-Armouring Bodywork sessions: Full Body De-Armouring and Jaw De-Armouring. In the Full Body session, mindful touch, targeted pressure points, and conscious breathing support the release of deeply held tension, protective patterns, and inner holding structures throughout the body. This work can create more spaciousness, grounding, and a renewed sense of embodied presence. The Jaw De-Armouring session focuses specifically on tension stored in the jaw — often connected to clenching, grinding, or suppressed expression. Through precise and attentive touch, the jaw gradually softens, allowing breath, voice, and inner movement to flow more freely. Rooted in body-oriented therapy, breathwork, and somatic awareness practices, his sessions offer a grounded space where the body can relax, regulate, and reconnect with its natural vitality.

More about Sotantar and his offers

 

Miriam S. Koller

Miriam S. Koller is a trauma-sensitive coach who creates spaces for personal growth, reflection, and authentic self-expression. Her work combines trauma-sensitive coaching with holistic approaches that integrate body awareness, creativity, and mindful dialogue. Drawing on influences from psychology, embodiment practices, and the arts, she supports individuals and groups in reconnecting with themselves and their inner resources. Through mentoring, workshops, and experiential formats, she facilitates processes that encourage curiosity, presence, and meaningful change. Her approach is grounded in the belief that transformation emerges through awareness, connection, and integrative experiences that engage mind, body, and emotion.

Sessions with Miriam:

  • You feel a trigger coming up during the festival, or an old wound that is touched?
  • You want to reflect your own behavior and reactions that become more vivid in a festival setting?
  • You have disregulating experiences that shake up your resilience?
  • You are overwhelmed by stimuli, topics, methods?
  • You want a safe*r space to reflect yourself, what is happening inside or around you and wish for support to navigate what seems challenging?

During the festival, I offer trauma-sensitive coaching and psychosomatic process support to help you gently navigate what arises. My approach combines methods from neurosystemic integration, somatic work, and compassionate inquiry, integrating insights from neurobiology, embodiment, and psychology. Together, we explore your reactions, emotions, and inner patterns while strengthening resources and supporting the regulation of your nervous system. Rather than digging into the past, the focus lies on understanding what is happening in the present and expanding your capacity to meet it with awareness and choice. The sessions create a grounded, confidential space where you can reconnect with yourself, regain stability, and continue your festival experience with more clarity and resilience.

I offer my support 1:1, as well as a mediation for couples and other relationship constellations.

More about my approach (in German)

Ildiko Vegh

A space for presence, touch, and connection with your body

Tantric massage is an invitation to slow down and reconnect with your body. In a quiet and protected space, you are welcomed exactly as you are — with openness and respect for your boundaries. Through slow, attentive touch and conscious presence, this session supports a deeper connection with your body’s natural intelligence and energy. Many experience tantric massage as a way to rediscover sensitivity, vitality, and a more mindful relationship with their own sexuality. The massage is a full-body oil massage in a safe and respectful environment where comfort and consent are central. Both practitioner and receiver are naked to allow natural, unobstructed touch, while your boundaries and personal experience are always honored.

More about Ildiko and her offers

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Opening Ceremony

Welcome on the Island. The island of conscious intimacy. The invitation tonight is to arrive — not only in this space, but in your skin, in your breath, in the quiet pulse that whispers beneath all movement, where distance and consent, curiosity and courage dance their careful tango.

As we come together on this island, The Cocoon begins to weave around us: a silken container of trust and inspiration, with a touch of mystery hidden. This is the space where transformation begins — not through striving, but through surrender. To the days ahead, the experiences offered, to your own wisdom and boundaries – to the deep truth that you are not alone in this unfolding.

Arrive with all your senses. Have them celebrated as your guiding tools for the journey ahead. We welcome you in the tender shell of our shared cocoon – where we meet each other on a heart-level, and play with the art of noticing, witnessing, perceiving and bonding.

Welcome in your Cocoon… Are you ready to grow with us?!

Yoga & Breath

A mindful movement practice for everyone.  No wild backbends or pretzel poses — just simple movement and conscious breathing to gently release stiffness in your shoulders, hips, and back, so you’re ready for another great day. This practice is grounding and helps you feel good and present in your body. We begin and end with a shared hug to create safety and connection. 

More about Naresh Moves

Wheel of Consent

What happens when touch doesn’t just “happen,” but is consciously crafted – with clarity around intention, direction, and mutual agreement?

The Wheel of Consent (Dr. Betty Martin) is increasingly integrated in bodywork because of its immense power to bring awareness and clarity into human encounters. It offers two dynamics – Serving & Accepting and Taking & Allowing – that shape how we give and receive touch.

In this workshop, we explore all four qualities with curiosity and care – and uncover the gifts they hold when practiced with awareness and integrity. We learn to appreciate the gifts that true clarity makes possible.

In this beginner-friendly workshop, you’ll explore these dynamics in a simple, experiential way. We practice clarity, curiosity, and presence – and discover how consent transforms touch into something nourishing, safe, and empowering.

A playful and embodied introduction to this powerful tool – the Wheel of Consent.

More about Angeline Heilfort & Rubem Joy Fockink

Heartspace Activation

A deep stretch from Kundalini expansion into tenderness through Yin Yoga, fully focused on heartopening practice.

This workshop is an embodied exploration of the heart — beginning with activation and rising energy, and softening into deep chest-opening and integration.

We start with a dynamic Kundalini practice to awaken the heart center from within. Through kriya, breathwork, expansive arm movements, and energizing backbends, we build heat and circulate prana from.the base to the chest. This part is activating and uplifting — designed to dissolve stagnation and ignite your life force.

From this awakened state, we gradually transition into Yin through a meditation.

The second half invites you into long-held heart-opening postures that gently release the shoulders, upper spine, and chest. In stillness, the nervous system settles and the heart softens. What was activated can now integrate.

This is a space for both strength and tenderness — for expansion and surrender.

Come ready to breathe, open, and meet your heart fully.

More about Nora Mazu

Deep Head & Shoulder Release

This workshop offers deep relaxation through a head massage enriched with Ayurvedic marma point techniques. Gentle, precise touch soothes the nervous system, eases tension, and invites profound rest for body and mind.

