We long for closeness and we fear closeness.
There are many paths that lead us back home. Path of Relating walks through the relational field. It is a path for people who long to be fully themselves and still belong.
“The wounding that taught us to hide often happens in relationships, and the repair often happens there too.”
- Buster Rådvik, leading facilitator, psychotherapist and founder of Path of Relating
Or maybe something recently cracked you open. A workshop that reached deeper than you expected, a relationship that changed everything or a life transition that shattered an old way of being. Maybe there was a moment when your body spoke louder than your mind, and you knew, with a clarity that both excited and frightened you, that you couldn't go back to how things were before.
Or you may not have years of training behind you, but you have something just as important: a willingness to step into the unknown.
Either way, you've arrived at the same threshold.
Enough now, I'm ready. Even though I'm scared and I don't know what comes next.
Path of Relating exists for moments like this.
We work through the body, in relationship and over time.
"My body felt so seen. It was not a training for my mind. My instincts loved being in the driving seat. I met them. They showed themselves, and I could meet them with love. For the first time."
- Luna, participantSomething brought you here.
Maybe you've been on this path for years. Sat in circles, attended retreats, trained in a modality or two. You've felt the openings, those moments when something softens and you're suddenly here, suddenly real, suddenly met. And you've also felt how quickly it can disappear again. The guardedness returns and the performance resumes. You know the maps, but something still stands at the door.
"I had done a lot of work before, but I had never felt so safe that these things could come out of me too."
- Luna, participantEnough is enough
Cultivating aliveness
Many of us learned, often without realizing it, to adapt ourselves in order to stay connected. We learned when to stay quiet, when to be useful, when to take care of others, when to perform, and when to disappear. The body remembers these strategies long after the situations that created them have passed and is draining us of life energy.
What we want to cultivate through the practice is to:
Access the aliveness, play, and erotic energy that lives beneath the protective strategies.
Discover that the parts of us that feel most difficult to share are the very things that create genuine connection.
Learn to trust ourself among others, through a regulated nervous system and an embodied sense of home.
Feel safe enough in our body to let others truly in.
Develop the capacity to stay present when intimacy gets real, not just for a weekend, but as a way of being.
Build relationships where we can be seen in our wholeness, not just our competence.
"This journey isn't about learning something new. It's about remembering. Coming home. Meeting yourself in raw truth and unapologetic life force."
EnyaSlowing down to feel
The method is simple. We slow down, pay attention to what is actually happening in the body, and we become honest about it. Underneath that simplicity is decades of clinical and facilitative experience, and a grounding in neuroscience and somatic psychology, but the work itself asks for none of that from you. It asks you to slow down and tell the truth
The facilitators guide the process, but the work itself happens between people. In the moments when someone says something they have never said before, when a boundary is expressed, when support is received or when shame softens.
Again and again we witness the same longing:
To be seen.
To be accepted.
To be fully ourselves and still belong.
We work with the body, through breath, sound, touch and movement, because that's where the patterns live, and that's where they change. We work in community because relational wounds are easier to heal in relation. An evening can open something. A weekend can take you deeper. A longer training lets the new patterns become who you are.
We work with the body, through breath, sound, touch and movement, because that's where the patterns live, and that's where they change. We work in community because relational wounds are easier to heal in relation. An evening can open something. A weekend can take you deeper. A longer training lets the new patterns become who you are.
"I've met my edges again and again, and found pure connection on the other side."
- Camilla, participantDifferent ways to practice
To go deeper with yourself, with others, and with what it means to be fully alive.
The Intimacy Training
A seven-month journey through four week-long retreats and a weekly sharing circle. For those who are ready to stop standing at the edge and step fully into the work. Next group starts in September and participation is by application.
Weekend & Evening Workshops
Through embodiment, relational practice and honest human connection, we explore what becomes possible when we slow down, become more real and meet each other beyond our usual roles and strategies.
Alive & Connected - Online Community
An online community for weekly ongoing practice. A place to stay connected to yourself, to others and to the work. To keep practicing, integrating and growing alongside people who are walking a similar path.
1:1 Sessions with Buster
Private sessions for individuals and couples. A space to explore whatever is alive in your life right now, whether it relates to intimacy, relationships, trauma, personal growth, professional challenges or the deeper questions of being human.
Co-facilitators
Mara Kölpin
Musician, Facilitator & Therapist
Traimbaka Vive
Facilitator & Trainer
As a professional trauma therapist, I wasn't sure what to expect, but these five days with Buster immediately had a strong and lasting impact on me and my work with my patients in the practice. His courage to show himself honestly and authentically as a person, and not to hide behind roles or masks, allows you to feel safe and accepted and also to become more courageous to look at yourself completely."
— Dr. med. Matthias Lange, Specialist in Psychiatry and PsychotherapyReadiness to meet fear
People arrive from many different walks of life. Some are therapists, coaches, facilitators or bodyworkers. Others are teachers, engineers, artists, parents, leaders or people who have never attended a workshop before.
What unites us is a readiness: I'm excited and I'm going for it AND I’m scared.
And a willingness to slow down, tell the truth and discover what becomes possible when we no longer have to do it alone. You don't need to have it all figured out.
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS