curation, organization, intro workshop, graphic design, curtain, 2017
with Benjamin Block
and all healers and helpers
after an idea by Coral Short
°°°°° workshops _ rituals and circles _ one to one sessions _ body work / somatics _ meditation practise_ breath work _ acupuncture _ frequencies _ astrology _ readings _ lunch+cakes _ community care °°°°° ~~Hiermit laden wir Euch herzlich zum eintägigen “Queer Healing”-Tag ein. Ein Tag voller Heilimpulse mit verschiedenen Workshops/ Einzelsitzungen/ Aktionen von queeren Praktiker*innen und Künstler*innen und der Möglichkeit zum Vernetzen. Der Ort ist barrierefrei zugänglich. Schreibt uns bitte, wenn Ihr eine deutsche Übersetzung benötigt oder weitere Fragen zum Tag habt! ~~ der Ort ist barrierefrei ♥♥ °°°°° A space of gentle and loving allowance and communication, an invitation to connect to the community, to our healing capacities and qualities, to our emotional landscapes, wishes and needs in a communal, cozy and (self-) caring way. - to support and inspire our personal healing processes, our health and well-being and receive new impulses - to empower each other and our collective growth & strength and practice mindfulness and sharing - to gain new energy for autumn and winter Playful, safe and honest. Come as you are!! the place is barrier-free accessible. WHAT YOU´LL GET :-) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 11:00 **opening ceremony- pride circle with Vera & Ben** We are grateful to open that day together with YOU and aaaall healers, artists and volunteers! Making this space ours, reflecting on our intentions and connecting to our authentic pride as a source of individual and collective growth & strength! Getting physical and smooooth, embracing our courage and loving skills. Vera Hofmann is a multidisciplinary artist. She has been a researcher and explorer of a broad variety of alternative healing practises for a decade now and works on the intersections of art, spirituality, health care, politics and ecology. She is a member of the board of directors at Schwules Museum. www.verahofmann.de Benjamin Block is a dancer, bodyresearcher and certified somatic practitioner. He holds a master degree in dance from the Folkwang University/Essen and danced and choreographed for over 12 years in different companies and projects. He became a partner for various school programs to teach body attention/ movement in theatre & performance projects to kids and teenagers. In his holistic approach as a bodyworker he loves to empower humans to reconnect to their wisdom and potential through their own body. He is accompanying people in times of personal change, transformation as well physical recovery, supporting them in the search for authenticity, health and growth. He is teaching in one-to-one sessions as well as in different workshop formats and classes. www.benjaminblock.de +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 12:00 **Kundalini Yoga + Meditation with Il’Il Sat Prem** SNR - the flow of the soul: With over a decade of healing experience, combining her expertise of Chinese acupuncture and long year practice of Kundalini Yoga and meditation, il'il Sat Prem is also a teacher of Kundalini Yoga and of healing - offering classes and workshops in Berlin and worldwide. il'il will be instructing the participants through the practice of the ancient healing art of 'Sat Nam Rasayan'. Using meditations and breathing techniques, the group will explore the meditative state of deep stillness. In this state of almost non-separation - we will learn how to heal ourselves and each other. www.golden-healing.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 13:00 **food/ lunch, smoothies ,coffee/ tea, cakes...** www.rosanegravegancatering.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 14:00 *MONEY: simple and tasty > (y)our ritual of empowerment with Eva* For everyone, that is tired of money being such a complication. No Berlin, poor ain’t sexy. Poor ist poor and sexy is well yes, damn sexy. Let’s write our own money story, not the one that our family and society have ascribed to us. It’s time to shed a light on those limiting beliefs, and say Tschüssi to this taint of shame and guilt, lack, stinginess, greed and a general hard work effort. Let’s ease our relationship to money, feel worthy, demand and receive what we want, pay each other freaking well and add heart and care for others together with living well nourished and with the abundant financial resources to make an even greater impact to the world we wish to create. Sounds weird? Unbelievable…irritating, exciting? If this freaks you out, you should definitely come! If this turns you on, of course you come! ENG/DE translation possible Eva Bakardjiev - Transformation Catalyst & Somatic Coach https://about.me/eva.bakardjiev +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 15:00 **Healing Body-Image with Kitty May** How do you feel when you look in the mirror, see a photograph of yourself, or look down at your naked body? Our thoughts and feelings about our bodies and appearance, often heavily influenced by body-shaming and oppression, can both impact and reflect our overall wellbeing. In this workshop, we’ll explore and try out some different tools that can help us to cultivate a loving, appreciative attitude towards our bodies and infuse our body-image with self-compassion. This session will offer a starting point for those wishing to develop self-love and body positivity. Kitty May is a person-centred psychotherapeutic counsellor, sex educator and workshop facilitator with a private therapy practice in Prenzlauer Berg www.kittymay.