What we’re about
Our group is about exploring the diverse aspects of Spirituality, Sexuality and Shamanism through collective experience and learning to support our journey of self-awareness and consciousness. We recognise the importance of a fully integrated mind body spirit experience and we will also be exploring the integration of these diverse areas to achieve this.
In this group we will explore many different topics including the below. We will also explore combined workshops integrating joint aspects of Spirituality and Sexuality.
SPIRITUALITY AND SHAMANISM
The Spiritual Laws
Meditation and Visualisation Techniques
Reiki and Energy Healing
Personal and Spiritual Development
Shamanic Journey Work
Sound and Vibration Healing
Chakra Balancing and Cleansing
Relaxation and Stress Management Techniques
Spiritual Awakening and Connection
Mediumship
Connecting with Your Higher Self
Shamanic Ceremony
Soul Retrieval
Connection through Mantra
Energy Breathing
SEXUALITY
Tantric Breathing
Tantric Massage
Connecting with your Sexuality
Cuddle Workshop
Touch, Intimacy and Connection
Connecting with Ecstasy
Blocks to being in your Pleasure
Exploring Pleasure as a path to Enlightenment and Connection
Awakening the Senses
Intimacy
Body Connection and Somatic Awareness
Sexuality Education
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Group Guidelines
In our workshops, our intention is to create a safe boundaried space to allow our members to connect with themselves in safety and equally it’s important to us that the Group is safe for our members outside our workshops.
As this group puts on some events based on exploring sexuality, there are some who may see this group as a forum for contacting people to meet or hook up with. There are many different websites and forums that are appropriate for this, but this group is not one of them.
Our members in the main have joined this group to explore different aspects of themselves to facilitate their journey of self-exploration, self-expression, growth, healing, connection, energy and consciousness, based on their intent.
We therefore ask all of you not to make speculative approaches or to connect with any members you have met without prior mutual agreement. The majority of our members do not do this, however, there may be the odd individual who might approach you. If you receive an approach in this way, please notify us and we will remove that individual from the Group.
You can also regulate the level of contact you feel comfortable with on Meetup under Settings (under Privacy). In the “Who can contact you on Meetup?” section you have three settings to choose from:
• Any member of Meetup
• Members of my Meetups
• Only Organisers
Also in the Privacy section there is another section which states: “Show your Meetup groups - On your profile, anyone can see all the Meetup groups you belong to”. You can decide if you want these displayed or not here. In addition you can, if you so choose, keep your interests private too. Finally you can block any single person from contacting you under “Report/Block” under their individual profile.
Please message us directly if you experience any problems.
With love,
Jon & Elara
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- The Kinky Magick Temple of LoveThe Pathways Studio, , Manchester£85.00
THE KINKY MAGICK TEMPLE OF LOVE
A kinky Temple Ritual lead by Seani Love & team* Are you interested in the world of Conscious Kink and you don’t quite know how to get started?
* Do you love exploring erotic spaces and wonder what it’s like if those spaces are more structured?
* Do you fancy a beautiful evening exploring heart-opening erotic fun with lovely people?
Then join us for a fun and sensual evening of erotic and kinky ritual play.We’ll spend the first part of the evening exploring exercises around consent and boundaries and eroticism ensuring everyone has a powerful, beautiful and safe evening. These practices are powerful life-skills that will improve your love life to no end.
Later, we'll share a guided cacao ceremony which will lead us into open play for the rest of the evening ❣
There will be live musical space holding with a DJ - to be announced shortly 🎶🎶🎵🎶
There is no pressure to participate in any exercise that doesn’t feel right for you. It is our intention to create a space where your boundaries are nurtured and honoured at all times.
Join us for an amazing evening of kinky magick love to find out more!
This event is open to people of all genders and sexual orientations. We might balance genders if there is an obvious imbalance by restricting some genders from buying tickets. The best way to secure your place is you buy your ticket early.
*** You can come by yourself, with a friend, a partner or partners.
*** Also feel welcome to invite others who you would like to explore the space with.
This is a sober/drug free event : non alcoholic drinks only in this space.
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There are only a limited amount of tickets available – no tickets at the door. You need to register beforehand via the link.Thank you. We are very much looking forward to this.
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Early Bird - first 8 tickets of each category: £75
Regular: £85
Book your ticket hereLocation:
The Pathways Studio in Manchester.
