Description
New Year’s Retreat
Dive into a journey of connection, celebration, and powerful rituals!
Michael Rolnick & Baptiste Savatier
Embark on an extraordinary 5-day experience that offers a conscious and connected way to bid farewell to 2025 and welcome the arrival of 2026. Dive into a transformative journey filled with meaningful connections, joyous celebrations, and profound rituals. Reflect on the passing year and contemplate the aspirations you wish to manifest or attract in the new one.
Find yourself amongst a group of individuals who cherish present interactions, deep engagement and personal growth. Take time to recharge your energy reserves, explore mindfulness and grounding somatic practices. Embrace the power of touch, consensual intimacy and sensual connections.
This retreat presents a unique opportunity to explore our sexual expression, fueled by a variety of underlying motivations.
Join us in a secure and tranquil atmosphere built on trust and mutual consent, where you can forge new connections, or strengthen existing ones. Allow yourself to come as you are. Explore the gentle depths of your being as well as the untamed wildness within. Sing, dance and let your spirit soar!
Our program includes a diverse range of activities:
- Opening Circle: A welcoming gathering to begin our time together.
- Exploring Personal Desires: Reflecting on what we bring to the experience and what we hope to gain from it.
- Setting Intentions and Boundaries: Establishing our individual intentions, boundaries, and creating a safe space for all participants.
- Morning Practice: Engaging in practices such as meditation, movement, and mindfulness to start the day with clarity and centeredness.
- Partnering and Touch Exercises: Embracing playful exercises to deepen connections and explore consensual touch.
- Reflecting on 2025: Taking time to review and learn from our experiences in the past year.
- Tuning into 2026: Cultivating a sense of anticipation and receptivity for the opportunities that the new year holds.
- Exploring Conscious Sexuality: Engaging in playful and enlightening activities that offer different perspectives on conscious sexual experiences.
- Dynamic Open Space Structure: Providing a flexible framework that allows participants to engage in activities of their choice.
- New Year’s Dinner, Performance, Ritual, and Party: Let’s celebrate the New Year.
- Non-Talent Show: A lighthearted opportunity for participants to share their unique talents or simply enjoy the diverse talents of others.
- Integration and Closing: Concluding our time together by integrating our experiences and creating a sense of closure.
Michael Rolnick brings his wealth of experience of movement practices, therapeutic touch and creative expression to his work as a group facilitator and coach. At we are village, he leads the monthly creativity course Queer Images and is co-facilitator of the Authentic Eros – One Year Training with Kai Ehrhardt. Michael was born in London, where he trained as a dancer at the Royal Ballet Schools. He has danced for many renowned companies. He is also a certified comprehensive Pilates and Gyrotonic teacher, holds certificates in advanced level Thai massage and biodynamic craniosacral therapy. Michael also works as a choreographer and creates visual art.
Baptiste (he/she) has been practicing (neo-)Tantra for a dozen years. She feels it’s kinda how she started feeling alive. But that was in heteroland, so it also made him feel inadequate. So she created a queer tantra that is fluid between genders and orientations, and has been leading this for more than 4 years. He envisions it as an ever-evolving crossroads between neo-Tantra, ancient wisdoms and queer communities.
General Information:
Start: Sunday 28th December at 14:00
End: Thursday 1st January at 16:00
Program: Please note that the program may be amended slightly to provide a rich and fulfilling experience for all participants*. Most days begin at 8:00 and run until 22:00, except for NYE which continues until 2:00 on the 1st.
Participants: For gay, bi, trans and queer men* and people who locate their identity on the genderfluid spectrum between male and non-binary.
Language: This event will be held in English with some translation depending on participants needs.
Meals and accommodation costs are not included in the participation fee.
Accommodation in the group room: €25 per night.
Extra nights accommodation on the 27th December (check in from 16:00 onward,) and/or on 1st January. These can be booked in advance by e-mail, after receipt of your booking.
We recommend staying at the venue, but if you prefer you can arrange your own accommodation in Berlin.
Catering cost is €240.
Delicious, nutritious Vegetarian food / 3 meals per day on the full days and includes dinner on 28th December and breakfast and lunch on 1st January. Please let us know, well in advance, if you have special dietary restrictions e.g. Vegan, gluten-free etc.