Especially beneficial for those who carry much in their head, the practice helps release mental overload, bringing clarity, lightness, and freedom. As the shoulders and chest soften, space opens for a gentle heart expansion. Designed as partner work, participants alternate between giving and receiving, experiencing both roles of this calming practice. A journey into balance, presence, and the healing art of touch.

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AUM: Emotional Release Meditation

This dynamic and interactive meditation invites you to release pent-up emotions — from anger and grief to love, joy, and even playful craziness — while connecting with others. The AUM offers a supported and guided space to express emotions through your body and voice. 

Through partner exercises, shared hugs, and authentic encounters, you will meet others as mirrors for your own inner world. This powerful process allows you to explore deeper emotional layers, discover new freedom in your expression, and open to a sense of connection.

Come as you are, and leave feeling lighter, more grounded, and more in touch with both your heart and the people around you.

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Tittie Tea Time (♀)

Cuppa tea, Mylady?

This playful version of a women* circle invites you to join an afternoon tea salon where we put our „tits on the table“ and raise our cups to this nurturing body part.

The Tittie Tea Temple takes us back to the original hotspot of the human need for pleasurable sipping: the breast. Our first experiences of the world, and often of connection and relationship, are through oral experiences. Even later in life, we still feel relaxation and trust through our nervous system when enjoying warm
drinks. 

During our shared Tittie Tea Time, we open the chest and heart area as a highly sensitive and emotional zone – and warm it cup by cup with various aphrodisiac and inspiring teas that nurture feelings of intimacy. Strengthened in our trust, we allow to bare ourselves: as we encounter the polarity of sameness and uniqueness in appearance, of similarity and diversity of stories and experiences. We suckle and pamper, we decorate and celebrate, we shake and we shiver in this joyful sensual exploration with each other.

Come with your favorite top, bra, corset!

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True Connection – A Men’s Workshop (♂)

Behind the stories we’ve learned to tell about manhood lies something simple, raw, and real: our shared humanity.

In this workshop, we meet man to man, brother to brother. We slow down enough to truly see each other, to dismantle the quiet walls we often build around our hearts. We drop the need to prove anything, and allow ourselves to just be — in truth, in vulnerability, in presence.

Together we create a space where we can be strong and soft, fierce and kind, grounded in who we are and open to who we are becoming.

We remember:
That we are not alone.
That we can be each other’s allies, mirrors, and best friends.
That there is a unique power in male connection — not built on comparison, but on compassion.

Let’s step into that space.
Let’s meet each other there.
Let’s reclaim what it means to be brothers

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Playful Games for Connection

Connection Games is a playful, immersive workshop designed to help participants cultivate presence, build intimacy, and foster trust through movement and spontaneous interaction. Drawing from practices in dance, theatre and somatics, we’ll explore ways of bonding. Each game invites you into connection, helping you listen to your body and experience joy. Expect a mix of silly, sensual, and soulful exercises that meet you where you are. You’ll leave feeling energized, connected, and full of beans. No partner or experience required—just curiosity, consent, and a willingness to play. Perfect for those craving meaningful connection in festival space, this session is a soft invitation into embodied intimacy and collective presence. Come solo or with friends—and discover how connection can feel like art, dance, and magic. Clowns and pirates welcome. There will be fun.

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SHAME

What is shame? How do we feel it physically, sensually, mentally? Fear-shame, shame-desire, shamelessness. We share experiences and enter a space of playful reflection. A safe and benevolent setting allows us to dissolve and transform pain and fear.

Real topics from participants’ personal lives are taken seriously and explored lightly and playfully in an initial anamnesis. They are then treated using props and touch-tools in a placebo-technical manner. Detachment, catharsis, and liberation are intended and possible. Relief as an experience is healing.

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Trigger Mastery

TO MASTER YOUR TRIGGERS IS TO MASTER YOURSELF

Trigger Mastery is a deep dive into who we are when we get triggered. Of course, the trigger itself is not the problem – the problem is when we react unconsciously with rigid patterns of behaviour. 

Discover how to interrupt and transform these reactions. Unleash a clearer, more empowered version of you in all of life’s challenges.

In this workshop we’ll look at how to use these circumstances to reveal a deep understanding of who you are at a soul level. You’ll get a better understanding of your karmic journey. 

Uncover how to be the highest version of yourself in your daily life.

During the workshop, we’ll discover:

  • How triggers are formed and what is it that keeps you in repetitive, destructive loops
  • How to Empower yourself and others by processing triggers in the right way
  • New ways of being and communicating to reflect your higher self at all times

I’ll guide you through an inner process to transform your deepest core wounds into soul gold so you can express your highest truth without being a slave to triggers.

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Conscious Connected Breath Journey: Breath & Release

A guided inner journey through conscious connected breath — an invitation to travel beyond the thinking mind and into the wisdom of your body.

Through a continuous, circular breathing rhythm, we gently open the door to stored emotions, held tension, and unconscious patterns. The breath becomes the vehicle. With every inhale, you invite awareness. With every exhale, you soften and release.

This practice creates space — space in the body, space in the heart, space in the nervous system. As layers fall away, a more unfiltered presence can emerge. Sensations may intensify, emotions may move, insights may arise. Everything is welcome.

You will be safely guided throughout the journey, with grounding, music, and integration to support your process. No previous experience needed — just a willingness to feel and to trust your breath.

Come as you are.
Breathe.
Release.
Return to yourself.

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Boundaries & Belonging – Sensing Limits, Cultivating Connection

True closeness begins where we show up with our boundaries — with both our Yes and our No. Especially in existing relationships or communities, it can be challenging to keep consent alive and communicate our needs clearly.

In this practical workshop, we explore how to experience belonging while staying true to ourselves. Together, we address questions such as: How do we navigate uncertainty? When is it okay to stretch our limits, and when do we honor them? How can consent and boundaries coexist with intimacy and connection?

We create a safe space for honest encounters and meaningful connection, where participants can practice perceiving, communicating, and respecting boundaries in non-sexual interactions. The workshop emphasizes consent as a living practice, showing how asking for and respecting a “No” strengthens trust, self-worth, and relational quality.

