Love of Life - Libido Fundamentals
21 - 27 july 2024 Sadhaka, Mid France
A delightful week in the middle of France to tap into the love of life by exploring your libido through dance. We embrace a wide definition of Libido such as life force, birth place of creativity, vitality, presence and aliveness.
As our hearts and bodies awaken through conscious dance, our sexual energy also begins to stir. We’ve all experienced it; one moment we feel radiant, free and desirable, the next we feel clumsy, lustless and excluded. Our libido is an essential part of the body’s natural expression. Sometimes complicated, sometimes ecstatic, or burdened with expectations and past experiences. All this energy moves within and between us and longs for freedom.
Love of Life is an immersion in which we can ground and explore our life energy through dance and some basic principles of movement. Because sexuality is so often underground, ignored or unconsciously played out, this week promisses to be an intense, liberating and powerful process. The potential pleasure and beauty of this journey is well worth the challenge and the risks.
You are welcome to dive into your love of life.
All genders and sexual orientations are welcome. Welcome solo or in relationship. Nudity is not part of this workshop. For the depth of your experience, it is necessary to have 12 hours experience with Open Floor or another Conscious dance form. This week is rooted in the Openfloor Dance practice. It is a resourced and body based movement practice, where emotional intelligence, meditation and mindful awareness are an important part of.
Willemijn de Dreu will guide the journey, assisted by Jorge Xapa.
Willemijn de Dreu has 25 years of experience in guiding people through Dance & Ritual to freedom and peace. She’s trained in 5Rhythms, OpenFloor, Systemic Ritual and Body-oriented trauma therapy. This combination creates a magical weaving on the dancefloor coming from embodied wisdom. Her work brings movement in blocked energy so the body can heal itself. She’s passionate, grounded, deep, yet alway’s ready for a joke to remember that life is a celebration and our time here worth to be enjoyed. www.willemijndedreu.com
Jorge Xapa, Born mexican, currently living in Madrid. Jorge graduated as an OpenFloor teacher in april 2024 and is also a coach, Ontological as well as Somatic. www.jorgexapa.com
“ I felt safe and cared of. Working with the male and female archetypes did change my dance deeply. As a man I had quite some shame around the movement of my belly and my hips when moving. In the safe bedding of your sessions I could playfully explore those delicate movements and dance with it. What I discovered then is still an ongoing development and the best part is that I don’t feel like hiding and running away any more when the dance gets juicy and hot.
What an enrichment! What a freedom...Greatful!” The dancingfool
location Sadhaka, Moulin d’Orsennes, France
date july 21-27 2024
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register www.sadhaka.nl/en/register
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