We have an amazing team gathered to co-create this festival and to support your experience.
Festival Organizers
Thor Hedlund
Thor has been teaching the transformational arts of Tantra, Shamanism, Ritual Magick and Conscious Movement around the world since 2011.
He has organized or co-organized tantra festivals for over 7 years, including the California Tantra Festival, Austin Tantra Festival and East Coast Tantra Festival.
Ananda
Ananda is the founder of Ananda Essence. She has been teaching tantra in Switzerland since 2021.
In her “Sensual Tantra Experience” weekend workshops, as well as her “Sensual Tantra Online Course”, she teaches the philosophy, practices and rituals of tantra as an embodied path to awakening.
PRESENTERS
Sunny Ju
Sunny Ju, founder of De-Armouring Trainings & Retreats, and co-creatress of Female Xploration, is an international Embodiment Educator and a real Pleasure Activist. With over 20 years of experience in trauma informed Body-, Breath- and Energywork, and working with thousands of clients, Sunny believes that listening to the body is the missing key to soul-satisfying relationships, mind-altering sex, and heart-felt happiness.
With a focus on De-Armouring, Sunny guides groups and individuals through deeply transformational processes, towards breaking free from conditioning, opening up the body and finding peace and joy. Her work boils down to developing an integrated approach to the physical and emotional, and nurturing true intimacy as key to connection with self and others.
Sunny’s expertise, depth and clarity, always infused with curiosity and playfulness, are inspirational. She emphasises authenticity, intuition and vulnerability while deeply feeling and listening to whatever is in the space energetically.
Matthias Schwenteck
Matt is a German-born citizen who has travelled and taught around the world since 2010.
He’s been a facilitator in the fields of Sacred Sexuality & Tantra for over 20 years.
His sessions & teachings are grounded in trauma research and neurophysiology.
Matt considers himself a student of life—inspired by everything that resonates with the key values of connection, transformation, and love.
In his unending search for authentic experience, Matt has walked many paths, including Tao Yoga, Shamanism, and Energy Work.
In 2011, he found his calling within somatic practices & consent, and has continued to study & fine-tuning this work ever since.
Matt developed the Somatic Consent Engagement System in 2019. Since then he’s guided thousands of people through their evolutionary process, in settings ranging from festivals, to workshops, to professional private sessions.
www.somaticconsent.com
Monique Darling
Workshop facilitator extraordinaire, Monique Darling, has led over 3000 workshops in the past 13 years.
She is the founder of Everyday Tantra an organization dedicated to empowering people who are questioning the assumptions of how their life should be and to offering tools for self-expression that create trust, inner knowing and wisdom to enjoy the life they have.
Monique has been featured on TLC and The Dr’s as well as various radio shows, podcasts and magazines across the USA. She specializes in helping others reclaim their power and natural sensuality by transmuting fear and repression into courage, self-love and freedom.
Her primary purpose is helping folks bring out their vulnerability, energetic embodiment and fearless relating. She guides from a place of understanding and her natural exuberance is infectious!
www.everydaytantra.com
Luzi Pods
I’m Luzi, Somatic Sexologist, Temple Facilitator, witch & erotic artist. As a somatics nerd & nature lover I feel most alive when I’m naked in the forest. I love facilitating spaces which give permission for our most wild, creative and free expression. I honour the body as life’s true oracle and sexuality as magic. I’m here to feel and pour as much love as I can into the world.
I’ve dedicated my life to Self Pleasure because nothing is closer to my heart. When I fell apart and lost myself, this practice was (and still is) what returns all of me back home. It reminds me of the love I’m made of, every time I put my hands on my body. It’s my medicine, my prayer, my commitment to myself and the people I love.
I believe that working with Self Pleasure is the most radical thing we can do. Loving and returning to the body in a disembodied society is necessary for the evolution of this planet. It’s peace work - it creates a more compassionate way of living and relating. And how needed that is. If I had the power to teach humanity one thing - this would be it.
https://luzipods.com/
Xavier De Forceville
Xavier is a powerful Love Warrior dedicating his life to being a channel through which Love can manifest. He practices everyday with many different tools and modalities to continually deepen into his capacity.
Xavier upgraded a Space Engineering career in France 20 years ago by embracing passionately a life, love and spiritual quest in Australia and in over 30 countries around the world. He is studying, practicing and sharing everything that can help living a more empowered abundant and loving happy life on this planet.
With full presence and gratitude and leading by example Xavier is working to heal and teach in the areas of abundance, presence, sacred sexuality, and the power of the divine Masculine and Feminine. Studying as much as possible and being in service to love on a daily basis, he is passionate about sharing his gifts with those ready to upgrade their life.