Content highlights include:

  • Perceiving and expressing boundaries and desires
  • Negotiating touch and consent
  • Experiencing the different qualities of touch in the Wheel of Consent
  • Exploring consent as opportunity for healthy intimacy, mutuality, and polarity

The path of consent and boundaries is a journey of discovery that fosters depth, trust, familiarity, and authentic connection. Participants leave with practical tools to cultivate equitable, nourishing, and sustainable relationships — helping them explore what it means to belong authentically.

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Skinning Ritual

Skinning is not meant literally, but metaphorically: renewal and transformation, moving from the surface into a deeper state of consciousness, freeing ourselves from limitations, letting go of weight, and rediscovering ourselves and the world.

The skin as a metaphor for our lived life—tattooed, painted, covered with all our experiences, the good and the difficult. In this playful ritual, gentle at first and then intense, we peel ourselves out of our old skin and become pure, soft, innocent like a newborn—beautiful and sensitive like a mountain slope on a winter morning, covered in fresh powder snow. Freed and light, we rediscover ourselves and meet the other enchanted beings.

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Inner Dynamics of Conscious Relating

s workshop is about reaching an inner state from which conscious relating is possible. A state which is clear, stable and less emotionally influenced by others.

Then it becomes more possible to sense the subtle ways in which the relational field between you and others wants to align itself. It means you become a greater force for positive change in all your relationships.

Through discussion, meditation and movement, we will cover:

  • Finding the inner sacred ground of being, which functions as the eye in the storm of our experience
  • Marrying the inner masculine and feminine
  • Integrating the inner twin flame
  • Recognising how the underlying energy in any interaction can be facilitated
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Conscious Touch – The Art of Embodied Contact

Present, mindful, attuned, authentic, nourishing, and deeply connected — these are all qualities of conscious touch.

In this experiential workshop, we explore the questions:

  • What exactly is conscious touch?
  • How can we practice it and why should we?
  • What does it feel like — both as giver and receiver?

The first step is to strengthen the mind-body connection. We delve into how our body’s innate wisdom can serve us intuitively by fine-tuning somatic awareness — the ability to perceive the subtle signals of our bodies.

Together, we navigate non-sexual touch with clear agreements, small rituals, and gently guided encounters, co-creating a space that feels truly consensual— a safe, embodied container for connection.

Lastly, we merge these two elements and explore how touch can feel simultaneously consensual and intuitive, safe and spontaneous.

If touch is a language — a means of communicating and building bridges between two individuals — conscious touch is poetry: an artful form of expressionguided by the beauty of connection that touches our hearts.

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Tantric Ritual of Seduction

Encounter yourself and others in an ritual of loving, mindful touch. Adore each others. Surrender in a magical space and experience a ritual in which you come into intense, surprising, and connecting contact with different people.

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Between Us

The need to belong and feel connected is one of our most fundamental human needs. From our earliest years, we learn what parts of ourselves are welcome and what parts might need to be edited, hidden, or sacrificed in order to stay close to others. This is part of being human, and it shapes the way we show up in every relationship and community.

In many spaces that celebrate intimacy and connection, there can be such a deep longing to feel unified that we sometimes merge without realising it. The impulse to belong can quietly override the need to stay distinct, to bring our full, complex selves into the room.

This workshop invites an exploration of the dynamic tension between sameness and difference in our relationships with others. How do we honour our longing for connection while remaining true to our individuality? How do we seek out the safety that comes from sameness without collapsing into conformity or losing our edges? And how do we meet difference – when it feels threatening, when it sparks curiosity, and when it invites growth?

Workshops are microcosms of the wider world. Together, we’ll make the invisible visible: noticing how this polarity shows up within and between us, and experimenting with what it means to stay in contact – with ourselves and each other – in the fertile space between merging and separation.

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Tantra Massage – Level 1

Have you been wanting to get to know Tantric Massage for a long time? But where, how, when, with whom??? … These questions may have held you back until now.

NOW you have the opportunity

  • in a safe space
  • in a loving atmosphere
  • in a group of like-minded people
  • under the guidance of an experienced massage practitioner

…to take your first step into the world of Tantric Massage.

In this workshop, you can get to know Tantric Massage, try it out in practice, and, of course, enjoy it.

What to expect:

In a demonstration, I will show you touches, techniques, and a possible sequence for a tantric body massage on a model. Afterward, you will have the opportunity to practice these techniques with your own partner, under my guidance.

Please note, Yoni and Lingam massage is not part of this workshop.

Who is this workshop for?

For people interested in Tantric Massage but with little or no prior experience.

Please come with a practice partner. Partner switching during the workshop is not possible.

Clothing:

Lunghi and nudity (or underwear) – you can come to the workshop already wearing a lunghi.

What to bring:

  • Lunghi
  • A large bath towel or a sheet to lie on
  • A small towel for your hands
  • A towel to cover your meditation cushion

I look forward to seeing you!

More about Ildiko Vegh

Touched – in the space between

A space for conscious encounter and touch
Between you and me lies a space – finer than words, more alive than silence. In this workshop, we explore the space between: that invisible field where touch arises before it happens. We play with movement, contact, breath and attention. 

How does encounter change when we truly listen – to the moment, to the body, to the other being? Presence becomes a bridge, movement becomes conversation. A mindful, non-sexual space for experience, where you can explore how closeness unfolds from awareness. Boundaries are allowed to show themselves, connection is allowed to happen – easily, clearly, vividly. 

This workshop invites you to experience conscious intimacy – not in the sense of romance or eroticism, but as a subtle presence in the now. A space where encounter arises because you encounter yourself. Together we create a safe, respectful framework in which boundaries are perceptible, communicable and welcome. This creates trust – and with it the freedom to experience yourself in movement, touch and stillness. 

No previous experience necessary – just openness to let yourself be touched by the present moment.

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Flirt Like a Butterfly

Flirting can be tricky, but it doesn’t have to be awkward or stressful. This workshop is all about making flirting fun and easy.

