MEN AND WOMEN'S DESIRE CIRCLE

MEN AND WOMEN'S DESIRE CIRCLE

This event invites you to explore your desires in relation to the opposite sex. Within a safe and held circle

You will be invited to connect with how you would most like to be met by men, or by women. And to courageously name, and potentially receive, your desired experiences.

All desires are welcome. From the tender, to the sexual, the playful, the fiery, the weird, the sensual, mundane, fantasy, kinky, sweet, young or archetypal.

If you desire it, it is welcome to be felt and named.

If there is mutual consent, the invitation is to move into being met in your desires, on the mat, in the centre of a lovingly held circle of sacred witnesses.

This is an invitation to expand your capacity to receive, and to give, with an open heart.

It is an opportunity to gain new imprints as to what is possible for you in your life.

The intention of this circle is also to expand and integrate more of our own inner masculine and feminine energies.

If we desire something from the Other, perhaps these are clues to places of expansion within our own expression.

At the widest level, this circle is intended as an alchemical portal.

Jung’s notion of The Transcendent Function states that, when any two opposite polarities unite, they generate a new psycho-spiritual possibility.

This circle/ritual will evoke a lot of creative energy that can be harnessed for potent transformation and manifestation in your life.

WHAT IS CIRCLE?

- Circle is a group embodiment practice. It invites participants to move into the centre of the circle, onto the mat, and embody and expand into different energies and ‘ranges’.

- Circle combines aspects of a sharing circle, circling, group forum and family constellations. It is predominantly inspired by Heart IQ circle work, created by Christian Pankhurst.

- Circle is a practice that asks: “What in this moment would liberate and open me?” It is not focused on what is broken, rather what would bring us joy. This paradoxically allows space for any emotions and energy that is in the way of this joy to surface.

- Circle is a place to get new imprints for how you would like to be met in your life. It is a place to expand your range in terms of the energies your nervous system is able to express, embody and hold.

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THIS EVENT

- Embodiment practices to support self connection, regulation and safety.

- Embodiment practices to support group regulation, trust, attunement and safety.

- A playful environment that welcomes healing through liberation, expansion and pleasure.

- Space to share and be welcomed in your inner landscape and experiences.

- A circle space that invites you to name your desires, take space in the centre of the circle on the mat, and be met in those desires by other (mutually consenting) people in the group.

- A trauma informed space, with boundaries and consent at the centre, that honours moving at the pace of the slowest part of you.

- A welcoming of all parts of you.

- Alchemical teachings about how working with the unification of opposites within ourselves can create new psycho-spiritual realities in our life.

WHO IS THIS EVENT FOR?

- People who want to expand their capacity to connect with, express, and be met in their desires.

- People who want to expand the expression of their own masculine and feminine energies.

- People who already have a good integration of boundaries and consent. Who are comfortable expressing personal boundaries and consent and receiving boundaries and consent from others.

- People who have a good capacity to hold themselves if triggers arise. There will be a lot of support in the space. However, good personal regulation skills are advisable.

- People who were biologically born, and identify, as either a man or a woman.

- People of all sexual orientations. (Desire towards the opposite gender does not need to have a sexual component.)

- People of all ages (21+), body types, races, and religions.

- People with an interest in psycho-spiritual alchemy.

- People who already have some experience of personal development spaces and some form of being in circle with others.

- People who want to explore the flow of eros within a group.

WHO IS THIS NOT FOR?

- Couples (if attending together). Couples can bring existing interpersonal dynamics into the space that require a different type of holding. If you are a couple and would like to attend together, please feel into if you have the capacity to witness your partner being met in their desires by other people, or meeting other people’s desires. If you feel you do, please also check with the facilitator before booking tickets ([email protected]). If you are in a couple and would like to attend without your partner, please check in with your partner about your relationship boundaries before coming.

- People with a lot of unmet or unresolved trauma in relation to the opposite sex that may be activated in an overwhelming way for them by the space.

- People who want to attend primarily to make personal romantic or sexual connections, rather than with an open mind and heart to the group field wisdom about the movement of desire.

PRICE AND TICKETS:

Tier 1: £40

Tier 2 : £50

Tier 3: £60

Reduced ticket if you bring a friend of the oppostie sex: £30 each (please email [email protected] with your name and the name of your friend.)

(Please self select your contribution, based on your financial means and what feels right for you)

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:

Nicola Cross is a graduate of the year long trauma-informed emergent facilitator training, The Field (2024). The training was created by Rachel Rickards, and co-facilitated by David Cates, Christian Pankhurst and Catherine Hale. The training comprehensively covered trauma informed space holding, facilitating emergent spaces, circle work and integrating a Culture of Care into facilitation.

Nicola trained further with Christian Pankhurst in Heart IQ circle facilitation at New Eden retreat centre.

She is a certified Existential KinK coach, and offers 1:1 coaching at magickembodied.com.

She has year long trainings in both Transpersonal Psychology and Integrative Arts Psychotherapy.

Nicola is a graduate of the ISTA Sexual Spiritual Shamanic Training, Level 1&2.

She has studied the inner marriage extensively with Clara Gomez Santos and Maya Luna.

The space will be supported by:

STEVIE ALUNA

Stevie Aluna is a somatic guide and trauma-informed space holder. A lover of our animal bodes' wisom & comitted to guiding people in practical and jouful ways back home to the this innate intelligence. Skilled in nervous system regulation & embodiment, she is able to meey you in your challenges, your desire for growth & current season whilst holding your perfectly-imperect human experence with tenderness. She predominantly supports women in 1:1 containes & mixed groups in workshop settings.

Plus several more support faciltators, both male and femeal. Info coming soon.

If you have any questions, queries or concerns prior to the event, please do not hesitate to reach out directly to [email protected].

Host or Publisher Nicola Cross