Xavier is an ISTA Faculty , Spiritual Sexual Shamanic practitioner, personal mentor, and health, wealth and personal development coach..
Kachenka
Transformational facilitator, Tantra teacher, relationship coach and trauma therapist. As a modern day medicine woman, Kachenka works with sexual life force, trauma release and empowerment through intimacy. She supports seekers to return to a place of authenticity, innocence, self worth and speaking the truth.
She guides individuals to channel their sexual energy into creative expansion and by cultivating balance of inner healthy masculine and feminine, to experience wholeness and rise on the path to higher consciousness.
She is fully devoted to share powerful transmissions in order to create more awareness and growth in the field of emotional intelligence, relationships and sacred sexuality. She holds Cobra Breath Initiations, Orgasmic Events, Transformational Retreats and Intimacy Coaching.
She is certified Art of Love facilitator, Ipsalu Tantra Kriya Yoga teacher, BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release Practitioner, Shiatsu Thai massage therapist, Reiki & Deeksha giver, and she’s been initiated into plant medicine paths with Huichol and Shipibo tribes.
Bina Taverna
With over 8 years of immersive experience in the realms of Shibari, Tantra, Sacred Sexuality, and Bodywork, Bina is an experienced guide in the journey of personal transformation.
Bina internationally facilitates Tantric Shibari retreats, workshops, and private sessions, offering profound experiences for seekers all around the globe.
Her work is deeply rooted in empowerment, shadow work, and personal development, drawing inspiration from modalities such as sexological bodywork, trauma-sensitive tools and relationship coaching, and the yogic path.
Bina encourages seekers to explore the depths of their being, navigating the shadow realms with courage and compassion. Each encounter with Bina becomes a sacred exploration, where the integration of polarities leads to profound pleasure and newfound wholeness. IG: @binataverna
www.binataverna.com
Jonny Driscoll
Jonny Driscoll is a highly experienced embodiment dance coach and facilitator with over 15 years of teaching experience. Specialising in conscious partner dancing and partner connection,
Jonny Driscoll is the creator of Embodiment Dance, a unique method rooted in principles of yin and yang, the natural elements, and the relationship between physical density and spiritual unity. This method bridges the physical and spiritual realms, supporting authentic expression and conscious communication through movement.
Jonny’s classes are known for their depth, playfulness, and inclusivity, creating safe spaces for exploration and connection. Rooted in principles aligned with Tantra’s ethos of unity and presence, Jonny invites participants to move beyond limiting patterns, embrace flow, and experience the profound joy of embodied connection. His work continues to inspire those seeking deeper self-awareness, connection, and creative expression.
Eleanor Rutman
Eleanor is a tantra facilitator who builds sensual bridges between the genders. Where women, men and non-binaries beings can simply relax into their true essence, communicate their desires with ease and feel human.
She teaches Energy-Sex-Workshops, Sexual Vitality Qi Gong, Flirt-Workshops and is Co-Founder of Sensual Speed Dating.
"My purpose is the understanding of polarities, dancing with masculine and feminine energies. Playing, dancing, and laughing, creating spaces for sacred sexuality.“
Max Leguerer
I’m Max and I have been intensely studying and practicing different meditation and relaxation techniques for the last 12 years.
Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation journey, deeply restorative for body and mind. It is especially powerful as it allows you to set intentions and anchor them in the subconscious during the practice. They may then manifest during your life when the right moment is there.
My mission is to provide a container for integration and restoration during the festival.
Shashi Solluna
I am passionate about the journey of embodied awakening, especially in the areas of sex, love and intimacy. When I first went on a spiritual quest, I found non-dual “enlightenment” and thought that I was “complete” on my journey at the age of 21! However, I soon began to realize that I had skipped over my personal healing, including communication skills, trauma-healing, deconditioning, shadow work, sexual awakening, intimacy and other aspects of personal transformation.
In short, I had bypassed the personal in my hurry to reach transcendence! But as soon as I entered relationship, I realized that my “enlightenment” was incomplete! I needed to embody that “Higher Truth” and to unite my persona self with my higher self in order to become fully authentic. That realization was the start of a journey to discover Tantra, Tao and relationship tools that would end up becoming my life path.
After many years of dedication on this path, I now teach Tantra to women and couples around the world and online. I share ancient tools from the Tao Tantric Arts that empower you to awaken sexual energy and use it for bringing more vitality, creativity, love and consciousness into your life and your relationship.
Laura Deva
Laura is an international leader around the themes of sacred sexuality and non-dual embodiment. The richness of her transmissions stems from a years of experience, devotion and a constant willingness to self enquire.
Laura has an incredible understanding of body and knows how to approach it. Physically, energetically and shamanically. Her powerful, authentic and sensual presence helps those who are in his presence to re-inhabit their bodies, to find their way back to their Temple.