Let’s be realistic: You probably won’t find your perfect match here — and that’s not the goal. It’s about practicing, experimenting and building confidence.

After a bit of theory, we’ll dive into fun role-play exercises. By exaggerating and daring a little more, you can explore new sides of flirting — and later bring them into play in a more authentic way.

But flirting is more than just trying to impress someone. It’s about being curious and showing genuine interest. We’ll explore how to ask good questions, really listen, and keep the conversation flowing naturally.

And of course: compliments! They can brighten someone’s day. We’ll practice giving compliments that feel authentic rather than fake — noticing the little things and sharing what you genuinely like in a friendly way.

At the end of the workshop, you’ll get to try your new skills in a playful, low-key date activity. It’s a no-pressure chance to put things into action, share some laughs, and experience real-time flirting. 

Note: This is a space to experiment. All you need is a bit of courage, curiosity and humor. You’ll practice with many different partners, including humans of your own gender.

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Tickle Me Softly & Laugther Circle

Tickle Me Softly
– You will laugh, whether you like it or not.

A slightly strange, very playful way to start your day — with laughter, touch, and a gentle , activating push beyond your comfort zone. We begin with a silly warm-up game to shake off the sleep and loosen up your face muscles. Just enough to get the giggles going — because next comes the heart of it: in small groups, we take turns tickling each other. Yes, really.

It’s simple, strange, and surprisingly connecting. And of course, it’s all about consent. We talk boundaries before we begin, and everything happens with care and clarity. No surprise attacks here (unless you want one). 

Tickling and laughter stir things up. They release tension, wake up your system, and bring you fully into the moment — and into connection with the people around you. You’ll leave feeling awake, a little lighter, and maybe even delightfully disoriented in the best possible way.

Come let your inner child have a moment. You might be surprised how good it feels to start the day with a tickle.

 

Laughter Circle
– because laughter is is the best medicine!

And that is exactly what we will do in this workshop:
We stand in a circle and laugh. As instructed. Fake it, till you make it! That might sound just as strange as it can feel at first. But no matter why you laugh, laughter works! On your body and on your nervous system.

When you laugh, your breathing, blood flow and immune system are stimulated. Stress hormones are broken down and happiness hormones are released. Laughter makes you healthy and happy. It opens your heart. And if you enjoy it in large quantities, laughter also gives you a bit of a “high”! In a playful, theatrical way we will laugh in several rounds with some grounding breaks in between. Each round lasts a little longer. And after a while it just get’s better and better. 

Caution: This workshop can cause muscle soreness and have a heart-opening effect!

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Turned On by Truth

There is nothing quite as exciting – or as edgy – as seeing and being seen deeply by another human being. This honesty beyond performance is where true eros lies, not just sexual eros, but the life-force itself, the spark that animates us, the current of vitality that flows when truth meets truth and presence meets presence. 

In this session, using a mixture of simple relational practices in pairs and triads, we’ll explore the potency of the relational field by slowing down, dropping into presence, tuning in to what’s alive within us, and practicing the art of speaking the truth of our experience while being fully received.

The relational field is a complex weave of longings, defenses, projections, cultural conditioning, love, and fear – threads we often keep hidden, even from ourselves. Rather than avoiding discomfort or masking what arises, we’ll practice meeting each moment with honesty and care, whether it brings desire, resistance, awkwardness, or uncertainty. This is not a space for performance or seduction, but for real-time exploration of what it means to be human together – vulnerable, alive, and deeply connected to eros and the quietly transformational space between us.

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Energy Expansion - Kundalini Breathwork

Unveiling inner dimension by channeling the lifeforce energy. Magnifying into your purest, most natural state. 

Through dynamic Kundalini breath techniques, rhythmic movement, and intentional awareness, we stimulate the natural flow of prana within the body. This practice works directly with your energetic system — clearing stagnation, dissolving inner blocks, and opening pathways for vitality to rise.

As the breath intensifies, so does your connection to your inner dimension. Sensation sharpens. Presence deepens. Energy begins to move in ways that feel both powerful and deeply natural.

This is not about becoming something new — but about unveiling what is already there. Beneath conditioning, beneath tension, beneath effort — your pure, vibrant state.
Expect activation, expansion, and moments of profound clarity.

A space to ignite your system, elevate your frequency, and reconnect to your raw aliveness. Come ready to breathe, feel, and expand beyond your perceived limits

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Playfight

Playfight is more than just a physical game. It is an experiential space where we rediscover ourselves and our boundaries. Within a safe and respectful setting, we dive into the dynamics of body contact, energy exchange, and playful interaction. It’s not about winning or losing, but about the power of connection and the exploration of presence.

Whether you’re drawn to the physical aspect, the sensual play, or the experience of flirting — Playfight offers a wide range of possibilities to connect. Every moment is an invitation to engage with yourself and others in a deep, pleasurable way.

In a protected space free from performance pressure, it’s all about experiencing yourself as a human being — as a feeling, sensing creature. Playfight is a space where you can show up in both your strength and your vulnerability — with full respect for yourself and your partner.

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Spinal Bliss Bodywork

Created by Sotantar, Spinal Bliss Bodywork focuses on the spine as the gateway to freedom and vitality. Through gentle yet powerful mobilization, armour in shoulders and chest dissolves, and a deep heart opening becomes possible. 

The second part of the workshop grounds this openness, cultivating calm stability and a conscious arrival in the body. Practiced with a partner, participants alternate between giving and receiving in one-to-one sessions, experiencing both sides of the exchange. Spinal Bliss Bodywork unites release and grounding, offering a profound sense of balance, inner spaciousness, and renewal – a return to the body’s natural bliss.

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Conscious Check-in

Conscious Check-in is a space for you to come and explore whatever process is moving through you during the retreat.

After a few days at the retreat and many interactions and explorations you may be feeling some inner chaos. Perhaps there’s confusion, a feeling of unwinding or an emotional/karmic process.

I will be holding a space for sharing, being seen and making sense of what is moving for you. Through sharing space, group meditations and energetic clearing you may be able to work through your issue and clearly see the way forward.

Although sharing your process to the group can be very powerful, it is not a must. You may simply come and witness and be a part of the meditations and clearing. 

