Welcome to Intimacy Camp...
A relational playground dedicated to the exploration of Intimacy, Embodiment, and Community
Intimacy Camp is the new name for what was previously Embodied Intimacy Summer Camp
Founded in 2018, we've spent the last five years cultivating a field of love and togetherness. Each year, we come together for this annual pilgrimage with a shared intention: to explore and discover new ways to enhance our ability to give and receive love.
Full-Spectrum Intimacy
Intimacy Camp is a relational laboratory and a playground for the full spectrum of what we call ‘intimacy’.
Full Spectrum intimacy encompasses many dimensions: Emotional, Physical, Intellectual, Spiritual, Relational, Shared Experiences, Vulnerability, Erotic and Platonic!
Intimacy Camp offers a profound, soul-deep connection space that fundamentally includes but also transcends the physical.
It's where love, empathy, and compassion flow freely, fostering a powerful transformation. This kind of intimacy is sacred, connecting individuals on spiritual and transcendent levels.
Meet the Heart and Soul of Intimacy Camp
What would be possible if you dedicated 2 weeks to expanding your capacity to love —
surrounded by a supportive group of fellow intimacy adventurers?
How many blocks to love could you remove?
How dramatically could you strengthen your relationship to boundaries?
How much could you open yourself to the kind of love you truly long for and deserve?
How drastically could you learn to accept and befriend the discomfort of being fully seen in your vulnerability?
How many lives could you impact with your gifts of listening, witnessing and honoring another's self-expression?
How fully could you receive being showered with love and affection?
How much fun could you have?!?
Join us on an unforgettable journey in togetherness…
Together, as one big community of intimate allies, we create a field of permission and play where we have the freedom and rare opportunity to take big risks and re-discover who we are as relational beings — in a playground built with the soul purpose of discovering who you are becoming through love, and what the unique shape of your heart is today.
Deep Work & Ecstatic Play
We believe in the power of combining deep work and ecstatic play. We will dance, play and explore together, all while bringing more and more awareness and love to what's happening in relationship to one another.
We will play with our edges to both go within and reveal ourselves, as well as opening up and coming alive as we experience ecstatic bliss and innocent, child-like play.
At Intimacy Camp nothing is required, everything is optional! In this space you are invited to discover what is the perfect mix of togetherness and self-care— it’s deep work, self-and-relational development and a holiday vacation all mixed into one!
Our shared aliveness, zest for life, and powerful self-expression will create an acceleration chamber for growth and transformation that won’t leave a single soul untouched by the wonder of living in this perfect wisdom vessel - your very own human body.
Are you ready to not only discover, but fully step into and own your unique SUPERPOWER?
Authentic Culture Cultivation
At Intimacy Camp, we build a culture of trust by speaking the truth. We care for each other's hearts and experience the solidarity of knowing that we're all in this together. And you’ll get to experience unity by seeing yourself mirrored in everything and everyone.
This is a brave environment in which you are invited to bring your deepest desires and greatest fears of connection. Here we can coexist in a delightful mix of attraction, aversion, grief, gratitude, and passion!
Our collective intention is to love and welcome whatever arises in and between us with open arms.
All of you is welcome here
Activities & Offerings
Our favorite embodiment exercises and somatic resources to feel powerful and at home in your body.
Embodied Forum - being witnessed in your full self-expression.
Belly2Belly meditations to experience the subtle dynamics of intimacy in a field of oneness.
Swimming, paddle boards, canoe in the spring-fed lake, nature hikes, ropes course, sports games, relaxing on the beach and other amazing features of the retreat center.
The most epic, ecstatic connection dance parties (hosted by DJ ***).
Discussions about romance and guides for alternative-relating structures.
Eros temples and intimate play spaces, to experience sacredness and wonder.
Healing practices designed to access the deepest parts of ourselves and bring forth our blocks to love.
Small group-sharing and working with our teams, led by our wonderful and highly-trained camp counselors!
Playing in nature and reconnecting with your wildness.
Exploring nudity and letting go of body shame.
Ample solo time for integration and reflection (we see you, introverts!)
Opening your creative channels for artistic expressions such as poetry, theater, skits, music, and more...
Ritual and Ceremony of all kinds- from campfires, to cacao ceremonies, themed celebrations and singing circles and jam sessions.
________________ (fill in the blank) – What do you want to add to this delightful mix of celebration and transformation?!
Intimacy Camp is Not an Orgy!
While intimacy is often equated with sexuality, we recognise that true intimacy includes but also extends far beyond the realm of physical connection.
Sexuality is undoubtedly a part of intimacy, and for those whose sole experience of intimacy is sexual, it's understandable that the two become intertwined. However, when one delves into Full Spectrum intimacy, sexuality is no longer of primary importance; it becomes just a small piece of a much larger puzzle.
Don't let misconceptions deter you from Intimacy Camp. We're not about massive orgies! We're here to provide an authentic space for you to experience a wide range of flavours and textures that all lead to profound intimacy, so when you leave this space there will be new imprints and possibilities available for creating the kind or depth of relationships your heart has been desiring that might not have been possible, yet.
To be really direct and clear (which we love to be!) if you’re just looking for sex here, you’re going to be disappointed. We ask much more of you at Intimacy Camp. If you’re longing to open your vulnerable heart and experience profound relational connection with real human beings, on all levels, welcome home!
Our desire is to break through the limitations we've imposed on ourselves, expanding the range of possibilities for true, authentic, nourishing connection, and to redefine intimacy to include more of what is actually possible here so that we can collectively experience more fulfilling relationships with ourselves, with one another, and with this earth.
This is full-bodied, full-hearted intimacy. This is Intimacy Camp!
Authentic Intimacy & Vulnerability
Very few of us have any formal, or conscious, education in intimacy and relating. We live in a world that teaches us how to read, write, calculate and solve logical problems but we aren’t taught how to love and be loved in a way that fits the unique shape of our heart.
Intimacy Camp asks participants to show up and reveal themselves authentically — to take risks in vulnerability and let others see you as you are. To hold others in non-judgmental awareness as their mirror to let them see into and reflect you.
The truth of each moment has the potential to set us free by allowing ourselves to be all that we are. Embodied congruence, authenticity and vulnerability has the power to shave off the dead callus of defensiveness and leave us more naked and available to be touched, met, and to transform and upgrade the way we relate.
This isn’t always easy or comfortable, but it’s a path that opens us up to genuine intimacy.
