Conscious Play
Temple Weekend
An Inclusive Space of Permission to Explore Conscious, Playfull & Consensual Connections
“I was in love with the structure of the event - it read to me as being hosted by a group of beings who really knew what they were doing. It was smart. It was attentive!”
Coming Up:
What’s it all about?
We believe in every being's right to feel into and express pleasure, emotion, movement, curiosity, needs, fantasies, creativity, energy and presence.
We practice a nondual approach, focused on whatever is present in a non-judgemental way: emotions, thoughts, expressions and all experience alike - are seen as belonging and welcome.
We stand for clear communication and consensual interactions.
We encourage a transpersonal experience, shedding away perceptions & identities - may creatures be creatures and desires be desires.
We invite you to take initiative and responsibility in your own experience.
Play Temple is a touch positive, body positive, sex positive space.
Choose your own experience, NO expectations.
PROGRAM
The weekend program is designed as a continuous journey, with each session being both self-contained and building on the previous one.
This spacious foundational structure allows for each group journey to unfold in its own unique way, shaped by the meeting of individual needs, desires and expression with those of each other and the group body.
DAY 1
The focus here rests on arriving and orienting to the space and the group. We open with a playful ritual, welcoming ourselves to the space. After a nourishing dinner we sit down for a community agreements session, followed by a gentle intimacy building practice.
DAY 2
In preparation for meeting each other in the evenings' opening of the Play Temple space, we spend our first full day in meeting ourselves. Typically day 2 opens with an ecstatic dance session, infused with cacao; and continues to move through a bit of shadow work, exploring our individual, relational and communal edges.
DAY 3
A day for integration and celebration. This day is most lead and defined by the group energy, needs and desires. Gentle, slow, spacious start leads into an invitation to explore energy, consciousness, polarity and a bit of ritual during the day (the hidden "light", to parallel the other day's hidden shadow), followed by a non denominational creature play night.
Closing Day
We end our time together with invitations for reflections, gratitudes, integrative softness and emergent offerings.
Throughout the weekend there’ll be opportunity to enjoy access to the lake, sauna, hot tub, walks in the forest, plenty of free time to contemplate, integrate, relate and relax.
Play Temple is a nudity, sexuality,
kink and spirituality positive, sober space.
While no one is expected o asked to engage in any of these, we ask that you be open, aware and ready to witness as there will likely be elements of all of these things shared in Play Temple. If you feel any of these may be challenging for you, you're welcome to reach out to us with questions or make a note on your sign up form.
Feeling challenged is also very welcome!
“Gili seems very authentic, not taking themselves too serious and really able to create a safe container! I especially liked the warm up exercises, because I found them much more creative and playful from what I usually see in temple nights.
I adore how we used the space for the temple, the decoration with flowers, fruit and those different fabrics was divine!”
The Play Temple is for conscious and self aware beings of all experiences, genders, bodies, (legal) ages, relationships, sexual preferences and spiritual paths. It's an invitation to feel into your needs and desires, express them, and engage as much or as little as feels right in the moment.
You're invited to show up exactly how you want to - bringing yourself as you are letting that be ok! We ask that you make space for everyone else to show up as themselves too.
Who is it for
“I felt very safe, respected and loved through the whole journey. I felt no pressure to do anything I didn’t feel an enthusiastic yes for. I feel immensely grateful for the deep intimacy shared in the group and highly recommend this experience.”
Pricing - January 2025
Pricing info for November 2024 - here.
EARLY BIRD - 390€ - First 7 tickets
REGULAR BIRD- 444€ - 8th ticket till 27/12/24
LATE BIRD - 468€ - from 28/12/24
Participation
STANDARD - 132€ - Shared double/quad room
SINGLE ROOM - 198€ - your own room (single/double)
Camp / Van / Dorm - 99€ - limited availability (only in summer)
Accommodation - 3 nights
Before December 28th: You will receive a refund minus 77€
Before January 5th: You will receive a refund minus 111€
From January 6th onwards: No refunds
Cancellation
SIGNUP & PAYMENT:
To join the event please fill out our sign up form fully, honestly, intentionally and thoughtfully.
Your responses will support us in inviting
a group which feels balanced and harmonious.
If you’re planning to join with another person -
we ask that everyone who wishes to participate fills out the form, to avoid delays in response.
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✨ Your registration is conditioned with the payment of a non refundable deposit of 111€
✨ We will be responding to all sign ups within 7-10 days.
✨ If invited, you’ll be asked to then purchase your ticket.
All Tickets Include:
Full board vegan/vegetarian meals throughout the retreat, from dinner on Thursday until lunch on Sunday.
Transportation from the local S-bahn to the venue and back
Everything on the scheduled program
NOT INCLUDED
Transportation to the local s-bahn from your home and back
Sheets & towels - please bring your own or rent them from the venue for an additional €15 per person
Accommodation & Food Sunday night-Monday morning - optional for an additional €88 (on any accommodation type)
The way to a being's heart is through the stomach.
I support your processes through that journey of yours with Ayurvedic tridosha food.
I prepare fresh food with all my love, balance out the elements and give it the special drill through herbes and spices. I have a look for regional and sessional combinations that are easy to digest (Food should produce energy, not consume energy).
„What do I allow into my temple? What do I put in my mouth?“
Daily karma takes place between the mouth and the anus.
Here we go and this is the intersection; when Gili’s work, your work and my work melts together to a healing field.
This is what I love to do.
Nourish the One with gratitude and love.
Chef Nicola
“Having been to many sex-positive festivals and retreats, what stands out in my experience is Gili as a facilitator and guide. What on the surface might seem to be anarchic in its organization, turns out to be Gili’s carefully orchestrated way of opening the group to their deepest vulnerabilities as well as their greatest strengths. The method in Gili’s madness transformed us into creatures of bold exploration and willing surrender, a beautiful, naughty cathedral of “yes”. Within this held space I felt safe and empowered to explore aspects of my own sexuality that I previously kept far more hidden. I cannot express enough gratitude for my experience and for Gili’s guidance. ❤️
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About Mx. Gili
Gili (they/them) is a pleasure activist and Temple Whore, called to hold trauma-informed spaces of permission, consent education and conscious relating. As an aspirant of devotional Tantra, Gili’s aligned with an approach founded in love, presence, polarity, ritual and expansion. These practices are further informed by a Queer understanding of life, sexuality, and gender as abundant spectrums and a commitment to challenging power structures and paradigms which act to indoctrinate and dissociate body from spirit. Drawing from training in a wide variety of body and energy work modalities, they offer an integrated practice of expressing, experiencing, and honouring the holistic body through intimacy, touch, communication, movement, trauma release, shadow work, pleasure, and play.
