This event is happening within the Heartful Intimacy Weekend https://www.facebook.com/events/489665971895917/ To be able to participate you must fill in this form: https://tinyurl.com/HIW1219-eng (english version) https://tinyurl.com/HIW1219-pt (portuguese version) ----------------------------------- HEALING SEXUALITY DAY WORKSHOP ** Embracing sexuality can and should be part of our spiritual path ** What do we do: Contact Improvisation Consent exercises, finding our boundaries Conscious and caring touch Tantric Massage Sexuality Talks Tantric practices and more surprises... During our retreats and workshops we move through the difference between Healing sexuality and Healthy sexuality. Healing happens in a progression, step after step, emotionally integrating and evolving, becoming ready to move on to the next. We will be grounding ourselves in movement and shadow work. Through contact improvisation, guided journeys and sharing circles where we hold a safe space for the sharing and exploration of where we are creating resistance to our desires, happiness and belonging. We are moving towards emotional honesty. At all moments of the retreat/workshop we ground and protect ourselves in consent and a strong awareness of our boundaries. We are creating a safer space for you to explore your sexual energy and learn how to communicate with it and from it. Integrate your shadows, understand your needs and meet them. We can access our sexual energy to help us in our spiritual path and in manifesting our needs, desires and dreams. In which ways is your subconscious asking for your attention and love, telling you where are there traumas to integrate? Where the lost streams of energy ready to be called in to your present self? We will explore loving touch and tantra massage, the principles of massaging another body, touching from pleasure and for pleasure. Centered in our-selves giving presence to another body and letting this massage journey take the path both people feel comfortable in giving and receiving, working with the emotions that arise in a space of honesty and support. We are healing our sexuality from the inside out. And not from the outside in. Instead of picturing and idolizing a perfect way to live our sexuality and live this objectification that we don’t fully understand and are not aligned with, we are going through the necessary steps that we individually need to move through and up to higher consciousness levels - We accept first where we are now and we ask ourselves what it is that we need to experience now so that we become ready to move through and past that emotional experience. **Healing sexuality is going to bring us closer to integration** ------ IMPORTANT INFORMATION This edition of the Healing Sexuality will be focused on two topics, one for each part of the day. - Exploring inner belief systems, with Pedro: identifying patterns that you feel that are present but that don’t really serve you and challenging them in playful and more enjoyable ways. Being in a group, makes things more relative, it warmly humanizes us. - Through the layers, with Lydia: Emotional and behavioural layers were shared and shed, it’s time to consolidate and embody all that, in your own personal journey. We will express ourselves and move our sexual energy through free dancing, and manifest consentfully our desires through conscious touch. There is an invitation to conscious nudity (partial, not full), but that is just a suggestion. Between the two parts there’s a lunch break. We invite you to a potluck, so bring your favourite snacks and we’ll go through the pleasure of sharing a meal together <3 There will always be facilitators or helpers to offer you support throughout the event. ------ WHERE, WHEN, HOW? Date: Saturday the 7th of December, from 10h to 19h Place: Rua Damasceno Monteiro, 85 – Lisbon The Healing Sexuality workshop will be in the very middle of the Heartful Intimacy Weekend (6th - 8th of December), which is happening in Ágora Experimental (former location of Inti Sana). It’s a very cosy space in a central yet calm zone of Lisbon. Because of the intimate nature of the event, and with the vision of creating a safer space, to participate you must first fill in a form (link below), after which we’ll contact you to confirm your participation. https://tinyurl.com/HIW1219-eng https://tinyurl.com/HIW1219-pt We reserve ourselves the right to assertively reject the application of people that we feel that aren’t aligned with the values that define this event. The contribution for the event (pre-paid) is 35 euros, but the price is lower for people going to other events within the Heartful Intimacy Weekend. Check the link: https://www.facebook.com/events/489665971895917/ And because for us it’s important to make this event sustainable, accessible and inclusive at the same time, in case you really feel the call to participate but you know that your current financial situation can’t afford it, don’t hesitate to contact us! ------ FACILITATORS: Lydia Müller Lydia has been working for 17 years as a professional dancer, dance teacher and choreographer in several professional dance companies (including her own “Tango Now”), Community Art projects and interactive street-theatre performances, all around the world. Besides Contact tango, contemporary dance, Argentine and Neo tango, and contact improvisation she teaches yoga and tantra. In addition, she is trained in Conscious Somatic Sexuality and offers private sessions on it. Combining her dance work with tantra and conscious sexuality, she is organizing and facilitating her own retreats on Dance, Intimacy and Healing Sexuality. Lydia’s quality in teaching is to guide the whole group into a journey of connection, expression, liberation and empowerment. Her work is emotionally moving and touching on a deep level, liberating and enabling a different way of stepping into daily life again. Pedro Rodrigues Pedro’s curiosity for an alternative sexuality started right at the beginning of his sexual life. His quest has been one of honesty and looking to see the end of patriarchalism and violence within himself - it has been a serious process of self-integration. He understood very early that there is a close link between our manifestation in this world and desire. And became sure of the immense healing power residing in sexual energy. Pedro has been exploring tantra since his late teen’s. He has practiced and explored tantra massage, loving touch, consent and healing through sexuality for the last 4 years. He is offering private sessions of caring and present touch, tantra massage, pelvic massage and trigger point de-armouring. And he is practicing emotional reconnection and integration therapy. Pedro is now facilitating retreats on healing sexuality and workshops on intimacy and conscious dating. He is a meditation teacher and he teaches school teachers, therapists, psychologists and parents on how to teach meditation to kids. Researching and teaching emotional honesty is his life mission. Searching for the right questions in life took Pedro to all corners of Europe, Africa, Asia and South America. He has co-managed a Vipassana meditation center in Spain and did 7 10days (100hours) Vipassana meditation courses. He has practiced yoga with several teachers in India, but it was in Chiang Mai, Thailand, that he found his master. It has been also in Thailand where Pedro certified for thai yoga massage therapy.
