Spirituality, Sexuality and Shamanism North

“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.

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 TBA

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

### A 5 day Workshop for Conscious Kink, Sacred Sexuality and Erotic Rituals

### ✨Have you heard about Sacred Sexuality, Conscious Kink or Neo Tantra and wonder what these all mean?

✨Is it time for you to confront your own erotic shadows and come to terms with parts of yourself you may have buried down?
✨Would you like to learn a set of hands-on erotic skills that will enhance your love life and sex life?

#### Then join us for this Deep Dive into the Erotic Mysteries​

### What is this workshop about?

The Erotic Mysteries are the mysterious and beautiful places where Sacred Sexuality, Conscious Kink and the Human Shadow overlap. What does this mean exactly?

In one sense, ​we’ll be exploring the esoteric mystery traditions. One common goal of many of these traditions is for each of us to fully embody our full potential as powerful erotic beings. In other words: one purpose in exploring The Erotic Mysteries is to help us see through all of the illusions and mental programming and to remember who we really are and fully step into our power.

This is not a ‘love and light’ workshop. Often to step into our full power we need to embrace the full filth and shadow of ourselves. As such there is a high kink content to this journey. In a practical sense, ​the Erotic Mysteries are about creating safe and conscious ritual spaces where we can take time to look within, explore what we find there, integrate those things we find and come out more self aware and empowered.

With a strong emphasis on boundaries and consent, Conscious Kink gives us a diverse set of tools that allow us to expand our sexuality, be more confident with our selves and others, and become more empowered as self-aware erotic beings.

### What will be covered in this workshop?

Conscious Kink is important to our exploration of the Erotic Mysteries as these tools allow us to explore any fetishes we might have in an empowering and nurturing way. We may explore what it’s like to engage in impact play (e.g. using physical pain). We may create scenes where we find out what it’s like to serve another person for a while and in turn to be served. Conscious Kink also allows for our darker erotic fantasies to be explored, and for this reason a large part of the workshop is geared towards learning common tools for asserting boundaries and ensuring healthy methods for gaining authentic consent.

In this workshop we cover many of the tools of sacred sex and ​conscious kink​ ​in a ritualised content. The goal of ​exploring the Erotic Mysteries are to create powerful erotic states with spirituality and to create spaces of deep learning. We light a proverbial candle, turn inwards and face our own shadows that we have, up until now, suppressed. We embrace our own light and our own darkness in order to understand ourselves and explore together in service to each other. We use erotic techniques and guided journeying to reclaim those parts of ourselves otherwise lost. We explore our own inner worlds leading to places of power, self-love and ultimately greater self-knowledge.

In summary, we will focus on:

• Consent, Desires & Boundaries
• Clear Communication for negotiating touch
• Impact Play
• D/s dynamics
• Consensual non-consent exercises
• Archetypes and how to use them in erotic spaces
• Creating Erotic Rituals for oneself and others
• Tools for Aftercare and Selfcare
• and more

Please note: This is an intensive ritual / deep dive and we are prepared to host breakthrough moments for people on the journey of self-discovery.

The Erotic Mysteries​ can be a set of powerful tools for healing trauma, but the movement towards healing is at your own pace. We provide the tools, techniques and a safer space. It’s important to note this isn’t therapy but many people find healing within these sets of practices.
Whilst we expect a high erotic content, all of your personal boundaries will be honoured and nurtured at all times.

### Who is this workshop for?

This is a general level workshop. Whilst we expect some practitioners to be there, this is not practitioner training. We are always excited to see who will join us for the training. It is important to create a diverse, interesting, and engaged group. You don’t need to be fully advanced with bodywork or sex-positive spaces. Nevertheless, we recommend being comfortable with the basics of consent and having had some exposure to sex-positive / kink spaces. If in doubt please get in touch so we can discuss options.

This event is open to adults of all genders, sexual orientations and relationship formations. Exercises will not be paired/grouped by gender. If you wish to attend with your partner(s), please let us know.
We will be having brief online interviews with people hoping to attend to make sure we both feel there is compatibility to work together.