26.3.25 // Reclaim Your Sexuality

What does it mean to reclaim your sexuality? Reconnecting with yourself after being lost? Retrieving agency over your body? Shedding shame and breaking old patterns? Or does it mean to embrace playfulness and step into your full human expression? Does it mean taking yourself more seriously, less seriously—or perhaps a bit of both?

In this workshop (which also serves as a taster for Mette’s retreat in May), we’ll co-create the individual and relational safety that allow you to meet your sexuality from a centered place—not as a needy energy that subconsciously drives your actions, not as something shameful or forbidden, but as a joyful, creative energy that opens the door to connection with yourself and others.

What will happen, you ask? We’ll start by regulating our nervous systems, building familiarity, and finding our common ground. From there, we can choose between various directions, depending on what feels most alive in the group. Some practices will be solo, some in small groups, and perhaps some with the full group—and all of them can help you feel more free and safe in your sexuality. Since we’re doing this inside Other Nature, we might even integrate some of the wonderful items they have on offer (in rather innocent ways).

What won’t happen is: full nudity, explicit sexual acts, and any kind of pressure. We’ll keep our clothes on and you always choose your own level of participation. Forming a group, staying solo, witnessing, journaling, or even taking a nap are equally welcome and celebrated.

Mette Koppelaar (he/they) explores authentic expression in playful and meaningful ways. As a writer and facilitator, he loves to play with identity, normalize emotions, expand self-expression, and build connection by exploring both our uniqueness and shared humanity. Mette’s drawn to exploring the edges of comfortable discomfort, and discovering together what’s on the other side. His desire to dress outside the gender norm sparked a deep interest in what it means to live authentically. He organized multiple editions of (the currently inactive) Nibana Festival as well as various workshops and retreats which serve as playgrounds to explore authentic expression. In 2020 he started writing a book about this very topic, which is still one of his main projects.