ATMA Community Space
Be you. Connect. Create. Transform.
Vítkova 10 – Karlín, Praha
24/09 – SOMATICS INTO CONTACT: CONTACT WITH THE EARTH
“The Earth is bigger than you, so you may as well coordinate with it.” — Steve Paxton
In the second Somatics into Contact session, we turn our attention toward one of the most constant forms of support we have: the ground beneath us.
In dance, the floor is sometimes called our first partner.
Through movement, floor work and somatic exercises, we’ll explore what happens when we stop fighting gravity and begin to work with it instead.
The session will move through the themes of yielding and resistance — noticing where we allow ourselves to be supported, where we hold ourselves up, and how those two tendencies can exist together.
The floor will become our main point of reference for the evening: a place to experiment with weight, pressure, expansion, grounding and the simple physical reality of being held by something larger than us.
As in the first session, the work combines meditation, movement and playful exercises.
We will explore:
Tuning in — listening to signals from the body
Decision-making — choosing, negotiating and protecting boundaries
Presence — grounding and anchoring through physical reality
Play — exploring movement with curiosity and others
You do not need previous experience with dance or contact improvisation.
Wear comfortable clothes you can move in, ideally in layers, and bring a water bottle.
This is not group therapy. Connecting with the body can sometimes bring up sensitive material, so please participate with self-responsibility and avoid pushing yourself into anything that does not feel physically or emotionally safe.
If you have a physical injury, please let Anna know at the beginning of the workshop.
Facilitated by Anna Pecinová, movement artist working across dance, physical theatre and improvisation.
25/09 - REAL DATING (only women spots left)
What if dating wasn’t about impressing?
What if it wasn’t about swiping, judging, or performing?
What if it was about being present, feeling, and truly meeting another person?
This is not speed dating. This is slow, intentional connection.
A carefully guided journey designed to move you out of the mind and into the body, out of small talk and into deep conversation.
What Awaits You:
Awakening Presence – Cacao ceremony, breathwork, and gentle relaxation to open the senses.
Silent Connection – Embodiment exercises to feel connection before words.
Deep Talks– Crafted with love questions that go beyond small talk.
Intuitive Pairing – A closing round where you follow your inner pull to connect.
Connection isn’t about finding the “right” person—it’s about discovering what happens when you truly see and are seen.
6 couples only.
Slow, beautiful encounters facilitated by Katya Kokkalou
26/09 – FINDING YOUR CALM 1: UNDERSTANDING YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM
Why can a small inconvenience feel easy to handle one day and completely overwhelming the next?
Our nervous system is constantly responding to what happens around us and within us. It shapes how we experience stress, change, relationships and everyday challenges — often before we have had time to think about what is happening.
Finding Your Calm is a practical 90-minute workshop for understanding some of those responses a little better.
We’ll begin with an accessible introduction to what the nervous system does and how common stress responses can show up in everyday life.
Then we’ll try a selection of simple, evidence-informed practices together.
There will be time to notice how each practice feels in your own body, reflect on your experience and ask questions.
The aim is not to become calm all the time.
It is to understand your nervous system a little better and leave with practical tools you can experiment with in daily life.
No previous knowledge or experience is required.
People of all genders and ages are welcome.
Please wear comfortable clothes. You are also welcome to bring a notebook and pen.
Registration closes 22 September at midnight.
Finding Your Calm 1 and 2 can be attended independently. Each workshop offers a complete experience with slightly different themes and practices.
Facilitated by Laila Seidel, artist and experienced workshop facilitator.
27/09 - WHAT KIND OF MAN DO YOU WANT TO BE?
The Masculinity Self-Audit
What kind of man do you want to be? And how much of that did you choose for yourself?
Maybe you’ve never really stopped to think about it. There were examples around you, things people said, expectations you gradually picked up. Be strong. Handle it yourself. Have a plan. Be successful.
Which of those ideas still make sense to you? Which make it harder to ask for help, talk about your feelings or be close to someone?
On 27 September, we’re inviting you to ATMA for a few hours of exploring these questions with psychologist Dmytro German.
You might recognise the habit of keeping things to yourself, comparing your progress with everyone else’s, or feeling that you should always know what to do. You might simply be curious about your own beliefs and how they shape your life.
WHAT WE’LL EXPLORE
We’ll begin with where your ideas about masculinity came from: family, culture, media and the people around you.
Then you’ll look at your own rules around independence, control, success and relationships. You’ll examine which ones support you and practise making the more rigid ones more flexible.
There will be short psychology explanations, individual exercises, group conversations and role-play to try out different responses to everyday situations.
Towards the end, you’ll put together your personal Code of Masculinity: your own words for the values you want to live by, alongside a concrete plan for the next 30 days.
ABOUT DMYTRO
Dmytro German, MA, is a psychologist working with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). He supports men with anxiety, self-esteem, relationships and life transitions.
PRACTICAL DETAILS
27 September 2026 · 11:00–15:00
ATMA Community Space
Vítkova 10, Karlín, Prague
Language: English
Participation is free, and all materials are provided.
20 spots.
This event is part of the Time4Health project and is funded by the European Union.
27/09 – REAL PEOPLE GATHERING: AFTER-SUMMER REUNION
Real People is where good food and real talks bring people together.
After a whole summer apart, this gathering will also be a little reunion.
Katya and Zdeny are coming back to Prague from Sicily for a visit, and we want to use the evening for something very simple: getting everyone around the ATMA table again.