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Ecstatic Trance Massage

In this workshop, we meet the sources of our vitality.

What is Ecstatic Trance Massage (ETM)?

ETM is not a classical massage. It is about self-activation through breath, voice and movement, which can be accompanied, supported, and intensified by the touch of a partner.

What to expect

We will explore breath, voice, and movement together, and the different ways to guide and accompany one another. Afterwards, participants pair up to support each other through a ritual. In a short demonstration, we will show what an ETM session looks like in practice. It can become an experience of boundlessness, trance, and ecstasy — or simply a playful, challenging, or joyful exploration of your own boundaries. Whatever unfolds, a good approach is to let go of any expectations you associate with the words “trance” and “ecstasy,” and allow yourself to be surprised by what this workshop has in store.

During ETM, the intimate area may be included by mutual agreement, but explicit intimate massage is not part of the workshop.

Who is this workshop for?

For anyone curious and open to new experiences. Experience in breath or body work can be helpful but is not required.

Please come with a practice partner who will accompany you during the massage portion. You will stay with the same person you registered with — partner changes are not possible.

Clothing

Wear comfortable clothing for the first part of the workshop.

During the break, you may put on a lunghi.

For the massage portion, being nude is suggested, but you may decide for yourself how much clothing you need to feel comfortable.

What to bring

  • Lunghi
  • A large bath towel or a sheet to lie on
  • A small towel for your hands
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Tent of Tenderness

Sensual and erotic poetry performed with live music. The audience is involved interactively—dreaming, cuddling, playing, loving… and embarking on a sensuous-poetic journey. Beautiful people serve touch utensils and grapes.

A poetic-tender happening that culminates in a dreamlike cuddle puddle.

More about Ottokar Lehrner

Curious Lips – Let's kiss

This workshop is for you if you like to kiss and to be kissed! You will explore different ways of kissing with different levels of intensity. The approach is slow, playful, explorative and fun!

This workshop is not about «learning how to kiss», but about exploring different kind of kisses with a bigger number of humans. How does it feel? What do I like? How can kissing be even more fun?

It’s completely normal to feel shy or unsure about kissing strangers at first. That’s why we’ll start slowly and have several icebreakers to help overcome the initial awkwardness. We start with «awkward Air-Kisses», have fun with «shy Teenager-Kisses» and show off like stars with «Hollywood-Kisses».

The journey will lead you from kisses without touch to sensually exploring lips to proper French-Kisses, maybe even with several persons. Throughout the workshop, you always have the choice with whom you kiss and how often.

You kiss at your own pace. There will also be several moments for self-reflection to help you stay grounded and refocus, as kissing with many humans in a short time can get quite intense.

Of course consent always applies; this means we always ask for consent before a kiss and you can take breaks at your own pace or opt-out, if you realize, that it’s not for you.

Kissing makes you happy! It creates closeness and connection, and releases feel-good hormones. It’s exciting, fun, and maybe even a little arousing.. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have a big smile on your face and may even leave with a bit more courage and ease when it comes to asking someone for a kiss.

Be ready to kiss many different humans and be open to kissing people of ALL GENDERS. And be curious! It might be that a person, that on first look is not your type, will be the most amazing kisser of the evening…

Please come fresh, with curious lips and brushed teeth!

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Quantum Light Breath

Quantum Light Breath – during the breathwork you will experience the power of one of the most important psychoactive substances – oxygen. The intense breathing accompanied by music has a deep effect on your subconsciousness. Deep insights, access to your creativity and a noticeable opening of the heart are likely results.

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Awaken your sweet spots!

Yoni/Vagina Mapping and Lingam/Penis Mapping
 
Sweet Spot Surfing
Awaken your sweet spots!
 

Embark on a journey to your sweet spots. Find them, please them and let them blossom. The workshop compiles of two parts. At the beginning of each part you will get the treasure map to imagine the inner and outer secrets and some hints for special tantric techniques. After a sort break you will dive into practice with your partner.

Yoni Mapping we will locate the juicy regions in or around your vagina, love them and appreciate them. A, G, C, U, Z spot – want to know? This and much more. Together we will climax in an orgasmic meditation. Lingam Mapping we will locate the juicy regions at and around your penis, love them and appreciate them.

Together we will uncover the secret of the million-dollar point, a sacred point on the way to multiple (dry) orgasm. No matter if you are a natural sweet spot surfer or still exploring.

Come with a partner or find one right at the beginning of the workshop. Yes, you can do the workshop alone, but it’s much more fun with a partner. You want to surrender in self-love? Welcome – but girls bring a dildo.

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Holotropic Breathwork

A deep journey beyond the ordinary.

In this Workshop, we open the space for an intense process of self-exploration, release and transformation through the power of breath and evocative music. Holotropic Breathwork invites you to dive beyond your conscious mind — to access hidden layers of memory, emotion and insight. It can be a profoundly healing and life-changing experience supporting deep integration and personal growth.

Please note:

  • No alcohol or substances before, during or after the session.

  • Participants with diagnosed psychological or medical conditions are kindly asked to speak with us in advance.

  • The session can be emotionally and physically intense, and we hold a safe, contained space for whatever arises.

Come as you are — ready to breathe, feel and expand.

For this Workshop its needed to fill out a medical form, because of the intensity. You get the medical form at the reception. Please fill it out and return it to the reception latest 2 hours before the workshop starts.

If necessary bring your own blanket, cushion or eye cover with you.

More about Reinhard Gaida

Touch The Forest Ritual

This Ritual is a playful way to experience safe, pleasurable touch. After a series of consent exercises, we transform into receiving trees and curious creatures. This event is a safe gentle way to experience touch and learn about appropriate touch.

More about Kale Tadpole

Colour on Skin – a Dance of the Moment

A playful, mindful space where touch, movement and colour come alive – expression, joy and presence in the now

How does it feel when colour finds the body? When lines, shapes and traces become stories – fleeting, breathing, alive? In this workshop, I invite you to experience the body as a canvas of the moment. Not to create, but to discover – what colour, touch and movement can create in dialogue. Together we explore a mindful, non-sexual space where touch, colour and joy are allowed to dance playfully with each other. The painting is done lightly, curiously and by mutual consent – with fun, respect and an open heart.

