What if connection is what we came into this world for?
What if your body plays a central role in how you relate — beyond words and gazes — through presence, touch, movement, and resonance?
We invite you for a 6-day somatic immersion in the wild beauty of Çıralı, where the warm sea and ancient land hold space to explore deep relating and embodied transformation.
In this retreat you will:
• Develop skills for more satisfying and conscious relating
• Rewire old patterns and create new experiences of safety, support, and joy
• Work through early unmet needs in a nurturing, embodied way
The skills and topics raised in this workshop are not only for relating with an intimate partner. They can also be applied to the interaction between friends, relatives and in parenting.
KEY PRACTICES
• Actions of the Cycle of Satisfaction (the Great Cycle of Being)
• Some of the Basic Neuro Cellular patterns
• Embodied expression
• Resonance in movement, breath and sound
• Attunement of the levels of permission
• Staying in an embodied presence when facing the Other
• Personal and non-personal touch, somatic touch
• Relating to and from different body systems
• Establishing healthy boundaries around touch and interaction
• Orientation to satisfaction and thriving, versus orientation to failure
• Reaching out for your needs to be met
• Skills for giving support and nourishing touch in water
• Working with breathing and sound
LOCATION: Çıralı, Turkey
The retreat takes place in the serene coastal village of Çıralı — with the sea, mountains, and the ancient ruins of Olympus as our backdrop.
The mild climate and warm water are ideal for somatic work and deep rest.
DAILY RYTHM (approximate):
8:00–9:00 — Breakfast
9:00–12:00 — Water Session / Meditative Hiking / Authentic Movement in Olympus
12:00–16:00 — Siesta, talks, exchange of sessions
16:00–18:30 — Land Session
19:00–20:00 — Dinner
20:30–23:00 — Evening Process / Night Hiking to Chimera Mountain
FACILITATED BY:
Sasha Bezrodnova — Somatic therapist, psychologist and movement researcher with over 20 years of experience in body-oriented approaches.
Zan Perko — Interdisciplinary artist, somatic therapist, freediving instructor (Molchanov’s school), Ocean Dance teacher, and water therapist.