Detailed Directions hereTime:
Arrival: 13:30
Door closes: 14:00 – no entry possible afterwardsAbout the facilitator:
Seani:
Seani Love (he/him) is a male sex worker specialising in erotic journeys using the wonderful overlaps between Conscious Kink, BDSM and neo-Tantra. With training in counselling, theatre, Urban Tantra and many other hands-on and hands-off modalities, he has won numerous accolades including Sex Worker of the Year at the Sexual Freedom Awards in London in 2015.His work combines techniques from erotic ritual, extreme sensitivity to consent and boundaries and Jungian psychology to create powerful pathways to empowerment, healing and self-discovery. As an international workshop facilitator, Seani Love has supported many on their journey to places of increased power, sexual expression, body awareness and self-love.⭐
- The Fundamentals of Tantra MassageThe Pathways Studio, , Manchester£695.00
“We see tantra massage, practiced ethically, consciously and in true consent as a pathway into tantra, a life led in presence, awareness and connection with ourselves, others and beyond.” – Elara and Jon
The words “tantra massage” have been often misappropriated to sell sexual services. In addition, even the best-intentioned tantric massages often over- emphasize the sexual aspect of tantra, an ancient practice that opens the door to an experience of ourselves as beings of energy and consciousness.
These five days invite you to explore the basic principles of tantra and how they form the foundation to authentic tantra massage. This block can be done stand-alone and is also the first block of The Paths of Transformation, Transformational Tantra Massage Training which can take one on one’s own transformational journey and ultimately to a professional qualification to support other people’s journey.
During the five days, you will be invited to learn:
- The basic principles of Tantra
- Tantric Rituals and their importance particularly in a massage setting
- To improve communication skills around consent and boundaries
- How to connect with energy in different ways and how your energy can affect others
- Where energy may be held in the body and how to release it
- Specific massages that release tension
- Finding more aliveness in oneself and how to support others to do so
- Basic hygiene protocols
This training is experiential and is based on your personal experience, both in receiving and supporting others to have their own personal experience. In doing this you will have the opportunity to explore some of your personal story through embodiment. This event is not suitable for healing deep personal trauma.
At the end of the training, you will have been given the opportunity to take away:
- An experience of what tantra is
- Tools for communicating consent and boundaries
- Massages that support people to find their energetic flow and zest for life
- Rituals you can practice
- Insights into your own personal patterns of response
- Methods for finding relaxation in both routine and more difficult situation
- More awareness of your body
- Getting the right support for the work you do
* Tantra is an ancient wisdom and integral in its wisdom is that it’s non prescriptive and allows everyone to find their own truth.
This workshop is open to all who are over 18 and wish to explore, one or all of the following: Personal self-development, want to learn massages for friends and partners and active and aspiring practitioners.
Ticket Prices and Booking are HERE
You can pay by bank transfer to avoid the booking fee. Please contact us at info@transformationaltantramassage.co.uk for more information.
This is a standalone journey of self-discovery however it also forms the foundation for our Transformational Tantra Massage Programme, for when you understand yourself more you are in a better place to be of service to others. Subsequent blocks enable you to dive deeper for self-insights. Then, if you choose, you can ultimately become a professional tantric massage practitioner to facilitate others journey’s discovery, using the medium of touch.
More details of how this standalone training sits within the Transformational Tantra Massage Programme can be found at www.transformationaltantramassage.co.uk. You are welcome to email us at info@transformationaltantramassage.co.uk with any questions or to request a full brochure.
If you wish to see the pricing for the whole Programme then please click HERE.
To ensure that this training is appropriate for each participant, we ask for you to fill out an application form and have a follow up call with us. Apply Here
Our events are open to individuals, couples, triads and other constellations and expressions of all genders, sexualities and body types.
- Bioenergetics - Block 1The Pathways Studio, , Manchester£440.00
We are delighted to bring this one-of-a-kind Bioenergetics Year Long Training for the second time in the UK. This is one of less than five yearlong Bioenergetics trainings worldwide.
If you are curious about bioenergetics but don’t want to commit to a year long training, you are welcome to try the first block which is standalone.
How we embody and express our energy makes our psyche and our patterns of reactions to life visible. We hold in our bodies the energy we dared not express when we were vulnerable children, both as a tension in the muscles and as a charge of energy in the organs and connective tissue. This fixed form of expression and defence is called our character. It is our social, adapted self, and blocks and represses our spontaneous flow of life energy, our wildness, including large amounts of our sexuality and creativity.
