Art, Erotism, Mind / couples edition

*Reconnecting with the Erotic Aura*
An immersive experience designed to shed the layers of external judgment and reclaim one’s own bodily and erotic presence, within a safe, aesthetically beautiful, and non-judgmental space.
This experience, centered on sexual wellness, serves as a true cathartic residency for intimacy—an opportunity to liberate sexuality from the weight of taboo.
Guided by a feminine sensibility through dedicated moments of dialogue, this shared time offers a process of deconditioning in which the artistic medium is not used to "teach art-making," but rather serves as a visual and experiential tool for reconnecting with one's own erotic truth.
When experienced through exploration, eroticism returns to what it has always been: a form of self-knowledge, an act of free creation, and a profound reclamation of bodily well-being.

*The Creation of the Third Space*
A time focused on the visual, tactile and erotic dialogue between the two partners, designed to renew and explore new sides of the language of complicity.
•The Shared Image: Creating shared images that explore shadows, overlaps and intimate gestures. We are not looking for a glossy image, but the evocation of a shared emotional landscape, of an erotic energy that envelops body and soul.
The two artists who guide this path, the man and the woman, become reference bodies, active gazes and energetic banks with which the couple can interact to expand their erotic and perceptive boundaries.
The couple immerses themselves in a four-way aesthetic dialogue, where feeling desired and portrayed by external gazes rekindles internal complicity.
The couple can choose to temporarily separate or interact cross-talk: the female partner in a visual/tactile exploration session with the female artist or with the male artist, and at the same time the male partner. A mirror scheme that allows you to explore how your own erotic energy reacts to presence.

Some of the guests most appreciated activities we often propose:
- The life-sized body: Tracing, sketching, and painting the actual outlines and shapes of one's own body, and that of a partner, dissolves the concept of "standard measurements." The mark on the paper becomes a tactile map, reconnecting the mind to the three-dimensional reality of physical presence and the erotic dimensions of physicality itself.
- Self-portraiture and nude study: The act of portraying oneself, and posing for one's own gaze before that of others, inverts the dynamic of judgment. Through photography and imagery, the vulnerability of nudity transforms into expressive power, revealing the beauty of form and uncovering one's own erotic visual characteristics.
- Being the Artist's Muse: guests have the opportunity to become part of a genuine work of art, whether a drawing or a photograph, and to act as the subject of the piece itself. Without needing any prior experience in posing and enjoying a truly immersive creative experience. Together, we select the specific theme of the work, ranging from fineart images capturing the body to those exploring desire, or from an emotionally charged drawing to a study of an erotic moment.
- Nature, elements, and immersion (subject to location and season): Bathing naked amidst natural elements represents a return to the essential. The contact of skin with water, stone, and air reawakens a primal sensory awareness, liberating desire from urban constructs and daily routines. It is nature embracing the body once more. In winter, the cold water contrasts with the warm sun; in summer, there is the hot sand and the cooling Mediterranean water.
- The Invisible Map: Lying on large, life-sized sheets of paper, we trace and color the outlines of our emotional anatomy. An exercise in pure presence that restores three-dimensionality and space to one’s physical perception.

In addition to practical activities, we reflect on what we experience, through readings, guided dialogues and philosophical stimuli, from the concept of limit and transcendence to the poetics of the free body, we provide a theoretical framework that gives meaning, depth and awareness to every practical exercise.

**** GUESTS HAVE FULL CONTROL ON THE USE OF IMAGES AND ARTWORKS MADE DURING THE RETREAT, THE MATERIAL CREATED IS NOT PART OF THE ARTISTS PORTFOLIO OR MEANT TO BE PUBLISHED (YES, IN THE OPPOSITE CASE IF AGREED OR REQUESTED BY GUESTS).