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A festival for everyone looking to jumpstart social life again, and to find deeper experiences of
We will transition together, from the coldness of winter and isolation into the
You can also read more, see the time schedule, videos and testimonials below.
There are also lots of pictures from previous festivals if you scroll down.
Finally, winter is coming to an end and the isolation and restrictions have been abandoned. As the days grow longer, and life outside starts sprouting, we are creating the Relational Spaces’ Spring Festival: Waking up to Life!
With this festival we want to support you in transitioning into everyday life again, and beyond. For too long, we have been asked to stay with only a few friends, and to give up many things we took for granted.
Now, we want to reclaim our lives, and we want to experience what life could be if we dared to allow our full and spontaneous expression and be received in that by those around us.
Allowing more of your authentic expression brings you deeper in touch with your emotions and sensations in your body, creates more energy and more capacity to be less reactive and more responsive to life’s challenges. Being received when you allow yourself to be vulnerable and open can bring more trust, curiosity, and enthusiasm towards yourself and others.
We have named the festival “Waking up to Life”. We want to inspire playfulness, connectedness, openness, and joy. There is, of course, also space for sadness, frustration and anger, or anything and everything that arises in the moment. You are welcome as you are.
More specifically, we will offer authentic relating, wordless play, breathwork, conversations, exploration of soundscapes, acrobatics, improv, and much more to choose between. See the programme!
The atmosphere will be intimate with a maximum of 50 participants and ample time to informally hang out with the facilitators and other participants in between workshops.
We look forward to welcoming you,
and to Waking up to Life, together! 🌸
We have organized the festival around 6 workshop blocks of 2.5 hours, plus 2 morning practices on Saturday and Sunday, and an opening and a closing Ceremony. In each workshop block, you get to choose between two or three different classes. That gives the opportunity to tailor the festival experience to your longings, needs, and energy. We are selling 50 tickets..
To offer you the opportunity for integration of your festival experiences, your ticket also includes an After Festival Gathering on Tuesday the 19th of April, 6-10pm.
If you want to see which workshops are in the slots, have a look at the programme!
Friday 8.04
17.00: Welcome and check-in
17.30: Introduction games and rituals
19.00: Evening workshops (Workshop block 1)
22.30: Programme ends
Saturday 9.04
09.15: Morning practices (1 hour)
10.30: Workshops before lunch (Workshop block 2)
13:15: Lunch Break
15.00: Afternoon workshops (Workshop block 3)
17.45: Dinner Break
19.30: Evening workshops (Workshop block 4)
21.30: Open social space
Sunday 10.04
09.15: Morning practices (1 hour)
10.30: Workshops before lunch (Workshop block 5)
13:15: Lunch Break
15.00: Afternoon workshops (Workshop block 6)
17.45: Afternoon Break
18.30: Closing Circle
19.00: Open social space, drop-out
Tuesday 19.04
18-22: After festival Gathering
For each existing Relational Spaces member, we would like to gift a 20% discount. Write to us to receive a discount coupon. Or check here, on how to become a member.
Single full festival ticket:
Price: 2050 dkk (buy here)
Single Friday+Saturday ticket:
Price: 1100 dkk (buy here)
Single Sunday ticket:
Price: 950 dkk (buy here)
Family Ticket:
We also offer a special ticket for parents, where you can come with your child and take turns going to workshops. The price and early bird dates are the same as for a single ticket (buy here)
Support ticket:
If you wish to support our project we would be grateful! Support ticket cost 2500 dkk. In the exchange, we offer you many hugs, smiles, and gratitude. (buy here)
Cancellation policy
Tickets are non-refundable. If you buy a ticket but cannot come you are welcome to transfer it to another person.
This is a list of all the workshops, and when they start, You can see a more detailed time schedule above for a better overview.
Each slot currently contains two workshops, and will be expanded to three workshops if we sell more than 35 tickets.
The Circle of Sounds is a ritual about expressing yourself and exploring what it means to be part of a group through sound creation. There will be a collection of objects for making sounds with, and you can bring your own. We will then create a soundscape together, one that arises spontaneously from each of our impulses and that in turn shapes our impulses. You don’t need special skills to participate, and it is not mandatory to make any sounds.
Facilitator: Thibault Schiemann
A space for authentic and embodied human connection. In this workshop we explore what connection to ourselves and others can look like when we feel safe and welcome, when we can let go of roles and expectations and have a look behind social conventions. When we take the time to connect to ourselves and drop into our body we can meet others in more authentic and creative ways. In this way being with others becomes more exciting and nourishing.
Facilitator: Peter Munthe-Kaas
An exploration of the body through guided movements aiming to increase awareness, mobility, flexibility and strength in the body. The facilitator is a trained body therapist and will guide the movements of the group by demonstration. This form is designed by the ManuVision school for body therapy, and draws inspiration from karate, yoga and body therapy.
Facilitator: Einar Boson
We will start the day with some meditative movements and sitting in silence.
Facilitator: Heinz Robert
A journey through different aspects of circling through exercises in pairs and smaller groups. We will explore states of connection, aliveness and presence together to get a sense of what circling is like for us. Also we will do focus circling where one person receives the attention of a smaller group for a set amount of time. This session is aimed at practicing and discovering fundamental aspects of circling at a slower pace and it is beginner friendly to people who don’t know circling yet.
