Sensualise your Writing - A three day writing retreat in beautiful Corfu
Sensualise your Writing - A three day writing retreat in beautiful Corfu
Magoulades, Griekenland
Up to 12 in group
October 23 - 25, 2025
Retreat Highlights
- Join us for three days of writing and fun and beach in Alison's beautiful house in Magoulades. There a a couple of rooms available but if it's full you can find cheap housing in the village. There's always a possibility to arrive earlier or to stay longer. Contact us!
- We will dive deep into the process of writing itself. You don't have to be experienced, nobody will judge you and there are no expectations.
About this Retreat
Your Guides
Nathalie Dewalhens aka Muse was born in Belgium in the swinging sixties. She has a university degree in Communication Sciences at the university of Brussels and used to work in the music and video industry for many years. The love for the arts never faded and after working in Belgium and France, Muse became a tourist guide in Berlin and the Madame of the Poetry Brothel of Berlin. She’s a performer poet, a writer and a facilitator.
As a facilitator, she is trauma informed and integrity, transparency and vulnerability are the words she loves to keep close to her soul. Her specialities are conscious kink and sexuality, awareness of touch and embodiment, and heart connection. She’s also neuro diverse, and strongly believes that although it is far from being a superpower, it is indeed a great teacher.
Nathalie possesses a restless spirit, always in search of knowledge and beauty. Wanderlust and vicissitudes of life make her biography a travelogue. She currently lives in Spain, between the mountains and the sea. What remains forever after all the travelling are her two now grown-up children, the persistent lust for life and the eternal wonder. She’s a big fan of vulnerability and kindness.
Nathalie has been travelling in the neo tantra world since 2014 and has seen all its shadows: the dark ones and the golden ones. She’s a Vermilion Morning Social Host, organised online and in real life Sensual Salons along with Writer's Salons (with Alison Pilling) and Neo Tantric Talks and last but not least: she’s a licensed Jamie Catto Bring It Insanely Gifted teacher .
https://www.jamiecatto.com
She truly believes the world would be a better place if there was more sensuality in the world.
Highly influenced by Trungpa Rinpoche, Henry Miller, Pema Chodron, Nietzsche, Esther Perel, Darwin, Frans de Waal a.o. which partly explains her no nonsense approach and the elements of crazy wisdom. She likes flamenco, tango and tequila, mango and Pablo Neruda. She hasn’t eaten animals since the age of 13 and wants to keep it that way.
Nathalie, also known under her nom de plume Machig de Valence or Muse, published two books and her poems are published in different (maga)zines around the world.
Details of this retreat
Your sensual voice awaits discovery. Ready to write with the courage your life and stories deserve? Escape to the beauty of writing within the beautiful walls of an olive press in the heart of a sweet Greek village, 10 minutes from Arillas and a gateway to the beaches of north Corfu. This isn't just another writing workshop: it's a time to awaken your creative spirit wrapped in a holiday, a time of finding your voice, focus and time to write. For writing novices and seasoned writers, for anyone ready to shed inhibitions and discover what happens when life experience meets permission, encouragement and space. October sunshine, ancient olive groves, and the writing breakthrough you've been craving.
Transform Your Writing: & Go to the Beach
Break free from the inner critic that keeps your words polite and safe. In three transformative days, you'll discover the language of desire, emotion, and embodied experience that makes readers lean in, hearts racing. In just three days, you'll master the art of writing with sensual authenticity, turning your experiences into stories that pulse with life and emotional truth. And you’ll go to the beach.
Workshop Schedule:
Pre-call on Zoom: date tbc
Day 1, Thursday: Anatomy of Desire
10-13:30 Welcome circle and introductions, body meditation, intention settings
Finding your sexy voice with writing exercises focused on exploring sensuality and bodies. Letting go of embarrassment and coyness, we explore the words needed for writing embodied and erotic pleasure. Shed the embarrassment around writing bodies, pleasure, and raw human experience. Through guided exercises and body-based practices, you'll unlock the vocabulary of sensuality in your depth of experience.