You are invited to express yourself in colour, form and feeling – to laugh, to feel, to dance, to breathe. Colour becomes a mirror of your inner experience, a celebration of vitality, an invitation to the present moment. No previous artistic experience is necessary – just the desire to experience yourself in colour and movement.

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Temple NIght

A playful space to meet others – and yourself. We begin by gently landing together. Through breathwork, movement and icebreakers, we arrive in our bodies and in the here and now.

In a shared circle, we open up about our desires and offers. Bring your co-creative ideas for the free-flow part: living buffet, playfighting, massages, ropes, tickle circle…

After the guided part, the space opens for free exploration. You follow your impulses – cuddle, kiss, dance, flirt, play… You can say yes, no, or maybe later. You might connect deeply with one person, flutter around like a curious butterfly, or simply enjoy your own company. Everything is welcome – the shy, the wild, the quiet, the loud. It’s about meeting others honestly, with clear boundaries, open hearts, and a curious spirit of play.

By the end, you might leave glowing, smiling, and feeling like you just spent a sunny afternoon on a beautiful meadow – a real Spielwiese.

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Sexual Deep Relaxation with Yoni / Lingam Touch

This workshop gives you the opportunity to discover a new way of perceiving sexual energy. Deep relaxation and sensuality meet, allowing you to experience yourself in a completely new way. The touch ritual consists of meditative, sensual touches in five structured phases, three of which are focused on the intimate areas (Yoni / Lingam).

 

In everyday sexual encounters, sensuality is usually linked to activity and goal-oriented behavior. But what happens when you simply receive or give long, repetitive, truly intention-free, sensual touches? Come and experience it for yourself!

 

What to expect:

  • Demonstration of the five touch phases
  • Practical exercises with your practice partner
  • Deep experience and enjoyment of this touch meditation

 

Important notes:

🔸 This is a nude workshop

🔸 The massage requires the ability to sit or kneel on the floor/on a cushion for about 40 minutes

🔸 Partner changes are not possible

🔸 Please arrive already dressed in your lunghi

 

Please bring:

✔A sheet to lie on

✔A towel to cover your meditation cushion

More about Ildiko Vegh

Touch in Being

A space for embodiment, presence and inner intimacy 

Touch is our first language – one that reaches deeper than words. When touch becomes silent, it begins to speak. After exploring the in-between, we dive deeper – into being itself. Here, it is no longer about contact as an action, but about embodiment as a state. We slow down, breathe, listen with our skin. Listening creates movement, closeness arises in the space. Touch becomes meditation – a field in which consciousness expresses itself through physicality. 

In this workshop, we open up a space of experience in which you can refine your perception: How does contact feel when it is shared? How does skin sound when it listens? How does closeness arise when no one demands it? This second part opens up space for conscious, non-sexual intimacy, supported by silence, trust and presence. A path of experience into the essential – to a place where nothing needs to be done because everything is already there.

No previous experience necessary. Just the willingness to feel, to listen and to allow yourself to be touched – inside and out. Can also be attended individually – but together, both days unfold like the inhalation and exhalation of a single moment.

More about Lella‐Elayla Heindl

Deep Connection – A Journey into Presence and Intimacy

Few experiences touch us as deeply as real connection. To feel close to another human being — physically, emotionally, soulfully — nourishes us at the core of who we are. But intimacy does not happen by itself; it gently asks us to show up — to reveal ourselves, to receive fully, and to consciously allow closeness.

In this experiential workshop, we create a safe and spacious container to explore what intimacy means in embodied practice. Step by step, moment by moment, we open to presence, trust, and authentic connection — to ourselves, to another, and to the group.

We will explore:

  • How intimacy grows when we balance openness with clear boundaries.
  • What it means to surrender, to let go, and to allow closeness without losing ourselves.
  • How connection flows when bodies “speak” to each other through touch, rhythm, and presence.
  • Ways to stay attuned to our own needs while being deeply present with another.

This is not about performance, but about cultivating the conditions for intimacy to arise naturally: slowing down, sensing deeply, and allowing ourselves to be seen and felt. Here we touch the essence of intimacy: the quiet recognition that true connection opens the door to something larger than ourselves.

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Anal Mapping

These precious hours are devoted to the exploration of one of the most tender and delicate features of the human body: the anus and its immediate surroundings.

As careful explorers, we will invite a mindful curiosity to guide us on our adventure. In our toolbox we bring the framework of mapping – a technique with which we slowly, carefully, sensually and even deliciously explore the tender fields around the anus – one step at a time.

Along the way we will have the opportunity to explore our experience on the following layers:

  • The physical: How well do I register touch around and on my anus? Can I place where I receive it? How much pressure does it take for me to feel it? What other sensations arise in my body when a certain spot is touched? Is there a softness and a warmth,maybe pleasure? Or maybe some less pleasant sensation? A tightness or constriction? How does it change when I stay with it, experience it? Am I relaxed in the rest of my body?
  • The mental: What thoughts arise in the course of the experience? What are my beliefs about my anus, about touching it? Which mental images arise, if any?

     

  • The emotional: Do I enjoy receiving touch? Or maybe is there also shame or fear? Is it intense or just a trace of it, hidden away behind something else?
  • The energetic: What happens to the flow of energies that I perceive in my body? Does it change with the touch or over time?

The workshop will start and end with an opportunity to share thoughts and experiences with the group. An introduction to the theme of the workshop as well as guidelines for body preparation and mapping will be given before the practical exercises. Anal mapping will be self-directed by the receiving person, touch will be provided by a chosen exercise partner, closely following the receiving persons instructions. Both will have the opportunity to receive and to give.

Come with a partner or find one at the beginning of the workshop – in any case you need someone else for the mapping 😊

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Water Welcomes You

A meeting of you, the ocean and others. Slippery wet intimacy. We play games for connection with nature and new friends. This ritual invites you to be curious about yourself and others. Together we explore playful games and the gentle splash of waves.

