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When we feel safe
we play

Ritual Play is a somatic practice in which we explore connection  and  ways to feel safer with other people using embodied tools of breath, sound, movement and touch in  a non verbal experiential immersion on mats.

 

You will be supported and encouraged to, one breath at a time, one tiny step at a time, explore your impulses, authentic desires and needs, all of what we call Play Material. 

 

All parts of you.

 

You will be encouraged to move towards what calls you  and to respectfully move away from what is not for you. 

 

Everything during the workshop is an invitation and you are encouraged to do as little or as much as you want and move only as fast as your slowest part.

 

Your participation and play can look many different ways and can be as unique as you are.

 

Your Play can be animalistic, primal.

Raw, wild and fierce.

A play-round that electrifies your body and charges  up all your senses.

 

Or perhaps 

 

Play can be soft and gentle.

A warm pot of relational settling and resting surrender.

A letting go that spurs up from within as you exhale and sink in an embrace.

 

Play can be all that emerges in the field created between the playmates.

 

It is you and it is we. 

 

Inspired by and created in the collective space when we all drop in, slow down and focus our attention in the present moment. 

When we start noticing  more of what is and what is moving within us.

 

As you will choose to step courageously on the playground, your Play  will  shift and change forms and shapes alongside you. 

 

Play-rounds can look different but are  beautiful and they are always as they should be.

 

And here lies one of the keys to making this practice truly empowering. 

 

Choice

As a participant you are invited to choose to step on the mats. To choose to play with all parts of you that show up to accompany you. Even the ones that are  perhaps a bit tender.

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If you also choose to explore and play, I would be more than happy to be your guide.

Important to know

1 / Is this a space for singles?

​Welcome solo, with a friend, a lover or partner(s). It is a space open to all relationship statuses and choices.

2 /  Invitational & tailored practices

All practices are invitational and can be adjusted to your personal energy levels and physical mobility. (If you are in need of  specific assistance please contact the organizer & check the venue’s accessibility options)

3 / Touch agreement
  • Ritual Play welcomes touch as a way to connect with others and feel our environment, not as sexual gratification. Sexual touch or acts are not permitted. We focus on safe & consensual interactions that explore choice, build self responsibility, trust and advocate a culture of care.

4 / Inclusivity
  • Ritual Play is an anti-racist, LGBTQIA+  inclusive  and body positive space. All are welcome!

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Ritual Play in 1:1 session

photo credit: JohannaKaisjoki
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