Relating Arts Retreat: Casa Tilo

Relating Arts Retreat outside of Barcelona

During this week we explore relational- and embodiment practices. You get to experience powerful new ways of being together, that invite us to sense and notice what is really going on, in ourselves and between us, moment to moment. Bringing awareness to whatever emotions, sensations or thoughts that arise may not be comfortable all the time. However it is often both enlightening and healing, because it lets us move from autopilot to being awake to the unique situations that all moments are. Deep connection, as well as flow as a group, arises from being together in presence.

By sharing our experience as it is there and then, we drop into presence and connect deeper and more vulnerably. You never quite know what will come up and we surrender together to what arises. What seems to always show up are experiences of connection, vulnerability, depth, personal insights and new ways of being. This is also an exploration of freedom and what we call self-leadership. You do not have to sit still. You do not have to talk. You do not have to listen. You are invited to follow whatever feels right for you in the moment, and then experience how that impacts your surroundings.

This also means that you are invited to take self-leadership over where you direct your attention, how you spend your time and to lead yourself through this retreat and your life. Through the practice we will be asked to clarify what we actually want for ourselves in the moment and life.

Through relational- and embodiment practices we develop our sensitivity and empathy, build capacity to be with more of life, we become better at understanding our impulses and intuitions and we learn to communicate and act on our boundaries and longings more clearly. Perhaps you’ll get a taste of what matters most to you and have some experiences of synchronicity and collective wisdom.

The program

Since the practices we are using for this retreat are emergent in nature, meaning that they do not produce a particular result, but they are all about allowing experience to show itself, for form to unfold, the program will also be of this nature. We have some guidelines below so that you can still get a sense of our starting point, and then we will listen to what wants to emerge when we are all together. This also means that we will listen to the requests from the group.

We will likely want to invite for:
– Ecstatic dance to drop into your body’s intuition
– Nature Connecting sessions in the forest surrounding the house
– Embodiment sessions with movement and touch
– Practicing the different circling forms, partner exercises, focus circling and surrendered leadership circles
– Explore self-leadership, through desires, agency and will
– Explore collective wisdom
– Meditation sessions
– Expressing through sound and sound baths

There will be workshop blocks every day before lunch and in the afternoon, with some program and optional practices in the mornings and evenings also. There will also be time for you to be in your own flow.

Practical information

The retreat program runs Saturday 25th April to May 1st at Casa Tilo outside of Barcelona. You can arrive in the days before that and settle in. And you are invited to stay for for some co-living up until May 9th

The price is1100€ – 1900€ (low and high income options, single and dorm rooms available at different prices).

You can sign up here: 
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