Lunch at Mandala House and free time.
Evening: Reflections on writing.
Day 2, Friday: Vocabulary of Desire
10:13:30: A day of exploring the feeling wheel. Dive deep into the emotional landscape that fuels unforgettable writing. Learn to translate sensation into story, feeling into prose that pulses with life. Allowing love, desire, wildness, or seductive sultriness to emerge, find your style and break through shyness.
Lunch at Mandala House and free time.
Evening: Reflections/sharings/thoughts/writing.
Day 3, Saturday: Alchemy of Desire
The intimate storytelling of emotion offers creative expression for conjuring up mood and atmosphere. There’ll be space to write and share as we remember or imagine moments of desire, loss and beauty. Transform your experiences—both lived and imagined—into powerful narratives. Master the art of intimate storytelling that evokes atmosphere and intrigues your reader's senses.
Lunch at Mandala House and free time.
Evening: closing circle.
Aftercare zoom call: date tbc.
Your Guides:
Nath and Ali bring years of creating brave open spaces—from Sensual Salons to Spaces to Write and The Sex Lectures—where writers can discover their fearless voice. Their unique blend of intimacy work and literary persistence helps writers break through to find their expression.
Find out more about them here:
https://sexschoolforgrownups.com
https://www.sensualiseyourlife.com
Tickets to be found here:
https://buytickets.at/sensualiseyourlife/1812795
Accommodation:
3 rooms are available at Mandala House - ask Ali for details. Varied options in Arillas (guidance provided).
Limited to 12 writers for intimate, personalised attention.
https://mandalamagic.posthaven.com/about
Transform Your Writing: & Go to the Beach
Break free from the inner critic that keeps your words polite and safe. In three transformative days, you'll discover the language of desire, emotion, and embodied experience that makes readers lean in, hearts racing. In just three days, you'll master the art of writing with sensual authenticity, turning your experiences into stories that pulse with life and emotional truth. And you’ll go to the beach.
Workshop Schedule:
Pre-call on Zoom: date tbc
Day 1, Thursday: Anatomy of Desire
10-13:30 Welcome circle and introductions, body meditation, intention settings
Finding your sexy voice with writing exercises focused on exploring sensuality and bodies. Letting go of embarrassment and coyness, we explore the words needed for writing embodied and erotic pleasure. Shed the embarrassment around writing bodies, pleasure, and raw human experience. Through guided exercises and body-based practices, you'll unlock the vocabulary of sensuality in your depth of experience.
Lunch at Mandala House and free time.
Evening: Reflections on writing.
Day 2, Friday: Vocabulary of Desire
10:13:30: A day of exploring the feeling wheel. Dive deep into the emotional landscape that fuels unforgettable writing. Learn to translate sensation into story, feeling into prose that pulses with life. Allowing love, desire, wildness, or seductive sultriness to emerge, find your style and break through shyness.
Lunch at Mandala House and free time.
Evening: Reflections/sharings/thoughts/writing.
Day 3, Saturday: Alchemy of Desire
The intimate storytelling of emotion offers creative expression for conjuring up mood and atmosphere. There’ll be space to write and share as we remember or imagine moments of desire, loss and beauty. Transform your experiences—both lived and imagined—into powerful narratives. Master the art of intimate storytelling that evokes atmosphere and intrigues your reader's senses.
Lunch at Mandala House and free time.
Evening: closing circle.
Aftercare zoom call: date tbc.
Your Guides:
Nath and Ali bring years of creating brave open spaces—from Sensual Salons to Spaces to Write and The Sex Lectures—where writers can discover their fearless voice. Their unique blend of intimacy work and literary persistence helps writers break through to find their expression.
