Welcome to ‘Embodied Intimacy’ - Portugal
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.
A 5 day journey that is both playful and transformative, offering a bold approach to rediscover your own heart.
Through this journey, you’ll explore a deeper "yes" to life, be in deeper relationship to your feelings & your 5 bodies and walk out feeling empowered.
This is a space to enliven your skills of relating and negotiating intimacy. When we speak about "intimacy," we mean authentic connection, the kind that allows you to see others and be seen (Into me you see). We aliveness, your inner fuel for creativity and vitality. Through this space you’ll shift from the story that intimacy is a 'goal' to the understanding that intimacy is a space where transformation naturally happens and how to create it.
Dates/Schedule: Wed. 07 October - 11 October , 2026
Venue: Biovilla, Vale de Barris, Setúbal, Portugal
Investment:
Early Bird: € 700 until 1 July 2026
Standard: €800
(Includes accommodation & food logistics fee)
Breakdown of Costs
Facilitation Fee: early bird € 400 or standard €500
Logistics Fee (Accommodation shared rooms & Food): € 300
Deposit: € 200 due at signup
To secure your place, register and make a deposit of € 200
Combo Offer: Workshop + Embodied Freedom Movement Spaceholder Training
Early Bird Price for Both: € 1,150 until 1 July 2026
Standard Price for Both: € 1,300
Includes logistics fee (accommodation & food): € 300
What you will get in Embodied Intimacy?
Embodied Intimacy is an invitation to inhabit yourself more fully.
Throughout five days of deep connection, you’ll experience:
Five-Bodied Embodiment
Engage your physical, emotional, mental, energetic, and archetypal bodies through movement, music, and somatic presence.A Transformative Space - Communication Upskilling for your Relationships
Intimacy here is a living practice—not an endpoint—where presence replaces striving, and transformation unfolds naturally.Igniting Inner Aliveness
What is it anyway? Experience somatically how your Radiance is connected to your feelings.You’ll journey with others who dare to be real, forming a community of courage, authenticity, and love.
Cultivating presence;
Deepen your connection with yourself & your purpose;
Explore your blocks that are in the way for you being authentic;
Experience and unfold in ‘empty being spaces’,
Relaxation with a mixed of ages and gender;
Integration for 6 weeks, with your team by your side in an online group & long-term community follow up
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Communicate with clarity and passion what matters to you.
Upskilling your communication skills.
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A new relationship with your feelings; empowerment; and aliveness.
Exploring feelings as a compass for your life and get in touch with your Anger consciously.
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Creating more intimacy in your relationships with new practises and tools.
Notice your expectations on yourself and others and what results they create.
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Connect with all your bodies (mental, energetic, emotional, physical).
Listen and get curious about your physical body through conscious movement.
A mind with more space to be imaginative and inspired.
Basic skills to clear your energetic space.
Whats included?
Daily Embodied Freedom Movement Practice deep dives
4 nights accommodation
(private or shared rooms available, also camping available)3 nourishing vegetarian meals daily
Evening and afternoon group sessions & celebrations
Pool
Optional nature walks
The Venue
Biovilla Sustentabilidade
Located in the heart of Portugal’s Arrábida Natural Park, Biovilla acts as a “living example” of regenerative practices that nourish the environment, community, and individual well-being. The venue nurtures sustainable food production, nature-based education, conscious consumption, renewable energy use, zero-waste practices, and immersive experiences that connect people with themselves, each other, and the more-than-human world.
See more on their website - www.biovilla.org
Meet the team
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Sybille is a bold and dynamic community weaver dedicated to holding space for personal and collective transformation, specially for women. Having just celebrated her 50th year, Sybille does not hold back in her pursuit of empowerment.
With over 10 years of experience holding workshops, trainings, and classes, including at festivals, she is an accredited Open Floor Movement teacher and the creator of the Embodied Freedom Movement practice.
Her workshops and retreats, such as Embodied Intimacy and SoulHum, focus on emotional literacy and embodiment, guiding participants toward deeper self-awareness. Her extensive training in Possibility Management enables her a trauma-informed approach.
More about Sybille:
https://www.embodiedfreedom/about
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Alexandra Lopes is a Possibility Coach and Biodanza SRT facilitator deeply committed to regenerating relational culture and integrating body, emotion, and learning. She creates transformative spaces where individuals and groups can explore inner resources, expand potential, and activate authentic pathways of expression and connection. As co-creator of *Biodanza na Academia* and *Comunicarte* with Patrícia Anzini, Alexandra brings movement, emotional awareness, and vibrant communication into academic contexts, fostering new ways of being, learning, and relating. Her mission centers on empowering relational spaces through presence, compassionate listening, and conscious connection.
