Spirituality & Law of Attraction - North

You’re warmly invited to join us for the Manchester Circle of Women – A Sisterhood Gathering.

This is a relaxed and welcoming space to come together, slow down, and connect with others who may share similar life experiences. We meet in a circle as equals, creating a supportive environment where you can simply be — without pressure or expectation.

✨ What to expect:
* A calm, friendly and inclusive atmosphere
* Gentle guided reflection and simple practices
* Space for sharing, or simply listening
* Time to pause and reconnect

There is no pressure to speak or participate in any particular way. You are welcome exactly as you are.

This circle is open to anyone who resonates with the experience of women, including trans and gender-diverse people, nonbinary, genderqueer, and intersex individuals.

💫 Contribution:
There is no fixed cost. A suggested donation of £6 helps cover expenses, though this is completely optional.

### Investigating Erotic Archetypes through dance, touch and creativity.

brought to you by project CLOSER

In the spirit of Halloween, "My Naked Mask" is an invitation to play with our erotic masks. Rather than thinking of a mask as something we hide behind, we will explore this theme as a tool to help us discover different facets of ourselves in playful, creative, and delicious ways.

Using tools of dance, touch and other forms of creative expression to investigate these facets of ourselves and each other, we will explore embodied responses to some of these questions:

• How can we show up naked, unveiled, and authentic, while at the same time consciously playing with our masks?
• What happens when we trade our familiar masks for new ones?
• What new discoveries might we make?

My Naked Mask, taking place on October 31 and November 1, is a delicious twist to Samhain festivals. And as we move towards the darker half of the year, we’re going to invite discovery and expression to our erotic aspects in an experiential safe(r) space that brings freedom, fun and sexual creativity to life.

This workshop is split into two days that can be booked individually or together as a full weekend immersion.

• Day 1 is a workshop vibe.
• Day 2 is a party / playground vibe.

All CLOSER workshops invite us into our sense of aliveness by offering permission to the erotic life force energy that nourishes our unique way of being in this world. Rather than relegating the erotic to a compartment of life or narrowing it down to the sexual, we allow creativity, openness, integrity and vulnerability. These workshops are open to everyone, creating a space for different sexual orientations and experiences.

## Day 1 — Saturday 10am - 6pm

## Explore

We'll take time to explore and develop our different erotic facets, our erotic masks with playful yet profound inquiry.

Through a unique and specific combination of embodied techniques, Day 1 offers a guided process to feel and explore a variety of archetypes and personalised erotic energies. Day 2 provides a space to express and play with these erotic energies.

We'll bring curiosity to:

• How can wearing a mask and embodying a role (archetype) give expression to parts of me that otherwise don't come to the surface?
• How may I give form to what I discover within an experimental and safe(r) space?
• Could these archetypes offer me a new way of relating to myself? To others?
• Can I try things I don’t usually allow myself to explore?

We'll use tools of:

• 5Rhythms® Dance
• Sexological Bodywork®
• Expressive arts — writing, painting
• Games and sharing
• Touch and massage

No previous experience necessary.

Together, we will drop away from daily surroundings, and gently land into ourselves to meet our eroticism through the body x dance x creativity.

## Day 2 — Sunday 11am - 4pm

## Express

Day 2 is a creative playground to express all your Erotic Archetypes. We’ll begin the day with grounding exercises, guided touch and sharing followed by a 3hour free flow.

This is a delicious opportunity to celebrate all our Erotic Masks, inviting our juicy aliveness to be seen, to be held and to drop into embodied contact with each other. Stepping into the portal to be in all our essence with awareness, sensuality, wildness, tenderness …. and all that is alive within us!

At the heart of Day 2, a 3hour live DJ set will carry us through the free flow with spaces to dance, to draw, to play and to rest.

We'll bring curiosity, non-judgement and openness to EXPRESS:

• How does my energy want to be expressed, witnessed, met?
• What do I long to offer, and what am I ready to receive?
• What lives more freely in me, once I give space to these parts of me?

