Winter Camp Activities 2025

These happen are led by participants

Warm up your day with a 30 minute Ecstatic dance set!

with Shoshanna Crow and more

This session will be about the things that get in our way of revealing what is true for us and just becoming more in touch with how to work with our fears around self advocacy and vulnerability.

ZEGG Forum community sharing, see below. Time varies

 We meet in small groups to check in about your experiences at camp.  

Create deeper connections in a sensual indoor space. Going to the temple is completely voluntary.  It might include spending time with one or more friends in a close loving way.  There are guidelines for sharing this space in a way that is safe and comfortable for everyone, and following these guidelines is a requirement for all temple participants. 

Fun with the land, yourself & each other:  A Sensual Tour of La’akea  

with Tracy Matfin

Learn about how we work with nature to create a beautiful and functional environment on our farm. We will walk along our paths and find lots of berries, flowers and leaves to nibble on the way..

Tracy and Various Presenters

We welcome each other into the camp community and go over the nuts-and-bolts of camp culture and logistics. Let's find out who's here and what we have to offer each other! We'll spend much of the time moving around, meeting new folks and deepening existing relationships.

Forum Team 

The Forum is a group process developed at the German community ZEGG to provide a stage for whatever is happening inside the person: one's true motivations, deep feelings, ideas and emotions. The Forum helps facilitate transparency, sharing and clarifying unsolved situations of daily life, and it can be a catalyst for one's own personal growth.

with Amara Karuna
In a body-honoring community, we have a responsibility to educate ourselves on how to keep ourselves safe while having fun. We’ll practice talking with community and prospective partners about these issues.
We will explore the guidelines for participating in the Temple space, where we can be sensual in a respectful and safe environment.  

If you have never been to a temple at camp, this workshop is required in order to enter the space.

With Sam Kennedy

This offering is a healing space to re-encounter the nourishment of touch through a slow, trauma-informed process where you can practice asking for and receiving the touch you want. 

In this offering, we will get to know the different parts of ourselves that may complicate our relationship to touch. We draw on Internal Family Systems, a psychological modality that explores our sub-personalities (the voices inside of us), as well as Somatic practices and The Wheel of Consent.

with Touch Pu'uhonua

 inspired by the work of Riane Eisler. The intent is for participants to free themselves from Dominator Culture memes and experience a great expansion of Abundance and Allies.  The presentation will be interactive with participants in small groups exploring how these principles are constraining or enabling the quality of their lives and relationships.

with Sam Kennedy

I will weave didactic teachings and experiential exercises to provide a broad and (importantly!) embodied understanding of attachment styles. This offering will provide a chance to unpack our earliest experiences with attachment figures (even experiences that live in you from before any conscious memories). We will examine how you exhibit each of the four styles (secure, anxious, avoidant and disorganized), and explore the path back to security with self, other and the world.

with Otter Heartfountain and Touch

This workshop guides you through a hands-on process for how to transform that first magical spark of attraction into a healthy relationship. First, we'll practice using a series of conversation prompts designed to gauge our compatibility and build intimacy. Then, we'll explore another series of conversation prompts about our wants, needs, desires, fears, and boundaries. Then we'll decide what kind of relationship can work for us. 

Models & Processes for Living in Community

with Kalama Becker and Bill Goodman

Since we’re already rewriting the rules of relationships, why not rewrite the rules of living? This workshop explores how cohousing, ecovillages, pocket neighborhoods, house hacking, legal structures, governance, and communication practices intertwine to make or break a community’s success. We will introduce the key concepts, then use group storytelling and discussion to explore  ways of living together. 

with Signa Cheney and Sequoia

Gong, voice, singing bowls and more. Join us for a reverent, therapeutic sound bath, that will invite you to rest into deeper realms of the sacred within.

with Signa Cheney

Touch as Prayer is a gently guided experience of contact improv, conscious communication exercises, consent and boundary empowerment, and gentle, healing co-regulation through slow moving, therapeutic postures mindfully and safely sharing weight, compression, and engaging in double yoga and therapeutic postures together. Safe for all levels. Rooted in self-awareness and self-care. 

with Signa Cheney and Sequoia

Practice skills and techniques to create a divine, sensual, conscious, expansive, healing, consensual, and very pleasurable spanking experience. Participants will experience both conscious giving and pleasure-oriented receiving.

One of the most fun parts of camp, is the fast and furious auction where you get to donate goods or services for the benefit of La'akea community!  Sell your products, your yummy self as a servant for an hour, or a a visit to your house or a massage!  All in good fun!

 Cabaret is one of the highlights of camp!  Come one, come all, and show us more about you! No talent is required - "if you can walk, you can dance; if you can talk, you can sing!"  Sing, dance, read poetry, share art, do a skit. 

 Honoring the experience of the past days, we will connect, reflect, and bid farewell to this incarnation of our community. Many hugs!