top of page
Verschneite Berge Foto Facebook-Cover (1920 x 1080 px).png

The Wild God Within

A Dionysian Temple on compulsive behavior, Surrender, and Ecstatic Living

What if addiction is not simply a problem to overcome, but a doorway pointing toward a deeper longing?

Beyond compulsive behaviors lie universal patterns that shape how we relate to ourselves, others, and life itself.

Drawing on the work of cultural anthropologist Angeles Arrien, we will explore the four core addictions—intensity, perfectionism, certainty, and fixation on what is broken—as archetypal expressions of our attempts to seek safety, belonging, aliveness, and control.
Rather than approaching these patterns with judgment, we will meet them with curiosity, compassion, and awareness, discovering the hidden gifts that await on the other side of each compulsion.

The first part of this experience is an interactive workshop, combining reflection, partner exercises, embodied practices, and conversations around consent, boundaries, and choice. Together, we create a foundation of psychological safety that allows authentic expression and courageous exploration.

From there, we descend into the temple.

Inspired by the archetype of Dionysus—the god of ecstasy, paradox, and embodied aliveness—we enter a ritual space where thinking gives way to direct experience.
Through movement, breath, music, guided ritual, archetypal exploration, and collective presence, we will gently loosen the identities that keep us hooked and invite a deeper relationship with the wild, ecstatic life force already living within us.

This is not an invitation to lose yourself, but to remember yourself.

To discover that beneath craving lives vitality.
Beneath control lives trust.
Beneath perfection lives authenticity.
Beneath fear lives ecstatic presence.

 

This hybrid workshop-temple includes:

  • An introduction to the Four Core Addictions and their hidden gifts

  • Practices for recognizing personal patterns with curiosity rather than shame

  • Consent and relational agreements to support authentic expression

  • Embodied exercises and archetypal inquiry

  • A guided temple experience with ritual, movement, music, and transpersonal exploration

  • Integration and collective closing

  • Non-penetrative space, consent- & trauma-informed, underwear on
    We recommend previous experience with embodiment, ritual, or archetypal work.

    Doors open: 06 pm
    Doors close: 06:30 pm
    Temple starts: 06:40 pm
    Temple ends: 11:30 pm
    Early Bird until 27.09.
    Get your ticket here 

    Combi Ticket( 09.10.+22.10.)

     

4.png

Original Sin

A slow descent into matter, pleasure, and your erotic core

What if the body was never the place you were meant to escape from?

What if pleasure was not something to earn, control, or consume, but a doorway into deeper presence?
 

For generations, the body has carried stories of shame, separation, purity, and prohibition. We have learned to distrust desire, to discipline sensation, to rise above our instincts rather than listen to them. And yet beneath these inherited stories lives something older: a primal intelligence that knows how to receive, soften, surrender, feel, and come alive.
 

Original Sin is an invitation to descend.
 

Not into something dark in the sense of wrong, but into the fertile darkness of the body itself—the place where seeds germinate, where transformation begins, where the known dissolves and something more instinctual can emerge.
 

In the first part of this hybrid experience, we will explore the art of pleasure.

Through sensory awareness, embodied practices, reflection, relational exercises, and playful exploration, we will investigate what allows pleasure to become safer, slower, fuller, and more available in the body. Rather than chasing intensity, we will learn to notice the subtle language of sensation: the places that open, the places that contract, the impulses that want to move, and the boundaries that ask to be respected.
 

We will explore how safety can become the ground of pleasure, how presence can deepen sensation, and how choice and consent allow the body to become a place of curiosity.

From there, we cross the threshold into Temple.

Our guides are the figures of the Dark Feminine—the archetypal descent of Persephone and the untamed sovereignty of Lilith.

Persephone knows the mystery of going down.

She leaves the familiar world and enters the underworld, not to remain lost there, but to become someone who can belong to both worlds. Her descent is an initiation into depth, instinct, mystery, and the wisdom of what cannot be understood from the surface.
 

Lilith carries another kind of medicine.

She refuses exile from her own desire. She represents the part of the feminine that cannot be domesticated into obedience—the instinctual, sensual, sovereign force that knows its own boundaries and does not apologize for its aliveness.

Between them lies the territory we will enter:

the erotic core.

Not sexuality as performance.
Not pleasure as consumption.
Not surrender as giving yourself away.

But eros as life force.

We will play with polarity.
We will explore softness and wildness.
Receiving and choosing.
Surrender and sovereignty.

The innocent and the forbidden.
The part of us that longs to be held—and the part that longs to be completely free.

In the Temple, the invitation is not to become someone else.

To let the body become a place of discovery.

And perhaps, somewhere in the darkness, to encounter the ancient knowing that there was never anything wrong with being fully alive.
 

This hybrid workshop–temple includes:

  • An exploration of pleasure as embodied presence and life force

  • Practices for expanding sensory awareness and capacity for pleasure

  • Embodied exercises for slowing down, receiving, and listening to the body

  • Exploration of consent, boundaries, choice, and relational safety

  • Playful inquiry into polarity, desire, softness, wildness, and sovereignty

  • Archetypal exploration through Persephone and Lilith

  • A guided Temple journey of descent, surrender, and transformation

  • Movement, breath, music, ritual, and sensory exploration

  • An invitation to encounter and reclaim the erotic core

  • Integration and collective closing

  • Non-penetrative space, underwear on, consent- & trauma-informed
     

We recommend previous experience with embodiment, ritual, or archetypal work.

Doors open: 06 pm
Doors close: 06:30 pm
Temple starts: 06:40 pm
Temple ends: 11 pm

Early Bird until 10.10.


Get your ticket here 

Combi Ticket( 09.10.+22.10.)

KONTAKT

​​Tel.: +49 (0) 176 6188 0136

​​
simonreuterlife@gmail.com

  • Schwarzes Instagram-Symbol

Impressum     Datenschutz     

Stay up to date, sign up for my newsletter

Contact

© 2025  Simon Reuter.
Mit Liebe kreiert, vom Leben inspiriert.

bottom of page