The Throat-Pelvis Connection: Reclaiming Your Voice and Your Sexuality
Ilona Bezema on the connection between your voice and your sexuality - how the throat and the pelvis mirror each other, and how de-armouring reconnects you with aliveness.
Writing
Blog.
Writing on touch, the body, intimacy
and what this work shows us.
What the third day does - and why the retreat is five days
By the third day, the body has had enough time. A note on why we work with five full days, not a weekend.
Why we work as colleagues, not as a couple - and why it matters for you
Ilona and Johannes are not partners. This is one of the most specific things about how the retreat works, and one of the least obvious until you have experienced it.
The body and desire - why what we want often can't be spoken
Desire does not live in the mind. It lives in the body, and the body has learned to be careful. A note on why touch practice reaches something that words cannot.
What touch teaches that conversation cannot
The body holds patterns that words move around but rarely move through. Five observations from working with couples in the practice.
On readiness - why most couples come too late or not at all
The couples who benefit most from this kind of work are rarely the ones who feel most urgently that they need it. A note on timing.
Cause of Armour
Armour builds up in the body through childhood trauma, emotional wounds, fear, and daily stress. De-armouring invites the body to open - not to break through. Ilona explains the roots of body armour.
Holistic Therapy and Vision
All power comes from within. Ilona writes on holistic therapy, the principle of Mana, and how somatic bodywork reconnects people to their inner strength, body wisdom, and life force energy.
When the Body Says No
The body is a perfect compass. Ilona writes on how physical symptoms signal unprocessed experiences, why we lose contact with body wisdom, and how somatic bodywork helps you listen again.