Nära Summer Festival 2026: Five Years of Embodied Connection and Community

Name: Nära Summer Festival 2026: Five Years of Embodied Connection and Community
Start: 2026-08-05T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-09T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Sunnanåvägen 131, SE-232 91 Arlöv, Sverige

Schedule

Wed, 05 Aug, 2026 at 12:00 pm to Sun, 09 Aug, 2026 at 04:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Sunnanåvägen 131, SE-232 91 Arlöv, Sverige | Malmö, SN

Nära Summer Festival 2026:
Five Years of Embodied Connection and Community
5–9 August • In a beautiful venue just outside Malmö, South Sweden.
More info and tickets: https://www.relateranara.se/nara-summer-festival/
🎟️ Super Early Bird (14x) until 15 Feb
🎟️ Early Bird (20x) until 17 May
🎟️ Volunteer tickets (20x) until 17 May
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Five years. Five festivals. Celebrating the richness of presence, connection, and expanding community.
This summer we're celebrating our 5th anniversary by bringing together everything that made our Nära Festivals special. We've cherry-picked the best from previous years: quality workshops led by experienced facilitators, co-created celebration that emerges from what we all bring, and more space for landing in connection together. Plus a heartful integration space on the final day.
This year we're expanding beyond our Nordic roots. Facilitators and participants from across Europe are joining our community — not to become something else, but to deepen into who we are by welcoming new voices into the field.
Five days to arrive, explore, connect, celebrate, and integrate. Five days to be more you, in connection.
THE PRACTICES
This festival stems from a longing to provide more opportunities for people to connect around Authentic Relating practices, Relational Presencing and embodiment.
Authentic Relating is an umbrella term covering both a movement and set of practices that facilitate an honest and heartful way of exploring communication and connection beyond social masks and norms.
Relational Presencing is an organic authentic relating practice based on a few principles that support you in being more in touch with your own truth while staying in connection to others.
Embodiment reminds us that our bodily existence is at the core of who we are. Through our body, we are in direct relationship with all other bodies and the world. The festival will offer various forms of bodily based activities, such as various kinds of dance, morning workout, playfights and sauna sessions.
THE FIVE-DAY JOURNEY
The festival starts with The Workshop Days, Wednesday to Friday, aimed to support you to connect deeper with yourself and others from a wide selection of workshops. The Workshop Days then vibrantly launch us into a co-created celebration day on Saturday (a full day and evening!) — be it festive, cosy, unpretentious, or full of different flavours brought by all of you. On Sunday, we're exiting through a facilitated space for landing, grounding and integration.
A SPACE OF POSSIBILITIES
A fantastic team of facilitators offer 20+ workshops in relational presence, embodiment, sound journeys and deep dance.
In breaks and evenings there is space to just hang out, dance, sing and make music. Or why not a playfight on the lawn followed by a sauna?
🌿 3 vegetarian/vegan meals per day + snacks
🌿 Accommodation: twin room, dormitory, or bring your tent/camper
🌿 Sauna and morning practices
🌿 Alcohol and drug free
We begin with check-in from noon and opening ceremony at 4 PM on 5 Aug and end at 4 PM on 9 Aug.
...and last but not least, an atmosphere that invites us to stretch and expand into our full selves — feeling free and connected, playful and sincere.
TICKETS
All tickets include workshops, accommodation, and meals.
Four ticket tiers • Three accommodation types each
🎟️ Super Early Bird – until 15 Feb (14 spots)
🎟️ Early Bird – until 17 May (20 spots)
🎟️ Regular – until sold out
🎟️ Volunteer – until 17 May (20 spots)
👉 Book your spot: https://www.relateranara.se/nara-summer-festival/#tickets
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Whether it's your first Nära festival or you're a returning friend — welcome.
Check the event for updates! Facilitators and other details will be presented gradually.
The festival is part of a wider initiative Nära — a place in Malmö dedicated to relational exploration. https://www.facebook.com/relatera.nara/
𝘕ä𝘳𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦, 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩, 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.