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 16:00 **Community Care/ Caring Communities with Jay Keim** How can we care for each other in our communities? How can we build caring communities in which people are aware of violence and discrimination and treat each other with mindfulness? While self care can be about self-optimizing and isolating, caring communities address the interconnectedness of us. How can I take care of myself and keep others in mind? How can I care for others and look out for myself? In this mini-workshop, we will brainstorm forms of community care and caring communities. You will get ideas of how to stay connected with and committed in your communities. www.jaykeim.de +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 16:00 (room 2) **Switches and Links with Hannah Levin and Helah Cooper's** this installation performance and workshop will encompass a playground of carefully handmade objects, found materials and familiar objects. A few simple grounding exercises will help us relax into our bodies before we play and improvise with the space, the objects and each other. Tuning into an acceptance of a shifting environment where you can construct, deconstruct, witness and act, this workshop hopes to facilitate a space for play, provoking feelings of agency and release as formations assemble and disassemble. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 17:00 **Heart Circle with Awen** A Heart Circle is the paramount Radical Faerie process for community building and collective healing. We gather in confidential, safe space to share from the heart. Everyone talks and everyone listens, so shared stories help us reconnect to our inner wisdom and the heart of the tribe. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE SCHEDULE FOR ALL ONE TO ONE- SESSION, -TREATMENTS, -READINGS... ETC WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE DAY- SO COME EARLY TO SAVE YOUR SPOT! ♥ **Kentaro Kumanomido - Human Design readings** Kentaro Kumanomido is an artist and wisdom seeker offering 20 minute introductory sessions to Human Dynamics, a new approach to the practice of Human Design. In a session, Kentaro will use your birth time and location to calculate a look at your unique gifts, hidden challenges, and overall life priorities. (Sessions conducted in English). +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ **Timothy Murray - astrorealness** i read for clients with candor and the intention to empower, using a mashup of storytelling, ancient astrological technique, and interdisciplinary approaches to emotion. moments of shared meaning-making, astrology and tarot sessions can unlock the healing force of the imagination. they are an invitation to spend time with mysteries as you live them, to accept, understand, and construct life creatively within and beyond the pleasure and suffering inherent in existence. politically, i insist on humans’ radical interrelationship with the earth's cycles of life, death, and rebirth, with all species and one another. any singular life is a poem in process, embedded in cycles that both shape and far exceed it. Timothy Murray is a writer and artist, born on the florida seaside, the only queer descendant in a family lineage of 19th-century white european immigrants to the united states. capricorn rising, aquarius moon, pisces sun +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ **Jochen Stechmann - bodywork Pantarei Approach** I am practicing as Bodyworker with the Pantarei Approach in 1:1 sessions in Berlin, most of my clients define themselves as LGBTQ. We use touch, verbal instructions, mindful breathing and movement exercises to increase and create the sensation of physical and energetic flow. It allows them to feel more connected with their own strength and to experience their own being more full http://body-attention.com/de/jochen-stechman/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ **Yoav Shavit - Tarot Reading, Rune Stones Casting, Psychic Reading and Chakra Balancing** Yoav Shavit is a personal consultant and a spiritual therapist based in Berlin. After years of having one foot in the high-tech world and the other in the spiritual realm, he has developed a unique practice that merges intuitive-energetic methods and data-analysis practices into a singular intuitive-analysis process. www.yoavontheway.