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TantrA Massage Level 2

Tantra Massage Level 2 – with Yoni and Lingam Touch

If you already have experience with Tantric Massage and long to refine your tantric touch skills, then this workshop is just right for you. I invite you to learn advanced techniques and thereby dive into deeper intimacy—with yourself and with your practice partner.

What to expect
In a demonstration, I will show touches, techniques, and a possible sequence for tantric body and intimate massage on a model. Afterward, you will have the opportunity to practice these techniques with your own partner, under my guidance. A short Yoni and Lingam massage is also part of the workshop.

Who is this workshop for?
For people who are interested in Tantric Massage and already have some experience with it. Please come with a practice partner. Partner switching during the workshop is not possible.

 

Clothing:
Lunghi and nudity (or underwear) – you can come to the workshop already wearing a lunghi.

 

What to bring:

  • Lunghi
  • A large bath towel or a sheet to lie on
  • A small towel for your hands
  • A towel to cover your meditation cushion

I look forward to seeing you!

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Acro Yoga

In this workshop, we invite you to experience lightness and joy through playful movement.

Together we explore both the dynamic energy of Solar Acroyoga and the soft, surrendering quality of Lunar Acroyoga. You will lift, balance, flow – and also slow down, receive, and let go.

It’s about connection, trust, and embodied presence. About strength and softness. About rediscovering the joy of moving together.

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In Love & Service to her

Many of us have tasted the thrill of power exchange in D/S play, but what happens when our submission is not to a person, but to life itself? When the Feminine, not necessarily as gender, but as a living current, the big SHE, becomes the one we serve?

This laboratory invites you into the deeper mystery of devotion to the Feminine: not as performance or roleplay, not through techniques, but offering our presence, our attention, our erotic energy in service to something greater. 

What does it mean to be worshipped without objectification and what gets in the way of true devotion? ? How can play become prayer? How might erotic surrender transform us, not just arouse us?

This session will integrate simple relational and embodied practices with space to reflect and discuss what arises in us, inspired by the beautiful lands of Crete – home to the last matriarchal civilisation in Europe!

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Bacchanal - Temple of Sin

We will enjoy our bodies, transform them into works of art and turn them into a plate full of delights. In this sex-positive space, everything is allowed but nothing is mandatory.

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Smoothilicious - Rest & restore

Find the most calm & relaxed you in this nervous system sanctuary.

In this class, we slow everything down. Through soft Yin and restorative postures you are invited into deep physical and emotional release. Long-held, nourishing shapes gently open the body while allowing the fascia, joints, and subtle energy channels to unwind.

There is no striving here. No intensity. Just spaciousness.
As the body settles, the breath naturally deepens and the nervous system shifts into a state of repair and regeneration. Stress melts, the mind quiets, and a subtle sense of wholeness emerges. 

This is your permission to pause. To be held. To reconnect with the most calm and relaxed version of yourself. Come cozy. Leave restored.

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AUM: Emotional Release Meditation

This dynamic and interactive meditation invites you to release pent-up emotions — from anger and grief to love, joy, and even playful craziness — while connecting with others. The AUM offers a supported and guided space to express emotions through your body and voice. 

Through partner exercises, shared hugs, and authentic encounters, you will meet others as mirrors for your own inner world. This powerful process allows you to explore deeper emotional layers, discover new freedom in your expression, and open to a sense of connection.

Come as you are, and leave feeling lighter, more grounded, and more in touch with both your heart and the people around you.

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Conscious Cuddle Experience

Cuddling in a warm, safe atmosphere with clear agreements.

At the heart of this format is the exploration of boundaries and desires, of yes and no. The invitation is to feel yourself and to follow the impulses of your body. This makes it especially welcoming for people who want to take their first step into the wider world of cuddle parties. At the same time, it offers experienced cuddlers a practice space to live self-responsibility and self-care – by asking themselves authentically and uncompromisingly: “Where do I want to be? What do I want to do? And with whom?”

We will introduce you to the agreements of the Conscious Cuddle Experience, followed by a short practice block that prepares you to enter the free cuddle time with ease. Together we create a space of mindfulness and mutual respect, where you can navigate your most beautiful cuddle experience – honoring your boundaries and expressing your desires freely.

(c) Lene Wichmann

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Deep Touch – Sensual Partner Massage Workshop

Everybody loves a good massage. But when was the last time you actually received one?

This workshop is for everyone who want to bring massage into their lives in a simple and regular way. It’s a start or an opportunity to deepen your practice. A chance to slow down, touch and be touched… maybe a gentle step toward something you’ve been wanting for a while?

It’s not about fancy techniques. It’s about slowing down, feeling each other and letting the hands speak. We draw inspiration from Lomi Lomi and energetic bodywork – long strokes, warm oil, presence. A massage is a gift: wonderful to receive and just as nourishing to give. The one who gives tunes in with their partner. Breathing together. Following the rhythm of the body. This calms the mind, opens the heart and can lead into a state of bliss – for both!

During the workshop you will:
• Pick up a few simple techniques you can use on the whole body.
• Notice how touch can speak, without words, and how it changes the space between you.
• Take turns giving and receiving, with guidance along the way.
• Play with energy, rhythm and intention – and see how they shape the experience.
• Leave with ideas for making massage a small ritual at home.

We keep it hands-on. First you watch a demo. Then you take turns. One gives, the other receives. Afterwards you land together, sharing what worked and what surprised you. This is not about perfection. It’s about discovering a new way to connect, and enjoying the process together.

Come partnered up! It‘s for couples, friends, any combination – all are welcome. Gender is irrelevant, presence and touch are what count.

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Five Moving Meditations

This workshop offers five dynamic meditations that gently free the spine and restore its vitality. Through simple, rhythmic movements, tension softens, energy flows with more ease and a deep sense of presence awakens. Each practice blends mindful awareness with movement, guiding you into clarity, calm and inner balance.

The experience feels like a renewal of the spine: breath deepens, awareness refines, and body and mind reconnect in harmony. One of these meditations also forms the foundation for the Spinal Bliss Workshop, creating a pathway for deeper exploration. Discover the joy of movement and the freshness it brings within.

