Opening to Eros
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Opening to Eros
Your shadow holds the keys to your freedom. Opening to Eros is an invitation to step beyond fear and shame, to explore the desires we’re taught to silence — and to discover the healing that waits inside them.
This is a path of self-reclamation. By embracing what feels forbidden, we release the weight of repression and transform it into vitality, confidence, and wholeness. Transgression becomes medicine. Shadow becomes teacher. Desire becomes guide.
Opening to Eros is where personal growth meets embodied freedom — a journey into the depths that brings you back to yourself, more alive than ever.
Dare to descend. Dare to rise renewed.
#### What this training is about
Are you interested in working and connecting with your own and other people’s shadow?
Do you want to deepen your skills in taking people on journeys into exploring and reclaiming their shadows?
Do you work in the field of sexuality and would you like to broaden your practice?
Opening to Eros helps us to expand our understanding of our bodies, our subconscious patterns, our sexualities and thus ourselves.
With a strong emphasis on boundaries and consent, Opening to Eros gives us a diverse set of tools that allow us to expand our sexuality, be more confident with ourselves and lovers and become more empowered as self-aware erotic beings.
In a sense, every form of sexual expression that is not consciously innocent, expansive, or tantric carries a shadow. This darkness often remains unexamined, quietly woven into our anxieties and the tensions we’ve come to accept as normal. With the term Opening to Eros, we invite a conscious exploration of sexuality in its transgressive forms — a willingness to taste the forbidden fruit and discover what it reveals.
The very act of transgression awakens a charge of energy: the thrill of crossing taboos, the spark of rebellion, the delicious pulse of daring and naughtiness. Yet, when transgression becomes a quick fix — repeated rituals, identifications, clubs, or fetishes that proclaim unconventionality — it paradoxically reinforces the very system it seeks to defy. The forbidden requires the act of forbidding; and as the cycle repeats, the hunger for stimulation escalates, spiraling into ever more extreme forms of intensity.
In this training, we approach Opening to Eros differently. We recognize the forbidden nature of sexuality in our culture, and the tension this creates in our own bodies — even when our personal philosophies embrace a spiritual path of sexuality. Here, transgression becomes a tool of healing, a conscious gateway to transform the ambiguous excitement of repression into genuine freedom.
By savoring the charge of Opening to Eros while moving beyond it, we reclaim our pleasure from the grip of social conditioning. We shift from the compulsive chase for intensity into the boundless, need-free experience of our own expanded being. The key lies in enjoyment without attachment: honoring the thrill of darkness, yet remaining free from both the net of morality and the hook of addiction.
With a strong emphasis on boundaries and consent, Opening to Eros gives us a diverse set of tools that allow us to expand our sexuality, be more confident with ourselves and lovers and become more empowered as self-aware erotic beings.
What will you learn in this training?
The erotic shadow can be a very destructive influence on us if it’s not understood. The goal of this work is to explore, understand and fully integrate the erotic shadows into our psyche thereby making the shadow an ally rather than an enemy.
There are potential initiatory aspects to many of the exercises and rituals we’ll be doing during the training. Coming face to face with your own shadow can be a life-changing experience.
The training is open to people of all genders, relationship styles and sexualities. In the practice exercises, we do not coordinate learning partners based on gender. There is always something to learn.
** PRACTICAL INFORMATION **
The event will take place at The Pathways Studio in Manchester.
It runs on Tuesday (13:00-18:30) , Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday (09:30-18:30), Sunday (09:30-16:00).
Please arrive between 12:30 and 12:45 on the first day
You are invited to come at 08:00 for a free Qi Gong session from 08:00-08:30 and then join us for breakfast.
The workshop will start promptly at 09:30 am.
APPLICATION FORM
As this is a more advanced training we would like to know a little more about you before accepting you onto the course.
This form is to gather information to ensure that this training is suitable for you and to let you know the level of the work that will be unfolding over the week.
You can find the application form if you click here
** PRICING **
A deposit of £250 secures your place, the balance must be paid by the dates below to secure the prices associated with them.
Super Early Bird: £750 valid until end January 2026
Early Bird: £850 valid until end of March 2026
Standard Price: £950 plus booking fee
To avoid the booking fee, select to pay by bank transfer and then just transfer the ticket price only rather than the ticket price plus booking fee.
A limited number of concessionary places are available at this workshop. Please get in contact with the organiser Elara if you wish to discuss concession options.
For any questions, please get in touch with Elara at [info@sacredlightevents.com](mailto:info@sacredlightevents.com)
Detailed Directions at http://www.thepathwaysstudio.com/venue/directions