Worldwide Festival of Erotic Living
5-13 June 2020
Even though the festival has begun, tickets are still on sale (at reduced price). Recordings of Past Sessions are available to all festival participants for one month after the festival.
How do we not only survive, but also flourish, enjoy and learn in this current crisis? How can we take pleasure for ourselves and with others in this strange new world in which we find ourselves? How do we find new ways to feel pleasure, happy and alive under these novel conditions?
For the first time Erotic Living proposes a worldwide festival to explore these questions. Teachers and artists from Europe, the United States and Australia, leaders and inventors in the field, will support you to explore what is erotic living Today.
The Erotic Living Worldwide Festival will take place over nine days, so you will not be encouraged to spend full days in front of your computer or get unnecessarily fatigued. Workshops will be edited and recorded so that you can also watch them for up to a month later. Witness or participate from anywhere in the world. Given the current crisis all ticket prices are starkly reduced. (From AUD $89; USD $60; EUR $53). Our incredible program includes Experiential workshops, Lectures, Participatory Installations, Dance, Music, and Art Performances. Meet new people, learn and above all Have a Great Time!
Our Worldwide Festival Presenters
Our Worldwide Festival Program
Ritual Play is a sensory based session inviting an interactive play dynamic. The Ritual Play dynamic was created as an alternative to the traditional giver-receiver dynamic used in touch-based sessions, like in a Tantra massage. A Ritual Play session includes aspects of Tantra massage but is so much more by inviting a person in for a non-verbal encounter without a goal.
So far, the Ritual Play structure has been used in work connected to Tantra, Sexsibility and Eros, in Community Building projects and in Contemporary Art practices and research.
Join us for a group ritual to heal, to open our hearts, and to free up energy so we can respond in wise and loving ways. Our bodies are instruments of energy and love. Many of us are experiencing trauma, outrage, fear, grief, despair, numbness… all of these are natural human responses to our racial crisis and pandemic. This ritual is an invitation to release what is eating at our soul.
The main practice in this class will be focused on erotic integration. There are four ways you will participate in this practice, each of which culminates in a Big Draw: 1) Breathing, 2) Moaning and other sounds, 3) Movement and 4) Self-Touch. If you wish to lie down, come prepared with a mat or even a bed.
Chances are, you have been there, breaking up, leaving, divorcing. How did it make you feel? Do you think you did well? Did your partner do well? In the workshop, I would like to offer you a few simple tools on how to navigate separation. It doesn’t matter if it was your childhood boyfriend or your long term partner. If you carry a residual pain, there are ways to assist in letting go. Don’t take me wrong, I can’t offer you a magic pill that would heal the pain of long term abusive relationship, betrayal, or any other deep trauma. But I will offer you the tools you can use to find peace and reclaim the space within yourself that will be available for future relationships.
Join Nadia as she explores the art of giving yourself the presence and personalised care we may be unable to reliably source from others... By creating a sacred space for you to enjoy a variety of sensual pleasures, tantric energy circulation practices, and self-massage, you may just experience falling in love with the universe inside you.
Orgasmic Meditation (OM) is a 15-minute partnered practice – between two people who know, like, and trust each other – focused on the female orgasm through direct stimulation of the clitoris, the female centre of power and pleasure.
Orgasmic Meditation has no goal except to feel what is happening in the moment.
Why is it so hard to feel good sometimes!? Unfortunately, shame, fear, worry and stress all dissociate and disembody us, and dull our ability to feel sensation or be aware of our senses. So often we forget we even live in a body.
This workshop is your commitment to yourself and your pleasure practice. It is yours if you want it.
We are experiencing a moment in which many of us are not able to interact with others in the ways that normally make us feel connected. Many of us are feeling an acute lack of giving and receiving touch. However, we are also in a unique time in which we are experimenting with and discovering new ways of connection.
Each day we share from our hearts what's alive in us in the present. It's not about stories or "others", it's about what's is moving in us that day and in that moment. There's no cross talk, nor feedback unless invited. Huddling is fun yet deep. It a place where you can be seen, felt and heard.
