IMMERSION RESIDENCY

EXPANSION

Thursday-Sunday | 24th - 27th April | 2025

Join the first Immersion Residency of 2025

the practices that we do together are intended to support the way you live life, how you treat yourself and how you treat others. All of it is in service to connection, love, embodied power and a sense of agency to cultivate a way of being that is nourishing and non-extractive. They are gatekeepers and protectors of the insight held beyond the rational realm of reason and thought. Anytime we gather you sharpen your ability to live by embodied principles and counter-balance the extractive, binary conditions of the dominate culture. It’s urgent work, it’s beautiful work and it’s a path of responsibility.

The energy of the teaching for EXPANSION will embody the renewed fertility and awakening of Spring through joy, creativity and play. We will dance, we will celebrate, we will adorn ourselves.

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It’s a common mistake to think that happiness and joy mean the same thing. Happiness is a passing state of being, whereas joy is the result of a deep and all inclusive connection with life, including suffering. Embodied joy is an expanded ability to feel pleasure that is facilitated by an expanded range to feel everything else. The expansion of your range to feel things, beyond collapse and overwhelm, whether you judge them to be ‘good’ or ‘bad’, will be the foundation of this weekend.

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 on Thursday is 4pm and departure on Sunday is 1pm. The schedule for those days is shorter of course. On Fri and Sat we follow something similar to the above example, but each day will be slightly different.

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

facilitator

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 you 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 pysche, 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

what’s included?

course program (+ inc guest facilitator)

3 nights shared accommodation

brunch, lunch + dinner

sauna

bedding + hand towels

what’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)

YOU RESERVE YOUR PLACE BY FILLING OUT THE BOOKING FORM AND PAYING THE NON REFUNDABLE 250€ BOOKING FEE. 200€ OF THE ACCOMMODATION FEE IS TO BE PAID IN CASH UPON ARRIVAL. THE FINAL PAYMENT IS DUE BY 1ST APRIL 2025.