WORKSHOPS

LA VAGINA FELICE

LA VAGINA FELICE

What does a vagina feed on?
On imaginaries and fantasies, practices and games, relationships, movement, awareness and knowledge.

We, as collective of Happy Vagina Festival, (this year at his 3rd edition, here in Rome) we wish to reclaim the joys of sexuality and shed light on sexual and relational health.

Eradicating from our bodies everything we have – or have not – been taught about sex, to start again and explore, without limits, all that what is the food for the vagina!

Can we share and learn tools to explore sexuality ? Can that be diverse and multifaceted?

This is what we xplore with our collective, trough workshops, meetings, performances, laboratories, readings, music…We wish to create a place to meet, to network, to plan, to talk out loud about sex in an inclusive, non-judgmental and open space.

This year we come to xplore Rome to share our path and speak about our ambitions: to build a dense and beautiful calendar of appointments, in a festival as self-financed reality, full of people rich in imagination and energy, who believe that together we can grow, and grow… every year.

If you are curious to know more about the festival of the vagina felice check on
FB: Festival of Happy VGN IG @festivaldellavaginafelice

And if you would like to propose activities, themed craft banquets, share ideas or ask for informations please write to: info@vaginafelice.it

TWERK

TWERK
Empowering Twerk y Perreo by Daphne Rara

Moving the pelvis for pelvic wellness and self-esteem
Twerk is a style of Urban dance , as is perreo. Twerk is more technical, characterized by isolations and micromovements; perreo is a movement born from the street in South America, looser, “dirty” , belly . These two styles are blended with Afro influences in the empowering twerk y perreo workshop.
It is a type of workout that focuses on awareness of the movement of the hips, knees, and pelvis. It is a way of dancing, sexy and fun, but it is above all a mechanism for valuing oneself, an opportunity to play with one’s sensual self and to do it for oneself first-and not for attention as is often believed.
Working the pelvis area is key to health, especially for women, as well as being a very enjoyable flexibility workout since we rest our weight there and store emotions.
It is a way of dancing that takes its cues from African and Afro-Caribbean traditions and was thought to be linked to fertility; it is now very fashionable in sexist contexts such as the mainstream reggaeton industry, but in recent years so many people are re-appropriating these rhythms to give them new meaning and revalue themselves.
A workshop to engage spirit, body and mind,
To be looser when we dance , untie our pelvis, learn to isolate movements and generally increase our self-esteem through movement and a guaranteed good sweat!

What to bring:
Sports clothes (best to avoid tight black leggings; rather shorts and fishnet socks). Volleyball knee pads or thick socks to tie over the knees
Water to hydrate

CREATING FREEDOM

CREATING FREEDOM by Micha Stella

Since we were children we received many rules to follow : but rules are often very different, according to the culture, the social class, the gender and the family we had the (bad/good) luck to be born in.
How many of this rules were established to empower and liberate us? How many to control and tame?
Which ones we really wish to keep ?
Let’s sort this out together…

WELCOMING LOVE

WELCOMING LOVE by Micha Stella

After few centuries of existence and evolution, human race was able to reach incredible achievements and unthinkable goals…Technologies and Sciences developed unbelievable skills and gave us the impression to be very powerful… even super human.

But how comes that we were not able to built a more just and equal society?

A safer environment for the children?

A non-violent civilization?

There have been many thoughts, philosophies, cultures, singles individuals and religions suggesting that LOVE is the key to reach higher levels of awareness and to built collectives based on peace, equity and mutual respect.

But are we ready to Love? And to receive Love?

Could that be, that since no one ever taught us to really love and respect our self (body and mind) that we are not completely able to receive LOVE and there for to give it?

In this workshop we will xplore and create together a path that bring us from self-love to universal love, using our empathic body and mind to connect and relate – celebrating differences and honouring oneness –

XPLORING DOMINANCE and SUBMISSION

XPLORING DOMINANCE and SUBMISSION by Felix Ruckert

This workshop offers different scores to practice dominance as well as submission. Most exercises are practical-physical and hands-on. In order to provide a non-exclusive and vast range of experiences, we will often work with random partner combinations. So there will be both same gender and different gender combinations. Participants should generally be open to working with any person and any body. Exceptions can be discussed.

ENTHUSIASTIC CONSENT

ENTHUSIASTIC CONSENT by Felix Ruckert

This is an exploration of different strategies and tools to establish consent before and during a scene. We will do some practical exercises and discuss
advantages and disadvantages of different techniques. Especially recommended for people new to sex positive spaces.

RESISTANCE & RELEASE

RESISTANCE & RELEASE by Sarah Sako

This workshop is a playful approach to various forms of active and passive resistance.

We wish to xplore how we can yield into a conscious act of power and conflict. Impact play, playfight, contact improvisation, conscious kink and more…

FLOOTING SHIFT

FLOATING SHIFT by Sarah Sako

A Collective Pool Float & Breathing Experience.
How can we create shapes in fluid processes and dissolve them into new perspectives? Floating Shift is literally bringing our body into water, to touch the inner core of our fluidity and suggest an aware observation of the constant transformation of all our processes, in and around our selves. Together we will sense the semi permeability or our membranes while floating into water : between order and disorder.
In this workshop we use techniques of Continuum Movement and Middendorf Breathing, and bring the focus on body-regulations: witnessing and experiencing slow movement.

SURRENDER TO THE MIND

SURRENDER TO THE BREATH by Sanya Alaya

Our bodies are very resilient – as we know. So what are our weak points? Where are we attackable or vulnerable the most? I would claim it is our ability to surrender, our relationship to death and our need for air. We want to survive, yet experience the states of mindlessness, trance and flow. Already many yogic and tantric traditions have been exploring the topic of breath and breath holds. How can breath become a portal for surrender, letting go, trance or even bliss?

We will explore different ways of safe breath play and learn how to mix this with curiosity and a tantric approach.

Surrender to Physical Resilience

SURRENDER TO PHYSICAL RESILIENTE by Sanya Ayala

Our bodies are capable of experiencing and enduring a lot of physical sensations. Some of them are easily enjoyable and others more difficult….or? So how can we learn to enjoy these experiences? What does it take to allow full surrender? Caressing, biting, pulling, stretching….How much pleasure can you find in it? How do tantra and kink work together here? And how does that ability for resilience transfer into your daily life? Bring yourself and a curiosity to explore on your own terms the capacity of your touch, skin, breath and body.