***What is Bioenergetics?***
Bioenergetics is not to be confused with the body of work that comes from biochemistry but comes from Wilhelm Reich and the therapy developed by his students.Bioenergetics can be taken as a self-exploration through becoming aware of tensions in your body. These tensions are created by the energies of past formative experience which are imprinted on your body. This creates your character, the person you became under the influence of your parents and your society. By becoming aware of this we can release the tension and free up our energy to choose life in each moment. Thus, we are able to free up a huge amount of energy for our aliveness, our creativity, our pleasure and joy in life to create our conscious path and fulfil our dreams.
Themes for this training are:
- Understanding the patterns and needs of one’s character type
- Moving from dependency to independence
- Being aware of your feelings and expressing them appropriately and communicatively
- Knowing what you want and what you don’t want and communicating that safely and respectfully
- Assertiveness
- Raising your energy levels, being more alive, aware, sensitive to life.
- Grounding and standing on your own feet
- Increasing the flexibility of one’s attitudes
- Flowing with life instead struggling against it
- Opening to aliveness and pleasure
- Being able to be present and to stay in contact
- Primal therapy, birth and intrauterine experiences and imprints that affect our lifetime patterns of energy.
We will support you to gain an understanding of:
- The phenomenon of resistance and how to use and work through it.
- How to work energetically and physically with projection, both positive and negative.
- The different kinds of touch, their intent and applications: holding, containing, focusing, making conscious, confronting, soothing, mothering and fathering, supporting, grounding.
- The emotional plague, repression and rebellion.
- Armouring and core energetics, energy and character.
- Imprints, memoire corporelle (cellular memory), regression, Janov and Grof.
- The relationship between consciousness and energy, catharsis, demons, creative confrontation, witness consciousness.
- The importance of breath, Reichian and other breathing techniques.
- The orgasm reflex, the birth reflex.
- Character analysis – the character types and their use in therapy.
- Therapy and spirituality.
- Techniques to raise energy, bioenergetic stress positions, Osho meditations.
- Grounding and its importance, both through the feet and through the eyes.
- The segments and their order of opening.
- Self-regulation, the inner wisdom and balance of the body
- An analysis of our own character and patterns, which we respect as a necessity for survival
- An understanding of the biographical causes of any stuckness and limitations
- Strategies for managing trauma and fear
- Supporting individuals to find freedom of expression and creativity as autonomous human beings
The ability to read the energy and character of others and know how to support their energy will also be taught. As such, it is an invaluable training both for oneself and as a professional resource for those working energetically with others.
In Block 1 the key aspects we will be exploring are:
- The relationship between tension and relaxation
- Some patterns of holding / armouring
- How to support the flow of energy
- Reich’s concept of segments and looking at some of the key ones
- How to support ones energetic flow
Dates:
The first date will go ahead based on a minimum of 12 people otherwise we will move to the next date. You will be given approximately a months notice of this if you have put down a deposit:
Thu 09 Oct to Sun 12 Oct 2025 – Manchester Non-Residential
Thu 8 Jan to Sun 11 Jan 2026 // Thu 15 Jan to Sun 18 Jan 2026 – Manchester Non-Residential
Thu 19 Mar to Sun 22 Mar 2026 – Manchester Non-Residential
Block 4 dates TBAFor the full details and to book your place, click HERE
- The Beast with Seani LoveThe Pathways Studio, , Manchester£260.00
A 2-day workshop by Seani Love and team
The BEAST is that most wild and primal part of our psyche that is suppressed (for good reason) into our subconscious mind. But no matter how much we suppress it, many of us still feel a calling to explore our inner BEAST, to understand it and to befriend it and to own it.
During this 2-day workshop we will move towards awakening the beast within us; learn how to feed it, have it witnessed, learn how to journey with it so that we become more powerful and more integrated beings.
The beast doesn’t pay attention to social rules and so of course we can’t all be in our beasts all day every day. But you’ll know that the Beast comes out anyway – in our feelings, our sexuality, the leaks of emotion that are often oppressed.This workshop has been requested by people who know they have power within themselves but aren’t sure how to access it in safe and powerful ways. This is an interactive workshop and over the 2 days we will practice:
- Knowing who the BEAST is for us
- Inner world journey to meet the beast
- Consent and boundaries
- Non-consensual beast activities (our own version of consensual non-consent)
- The Predator and Prey archetypes
- Vampiric feeding
### About Seani & the Team
Seani Love (he/him www.seanilove.com) is a professional Kinkster, Shadow Explorer and BDSM practitioner who has twenty years of experience in diverse ritual traditions and erotic practices. In 2015 he won the award of Sex Worker of the Year at the Sexual Freedom Awards in London.
