MOVING SENSES
Open Floor
Embodied Sexuality workshop
with Monika Körschner
and Anaïs Tamen
14.15.16 February
Aljezur (Portugal)
“Pleasure Heals. Pleasure is a gateway to emotional and spiritual fluency. It makes us aware of things we were not aware of before, alters our blood chemistry, enhances brain function and opens new possibilities in all areas of life. The gift of loving touch heals body, heart and soul by bringing us a taste of love, both divine and personal.’
– Betty Martin, founder of Wheel of Consent –
BOOK YOUR SPOT
WELCOME to…
3 days to nourish your sensuality, self-awareness and embodied sense of alignment, through dance, movement and practices around Betty Martin’s ‘Wheel of Consent.
You are invited to reopen and awaken your senses and emotional sensors, in togetherness with a group of heartful conscious dancers, held by the wilderness and wisdom of nature.
We will integrate and embody the core values of Betty Martin’s ‘Wheel of Consent’, as a simple and profound way to bring more vibrancy and sensitivity to your body. We will explore how to attune more to yourself and to the world around you. To taste the interactive dance between you and your environment: the impact, the breathability of desires, the limits and boundaries, that will be organically experienced and touched through our time together.
What feels pleasurable, and what doesn’t? How do I move towards what I want and away what I don’t want. How does my body tells me what my needs are, my desires, my longings? Where are my limits and what am I willing or not willing to give?
You will learn to notice which signals your body gives, to trust and value those signals and to express them. We will distinguish between the ‘doing’ aspect and the ‘gift’ aspect. Who is doing? For who is it a gift? The essence of this work will support you to make new choices throughout your life based on self-awareness and self-determination.
HOW
This journey will be supported by by Monika Korschner and Anaïs Tamen, with :
* the transformative power of dynamic dance meditation as a tool for self-awareness
* the wisdom of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual realms of life energy
* Betty Martin’s ‘Wheel of Consent’
* additional exercises and of transmission and integration
* a brave & safe creative environment to engage deeply in these explorations with compassion and curiosity
* the stunning nature of Essenciâ, a retreat center nested in the hills of Aljezur
FOR YOU
Open Floor Embodied Sexuality programs are open to all adults regardless of their gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and relationship status. We strive to co-create an environment that is inclusive, curious and expansive, and honours the experiences of each dancer.
To participate you need some experience with conscious dance forms such as Open Floor, 5Rhythms, Movement Medicine, Biodanza, Open Hearts Dance with Anaïs, etc. This to ensure a base that allows you to deepen your experience.
Embodied Sexuality programs are for those who :
* are looking to cultivate erotic intelligence and expand their capacity to love life
* are interested in an embodied and healthy exploration of their sexuality
* want to unpack the multilayered dynamics of attraction and attachment, as well as the cultural and social conditioning that inform our personal and collective stories, both past and present
* want to intentionally connect through movement with the source of their desires to experience greater fulfillment and satisfaction in relationships of all kinds
* want to harness the energy of libido for creative pursuits.
WHY
When sexual energy is acknowledged, supported and expressed authentically, our potential for healing is immense and empowering. We honour our whole self.
Dance awakens this potent energy in ways that can be electrifying, joyful, overwhelming, frightening, mystifying, and everything in between. Because sexuality is so often underground, ignored, or unconsciously acted out, the exploration of this territory tends to be intense, liberating, intimate and powerful.
Through Open Floor conscious dance we create a brave and safe sex positive environment to engage in this complex, mysterious and in-depth investigation with curiosity, mindfulness and compassion. We seek to understand how sexuality is shaped by culture, narratives, and social conditioning, and we explore ways to liberate ourselves as we move towards erotic wholeness.
WHAT HAPPENS IN A WORKSHOP?
We explore this lively, sometimes latent energy of libido with curiosity and mindfulness using the Open Floor Core Movement Resources.
We open up physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual terrains of our life force.
Next to intensive movement practices we will explore through related exercises, enquiries, sharings, and specific transmissions to deepen and integrate our experience.
There is no explicit sexual content or exercises.
Have a little taste of what you may encounter with this introduction film about Open Floor’s work on Embodied Sexuality :
ABOUT MONIKA :
Monika Körschner is an accredited 5Rhythms®, OpenFloor and Libido teacher and teaches dance and movement as a conscious practice in the Netherlands and abroad for over more than 20 years. The last 15 years she specialized herself in Embodied & Conscious Sexuality through a variety of studies.
Monika is trained by Gabrielle Roth to teach 5Rhythms, trained by Andrea Juhan (co-founder of OpenFloor) to teach Libido Fundamentals and trained by Betty Martin in the Wheel of Consent. Since 2018 she is a working member of Open Floor International and involved as mentor, supervisor, teacher and co-creator of international educational training programs.
