HEART OF TANTRA FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

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.

Kamile Kapel uses humour masterfully in her talk “How to Pet a Cat” to disarm, engage, and educate her audience about sensitive topics like consent and touch.

By using a whimsical and unexpected metaphor—comparing women to cats and men to dogs—she creates a playful, low-pressure space to explore intimacy. In one especially memorable moment, she advises the “dogs” in the room, “Don’t just go for the bone,” a cheeky line that earns laughs while making a serious point: touch should be respectful, attuned, and mutually welcomed.

The talk is part of a larger workshop where Kamile performs original, comedic songs that explore the complexities of sexuality, relationships, and emotional healing. Her blend of storytelling, music, and humour creates a dynamic and emotionally resonant experience. She closes the workshop by guiding participants in a co-regulation exercise—teaching them how to “pet each other like cats”—offering a gentle, embodied practice of connection and consent.How to Pet a Cat:

Hearts Harmony Kirtan is made up of Daniel and Beata. They are Beloveds who have spent many years studying Tantra and Yoga, which ignited a deep passion for Kirtan. They are joined by Tom Jones and Geetanjali Joshi.

Kirtan in its most well-known form, is the call and response chanting of Mantra (ancient sounds or combination of words in Sanskrit that is believed to have a special spiritual power) with instrumental accompaniment. Kirtan is a form of devotional chanting that calms the mind, opens the heart and guides us to a place of inner peace and connection. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or new to meditation, all are welcome to come together in community and harmony.

Hearts Harmony is delighted to share the transformative power of kirtan with you, reflecting their profound love and gratitude for life and commitment to celebration as an offering to the divine.

This yoga is available for all. Bring a yoga mat and comfortable clothes to move in.

If your new to Tantra or someone looking to deepen your practice, the art of consent can play a valuable role in the navigation of the Tantra world. From touch, to communication, attunement and more, finding ways to use consent effectively can make your Tantric explorations a more healing, empowering and enjoyable experience. In this workshop we will review the foundations of consent, practice in a variety of ways and do our best to prepare everyone for their journey at the Heart of Tantra Festival 2025.

This is an experiential practice into awakening the Tantric forces and ecstasy of Shiva and Shakti within ourselves. A chance to artfully play these scales of being and moving beyond the limitations that are sometimes bumped into within this spectrum of Shiva and Shakti. Discover these different dimensions and how it affects us in life, relationships, our sexual fulfillment, our journey of awakening and our true empowerment as we find alignment within society.

This is going to be a juicy and experiential workshop with firm boundaries set so we can take a speed deep dive and learn to open up the inner portals of our Tantric capacity as we open each other to the Divine.

This mesmerizing Ritualized Dance is a Sacred Offering and a fine tapestry of awareness, ancient arts, pleasure, fully expressed Divinity and the embodiment of the Goddess. The Dancers have been dedicated to knowing the subtle energies of Das Maha Vidya’s- the Wisdom Goddesses of the Tantric Tradition – so that they can transmit their medicine through their movements merging across time and worlds for a potent experience weaving body, heart and spirit.

This mesmerizing Ritualized Dance is a Sacred Offering and a fine tapestry of awareness, ancient arts, pleasure, fully expressed Divinity and the embodiment of the Goddess. The Dancers have been dedicated to knowing the subtle energies of Das Maha Vidya’s – the Wisdom Goddesses of the Tantric Tradition – so that they can transmit their medicine through their movements merging across time and worlds for a potent experience weaving body, heart and spirit.

Discover the art of embodiment and self-expression through Wuji Qigong, rooted in Taoist and Shamanic traditions. In this session, we’ll delve into the Chinese principle of ‘song’—a state of release and the ability to let go, both mentally and physically. Through guided breathwork, expressive movement, and a blend of dynamic and stillness meditations, you’ll have the chance to cultivate your energy (Qi) and explore new ways to practice surrender to receive more safety, pleasure, power, and love.

Moving in Mystery is a blindfolded, nonverbal, and clothing-optional sacred movement journey. With eyes closed and agendas dropped, participants enter a field of surrendered embodiment—where spontaneous movement, breath, sound, and stillness become prayerful expressions of the divine. This is not performance, foreplay, or choreography; it is the art of letting life force move through you, guiding your body into its own truth—whether that’s stillness, vibration, crawling, or ecstatic motion. In this ritual space, we listen deeply—to energy, to eros, to the mystery within—while weaving a divine tapestry of connection with ourselves and others, and we return transformed.

Kali RItual – Alchemizing Uncertainty

This gathering has been created as a community container to explore intimacy, relating, eros, love and consciousness. It is natural in these experiences that you need support and sometime to simply be with others to co-regulate your nervous systems.

The sharing circle gives you this chance to share with a group and create a feeling of mutual support. This is a place to drop in and feel at home. The circles are meant to be a place of nourishment and support.

Tap into the subtle ecstasy that lives just beneath the surface of your skin. In this workshop, we’ll explore the body as a living field of energy and sensation, activating lesser-known erogenous zones through varied types of conscious, non-sexual touch.

Through guided solo and partnered practices, you’ll learn to attune more deeply to your body and increase your capacity for pleasure. As your sensory awareness increases, you may discover how subtle touch can open profound pathways of connection and aliveness.

This is a space of consent, curiosity, and embodied discovery.

Note: This workshop does not include genital touch or explicit sexuality. No prior experience needed.

Journey into the depths of your being in this transformative workshop designed to help you embrace and integrate your dark masculine and feminine energies. Through the alchemy of dance, sensual expression, k!nk, sacred rituals, and partner practices, you’ll discover the profound gifts your Dark Eros has to share with you (including sexual confidence, asserting boundaries, embracing the healing of your Inner Bitch/Badass, and power and polarity). Learn to distinguish and transform the unintegrated dark masc/femme (and what those characteristics look like) into their integrated expressions.

You’ll embark on a multidimensional journey that includes: sensual & primal expression,
Archetypal embodiment, rituals of transformation and soulful partner practices. Regardless of your gender orientation, relating style or status, you’ll be given permission to embrace your fierce passion, let go of the ‘Mr. Nice Guy/Girl’ complex, and celebrate being “too much”.

This workshop is open to individuals of all genders and backgrounds who are ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery, healing, and empowerment. Come as you are and prepare to embrace the depths of your being as you awaken to the integrated power of your dark masculine and feminine energies.

This is an evening inspired by sensuality and devotion. A chance to explore your unique expressions, your desire and pleasure. Discover different flavours of juicy connections through the heart, sensuality, energetics, the physical, curiosity and imagination. Get to know yourself and others on a deeper intimate level through a soulful experience of passion, play, eros and sensuality. Embrace the gift of your true aliveness.

This is an invitation to connect from your authentic truth and honour and respect your own and other’s truths. We will honour all needs for consent to co-create a safe enough Temple space. This space will be opened with agreements, guidance and prayerformance leading to a new world of possibility.

Everything within the temple is your choice and you participate as you feel called. Dress up in whatever way expresses your Sacred Erotic Self or simply undress. Come explore the mystery and embrace the freedom and creativity that await.

Dance and stretch through movement meditation.

This yoga is available for all. Bring a yoga mat and comfortable clothes to move in.

This is a chance to anchor in your experiences from the weekend so that when you leave your experience continues to grow within you and your understandings and wisdom can be woven into the tapestry of your life. It is a chance to share from the heart and bare witness to others vulnerability and views.