Part 2 Libido Sense & Consent

Open Floor 4-day Residential Retreat

Dancing, moving and practicing with aspects of Betty Martin's 'Wheel of Consent'. This retreat is an invitation to revive your senses and emotional sensors as well as your longings and limits. 

"The gift of loving touch, giving or receiving...
heals body, heart and soul by bringing us a taste of love, both divine and personal" - Betty Martin - 

During these 4-days there is also plenty of time to relax and thrive in the benevolence of continuous dancing, moving, experiencing and relaxing in being together in a closed group, at  a beautiful venue in the middle of nature with an atmosphere of lightness, space and tranquility.

(This workshop will be taught in English in the first instance, with translation into Dutch if needed. Please scroll down for the Dutch version)

This retreat is an invitation to revive your embodied senses and emotional sensors. Themes such as desire, longing, boundaries and limits will be experienced and touched in an organic way. We will explore into this realms through dancing, moving and practicing with aspects of Betty Martin's 'Wheel of Consent'. This is a simple yet profound way to bring more vibrancy and sensitivity into your body. 

This retreat offers a simple but surprisingly powerful practice and exploration to increase your self-awareness and strengthen your embodied sense of self-attunement. What feels pleasurable, and what doesn't. Moving towards what you want and moving away what you don't want. How does your body tell you what your needs are, your desires, your longings? Where your limits are and what you are and are not willing to give. You learn to notice which signals your body gives, to trust and value those signals and to express them. 
We distinguish between the 'doing' aspect and the 'gift' aspect. Who does? For who is it? But in essence it goes further than this and you are invited to make new choices throughout your life based on self-determination.

Through Open Floor Embodied Dance - combined with other practices - we create a safe, 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. Because sexuality is so often underground, ignored, or unconsciously acted out, both in life and on the dance floor, consciously exploring this theme can be intense, liberating, intimate and powerful. The potential pleasure and beauty of this journey is well worth the challenges and the risks.

WHAT HAPPENS IN A WORKSHOP?
* We will use dance and movement to integrate our experience and to explore with curiosity and mindfulness 
* We open up physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual terrain of these themes 
* We will use multiple modalities for learning, including specific education, discussions and verbal sharing. We will use dance and movement to integrate our experiences. 
* There will be invitations for non-sexual touch, but touching and being touched is never required.
* There is no explicit sexual content or exercises.

WHO IS IT FOR?
Libido programs are open to all adults regardless of gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, or relationship status. We strive to co-create an environment that is inclusive, curious and expansive, and honors the experiences each person brings into the room.
For participation you need some experience with dance forms such as OpenFloor, 5Rhythms, MovementMedicine, Biodanza or similar, to deepen your experience. 
OpenFloor Libido programs count as a pre-requisite for the Open Floor Teacher Training.

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.

LIBIDO LOVE OF LIFE
Click on above link for more information and reviews in Dutch which can be translated in your language. Including a juicy inspiring 11 minutes Vimeo movie.

OPEN FLOOR CONSCIOUS DANCE
Click on above link for more information. 

TEACHER 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.

ASSISTING TEAM
* Hester Hudig - OpenFloor teacher, Therapy in Motion practioner, Therapist (psychosynthese), Ecstatic DJ
* more to be announced

With thanks to Betty Martin, Andrea Juhan and my colleagues of the  Embodied Sexuality Circle of OpenFloor International; for their wisdom, written texts, experiences and what I have learned from them, directly and indirectly. 

“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 -

DATES & TIMES Part 2 Libido - Sense & Consent
June 26 - 29, 2025 
Thursday 10 am till Sunday 5pm  

INVESTMENT & Other practical information
Please click here and then scrol down. 
This 4-day retreat is the second of four modules of a year long journey.
You can also attend this module separately. 

REGISTRATION 
For registration please contact  Monika Körschner, teacher, via 06-12602244 or via monika@embodieddance.nl  

LOCATION
Herberg De Dieken
Helhuizerweg 1
7451 KE Holten
Netherlands 

 

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Datum publicatie: 22 september 2024