welcome to the
edge...
A COLLABORATIVE RETREAT FOR ALL HUMANS EXPLORING
EMBODIMENT
EMBODIMENT
NORMANVILLE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
6PM FRI 29th JUL - MON 1st AUG 2022
6PM FRI 29th JUL - MON 1st AUG 2022
It's only at the edge, that you have the GREATEST VIEW... a view of all your POSSIBILITIES... and where you will feel most ECSTATICALLY ALIVE!We all have different edges... the shapes we have created in our forms are ALL unique and different. Informed by the history of our past, the stories we carry and by the culture in which we were raised.
Ancestral lineage. Family culture. Community expectations. National identity. Generational identity.
We became CONSCIOUSLY AND SUB-CONSCIOUSLY moulded. In our minds. In our bodies. In our hearts.
Mostly, this happened TO us. We didn't 'choose' this. This creates an internal conflict between our internal BEING and our public BEING.
Yes still, many of us try to keep well away from our edges. They are scary. We are in Survival. Hiding in 'comfort'. Distracted. *Busy*. Afraid to face the edge. Confined by them. Living life CONTRACTED and CONSTRAINED.
Yet always wondering... WHO am I? can there be MORE?
What if we were given a safe place to explore some of those edges?
To FEEL them.... and then be LOVINGLY INVITED to EXPAND them?
What would it be like?
To begin to feel TRUE FREEDOM?
To come back to your own INNOCENT NATURE?
To create a NEW understanding of WHO YOU ARE?
To OPEN your HEART to your own HUMAN EXPERIENCE?
YOU are INVITED RIGHT NOW to find it within yourself to EXPAND YOUR EDGES!
IF NOT NOW.... WHEN?
What is the edge?
...the edge is an extended weekend residential COLLABORATION from a PASSIONATE team, dedicated to sharing different aspects of DEEP EMBODIMENT, the SACRED ARTS and CONSCIOUSNESS. This will provide you with the OPPORTUNITY to face your EDGE and change your relationship with your SELF.
What is EMBODIMENT?
Embodiment is simply about bringing awareness down from your HEAD (mind) into your BODY.
When you are connected to your body, its sensations and its feelings, you are able to experience more
- AUTHENTIC and meaningful connection with YOURSELF
- AUTHENTIC and meaningful connection with OTHERS (partners, friends, family, children)
- EMPATHY for others
- ALIGNED and PURPOSEFUL life
- PLEASURE and ALIVENESS
What will I EXPERIENCE at the edge?
Our workshops will look at...
- IDENTITY: who you are and how you show up in the world
- SHADOWS: what parts of yourself that you are unaware of and how they control your behaviour
- EMOTIONS: connection and awareness of your own EMOTIONAL BODY
- DESIRES: connection to your SELF and your DESIRES
- PLEASURE: the nature of PLEASURE and PLAYFULNESS
- SEX EDUCATION: the SEX EDUCATION you never had. Ever
- POLARITY: understanding POLARITY and its role in CONNECTION and ATTRACTION
- SAFETY: understanding of TRAUMA and SAFETY and how it affects CONNECTION
- BOUNDARIES: practices in BOUNDARIES and CONSENT
- COMMUNICATION: how to have AUTHENTIC COMMUNICATION
- BODY FREEDOM: how to move and allow your body to move FREELY
... at the edge retreat, SAFETY and SOVEREIGNTY are PARAMOUNT.
You are in control of your whole experience.
You will never have to do anything you don't want to do. Everything is an invitation, for you to make your own choice in how your experience this retreat.
...the edge is non-judgemental space for all humans 18+, of all gender identities, of all relationship statuses and styles, and is drug and alcohol free.
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EMBODIMENT
Enhancing the awareness, integration and alignment from your mind to your body-mind to your soul-body-mind
MASCULINE AND FEMININE DYNAMICS (AND BEYOND)
Understanding and playing with the energies inherent in all humans and how they interact with and support each other. Learning how those internal dynamics can be reflected into our external reality. Moving past the limitations of these terms to full embrace our whole human.
RADICAL SELF EXPRESSION
Be free to express yourself in real authenticity. Share what you are really feeling in each moment. And being heard in your full expression? Realising the level of depths you must feel authentic to yourself FIRST before being authentic outside of your Self.
PLAY, DANCE & MOVEMENT FREEDOM
Through movements and dance, become present open the channels to your feeling body. Open to your own body's intuition. Feel your feelings and emotions more vividly and live presently. Experience moving mediatation.
CONSCIOUS RELATING
We are social creatures that desire love and connection. Once clearer in our own internal dynamics and shadows, experience how the interact in healthy and loving ways for yourself and with those around you to create more authentic relationships.
OUR SHADOWS
Through the development of slef awareness and deshaming, knowing how to see and catch the part of ourselves that are hidden in our subconscious. How to honour and repattern these shadow aspects once they are unveiled to our light.
INTIMACY, ENERGY & SENSUALITY
Our life force energy is inextricable linked to our sensual and sexual energy. We can harness this energy for the power of our creation. And of course, when used consciously, we can experience deep pleasure and loving connection. And when used unconsciously, we can cause ourselves great pain and trauma.
