kink, desires, fantasies & taboo.
kink, desires, fantasies & taboo.
Our sexuality does not operate in isolation.
It affects every part of our life and is affected by every part of our life too.
What gets us hard, turns us on, shows us what is needed by us to be whole.
To be whole is to heal.
Enacting our fantasies can also be a nourishing process that allows us to complete a process that has begun decades ago.
This 7-day course will be a deep exploration of our desires, fantasies, kinks.
It will be an experiential and somatic exploration of our sexual nature and how it can bring resolution to other areas of our lives. We will explore the relationship between shame and power, and the place where the two meet.
There will be a broad range of exercises including:
- Individual somatic practices to get to know ourselves deeply.
- We will discover where certain associations may have been created between circumstances in our lives and our sexuality.
- We will also working in pairs and groups to enact various fantasy scenes in a safe, intentional and nourishing way.
The more of yourself you bring, the more intentional you are, the deeper the exploration can be. There will be space to explore fantasies and role play from mild to kinky, from shameful ones to ones that are simply new terrain.
TOO SHAMEFUL,
TOO TABOO...
ALL OF IT IS WELCOME.*
We support the conscious and intentional exploration of taboo fantasies, in a safe and intentional way that is 100% consensual, for the purpose of healing and growth.
WE DO NOT IN ANY WAY support acting out fantasies in a way that is illegal, unethical, immoral or potentially damaging.
8:30 - Morning practice
9:00 - Breakfast
10:00 - Morning workshop
13:00 - Lunch
14:00 - Free time (optional open practice-space in the afternoon)
16:00 - Afternoon workshop
19:00 - Dinner
20:00 - Evening Practice
21:00 - Free time
✔ No previous experience is required but you will need to have a grasp of your relationship to your own trauma.
✔ You need to be comfortable in a space in which people might be sharing things that are uncomfortable for you.
✔ You need to be comfortable with being partnered with people you may not have chosen yourself.
✔ You need to be comfortable with voicing your boundaries, respecting those of others.
This course is great for:
✔ Facilitators who want to add new skills to their practice, space for the transformation of others.
✔ Those who feel called to become facilitators.
A willingness to go deep is necessary.
✗ Those seeking a play party or just a sexy holiday with a group of men.
✗Those seeking to learn mainly about intimacy and sexuality practices with other men.
✗Those who are looking to exchange massages and or learn massage techniques.
PLEASE NOTE: we think all of the above are wonderful things!
We write this with no judgement, but rather with a knowingness that these above expectations will be unmet by this course.
Everyone will be responsible for their own body and will let others be responsible for theirs as well.
We will also be responsible for hearing and respecting other people's yeses and noes.
Rules on consent and boundaries will also apply to sharing spaces where everyone will be invited to speak only from their own experience and not that of others.
Everything that happens in this space and that is shared in the sharing spaces will be held sacred and confidential.
If you have come in contact with someone who has tested positive to covid prior to the retreat we will ask you to let us know and also present a negative test result prior to joining.
If you are experiencing any symptoms of COVID prior to the retreat we will kindly ask you to test before joining.
With regards to STI'S we will ask everyone to take care of themselves as they would out in the world.
Use of electronics will be strictly limited to the bedrooms.
Electronics such as phones, iPads or laptops will not be able to be used in any public areas.
The house includes a spacious temple space, an intimate massage room, a sauna, a private outdoor pool and well-manicured tropical gardens.
It is the perfect cocoon to hold space for a deep erotic process.
Born in Germany, based between Morocco and Spain, Nadine brings us international inspirations, that are nourishing, healing, often Ayurvedic, always full of love.
The food will be as orgasmic as our practices.
so there are now 2 types of spaces available for the retreat at 2 different price points:
They are for people who :
- are in financial difficulty and need support,
- and intend to yield a wider impact on the community as a result of participating in this retreat (ie as space-holders or facilitators or in another way)
Solidarity spaces are not:
- A discount.
- A way to do more retreats at a cheaper price
Prior to booking a solidarity space, we will have a short chat to discuss the above requirements.
Solidarity spaces will all be single beds in a 4-person room.
- Full priced spaces for people whose financial means are not restricted.
- Supporters also receive a 60-min individual online session to support their integration after the retreat is over (valued at £180)
- Enjoy the spaciousness of being in a 2-person room, rather than a 4-person room.
- By paying a higher price, they support those in need of solidarity spaces.
£1225 pp
Single bed in a 2-person room
£1890 pp
Until 15 April *
£2100 pp
Full price
Double bed in a 2-person room
£2070 pp
Until 15 April *
£2300 pp
Full price
-Accommodation
-3 vegetarian organic meals / day
-All workshops and practices
-Flight
-Airport transfer to the house -
this can be organised for an extra fee.
-Any visas that may be required
A 50% Deposit payment is required to book your space.
The remaining 50% will need to be paid 2 weeks prior to the start of the course.
All payments are non-refundable.*
*In the unlikely event that the retreat will be canceled, all payments will be refunded.
Participant travel costs will not be refunded.
Therefore we strongly suggest you book travel that is cancelable or transferable.
Arrivals to the house begin on 16 June at 3pm.
The retreat will end on 22 June at 12 noon.
A document with the full retreat info will be sent approximately 6 weeks prior to the start date.
LEAD FACILITATOR
Marc is a somatic therapist and shamanic practitioner specialised in the Medicine of eros, healing practices related to eros and sexuality.
His work has two main focuses:
1- Supporting the transmutation of shame, trauma and shadow to power, purpose and mastery.
2- As a teacher's teacher, he trains facilitators, therapists and teachers by supporting their development of new abilities.
His practices, which are often considered radical, combine talk therapy, with experiential processes involving the soma (the body), energy transmission and sexual explorations.
Interactions can range from gentler ones including soft touch, cuddling and conscious stillness to more radical ones such as dark-room therapy, and re-enacting kinky, taboo and shameful sexual scenarios in healing and conscious ways.
Today, he shares his work through 1-1 sessions, online and in-person, residential and non-residential courses and workshops, and online live and pre-recorded courses.
After spending over a decade training in somatic movement therapy, energy work and sacred sexuality, his own practice emerged as a result of his years spent observing behavioural responses in 1-1 and group therapy sessions worldwide.
As well as being a trained somatic movement therapist, he has also been initiated into shamanism in 2015 and in the Mystery School as a student in 2013 and a guide in 2018.
He is also senior faculty at the Shakti Shiva Academy since 2021.
While his process and practice are open to people of all levels of experience, he tends to work mostly with advanced practitioners, people who are keen to become facilitators, and facilitators wishing to develop new skills.
CO-FACILITATOR
Andy is a queer kinkster, tantrika, and BDSM educator with a fascination for what lies beyond our minds.
Not that the mind is all bad, it does a great job of protecting us, however, by design it also contains and restrains our potential, often manifesting this in shame, fear, or guilt.
Through BDSM practices, Andy helps create safe(r) containers to help release these energies in playful ways, allowing us to connect with our source, our power, and our bliss.
He teaches rope bondage for LGBTQ+, disabled, and neuro-spicy kinksters and has a keen awareness of power, intersectionality, consent, conflict transformation, and trauma-informed approaches.
Andy has also been known to say “Kink is not something you do, it is who you are” .
If he can help others find their truth, this makes him happy.
To book your space, please fill out the form below.
You will then be contacted to set up a call to finalise your booking.