The Watering Hole: Temple Edition - The Netherlands
Wed Dec 4, 2024 5:00 PM - Sat Dec 7, 2024 3:00 PM CET
New Eden
Description
The Watering Hole: Temple Edition
This Embodied Intimacy Temple retreat is exclusively for singles. In this relational laboratory, we offer you a rare and profound experience of emotional, spiritual, and physical intimacy. Expect to share moments of deep connection, guided and spontaneous connection games, vulnerable reveals, and playful explorations—all alongside fellow adventurers, one of whom might just be your next date or partnership!
The Watering Hole provides a brave space to practice transformational relating, accelerating your path toward deeply fulfilling relationships. Our practices are designed to cultivate deep presence and embodied attunement, creating the perfect environment to meet new potential partners or refine the relational skills necessary for dynamic, authentic union.
The clarity of your “yes” emerges when your body aligns with your soul’s purpose and heart’s tenderness. We reach these deeply embodied states through the tantric tools of breath, sound, movement, and touch.
Throughout our time together, we will create a playful relational laboratory, simplifying the components of relating, intimacy, and physical closeness to their most basic and fundamental elements. By consciously reassembling these elements through consensual exploration, we open new possibilities for connection.
In the evenings, we will gather in the sacred, devotional space of Temple. Here, we step into the mystery, entering a portal of aliveness and divine simplicity through connection and prayer.
Whether or not you find a romantic match at this event, you will leave with a new perspective on relationships and a toolkit to deepen your connections in all aspects of life.
Join us for a 4-day, 3-night immersion into intimacy, connection, and relationship!
What makes Embodied Relating unique is its demand for deep listening, attunement, and surrender. In this practice, we let go of preconceived notions and allow the form of connection between individuals to emerge naturally, revealing itself in its own time. When we relate from projections and fantasies, we create connections based on untruths, leading to shallow, transactional relationships devoid of genuine intimacy and authentic presence.
At The Watering Hole, we invite you to explore the truth of who you are in relationship to yourself, mirrored by the presence of others. Together, we drop our masks, open our hearts, and experience what’s real and alive in the moment.
This journey into radical authenticity may feel uncomfortable, as it requires us to show up as we truly are. Yet, this vulnerability opens the door to one of the greatest rewards: true intimacy. True intimacy is the nourishment we seek at The Watering Hole—authentic reflections, deep connections, and the possibility of love.
What to Expect:
An introduction to the evolutionary growth journey and somatic education of Embodied Relating—relational wisdom that is vital yet often missing in our lives.
Deepening your experience of intimacy, connection, and embodiment through self-awareness, relational attunement, and joyful exploration.
Shifting your relationship foundation from fear to trust as you explore your deepest longings for intimacy, love, and partnership.
Rediscovering your vulnerability, innocence, and wildness in a space of trust, permission, and creativity.
Reclaiming your body as an intelligent instrument, an inner barometer of truth.
Exploring presence in your body and expressing your unique self, both in sovereignty and in connection with a loving group.
Experiencing more self-love and self-acceptance through the honest mirrors provided by others.
Developing the capacity to take responsibility for your boundaries, desires, and needs through self-attunement and clear, present-moment communication.
Contributing to a larger spiritual evolution that shapes future generations through how you show up in relationships today.
The possibility of meeting the love(s) of your life!
All activities are optional. Your full consent is the only requirement for participation.
LOCATION:
New Eden Retreat Centre is located in the Heart of Friesland, Netherlands, 90 minutes from Amsterdam.
The centre is surrounded by 50 acres of beautiful forest and nature—a healing environment for deep and immersive experiences away from the noise and distractions of everyday life.
Address: New Eden Retreat Centre, Sparjeburd 2, 8409 CK Hemrik, The Netherlands
For travel information visit https://www.neweden.org/getting-here
DATES:
Wednesday, December 4 - Saturday, December 7, 2024
Arrive by 5:00pm on Wednesday, December 4
Leave by 3:00pm on Saturday, December 7
COST:
Tier 1: €599
Tier 2: €699
Tier 3: €799
*Food & Accommodations included in price*
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the event: Michelle Cooney
e-mail: Michelle@the-field.com
fb messenger: https://m.me/EmbodiedIntimacy
Diverse Backgrounds & Community Leader Partial Scholarship. We understand that various forms of privilege can play a role in financial access to our containers. We believe that diversity is an important aspect of building a truly transformational journey and we desire to impact and support all people with our work. We are providing partial scholarships to support individuals from diverse backgrounds to be able to participate.Furthermore, we are including community leaders working in diverse spaces and especially those in low-income or socially disadvantaged communities.
Apply here: https://partialscholarship.paperform.co
Your Facilitation Team:
Rachel Rickards
Rachel is an international leader in the field of personal transformation, intimacy, embodiment, and relating. She is a group facilitator extraordinaire, event producer, and a new mother.
In 2014 she co-founded Embodied Intimacy, which has become one of the most respected organizations globally that offers trainings and events focussed on intimacy, trauma, relational intelligence, somatic education and community. The work of Embodied Intimacy supports hundreds of people each year to come home to themselves, to their body and more regulated nervous systems, and become more of who they truly are.
Since 2019, Rachel has led the Belly2Belly Facilitator Training after her teacher and mentor, David Cates, passed the torch and CEO position for this work to her. Belly2Belly offers a simple and yet profoundly healing set of embodied and relational practices, which support people to learn to regulate their nervous systems in a way that can be transformational for their relationships. Rachel has single handedly produced and facilitates most of the events with her extraordinary superpowers in the field of event planning and depth in embodied leadership.
In 2022, Rachel launched her newest passion project, “The Field Facilitator Training.” This is a revolutionary new experiential learning environment for upcoming group facilitators who are passionate about creating fields of deep group-heart coherence and learning how to facilitate group soul emergence. This requires the development of radically new facilitation skills, such as learning to listen to the group field, collective surrender to the moment, as well as dynamic and fluid collective leadership to support the blossoming of the group soul that is longing to emerge in the space between us.
Guest Facilitator & DJ:
Really excited to announce our special guest facilitator and DJ Yarun Dee from Amsterdam!
In the past eight years Yarun evolved into one of the main Dj’s in the European Conscious Dance Community.
He plays at Ecstatic Dances and Conscious Festivals around the globe co-creating epic dance journeys together with the dancers.
His multi-style Dj-sets have a wide range of influences from around the world. Cosmic, deep, sensual, grounding, celebrative and heart-opening with a base of groovy melodies and earthy tribal beats.
With his ability to deeply tune into the crowd magical dance experiences come in to being.
Rhythms that make your Body want to dance, your Mind to become silent and your Spirit to expand.
Besides being Dj, Yarun is also a dance facilitator in Contact Beyond Contact (CBC).
We are so excited to have Yarun in both his expertise with movement facilitation and as our DJ for the temple spaces.
Find his artist page & dj-set here:
Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/YarunDee/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/yarun
Location
New Eden