Expect homemade food to share, Real Talks, good music and — after several months in Italy — probably quite a lot of Italian energy coming back with them.
We’ll begin around the table with food and facilitated conversation. As always with Real People, the questions are there to help us move beyond the usual social small talk without putting anyone on the spot.
Then the structure loosens.
Stay at the table, move around, meet someone you haven’t seen all summer, meet someone completely new, listen to music, sing, play something, dance if the evening takes us there.
You don’t need to know anyone before coming.
Some people will be returning to ATMA after the summer. Others may be walking through the door for the first time. Both belong at the same table.
Limited to 20 people.
28/09 – REMEMBER YOURSELF: 30-DAY GUIDED SELF-EXPLORATION
A 30-day facilitated programme for people who are functioning in life but feel disconnected from what they actually want.
You may have work, responsibilities and even external success, but little passion, no clear direction, or the feeling that your life works without really feeling like yours.
Remember Yourself is designed to help you reconnect with your core, natural inner settings, passions and deeper desires — and gather enough real evidence to begin changing the course of your life.
We begin with a 3-hour offline laboratory at ATMA on 28 September.
Then we continue through 4 online sessions of up to 2 hours each over the following 30 days.
That gives you up to 11 hours of facilitated live work, plus your own self-exploration between sessions.
The online dates will be arranged with the small group and, where needed, around individual availability.
During the 30 days, we will work with:
guided personal inquiry
body tests and embodied observation
short journal reflections
real-life behavioural experiments
activity tests
small-group reflection
personal decoding
Each layer is opened gradually and tested rather than simply interpreted.
You will explore what repeatedly brings you alive, what may be genuinely yours, what may have developed through adaptation or usefulness, and which activities or environments deserve a real place in your life.
By the end of the programme, you will have:
a preliminary reflection after the opening session
a repeated-pattern reflection
your Gold / Adaptation / Distortion map
personalised activity experiments
a final personal decoding
a written Personal GPS
your strongest evidence and counterevidence
practical directions and activity fields worth continuing
a realistic 10–20-minute personal practice you can return to in ordinary life
The final map is a grounded working hypothesis built from your memories, present behaviour, body observations and practical experiments.
28 September 2026
14:00–17:00 — opening offline session
up to 5 participants
+ 4 online sessions, up to 2 hours each
Language: English
Early bird: 9,000 CZK until 15 September
Regular price: 10,000 CZK
Register via atmaprague@gmail.com
Advance registration required.
Facilitated by Katya Kokkalou, founder of ATMA Community Space and facilitator of embodied self-exploration, with a background in community education and group facilitation.
30/09 – REAL WOMEN: UNSHAME YOURSELF
Real Women is a circle where women come together to explore themselves through the body, reflection and honest conversation.
This month, we will explore shame — how it can live in the body, shape the way we see ourselves and influence how fully we allow ourselves to be seen.
How does shame show up in your life?
What beliefs or stories keep it alive?
Where do you make yourself smaller, quieter or more acceptable because some part of you feels that who you are is somehow too much, not enough or wrong?
We’ll begin with a short cacao ceremony to arrive and connect with our senses.
From there, Adri will guide a somatic journey using breath, movement, sound and visualisation. You’ll be invited to notice sensations, emotions and patterns connected to shame and to approach them with curiosity rather than judgement.
The practice may also bring attention to experiences that influenced your relationship with shame and to the ways those experiences continue to live in the body.
After the somatic practice, we’ll move into journaling and conversation.
Together, we’ll explore how shame affects the way we relate to ourselves, our bodies and other people — and what it might mean to make more room for the imperfect, real version of ourselves.
You are always free to share as much or as little as you want.
Please bring a journal and a pen.
The circle includes cacao. Let us know in advance about any food allergies or sensitivities so the cacao preparation can be adapted.
02/10 – EROS READING CIRCLE: POWER AND SURRENDER BEYOND STEREOTYPES
Eros Reading Circle is a space to explore desire, intimacy, pleasure and relationships through reading, reflection and honest conversation.
This month, we will read selected chapters from Different Loving: The World of $exual Dominance & Submission by Gloria G. Brame, William D. Brame and Jon Jacobs.
Through interviews and personal stories, the book looks at dominance, submission and alternative expressions of love beyond their familiar stereotypes.
How has social conditioning shaped what we consider “normal” or “taboo” in relationships?
Can surrendering control to another person be an act of liberation rather than passivity?
Where is the line between being submissive and being subservient? Who is actually in control within a consensual power dynamic? And how do people explore intense fantasies while protecting emotional and physical safety?
You don’t need previous experience with D&S to join. The selected reading offers an introduction to the subject alongside detailed personal accounts.
We’ll begin with tea or cacao and a short grounding practice. This will be followed by a sharing circle around the reading and the questions it raised for us.
From there, we’ll move into an open conversation about dominance and submission, power exchange, trust, boundaries, consent and the different meanings that power and surrender can hold in intimate relationships.
At the beginning of the gathering, we’ll establish agreements around respect and confidentiality. You are welcome to share as much or as little as feels right for you.
You will receive the selected reading by email a few days before the circle.
If you would like to begin earlier, you can contact Adri at healing@adriennhodi.com after registering.
Adults of all genders are welcome, whether single or in a relationship.
Facilitated by Adri, somatic practitioner and bodyworker.
Capacity: 10 participants