Team
The people behind all this fun would like to briefly introduce themselves! Please note that our team is supported by various contributors and helpers who are individually recruited for different parts of the project.
The founding members, Zuzu, Aaron, Ananda, and Luzy, have been interested in these kinds of spaces for some time, and have experienced both the good and bad sides of these worlds. Through a lot of self-reflection, we have become more aware of which aspects are particularly important to us. Slowness, trauma sensitivity, the consideration of relationship networks, for example, as well as celebrating and enjoying life despite (or along with) an awareness of the destructive structural power constructs in the world and our social responsibilities. Together, we imagined, reflected, created, discussed, got bogged down, and reorganized again. And this is what has emerged – or rather, what has continuously grown : the Juicy Transformation!
Our team is constantly evolving. Aaron stepped down from the core organization at the beginning of 2024 and has since only been involved at events.
For Juicy Lab 2025, the organizing team has been expanded to include Fenja, Carla, and Jimmy. <3
Since the end of 2024, we have also been a part of the non-profit organization Ecstatic Cuties e.V. and are excited to host the first Juicy Lab this year, marking the end of two years of the Holistic Culture Hub as our foundation.
Ananda
(Ananda/they/she, white, abled-bodied, queer, poly)
I am an enthusiastic dancer, musician and being of love. I learn(t) through yoga, dance, silence, communication trainings like Radical Honesty, some things also in my health & clinical psychology studies, more from pain and feelings, plant medicine, several years of poly relationships and self-exploration.
I am currently training to become a Gestalt therapist, i am enthusiastic about looping (Daniel auf der Mauer) and find relief in (critical and decolonial) trauma-body-therapeutic approaches. I like playing with language, slowness, ambiguity and pattern interruptions. Supporting people to connect with their vulnerable and powerful many-ness, learn sensing boundaries and related individuation is the most joyful and powerful thing I feel called to share my presence and creative power.
Lucy
(she/any, cis woman, gender questioning, white, abled-bodied, queer)
I’m pleasure activist, body and intimacy researcher.
I have learnt a lot from my work as a midwife, breath coach and Kundalini Yoga teacher, and a lot more from my own experiences in intimacy and relationships, workshops, seminars and NARM therapy. In recent years, I have been (and still am) particularly influenced by the deep examination of my body and my socialisation as a woman in this society, feminism, Buddhist meditation and people such as Betty Martin, Adrienne Maree Brown and Ilan Stephanie.
My wish is to accompany people into a fulfilled, pleasurable and self-determined life. I want to empower myself and others to reclaim our bodies and our senses and have developed a passion for consensus. To this end and beyond, I believe it is extremely important to drive structural change, address socially taboo topics and break through norms.
In July 2024 I will start my training as a Sexological Bodyworker at ISB Berlin.
Zuzu
(any, non-binary, white, abled-bodied, queer)
I am Zuzu, Creatrix, somatic deep diver, and artist (as we all are <3)
I want…more feeling, more yes, more no, more play, more rest, more softness, more real lived and connected safety. It’s been a long journey and I’ve learned a lot. About sensuality and consensus, about bodies and about inner and collective healing, about social norms that are inscribed in bodies and about stories that are passed on from generation to generation. I studied, dedicated my master’s degree to the body, sought out therapies and self-awareness and let off steam as an organizer in a wide variety of formats. I dedicated an entire exhibition to menstruating vulvas in my home town, networked and formed alliances. And am probably forever searching, sometimes finding, then losing, hopeless dreamer and fighter armed with burning tears.
Fenja
(any pronoun, queer, white, able-bodied, gender questioning, poly loving)
I am an artist, filmmaker, death companion and vegetable-loving kitchen witch.
As a somatic sexologist and relationship therapist, I accompany people in 1:1 settings and open up workshops and experiential spaces for creative forms of intimacy.
What holds this wild mixture together is my love of inventive process design.
I breathe a sigh of relief – and like to create in spaces that make room for all of this and for those who passionately escape the prefabricated patterns and explore in solidarity what feels alive, true and connected.
I like questioning attitudes, enjoyably playful seriousness and undogmatic paths.
And I believe in the wisdom of a wink – especially when it gets down to business.
Carla
(they/them)
I live somewhere between science & law, body and art, people and relationships. Stumbling in search of more expanse and simultaneity in all these fields of tension. On the way to more listening and complexity. With a lot of joy in flying high and occasionally with burnt wings.
Jimmy
(dey/denen & er/ihm or they/them & he/him) German-American, (currently) not-disabled, white, polyamorous, neurodivergent.
Active, full of life, self-reflective: I’m moving along, learning as I go. From ultra-conservative Christianity into an independent, but tough, survival-mode, through emigration and immigration, through agricultural fields, always searching for paths towards inner peace. Learning about Buddhist psychology, science, spending time in nature, and making music makes me feel alive, as does getting in touch with myself and others through the body. I work as an educator, focusing on emotional self- and co-regulation – but also spending a lot of time playing and living in the moment. I love my queer community in Heidelberg and am involved in various projects.
