IMMERSION RESIDENCY
EXPANSION
Thur-Sun | 24th - 27th April | 2025
Every year, the Immersion Residency takes place twice, alongside the river Oder. Once to mark the beginning of Spring and again to prepare for the descent into Autumn. The energy of these two gatherings is noticeably different, but the foundation beneath them is the same. They serve as a ceremonial space to touch into the cyclical nature of life as a creative act.
With Spring comes potential (especially if the winter was respected), with potential comes responsibility. Expansion will be a space to get your eyes on desire, possibility, the energetics of wanting to materialise your potential, and really begin to understand what that means and what it asks of you. The teaching goes beyond "manifesting your own reality" or acheiving goals, and actually into what it means to hold yourself and your life with deep respect, as it unfolds. Beware the stickiness - we will work with it!
Expansion is so often mistaken for more extraction, instant gratification and unlimited growth. That is what the mondern world celebrates, but it’s devoid of true creative power.
Anytime we gather, we sharpen the ability to live by embodied principles and counter-balance the extractive, binary conditions of the dominate culture. It’s cultivation of compassion, respsect for the cyclical nature of life and a connection to something much greater than any one individual. It’s urgent work, it’s beautiful work and it’s a path of responsibility. In this edition we look at the art of expansion and pleasure.
sample schedule
(absolutely subject to changes)
7.30 - walk of connection
8.30-10.30 - morning practice
*end of silence *
10.30 Brunch
13.30 Lunch
16.00 sometimes a workshop
18.30 Dinner (one evening will be a celebratory evening with adornment)
19.30 sometimes after dinner class
21.00 bedtime meditation
Arrival: Thur 4pm Departure Sun 2pm
The place - Inn Vivo
Inn Vivo is home to Sandie + John and their two children. They host guests all throughout the year. An eco-friendly, sustainably built labour of love, they have been tending to the evolution of this house for over a decade.
We practice in the Winter Garten or on the decking at the front of the house, with a view to the river Oder. Or we go into the wilderness of their garden, bursting with fruit trees and shrubberies. The surrounding area is a beautiful mixture of ancient forestry and wetlands.
accommodation
all rooms are shared 3-4 people per room. They’re all are hand crafted and stunning, each with their own special flavour and each with a take your breath away view. There is also a cabin in the garden that sleeps 3 guests.
The hand built sauna is available for us to use the whole time we are there.
food
We’ll be served delicious, vegetarian food by John + Sandie’s French cuisine. The menu is simple, hearty and healthy and always made with love.
Grace Farmer
My role, whenever I am holding a container like this, is to offer an exquisitely loving space in which you can meet yourself through the teachings and the practices.
I will set the framework and offer you very clear invitations to journey through the layers of your subconscious, body, mind and energy. I’ve been doing this a long time now and my intention is always to work with what is present in the space at the time. That means that all of you is welcome, exactly as you are. And it means that I will teach ways to meet yourself in that fullness and work with it, beyond the usual coping mechanisms or conditioning.
The nature of any work that goes towards buried spaces in the human psyche, is at times confronting and can feel edgy. My job is to accompany you, show you some of the doors and which keys you need, whilst you venture as far as you are willing and capable.
I bring practices from many different disciplines, including yoga and meditation, dance, music and energetic work. What we do on these weekends is ceremonial, ritualistic, and it will ask you to be open and receptive as well as discerning and very much awake to your own reactions and responses.
price:
course fee of €260 + €284 for accommodation + food + facilities at Inn Vivo Returners receive 30€ discount. (all costs are subject to 19% tax charge) You reserve your place by filling out the booking form and sending the first payment of 250€. All payments made are non-refundable unless you find someone to take your spot, then a 150€ admin fee is charged.
what’s included?
- full course program (+ inc guest facilitator) - 3 nights shared accommodation - brunch, lunch + dinner - sauna - bedding + hand towelswhat’s not included?
- transport costs. A train to Schwedt (oder) and either travel onto Inn-Vivo by bike (9km) or arrange for a collection 15€ per person - massage treatment with Sandie -yoga mats + towels for the sauna - Travel insurance (recommended)
read the full service agreement here