RITUAL INITIATION & CEREMONY
Using the power of ritual intiation and ceremony as a portal to catalyse and celebrate change and what is.
THE COLLABORATORS
Offering:
• Space holder
• Mojo Dance - the Dance of Connection
• Authentic Relating - Interpersonal Dynamics, Boundaries and Consent
...passionate about Embodied living and empowerment, expecially through deep self reflection, connection, group work and dance.
web: thevoidspace.com
Offering:
• Tantric Connection
Waratah is a Specialist trained Sexologist, Counsellor, Couples Therapist & Wellness Facilitator, holding Post Graduate qualifications in Sexual Health(MA), Psychotherapy(GradDip), Couples Therapy and Wellness (GradCert) Waratah has taught yoga and mindfulness practices, presented retreats and intimacy education workshops working as a Therapist & Facilitator over 18 years.
Residing in the Inner West of Sydney she offers a culmination of these modalities in Sex Love Life Therapy allowing for a holistic, grounded and practical approach to her work.
web: awellinspiredlife.com fb: Love Life Healing
Offering:
• Recalibration through Giving, Taking, Surrender and Receiving
• Exploring Taboos
Kate is a Sexological Bodyworker and is very passionate about guiding others in becoming more embodied and experiencing more pleasure, through mastering the art of slowing the fuck down. Kate is very passionate about helping people reconnect to the power and pleasure of love and intimacy! Kate has been sharing her energy through plant medicine ceremonies, breath work, bodywork, yoga and sound bath. Kate combines many years of experience in fitness, health, healing, breathwork, bodywork, transformation, plant medicines and the shamanic arts to create a unique transmission that inspires, enlivens and awakens. She delivers her understanding and wisdom within a context that inspires, motivates, and awakens new perspectives. Kate is a professional member of SSEAA – Somatic Sex Educators Australia.
web: kate-alderman.com fb: Kate Alderman - Somatic Sexologist
Offering:
• An Exploration of Relating Styles
• Mystery Sensual Exploration
Julian is a Sexological Bodyworker and reveres the beauty in our individual erotic natures and particularly in the need for slowing down to take notice. Jumping from a more cerebral, creative career, Julian began exploring eroticism by photographing friends, acquaintances and colleagues from his world(s) of art, music and professional design, sex workers and conscious sexuality educators, then deciding that a more embodied career path was his jam.
Offering:
• Lovemaking Unveiled
• Intuitive Massage and Self Pleasure
What does it mean to make love at a soul level? How do we move beyond programmed sex? Is it possible to resolve challenges from a stronger foundation? In this group Steve and Ester discuss these topics and many more. Steve and Ester are high end intimacy mentors. We take our clients into unknown dimensions, where conditioned notions of sex are left behind and deep contact is made with one's pure essence. If you're ready to KNOW your unprogrammed intimate depths
FB: Lovemaking Unveiled
Offering:
• Conscious Sound and Dance workshop. Free our voice and body, Connect with our wise and wild.
Unanyntji has been creating and facilitating Conscious dance classes, workshops and rituals for 15+ years in Northern NSW , Central Australia and Adelaide region .
She is a devotee and student of nature. Her work is deeply woven with and inspired by her life long journey in Druidry, Witchcraft and Shamanic practices.
She uses her intrinsic connection with nature as a guide to create a deep intuitive space. Participant’s are invited to connect with their innate ability to move, sound and dance freely without shame and judgement.
Music is carefully selected and curated to inspire and enhance the experience.
Offering:
• Exploring 5 Key Elements for Deeper Relating
theKers Anisha Anta is an ocean dancer, body surfing the ripples and surges of all consciousness. Adventurer of the deep darkness held within, bearer of unconditional love. Devotee of life as a spiritual practice, to loves expression through form.
With 18 years of experience in the personal development industry, and her own reclamation of power and sexuality, she supports others in their awakening, bringing awareness to the unconscious within.
Offering:
• Soul Play
Kerstin has a passion for facilitating groups to explore their creativity and spontaneity thereby finding freedom within themselves to express naturally without much inhibition. Move Play Connect sessions are about unlocking the wisdom of your body through creative practices with self, pairs and group work. "She is an arts therapist who loves facilitating groups to explore the wisdom of their bodies, creativity and inner freedom".....
fb: Deep VIBE - Soul Play
KEVIN CHAN (Creator)
Offering:
• Space holder
• Mojo Dance - the Dance of Connection
• Authentic Relating - Interpersonal Dynamics, Boundaries and Consent
...passionate about Embodied living and empowerment, expecially through deep self reflection, connection, group work and dance.
web: thevoidspace.com
WARATAH KARLEU
Offering:
• Tantric Connection
Waratah is a Specialist trained Sexologist, Counsellor, Couples Therapist & Wellness Facilitator, holding Post Graduate qualifications in Sexual Health(MA), Psychotherapy(GradDip), Couples Therapy and Wellness (GradCert) Waratah has taught yoga and mindfulness practices, presented retreats and intimacy education workshops working as a Therapist & Facilitator over 18 years.
