Welcome to ‘Embodied Intimacy’ - Dunedin, New Zealand
An immersive weekend workshop designed to empower your self-inquiry & interpersonal connections through somatic practices, mindfulness and community.
Embodied Intimacy is a multi-day immersion designed to empower you into deepened self-awareness & magnify your interpersonal connections through somatic practices, embodied researching and community.
Together we create a brave space to embrace your creativity and presence. We slow down, listen to the body, and focus on authentic human connection. Think of this as a practical and fun immersion offering a bold approach to being in touch with your own heart. You’ll explore a deeper “yes” to your life, discover more resources to be in more connection with yourself and your feelings - the source of your own radiance. Through guided embodied exercises, you will walk away with actionable tools for your everyday life, the possibility to communicate more honestly, become more assertive and be more in touch with what you want.
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When we speak about intimacy here, we mean:
Authentic human connection - with yourself, with others, and with nature.
Presence without story - meeting someone or yourself in the now, without masks or roles.
Vulnerability and courage - sharing what is real for you.
Embodied connection - discovering your physical, emotional, mental, archetypal, and energetic bodies to deepen your presence.
A doorway to transformation - not a goal, instead a space that opens and can be experienced at any time when spaciousness and logistics drop away.
We practice intimacy through embodiment: bringing generous attention to all five bodies, moving, listening, and being present. The more you inhabit yourself fully, the more authentic your connection with others becomes.
What Embodied Intimacy offers is a Somatic Authentic Relating Laboratory,
for you to experiment and evolve in your ability to relate to yourself & others.
When, Where and Investment?
When: January 15th - January 17th, 2027
Friday January 15th - 6.30pm to 9.30pm
Saturday January 16th - 10am to 5pm
Sunday January 17th - 10am to 5pm
Where: Located at The Dome, 30 minutes north of Dunedin.
Participants are sent the address upon registration.
Investment: NZD
Friday Night Only - $45
Full Weekend Workshop:
Standard - $420
Standard Early Bird - $350
Under 25 - $280
Under 25 Early Bird - $210
What’s included?
Friday Evening Workshop - January 15th, 6.30pm - 9.30pm
Embodied Heart
Reconnect with your body, explore authentic communication, and experience meaningful human connection. Move from head to heart.
Join us for a three-hour introduction to Embodied Freedom Movement Practice.
A carefully curated soundscape will gently guide you to slow down, feel what is present within you, and move with it. To start where you are and catch up with yourself.
This evening workshop offers you practical tools to encourage you to reconnect with all of your bodies: physically, emotionally, energetically and mentally. Allowing you to develop emotional awareness, and communicate more authentically.Through a big dance that will take you to many different spaces, you will be held and guided through exploration, self-inquiry and partner practices, you’ll slow down, listen to your body, and relate to others with greater clarity and confidence.
Full Weekend Workshop - January 15th - January 17th, 2027
Daily ‘Embodied Freedom’ Movement Practice Deep Dives
Each morning you’ll drop into guided somatic movement spaces designed to awaken through conscious movement, music, exercise, self inquiry, and presence.Afternoon Integration & Practice Sessions
Throughout the afternoons, you’ll have facilitated sessions to deepen and actively practice what’s been explored earlier in the day. These spaces are designed for real-time experimentation with authentic self-expression, boundary setting, emotional literacy, and relational skills in an encouraging group environment.Evening Group Sessions & Celebrations
Evenings are for deeper feeling-based connection, reflection, and embodied relating. These sessions create space to share insights and practice clear expression within a culture of presence and community empowerment.
What We Practice Together:
Embodiment exercises - dance & relating practices
Inhabiting yourself more fully
Tools to identify and explore the blocks that are in the way of your authenticity
Cultivation of presence
A deepening of connection to self & your purpose
Collective spaciousness
An online integration space (telegram group chat) - This space offers continued connection with the group. The spaceholders will be available for one on one coaching and healing spaces.
You will journey this transformative space with others who dare to be real, forming a community of courage, authenticity, and love.
6 week Follow Up Course - Embodying Intimacy
Optional (but highly encouraged)
This six week journey is a resource to deepen your practice of what you explored at the immersion. It is to empower you to continue building your capacity for intimacy and authenticity - with yourself and all your relations.
Over these six weeks, you’ll receive a weekly package designed to;
Deepen the embodiment of your being and of intimacy.
Keep you moving and building relationships with your 5 Bodies - Physical, Energetic, Mental, Emotional & Archetypal.
