What is Embodied Intimacy?
Embodied Intimacy is a multi-day Immersion created and designed by Embodied Freedom.
These multi-day immersions are carefully crafted to each space where it is offered.
It has traveled internationally to Australia and Portugal in 2025/26, with its origin being Golden Bay of New Zealand, where 2027 will be the 10th annual event.
Embodied intimacy has been designed to empower your self-inquiry & interpersonal connections through somatic practices, mindfulness and community. It 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 through presence, feelings, and honest relating. The kind that allows you to see others and be seen ‘Into me you see’ - With yourself, with each other, and with nature.. It is your 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.
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This Immersion is not about sexuality or tantra; it is about practicing being fully embodied, awake, and present in your own radiance.
Embodied Intimacy is a space to deepen your connection with more of who you are by discovering and inhabiting your other bodies: energetic, mental, archetypal, and emotional.
As you begin to listen to the other bodies, something natural happens. You become more present, more real, and more fully here.
In other words, you incarnate more of yourself. Calling more of yourself home. Embody more of you.
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Embodied Intimacy is designed to reconnect you with your three superpowers. Declaring, Asking, and Choosing. Guiding a space where you can practice, and discover them through embodiment, partner exercises, group intelligence, and community living, so you can feel more empowered in your life and expand your capacity to communicate.
We drop logistics, schedules, and doing consciously. Instead, we step into spaciousness, a field where you can feel, heal, and move.
Through guided practices, you will:
Expand your movement vocabulary and embodiment by bringing attention and movement to all parts of your body. This will allow more life force to flow in the form of circulation and blood flow and mobility beyond the Immersion.
Explore all five bodies as your source of embodiment: your physical, emotional, mental, archetypal, and energetic body, to incarnate more fully.
Having more presents will deepen your rootedness in authenticity.
Practicing Your Superpowers
Each day, you will practice your three superpowers. Declaring, Asking, and Choosing. Through different exercises designed to cultivate curiosity you discover more of what you want in your life, as well as how to take steps to create it and communicate it with others in a way that is received without defensiveness or withdrawal from the other.
These practices are woven into all the movement sessions, partner exercises, and group activities, empowering each other to anchor into your presence, expand your embodiment, and root more deeply into your authenticity
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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 practise intimacy through navigating and listening to our feelings as a compass. Then the door opens to practise intimacy.
Intimacy is not a goal, it’s a space that opens through the arrival in all the 5 bodies.
Intimacy is being in contact, messy, vulnerable and real.
Intimacy is trusting yourself to be. to be your authentic self in the small now in the company of another, regardless of what happens next.
Intimacy is being vulnerable with someone.
Intimacy is going first and turning towards one another with an open heart.
Intimacy is authentic sharing here and now.
Intimacy is about noticing, trusting, sharing, and going with the flow. It can be simple and fluent.
Intimacy is the experience of authentic closeness from the present.
Intimacy is not a goal its a doorway to transformation.
Intimacy is about being real, open, and honest, even when it's messy. It’s about being vulnerable, sharing what’s true for you in the moment, and turning towards the other person with an open heart.
Intimacy isn’t about trying to reach a goal—it’s about connecting deeply in the present and letting that connection change you. It’s a natural closeness that comes from being yourself and trusting the flow between you and the other person.
Intimacy is 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.
Intimacy is a moment to moment navigating and staying awake, in connection with myself to find out each moment-what do I want now? And now? And now, with him?
Upcoming Embodied Intimacy Immersions
Embodied Intimacy - Portugal
Wednesday 7 Oct - Sunday 11 Oct 2026
Embodied Intimacy - New Zealand
Wednesday 24 March - Sunday 28 March 2027
Followed by
(Embodied Intimacy is a prerequisite for the Training)
Followed by
(Embodied Intimacy is a prerequisite for the Training)
Movement Spaceholder Training - Portugal
Wednesday 14 Oct - Sunday 18 Oct 2026
Movement Spaceholder Training - New Zealand
Wednesday 31 March - Monday 5 April 2027
What you receive 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 on a 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.
What is generally included in an Embodied Intimacy immersion?
What’s included will be different weather you participate in a residential or non-residential immersion, as well each venue offering different spaces.
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.Nourishing Meals
Your ticket includes three nourishing meals, along with morning tea during our ‘Embodied Freedom’ movement practices each day.Accomodation
Depending on the event being residential, Some venues offer camping, others offer rooms, some offer both options. Most venues allow for a fully immersive live-in experience that encourages unplugging in nature and meaningful connection with yourself and others.Some venues offer optional Daily Yoga, Sauna & Hot Tub
Additional optional wellness offerings are available every day for relaxation, nervous system regulation, and integration of the work.
This movement immersion is delivered by Sybille Biedert alongside her skilled team of spaceholders.
Sybille Biedert 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.
Read more about Sybille
Experience a range of different modalities:
Sybille has created Embodied Freedom by weaving together a range of modalities and backgrounds. Including Possibility Management, Open Floor Movement Practice, Rites of Passage (initiation) and community living. The combination of these modalities invites connection to your authentic self, 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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This intimate journey, designed for a group of up to 50 people, is based on engaging all five bodies - physical, emotional, energetic, mental, and archetypal.
This journey moves you through every layer of your human ‘beingness’. Through movement, conscious dance and embodiment, 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.
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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
Expand your capacity to navigate your inner world
Join us for a journey that’s both fun and profound, offering a rare opportunity to explore intimacy in a way that engages your entire being and enriches every aspect of your life.
Live Recording of the 1st session of one of our Embodied Intimacy Immersions
Testimonials from Embodied Intimacy participants
“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”
“Sybille weaves a space where we are pushed to our edge, and theres still safety to be there”
“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.”
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“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”
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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.
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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Yes, we welcome individuals of all sexual orientations and gender expressions. We focus on human connections.
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