ATMA Community Space
Be you. Connect. Create. Transform.
Vítkova 10 – Karlín, Praha
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
09/10 – GONG BATH MEDITATION: PAUSE, REST & RECHARGE
Do you find it difficult to truly switch off?
Perhaps your body is tired, but your mind continues moving. Or you make time to rest and still don’t feel properly rested afterwards.
This workshop offers a space to pause, reconnect with the body and gradually move from activity into rest.
We’ll begin with simple grounding and breathing exercises, bringing attention away from circulating thoughts and back towards the body and the present moment.
From there, you’ll make yourself comfortable, either lying down or sitting, and enter an immersive sound meditation with gongs, crystal singing bowls and other harmonic instruments.
There is no need to meditate “correctly” or achieve a particular state. You can simply listen and notice what happens as the sounds move through the space.
The Gong Bath will be followed by a period of silence and integration, giving the experience time to settle before we finish.
You’ll also leave with simple grounding and breathing techniques that can be used in everyday life when you need to slow down and reconnect with yourself.
Facilitated by Michaela Forrest. Michaela has nine years of experience using sound to support personal wellbeing. She began supporting Sound and Gong Bath sessions in 2021 and facilitating her own sessions in 2022. In 2024, she completed professional training in Sound Healing for Groups with the Sound Healing Academy.
10/10 – INTUITIVE ABSTRACT PAINTING: LET GO, EXPERIMENT & CREATE
After the wonderful response to our first Intuitive Painting workshop, we’re coming together again — this time to explore texture, movement and dimension.
In this three-hour workshop, we’ll move beyond the flat surface of the canvas and discover how modelling paste can transform a painting into something almost sculptural.
Using modelling paste, palette knives, acrylic colours and different ways of applying and shaping the material, you’ll build your artwork layer by layer, experimenting with raised surfaces, marks, movement and depth.
We’ll begin with an introduction to the materials and some simple techniques for working with modelling paste. You’ll have time to experiment and understand how the material behaves before developing your own piece on canvas.
This is not a workshop where everyone follows the same image.
There is nothing to copy and no “right” result. The technique gives you a starting point; where you take it is entirely yours.
You might create something minimal and calm, bold and heavily textured, abstract and spontaneous, or somewhere completely unexpected.
The focus is on exploration rather than perfection — allowing the painting to develop through your own choices, gestures and responses to the material.
Your hands. Your choices. Your piece.
Each workshop is a complete experience of its own. You are welcome whether you attended the first session or not, and no previous painting experience is required.
We keep the group intentionally small so everyone has space to work, explore and receive individual guidance when needed.
Facilitated by Amisa Mukaj, scientist, educator and abstract artist whose work explores emotion, colour, texture and the space between intentional decisions and intuition.
10/10 – WALKS & TALKS: POSÁZAVSKÁ STEZKA
Some conversations become easier when we are walking side by side.
For this edition of Walks & Talks, we’re leaving Prague for Posázavská stezka and a route of approximately 10 kilometres.
We’ll meet at Prague Main Station and travel to the starting point together.
As we walk, conversations will move with us. You may find yourself beside someone new, return to a conversation from earlier, walk quietly for a while or simply pay attention to the landscape around you.
There is no facilitated workshop or fixed conversational programme. The walk itself creates the structure: moving, changing places and having enough time for conversations to develop naturally.
Come alone or with someone. New people are welcome.
Hosted by Marie from ATMA team.
Meeting time: 9:00
Meeting point: Praha hlavní nádraží
Route: Posázavská stezka
Distance: approximately 10 km
Participation: free
Transportation is paid individually.
Please bring comfortable walking shoes, water, food or snacks, and clothes suitable for the weather.
Language: English
Registration is required.
12/10–30/11 – IMPROV FOR LIFE: 8-WEEK COURSE
An 8-week beginner course in improvisation for confidence, connection and thinking on your feet.
