A transformative weekend retreat designed to bring you back into your body, your authenticity, and meaningful human connection. Through a playful blend of Authentic Relating, Contact Improvisation, Ecstatic Dance, Conscious Touch, breathwork, and gentle somatic practices, you’ll explore new ways of communicating, feeling, and expressing yourself.

Across the weekend, you’ll learn to listen to your body’s intelligence, connect with others from presence, express desires clearly, honour boundaries, and welcome your full emotional landscape. Some sessions include blindfolded exploration to deepen intuition and sensory awareness, helping you drop beneath self-consciousness and into embodied truth.

Whether you’re seeking grounding, community, emotional clarity, or a reset, this retreat offers a warm, supportive environment for curiosity and growth. It’s suitable for complete beginners and experienced practitioners alike.

Your facilitator, Laurie (he/him), is a queer British–Kiwi educator currently based in Berlin. Since 2019, he has facilitated hundreds of Authentic Relating, embodiment, and connection workshops across Oceania and Europe. Trained with The Embody Lab, Authentic Revolution, Body Electric, and more, he is known for creating safe, attuned, playful spaces that help people open, soften, and connect with confidence.

Date: Saturday 17th -Sunday 18th January
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: 2 Abbey St, Auckland
Cost: $240 – $290. If cost is a barrier, please reach out.