Residing in the Inner West of Sydney she offers a culmination of these modalities in Sex Love Life Therapy allowing for a holistic, grounded and practical approach to her work.
web: awellinspiredlife.com fb: Love Life Healing
KATE ALDERMAN
Offering:
• Recalibration through Giving, Taking, Surrender and Receiving
• Exploring Taboos
Kate is a Sexological Bodyworker and is very passionate about guiding others in becoming more embodied and experiencing more pleasure, through mastering the art of slowing the fuck down. Kate is very passionate about helping people reconnect to the power and pleasure of love and intimacy! Kate has been sharing her energy through plant medicine ceremonies, breath work, bodywork, yoga and sound bath. Kate combines many years of experience in fitness, health, healing, breathwork, bodywork, transformation, plant medicines and the shamanic arts to create a unique transmission that inspires, enlivens and awakens. She delivers her understanding and wisdom within a context that inspires, motivates, and awakens new perspectives. Kate is a professional member of SSEAA – Somatic Sex Educators Australia.
web: kate-alderman.com fb: Kate Alderman - Somatic Sexologist
JULIAN JAYAR
Offering:
• An Exploration of Relating Styles
• Mystery Sensual Exploration
Julian is a Sexological Bodyworker and reveres the beauty in our individual erotic natures and particularly in the need for slowing down to take notice. Jumping from a more cerebral, creative career, Julian began exploring eroticism by photographing friends, acquaintances and colleagues from his world(s) of art, music and professional design, sex workers and conscious sexuality educators, then deciding that a more embodied career path was his jam.
STEVE HATYER & ESTER ZAZZARO
Offering:
• Lovemaking Unveiled
• Intuitive Massage and Self Pleasure
What does it mean to make love at a soul level? How do we move beyond programmed sex? Is it possible to resolve challenges from a stronger foundation? In this group Steve and Ester discuss these topics and many more. Steve and Ester are high end intimacy mentors. We take our clients into unknown dimensions, where conditioned notions of sex are left behind and deep contact is made with one's pure essence. If you're ready to KNOW your unprogrammed intimate depths
FB: Lovemaking Unveiled
Unanyntji Scales
Offering:
• Conscious Sound and Dance workshop. Free our voice and body, Connect with our wise and wild.
Unanyntji has been creating and facilitating Conscious dance classes, workshops and rituals for 15+ years in Northern NSW , Central Australia and Adelaide region .
She is a devotee and student of nature. Her work is deeply woven with and inspired by her life long journey in Druidry, Witchcraft and Shamanic practices.
She uses her intrinsic connection with nature as a guide to create a deep intuitive space. Participant’s are invited to connect with their innate ability to move, sound and dance freely without shame and judgement.
Music is carefully selected and curated to inspire and enhance the experience.
Anisha Anta
Offering:
• Exploring 5 Key Elements for Deeper Relating
theKers Anisha Anta is an ocean dancer, body surfing the ripples and surges of all consciousness. Adventurer of the deep darkness held within, bearer of unconditional love. Devotee of life as a spiritual practice, to loves expression through form.
With 18 years of experience in the personal development industry, and her own reclamation of power and sexuality, she supports others in their awakening, bringing awareness to the unconscious within.
Kerstin Annette
Offering:
• Soul Play
Kerstin has a passion for facilitating groups to explore their creativity and spontaneity thereby finding freedom within themselves to express naturally without much inhibition. Move Play Connect sessions are about unlocking the wisdom of your body through creative practices with self, pairs and group work. "She is an arts therapist who loves facilitating groups to explore the wisdom of their bodies, creativity and inner freedom".....
fb: Deep VIBE - Soul Play
ACCOMODATION AT THE EDGE
The retreat is to be held at the amazing location of Camp Dzintari at Normanville, with an amazing view overlooking the ocean.
You will be supplied dorm accomodation for Friday, Saturday and Sunday night. The will be gender assigned dorms, as well as a mixed dorm arrangement. Preferences will be ascertained closer to the date.
Camping, bring your own tent or Van is also allowed. Special arrangements can be considered upon request.
You will be supplied dorm accomodation for Friday, Saturday and Sunday night. The will be gender assigned dorms, as well as a mixed dorm arrangement. Preferences will be ascertained closer to the date.
Camping, bring your own tent or Van is also allowed. Special arrangements can be considered upon request.
NOURISHMENT AT THE EDGE
The retreat is fully catered with delicious VEGETARIAN/VEGAN/GLUTEN FREE food for breakfast, lunch and dinner from
Saturday breakfast Until Monday breakfast.
The food will be prepared by our amazing Temple Keeper, who will instill the food with deep love and intention in order to support your journey.
If you feel REQUIRED to have other foods, feel free to bring them to nourish yourself your way.
The food will be prepared by our amazing Temple Keeper, who will instill the food with deep love and intention in order to support your journey.
If you feel REQUIRED to have other foods, feel free to bring them to nourish yourself your way.
BOOK YOUR SPACE AT THE EDGE
COVID NOTICE: Social distancing regulations may apply. All tickets are fully refundable if due to a COVID related cancellation of the event, otherwise deposits are NOT refundable (but may be credited to future VOID SPACE events).
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