Sacred Sexuality

The Bonobo Experience are a collective of queers offering immersive workshops and retreats that facilitate a playful re-connection with our primal selves.

They take guidance and inspiration from the wisdom our matriarchal primate cousins. The bonobo teaches us that a path to peace is through shared pleasurable experiences in community.

You are invited to join the Bonobo Experience as you're guided through birthing your inner bonobo spirit, connecting to your loving tribe through non-verbal communication and the opportunity to rewild your soul.

Facilitator: Bonobo

Location: Sacred Sexuality

Using the inspiration of the playful, peaceful great ape of the title, we will open by connecting to our instinctive desires. We will learn to negotiate consent in a nuanced and non-verbal way, which will lead into a friendly open space of fun and touch where cuddles and grooming will be as welcome as sex.

Facilitator: Bonobo

Location: Sacred Sexuality

Held in a safe, supportive & gentling environment (bring nesting materials)  
 🩷A blend of individual, partner and whole group dynamics
 🩷Going beyond words
 🩷Inner reflection on festival experiences, happenings
 🩷Practices to focus and hold new perceptions
 🩷Practices to meet and release perceptions
 🩷Honouring love in ourselves
 🩷Making love to share

Facilitator: Qweaver

Location: Sacred Sexuality

For many of us, the words "Now pick a partner" take us right back to the trauma of picking teams in gym class.

This workshop aims to process some of the emotion that can come up around picking a partner for a workshop or getting partnered with someone. Using gentle somatic techniques, we will explore how to set good boundaries and how to let our curiosity lead us into mutually beneficial couplings.

Facilitator: Maevon

Location: Sacred Sexuality

Through games, movement and sharing we'll practice different aspects of flirting, ways to express desires & boundaries, and get ready for a safer intimate and/or sexy encounter.

This play-shop is a fine mix of deep & fun experiences, suitable for singles, couples, nuns, sluts & aliens!

Facilitator: vegetetwo

Location: Sacred Sexuality

A two-part workshop - A Lecture about the physiology & embryonic development of genitals, how biology is actually queerer than we were taught!

The second part is Genital (and Whole Body) massage, with breath-work and relaxation.

Facilitator: vegetetwo

Location: Sacred Sexuality

Let’s honour our animalistic aggressions and harvest them to our own mutual pleasure. In this simple, playful workshop, our greatest teaching will be intimacy - how to voice our needs and wishes, and how to tap into our partner's energetic field.

By giving space to aggression in a held safe space - and channel it to our benefit, we can reprogram the way we treat each other and hold ourselves in the world.

Facilitator: Fae

Location: Sacred Sexuality

As the community called for it, this workshop is back, expanded with just as much space for juicy interaction and love as always.

This is a trans centering trans allied workshop aimed at creating more sexual pleasure by making a space to ask about how different genitals work. In this workshop we hold both truths that 1) each set of genitals and how it works is entirely individual and 2) it's useful to look at some technical specifics about innies and outies whilst not getting stuck in the binary, in order to be intimate responsibly, and with fewer barriers in our community.

There will hopefully be a live demo or two, and anyone who wants to share about how their genital pleasure works is welcome. Bring your questions, your challenges and your open heart and we will find our way.

Facilitator:Tessa Wills

Location: Sacred Sexuality

Let's explore slow ways to get to kinky touch. Everyone is asked to bring a stone, a piece of wood and a plant that they like to touch.

After setting a ritual container, each participant will spend some time exploring touch with these nature friends (guided meditation about consent and touch). After that, each participant gets to chose whether to explore more touch in duos and trios with other humans or to continue with self touch and nature friends.

Brief discussion on what does kinky mean to me“. Changing partners unless people want to stay in their same group. Emphasis on breath and kinkyness and consent and sweetness.

No genital touch throughout. Sexual energies very welcome. Raising the energy together at the end and closing out together.

Facilitator: Ana Pieck

Location: Sacred Sexuality

Connection with our pleasure is key to how we relate to ourselves & to others. When we are able to truly ‘be’ with ourselves, to breathe, feel & explore our own pleasure, we can truly connect with the pleasure of others.

You are invited to let go of the emotional layers that no longer serve you by letting go of the physical layers of clothing. This undressing allows pleasure in the body to be felt in a very physical way, giving a direct & grounded experience of connection & release.

There will be an embodied verbal sharing of feelings, an exploration of movement & intentions and guided visualisations. There will be an invitation to meditate unclothed to awaken the pleasure that is your birthright, and a silent meditation to integrate the self pleasure journey. We will close the meditation by grounding with embodied verbal sharing.

Facilitator: LaMariposa

Location: Sacred Sexuality

The Rope Jam will be hosted by a local professional rope rigger with 13 years of experience in kink and BDSM and rope bondage in particular.

While you are encouraged to bring your own gear, they will be providing plenty of rope to borrow and use during the session, in a wide variety of colours, lengths, textures and materials. Safety shears will also be provided.

The rope jam is essentially a free-for-all, but your host will be on hand to provide instructions and demonstrations of basic skills and techniques. They pride themselves on instilling confidence in complete beginners, especially those of you who think you'll "never be able to do that rope stuff!" Come with a partner or find someone at the workshop to work with!

Unfortunately this session will NOT include suspension.

Facilitator:Sacred Sexuality

Location: Sacred Sexuality

Explore your boundaries, meet new people & experience intimacy whilst discovering the essence of life. Delve into your truth whilst discovering multiple layers of receiving & giving. Explore your boundaries - what is and isn’t OK for me in this moment? Is my yes really a yes? A maybe? Or a no? Journey exploring the senses through giving & receiving touch if you so desire.