Monika loves to create a non-judgmental, open space where dancers can show up again and again, feeling welcomed to move with whatever is present. As well to create a safe, creative, loving, playful environment to enter into an in-depth enquiry with compassion and curiosity.
You will find more info about Monika and her work on those pages :
Monika’s website
About Monika’s Embodied Sexuality workshops
Video about Embodied Sexuality by Open Floor International
ABOUT ANAÏS
Anaïs is a movement researcher, artist, and accredited Open Floor movement teacher, living in Alentejo, South Portugal. They have been curating transformative dance spaces for the last 7 years, supporting beings into more acceptance and authenticity in their relationship to themselves and to others.
Anaïs’ spaces are dedicated to community care and well-being, and to personal blossoming into acceptance exploring how to dance with paradoxes and polarities, to dive in the luminous cracks of our fertile darkness, and to build bridges and rainbows between our parts, and between us?
Anaïs is educated in the ancient tantric pratices of Kashmiri Shivaism and core shamanism. They also offer one-to-one sessions as body-soul worker and have trainings in shiatsu, holistic gynecology, the Wheel of Consent of Betty Martin and systemic constellation. Their work is trauma informed and inclusive to BIPOC & LGTBQIA+ folks.
Anaïs devotes their life practices to presence, loving kindness, and nature; to re-wild, to be nature, in its raw spontaneous divine poetic expressions.
PRACTICAL INFO
To register please FILL THIS FORM
Dates & Time :
Friday 14/02 : 2pm-9pm
Saturday 15/02 : 10am-6pm
Sunday 16/02 : 10am-4pm
Venue :
Essenciâ
Aljezur (South Portugal)
If you travel by plane, the closest airports are Faro (2h by bus to Lagos then 20min taxi) or Lisbon (3h30 by bus to Lagos).
Energy Exchange
Prices exclude food and accommodation.
Before the 14th of January:
Re-balancing: 260€ – You have investments or savings and can afford to travel, go on vacations.
This contribution support others to join and ensure the sustainability of our work.
Balanced: 230€ – You have a stable income or access to financial support.
This contribution support others to join and ensure the sustainability of our work.
Fair: 200€ – You can afford occasional treats. You are a resident of Portugal.
Accessible: 165€ – You live on irregular low local incomes. You are a resident of Portugal.
This contribution cover the basic organisational costs of the workshop.
From the 15th of January :
Re- balancing: 300€
Balanced: 260€
Fair: 220€
Accessible: 180€
If you experience financial difficulties, we offer 3 work exchange spots on supported price for local dancers in need (half price of the Fair fee).
If you can, please contribute to the solidarity funds, to lower the costs for those with low income, your gifts are highly appreciated.
Meals
Organic mostly local vegan lunch : 22€/lunch = 44€
Full board (3 organic local vegan meals) : 40€/day = 80€
Accommodations on-site
10€/night
in your own tent or van.
Access to sanitary and hot shower, and outside kitchen.
40€/night
single bed in a double room in a the house
6 spots available (possibility for couple to have a double bed)
30€/night
single bed in a triple room in the house
6 spots available (Room 1 for women & non-binary, Room 2 for men & non-binary).
The common house :
Double or twin rooms :
Triple rooms :
Inscriptions & questions
anais@anaistamen.com
+33782269919 (Telegram / Whatsapp / Signal)
+351966486923 (local phone)
Registration form
Registration will open on the 15th of December.
Thank you for your interest.
To register please fill the form at the bottom of this page
Registration and Cancellation Policy
Registration is required to participate to the workshop.
You are definitively registered when you have filled the form for registration. Then you will receive a confirmation of your registration with the details for the payment, and later you will receive an email with further practical information.
Payment is made by via PayPal, Wise, cash or via bank transfer.
Please consider your registration carefully, as cancellation fees apply if you cannot come or changed your mind.
If you cancel, regardless of the reason, the cancellation conditions below apply :
- At all times, regardless of the reason for cancellation (including Covid19 reasons) : a cancellation fee of € 75 applies.
- Cancellation less than a month before the workshop : 25% of the workshop price
- Cancellation less than 2 weeks before the workshop : 50% of the workshop price
- Early termination of the workshop and/or missing classes : no refund possible.
Please cancel via e-mail, SMS or telephone with Anaïs.
Should there be a waiting list and someone from that list can join, or you find someone to take your spot, you will only pay the cancellation fee of 75€.
If there are insufficient registrations, the workshop can be cancelled up to 1 or 2 weeks before the start. The amount paid will then be fully refunded. This also applies if the workshop is cancelled for other reasons.
To register please FILL THIS FORM. If you cannot see it, open the form here
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