Welcome to ‘Embodied Intimacy’ - Golden Bay, New Zealand

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). 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.

When: Wed. 25 March - 29 March, 2026
Venue: Tui Treefield Events Park, Golden Bay, South Island
Young Adult Ticket (Under 25): $490 NZD
Ticket: $790 NZD
Pick up from Nelson Airport by request
Camping is included in the ticket price.
Room bookings are available by request.

Retreat + Training Combo
Embodied Freedom continues to grow by offering the

‘Movement Spaceholder Training’.
Combined program this summer:
The ‘5-day Embodied Intimacy’ (which is a prerequisite for the training)
plus the ‘6-day Movement Spaceholder Training’ altogether for a total of $2,222 (instead of $2,640).

Young Adults under 25 $1999.

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.

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 on a online group & long-term community follow up

Whats included?

  • Daily Embodied Freedom Movement Practice

  • 4 nights camping
    (upgrade to private or shared rooms by request)

  • 3 nourishing vegetarian meals daily

  • Evening group sessions & celebrations

  • Optional yoga, hot tub & sauna everyday

Beautiful outdoor venue & great facilities
Tui Treefield Events Park

The Tui Treefield Events Park is nestled next to the Abel Tasman National Park - 5 minutes to the beach. With the support of a beautiful setting that allows stillness combined with wonderful food, beautiful people, and lots of spaciousness. We will create magic that allows unplugging and transformation.

Something precious in the time and world we are living in.

In this nurturing and inspirational space, magic happens. It has attracted people from every corner of the globe to add to the collective wisdom, expressions of art, ritual, stewardship, connection, service, and wellbeing.

The maturity of the programs offered in the Tui events park is founded on a great need for change in the world. Many people have contributed to the global vigil; changing people’s lives, creating awareness and teaching others.

The atmosphere under a growing canopy of trees is tangible and recognized as a very special place. The Tui Events park is situated across the road from Tui Community and is held and maintained by that intentional community to create a space for the wider community to come and learn about ways to live together more harmoniously with each other and the planet.

Live Recording of the 1st session of our recent 5 day Embodied Intimacy journey
This is a demo for you of an Embodied Freedom Space

Embodied Intimacy 2025 - 1st Movement session
1st part - Movement 1hour long

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.

Click below to dive deeper into what Embodied Intimacy is.

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.

Feedback from ‘Embodied Intimacy’
Annual 5 day Journey in March in the Treefield Events Park

Its a place to practise and explore whats happening inside me, so I can take it out into the world
— Camila
Sybille weaves a space where we are pushed to our edge, and theres still safety to be there
— Jen
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
— Theo

Frequently Asked Questions

Experience a range of different modalities with Sybille a credited Open Floor Facilitator:

The event weaves together the modalities of Possibility Management & Open Floor Movement practise through partner and group exercises.

The 5 days are designed to connect you with your body, your feelings, your creativity and your presence.

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
— Madison

This movement immersion is delivered by Sybille Biedert and 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

Sybille - 0210402261 - sybille@embodiedfreedom.co.nz