Facilitator: Emma Lindekilde
Join for an immersive, embodied exploration of freedom, aliveness, and presence through Breath, Sound, and Movement. Breath is an essential component of one’s well-being. We learn different effective patterns of holding our breath throughout life to reduce what we feel when encountering challenging moments, especially during childhood. As a result, we also reduce access to vitality, freedom, intuition, creativity, and the essence of the Being.
Once breath regains its capacity we can reestablish access to various suppressed responses of our body, and potentially also unexpressed emotions and energies.
Facilitators: Mateusz Jędrzejewski
You will be guided to connect first to your own breath, movement and body in a calm and meditative space. We will work with synchronizing our breaths together and meet in touch to get a calming effect on our nervous system. The slowness in this practice allows us to connect more profoundly to ourselves and other people and find grounding and peace in ourselves.
Facilitator: Marei Christensen
The Pro Action Café is a space for creative and action oriented conversation where participants are invited to bring their call – project – ideas – questions or whatever they feel called by and need help to manifest in the world.
The concept of Pro Action Café is a blend of “World Café” and “Open Space” technologies.
As a conversational process, the Pro Action Café is a collective, innovative methodology for hosting conversations about calls, questions, and projects that matter to the people that attend. These conversations link and build on each other as people move between “cafe tables”, cross-pollinate ideas and offer each other new insights into the questions or issues that are most important in their life, work, organization, or community.
Facilitator: Heinz Robert
At the Spring Salon you are invited to share your creativity. Maybe you’ve written a song you want to share, a poem you want to read, or you have rehearsed a theater scene you want to show. You are also welcome to join with “just” your senses and presence (as audience).
Facilitator: Amalie Witt
Our playfights are all about connection and combines embodiment, play and circling.
You will get to feel yourself and what happens in a playful and wordless encounter with somebody else.
Meeting another person physically, in a non-sexual space with your power invited, can be a really strong experience of your potential and aliveness. In the fight, people often connect with unexpressed emotions and gain new insights about themselves.
All of it happens within a clear framework for safety.
Facilitator: Einar Boson
Many of us experience the struggle of meditation in stillness, noticing the mind being hyperactive, and the general sense of restlessness. This meditation journey seems to be tailored for that experience, that is so common in contemporary society. It consists of 3 active stages, allowing the body the shake itself, move and stretch following the inner instinct, and dance to support waking-up vitality and opening for more freedom. It ends with stillness, which after the movement process is often more silent and calmer. Meditation is inspired by ‘Kundalini Meditation’ from Osho – Indian mystic. It has clear structure and instructions, so if you find it helpful you will be also able to take it home and include it in your daily practice.
Facilitator: Mateusz Jędrzejewski
If you have ever witnessed a (contact) dance workshop and thought: “that looks fun, but it’s not for me, I can’t move that elegantly”, then this workshop is for you! If you’re a high soaring contact impro swan curious for new input, this workshop is for you! If you are just out to have a bit of fun while using your body, this workshop is for you!
So this is a contact dance workshop where the focus – rather than on elegance, minute body control and flowing movement – is on playfulness and fun, letting go of restraints, embracing failure and enjoying the fall. It will be awkward. That’s the point! But we’ll embrace the awkwardness to the point where we transcend it into a whole other form of elegance: the elegance of the inelegant.
Contact impro meets clown, with a dash of partner acrobatics.
Facilitator: Emma Lindekilde and Morten Skovgaard
In Circling you are invited to bring your presence, aliveness and vulnerability into connection with another person or a group.
In this workshop, we sit together, and bring our attention to the present moment with all that it contains for each of us. From there we share with each other what we notice and how we are impacted by each other, some of the time in the whole group, some of the time in smaller groups.
Through circling you can develop your sensitivity and empathy, build capacities to better understand your feelings and impulses and you can learn to better sense and communicate your boundaries and longings.
Facilitator: Einar Boson
Let’s play! Through different theater related games we will get in contact with our inner child, explore how to say yes to each other and train the gift of making mistakes.
Facilitator: Amalie Witt
Shibari or kinbaku is a Japanese bondage art with ropes, which can be practiced in various ways. In this workshop, we will delve into the sensual, meditative and connecting way of using ropes. With only one rope and simple techniques, we will explore the emotional and physical sensations that arise when we tie with another human.
We will mix the group during the workshop, so you get a chance to practice with more than one person. If you participate with a partner and prefer to stay together, that’s completely fine too.
Everyone, regardless of previous experience, can join the workshop. The most important thing is the curiosity and desire to connect with yourself and others.
We start out with a few exercises on consent, in order to create safety and connection in the group. Then we lead the group through an array of simple exercises to practice in pairs, whilst guiding you to connect with yourself and your partner.
Lastly we finish the workshop with a sharing circle.
The Forum is a community ritual for open sharing and listening. The intention is to invite any form of expression (i.e. through words, movements, sounds, etc.) in front of an engaged audience. We take turns in becoming ‘the protagonist’ who shares/explores whatever is alive in them, and then mirror to them what we have seen or experienced. It is a daring, liberating, and insightful space, and it is the strictness of it that makes expressions so free.
Facilitator: Thibault Schiemann
Jana Schröder
Kiki Nadia
Mark Thyrring
Nuno Catharina Pedersen
Peter Munthe-Kaas