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Ciao, Cacao!

Get high and say bye!

A closing cacao ceremony and integration circle at the end of a transformative week: with hearts (at least!) already spread wide open, we pour our stories and experiences into the circular pot of community to digest with each other. What sweet memories does your mind taste? What are the sticky moments that challenged you? What are the flavors that you missed and would have needed?

We share in big and small groups what needs to be metabolized whilst still on the spot – and fired up by a cup of ceremonial cacao, we bring the qualities that we want to take back home to a boil. It might be bubbly, it might be sedative-meditative, it might be spicy – here you can empty your cup, fill your heart once more.

Let’s stir up the collective energy to celebrate a farewell with all the body parts you encountered during the week, with all the learnings you are taking with you, and… with all the feels <3

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Identity Alchemy

– So tell me who you are!

Everything is constantly changing – including you and your identity. You have the power to shape your identity and your self-image – at least to some extent. And you can do that again and again, whenever you need to. Many people define themselves through their past. Through things they once did or experienced. Through what they did for others – or because of others. Through ideas of who they think they should be, based on what matters to others or to society. Your self-image becomes more solid every time you retell your story – to yourself or to others –
about who you are.

Knowing exactly who you are can give you a sense of safety: “This is who I am.” But it can also feel heavy, tight, or like there’s no way out: “That’s just the way I am.” When your life shifts – in many small steps or all at once – and your self-image no longer fits your current reality, it can feel confusing, painful, or like the ground is being pulled out from under your feet.

This workshop is an invitation to connect with yourself in the here and now: How do you see yourself? How do you tell your story? And how would you like to be?

Over the course of 2 hours, you’ll answer the same question again and again: “So tell me who you are!”

And your answer will likely shift – each time a little more. This process can go deep. It may be intense, emotional, and confronting. But with every round, you can bring your story into closer alignment with what feels alive and true for you right now. And that can feel empowering, freeing – maybe even transformative.

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PARTY: Spread your wings & Fly

Spread Your Wings Party After days of deep inner work within the nurturing space of The Cocoon, it’s time to emerge. The cocoon has held you — warm, safe — and now, like the butterfly, you are ready to unfold into the light.

Join us for the Spread Your Wings Party, a celebration of becoming. This evening marks the gentle yet powerful moment when we step out of our chrysalis — renewed, expanded, and more fully ourselves. Together, we’ll dance through the threshold from inward journey to outward expression, and let our transformation take off with wings wide open.

Are you still a wiggly worm needing the courage to let your freak flag fly high? You are welcome. You are a colorful moth that wants to shimmy in the spotlight? You  are welcome. You are a tender silken creature that feels most comfortable touched by the kisses of flowers? You are welcome! Together, we use the beach terrace of our Cocoon as a lift off ramp and dance into the future, to bring our magnificent transformation home with joy and delight.

Come in your most colorful outfit, your freak flag wrapped around the hips, your wings protectively embracing others barely clothed, with fig leaves as a bra, whistling a rainbow song and ready to kiss everyone goodbye who gives you consent to do so.

Closing Ceremony

The Cocoon has created its own melody over the days spent in conscious intimacy. From the whispers of the crackling chrysalis to the humming of new ideas, to the bold sounds of soft rebellions and the rejoicing of metamorphosis… And maybe, there were even moments of silence, or the aches of growing pain in-between.

We come together in this Closing Ceremony to witness the pulse of the community and experiences we created together. What has emerged for you, and us? We honor the inner voices. We admire the living organism of what has be brought to life. We breath a tender wind into the wings that fly us home with ease.

An immersive moment where endings dissolve into beginnings, and awakenings lead to farewell. We will reflect, release – and together, we will unseal the Cocoon to step into the colorful unknown: not as who we were, but as who we are now ready to be.

True Connection – A Men’s Workshop (♂)

Behind the stories we’ve learned to tell about manhood lies something simple, raw, and real: our shared humanity.

In this workshop, we meet man to man, brother to brother. We slow down enough to truly see each other, to dismantle the quiet walls we often build around our hearts. We drop the need to prove anything, and allow ourselves to just be — in truth, in vulnerability, in presence.

Together we create a space where we can be strong and soft, fierce and kind, grounded in who we are and open to who we are becoming.

We remember:
That we are not alone.
That we can be each other’s allies, mirrors, and best friends.
That there is a unique power in male connection — not built on comparison, but on compassion.

Let’s step into that space.
Let’s meet each other there.
Let’s reclaim what it means to be brothers

More about Niko Deininger

Conscious Check-In

Conscious Check-in is a space for you to come and explore whatever process is moving through you during the retreat.

After a few days at the retreat and many interactions and explorations you may be feeling some inner chaos. Perhaps there’s confusion, a feeling of unwinding or an emotional/karmic process.

I will be holding a space for sharing, being seen and making sense of what is moving for you. Through sharing space, group meditations and energetic clearing you may be able to work through your issue and clearly see the way forward.

Although sharing your process to the group can be very powerful, it is not a must. You may simply come and witness and be a part of the meditations and clearing. 

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Flow Touch – Multihand Massage

Flow Touch – the “more than one” massage – if you are touched by four or more hands, your mind is no longer able to differentiate the different touches and identify the actors. The result is an incomparable feeling that often leads to an expanded state of consciousness. Depending on the participants you will experience contact with every gender by receiving and giving.

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ECSTATIC DANCE

Ecstatic Dance – The Cocoon Edition
Close your eyes.
Breathe!
There is nothing you need to do—
except to feel.
To the beat.
To the whisper of your body.
To the call of the stars.

Dance!
Like it’s the first time.
Like you’ve never been held back by shame or thought or time.
Let yourself be moved,
by the rhythm,
by the sky,
by the pulse of something ancient and wild inside you.

Let your dance be prayer.
Let it be chaos.
Let it be laughter, or tears, or trembling truth.

Stay with yourself—
or merge into a moment of shared motion.
There is no wrong step,
no need to impress,
no audience, no performance.

Just you.
And the Universe.
And the breath between the beats.

Welcome to the dance.
Welcome to the now.
Welcome home.

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