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The Festival of Erotic Living | Byron Bay June 13

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Sunday 13th June @ Byron Bay Community Centre

The Best Therapy for Stress is Embodied Love and Connection

The Erotic Living Festival is a day to CELEBRATE who we are as erotic beings and the diversity and richness of erotic connection. There will be an incredible program of workshops, installations, ceremonies and play party.

Join us at The Erotic Living Festival: connect with likeminded people and give your erotic life an injection of energy!

When? Sunday, 13th June 9:30-10pm

Where? Byron Bay Community Centre, 69 Jonson St, Byron Bay NSW 2481

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Our Erotic Living Program

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BDSM as a Spiritual Practice
BDSM as a Spiritual Practice

For many BDSM practitioners, the purpose of play is not primarily linked to sexual arousal, but the altered states of consciousness that it can facilitate in both Bottoms and Tops. While the BDSM community isn't tied to any religious ideology, the practice does share an important commonality with some spiritual meditation traditions that involve pain. This workshop will explore the spiritual dimensions of BDSM in relation to trance states, being in the present moment through pain, and the mystery of the un-known.

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Energetic Love Making
Energetic Love Making

Come expand the range of your energetic sexual experience and expand your capacity to feel more of everything including bliss and pleasure as well as connection, without needing physical touch. Come reclaim your sexual power & sovereignty as you discover your capacity to awaken, cultivate, expand & move your sexual energy on your own & with others all from withing your own body through breath movement sound & visualization.

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Surrender to Freedom
Surrender to Freedom

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.

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Holding and Being Held
Holding and Being Held

While holding forms an integral part of many physical interactions, and while it can, by itself, generate intense emotions and sensations, it is rarely investigated on its own merit. Often we do not actually feel safely held, even though that is what we long for (we can only truly let go when we know that someone will be there to hold us). Once we understand what it is that makes being held a less than satisfying experience, we can be clearer about what it is that we wish to feel in an embrace and where to place our attention.

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Primal Play
Primal Play

This session will be a process of stripping back the socialised self and dropping into a state of pure being.

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Bite Me
Bite Me

In this workshop we will look at the ways in which fear affects the body and how we can utilise this to create a heightened sensory and erotic experience for someone. We will explore different methods for safely inducing fear and look at the depth of feelings and sensations that lead up to and follow fear. We will experiment with knife play and face slapping as well as playing with proximity, volume and anticipation.

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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 Erotic Living Temple Night
The Erotic Living Temple Night

Temple Night 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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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.

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Later Event: August 27
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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!