Peter Petersen
Peter Petersen's three main passions in life are movement, music, and meditation.
He has been teaching qigong for 19 years and has been a certified Sheng Zhen Qigong teacher for the last 17. He has taught in health clubs, hospitals, retirement villas, and several different wellness/spa resorts in Mexico and the United States, such as Rancho La Puerta, Mayacamas Ranch, and Present Moment Retreat.
Peter has traveled and taught with Monique Darling for over the last 5 years teaching Tantra and his own style of qigong/dance all over North America, the EU, Asia, and Australia. Helping people to see what is intensely alive in their heart and helping them to export that passion into the world is why Peter loves his job and will do this till his final breath.
www.everydaytantra.com
Susanna Beatrice
Susanna Beatrice (formerly Sanna Sanita) is an international speaker, self-mastery mentor, and spiritual catalyst specializing in spiritual and sexual awakening, deep transformation, and social deconditioning. With over 25 years of experience, she has dedicated her life to profound personal and collective awakening, guiding individuals to reclaim their authentic power.
As a pioneer in modern tantra and the European dearmouring movement, Susanna is the founder of Dearmouring Arts School, NeuroTransformative Breathwork (NTB), and SoulSuccess Business School. Her work blends somatic intelligence, radical self-inquiry, and embodied wisdom, helping people unlock deeper intimacy, sovereignty, and personal mastery. Her approach is Raw, real, heartled, and radically compassionate
www.susannabeatrice.global
www.ntbreathwork.com
www.dearmouringarts.com
https://www.facebook.com/susannabeatriceglobal9
https://www.instagram.com/susannabeatrice.global/
Our Echo
I have been a seeker of sorts my entire life. I have spent countless years following an intuition somewhere deeply embedded within me that ushered me forward. My path was messy, unclear, and quite troubled. It was this way because my inner world was messy, unclear, and troubled. Through trial and error and a well of suffering, angst, and self-pity, I had a few wake-up calls that brought me out of my victimization and into conscious choiceful living.
I was deeply humbled in the darkest of my days.
I can tell you about all of the education I have received, the trainings, the certifications, the programs, the retreats, and the therapy but what has shifted my life's direction is my desire.
My true desire to be a better person, a better lover, and a kinder and more responsible human within the global ecosystem.
That is what finally brought about change. Once I saw the suffering I was perpetuating within myself, and its effect on those closest to me I dove into "The Work" in the last several years it has been my guiding light. My lighthouse.
https://www.echoflowyoga.com/
Leela Stephanie
Tantric Transformational facilitator, Erotic Wisdom coach, Love Priestess, Soul Mystic guide, Sacred cacao ceremonies
With over 10 years of teaching & performing in Sensual Arts, she uniquely combines body wisdom with her academic, yogic and temple arts training background.
Leela is a certified Sensual Arts, Yoga, Meditation & Mantra teacher, Reiki Master, NLP & Holistic Coach and graduated from the Level 3 of the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA).
Known for creating safe and playful transformational containers, she creates individual and collective journeys based on ancestral innovation practices.
As a medicine woman, she helps people to heal, explore and embody their soul’s gifts and humanness - their free, authentic, wild, empowered sexy unique self in harmony and within unity.
www.vivaauthentica.com
Rick Smith
I’ve been a classroom teacher, an education consultant, and over the past twenty years, have spoken to over 100,000 people in fifteen countries on five continents.
My best-selling book Conscious Classroom Management has now sold over a quarter million copies, and continues to touch the lives of teachers and their students.
Throughout these past twenty years, I’ve also been teaching workshops in consciousness, embodiment, personal growth, and meditation.
I now bring my experience in teaching to these workshops, offering practical ways for participants to know and love themselves, and remember their own innocence, wholeness, and “enough-ness,” especially in all the tight corners of their inner and outer worlds.
I currently live in Bali, Indonesia.
Lenerd Louw
Seventeen years ago in the summer of 2004, I all of a sudden started having orgasms without ejaculating. There was no one to talk to about this as men’s sexuality is seldom spoken about and the few people I spoke to could not relate at all.
At the time I was the CEO of an insurance company, following many successful years in the corporate business world launching many direct insurance brands into the South African market. Five years later, in 2009, a strong inner voice started telling me that it was time for something totally different in my life and calling me to totally change what I was doing in work and in life. It did not make sense as this was all that I had been studying and working for my whole life.
Eventually in 2013 I heeded the call, resigned, sold and gave away all my possessions and bought a backpack and a one way ticket to Lima in Peru. This started a five year journey of learning and awakening around the world covering five continents and 35 countries.
