Fierce Winter Queers:
3 months embodiment program

Hosted by Ayo Gry & Axel Nielsen
 

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This three-month winter program aims to support you to develop skills for intentional and fulfilling relationships while continually reconnecting with the same group of people, build trust, and explore your fierce queerness.
 

Each month we will meet for a long Saturday and the following Thursday evening. These sessions will be for exploration, somatic learning, personal growth, fun, and celebration of embodied queerness.

 

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Topics of the 6 sessions:
 

Jan 18th Full Saturday: Ignite! - Personal and collective intentions. Group agreements. Touch, wheel of consent, somatic approaches to self and co-regulation. 

 

Jan 23rd Thursday evening: Intimate Improvisation - Ritual play. Impulse awareness. Non-verbal consent. Intuitive touch. Playful interactions.

 

Feb 8th. Full Saturday: Attachment and Belonging - working with relational roots. Meeting your drama lama. Identifying reparative experiences.

 

Feb. 13th. Thursday evening: Make a wish! Individual desires explored collectively. Co-creation of nurturing and playful scenarios. A brave space of expression.

 

Mar. 15th. Full Saturday: Erotic Flow - Consent. Empower choice and voice. Compassionate witnessing of the naked body. Giving and receiving intimate touch. Meeting patterns of arousal with curiosity.   

 

Mar 20th. Thursday evening: A future of fierce queers…

 

The program will be facilitated by Ayo Gry and Axel Nielsen, who will guide and support participants through the 3 months journey. Additionally, participants will have access to a telegram group, which will be a platform for inspiration and support between the classes.

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Fierce Pleasure, Fierce Intimacy
 

Sensing the body and finding pleasure is liberating and serves as a direct source of feeling alive within oneself. Connecting to the sensual body can be a tricky journey, and this program offers a place to heal and integrate your erotic self with a pleasure- and humor-oriented approach. Over the three months, you will be invited to expand your capacity for honesty and vulnerability, learning to find and express boundaries and desires.

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Belonging, Attachment and Relational Empowerment 
 

Through the lens of attachment theory, we will examine the roots of our relational patterns, applicable to all kinds of relationships. On one of the long Saturdays, we will visit the Drama Lama, an embodied experience Ayo and Axel have developed over the past few years. To guide you toward healthy and nurturing relationships, you will learn how past experiences with attachment figures shape your present patterns. With an embodied approach, you will be offered tools for relational communication, regulation, and repair.

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Embodied transformation through Somatic learning
 

Somatic methods are at the core of the entire process, and through your body, you will learn to understand the topics you wish to address. Learning to listen to the voices of the body is part of integrating who we are and is essential for developing a compass that guides us toward what we want in life.

Growing up as part of a gender and/or sexual minority can present challenges that leave traces in the body. We often become ready to protect, defend, and move to safer places, meeting the world with necessary fierceness. A significant challenge for all of us is figuring out how to let this layer of protection soften and find a way back to a sense of belonging and connection to ourselves.

   

 

About us 

We have been in an open relationship for the past seven years and both became interested in embodied practices when we moved to Berlin six years ago. Delving into embodiment while learning it as a new profession has been a great pleasure in our relationship. After working one-on-one with many individuals and facilitating a lot of workshops, we felt a desire to go deeper. Through our work, we have recognized a need within our clients and community for a space to practice being in connection with other queer people, to experience intimacy, touch, vulnerability, explore the pleasure body, and receive emotional care. This group program is our response to that need.

 
 

Ayo Gry Jonassen, white, danish/berlinish, non-binary trans (they/ he)

I work as a somatic practitioner, workshop facilitator, and art collaborator, and co-founder of Skinship_Berlin. My training includes Sexological Bodywork, Tantra massage,  Mind/Body Therapy, and Pantarei Approach. My mission is to foster healthy communities where relational and emotional intelligence are integral parts of our bodies and nature. Pleasure and consent are core principles in my approach, and I am particularly focused on healing wounds related to queer experiences while empowering the resources and knowledge that emerge from queer lives. Additionally, I have a background in climate and social activism, as well as in nature and community building.

 
 

Axel (he/him), white, danish, trans, dog dad.

I have been passionate about building a practice as a somatic practitioner since moving to Berlin 6 years ago. For the past 3 years, this has been my full-time profession and I continue to feel a lot of gratitude about being able to do this work. I have trained in Bodywork through the Pantarei Approach and am now in the third and final year of Somatic Experiencing. I am involved in the Stretch Festival, an embodiment festival for queer masculinities, where I work as a co-curator. Building bridges of understanding between the diverse identities within the queer community holds a special place in my heart. I also have a background in social justice work, centered on better access to healthcare for trans people and other gender minorities. 

 

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If you are interested in joining the three-month winter program, please fill out this form, and we will contact you within one week. We would like to have a personal online conversation with each participant before the process begins. During this conversation, we will discuss your motivation for joining and what you hope to get out of the 3 months. 

Looking forward to hearing from you,
Axel & Ayo

 

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Dates:

• Jan 18th. Saturday 11.00 - 18.00 

• Jan 23rd Thursday 18.00 - 21.00 

• Feb 8th Saturday 11.00 - 18.00

• Feb 13th Thursday 18.00 - 21.00 

• Mar 15th Saturday 11.00 - 18.00 

• Mar 20th Thursday 18.00 - 21.00

 

Venue: Rudolf Str. 11, 6th. floor, Berlin. Unfortunately without lift.
Group Size: 8-10 people

Registration Fee: 500€. Option to pay in 4 rates of 125€.  We have the capacity to offer 2 spots for a reduced price of 400€. Please get in touch if you need this.

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