Relationship Design Retreats for embodied living

This Relationship Design retreats aim to explore and deepen the understanding of how sensory awareness can enrich relationships’ well-being and personal transformation.

The retreat brings together a unique blend of professionals, who’s work is attuned to a different senses of the body—smell, touch, taste, hearing, vision...

Among the teachers at the retreat there are a trained opera singer, a tango therapist, an energy alignment therapist, a Practitioner of shamanic arts , a gourmet chef, a yogi, a Tantric Practitioners and a Professional of the BDSM Arts each offering their expertise in sensory and embodied practices. Over the course of this immersive experience during the days of the retreat, the participants engage in interactive workshops, sensory-based practices, and collaborative discussions. Together, the faculty of the Relationship Design School co-creates innovative programs that bridge the wisdom of ancient practices with contemporary approaches to relationship and embodiment. Through the collaboration of experts, the Relationship Design School designs programmes that offer a holistic approach to living—where relationships with oneself, others, and the world are grounded in embodied awareness and sensory attunement. It is the School’s intention to focus particularly on intercultural relationships using a broad definition of interculturality.

The retreats serve as a creative laboratory for new therapeutic and educational programmes that promote an embodied approach to relationships and holistic living. Key hemes explored during the retreats include:

✦ Experiential learning of communicating with otherness

✦ Voice and Sound and its power to heal and transform emotions - Movement and dance as tools for embodied presence

✦ Rituals and sensory experiences for deepening spiritual awareness

✦ Taste and smell as pathways to memory, pleasure, and emotional resonance

✦ The role of touch in fostering connection and intimacy

Workshops

The Relationship Design School offers workshops for individuals and couples in different formats: 3 hour workshops – online and in person.

Weekend workshops – online and in person.

  • _ Deniza, musicologist

    I learned a lot from the people at the retreat and I feel grateful. They were strong and wonderful people in the way they work, live and dream.  As always, I am impressed by Irina and her power to create exciting relationships! I experienced how energy grows from feeling good. It was immediately clear to me that I was among like-minded people in an otherwise not very peaceful world and I could create something at a high quality level from this peace. I have learned that we should become many and that I am part of something bigger. I have learned how beautiful it is to be embraced, to dance and hug, look up at the sun and open your heart, think less and feel more. I was so touched by the sounds and music that each of the people brought!