Ecstatic reBirth 

Lisa Weinstein brings to Koufinisia her zest for natural living, play and pleasure, inviting us all to expand wide open to receive the full spectrum of beauty available to us. 

She is a certified practitioner of ecstatic birth and the energy orgasm method. She is also a pleasure, love, intimacy and relationship coach. She shares the indelible experience of her own orgasmic births and brings that essence and beauty into her work, parenting, self-care and creativity in living life.  Lisa has spent over 20 years studying natural parenting, homeschooling, holistic living, pleasure expansion, relationship care and many other essential modalities.

Carolina Luna is a transformational portrait photographer, visual storyteller, and guide dedicated to helping women reconnect with their essence and see themselves through new eyes.

For over 25 years, she has used photography as a tool for self-discovery, healing, empowerment, and personal transformation. Her work goes beyond creating beautiful images—it creates experiences that invite women to step out of old stories, embrace their authentic selves, and celebrate who they are in this moment of their lives.

At Koufonisia, Carolina brings her passion for feminine empowerment, self-expression, and witnessing women in their fullest truth. Through her lens, participants are invited to embody their wisdom, beauty, strength, and authenticity—and leave with more than photographs: they leave with tangible proof of their transformation. 

We will explore what keeps us from our fullest expression, from speaking and sounding our truth. Using a series of embodied practices, including toning, vocal release, and more, we will connect to our authentic voice and bring it forth in sound and language.

Elana Bell is a poet, sound practitioner, and creative guide. She facilitates artistic rituals and processes that support individuals and groups in accessing their authentic voice and alchemizing raw experience and emotion into creative expression. Whether through her soul-stirring poetry, her sacred sound journeys, or through her inspiring workshops, Elana creates a space where all people’s voices and stories are heard and deeply valued. 

In this rare and transformative masterclass, scholar, artist, and cultural visionary Devla Dervish Mahler invites participants into a profound exploration of the sacred feminine through the lens of her groundbreaking Harvard research, Cosmographies of the Divine Feminine: Cosmic Religiosity in the Qadoš Stela and Hermeneutics of the Cosmic Body in New Kingdom Ancient Egypt.

Drawing on years of international field research and primary research across the world’s most prestigious museum collections, Devla personally uncovers and deciphers some of antiquity’s most profound theological and iconographic visions of the Divine Feminine Cosmic Body. She offers a path to recovering an ancient cosmic vision of womanhood rooted not in religious disenfranchisement, shame, or fragmentation, but in sovereignty, creativity, and ecstatic embodiment of cosmic life itself.  It is an invitation to remember and reimagine the feminine body as a generative cosmology from which culture, art, love, radiance, and civilization itself emerge.

Part lecture, part dialogue, and part artistic embodied inquiry, this masterclass invites participants to deeply experience an ancient truth: that the feminine was never separate from the sacred, and that ecstatic embodiment may be one of the most important pathways to individual, cultural, and collective awakening in our time.

 

“May we learn how to recover and heal, finding our wholeness and strength, through movement and presence that FEELS GOOD. “

Discover the wisdom of your pelvic organs as a center of creativity, vitality, and intuition.

In this workshop you will experience giving and receiving a specific gentle therapeutic touch rooted in the 100-year-old Rhythmical Organ Massage by Dr. Ita Wegman/ Margarete Hauschka, an experience enriched by Anemone's playful approach to women's healing through integrating pleasure.
We explore how, with an impulse of specific touch and carefully chosen natural substances from herbs and minerals we can enter in a nurturing dream-like state, where we support the body in softening, integrating, and reconnecting with our innate healing rhythms.

This rite will offer deep nourishment and grounding for all the ecstatic and sensual surprises we will experience in this year's Koufonisia Ecstatic reBirth retreat!

Anemone Hedtstück is a Holistic OBGYN specializing in Herbal and Anthroposophic medicine, massage and manual therapy.   She is a certified Orgasmic Birth practitioner and an Ecstatic Birth practitioner in training.