HEART OF TANTRA FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Here is an example of our Festival schedule from 2022. The 2023 schedule will be posted soon.
FRIDAY 1ST JULY
BLISS TEMPLE
LOVE SHACK
18:30 – 19:00
Opening Ceremony - Festival Hostesses
Join us in the Opening Ceremony for the Heart of Tantra Festival, this is a chance to tune into the sacred, open our hearts and connect with others in heart space community.
Kirtan - Blair Francis & Friends
Set the tone for the entire magical weekend with a powerfully liberating and fun vocal experience known as Kirtan with devoted sound practitioner and kirtan wallah Blair Francis and friends.
Evoking the ancient energies of the God/Goddess archetypes within us through mantra-style, call-and-response group singing originating in India, we can anchor in our soul intentions and blast through our self-limited blockages all while having fun and energizing the body in full Bhakti Yoga fashion!
Kirtan is a form of Pranayama, a style of breathwork which is very stimulating and helps open and clear the physcial, emotional, and spiritual bodies as well. Blair’s style of kirtan is fun, playful, heartfelt, upbeat, and very danceable!
Even if you are new to kirtan, Blair and his band makes chanting kirtan very accessible, and always very enjoyable. This year’s Friday night blast off will surely be one you wont want to miss!
21:00 – 22:30
Opening in Tantric Connection - Festival Hostesses
This is a chance to get more familiar with the lovely humans you will be exploring with throughout the weekend.
SATURDAY 2ND JULY
BLISS TEMPLE
LOVE SHACK
Tao Tantric QiGong - Minke Devos
Enhance your Sexual Vitality with Qigong (energy work). Ground and tap into the nourishing earth qi and raise your energy to higher centres. Release any blockages to the free flow of life-force in your body.
Learn how to circulate energy in the Multi-orgasmic Channel through movement, breath and intention. Align yourself with heaven and earth to empower yourself and your relationships. Open your heart to receive energy from nature and shine your Love Light!
Breakfast
Served in the Bliss Temple
Heart of Tantra Welcome - Festival Hostesses
Expressing Desire - Jenna Card
If desire is the fire, boundaries are the hearthstone. Being able to claim the enlivening fire of our desires is just as important as being clear and solid in the boundaries of what we want and don’t want. If we want our desires fulfilled, we need the practical skills to courageously express both our glowing desires and clear boundaries, and to be able to gracefully receive authentic Yes’es and No’s.
Join Jenna for an experiential, playful and practical exploration of your authentic yes and no and boldly expressing your desires, fears and boundaries in clear, consensual, open ways. And be prepared to stoke each other’s fires!
Consent & Boundaries made Fun & Simple - Lynda Switzer
How do you know what your boundaries are? If you’re not sure, how would you discover them in a safe way? How do you work with someone who doesn’t know what their boundaries are?
What’s harder for you, saying, “No” or hearing, “No.”? How does it feel to hear or to say no? Do you ask for what you want with confidence and courage or only ask for what you think you can get?
Consider the idea that no one is ever behaving ‘badly’. All behaviors are attempts to meet precious needs.
Come join Coach Lynda as we explore these questions and more in an experientia, interactive, playful and fun way.
Lunch
Served in the Bliss Temple from Chef Ramin
Spandalicious Tantra - Krista Nova
Spanda is the pulsing radiating energy from Divine Consciousness.
Learn how to gain deeper access to the wisdom of the body so you may rely on it for trusted guidance on your journey of discovery and connections.
Learn to slowly let go of the idea of seeking love or hunting it down but simply learn to drop deeper into the presence and love that you already are.
Archetypal Expedition - Aubrey Rose
Emotional Intelligence - Steven Seva
People all over the world struggle with navigating the broad spectrum of emotions; in themselves and others. How do I respond when my partner is upset? How do I hold my own emotional intensity? What if the emotions present are “too much?”
The emotional spectrum is beautiful, intense, sometimes messy, and it can definitely be difficult to make sense of it all.
This workshop includes tools from Steven’s broad spectrum of training including emotional intelligence, compassionate communication, attachment theory, and trauma neuroscience.
Emotional Intelligence means using the emotional spectrum as a source of information and connection. EQ expert Steven Seva will take you on an insightful journey on how to hold, manage, and navigate the emotional spectrum with grace and ease, in a way that will amplify the quality of all of your relationships.
Ecstatic Yoga - Adi Thuillez
Ecstatic yoga is a mashup of Kundalini yoga and Ecstatic Dance. On recent tunes, come shake, jump, dance and scream like nobody is watching. Join like minded folks and co-create community. Meet your next best friends!
Building Internal Sexual Power - Minke Devos
In this restorative workshop, you will learn solo practices, which build your reserves of internal sexual power. Nourish the roots of a flower, the Yin, in order to support it’s blossoming.
We will be practicing Taoist energy cultivation, including Ovarian/Testicle Breathing, which circulates sexual energy in the Microcosmic Orbit. This builds a foundation for energetic, whole-body orgasm. Kidney Breathing is an effective way to recharge your will power. Bone Breathing will be done lying down to store excess sexual energy in the bones. This builds the blood and sexual stamina.
Harness your potent energy for rejuvenation, health and longevity. Instead of running on a needy, empty tank, meet your relationships with fullness!
