Women’s Empowerment
Bioenergetics, Stress release, Reconnection, Feminity, Joy
This workshop is an invitation to connect to your body, feel boundaries, desires, and strength.
In our thought-driven world, where the mind often dominates our daily lives, we might have lost touch with the body and its emotions. We are frequently cutting ourselves off from one of the most powerful sources of wisdom, intuition, and self-awareness that we possess.
This workshop is for women who want to strengthen their authenticity and vitality, who want to increase their capacity for intensity, self-love, self-confidence, and self-determination. The workshop will also focus on strengthening an authentic relationship with one’s own femininity.
When it comes to relationships with others, some women tend to give themselves up in order to please, or out of fear. Fear of rejection, abandonment, or exclusion can become overwhelming and often leads to unhealthy self-denial, false compromises, or excessive control. Strengthening one’s self-worth is a basic prerequisite for reducing fear and engaging in more mature, loving relationships, with healthy boundaries and authentic, fearless communication.
In this workshop, through the powerful combination of yoga, bioenergetics, dance, bodywork, mindful sharing, and a safe group process, we create a supportive space where mental, emotional, physical, and energetic blockages can gently dissolve.
Why “somatic release and bodywork” for self-development?
During our development from early childhood, our nervous system gets shaped by the environment we grow up in – by beliefs, taboos, norms, do’s and don’ts, which we internalize.
Some emotionally overwhelming or painful moments, such as fear, shame, exclusion, or humiliation, create stress responses in our body. Because we could not always safely express and process these emotions in moments of stress, our body found ways to protect us through muscle tension and emotional suppression.
These important self-protective responses in our childhood form what we call muscle armoring, which as adults can numb us from our emotions – including the lively ones, such as joy, excitement, vitality, and love.
Bioenergetics, bodywork, and somatic release are therapeutic approaches that support the release of physical and emotional numbness. Through breathing, movement, and postural work, energy flows more freely in the body, softens chronic tensions, and brings vitality back. As these areas wake up, we begin to feel more alive, more conscious, and more connected.
What to Expect?
- Release to ease tensions and awaken your aliveness
- Practical tools to reconnect with your sensuality, femininity, and self-worth
- Guided self-reflection, group and partner exercises
- Space to meet yourself in stillness, share with others in authenticity, empathy, and compassion
- Moments of loving connection, movement, and joyful, lively self-expression
This workshop invites women of all ages to come home to yourself, to reconnect with your authentic vitality, and to feel welcome exactly as you are.
Our approach is non-judgmental and empathetic. Our work is an invitation to be courageous and mindful, to feel yourself, to strengthen your authenticity.
In a safe, nourishing group space, each woman is invited to progress at her own pace, listen deeply into her body, and reconnect with herself. There is no pressure to perform or to be anything other than who you are. The group can be a great resource for the individual journey – but without any group pressure. We deeply respect the singularity of every woman.
“Empowerment is about reconnecting to who you are.”
Facilitator Team
Ilka
Psychological Somatic Therapy · Bioenergetics · Tantra Teacher
More Information (German): www.ilka-stoedtner.de/team-ilka-stoedtner/biografie-ilka-stoedtner
Birgitta
Group Facilitator · Systemic & Somatic Coach · Presencing Practitioner
Practicing Tantra and Meditation since 2004 · Studying Bodywork since 2022
Website: www.birgittabechtold.com

Practical Information
| Date |
28.-30. November 2025
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| Timing | Friday 18h-21h / Saturday 10h-18h / Sunday 10h-16h |
| Location | Non residential / Location in Brussels (more detailed info will follow) |
| Cost | 360 euro per person / Special for students: 180 euro |
| Practical | Dressed in comfortable sports/yoga clothes, barefoot or non-slippery socks. Bring you water bottle, snacks for short breaks and your lunch on Sat/Sun. |
| Information and registration | birgittabechtold01@gmail.com
You should find yourself in a good health condition. If you have questions or doubts, please ask! |