Come, come, we’re starting! 🌊
Thursday, October 9th at 20:30 and the Conscious Relating Embrace Workshop arrives in the heart of Athens, at Ananda Unity at Petralona, now also with facilitation in English!
Register here:
https://forms.gle/ZKoEkqSK6QPZSvFs8
Inspired by my relationship with nature and the ocean, blind conscious movement in wild natural landscapes, underwater ocean dancing all year round, my nine-year daily practice of treating everything I experience in my life and my attachment bonds as material for deeper awareness, understanding of the self, our shadow, and the human condition, by my deep dive into diverse meditation traditions from around the world and developing my own, as well as the practices of yoga, contact improvisation, the traditions of tantra and taoism and neo-tantra, by my long-term experience with conscious kink, my connection with the worlds of water therapies & conscious cuddling, my enthusiastic embodied involvement with Nonviolent Communication (NVC) & attachment theory the last 8 years, and above all, by Life itself — it is with great joy that I welcome you to the Conscious Relating Embrace Workshop. 💗
But what kind of embrace is this?
It is an embrace in every dimension of our being: our connection with nature, with our breath, our energy, our senses, our instincts, our emotions, our thoughts, our expression, our movement, our touch, our sexuality, our eroticism, our strengths and weaknesses, our light and shadow, our boundaries, the patterns that move us forward and the ones that hold us back.
It is also an embrace of the space that hosts us for the first time in a studio this year: the atmosphere, the lighting, the walls, the floor, every warm little corner — both receiving it wholeheartedly and offering ourselves to it as if we were one.
And it is an embrace between us, countless forms of embrace among us, where with sensitivity and empathy we cultivate mutual support to embrace more and more aspects of ourselves.
We will begin by sharing from the heart how the here and now finds us when we meet, and with a journey into our senses where we will set aside vision and the overstimulation it creates, as we attune to the landscape. Each time, we will co-create a new experience of connection, play, and self-discovery.
With attention to how everything that happens in the workshop is a mirror of our patterns in relationships and in life, we will experiment somatically with how to express our emotions authentically and freely without sacrificing empathy, how to set our boundaries firmly yet lovingly while creating connection through our “no’s”, how to meet our inner critic without letting it define us, how to balance giving and receiving joyfully without people pleasing or guilt, how to ask for exactly what we want without shame, and how to embrace the “no’s” we may receive with gratitude.
We will also touch upon the dimension of sexuality and eroticism in all their richness — not as something separate or “taboo,” but as a living part of our being that deserves to breathe freely and be embraced with tenderness. We will also explore touch — recognizing the energy and intention behind it, giving and receiving with clarity and awareness.
We will bring to the surface the labels and roles we learned to wear to feel we belong or are safe, and we will experiment with how we can set them aside to stand more true and free.
Our common ground: freedom. Every being will be able to choose how much they want to engage in each exercise, knowing that even silent presence holds space and nourishes the experience of others, and that we all rely on one another for this nourishment. And through this relational frame, we will discover countless forms of embrace — with words, with glances, with touch, with play, with silence.
And through meeting other beings, we will see again and again how each face, each embrace, each difficulty or attraction that arises is a mirror — an opportunity to recognize and embrace aspects of ourselves that we may have set aside.
The gain? A freer relationship with ourselves, more trust in our relationships, greater attunement with one another, with our environment and with nature, and the sense that we don’t need to hide anything in order to belong.
And of course… the embraces! Embraces of countless types, forms, and energies — some that may not look like an embrace at first glance, but that later we may discover truly were. ☺️
If you’d like to love yourself in your wholeness, and to be able to do this more and more with every other being beyond separation — or to place a small stone so that more of us can do this — this workshop is for you.
Bring a scarf to cover your eyes, comfortable clothes, an open heart, and a spirit of exploration, respect, and play — and I’ll be so glad to see you! ✨
Recapping:
🕰❥ When: Thursday, October 9th, 20:30
📍❥ Where: Ananda Unity, Sfittion 10, Petralona, 3rd floor
💰❥ Energy exchange: 20€
📲❥ How to register: Fill out the form here:
https://forms.gle/ZKoEkqSK6QPZSvFs8 and if we don’t already know each other personally, we’ll have a short phone call.
🗣️❥ Facilitation language: English, with explanations in Greek when necessary.
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