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The original Cuddle Workshop
November 17 @ 19:30 - 22:00 CET
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❤️🩹 CUDDLE WORKSHOP: Loving Touch & Connection
🤗 Discover the healing power of safe, consensual cuddles
🎤 With Wilrieke Sophia (NL), the original creator of the concept of Cuddle Workshops
📍 19.00–22.30h, Central Utrecht (Kanaalweg)
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✨ Style of the Evening
🧘♀️ Gentle start: meditation & mindful self-connection
💞 Gradual build-up: playful, safe, nourishing exercises
❤️ Event color: WHITE — warm, kind, caring, clear boundaries
🔞 Not your average cuddle workshop.
This is a structured evening focused on platonic, loving, safe touch — with consent and clear boundaries at the core. You’ll experience meditation, mindfulness, dance, breath, massage, somatic awareness, The Wheel of Consent, and even neo-tantric elements.
No sexual energy, no “next steps” — just authentic, affectionate contact.
⚠️ Heads-up: This is a cuddle workshop, not a dating event. If you’re looking for sexual exploration, this is not the place.
🧪 THE WORKSHOP
Cuddling is more than just nice — it is deeply healthy. Science shows:
✅ Touch lowers stress
✅ Strengthens the immune system
✅ Balances the nervous system
✅ Supports heart health
✅ Reduces fear and loneliness
A workshop like this can also help you become more confident, more attuned to your boundaries and desires, and may even support trauma processing in a gentle, loving way.
We’ll start slow — first connecting with ourselves, then with others, with exercises that gradually build in intensity, but always at your pace. There is never any obligation to participate in any exercise you don’t feel comfortable with. Witnessing is valid participation.
The exercises change every time, and can be playful, deep, quiet, or energizing — all anchored in conscious consent.
🎭 THE ATMOSPHERE
Expect an evening of:
✨ Trust
✨ Playfulness
✨ Rest
✨ Abundant platonic affection
Consent is the foundation. The rest? That’s up to you.
💡 WHO IS THIS FOR?
✔️ Experienced cuddlers AND newcomers
✔️ Those who feel shy or anxious but want to practice connecting
✔️ Anyone longing for warm, gentle touch
✔️ Those who wish to recharge in a safe, platonic setting
✔️ Anyone respecting diversity, consent, and kindness
✔️ Those wanting to explore boundaries & communication in a loving space
🚫 THIS IS NOT FOR YOU IF…
⛔ You’re looking for sexual experiences
⛔ You cannot hear a “no” without taking it personally
⛔ You don’t align with our values of radical inclusion, anti-racism, anti-ableism, and body/gender positivity
🎤 FACILITATOR
👋 Wilrieke Sophia (they/them) – Netherlands
Wilrieke is a sex & intimacy educator, (TEDx) speaker, coach, and founder of Exploring Deeper and Cuddle Workshops International. They have led hundreds of transformative events around empowerment, self-knowledge, embodied boundaries, and consent. They created the concept of Cuddle Workshops over 13 years ago.
🛠️ Wilrieke creates trauma-aware, neuroscience-informed experiences, collaborating with scientists and artists, and providing resources on accountability and safety through the Red Flags in Workshops project.
🔗 www.exploringdeeper.com
🔗 www.redflagsinworkshops.com
🔗 www.wilriekesophia.com
Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Fetlife: @WilriekeSophia
🏳️🌈 INCLUSION & VALUES
We are LGBTQIA+ informed, queer-centered, straight-friendly, trauma-aware, non-monogamy-friendly, and radically inclusive. All bodies, genders, neurotypes, and backgrounds are welcome — with respect, safety, and care.
💬 Have specific access needs? Message us.
💬 Not sure if this is your event? Reach out — no shame.
📝 PRACTICAL INFO
A few days before the event, you will receive an email with all details (address, what to bring, etc.). Make sure to register with the email address you check! If you haven’t received it seven days before the event, check your spam (and note that if you unsubscribed from our newsletter, these emails cannot reach you).
♿ ACCESSIBILITY
This workshop takes place at Awananda. Unfortunately, the elevators are out of order. There are stairs to enter the building, and the workshop is on the first floor. There is an all-access bathroom on the ground floor, and multiple bathrooms on the first floor (not all-access). There is a small kitchen with fridge and microwave. Mattresses are available in the workshop space. There is no shower.
➡️ EVENT SOLD OUT? QUESTIONS ABOUT PRACTICALITIES? THE FAQ TELLS YOU WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO GO: www.exploringdeeper.com/faq.
📝 Our Terms and Conditions apply to all our events: www.exploringdeeper.com/terms-and-conditions/.
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