Welcome to
Intimacy Winter Camp
Dec 27, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026
A relational playground dedicated to the exploration of Intimacy, Embodiment, and Community.
Intimacy Camp is a living, breathing movement that began in 2019.
For seven years, we’ve been gathering each summer to create a unique relational playground… an adventurous container where adults explore intimacy in its fullest spectrum.
Here, intimacy means truly seeing and being seen.
It means connection beyond the superficial.
It means depth, meaning, and meeting each other from the heart
It’s not even primarily physical. Intimacy is about presence, honesty, courage, and love.
Intimacy Camp is a movement to expand the range for what we call INTIMACY.
Hear about Intimacy Camp from the Campers of 2025!
A New Chapter: Winter Camp
Until now, Intimacy Camp has only ever been a summer pilgrimage for adults. But this year, something new is being born: INTIMACY WINTER CAMP!
Held during the magical liminal space between years (when 2025 hasn’t yet ended and 2026 hasn’t quite begun) we’ll step through the threshold together. We’ll deepen, explore, and celebrate in the glow of winter, wrapped in communal warmth.
Families Welcome
For the first time ever, Intimacy Camp is opening its arms to families and children. This expansion means you can bring your whole family along for the adventure. Together, we’ll create a multi-generational playground where intimacy weaves through family life, partnership, parenting, and the wonder of childhood.
Imagine starting the new year surrounded not just by friends and fellow adventurers, but also by your children, learning and playing together in a culture of love, connection, and play.
The Heart and Soul of Intimacy Camp
What would be possible if you dedicated this holiday season to expanding your capacity to love — together with a community of intimacy explorers, families, and friends?
How many layers of protection could gently melt away in the warmth of community?
How much deeper could you root into healthy boundaries while staying open to connection?
How widely could your heart stretch to receive the love you truly long for and deserve?
How courageously could you welcome the tender beauty of being fully seen in your vulnerability?
How profoundly could you touch the lives of others through listening, witnessing, and honoring their authentic expression?
How sweet would it feel to bring intimacy into your family, your partnership, and your connection with children?
How fully could you allow yourself to be celebrated, supported, and showered with love?
And how much joy, play, and laughter could you discover along the way?
Join us this winter for an unforgettable journey of intimacy, embodiment, and celebration!
Together, as one big community of intimate allies, we create a field of permission and play where we have the freedom and rare opportunity to take big risks and re-discover who we are as relational beings — in a playground built with the soul purpose of discovering who you are becoming through love, and what the unique shape of your heart is today.
Deep Work, Ecstatic Play & Holiday Celebration
Winter Camp is a chance to spend the holiday season in a way that nourishes your soul. Instead of the usual rush and stress, imagine a holiday filled with connection, spaciousness, and joy!
Where you and your loved ones can truly celebrate together.
Here, we weave deep relational work with ecstatic play. Some moments invite us inward- revealing ourselves with honesty and vulnerability. Other moments burst outward- into laughter, dancing, celebration, and the innocent joy of play.
Together, we create the perfect mix of reflection, renewal, and rejoicing.
This year, our journey also includes a special New Year’s Eve celebration. We’ll welcome 2026 not with hangovers or empty resolutions, but with heart-opening connection, play, ritual, and the shared joy of community. A collective threshold-crossing into a new year, filled with intention and aliveness.
At Intimacy Winter Camp, nothing is required, everything is optional. You’re free to find your rhythm between deep work, family connection, relaxation, and celebration. It’s self-discovery, relational adventure, and holiday retreat, all in one.
What better way to step into a new year than surrounded by love, play, and belonging?
Authentic Culture Cultivation
At Intimacy Winter Camp, we create a culture of trust by choosing truth.
We care for each other’s hearts and stand in solidarity, knowing that we’re all in this together. In this shared field, you’ll experience the magic of being mirrored— discovering yourself again and again in the eyes, voices, and presence of others.
This is a brave and compassionate environment where you’re invited to bring both your deepest desires and your tenderest fears of connection. Here, we make space for it all: attraction and aversion, grief and gratitude, laughter and play, passion and rest.
As we cross the threshold into a new year, our collective intention is simple: to love and welcome whatever arises —in ourselves, in each other, and in the group field— with open arms.
All of you is welcome here
Activities & Offerings
Our favorite embodiment practices and somatic resources to feel powerful, playful, and at home in your body— woven with the unique magic of the holiday season.
Embodied Forum – Be witnessed in your full self-expression.
Heart iQ Circlework – Experience the power of group resonance, attunement, and relational intelligence.
Belly2Belly meditations – Experience the subtle dynamics of intimacy in a field of oneness.
Winter nature adventures – Forest walks, outdoor play, cozy fireside reflections, sauna, hot tub, and winter wellness rituals.
Epic connection dance parties – Celebrate life through music, movement, and joy.
Explorations of love & relating – Discussions on romance, family intimacy, and alternative relational structures.
Sacred spaces of wonder – Soul temples, play spaces, and family rituals of connection.
Healing practices – Access the deepest parts of yourself and meet the blocks to love.
Small group sharing – Intimate circles guided by our wonderful camp facilitators and counselors.
Play for all ages – Children’s activities, family constellations, and reconnecting with your inner child.
Integration & rest – Ample solo time for reflection (we see you, introverts!).
