Libido Wild & Tender - OpenFloor Dance - 4-day Residential Retreat

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Liberate the vitality of Libido, Lust and Love in all areas of your Life!

Embracing polarities within us and explore ways to liberate ourselves as we move towards erotic wholeness.
This retreat is an invitation to ignite your passion in all areas of your life as well as welcoming the sensuous tender flow in life. Embracing the polarities within us and explore ways to liberate ourselves from cultural believes, narratives, social conditioning and messages from our ancestral lineage. In order to move towards erotic wholeness.

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)

“Although often sex gets stuck in one rhythm, sometimes we ride the whole wave.
Sensuous and slow, gentle and tender your energies flow together.
As it heats up, your passion ignites into a pulsing staccato beat.
As you lose control, moving beyond all thinking and fears, you surrender to the orgasmic rhythm of chaos.
And then there’s the luscious lingering of the altered lyrical state
before we settle into the afterglow, the bliss of stillness.”
- Gabrielle Roth -

From the first cells that evolve us into being, to the deep surrender of our last exhale, a lifespan is infused with libido. We will dance and work with this natural intelligence and potential life force, which is sometimes latent, sometimes ecstatically present. Sometimes wild, full of life, overwhelming, sometimes receptive, mysterious, sometimes longing, passionate.
We can access this vital energy of eros in a multitude of ways. When this energy is acknowledged, supported and expressed authentically - both in relationship with ourselves and with others, with life itself - the potential for healing is immense and empowering.
During this module we focus on liberating our life energy in our body through dance, movement and breathwork. We then release our life energy in our mind and emotional body, our heart, by lovingly welcoming it and expressing it in dance. We dance with ourselves. Learning to sense and follow our unique self. We dance together. Every encounter on this journey is a mirror of our own heart, its emptiness and fullness, its pride and shame, its problems and joys, its wisdom and innocence, its desires and generosity. We dance with life itself, with the realization of being part of a social field and a larger whole.

Through Open Floor Embodied Dance - combined with other practices and specific psychological information as attachment theory and neuroscience - 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 MODULE / WORKSHOP?
* We explore this lively, sometimes hidden energy of libido with curiosity and mindfulness using the Open Floor Core Movement Resources.
* We open up physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual terrain of sexuality, libido, lifeforce and other related themes.
* We combine group proces, specific explorations and information through embodied dance and movement exercises, to help discover and unblock the beauty and power of your sexual life force.
* We use other practices as 'Wheel of Consent', the practice of 'awareness and inquiry', breathwork and more, to deepen and integrate your experience.
* 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.

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

This 4-day retreat is ONE of four modules of a year long journey.
You can also attend this module separately.
DATES OF ALL THE MODULES
March 27 - 30, 2025 - Libido Fundamentals
June 26 - 29, 2025 - Sense & Consent
September 4 - 7, 2025 - Wild & Tender
November 6 – 9, 2025 - Intimacy & Desire

For more information, practical details and an inspiring Vimeo movie, look at

https://embodieddance.nl/news/66/72/Part-3-Libido-WildTender.html