An IN-PERSON Creative Playshop
Intimacy in Community: A Somatic Exploration
Black Mountain, NC
As of 8/8/24, we have decided to cancel this event. We didn’t have the human-power to do the outreach. We are hoping to bring these components into other events in our region. We really crave an embodied and attachment literate community. Maybe we can weave these pieces into other things happening in the region.
Together, let’s rewire our brains and bodies for deep connection
We’ll explore and learn to live into our bodies, open our hearts, and express our aliveness together!
This event focuses on experiential and somatic based learning. There will be opportunities for partner and group exercises. The intention of this event is to build resilience within a community container so we learn to build attachments to multiple platonic others and to the group in general. If you come with a partner, you are welcome to do all the practices with your partner.
Brynn Bishop
Brynn Bishop, founder of Conscious Intimacy™, is a Trauma-Informed Intimacy Coach, Tantra Educator and Healthy Attachment Re-Patterning™ Specialist with over thirty years experience in the fields of Personal Empowerment, Conscious Relating and Sacred Sexuality.
Through her own journey of personal growth, healing and exploration, Brynn has learned and synthesized some of the most potent body-mind modalities to create lasting transformation. She synthesizes and pulls from The Hakomi Method, Somatic Attachment Re-Patterning, Somatic Experiencing, Tantra, Expressive Arts Therapy, Energy Medicine, and The Work of Byron Katie.
She specializes in guiding individuals who experience anxiety around being rejected or abandoned, in rewiring their brains to catalyze their self love, worthiness and confidence; release sexual shame and conditioning; embody their power and agency; and develop a loving, honoring relationship with their own bodies and sexuality – so they can live a life of greater liberation, ease, connection, nourishment and pleasure.
More at https://conscious-intimacy.com/
Robyn Lynn
Robyn Lynn is a Tantra educator, Somatic Coach, group facilitator, feminine mystic, and a guide for those who want to deepen their sense of intimacy, connection and presence in an embodied way. A lifelong student of the unified field, she sees this as the source of meaningful healing, renewal, and inspiration. She has over a decade of experience supporting men, women, couples, and groups. She’s a certified Sexological Bodyworker & Somatic Sexologist with the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco and has done graduate Study in Mental Health Counseling at Antioch University, Seattle and has a B.A. in Psychology, Macalester College, St. Paul MN. More at: robynlynn.net
Lee Warren
Lee Warren is devoted to personal and collective liberation through reclaiming the wisdom woven into every cell of our beings. Her approach to this liberation is to romance the brilliance inherent in each one of us through cultivating a profound intimacy with self, others, and the mystery.
Lee is a death and tantra educator with a 30+ year background in community living.
Her mission is to offer her leadership, learning, and insight in pleasurable service to the whole. Her vision is where folks are co-creating sane, pleasurable, integrated, cohesive, connected, and blissful lives. Within and without.
David Salih
David Salih is a tantric yogi, provocateur, and mountain minx, integrating the archetypal beast and priest to connect and transform multiple levels of consciousness. David’s tantric journey has taken him from leading transformational workshops for Landmark Education in 2005-2011, coaching private clients since 2008, being a master bodywork and energywork professional for 25 years, and studying Sri Vidya tantra with Swami Ravi, including a 3 year intensive tantra teachers training. David has facilitated tantra workshops in the US and Mexico. He loves integrating classic tantra with neo-tantra, exploring transformative community dynamics, and conjuring alchemy through music, theater, and eroticism. More at davidsalih.com
The Value of a Group:
A coherent group frequency holds incredible opportunity for personal and collective repatterning. Attachment wounds, body-based trauma, and nervous system dysregulatoin happen in relationship and heal in relationship. When relationship is experienced through a loving community context, there is promise of enhanced and expedited healing. We become aware of the abundance of presence, attunement, and love in our lives. As we enter the laboratory of group play, we invite these components: embodiment, repetition, and understanding as the recipe for nervous system repair. Each learning module will be an experiential practice.
How much group connection is involved or required?
We will have paired exercises that include verbal sharing, eye gazing, comfort touch, emotional expression, and embodied movement. Our goal is to strike a balance between regulation that is self referenced and regulation that is other referenced. Engagement with others can bring up sympathetic nervous system responses for some folks. As can being in a group in general. We encourage participation at your own level of comfort. Experiment with minimal amounts of challenge and maximum amounts of healing.
The Practice of Consent:
Each participant gets to choose, moment by moment, what’s right for them. The practice of consent encourages us to find our yes and our no in every interaction. Checking in with ourselves is part of the journey towards regulation, self awareness, and tracking subtle energies. Finding our truth sooner and more often helps us navigate complex relationship and supports us to move towards healthy and mature engagements. While this workshop prioritizes experiential and embodied practices, all exercises are optional. Participation and non-participation are each a contribution to the whole.
What are the Benefits?
Personal Growth: Many folks who have explored embodiment, or trauma healing, or attachment repair are familiar with the transformation available through these modalities. As we become more embodied and relate in conscious community we develop:
- emotional intelligence (active listening and responsible expression skills)
- capacity to track and attune to self and others
- awareness of our own trauma, relationship patterns, and attachment history
- a commitment to presence and consciousness
Nervous System Literacy: Recently, many of us have been developing a basic understanding of nervous system regulation including concepts of resilience, window of tolerance, and sympathetic (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) and parasympathetic (rest/digest) responses. When we are able to TRACK these states we are more likely to be able to respond lovingly to self and others. Group experiences enhance these abilities.
Fun, Play, & Connection: We want playmates who know how to support each other, to regulate together, to identify body sensations together, and who know how to repair conflict. This is the world we want to live in and these techniques will get us there.
Will there be Sensuality or Sexuality?
This event will, at times, invite and encourage the movement of lifeforce through the body, for pleasure and healing and enjoyment. There will also be ongoing encouragement of tracking the body internally as well as using the senses to rewire towards more coherence, integration, and connection. There will also be opportunities for touch (optional as always) and cuddling. There will be no sexual content in this playshop and clothes will stay on.
