Gentle Men Yoga is an easy class where it's OK if you can't touch your toes!
The focus of this class is the development of a kind and nurturing attitude towards yourself while working mindfully through your perceived limitations.
The combination of Vinyasa-Flow and Yin-Yoga Asanas will help you build strength and flexibility and will benefit you by releasing energetic blockages, increasing mental clarity and concentration, and harmonizing disturbing emotions.
All of that will happen in a warm, nurturing, and soothing environment where you can feel safe and fully be yourself.

Zoom has become a major part of our lives and now enables us to meet globally. Yet, meeting in the virtual leaves us simultaneously close and distant. It also exposes us to the focused gaze of a camera to transport us onto another person’s screen. Through improvised dance we will to explore these ambivalences. How does it feel to connect to others in the virtual? No prior dance experience is required.

This is a special Stretch edition of the monthly Village online event "Welcoming the new month" to reconnect to the strength and love within ourselves and to share this practice together with other men.
We check in together and inspired by the time and season qualities of the month of April we have a session of self affirmation, touch and massage for ourselves together with others  ending with a silent meditation practice.

Touch is a fundamental need. When we don’t get enough handshakes, hugs or sex, we can find alternative ways to stimulate the sense of touch. The workshop will have short practices to bring attention to what touches you; including self drawing, partner drawing, and sharing stories in small groups.  Different levels of intimacy are controlled by your preference and can privately be discussed in breakout rooms. Bring paper and pen.

We invite you to the Stretch Festival  lounge, an informal open space for discussion, reflection, saying hello and relaxing. Hosted by Axel on Saturday and Tony on Sunday.

This workshop uses movement to explore the boundaries between play, assertion and aggression. We will take the wisdom and insight that PlayFight/QueerFight offers, and use it to encounter ourselves at a deeper level. We will experiment with our own experiences of joy, rage, anticipation, threat, confrontation, curiosity, and find new embodied responses to them. Previous experience of PlayFight/QueerFight isn’t necessary, and everyone is welcome to explore, and move, within their own limits.

The class will function as an introduction to Yoni’s unique style of fusion while giving technical notes from the format he uses. The class will include a warmup that will gently transition into the dance portion of the class, keeping everyone’s bodies warm and moving. The class will then introduce techniques without taking up too much space, perfect for being active right in your home.

How do you ask for what you need in words to clearly get what you desire? It is a challenge for many these days. Come join us for a experiment of using our voices with requests to allow us to drop into pleasure. This embodied offering is for anyone looking for practice expressing themselves clearing to attain the  safest and authentic pleasure. We will use witnessing, requesting and our bodies in this offering.

In a moment of global pandemic and protests against racism, has manhood lost its meaning? How might intersectionality, a concept formed by black feminists, help us forge new connections between different communities of men? In this guided conversation, participants will think about the intersections that exist between and among masculine-identified people, and consider how our evolving ideas of race, sexuality, eros, and community can create a more liberated and politically liberating view of masculinity.

What cosmic worldviews exist simultaneously between queer men?  If spirituality were a landscape painting, what would yours look like? If we take a collective survey, how would the landscape between us look?  A short lecture will lead into a guided inquiry. Then together we will create a listening and sharing space. By gathering landscapes, we will get a sense of how many different worlds are worlding what worlds.

I'll be sharing my butoh dance practice. It will be an easy dip into this art form, connecting movement and embodiment with emotions and imagination, journeying into inner worlds / invisible worlds. I will make it special in the spirit of easter stretch.

Imagine a rollercoaster GoGo party with a steamy music playlist and sexed up zoom participants creating a safe space to watch and be seen jerking twerking or f*cking. Public chat is encouraged with creative cams from across the globe. The main rules : CAMS ON, sex-positive vibes, no breakout rooms and unmute when you cum.