More about Alexandra:
https://about.me/alexandralopes
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Patrícia Anzini is a trainer and mentor in scientific writing, university professor, and founder of @virando.a_pagina with over 20 years of experience in formal and non-formal education. She has developed and facilitated learning environments that weave together scientific writing, body awareness, and conscious communication. Alongside Alexandra Lopes, she co-created *Biodanza na Academia* and *Comunicarte,* bringing movement and emotional intelligence into higher-education spaces. Through trainings, workshops, retreats, and mentoring programs offered in Portuguese and English, Patrícia supports individuals and institutions in strengthening both the technical and human dimensions of academic work.
More about Patricia:
https://www.patriciaanzini.com/
Experience a range of different modalities with Sybille:
The event weaves together the modalities of Possibility Management & Open Floor Movement practice through partner and group exercises.
The 5 days are designed to connect you with your body, your feelings, your creativity and your presence.
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Sybille offer possibilities for internal shifts and healing.
Possibility Management is part of her movement medicine.
Possibility Management empowers people with practical life tools that are easy to implement into their own daily life; the ability to establish healthy boundaries with conscious anger practise; more clarity of purpose; the changing of old stories; a deeper understanding of the complexity of our being and centring into your authentic self.
Possibility Management is about recognising which thought patterns, emotional entanglements or blockages stand in the way of your full expression of yourself.
To regain contact with all four feelings (anger, fear, sadness and joy) and create new possibilities for your life with their energy and information.
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Humans have gathered to dance since the beginning of time. Open Floor movement practice shows that dance can have a profound impact on our lives.
In this embodied practice you become more flexible and coordinated, get a clearer mind, and a calm presence. You move with others, you feel more connected to the people and the world around you.
Open Floor movement practise inspires you to explore your relationship to life to grow communities through connection with self and others.
In this challenging world, common sense tells us to spend time listening to the wisdom from within.
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Get honest feedback and reflections from others, helping you to see yourself more clearly and grow in ways that are new to you. This is a space where your blind spots are gently revealed, and your greatness can be expressed.
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Let’s be clear: this event is not about sex, pleasure-giving spaces, or Tantra. When we say "intimacy," we mean authentic connection—the kind that allows you to truly see and be seen (Into me you see). When we speak of "sexual energy," we’re talking about your aliveness, your inner fuel for creativity and vitality.
Practise to consciously harness your libdo energy for personal growth and radiance. In this 8th Embodied Intimacy journey, we'll delve into recent research, exploring how libido energy can fuel your feelings and radiance. This journey focuses entirely on understanding and responsibly connecting with this often hidden and unconsciously used energy, without any physical sexual exploration. The word "intimacy" in this 5-day journey is translated into a space that opens for transformation instead of a goal to get somewhere. None of the exercises or events will involve physical sexual exploration. -
What is your story of intimacy? Is it a goal? Instead, experience it as a transformative space that offers far more than most of us realize.
‘What is intimacy?’
It's not a goal, it's a doorway to transformation
It's relating with open heart
It’s being with another without story
It's the experience of authentic closeness from the present moment
It's about noticing, trusting, sharing, and going with the flow, it can be simple and fluent
It's a doorway into extraordinary
It's going first and turning towards one another with being a yes
It’s feeling your fear to be vulnerable with someone
It’s trusting yourself to be your authentic self in the present moment in the company of another regardless of what happens next
It’s being in contact, being messy, vulnerable, and real
It’s a moment to moment navigation and staying awake in connection with myself to find out each moment, what do i want now? And now? And now? With this person, or with myself
It’s what naturally happens without trying when the blocks and baggage are out of the way and you can be in front of someone else regarding them
We practice intimacy through navigating and listening to our feelings as a compass. Then the door opens to practice intimacy.
Intimacy is not a goal, it’s a space that opens through the arrival in all the 5 bodies
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Take home practical tools and deep connections to integrate this newfound understanding of intimacy into your life, community, and family.
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Live together, unplug, and form meaningful, bonds in a supportive community.