Find out more about them here:
https://sexschoolforgrownups.com
https://www.sensualiseyourlife.com
Tickets to be found here:
https://buytickets.at/sensualiseyourlife/1812795
Accommodation:
3 rooms are available at Mandala House - ask Ali for details. Varied options in Arillas (guidance provided).
Limited to 12 writers for intimate, personalised attention.
https://mandalamagic.posthaven.com/about
Schedule
Pre-call on Zoom: date tbc
Day 1, Thursday: Anatomy of Desire
10-13:30 Welcome circle and introductions, body meditation, intention settings
Finding your sexy voice with writing exercises focused on exploring sensuality and bodies. Letting go of embarrassment and coyness, we explore the words needed for writing embodied and erotic pleasure. Shed the embarrassment around writing bodies, pleasure, and raw human experience. Through guided exercises and body-based practices, you'll unlock the vocabulary of sensuality in your depth of experience.
Lunch at Mandala House and free time.
Evening: Reflections on writing.
Day 2, Friday: Vocabulary of Desire
10:13:30: A day of exploring the feeling wheel. Dive deep into the emotional landscape that fuels unforgettable writing. Learn to translate sensation into story, feeling into prose that pulses with life. Allowing love, desire, wildness, or seductive sultriness to emerge, find your style and break through shyness.
Lunch at Mandala House and free time.
Evening: Reflections/sharings/thoughts/writing.
Day 3, Saturday: Alchemy of Desire
The intimate storytelling of emotion offers creative expression for conjuring up mood and atmosphere. There’ll be space to write and share as we remember or imagine moments of desire, loss and beauty. Transform your experiences—both lived and imagined—into powerful narratives. Master the art of intimate storytelling that evokes atmosphere and intrigues your reader's senses.
Lunch at Mandala House and free time.
Evening: closing circle.
Aftercare zoom call: date tbc.
Day 1, Thursday: Anatomy of Desire
10-13:30 Welcome circle and introductions, body meditation, intention settings
Finding your sexy voice with writing exercises focused on exploring sensuality and bodies. Letting go of embarrassment and coyness, we explore the words needed for writing embodied and erotic pleasure. Shed the embarrassment around writing bodies, pleasure, and raw human experience. Through guided exercises and body-based practices, you'll unlock the vocabulary of sensuality in your depth of experience.
Lunch at Mandala House and free time.
Evening: Reflections on writing.
Day 2, Friday: Vocabulary of Desire
10:13:30: A day of exploring the feeling wheel. Dive deep into the emotional landscape that fuels unforgettable writing. Learn to translate sensation into story, feeling into prose that pulses with life. Allowing love, desire, wildness, or seductive sultriness to emerge, find your style and break through shyness.
Lunch at Mandala House and free time.
Evening: Reflections/sharings/thoughts/writing.
Day 3, Saturday: Alchemy of Desire
The intimate storytelling of emotion offers creative expression for conjuring up mood and atmosphere. There’ll be space to write and share as we remember or imagine moments of desire, loss and beauty. Transform your experiences—both lived and imagined—into powerful narratives. Master the art of intimate storytelling that evokes atmosphere and intrigues your reader's senses.
Lunch at Mandala House and free time.
Evening: closing circle.
Aftercare zoom call: date tbc.
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
Getting Here
Nathalie Dewalhens, Magoulades, Griekenland
Directions
Fly to Corfu and hire a car or take a bus to Arrillas and/or Magoulades. We will help you with the organization!
Accommodation
Have a look at Mandala House website to see the rooms! Only two rooms left available!
Program Price
Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi
Spa
Sauna
Pool
Towels
Free Parking
Kitchen
Tour Assistance
Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea
Cafe
Restaurant
Fitness Center
Yoga Studio
Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent
https://mandalamagic.posthaven.com/about
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
Fresh and home made lunches
What's Included
- All lunches, coffee and tea and cookies, 3 days of writing, pre-and aftercare
What's Not Included
- Transport to Corfu
- Accommodation
- Possible extras
- Breakfast and Dinner
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