Creative expression – Poetry, theater, music, skits, storytelling, and art.
Ritual & Ceremony – From fireside songs and cacao ceremonies to themed celebrations, singing circles, and our special New Year’s Eve gathering.
Your Magic Here – Bring your gifts, passions, and creativity to add to the collective mix of play and transformation!
What to Expect
Intimacy Camp is not a retreat, and it’s not a training. It’s something different- something alive, communal, and hard to pin down with words. At its heart, the community itself is the teacher and the center of the experience.
Each morning begins with our Community Gathering, the heartbeat of the camp. Here we come together- adults, children, and families alike- to tune into what’s alive in the group field: what wants to be felt, expressed, explored, celebrated, or released. This practice of listening to the collective sets the tone for the day.
From there, the schedule unfolds in response to what arises. Sometimes that means diving into deep relational practices. Other times it looks like spontaneous play, cozy rest, or dancing ourselves alive. It’s a living, breathing rhythm that balances structure with emergence, offering both safety and freedom.
Throughout the days, you’ll find a mix of experiences:
Whole-group sessions where everyone is together, creating one resonant field.
Adult-only spaces for depth, intimacy, and exploration.
Family activities designed to weave intimacy into daily life, parenting, and partnership.
Children’s spaces filled with play, creativity, and wonder.
We’ll flow in and out of these constellations, weaving between them in a way that feels natural, supportive, and alive. And always, you’ll have the freedom to choose your own balance between engagement and rest.
Most importantly, you are invited to bring your own gifts. Your music, your art, your presence, your ideas, your magic. Intimacy Camp is a co-created field. What you long to experience might be exactly the medicine the community is waiting for.
Expect the unexpected. Expect to be surprised, touched, challenged and delighted. Expect to leave changed.
Authentic Intimacy & Vulnerability
Very few of us have any formal, or conscious, education in intimacy and relating. We live in a world that teaches us how to read, write, calculate and solve logical problems but we aren’t taught how to love and be loved in a way that fits the unique shape of our heart.
Intimacy Camp asks participants to show up and reveal themselves authentically — to take risks in vulnerability and let others see you as you are. To hold others in non-judgmental awareness as their mirror to let them see into and reflect you.
The truth of each moment has the potential to set us free by allowing ourselves to be all that we are. Embodied congruence, authenticity and vulnerability has the power to shave off the dead callus of defensiveness and leave us more naked and available to be touched, met, and to transform and upgrade the way we relate.
This isn’t always easy or comfortable, but it’s a path that opens us up to genuine intimacy.
Practical Details
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Saturday, December 27, 2025 - Friday, January 2, 2026
Arrival is between 14:00 - 17:00 on Saturday, December 27, 2025
Departure is from 15:00 - 17:00 on Friday, January 2, 2026
**OPTIONAL ADD ON: Arrive 1-day early and stay 2-days later for deeper landing and integration. (December 26, 2025 - January 4, 2026) -
New Eden Retreat Centre
Sparjeburd 2, 8409 CK Hemrik, The Netherlands
https://www.neweden.org/getting-here
The closest airport is Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. New Eden is located approximately 1h 30 minutes - 1h 45 minutes away by car and 2,5 hours away by public transport. -
€1595 before October 31, 2025
€1995 before November 30, 2025
€2395 before December 25, 2025
*Includes all food and dorm style accommodations*
Private or double room upgrades available for an additional cost
Pay your €500 non refundable deposit after you have been accepted from your interview to lock in your spot and pay the remaining balance by December 1, 2025.
Payment plans are available.
Please write to: Rachel@the-field.com if you would like to apply.
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*Registration for this event requires you to fill out the application form. Ideally, you have already attended some personal and relational development courses. We say this is ideal because this adventure is a BIG step into the movement and culture that is Intimacy Camp and we want to be sure you are aligned with our mission and values. If you have not already attended any events similar to this before you will be required to have a short 20-30 minute interview before your application is accepted.
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Please take a moment to review the cancellation policy. All questions are warmly welcomed.
You are always welcome and encouraged to sell or transfer your ticket to someone else (as long as that person is accepted through our application process). All cancellations and transfers must be submitted in writing to Rachel@the-field.com
• If you cancel at any time up to 8 weeks before the event start date, the full payment minus the €500 non-refundable deposit will be refunded.
• If you cancel within 8 weeks of the event start date, 50% of the full payment will be refunded.
• If you cancel within 4 weeks of the event start date, 25% of the full payment will be refunded.
• If you cancel within 2 week of the event start date, 10% of the full payment will be refunded.
• If you cancel within 1 week of the event start date, or if you withdraw from the event after the start of the first day, no part of the payment will be refunded.
FAQ’s
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Shared Room style accommodations are included in the price of your ticket. You will sleep indoors in a beautiful, clean space on a bed.
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Yes. If you would like to upgrade your room you can handle this directly with us. Rates and availability is dependent on number of participants. Please contact us directly.
Please contact
Rachel@the-field.com
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Also included in the cost of your ticket is 3 meals per day with tea and snacks. A variety of beautiful, delicious food will be prepared by the chef. Meat, Vegetarian, Vegan, and Gluten Free options are all available.
After you have registered you will be sent a dietary retirement form to fill in to share your needs.
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Please make travel plans in accordance with our arrival and departure times.
All travel information can be found here: https://www.neweden.org/getting-here