PlayFull Living - Simon Magnus

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PlayFull Living - Simon Magnus

Bring a playful attitude into all aspects of life. Whether that is in our friendships, working lives

10/12/2024

One week in a lush paradise.

One week of profound connection.

One week of intentional exploration.

K1nk can be a beautiful, expansive, and life-changing experience.

So often, we approach k1nk with a rush—focusing on outcomes or skipping over the richness of the journey. But when we take our time, we discover the depth of connection and love that arises when we soften into presence (even amidst intensity).

This retreat was about bringing slowness, communication, and awareness to k1nk practices. Whether participants were complete beginners or deeply experienced, it didn’t matter. Together, we explored new dimensions of connection and equipped ourselves with tools to create the experiences we truly desire.

We dove deeper still, uncovering the unique needs we hoped to meet through these practices. Was it the freedom of surrender? A sense of re-parenting? A challenge to patterns of people-pleasing? Whatever the need, we worked to bring it into awareness and offered tools to continue this exploration long after the retreat.

What an extraordinary group of souls. This week was a powerful reminder of the healing that can be found in connection.

Still feeling blessed to work and with

I’m so looking forward to how this work continues to open and evolve.

08/12/2024

Just completed my first retreat more pics and stories to follow. But for now a massive thank you to for being an incredible collaborator and co-creator in this adventure.

This was a fantasy come true. A truly remarkable group of people who were really up for exploration and opening up to their vulnerability. Using k1nk as a way to meet those parts of ourselves that need more love, more acceptance and more insight is a profound and moving experience.

This group way amazing. The venue were so so accommodating. And our assistants were incredible. I really couldn’t have asked for anything more for my first retreat.

Now for some rest and decompression. Feeling very grateful to life for leading me here, for allowing this dream to manifest, to be offering things that are deeply in service of other people’s growth and pleasure. 🙏

30/11/2024

Welcome to the we’re getting ready to meet our full group tomorrow. Today is a day to consolidate what we are planning and really need into the land.

It really is such a beautiful space, there is such love and care being put into the creation of this place it feels like an honour to be part of it.

This bit, just before stepping in to running a retreat, is filled with such excitement and curiosity. It has been 10 years since I ran my last retreat and this one has been a long time coming. I’ve been dreaming of being able to take people into a longer self development journey for years now and am so grateful to for inviting me to do this with them.

The opportunity to bring together our passions for development, sacredness and k1nk is such a blessing. Can’t wait to get started tomorrow.

29/11/2024

We’re finally on our way up to the to start running our retreat!

So exciting to start working with after years of planning, here we go!!!

29/08/2024

On my way back home after another beautiful q***r festival of the summer. _ingo_tantra holds such a space of devotion to blood and experiment it was beautiful to be part of their creation.

Plus I got the 2 most amazing facilitator roomies and . Who really held such amazing spaces too. Highly recommend what they are both offering.

This has been my 4th festival this year and each one is so so different. I love being a part of q***r guys discovering new more loving ways to connect. And a love meeting and deepening relationships with other people who are also facilitating these amazing spaces.

Now a little me time before our next Ecstatic and Breathwork, and before the Costa Rica retreat (which I haven’t yet officially spoken about).

I feel tired but satisfied. Looking forward to continuing to build these many connections into the future.

21/08/2024

THIS IS A FA**OT. THIS IS A MAN.

This is me standing for these things, supporting other men to feel fu***ng great in themselves, in their desires and in their manhood!

I spent too many years thinking I was not man enough, not even a full man. But I think this has so little to do with sexual orientation. I am a fu***ng man and I stand for every possible expression of that in myself and in each person that sees themselves in that way.

As men regardless of orientation there are expectations and boxes we are meant to fill. I have the proud privilege of working with these incredible q***r men . This is my element. These are the people I’m currently supporting.

I was a shy child, I carried a lot of shame about who I was, not just because of my orientation, but also my weirdness and my smallness. I love seeing this picture. This is me in my passion. Speaking to a huge group of people about connection, intimacy, creativity and letting go into just being themselves.

I love being able to offer this work at these festivals and I love for the invitation to do this.

And the best thing, I get to do it again toss coming weekend

I’ve spent the last month living with significant physical pain, something for another post, but being able to safely hold these spaces feels like I’m able to step into such service of humanity.

Life has been a rollercoaster this last year, holy f**k, but I’m constantly learning, growing and bringing my passion and love ❤️

Thanks to Timo for the great pic.

19/06/2024

Train ride music playing for next week!!!

19/06/2024

In just over a week I’m going to be DJing my first ever ecstatic dance! It’s part of an event I’m co-creating with combining breathwork with ecstatic.

Currently sitting on a train playing with music. It’s going to be super fun.

If you are q***r and are in Amsterdam on Friday 28th June in the evening, come by!

Link in the bio.

26/04/2024

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 (or how I learnt to let go and listen to Coldplay)

For years I couldn’t cry. It was like something really wanted to bubble up inside me but something kept getting stuck. It locked around my heart, my solar plexus. It felt as if the tears behind my eyes welled up but never fully came out.

I have been going through quite a journey recently. Having put my workshops on pause for the moment there has been a lot of questions of my self-worth and a lot of grief.

This has been added to by the recent break up with my partner. A relationship that I thought satisfied so many things I was searching for, but sadly, despite the love and like for each other, we weren’t able to make a relationship work. There we go grief again.

But grief is a wonderful emotion. When it is totally allowed to take over there is nothing else. It fills my body with pain and love. It means things matter, that I care and ultimately that I’m alive.

It isn’t always easy to get there. Sometimes I am fu***ng confused. I want to feel. I feel angry, tired, sad, frustrated, desperately seeking distractions (how many times can I flick instagram/grindr on and off again). That is a lot on my system. I go into shutdown. Totally overwhelmed of how to move in any direction. That is when amazing friends are there to help.

And when it is flowing a little more, that is when Coldplay helps!

I’m curious what helps you open up when you need support? What allows you to go into those uncomfortable places? How easy do you find it to let go into your emotions?

As I am not offering any workshops for a while I will be using this channel to share my thoughts, feelings and things that are coming up in my everyday life.

I’ll be sharing deeper things on my mailing list which you can sign up to in my bio.

xx

Adres

Nicolaas Beetsstraat
Amsterdam
1053RJ

Website

http://www.playfull-living.com/

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What an amazing day @landjuweel.festival on Saturday. First proper party DJ set. Massive thanks to @chupp7 for the invite and the whole team at KALEIDO. What an incredible thing you guts created and really loved doing a set there!!! Big love to all ❤️

So it finally happened…I did my first DJ set in Amsterdam for a load of beautiful queers!! This was such an organic process it really flowed so beautifully. It wasn’t perfect, of course, but it was a great night and I learnt loads about doing this. It is such a fun process and also super vulnerable as there’s a limit you can practice in private before just having to learn and fail and strive publicly. I feel so grateful to @breathebychance for inviting me to do this and for the beginning of a longer collaboration with these evenings. It was so great we’re going to do it again on the last Friday of July!!!! This is honestly a fantasy I don’t think would happen. There have been many moments where I’ve been playing around in my room thinking that my music isn’t good enough or I can’t really mod properly or I don’t really know what I’m doing. So much self doubt, but also a real enjoyment in it. Loving music and loving dancing. Super grateful to the amazing group who turned up. And it really worked having a breathwork session before. Looking forward to the end of this month! Next one is on 26th July, link in bio for more info.