About this event
❤️ Nest & Rest ❤️
Embraced · Tender · Cherished
Organizers: Paulina and Ymke
📅 Friday 18 December 2026
🕖 7:00 – 9:30 pm
📍 Yoga Wieteke, Groningen
💛 Contribution: sliding scale €30 - €35 - €40
Sometimes we just need a break from being big and strong. How would it be to finally not have to hold everything alone or know how to move forward. How would it feel to finally allow yourself to just be small and tender. And to be embraced, held and cherished exactly as you are.
In each of us lives a longing for safety, tenderness and deep relaxation. For a place where our vulnerable, young parts are welcome too and can be held. Where sadness, fear, uncertainty, or simply the need for closeness are allowed to be fully there.
During this evening we will create the space to experience that. To explore what your little self needs, and how, as an adult, you can make room for that longing. You can share your needs and experience what it feels like to be held.
We work with loving, embracing touch, presence and co-regulation. In the simplicity of attuned closeness, something can soften deeply. An experience in which your nervous system can come to rest, and parts of you that may have waited a long time finally get some space.
💛 A different container than tantra
For those who know Ymke from her tantra groups: this evening has a different intention and container. We are not seeking the tantric encounter, sexual life energy or energetic flow here. This is a healing setting in which the big and small parts in yourself can meet. In which, as an adult, you can be present with your own vulnerability and experience what it is like to be cherished in it. There is no massage exchange or any other form of sensual intimacy. The focus is on safe attuned nurturing.
🌿 What does the evening look like?
We begin with a short introduction and embodiment practices to help us land in the space and in the group. Then we take plenty of time to experience slow nourishing connection in pairs, accompanied by live music, as well as moments of silence, deep rest and group attunement. You'll receive guidance to explore what you need and long for and how to express it. We will support you in finding your own path to feeling even safer and more secure in your body and mind, so that you can truly relax into receiving care and nourishment. We will provide enough time and space for sharing and integration, so that you will feel stable and grounded, ready to come back into your daily life.
ABOUT YOUR GUIDES
✨ About Ymke
www.intimacyalchemy.nl
I'm Ymke van Gurp, founder of Intimacy Alchemy. For more than twenty years I've guided people in their personal development, body awareness, intimacy and connection.
In my work as a body-oriented psychotherapist, relationship therapist and holistic pelvic therapist, I regularly encounter inner-child parts, both in my therapeutic practice and in my tantra courses, workshops and retreats. I find it a beautiful field to work in! Time and again, deeper layers of our development show up in and touch on themes like connection and freedom. Two beautiful sides of the same coin.
During this event I bring my therapeutic and body-oriented work together in a soft, loving container. A space in which you can slow down, feel, and come ever closer to your own truth. Where you can experience what it means to let yourself be carried and cherished. And where, above all, you don't have to be the big one for a while.
✨ About Paulina
www.paulinabolek.com
I’m Paulina Bolek and I love creating spaces where you can finally exhale and remember who you truly are, so that you can live honestly and love wholeheartedly.
I’m a somatic practitioner, facilitator, and musician. Since 2016, I have been holding space for both personal and collective healing. In my work I weave together voice, music, movement and embodied presence. With my intuitive attunement and down-to-earth approach, I create a space in which you can slow down, soften, and come into deeper contact with yourself and others. As a queer neurodivergent intersectional feminist, I'm committed to fostering inclusive, accessible spaces for healing and growth.
During this event I hope to bring my own deep sensitivity to what is alive in a group and co-create a warm, inviting container in which there is room for expression, connection and coming home to yourself. With my voice, music and presence I hope to add a special layer to this evening.
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Together we wish to create a space in which you don't have to become or achieve anything, but can simply be for a while. Where you can experience what it is like to feel welcome, seen and cherished.
🕊️ A moment of slowing down
You don't have to go anywhere for a while.
You don't have to carry anything.
Let the world wait a moment.
There is room for you.
Also for that small part of you
that simply wants to be with someone for a while.
👉🏻 IMPORTANT TO KNOW
- You can come alone or with your partner, a good friend or a close companion.
- You don't need any experience with this specific work. It is important, however, that you feel comfortable with physical contact and with allowing emotions, or are open to and ready to expand into it. If in doubt, please check in with your mental health provider or send us a message.
- Everything is an invitation, and you are always encouraged to feel what is right for you in the moment, and how you want to participate and with whom
- All practices can be adjusted to your personal level of energy and physical mobility
👉🏻 IMPORTANT PRACTICAL DETAILS
📅 Friday 18 December 2026
🕖 7:00 – 9:30 pm
📍 Yoga Wieteke, Groningen
💛 Contribution: sliding scale €30 - €35 - €40
- This event will be held in English with Dutch translation where necessary
- Wear comfortable clothing, such as your lounge wear or pyjamas with cozy warm socks. Mats and meditation cushions will be there. Feel free to bring your own pillows, blankets, sheepskins or favorite cuddly toys (We do too) so you can really build yourself a "nest." The more you give yourself permission to truly be yourself, the deeper you can land. (And you will undoubtedly inspire others.)
- Please make sure you come sober
- Do NOT wear perfume and be mindful of intense synthetic smells (lotions/hair products). Natural essential oils in moderation are ok
Warm greetings,
Ymke & Paulina
www.intimacyalchemy.nl
www.paulinabolek.com
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❤️ More depth at Intimacy Alchemy
Tantra series Intimacy | February – June 2027
https://hipsy.nl/event/253562-tantra-serie-intimacy-groningen
Would you like to discover the other layers of intimacy, touch, life energy and embodiment too? In my tantra series Intimacy, we explore how you can come home ever more deeply in yourself and in meeting the other.
❤️ Make a whole weekend of it | 18 – 20 December
On Saturday 19 December, Marco and Ymke are organizing Tantra & Shibari – Art of Touch and Rope. A day in which we explore the world of touch, rope, intention, trust and energetic connection.
On Sunday 20 December, the Tantra Massage Day follows, led by Ymke. From touch with rope to touch on the skin. Two days in which you can sink ever deeper into the art of touching, attuning and receiving.
The days can be attended separately, but together they form a beautiful deepening. A combined weekend ticket is also available.
View the events on Hipsy:
Saturday 19 December | Tantra & Shibari
https://hipsy.nl/event/253492-tantra-shibari-art-of-touch-and-rope-tantrashibarinl-groningen
Sunday 20 December | Tantra Massage
https://hipsy.nl/event/253450-tantramassagedag-partnerduo-groningen
❤️ You can encounter Paulina’s work via 1-on-1 somatic coaching and her podcast Exhale
https://pod.link/6785602396?view=apps&sort=popularity
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