I attended numerous workshops, trainings and initiations across many areas, but specifically in Spiritual Sexual Shamanism, Tantra, Taoism and Sacred Sexuality. Then it all started making sense as I realised that what I was practising had been in existence for more than 2500 years, since the time of the Taoist in Ancient China and the Tantrics in Ancient India.
I wrote a book about my journey, the learnings and the transformations. It was published mid 2019 by Melinda Ferguson the leading publisher of memoirs in South Africa and is called, JUMP!
Currently I’m leading residential and online workshops on Men’s Conscious Empowerment and Men’s Sexuality.
Anja Akaya
Anja is a Soul Doctor, Intimacy Coach, and founder of the European Tantra Festival. With over 15 years of studying somatic psychology and ancient healing practices, she is certified as a Holistic Life and Relationship Coach, Sexual Bodyworker, Qigong and Tantra Teacher. Anja specializes in female empowerment, trauma healing, nervous system regulation, and intimacy in relationships, guiding clients to transform anxiety, shame, and relational trauma into balance, connection, and joy. She has taught at festivals and workshops worldwide, creating trauma-informed spaces for deep healing and self-discovery.
Tantric Leadership Podcast: https://spoti.fi/3PvMyTA
MUSICIANS
Kevin James
Kevin James' Chanting Circles are a co-creative and empowering experience that can have you singing your heart out, dancing in bliss and diving deep into the profound silence that follows.
Weaving ancient Mantra’s with his own HeartSongs, Kevin’s music is a world fusion of devotional chanting, drawing upon influences from traditional Indian Kirtan, Rainbow Bhajans, Celtic and Sufi chants mixed with western folk sounds.
The songs and mantras of Kevin James Carroll are about re-connection. They are a gift to the many hearts remembering the ONE. An expression of the movement of realization that is spreading across the planet right now.
Sit back and take in the vibes or sing soft sweet simple melodies and let your voice fly with ascending choruses, followed by a flute meditation that takes you on a sound journey to the Himalayas.
https://kevinjamesmusic.com/about/
HEALING TEAM
Coco (Cornelia Commenda)
I accompany you on your journey through sexological bodywork.
My sessions will be deepen your experiences, providing you with a greater sense of connection and grounding. I will be enhancing your sensibility not only in your genitals, prostate, or anus but throughout your entire body. Together, we'll work towards achieving relaxation and calmness, releasing blockages and numbness. I eagerly looking forward to holding space for you.
Alexander Orth
Since 2007, I have practiced Thai Yoga Massage, and in 2009, I deepened my path with Tantric Massage. Both of these transformative practices have shaped my approach to bodywork, where presence and love are at the core of every session I offer.
I believe that true healing comes from being fully present in the moment and connecting deeply with others in a space of trust, care, and compassion.
My sessions are not just about physical touch but about cultivating a connection with the whole being—body, mind, and spirit. With each session, I aim to hold a safe, nurturing space where you can relax, release, and reconnect with your inner self.
Cleo
Welcome to a transformative experience where sensuality and healing converge. I am Cleo, a passionate tantric bodyworker offering luxurious erotic ceremonies and profound inner awakenings.
Join me for a private session designed to stir your senses and deepen your connection to your true self.
I specialize in Tantric Lingam Massage and Sacred Sexuality Rituals for both singles and couples.
Every touch is an invitation to explore the depths of your sensuality and release untapped energies. I create a sanctuary for you to indulge in the richness of the present moment, allowing you to shed layers of tension and embrace an explosion of pleasure unlike any other.
Experience the art of sexual healing and discover your vessel's limitless potential.
IG : @the.tantric.muse
Tilly Welmers
My passion is to support woman to blossom in their sexual fullness- I`ve been called a cranio-sacral therapist for the yoni :)
I bring over 30 years of experience, combining physical therapy, cranio-sacral, tantric teachings, ISTA practitioner training, traume release methods, pelvic floor and sexological bodywork. I love to create a loving, therapeutic space for women who want to explore the power and pleasure of their bodies.
Sofiane Khouas
Bring your body, your spirit and your soul in unity through the massage and coaching from Sofiane. Rich from long year of experience and a good knowledge of the mind and the body, Sofiane will help you to get out trauma, old theme, and blocked energy in your body.
Offer yourself a moment of deep healing under the skilled hand of Sofiane
Vera Domingos
I am passionate about assisting people connect with their unique vibration, guiding them to uncover the sounds that have been resonating within them.
This journey of discovering my own inner sound has been one of richness and depth—at times exhilarating, and at other times challenging.
I am a certified singing bowl massage practitioner with extensive experience in Sexological Bodywork, Holotropic Breathwork, and Family Constellations.
My true passion lies in soundbaths and massages which create resonance that brings body and mind into harmony. Let’s embark on this journey together and listen to the inner vibrations that guide you toward well-being.