Shame and Innocence: an embodied exploration of tenderness, freedom & connection

Name: Shame and Innocence: an embodied exploration of tenderness, freedom & connection
Start: 2025-06-14T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-15T18:00:00+02:00
Location: De Ruimte

Schedule

Sat, 14 Jun, 2025 at 10:00 am to Sun, 15 Jun, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

De Ruimte | Amsterdam, NH

⧫ An embodied exploration of tenderness, freedom & connection ⧫
Shame is one of the most difficult emotions to talk about. We tend to push it into the shadows, fearing that if we bring it into the light, we’ll be judged, rejected, or made even smaller.
It can be a heavy burden: shrinking, silencing, and isolating us. Some forms of Shame can pull us inward, feeding the internalised belief that we are fundamentally wrong.
But what if the very act of turning toward shame—gently, with curiosity—could soften its grip?
Is it even possible that shame might also carry a quiet wisdom—a boundary that guards what is tender and precious?
And our innocence—what if it is not something we’ve lost, but something we can uncover?
…An innocence that holds experience, wisdom, and wholeness …. and a willingness to step into the unknown even though we know it’s a risk?
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⧫ During this weekend, we invite you to explore:
⧫ Can shame perhaps be a guide, leading us toward deeper self-acceptance and growth?
⧫ How can reconnecting with our innate freedom and playfulness support us in meeting our impulses and longings with permission and tenderness?
⧫ Can we approach our own and others’ experiences of shame and innocence with more spaciousness, curiosity and connection to our shared humanity?
⧫ What becomes possible when we no longer need to protect ourselves from our own aliveness?
**This weekend is an experiential playground for exploring shame and innocence. To fully engage with this work, participants need a basic capacity to regulate their emotions and not be completely identified with their own shame. If shame feels all-consuming or overwhelming, this may not be the right container.
Being seen within a group setting is part of the process, and participants are invited to engage with the exercises at their own pace—stepping in and out as much or as little as feels right for them.**
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⧫ Practicalities ⧫
⧫ Dates: Sat 14th and Sun 15th June 2025
⧫ Timings: 10:00 - 18:00 with a lunch break
(Please arrive at 9:45; the workshop will start at 10:00)
⧫ Location: De Ruimte (upstairs), Weesperzijde 79A, 1091 EJ Amsterdam
⧫ Registration:
Early bird pricing by 28th of May 2025: € 325,00*
Standard pricing as of 29th of May 2025: € 375,00*
* Price including VAT for private individuals, excluding VAT for businesses.
Invoices will be only issued to businesses.
* To register, send an email to [email protected] – payment details to follow.
Spots are limited.

Cancellation policy - (Non-Medical Reason)
Until 28th of May 2025: 50% refund
29th of May 2025 onwards: no refunds
For questions feel free to reach out to: [email protected] or [email protected]
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⧫ About us ⧫
Marysia and Markus share an enormous passion for exploring embodiment, energetics and human relating. Their shared body geekery has led them to create this space to dive into themes that they see in their work again and again. They love to create spaces for exploration, experimentation and play.
⧫ Markus Schnizer
Markus is easily seduced into following his interests, immersing himself in them and then combining and free-wheeling between them. This path has led him into a variety of fields, from computer programming and physics, to being a professional dancer for more than a decade, teaching in a film-acting school for 18 years among others.
His drive and passion is combining different fields of knowledge and wisdom, exploring collaboration and creating spaces of mutual learning.
He has spent 20 years working with clients in his centre for body-awareness and in the last years has expanded his field into other forms of practice with a particular emphasis on human connection, mostly via Circling/Transformational Connection and We-Flow.
https://www.schnizer.nl/about/
⧫ Marysia Pstrokońska
Marysia is a bodyworker specialised in pelvic and abdominal work, energy work and earth connection practice. She spent almost a decade teaching in high schools in London and spent many years immersed in creating spaces for exploring presence, emergence and collective intelligence through the practice of Circling.
Marysia is also a passionate gardener, plant medicine maker and devotee of the realms of dirt — working closely with plants for medicine and magic. She works with people through deep listening, somatic exploration, education, ritual, herbalism and hands-on bodywork.
marysia-pstrokonska.com
https://www.instagram.com/__bodyofearth__/
*Image by Shakib Uzzaman