## BOOKING DETAILS

You are welcome to join us for only one day or for the whole journey.
EXPLORE (Saturday):
Early Bird - £85 (+ booking fee)
Standard - £100 (+ booking fee)
EXPRESS (Sunday):
Early Bird - £50 (+ booking fee)
Standard - £65 (+ booking fee)

EXPLORE + EXPRESS COMBINED (Weekend):

Early Bird - £115 (+ booking fee)
Standard - £145 (+ booking fee)

Shadow of Desire: Where longing meets the unspoken
Your shadow holds the keys to your freedom. Shadow of Desire is an invitation to step beyond fear and shame, to explore the desires we’re taught to silence — and to discover the healing that waits inside them.

This is a path of self-reclamation. By embracing what feels forbidden, we release the weight of repression and transform it into vitality, confidence, and wholeness. Transgression becomes medicine. Shadow becomes teacher. Desire becomes guide.

Shadow of Desire is where personal growth meets embodied freedom — a journey into the depths that brings you back to yourself, more alive than ever.

Dare to descend. Dare to rise renewed.

#### What this training is about

Are you interested in working and connecting with your own and other people’s shadow?

Do you want to deepen your skills in taking people on journeys into exploring and reclaiming their shadows?

Do you work in the field of sexuality and would you like to broaden your practice?
Opening to Eros helps us to expand our understanding of our bodies, our subconscious patterns, our sexualities and thus ourselves.

With a strong emphasis on boundaries and consent, Shadow of Desire gives us a diverse set of tools that allow us to expand our sexuality, be more confident with ourselves and lovers and become more empowered as self-aware erotic beings.

In a sense, every form of sexual expression that is not consciously innocent, expansive, or tantric carries a shadow. This darkness often remains unexamined, quietly woven into our anxieties and the tensions we’ve come to accept as normal. With the term Shadow of Desire, we invite a conscious exploration of sexuality in its transgressive forms — a willingness to taste the forbidden fruit and discover what it reveals.

The very act of transgression awakens a charge of energy: the thrill of crossing taboos, the spark of rebellion, the delicious pulse of daring and naughtiness. Yet, when transgression becomes a quick fix — repeated rituals, identifications, clubs, or fetishes that proclaim unconventionality — it paradoxically reinforces the very system it seeks to defy. The forbidden requires the act of forbidding; and as the cycle repeats, the hunger for stimulation escalates, spiraling into ever more extreme forms of intensity.

In this training, we approach Shadow of Desire differently. We recognize the forbidden nature of sexuality in our culture, and the tension this creates in our own bodies — even when our personal philosophies embrace a spiritual path of sexuality. Here, transgression becomes a tool of healing, a conscious gateway to transform the ambiguous excitement of repression into genuine freedom.

By savoring the charge of Opening to Eros while moving beyond it, we reclaim our pleasure from the grip of social conditioning. We shift from the compulsive chase for intensity into the boundless, need-free experience of our own expanded being. The key lies in enjoyment without attachment: honoring the thrill of darkness, yet remaining free from both the net of morality and the hook of addiction.

With a strong emphasis on boundaries and consent, Opening to Eros gives us a diverse set of tools that allow us to expand our sexuality, be more confident with ourselves and lovers and become more empowered as self-aware erotic beings.

What will you learn in this training?
The erotic shadow can be a very destructive influence on us if it’s not understood. The goal of this work is to explore, understand and fully integrate the erotic shadows into our psyche thereby making the shadow an ally rather than an enemy.

There are potential initiatory aspects to many of the exercises and rituals we’ll be doing during the training. Coming face to face with your own shadow can be a life-changing experience.

The training is open to people of all genders, relationship styles and sexualities. In the practice exercises, we do not coordinate learning partners based on gender. There is always something to learn.

** PRACTICAL INFORMATION **
The event will take place at The Pathways Studio in Manchester.

It runs on Tuesday (13:00-18:30) , Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday (09:30-18:30), Sunday (09:30-16:00).
Please arrive between 12:30 and 12:45 on the first day
You are invited to come at 08:00 for a free Qi Gong session from 08:00-08:30 and then join us for breakfast.
The workshop will start promptly at 09:30 am.

