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Worldwide Festival of Erotic Living - Integration and Recordings


Even though the festival has ended, you can purchase recordings of all festival sessions for the coming month for AUD $49 plus b/fee.

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 pioneers in the field, will support you to explore what is erotic living Today.

Our worldwide festival presenters

Our Worldwide Festival Program

Featured
Ritual Play with Marina Kronkvist
Ritual Play with Marina Kronkvist

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.

Trembling Open: Ritual of Grief & Eros with Zahava Griss and Bernadette Pleasant
Trembling Open: Ritual of Grief & Eros with Zahava Griss and Bernadette Pleasant

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.

Erotic Breathing and Moaning with Joseph Kramer, Ph.D.
Erotic Breathing and Moaning with Joseph Kramer, Ph.D.

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.

Conscious Uncoupling with Maya Krasna
Conscious Uncoupling with Maya Krasna

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.

Erotic Self-Care with Nadia Nauss
Erotic Self-Care with Nadia Nauss

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 with Oliver Damian
Orgasmic Meditation with Oliver Damian

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.

Prioritise Your Pleasure with Euphemia
Prioritise Your Pleasure with Euphemia

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.

Touch - A Guided Ritual with Anna Natt
Touch - A Guided Ritual with Anna Natt

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.

Huddle Time (each day from Saturday 5th June) with Isy Gabriel
Huddle Time (each day from Saturday 5th June) with Isy Gabriel

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.

My Tie / Rigger-bunny with Luke George
My Tie / Rigger-bunny with Luke George

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.

The Art of Online Stripping - Share Your Mojo with Marion Ellyard
The Art of Online Stripping - Share Your Mojo with Marion Ellyard

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.

Assuming the Ecosexual Position with Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D. and Beth Stephens, Ph.D.
Assuming the Ecosexual Position with Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D. and Beth Stephens, Ph.D.

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.

Tantric Tai Chi with Ben TantraChi
Tantric Tai Chi with Ben TantraChi

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.

The Art of Unserious Sex with Dr. Martha Tara Lee
The Art of Unserious Sex with Dr. Martha Tara Lee

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.

Surrender to Freedom with Avalon & Jenna
Surrender to Freedom with Avalon & Jenna

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.

Dignifying Dirty Talk and Degradation with Isla View
Dignifying Dirty Talk and Degradation with Isla View

reconnect with your sweet virginal innocent, only then to voice dirty and dark ideas

Plush Animal Play with Peter Banki, Ph.D.
Plush Animal Play with Peter Banki, Ph.D.

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.

Drooling with Saara Rei, Ph.D.
Drooling with Saara Rei, Ph.D.

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.

Through the Anus to the Heart with Sharka Rey
Through the Anus to the Heart with Sharka Rey

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.

Erotic Gardening with Line Bangsbo
Erotic Gardening with Line Bangsbo

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. 

Self-Love with Dr. Diva
Self-Love with Dr. Diva

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.

The Wheel of Video Consent with Dr. Betty Martin
The Wheel of Video Consent with Dr. Betty Martin

Betty Martin’s own adaptation of her famous Wheel of Consent to the online Zoom world

Earlier Event: March 6
Sydney Festival of Erotic Living
Later Event: August 30
The Play Series (Live Edition in Sydney)

What We Believe In

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EMBODIMENT

Partner with your body and your breath every day!

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RESPECT

Make requests, never demands! Resist all forms of coercion - especially self-coercion.

DIVERSITY

Vive la différence! Celebrate the differences in people and their tastes.

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COURAGE

Partner with your fears! Let them teach you courage and strength.

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AESTHETICS & PHILOSOPHY

Cultivate the erotic artist in you! And dare to reflect on what you are doing and why!

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PLAY AND MISCHIEF

Add some spice to it! Stay true to who and what turns you on! And be free!