Implement the new possibilities discovered into your daily interactions
Investment: Sliding Scale of $190 - $350 NZD
Meet The Facilitators
This weekend immersion is held and curated by Sybille Biedert, alongside her team of spaceholders.
Sybille is dedicated to her space holding and creation of ‘Embodied Freedom Movement Practice’. Being a bold and dynamic community weaver, she has been delivering workshops and retreats for many years. Embodied Freedom focuses on clarity towards one’s purpose, establishing healthy boundaries, embodiment and empowerment of each participant.
She has a wholehearted commitment to hold space for personal, collective and multi-generational transformation. She is a dedicated edge-worker and movement lover, With her ‘Open Floor Movement Teacher’ accreditation and her extensive training in ‘Possibility Management’, she uniquely weaves these modalities together creating profoundly transformational and bold spaces that offers people practical life tools that are easy to implement in daily life.
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Open Floor International is a global nonprofit organization that encourages people who are committed to using embodied movement and dance to foster more authentic, emotionally intelligent, and resilient individuals and communities. Open Floor International serves and connects Open Floor and other movement teachers and practitioners, professionals from a wide variety of fields, and community members, as well as our financial supporters and all those who contribute their time, expertise and other resources to achieve our vision.
- Text from ‘Our Mission’ on the ‘OpenFloor International’ website.
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Possibility Management is about recognising which thought patterns, emotional entanglements or blockages stand in the way of your full expression.
This modality empowers people with practical life tools that are easy to implement into daily life. Some of these tools include; establishing healthy boundaries with conscious anger practise, clarity towards your purpose, the changing of old stories, a deeper understanding of the complexity of our being and centring into your authentic self.
Along side Sybille will be Jooske Honig. Jooske guides deepening awareness navigation, inviting each person to listen inward as they move outward, sensing the body, following what feels alive and honouring their own pace. What she loves most is navigating you toward your own truth, moment by moment.
Her space holding is attuned, warm and offers a place to land, to feel and to be witnessed, where trust can deepen and life force can move freely. She brings a holistic approach, consciously working with the emotional body and inviting you into the places of your growth edge, where emotion becomes energy for intimacy (into-me-you-see) and its natural flow creates possibility.
Authentic, real, raw expression is how you'll find her on the dancefloor.
Jooske brings more than 20 years of experience in creative, intuitive and somatic counselling. Her practice weaves Hakomi, IFS, holistic drawing therapy and intuitive healing. She works 1:1 and with couples, offers Attunement Training for individuals, and mentors practitioners through the Attuned Practitioner modules. Originally from the Netherlands, she has long made her home in Dunedin and works from her studio in Port Chalmers, grounded in aroha and a deeply relational way of being.
Here are a couple of Aftermovies from this years event in NZ and Northern Rivers, Australia
What Embodied Intimacy offers is a Somatic Authentic Relating Laboratory, for you to experiment and evolve in your ability to relate to yourself and others.
Participant Testimonials from Embodied Intimacy
“I had fear of being witnessed, but quite immediately this was eased by the clarity of the space and everyone really brought their yes to being there all together.”
“There were many invitations to consciously choose to inhabit my own space and not feel pressure to connect with others on the dancefloor”
“Relating and using the tools offered as a couple”
“If you love to move and want to see how much you can grow, I’d really encourage you to get along to this and feel the freedom.”
Frequently Asked Questions
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Many people come to Embodied Intimacy without knowing anyone. Our focus is on the individual. The majority of attendees fly solo, and attending alone gives you the chance to meet and connect with more people. However, attending Embodied Intimacy with a partner would also be brilliant, as then you have someone to carry on with the practise at home.
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We invite all levels of fitness and all different ages attend our workshops - and we are accommodating of this, including chairs in the movement spaces.
We encourage you to go at your own pace, in a physical sense. This space focuses on inner navigation rather than high energy expression (even though this is also welcomed). -
Yes, we welcome individuals of all sexual orientations and gender expressions. Our exercises are not based on gender and are not designed in a heteronormative way. We focus on human connections.
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Yes! You can either come for the Friday evening session ‘Embodied Heart’ Or come for the whole weekend immersion.
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January 15th - January 17th, 2027
Friday January 15th - 6.30pm to 9.30pm
Saturday January 16th - 10am to 5pm
Sunday January 17th - 10am to 5pm -
About Content of the event:
Please email admin@embodiedfreedom.co.nzAbout Logistics:
Please Email Inspiral.nz@gmail.com
We welcome you to Embodied Intimacy, please contact admin@embodiedfreedom with any questions you have.
With love from the Embodied Freedom Team