APPLICATION FORM
As this is a more advanced training we would like to know a little more about you before accepting you onto the course.

We (Jon and Elara) are delighted to bring this one-of-a-kind Bioenergetics Yearlong Training for the third time to the UK. This is one of less than five yearlong Bioenergetics trainings worldwide.

If you are curious about bioenergetics but don’t want to commit to a year long training, you are welcome to try the first block which is standalone.

How we embody and express our energy makes our psyche and our patterns of reactions to life visible. We hold in our bodies the energy we dared not express when we were vulnerable children, both as a tension in the muscles and as a charge of energy in the organs and connective tissue. This fixed form of expression and defence is called our character. It is our social, adapted self, and blocks and represses our spontaneous flow of life energy, our wildness, including large amounts of our sexuality and creativity.

What is Bioenergetics?
Bioenergetics is not to be confused with the body of work that comes from biochemistry but comes from Wilhelm Reich and the therapy developed by his students.

Bioenergetics can be taken as a self-exploration through becoming aware of tensions in your body. These tensions are created by the energies of past formative experience which are imprinted on your body. This creates your character, the person you became under the influence of your parents and your society. By becoming aware of this we can release the tension and free up our energy to choose life in each moment. Thus, we are able to free up a huge amount of energy for our aliveness, our creativity, our pleasure and joy in life to create our conscious path and fulfil our dreams.

Themes for this training are:

• Understanding the patterns and needs of one’s character type
• Moving from dependency to independence
• Being aware of your feelings and expressing them appropriately and communicatively
• Knowing what you want and what you don’t want and communicating that safely and respectfully
• Assertiveness
• Raising your energy levels, being more alive, aware, sensitive to life.
• Grounding and standing on your own feet
• Increasing the flexibility of one’s attitudes
• Flowing with life instead struggling against it
• Opening to aliveness and pleasure
• Being able to be present and to stay in contact
• Primal therapy, birth and intrauterine experiences and imprints that affect our lifetime patterns of energy.

We will support you to gain an understanding of:

• The phenomenon of resistance and how to use and work through it.
• How to work energetically and physically with projection, both positive and negative.
• The different kinds of touch, their intent and applications: holding, containing, focusing, making conscious, confronting, soothing, mothering and fathering, supporting, grounding.
• The emotional plague, repression and rebellion.
• Armouring and core energetics, energy and character.
• Imprints, memoire corporelle (cellular memory), regression, Janov and Grof.
• The relationship between consciousness and energy, catharsis, demons, creative confrontation, witness consciousness.
• The importance of breath, Reichian and other breathing techniques.
• The orgasm reflex, the birth reflex.
• Character analysis – the character types and their use in therapy.
• Therapy and spirituality.
• Techniques to raise energy, bioenergetic stress positions, Osho meditations.
• Grounding and its importance, both through the feet and through the eyes.
• The segments and their order of opening.
• Self-regulation, the inner wisdom and balance of the body
• An analysis of our own character and patterns, which we respect as a necessity for survival
• An understanding of the biographical causes of any stuckness and limitations
• Strategies for managing trauma and fear
• Supporting individuals to find freedom of expression and creativity as autonomous human beings

The ability to read the energy and character of others and know how to support their energy will also be taught. As such, it is an invaluable training both for oneself and as a professional resource for those working energetically with others.

In Block 1 the key aspects we will be exploring are:

• The relationship between tension and relaxation
• Some patterns of holding / armouring
• How to support the flow of energy
• Reich’s concept of segments and looking at some of the key ones
• How to support ones energetic flow

Dates:

The first date will go ahead based on a minimum of 12 people otherwise we will move to the next date. You will be given approximately a months notice of this if you have put down a deposit:

Block 1: 19-22-Nov-26
Block 2: 28-31-Jan-27
Block 3: 15-18-Apr-27
Block 4: 24-27-Jun-27