We will start with verbal sharing about how are feeling & our intentions, and then allow our bodies to move & ground and arrive more fully. There will then be structures to connect with our truth through boundaries & consent, an exploration of the senses with vegan, gluten-free delicious delights, followed by conscious touch/massage (bring your oil please!).

There is no obligation to participate in anything you do not desire. Please do not come under the influence of alcohol or other drugs.

Facilitator: LaMariposa

Location: Sacred Sexuality

We start with tea, a warm-up and intro, followed by a round of heart-circle sharing about sex!  No advice or cross talk here, you're simply heard & seen.

Then there's CAKE! Followed by another round of heart-shares, chill out, mingling & tea. All in a friendly, confidential, space.

THE SEX CAFE is a place to bust shame and outdated myths about sex get off your chest what’s bugging you re sex celebrate what’s working & joyous about sex share & connect with new folks celebrate our bodies & diverse expressions of Eros.

(For women, non-binary & gender queer folks. Trans women are warmly welcome!)

Facilitator: Eva Weaver

Location: Sacred Sexuality

This ritual comes out of This Land Sex Magic work. It will work best for those who have attended my previous workshop here, worked with me before, or done similar work.

We will start with an explanation and a 'boundaries' circle to establish participant's comfort and consent. We will connect to the land and together create a safe ritual container.

Within this, we will raise energy and offer it back to the land for protection and healing. Energy can be raised in a number of ways, as I will explain. There will be places where people can raise energy on their own and where they can share energy and physical contact with others, always with verbal consent.

May involve some nudity, energetic, physical and/or genital contact. No-one will be asked to do anything they are uncomfortable with.

Important: please arrive on time and stay until the end.

Facilitator: Al Head

Location: Sacred Sexuality

In a world that often fails to understand and embrace our queerness, we face waves of oppression that leave deep marks within us.

Microaggressions, systemic injustices, and societal norms confine us, impacting our hearts, central nervous systems, and overall well-being. The powerful intersection of kink and spirituality provides a path to healing—one that is salacious, seductive, sexy, and impactful.

In this workshop, we will utilize tools such as spanking, paddling, flogging, and pinching to release and transmute the energies that hold us back. By letting go, purging, and composting the effects of accumulated oppression within our bodies, we can reclaim our innate sense of home, aliveness, and freedom in our queer and trans bodies.

This transformative journey welcomes individuals, whether embarking solo, with a partner, or in groups. Our aim is to create a supportive and nurturing environment that respects individual boundaries, consent, and each participant’s unique healing pathway.

Facilitator: Fables & Amanda Gay Love

Location: Sacred Sexuality

Facilitated by Ofra and Sufi from the Cana'an faerie tribe - a celebration of the simplicity, the wonder and the beauty of the human body.

Together as a group we will move from words of consent to the invitation to look at our bodies and the bodies of others through naked eyes, through a new window of perception. By the end we will stand in awe, staring at of our body, with the lightest of touch, the way it is right now and at ourselves, the way we are right now.

* this event does involve the invitation for nudity

Facilitator: Assaf Ben Moshe (Sufi)

Location: Sacred Sexuality

What do your genitals have to say, and are you curious and ready to listen?

Beck developed this practice based on 10 questions we can address to your intimate parts, in a style, position and clothing level that feels right for you. We will be asking each others bodies for their wisdom, preferences and ideas, and who knows what we will hear if we listen!

We will start with a visualisation about Meeting Genitals for the first time, and watch a short demo of a Genital Interview. Then, if you want, you can practice with a partner, taking turns to enter into a conversation with parts of you, which can include parts we cannot see, and packing dicks, underwear or accessories that are a part of you and your expression.

You are welcome to interview alternative parts, such as the ass or chest/breasts. 

The usefulness of this practice and the information we can glean is wide-ranging, from helping us be better at speaking up for our intimate parts during an encounter, checking in with our partner about how they like to be touched and even walking away with a written document that can be presented to anyone lucky enough to interact with your body in the future!

Facilitator: Beck Thom

Location: Sacred Sexuality

I run TLSM workshops in many parts of the UK and mainland Europe. In this taster workshop we will explore, or deepen our exploration of, the main aspects of my work: land connection, energy work, the power of pleasure, creating a culture of consent, magical working through energy movement and intention, breaking down assumptions around gender, sexuality and relationships.

We will experience our energy bodies, including our energy genitals if we wish, and share energy with land, self and others to the extent we consent to. No-one will be asked to do anything they are not comfortable with, and participants will remain clothed throughout.

Facilitator: Al Head

Location: Sacred Sexuality

What happens when we bring pleasure to our writing and write from a juicy, turned-on place? And what if we bring our embodied writing back to movement, breath and self touch?

In this workshop we will wake up our erotic/sexual bodies through movement, somatic exercises, meditation, breath-work and self touch, giving ourselves permission to show up fully as the beautiful erotic beings we are.

We will tune into sensations and raise erotic energy, then take this juicy, delicious energy into free writing/stream of consciousness writing. We will move effortlessly back and forth between paying close attention to our bodies and explore what happens when we write and create from an embodied and turned on place, then take this writing back into exploration with our bodies.

No experience in creative writing needed. You can move as little or much as you like. (indoors, 2 hours, adults of all genders welcome)

Facilitator: Eva Weaver

Location: Sacred Sexuality