He is trained in counselling and since 2006 has been working on combining ritual journeys with BDSM as a powerful pathway to healing and self-discovery. As an international workshop facilitator, Seani has supported many people on their journey to places of increased power, personal and sexual expression, wisdom and love.
The rest of the Team will be announced soon.
** PRACTICAL INFORMATION **
The event will take place at The Pathways Studio in Manchester.
It runs on Saturday and Sunday 10am – 6pm. Please arrive between 9:30 and 9:45 on the first day.The doors will open on both days at 09.30 am for a 10 am prompt start.
** PRICING **Early Bird: £220 (+ booking fee)
Standard Price: £260 (+ booking fee)To avoid the booking fee, select pay by bank transfer at checkout.
A limited number of concessionary places are available at this workshop. Please get in contact with the Sacred Light Events team if you wish to discuss concession options.
For any questions, please get in touch here: info@sacredlightevents.com
Detailed Directions at http://www.thepathwaysstudio.com/venue/directions
We look forward to welcoming you.
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### Frequently Asked Questions
I’ve been asked several questions about this workshop and here I shall answer them:
What is neotantra?
I love this question a lot and it’s a big question and I’ll try to be succinct – Neotantra is that field of study where we attempt to learn about ourselves by understanding our biggest impulse – the drive towards sexuality. By consciously moving towards greater understanding of our sexuality, we become more self-aware, are able to love ourselves and the people around us more and we can better understand the patterns that pervade society. Also, sex is much better.Traditional tantra from South-East Asia contains many elements only a few of which are sexual in nature. It’s fair to say that Neotantra is massively inspired by the erotic elements of South-East Asian Tantra but they are not the same thing.
Is this a tantra workshop?
In the broader sense of Tantra being a path towards wholeness and self-understanding, then yes it is but we will not be referring to most common tropes of Tantra and I don’t consider this specifically an Tantra workshop. If you are looking for a Tantra workshop, this is not the place to come.Will there be sexual activities?
This is very explicitly an erotic workshop exploring sexuality and conscious kink as well as erotic archetypes most notably The Beast archetype. There are a number of exercies of a sexual nature in this workshop starting with consent and boundaries, and communication. No exercise during the workshop is compulsory and you may sit out any workshop that doesn’t feel right for you. If you are not comfortable in spaces where others are exploring their sexuality, this probably isn’t the right space for you. If you are driven to better understanding your own erotic nature, especially the wild parts, then this likely to be a great event for you.What is Conscious Kink?
In our attempt to better understand our sexuality we deliberately bring more consciousness and awareness to every sexual and erotic act. This ranges from being open to accute levels of communication around consent and boundaries, learning how to really recognise what our bodies and minds enjoy, and generally using sexuality as both a tool and a vehicle for personal growth. So much of our sexuality is done with poor communication and little understanding. Conscious Kink is where we learn, grow, and heal.Is there a couples price?
Yes there is. Our only restriction is we don’t sell couples tickets to pairs of straight men as this can upset the gender balance of the workshop. Signing up as a couple doesn’t oblige you to stay in your partnership for the whole weekend.Do I need to come with my partner?
You do not need to come with your partner. At most of our events there are about 2-3 couples in attendance. Most people come unpartnered and find people to do exercises with in the space. In short you are welcome to bring your partner if you wish and you can do all exercise together. Partners can be of any gender.Will we be matched with the opposite sex?
Sometimes we run hetero-paired workshops but this won’t be one of them. This means that in the space there may be people of different sexualities and genders looking for partners in different exercises. You may be partnered with a person of a gender you aren’t normally attracted to – even with these people and without attraction, there is potential for learning, growth and fun 🙂What if I don’t like my BEAST?
A good question! The BEAST in this context is a part of yourself and most people have a part of themselves they don’t like. This question is going to bring up all kinds of things for people including: The shame of having wild desires; the times they didn’t check consent properly, their raw hunger being seen by others. The BEAST is a source of power because it is a part of you and the goal of all personal growth work is understanding and integrating different parts of ourselves. For many there is big embarrassment in being seen as a Wild Woman or “without morals” or “without social etiquette”. Likewise after the “metoo” movement, many men are afraid of accessing and expressing their wild untamed part. My theory is that the wild parts are always there and it’s much better and more powerful to bring them out consciously than to let them slip out unconsciously. This is why integrating the BEAST is essential work.