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ **Illian Sagenschneider- nutritional talks** As we all know, love goes through the stomach- a loving way, dealing with our bodies and how one feeds it, is very dear to me and is my passion and profession since over 15 years. I will offer some jummy raw snacks, small nutrition tips as well as space to discuss and share experiences. www.abenteuer-ernaehrung.de +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ **Jean P’ark+Moldy Horse - Healing Frequencies** You choose your pitch from a list of healing frequencies and we will play privatly for you via headphones an improvisation based on that pitch. 'The forms of snowflakes and faces of flowers may take on their shape because they are responding to some sound in nature. Likewise, it is possible that crystals, plants and human beings may be, in some way, music that has taken on visible form.' (Cathie Guzetta) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ **Gaiaboi is offering Reiki & Healing Arts** SUPER-SUBTLE BODYWORK FOR THE EMOTIONAL BODY To me, healing means Empowerment. To understand that you yourself are the most powerful healer you could ever imagine. In my work as a Reiki practitioner (Reiki Master in the Usui lineage), I focus on the Emotional Body because this if most often where the key is stored to this boundless potential within each of us, the source of all the healing wisdom we often look for outside ourselves. I am happy to create a session with you – with or without touch, tidy and simple or witchy and mystical, from a more transformative focus to nice and easy relaxation / restoration / balancing. Other tools I am using: guided visualizations, intuitive, gentle massage and sound healing XO Gaiaboi / Daniel Bernhard Cremer +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ **Julian Crotti - whole body focusing & Reiki** Julian comes to the healing arts through the performing arts. He has worked in theatre, dance and tv in Australia for the last 15 years. For the last 5 he has been developing a healing practice here in Berlin. Julian offers Whole Body Focusing, Reiki as part of an evolving healing practice. Whole Body Focusing is a return to the body. A way to find home in the body that houses you; to be in comfortable and constant contact with all the wisdom that lives there. A way to be informed by the feelings and sensations that arise in the body without being overwhelmed by them. juliancrotti@gmail.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ **Yabo Boyè - ThetaHealing individual healing sessions** ThetaHealing® is a energy healing meditation technique/practice capable of manifesting the reality we wish for - cleaning emotions, helping to heal illnesses, reconnecting with the spirit and the purpose of life, reprogramming limiting belief systems and behaviour patterns. In a successful mix of science and spirituality, we work through the Theta brainwave state with the energy of Love from the Source of All That Is, acting on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels - leading to a healthier, more abundant, loving and happier life in the Highest and Best way. The ThetaHealing technique is best described as an attainable miracle for your life. www.yaboboye.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ **Il'il Sat Prem -one to one healing sessions** With over a decade of healing experience, combining her expertise of Chinese acupuncture and long year practice of Kundalini Yoga and meditation, il'il Sat Prem is also a teacher of Kundalini Yoga and of healing - offering classes and workshops in Berlin and worldwide. At Queer Healing #2, il'il will be offering individual healing sessions, 30 / 40 min. long, which will include consultation based on yogic as well as Chinese principles, in addition to treatment with Chinese acupuncture. www.golden-healing.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Entry cover: 8-25 € sliding scale which includes access to all workshops and solo sessions from the healers, practitioners and artists (no one will be turned away for lack of funds) How it works: A list of available slots will be hung up in the space for the workshops and sessions. All you need to do is fill in your name for a specific time slot. Come early to write your name on the list! We are happy having found these beautiful rooms within the heart of Kreuzberg that will host all of us for an affordable price. We hope you have no hesitations to be with us in a Buddhist space. The event is open for all peaceful approaches to life. Join us to fill the space with our queer spirit(s). The day is inspired by the Queer Healing Salon from queer squat Vrankrijk in Amsterdam and the last Queer Healing at TrIQ organized by Coral Short, Ryan Backer and Jean P’arc. ** The space is wheelchair accessible ♥♥ ** We are very much looking forward to welcome you all! Your hosts Vera and Ben and whole wellness team :-) °°°°°