What would it feel like to spend a day experiencing your body - rather than thinking about how it looks?

Coming Home to Your Body is an intimate somatic day retreat by The Human Gallery, created to explore body image beyond appearance.

So much of our relationship with our bodies is shaped by how they look, how they're perceived and whether we believe they're acceptable. For one day, we're stepping away from that.

This retreat is an invitation to experience your body as something you live in - something that moves, feels, connects and carries you through the world.

There is no expectation to love your body. You don't need to feel confident, know how to dance or have any experience with somatic practices.

Curiosity is enough.

Rather than moving from workshop to workshop, the retreat unfolds as one continuous journey, held collaboratively by four experienced facilitators.

Through movement, music, connection, creativity, reflection and The Human Gallery's intimate approach to portraiture, you'll be invited to explore your body in different ways - without pressure to reach a particular outcome.

There is no "right" way to participate. Move, rest, connect, spend time alone, create, be photographed or don't, share or simply listen.

Coming Home to Your Body is intentionally open to all genders. Body image isn't something experienced by one gender, age or body type.

Whether you feel at home in your body, disconnected from it, are learning to accept it, navigating changes, or are simply curious about experiencing it differently - there is space for you here.

Held by four women, bringing four practices into one experience

Katharina Thoma - Founder of The Human Gallery

Katharina is the founder and photographer behind The Human Gallery, a project exploring body image, vulnerability and what it means to feel at home in our bodies. Her work combines intimate portraiture, personal stories and shared experiences to create space for people to be seen as they are. Throughout the retreat, she will weave The Human Gallery into the experience through reflection, connection and an optional intimate portrait experience.

LadyFem - Somatic Dance DJ

LadyFem is a soundscape creatress crafting multi-genre musical journeys that guide bodies into different forms of movement and expression. As a dance-floor activator and container creator, she uses sound to invite people beyond familiar patterns and into fuller, more authentic expression.

Jody Brown - Somatic Dance Facilitator

Jody has spent years exploring and facilitating embodiment and inquiry practices that deepen our ability to know ourselves. Her work lives somewhere between somatic devotion, ancient knowing and "oh wow, I did not expect to feel that today." A lover of depth over noise, presence over performance and connection over everything, Jody creates space to soften, explore and stay curious.

Sonya Lyn - Sharing Circle Facilitator

Sonya Lyn, The Quiet Mage, is a Soul Coach, Sacred Circle Facilitator and founder of SisterMoon Women's Circles, with more than two decades of experience holding space for self-discovery and deep listening. She brings a steady, gentle presence to honest sharing, witnessing and reflection around how we see ourselves and what can emerge when judgement begins to soften.

Come as you are.

This is an intentionally small and intimate retreat, creating space for genuine connection while allowing you to follow your own needs throughout the day. Everything is opt-in. Consent and choice sit at the centre of the experience.

No pressure to perform. No pressure to share. No pressure to love your body.

Just an invitation to get curious about what it might feel like to come home to it.

🫶 Better Together

Coming with a friend, partner or favourite human? Book 2 tickets together and automatically receive 10% off both tickets. No code needed.

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