Meet Your Hosts
Rachel Rickards
Rachel is an international leader in the field of personal transformation, intimacy, embodiment, and relational intelligence. She is a masterful group facilitator, event producer, and new mother, who has made a lasting impact through her visionary work.
In 2014 she co-founded Embodied Intimacy, which has become one of the most respected organizations globally that offers trainings and events focussed on intimacy, trauma, relational intelligence, somatic education and community. The work of Embodied Intimacy supports hundreds of people each year to come home to themselves, to their body and more regulated nervous systems, and unfold more of who they truly are.
Since 2019, Rachel has led the Belly2Belly Facilitator Training after her teacher and mentor, David Cates, passed the torch and CEO position for this work to her. Belly2Belly offers a simple and yet profoundly healing set of embodied and relational practices, which support people to learn to regulate their nervous systems in a way that can be transformational for their relationships. Rachel has single handedly produced and facilitates most of the events with her extraordinary superpowers in the field of event planning and depth in embodied leadership.
Rachel’s newest passion project launched in 2022, “The Field Facilitator Training.” This is a revolutionary new experiential learning environment for upcoming group facilitators who are passionate about creating fields of deep group-heart coherence and learning how to facilitate group soul emergence. This requires the development of radically new facilitation skills, such as learning to listen to the group field, collective surrender to the moment, as well as dynamic and fluid collective leadership to support the blossoming of the group soul that is longing to emerge in the space between us.
Most recently, Rachel has become the creator and host of the podcast "In Presence We Trust: The Facilitation Podcast". Released weekly, the podcast dives into her cutting-edge work in group facilitation and beyond. Tune in to follow her binge-worthy journey and discover the latest insights into her ever-evolving work in group transformation.
DJ Alma ∞ Omega
Maegan Melissa Gorbett dedicates her life’s work to weaving succulent strands of Dance, Music, Embodiment, Transformation, Connection, Community as an offering of joy & purpose. Her drive is to serve the (collective/individual) healing of the past, help in midwifing the emergent-juicy-present of transformative-cultures, all while keeping in mind the wider vision, for future generations to come.
Alma is a DJ, Open Floor Embodied-Dance Teacher, Ritualist, Grief Tender, Holistic Coach, Sacred Activist, Creatrix, Weaver, Rebel-Shape-shifter & Mid-wife for the Soul: for over 2 decades she has been weaving her path of the multi-dimensional/cross-cultural healing realms, alongside her passion & love for transformational-culture, underground-art, embodied-dance & earth-based-ritual.
As an embodied-artist, Alma’s passion is to create & hold spaces wherein we can remember the fabric of our humanity, our connection to divinity/source, and our intricate inter-connection to all of Life: by not bypassing the heart-aches & heart-quakes of life, but by inviting them to marinate and season our reasons for living.
www.alma-omega.world/
The Sound Field
The Sound Field is a live music & sound experience that supports groups to experience their own aliveness, to move into new ranges of emotion and energy and surrender to their present moment experience.
Sound and music is thus used to guide groups into live emergence – to basically follow the breadcrumbs to what really wants to happen.
The Sound Field members are Benjamin Andersen and Thomas Kiernan.
https://www.soundsoflightportal.com/
Mette Koppelaar
As a writer, facilitator, and curious human, Mette seeks authentic expression in both playful and meaningful ways. He loves to experiment with identity, normalize emotions, expand self-expression, and build connection by exploring both our uniqueness and our shared humanity.
In his spaces, Mette cultivates a deep sense of permission for people to fully follow their yeses and their no’s — creating imprints to support that same permission in other areas of life. His facilitation motto is “practice what you preach,” and he strives to show up authentically, vulnerably, and honestly whether he’s in front of a group, in a private team meeting, or in his personal life.
Participants tend to appreciate Mette’s blend of depth, groundedness, and playfulness — which often leads to intimacy of all kinds.
Denise Kooij
Denise is a somatic intimacy and embodiment guide who works primarily with men and mixed groups. Her spaces are a blend of depth and play where truth is welcome, emotions are sacred, and the body leads the way. She helps people drop out of the mind and into the felt experience of life and love, where intimacy becomes natural and presence becomes power. Expect a mix of raw honesty, laughter, sensation, and a permission slip to be wildly, innocently sensual and wonderfully human.
The Co-Hosts: Camp Counselor’s, Intimacy Ambassadors & Muses
This beautiful group of inspired souls is showing up deeply committed and in full service of this movement. We have grown a mutual love and support of them and they are an integral part of the potency and viability of our success. We are excited to introduce you to, and announce that the following beings will be with us in service of this adventure.
