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The Summer Solstice Festival | Sydney December 19

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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? Sunday, 19th December 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

Featured
Sensation Play with Wax
Sensation Play with Wax

Hot wax dripping over your partner’s naked, vulnerable flesh will send shivers of excitement down their spine and a rush of warmth over their skin – nothing more – as you both enjoy the relaxing flickering of the candlelight. This Wax Play Workshop will show you how wax play can be sensual and enjoyable for everyone involved.

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Love Dancing
Love Dancing

Conscious Erotic Dancing is created to awaken and attune our healing and creative energies, from molecular level in the deepest core of our biological being to complete transcendence. It is not concerned with learning but with remembering and recognizing what belongs to our original, primary nature.

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Exploring Non-Monogamy
Exploring Non-Monogamy

Our society encourages us to search for “the one”, to find our “better half” and to rely on our romantic partner to anticipate and meet all of our needs. We know we can have nurturing relationships with multiple friends, co-workers, and relatives without threatening our other relationships.

So what happens if we reject society’s scarcity model of love and let go of ownership of our romantic partner? We can begin to think of love and erotic energy as coming from a place of abundance, with room for sensual exploration, sexual adventures and long-lasting, fulfilling relationships. Ethical non-monogamy offers tools for taking responsibility for our own happiness, building communication, intimacy, trust, and freedom to explore different aspects of ourselves with others. Lydia will share some of the mindset adjustments and communication rituals that she and her partners use to ensure everyone feels safe, respected and loved.

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How to Navigate the Festival Safely (90 minute Session on Zoom)
How to Navigate the Festival Safely (90 minute Session on Zoom)

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, all new attendees to Erotic Living must attend the Opening Ceremony, which will happen on Zoom at 6pm the night before the festival. (Link given on registration)

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Play Piercing
Play Piercing

Play piercing can produce an endorphin high, which can last for hours and can induce orgasm in many of the people who experience it. It is body piercing done for the purpose of enjoying the experience rather than producing a permanent body decoration. The experience of multiple piercings in an erotically or spiritually charged context is something to experience.

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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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Self-Love
Self-Love

When people come into the erotic space, there is the perceived pressure to feel sexual or erotic when we may feel scared or exhausted or insecure. Putting self-care first means turns towards how you are feeling and prioritizing meeting your underlying needs. We will practice asking our intuition the question “what are we needing now? From that place we come to this place from a place of abundance instead of lack, which makes us more capable of connecting with others in an authentic way.

Self-Love is a Key enabler in the Erotic Space.

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Our EL Facilitators

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: December 18
Surrender to Freedom - Discover the Beauty of Shibari with Avalon
Later Event: February 20
Tantric Spanking

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!