Rope is sensitive and dynamic. It can act as a conductor of energy and tactile information. When we involve rope in our play, we work with different types of touch; from the light gliding of rope on the skin, through to firm compression as the rope wraps, frictions, cinches, and moulds our bodies into a beautiful bind and surrender. In this workshop, Luke will teach some basic principles of working with rope, connecting rope-play to sensuous, mindful and playful self-touch. We will be our own Rigger-bunnies; exploring a self-intimacy and solo kink, connecting with our touch, breath and binding.
Stripping, teasing and being seen is playful, sensuous, and freeing. You express whatever your mood is in the moment in this workshop. I will reveal some genius tools about how to play with each other in this fun way online. You will get to explore your comfort zones and edges, keeping it subtle or clothing optional! Find and share your attractiveness as you let our essence shine. The tease of a strip gives vitality and confidence. Join us for a fun interactive time working as a group and in partnered exercises.
Stephens and Sprinkle will take you on a fun and inspiring journey as they share stories, photos, and videos of their wild, wacky art experiments in romance, breast cancer, sex education, and artificial insemination. Currently they are exploring their “eco-sexuality,” taking the Earth as their lover, and developing a new field of research they coined “Sexecology.” They’ve had eight big performance art weddings where they have married each other, and the Earth, Sky and Sea, all in collaboration with hundreds of artists, academics, sex workers, gender-queer communities, ecologists, and activists. The Love Art Lab projects aim to instill hope, create an antidote to fear, and act as a call for action.
Tai Chi was originally conceived as a martial art. Nowadays, Tai Chi is mostly practice for the many health benefits it provides. In Tantric Tai Chi we explore deepening our connection with breath and movement both within ourselves and with our partners.
How can you begin to carry off this unserious attitude to something so serious, sacred and even scary as sex? In this interactive workshop, Martha will share what she feels is necessary to have unserious sex - all the time, in her signature fun and funny style, of course! By the end of this session, you will leave feeling more confident about applying more light-heartedness in your life.
Shibari is a unique and sensual art form that involves tying geometric patterns and shapes with rope that contrast with the human body’s natural curves. The ropes and their texture provide contrast to smooth skin and curves. In Shibari, the model is the canvas, the rope is the paint and brush, and the rigger is the rope artist. Originally developed as a form of capture, torture or presentation of prisoners by the Samurai, it has developed over time into a sensual art form.
reconnect with your sweet virginal innocent, only then to voice dirty and dark ideas
Many people give up their plush animals well before they go into puberty. However, there are also quite a few who never give them up, and courageously carry them into adulthood. For me, they are not toys, but living creatures, with unique personalities, likes and dislikes, and even sexualities. Beyond giving emotional comfort and reassurance, they create magical worlds of intimacy that it is possible to share with others.
This workshop is frame to explore drooling. Maybe you will find it erotic, or shameful. Perhaps empowering, or disgusting. Either way there is only one way to find out. Let it pour.
The journey to paradise begins through the darkest and most taboo part of the body: so teaches one of the greatest literary works of European culture. In the The Divine Comedy. From a practical point of view, when exploring the anus Jack Morin encourages everyone to make a "no pain ever commitment". This workshop is for those who want to learn skills in giving and/or receiving anal pleasure. We will spend time relaxing with a slow touch around the outside of the anus - 'rosebud' massage. We will teach some techniques of touch to this area of extraordinary sensitivity.
The soil is a life. Gardening, your hands in the soil, the scent of the sage, the sticky mud as you pour water, the smell of maneure. The sights of the greens, the greens, the reds, the yellow, the bronze. Gardening awakens your erotic current. Squatting as you weed. Your hands in moist, fertile earth. You can get lost if you want.
I am my own lover. I touch myself and give myself tenderness, intimacy, lust, love. A journey across your skin with your own hands, fingertips like eyes, exploring an amazing landscape, beautiful, intense, exciting. Gently guided experience into new spaces of lustful self love.
Betty Martin’s own adaptation of her famous Wheel of Consent to the online Zoom world