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The EL Festival | Sydney May 29

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Saturday 29th May @ Leela Centre in Darlinghurst in Sydney

Do you miss feeling butterflies? Do you long to play with others? Are you ready to (re)awaken your erotic energy?

The Sydney Festival of Erotic Living is a day to CELEBRATE the diversity and richness of our being-with one another. There will be a program of Workshops, Ceremonies and a Party.

The Festival is a unique opportunity to

  • Open Your Eyes to what is possible in this realm

  • Invigorate your existing relationships

  • Reconnect with your own body

  • Maintain healthy boundaries

  • Feel the Joy of Being Alive.

When? Saturday, 29th May 9:30-10pm

Where? The Leela Centre, 2nd Floor, 113-115 Oxford Street, (Corner of Crown Street), Darlinghurst NSW 2010.

BOOK NOW FOR THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE or Half-Day

Nervous about coming? Read our Frequently Asked Questions.

Read about our Festivals in Timeout Magazine

Our Erotic Living Program

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The Tantric Forest
The Tantric Forest

You can tickle, cuddle, stroke or caress the bark of each tree. Explore their branches, their leaves, their scent or their taste. Sharing your love and attention between these great flora specimens, creating a safe space to experiment with pleasure. Then surrender yourself, as you become ‘The Forest’. Experience the tickles, the cuddles, stokes and caresses of loving hands. As the distraction of attraction hides in darkness, your pleasure can emerge into the light. How much will you let go? How much will you surrender?

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Sharing Your Fantasies
Sharing Your Fantasies

From “I think about having threesomes with my wife’s best friend” to “I can’t stop thinking about being tied up during sex” there are no limits to the unspoken desires people have. The brain...is the most erogenous zone in the body,

It can be scary to admit your sexual fantasies to yourself, let alone to say them out loud to someone else, who might not like them. Nonetheless, in admitting to ourselves and others what turns us on, we create trust and intimacy.

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Self-Pleasure
Self-Pleasure

Many of us rarely self-pleasure.

And if we do, it is often in a hurried manner, leaving us with shame afterwards.

Sometimes sex education starts with yourself. And pleasure starts within. In this workshop we will guide you through practices where you will use your own intuitive wisdom to discover what satisfies you.

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Self-Love
Self-Love

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.

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Opening Ceremony
Opening Ceremony

Meet the festival presenters, learn about verbal and body consent, and how best to navigate through the festival. To ensure that all festival participants can practice informed consent, everyone must attend the Opening Ceremony.

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The Magical Experience
The Magical Experience

The Magical Experience is a curated play party which explores theatricality, ceremony and poetry in the context of erotic play. There will be live music to accompany and inspire you through the evening.

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Sensory Role Play
Sensory Role Play

This Workshop focuses on "impact play" as a medium for sensory pleasure. We will navigate intimacy with in a power dynamic and explore the nuances of both giving and receiving impact, with a focus on the responsibility and intention that exist in both roles.

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Age Play
Age Play

In age play, we eroticise familiar structures and roles. We play with taboo fantasies, such as mummy, daddy, little girl, little boy, teacher, student and so on. Like all BDSM, it happens only between consenting adults. Age play is not pedophilia.

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Our EL Teachers

What people are saying about Erotic Living

“I have been coming to Erotic Living events since 2017, each time has given me ways be a better person - to myself and to others - not only in the erotic space, but in all aspects of my personal and professional life. I will be coming for many years to come and wish I had these opportunities given to me as a young woman.”

Kim McBurnie, Sydney

“I write this testimonial a day after The Festival of Erotic Living and I feel alive, refreshed, satisfied and hungry all at the same time. The world doesn't have an environment to discuss our needs and fantasies, but the safe space created here means you are not judged, in fact it is encouraged.”

VJ Raju Dorai about the most recent EL Festival on November 1, 2020, Sydney

“We had a great day and found it pitched at the right level. Tastefully run without being overtly sexual. There were many tips on communication that we’ve taken away and practice now. We’ll certainly be back for more so thanks for a great day.”

A&E about the most recent EL Festival on November 1, 2020, Sydney

“EL offers people genuine, meaningful education in a very challenging, confusing and very misunderstood part of life.”

Jacqueline Hellyer, sex therapist based in Sydney.

“Peter Banki is an erotic catalyst. I give him my highest recommendation.”

Joseph Kramer, Ph.D., Founder of the Profession of Sexological Bodywork in California

“Thank you Peter for making the world a sexier place”

Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D. artist and eco sexual sexecologist and feminist.

Earlier Event: March 13
The Festival of Erotic Living
Later Event: June 13
The Festival of Erotic Living | Byron Bay June 13

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!