The Art of Re:Connective Loving

Part I

Embodying Love

Explorations into Love, Authenticity & Re:Connection

An intensive 7 day seminar and experiential space

Re:Connective Spaces and Circles – Dialogue and Presentations – Self- and Collective Relational Explorations – Reflection and Awareness Practices – Shadow and Inner Parts Work – Conscious and Authentic Relating – Embodiment, Somatics and Bodywork – Movement, Dance and Contact Improvisation – Conscious Touch – Meditation – Yoga – Breathwork – Compassionate and Non-Violent Communication – Ritual – (Primal) Play and Performance – Co-Creation

Upcoming Seminars

We are taking a break with seminars and circles in 2026 and will be back with even more refined, attuned and “effective” offerings in 2027.

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The Invitation

  • Do you want to grow, heal or learn about different ideas, practices, experiences and shapes of love and loving?
  • Do you want to deepen the connection to yourself, authentically and transparently connect with other beings, and co-create a community of trust and care?
  • Do you want to explore different ways and possibilities of connection to yourself and others?
  • Do you want to learn about the shadow side of (disconnective) “love” – within society and within yourself – and meet and address your own shadows, pain, fears and insecurities?
  • Do you want to face your own ego and (wounded) inner child and trace where your own capacity to love may be blocked?
  • Do you want to develop your awareness, empathy, sensibility, as well as communication, boundary awareness, social and intimate skills?
  • Do you want to play, enjoy and celebrate the gifts of life and love?
  • Do you want co-create a more loving, connected, communitarian, peaceful and regenerative world and practice how to love and be loved in daily life in the transition to a new culture of love?

The Seminar

In this experiential seminar we will explore “love” in its myriad conceptions, shapes, experiences and practices, integrating mind, body, heart, soul and spirit. We will co-create a nurturing, safe and trauma sensitive space of reconnection and loving kindness where we dive deep into exploring The Art of Re:Connective Loving. Together we will look at what love means in different philosophical and spiritual traditions, at different times and cultures as well as for each one of us individually. We will trace where our own love may be blocked, how we can cultivate our love for others and ourselves, and what it takes to be in loving connection with others and love and life itself. We will also engage with the shadow side of (disconnective) “love” – in society and within ourselves – and immerse ourselves into experiential spaces of reconnection, awareness, embodiment, expression, exploration and experiment – centred around questions and topics of love and loving.

The Embodying Love seminar is designed to engage your body, mind, heart and soul, to supporting you in reconnecting with yourself, to enable growth, healing, shifts, transitions and transformation, to move and touch you, to challenge you and to invite you to move beyond your fears, shadows, traumas, limiting beliefs and insecurities towards deeply reconnected, meaningful, healthy, authentic and empowered loving in service of a new regenerative and reconnective culture beyond exploitation, domination, scarcity and disconnection.

It’s important that you come with an open mind and a readiness to challenge yourself – within a space that is created to carry and nurture you throughout this process. A challenge holds great potential for growth, expansion, understanding, awakening, realization – particularly if consciously experienced and integrated and held in a caring and compassionate space.

Topics

  • What is Love? – Meanings and Practices of Love and Loving (throughout different times, religions and belief systems and cultures)
  • The Art of Loving – How do we (not) Love (e.g. love in practice, philosophy and spirituality, the role of ego and projection)
  • What’s so Strange about Love? – Love and its Shadow in (Toxic) Culture (e.g. the relationship of “love” to patriarchy, romanticism, capitalism, consumerism, religion, gender/sex)
  • Touching Love – Qualities, Conditions and Experiences of Love (e.g. trust, compassion and vulnerability)
  • Who am I in Love? – Authenticity, Integrity and Ethics in Love
  • How do I (want to) Love? – Love: Past, Present and Future
  • The Healing of Love – Trauma, Fear and Disconnection
  • Embodying Love – Love, the Body, Sensuality and Sexuality
  • Forming Love – Ways and Shapes of Conscious and Authentic Relating
  • Loving Consciously – Exploring and Communicating Boundaries and Consent
  • Living Love – Loving in Daily Life
  • Toward a New Culture of Love – The Art of Re:Connective Loving
  • And more…

Approaches, Practices, Methods & Techniques

Approaches, Practices, Methods & Techniques that give shape to the Embodying Love seminar include:

  • Presencing
  • Compassionate Inquiry
  • Somatics and Nervous System Regulation
  • Embodiment
  • Bodywork
  • Circles and Circling
  • Shadow & Inner Parts Work
  • Conscious and Authentic Relating
  • Exploration and Experiment
  • Reflective, Relational and Awareness Practices
  • Improvisation (Contact Dance and Performance)
  • Process Work
  • Conscious Touch
  • Free Dance and Movement
  • Non-Violent Communication
  • The Work
  • The Work that Reconnects
  • Co-Creation
  • Ritual
  • Yoga
  • Breathwork
  • Meditation
  • Samu
  • Play
  • Sweat Lodge (in Monte Mariposa, Portugal only)

Sample Schedule

depending on flow, intuition and collective needs

Time Seminar Event
8-9
Morning Presencing

(e.g. Meditation, Yoga, Breathwork, Autogenic Training, Embodiment, Somatic & Movement Practices, Nervous System Regulation, Dance…)
9-9.30
Break
9.30-10
Clan Sharing Circles
10-11.30
1st Re:Connective Space

(e.g. Circles, Presentations, Dialogue, Reflection, Somatics, Embodiment, Relational and Awareness Practices, Shadow and Inner Parts Work, Process Work, Conscious Touch and Relating – all centered around specific questions and topics related to love)
11.30-12.30
Breakfast/Brunch/Lunch/Munch
12.30-13.15
Break
13.15-13.30
(Free) Dance, Movement and Improvisation Space
13.30-15.30
2nd Re:Connective Space
15.30-16
Break
16-17.30
3rd Re:Connective Space
17.30-18.30
Break
18.30-20
Dinner / Break
20-22ish
Evening Re:Connective Space

(e.g. Sweat Lodge, Bodywork, Massage, (Free/Ecstatic) Dance, Open Spaces, Conscious Touch, Co-Creations, Play, Performance, Contact Improvisation…)

Literature and Link List

Here are some suggested readings and links which you may want to look at before the seminar.

Links
• Gabor Maté presentation on The Power of Connection and the Myth of Normal
• Jiddu Krishnamurti; On Love
• Summary of Erich Fromm’s book The Art of Loving
• Joana Macy’s The Work that Reconnects

Books
• Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté: The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture. Vermilion. 2022.
• Erich Fromm: The Art of Loving. Thorsons. 1995.
• Joanna Macy, Molly Young Brown: Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects. New Society Publishers. 2014.

Facilitators

The seminar will be facilitated by Dr. Lars Weckbecker, founder of Ayama, and Yvonne Iwa Naumann. Both are extremely passionate about their work and will guide you through the seminar and your processes with loving presence and kindness, competence, compassion and non-judgement.

To learn more about their work, click on their names or images.

Application

Please first read our Ethical Guidelines for Seminars. Then hit the “Apply” button below and fill in and send the form provided. We will get back to you within a few days to confirm your participation.

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