This workshop runs for 90 mins
Therapeutic Kink - Dominic Lord
Dominic Lord has been exploring and sharing the profound healing possibilities of combining energy work, tantra, coaching, and sensation play for over 20 years.
Dominic will provide some insights of how this unique combination will help open levels of self-awareness and ecstasy, which allow for deeper connections to self and others. There will be a live demonstration of how he creates and holds the space, combining Tantra and Kink, for a person to fully understand and BE their natural selves.
Whether or not you are familiar with kink play but are curious about how loving Dominance and sensual Surrender can awaken our Divine selves, this workshop is for you.
Dinner
Dinner served in the Bliss Temple from Chef Ramin
Transfiguration - Krista Nova
Ritualized Prayerformance - Rasa Lila Dasi Dance troup
Dance Party - DJ Ka Baba
Music and dance has the power to move energy through us, to bring us focus, and to process and integrate experience. We can activate ourselves and elevate to our highest presence through movement and intention. This audio journey is designed to bring awareness and activation to your body and mind through the tribal rhythms and melodies of the ancient cultures of the world.
I welcome you to join us in exploring this vehicle of transformation, to bring ourselves to full presence and to embody our full potential, for ourselves, for each other, and for the world.
SUNDAY 3RD JULY
Tantric Kundalini Yoga - Naomi Prema Devi
This form of Yoga is a practice that works with asana, energy and the chakras. It mixes postures, energy, breath work, bandhas and kundalini activation practices to harmonize the body, mind and and spirit. This dynamic flow will leave you energized and peaceful.
This yoga is available for all. Bring a yoga mat and comfortable clothes to move in.
Breakfast
Served in the Bliss Temple.
The Embodied Heart Dance - Marcia Wakarchuk Jones
The heart’s energy field expands beyond our body and connects us vibrationally to all beings. When my heart is filled with emotion, how fully can I sense and feel it throughout? Where in my body does pleasure & desire arise? How can I align the thoughts in my head, the feelings in my heart and the passion in my hips?
The 5Rhythms moving meditation practice provides a sacred container to express our body’s fullness- no matter what we are experiencing in the present moment.
We will invite the resonance of the heart in connection to our body parts, to ourselves and to each other in a playful and juicy movement exploration.
Come join in the dance of The Embodied Heart!
Vocal Alchemy & the Path of Eros - Blair Francis
Join Sound Healer, Musician and Vocal Coach, Blair Francis, for a fun and playful vocal activation experience where we will:
• open the fullness of our voices
• deepen our relationship with our true selves
• unlock deep and hidden spaces within our hearts
• explore the pathway of creative, healing energy within our bodies
• and have A LOT OF FUN!
We’ll journey through a variety of vocal practices and techniques that stimulate and open the vital energy centres within the body, and using the power of song and chant, develop a strong and clear channel to flow this powerful energy freely through the body and out into the world! Be prepared to feel really good, and to break through the layers of shit that keep us playing small.
Meet yourself. Meet your voice. Love it, soften it, LET IT OUT!!
NO PREVIOUS SINGING EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!!
Devotional Polarity - Naomi Prema Devi
We will also be exploring the polarities of the divine masculine (Shiva) and feminine (Shakti) through the devotional lens, tapping into their core aspects and discovering the beauty of both.
This workshop is open to all, with the disclaimer since we will be exploring the masculine and feminine, it is important to know we have both within us, whether you identify as a man, woman or genderless.
It can help to decide in advance if you want to embody more your masculine or feminine for this workshop.
How to Turn Anger into Love - Maïkan Bordeleau
It’s not about changing the anger. It’s about accepting it as part of the human experience, listening to what it’s trying to say, learning how to meet those needs, channeling it in productive ways, checking in, developing a shared language with your beloved(s) around it and all emotions. The observation, supported by many teachings, is that when we ignore, shame, suppress, deny etc, we become less safe to others, because it always finds a way out, for example by manipulating the person concerned or lashing out at an outside person, and our vitality declines to the point of physical illness as well.
Sharing Circles - Festival Hostesses
Sharing circles are a way you can share with others and be heard in a non judgemental way. It’s a wonderful way to make friends and create community.
Lunch
Lunch served in the Bliss Temple with Chef Ramin
Hair Worship - Lynda Switzer
To worship is the energy of reverence and respect, to adore, to adorn, to honour and nurture …and to give GREAT pleasure. With care, intention and attention we can learn the techniques to pet, pull and play with hair to bring ourselves and others orgasmic bliss. Come, join our fun, experiential, no partner required, hands on fully facilitated experience of hair sensuality. Inclusive to hair challenged humans.
Contact Dance - Joni Cooke
No prior dance experience is required, but a strong level of focus, concentration, and commitment to staying present are invited. We will start on the floor with a gentle somatic-based warm up that will help the body to feel gravity.
Growing from the floor to standing, we will practice smoothing out our transitions into upright dancing. The goal is an aware, alert, and embodied presence that uses the full capacity of the mover as a human being awake in the world. More sensitivity is reached through relaxing the nervous system. More alertness is reached through waking up the mind with moment-by-moment choice making.
More embodiment is reached through a deep listening to the relationship to the earth, each other, and the space around us. All genders, abilities, and experience levels are welcome. This workshop is LGBTQ inclusive.
Exploring Intimacy with Tantric Buddhism - Tashi Dorji
18:15 – 18:45