7 Day Life, Sx & Death Retreat in France

Life, Sx & Death is a permission ground where the wild beauty of your soul can emerge, express, and connect.
We welcome you to this playground of aliveness, authenticity, and awe.

Are you ready to embrace the beauty of all that you are - the good, the bad, and the ugly?
Your darkness is the compost from which you birth new life.
Your shadows contain the seeds of your most powerful gifts.
Your greatest obstacles can become the raw material for your ecstatic pleasure.
Your grief is the crack in your heart that opens you to deeper love.

Life, Sx, & Death is an arena of the daring where we fall in love with the reality of each other's imperfections and impermanence.
We celebrate our messiness, embrace our shadows, and transmute them into gold through our life force and eros.
We face the reality of our impending death and let her call us into presence. We own that we are dying and being reborn everyday.
Our truthful vulnerability is the only foundation for authentic connection.

You don’t have to be an expert at anything (tantra, shibari, dance…) as long as you are coming with an open mind, an open heart, and a willingness to crack open to your own depths.
You can come as an individual, with a partner or with friends.
Come - let us dance together in truthful delight!

 
This 7-day long immersion will include -
*A playground of invitation for your wildness to emerge and play
*A field of compassion where your vulnerability and tenderness is celebrated
*Permission for letting your parts die that no longer belong
*Dance and movement arts
*Ritual through ropes & shibari
*Temple arts, tantra, & sacred sexuality
*The edgy art of actually slowing down
*Authentic and vulnerable intimacy through healthy boundaries
*Embracing our shadows and transmuting them into our life purpose
*Honoring the cycles of life
*Grief ritual & intimacy with death
*Devotion & masculine & feminine rituals
*Emergence of your soul note and standing in your power


Testimonials from previous events - 

*This experience of Life, Sx, & Death with Atilla and Bina worked with areas that are critical in living life fully and ecstatically.

*The space Atilla and Bina created was loving and safe, yet ripe with possibilities to do deep work and release old patterns that no longer serve us. Founded on clear principles of consent, I was able to give up worries about what might be expected of me, and settle deeply into what I was there for, what I wanted for myself, and to step boldly and freely into the experience.

*Life, Sx, & Death was such a potent event. Getting to explore intimacy and death in a safe container is strong medicine. This event was not a walk in the park, depending on where you are at in your intimacy journey, and it has the potential to stir up the full range of emotions. I feel confident that no matter what arises that Atilla and Bina have the skills to help you navigate and come out of the experience with deeper freedom.

*Life, Sx, & Death brought me closer to death and therefore closer to my life. It allowed me to see how much my patterns of blocking the giving and receiving of love are connected to fear of death and fear of losing those that I love. It brought to light how when we go deep, we get closer to death. And that initially can seem terrifying... and letting go of the control can be absolutely terrifying... and it also is a life fully lived. Choosing to live in the terror fully. Choosing to live in the grief fully. In the last ritual, I had a particularly profound experience of fully choosing to live in my body in this lifetime, and really letting myself feel all the pain and ecstacy of being alive. I had deep energetic orgasms as I opened up to life fully. And even tho my partner was not shibari trained, she held absolutely beautiful space for me and the shibari provided this felt sense awareness of containment in physical form. By the end, I made peace with life, peace with death, and a deeper acceptance of pleasure in my life.


Logistics

The Venue -
One of the things that we are most excited about for this immersion is the location. Nestled in the lush green nature in France, we have access to a private lake, small rivers and a natural pool in the garden. The venue is secluded and surrounded by forests and lush meadows and invites for nature walks during the breaks. We have a spacious seminar room painted in warm colours with large windows, allowing the bright light to illuminate the space. We have access to the sauna and can refresh ourselves in the showers and pool under the night sky.

Cost & Accommodations -
Baseline prices (includes retreat content, meals, and stay in camgpround): 

Super Early Bird/Scholarship -
We have limited number of these tickets.  Please select this IF your finances require you to purchase a lower price ticket. We have 3 spots available.
990CHF

Early Bird/Scholarship -
We have limited number of these tickets.  Please select this IF your finances require you to purchase a lower price ticket. We have 5 spots available.
1090CHF

Regular -
Regular retreat price.
1190CHF

Accommodations -
Tier 0 - Campground or outdoor mattress dorm (inviting description). No additional cost

Tier 1 - Dorm room with 3-5 people. 300CHF additional 

Tier 2 - Private double room (for couples and friends). 600CHF additional 

Tier 3 - Private room. 900CHF additional

Prices are per person.


Scholarship fund -
If your finances allow, please contribute to a scholarship fund that will make it easier for someone else to join!

Arrival and departure - 
Arrival on the first day from 15:00. We start the programme at 16:30.
Departure on the last day at 13:00.

How to get there?
The venue lies in East France, close to the Swiss border. The exact location will be shared after signing up.
You can drive there by car and we provide a carpooling sheet, where participants can organise to join for the travels. If you arrive by public transport, let us know and we can organise a shuttle from the closest train station.
If there is enough demand, it is possible to organise a shuttle from Winterthur and Basel for an additional cost. Get in touch if you're interested.


Your guides -

Atilla Çıdam is a facilitator of deeper intimacy with life, death, and eros. He is a transformational coach who creates permissionary containers for people's wild magic to shine through. With his training in tantra, conscious kink, sacred medicine, dance, and shadow-work, Atilla reprogram nervous systems to allow and embody the full range of the ecstatic expression of their life force. He is an ISTA (International School of Temple Arts) faculty, has a PhD in social psychology, and has spent prior lifetimes designing large scale social programs that empower millions to lead fully aligned lives.  
He is a co-founder of Dance Meets Tantra, Emergence Brotherhood, and Life, Sx, & Death.
instagram.com/dr.atillacidam


Bina is a Shibari & Tantra facilitator with experience since nearly a decade. She has a diverse background in sexological bodywork, coaching, kundalini, BDSM, breathwork, polarity integration, dance and movement practices.
She creates spaces that invite exquisite presence for transformational work. She dances between the polarities of the light and the dark and the ecstasy of diving into the mysteries.
Her offerings provide space for emotional expression, self-love and personal growth, transforming blockages and finding inner power and purpose.
Her trauma-sensitive approach creates the safety for vulnerability to unfold to explore the depths of our being in a more raw and intimate way.
With her approach, Bina brings out loving authenticity in the full range of life.
www.binataverna.com
instagram.com/binataverna