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Gain real-life skills to deepen connections
Express yourself authentically
Feel more at ease in your own skin
Upskill in your communication skills
Relating skills
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What is intimacy, what does sexual energy really mean? And where does intimacy become sex?
Here are some of my experiences from embodied freedom, a 5 day event held at Tui event center in Takaka New Zealand, a space where possibility management is weaved into movement sessions.
From day 1 Sybille and the team held a space for all 29 of us to create a culture of rapid learning with the clarity of feedback culture and cultivation of curiosity to become mirrors to each other so we could see ourselves more clearly. This made it possible to hold a field of love and intimacy in our different bodies.
We did exercises that normalized touch and allowed freedom to explore these basic human needs. This opened many doors for me and allowed the space to fly. I sensed that I could trust these people in a way that would normally take years of community living.One journey started when I stood up in the group and spoke about how I want to really look at women. For the purpose of noticing and learning where I'm adapting to stories of the shame of my own sexuality and the fear that I might be violating their space. I admitted my incompetence and sadness that I don't really know how to appreciate their presence in a clean way.
I declared to the woman that I welcome any feedback if anything I did didn’t work for them. I set my intention with the group that I was going to research my edge in the area of how it goes to take radical responsibility for my underworld. Which includes games of seduction, white widow strategies and child-like neediness.Once the spark ignited the fire I was blown away how many people were willing to dive into taking a stand for cleaning up their intimate relating space.
I was so glad to be in a team that was getting real about how sexual energy plays out in spaces.
I was glad to have conversations that brought clarity on how and when I lose connection with myself and others though sexual energy fueling fantasies and hijacks my mind. I could practice choosing not to be distracted and stay in the present moment. By doing this I was able to co create extraordinary relating space.
As the days for the event unfolded my inner navigation sharpened, my connection to my energetic body, my conscious fear and my clarity on what my intention was in each present moment. Also as my competency grew from these skills I could relax into the space. When exploring intimacy in a space with another person I could explore the edges and trust the other person will take responsibility for making their own boundaries, taking a pause, moving away or moving closer.
I found that at times I would cross the line and arousal and fantasy would creep in. When I noticed that, I would take a pause by moving away and to connect back to myself. I learnt to use my anger consciously instead of telling myself I did something wrong.
I would shift identity into a researcher, then I got curious about what was really going on for me. I gave my best shot at learning from my experiences so that I could shift into entering a clean space with others.
Check out the live Recording of the 1st session of a 5 day Embodied Intimacy journey 2025 to find out more.
1st part is the dance part - 1hr long. Second part is the exercises together 25mins
Set in a serene, beautiful location with great food and a welcoming atmosphere.
This experience goes beyond polite conversation and superficial answers, cutting through the conventional roadblocks to meet in the present moment.
The more you go from thinking to feeling, the quieter your mind will become
Dive into a playful and transformative journey at Embodied Intimacy, a relating laboratory where you’ll explore the magic of connection, sharpen your relating skills, and soften more into the beauty of who you really are.
“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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Intimacy is not a goal its a doorway to transformation. Intimacy can happen in all 5 bodies, you can have mental, emotional, energetic and physical intimacy. Unfortunately Intimacy is often put together with sex and also most people try to meet all their needs for intimacy with only their partner, which puts huge pressure on relationships.
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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 the culture at home.
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Many people come to Embodied Intimacy without knowing anyone. Since the workshop is limited to 50 attendees, everyone gets to know each other very quickly. This makes it an ideal multi-day workshop to attend if you don’t know anyone, as the schedule is intended to foster group cohesion and connection, as well as self-discovery.
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No, all of our guests arrive on Wednesday and stay until Sunday. We start together and finish together.
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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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Attendees arrive from 12pm on Wednesday. The opening of the space is at 2pm.
On Sunday, the event will finish at 4pm, you are welcome to stay and assist with the venue pack down.
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Please email admin@embodiedfreedom.co.nz
Testimonials from ‘Embodied Intimacy’
“Its a place to practise and explore whats happening inside me, so I can take it out into the world”
“Sybille weaves a space where we are pushed to our edge, and theres still safety to be there”
“The magic that happens here is what everyone deserves to do”
“I really healed things that didn’t settle with me in the past - I can consciously bring up anger and use it - I can hold boundaries”
“A safe place to really go deep into who you really are, your fears, what your angry about... Getting to know people in an intimate way that is not sexual”
“The opportunity to really live, with all the danger, the beauty, the sadness, the anger and the fear”