Bridging the gap

  

So many - if not all of us - have developed patterns and inner safety mechanisms that prevent us from deep and authentic connection with others - and therefor with ourselves, because we all carry the basic human need for belonging and being close to others.

 

This often leaves us frustrated!
We feel a gap between ourselves and others. We never really feel met or seen.

Most of us struggle with working ourselves out of these dynamics we initiate ourselves over and over again, although we might even be aware of them. Other reasons for a frustrating feeling of being stuck in a pattern might come from unconscious core-beliefs and shadow aspects of our identity.

 

Alone we are doomed with this!

This is why we need a held and brave space to slowly enable a sense of shared and inner safety to encounter our limiting strategies we so often identify with. We need each other to make new experiences and learn, that in some situations it might be safe to open up and be vulnerable.

Additionally we might learn to create these safe situations ourselves.

 

This 5 day retreat will give you the possibility and preconditions to BRIDGE THE GAP between your needs and your restrictive patterns - and therefor bridge the gap between your sincere impulses for connection and the other person.

 

This field will strongly emphasize on awareness, clarity and slowness, so we can all gently move out of our relational limitations.
 

HOW IS THIS RETREAT STRUCTURED?

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I will take you on a journey that is composed to allow every step be taken from a sense of inner agreement and intrinsic opening.

 

We will move, dance and have somatic solo, partner and group exercises to stay embodied and reconnect over and over again with our physical selves and our clarity. Additionally we will take the possibility to often see and be seen in what is going on in us by the whole group.

 

We will build a supporting and trustful field enabling the committed work we will address.

The days will have an emphasis on exploring and experiencing patterns, beliefs, desires, impulses and needs as well as obstacles related to being authentic among others.

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Through community sharings, embodiment practices, grief ritual and shadow work we will encounter insightful observations, emotional intimacy and play. A little conceptual context about our nervous system, trauma-awareness and the process of building an identity is added to not only make this event a feel-good oasis detached from your usual life but to give you the opportunity to make drastic changes and free yourself from relational limitations and beliefs.

 

Besides all that we will keep listening to what wants to come through spontaneously by the field of our community and stay flexible for the magic that wants to express itself through our beings, the land at Nikkilä and our souls.

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We will gather daily after a long and nutritious breakfast, after a long lunch break and after a long dinner break.
This leaves us with 3 sessions per day filled with and focused on practical experiences. Especially the evening sessions will be devoted to group ceremony and ritual that will help you integrate the days.

The long breaks in between the sessions leave time for morning practice, connections, sleep, emotional integration, swim, sport and sauna on the wide and thriving properties of Nikkilä Temple.

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THIS JOURNEY IS FOR YOU IF YOU:
 

- Want to deconstruct the barriers that keep you from genuinely meeting others.

- Long for clarity in your self-expression and an unapologetic but heartopen way of relating.

- Want to deepen the connection to yourself & your needs as a way to evolve your relationships.

- Have the urge to experience the power of intentional bonding.

- Have the willingness to practically work on the integration of your inner parts and shadows.

- Want to hack old and restricting relational patterns that keep you safe but lonely.

- Desire to take self-ownership for your reactional behavior and shadow impulses to step up in self-responsibility.

- Feel called to live according to your virtues and feel seen.

- Have the desire to claim your needs.

- Free yourself from stuck energy coming from past relational or individual experiences.

- Are ready to contribute to a new paradigm of relating that supports our cultural evolution.

- Want to increase beauty and grace in this world through your soulful expression.

- Are longing for expressing the unique shape of your heart through combining Love with Integrity.

- Long for feeling safe in a group.

- Desire to feel held and invited without the need to perform.

- Are willing to peek into the you behind your social conditioning.

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YOU WILL EXPERIENCE:
 

- Feeling your boundaries as a way to be met and being encouraged to express them.

- Moving out of stuck or recurring relational patterns and make new relational experiences.

- Gaining trauma-awareness and nervous system knowledge theoretically and practically.

- Becoming able to self- and co-regulate your nervous system to not be a victim of your triggers anymore.

- Enabling self-love and compassion for your flaws, wants and desires.

- Learning practices & tools to enhance and foster connection in a practical way.

- Witnessing others with empathy as well as having the opportunity to be seen in your pureness.

- Co-creating a supportive community where we show up transparently and bond through sharing our struggles as well as our celebrations.

- Connecting with your desires and needs that give a deeper meaning to your existence.

- Envisioning and deeply resonating with a brighter vision for humankind.

- Learning to trust and follow your genuine intuition and impulses.

- Moving and letting go of stuck energy through grieving experiences that hold you back from unleashing the vital and vivid expression that you actually are.

- Finding your hearts truth and live accordingly.

- Being empowered to bring the full you by a supportive community.

- Having growing compassion with yourself and others.

- Daily dance and embodiment.

- And a lot more.

 

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THIS INITIATION MAY CONTAIN ELEMENTS OF:

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- Conscious communication exercises.

- Somatic exercises for genuine expression and to create deeper connection.

- Conscious group exercises to create a stable, supportive field.

- Finding the relational meeting point in intimacy and vulnerability.

- Fun connection games.

- Relational dance and Ritual Play.

- Communal ceremonies in the name of authenticity.

- Community circles and heart opening sharing.

- Grief rituals.

- Relational nervous system regulation and trauma awareness.

- Working with protective mechanisms, shadows and other internal components creating separation.

- Recognizing individual relational patterns as a way to understand yourself deeper.

- Intentional bonding and authentic relating practices.

- Understanding and engaging with your relational needs.

- Dance Waves and Ceremony.

- Communal Sauna.

- Lots of embodiment and community interaction.

- And many more.

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