Coming together: Healing the masculine and the feminine within and without

Time schedule:

2025. Septzember 07-13, arrival 12.00 – departure 15:00

Venue and accomodation

The Evia Silence, Greece
https://www.eviasilence.com/

Price

Price for the 6-day retreat:

350 euros + food and accommodation (app. 90 euros/day)

Join us in an inspiring and healing workshop that explores the intricate dance between the masculine and feminine sides of our being and our connection with the opposite gender in the outside world.

Through methods drawn from ritual, shamanic and archetypical work, body-psychotherapy, bodywork, and other movement methods, we will explore and work on healing the wounds shaped by the polarity between the masculine and feminine, the history of the relation between Man and Woman, and social structures that influence gender roles and possible modes of connecting. We will delve into the intersection of gender, identity, and unity, fostering understanding and healing across perceived divides.

A unique feature of the workshop is that we will work both in women-only and men-only as well as shared spaces with an emphasis on listening to ourselves and each other and uncovering how and why we defend against really hearing each other. A further unique feature will be the composition of the group with people from a diversity of backgrounds, experiences and ages.

This workshop is an invitation to explore themes of connection, healing, and transformation—moving between individual and collective experiences. Through movement, touch, and verbal exploration, we will work on deepening self-awareness and cultivating authentic relationships with ourselves and others.

Key Themes

• The dance and balance of masculine and feminine energies
• Loss of trust and relationship trauma
• Somatic and ritual-based explorations of gender identity
• Examining inner and outside structures upholding inequality and violence
• Examining power dynamics and institutional and internalized oppression
• Listening to each other, uncovering where we defend against hearing the other’s story
• Healing the wounds of disconnection and societal conditioning
• Finding balance: embodying both strength and vulnerability
• Healing Mother wounds and Father wounds, wounds caused by dysfunctional, physically or emotionally absent or abusive parents – realizing how these woundings shape cultural norms of how we treat each other
• Holding space for transformation in ourselves and others

This workshop is open to all who wish to engage in meaningful exploration, healing, and connection.

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This event is part of the project “Shared inquiry in safe places – men and women together for gender equality” supported by the Erasmus+ program of the European Commission.

It is born out of a collaboration between the Greek project “Selene Shakti” and the Hungarian organization “The International Moving Man Institute”, bringing together professionals working in the fields of adult education, psychoeducation and psychotherapy and ritual work – all group leaders with experience in holding men’s groups and women’s circles

The retreat is led by Grégory Chevalier and Árpád Kántor (founders of the Moving Man Institute) and Elena Michalopoulou (founder of Selena Shakti), together with additional support of body-psychotherapists Zsuzsanna Egry, Annamária Szelelki, Veronika Szilagyi and Spyros Siamos.

About Selene Shakti
”When Women connect with the power of their womb,they heal themselves & the world”. Selene Shakti is a project created by Elena Michalopoulou in 2015. The womb is the primordial feminine symbolism, and this work is focused on the energies of the womb as a collective symbol but also as a physical cyclical organ. Through workshops, retreats and training, Elena is using somatic work, Tantric healing, ceremonial and archetypical work in order to help women heal and embrace their relationship with the feminine inside them but also as a universal energy that is much needed in a patriarchical world. Elena Is a Yoga teacher with focus on the Feminine aspect of yoga, (womb yoga) a somatic bodyworker with a focus on female trauma healing, a doula and a Shaminic womb healer. For more than 10 years she has studied and teaches various holistic modalies that honours and heal the Feminine.
More info about Selene Shakti: https://www.seleneshakti.com/

About Moving Man
Moving Man is a men’s community founded by Grégory Chevalier (independent dance artist and somatic movement educator) and Dr Árpád Kántor (clinical psychologist and former president of the Hungarian Association for Body Psychotherapy).

The Moving Man’s mission is to help men get in touch and unfold their authentic self and unique masculinity. In their workshops, groups, and community they address topics that are highly important, yet mostly neglected or treated as taboo,
such as father wounds, male intimacy, ways of connecting emotionally and physically with others and ourselves, male destiny, toxic and healing masculinity, brotherhood, vulnerability, violence, and safe strength, relation with our internal feminine qualities, and the feminine in the external world.
More info about the Moving Man: https://movingman.org/en/

About the Support Team
Adding to the uniqueness of the retreat is the presence of three professionals throughout the retreat, with whom you will have the opportunity to work individually as well as in groups. All of them are trained in body psychotherapies, with many years of experience: Zsuzsanna Egry, Annamária Szelelki, Veronika Szilagyi, Spyros Siamos.

Number of participants

18 – 32

We are able to accept applications in the order of registration and up to the number of participants (36 people).

Registration

1) Fill out the registration form: https://forms.gle/5kWLfaY9wdqo53vs9
2) Transfer 200€ non-refundable deposit

Number of participants: 18-32 persons

Application deadline

For the Hungarian participants: 1st of May, 2025
For other nationalities: 31st of July, 2025