Improv is often associated with comedy and performance, but many of the skills behind it are useful far beyond the stage: being present, responding without having everything prepared, adapting when something changes, trusting your impulses and working with other people.
This course with Tim Burgi is a practical and playful introduction to those skills.
Most of the sessions are active. You’ll work in pairs and groups, try improv exercises, create situations together and practise responding to whatever is happening in the moment.
It will often be funny, but you don’t need to try to be funny.
Throughout the course, you’ll explore how to think on your feet, express yourself with more confidence, become more comfortable with uncertainty, quiet the inner critic, develop spontaneity and notice how you collaborate with others.
Some exercises will also open a conversation about what happened: what you noticed in yourself or the group, and where similar patterns might appear outside improv.
No acting or improv experience is needed.
The course is taught in English.
Mondays, 18:30–20:30
12 October – 30 November 2026
8 weekly sessions / 16 hours
4,500 CZK
Payment: https://improvprague.cz/life/
Benefit Plus accepted.
Not sure yet? You can join the first session as a trial for 600 CZK, drop us a line on atmaprague@gmail.com.
If you decide to continue, the amount counts toward the full course fee.
Facilitated by Tim Burgi, founder of Improv Prague, who has been performing and teaching improv for more than 10 years and also works with companies, teams and community groups.
16/10 – REAL MOVIES
Real Movies is an evening to gather around one film — and stay for the conversation it opens afterwards.
We’ll watch a selected film together on the big screen at ATMA, with pillows, a comfortable setup and time to settle in.
After the film, we’ll stay for tea and conversation. Not a formal film analysis, but a chance to speak about what caught our attention, what stayed with us and what the film brought into the room.
You are welcome to come alone.
Please feel free to bring snacks for yourself or something small to share.
Facilitated by Yasser from ATMA team.
24/10 – REAL WOMEN: WOMB CONNECTION
Real Women is a circle where women come together to explore themselves through the body, reflection, creativity and honest conversation.
This month, we’ll turn our attention towards our relationship with the womb — as a physical part of the body, a place of memory and a symbol of creation.
The womb can expand, stretch, hold and nourish. There is something powerful in remembering that this capacity for creation and transformation can be part of our relationship with the body, whether we are mothers or not.
We’ll begin with ceremonial cacao, giving ourselves time to arrive, slow down and connect with ourselves and each other.
Through gentle self-massage, breath and a guided meditation, you’ll be invited to bring attention towards your womb and notice the sensations, emotions, desires or messages that may arise.
After the meditation, we’ll move into journaling and sharing. We’ll explore what we may be carrying, what our bodies may be asking for and what wants to be created through us.
We’ll also work with colour. Each participant will receive a womb illustration to colour intuitively while listening to calming music and noticing what emerges through the process.
From individual creation, we’ll move into collective creation, making a shared herbal mandala from selected herbs and flowers.
You are welcome to join even if you no longer physically have a uterus. Your memories, symbolism and relationship with the womb can still be part of the exploration.
Please bring a journal and a pen.
The circle includes ceremonial cacao. Let us know in advance about any food allergies or sensitivities so the preparation can be adapted.
Facilitated by Adri, somatic practitioner and bodyworker.
25/10 – REAL PEOPLE: HOME COOKING
Real People is where good food and real conversations bring people together.
This time, we meet in the kitchen.
Instead of arriving to a dinner that has already been prepared, we’ll cook it together — chopping, stirring, tasting, helping one another and talking while the food slowly comes together.
There is something different about getting to know people while your hands are busy.
Conversation doesn’t need to start with introductions around a circle. It can begin while cutting vegetables, asking where something belongs, tasting a sauce or sharing a story about how food was cooked in your own home.
Once everything is ready, we’ll sit down around one table and eat what we made together.
You don’t need to know how to cook. This is not a cooking class and there is nothing you need to perform or get right.
You can come alone. Most people do.
Dinner and ingredients are included.
From 17:00, free, we pay ingridients at the end together.
Facilitated by Moheb and Yulia from ATMA team.