2-7PM workshops & TEA

Workshop Descriptions below

LOVER’S LANE / 2ND FLOOR

2PM  Dance of Connection – Brigitte Wittmer
3PM Improv for a Fearless Heart – Leela Maya
4PM  Frequency Date EQ – Sage Ardas 
5PM  Heart Connection Qi Gong – Sean T Fox
6PM  Partner Yoga – Robin Jaffe

HOUSE OF ROSES / 6TH FLOOR

2PM  Sensual Connections – Elina Zhang
3PM  Awakening the Heart & Vagus – Pauline Romas
4PM  Tap Into Love – Victoria Angelhart
5PM  Body Language of Love – Nana & David
6PM  Shiva-Shakti Puja – Halo Seronko
7PM  Partner Thai Massage – Tamara Vodovoz

CUPID’S COURT / 14TH FLOOR

2PM  Love Your Heart Chakra – Diana Soline
3PM  Our Heart Portal – Jul Bystrova
4PM  Sacred Art of Intimacy – Mya Moon
5PM  Compassionate Communication – Maren Metke
6PM  Vocal Opening Workshop – Honey of the Heart
12AM  Alchemy of Eros – Hannah Bourke

APHRODITE’S TEMPLE / 16TH FLOOR 

2PM  The Taste of Eros – Eliza Maroney
3PM  One Rope Play – Be & Fruit
4PM  Zouk Partner Dance – Tamara Bliss
5PM  Polarity Play Dance – Zan Lowe
6PM  Devotional Love – Damiana

 

Workshop descriptions and bios

MICHAEL MCDONALD

Relational Alchemy

A gateway to an unusual amount of intimacy with others. Step into a shared space of love, trust, and curiosity, skimming away the superficial and experiencing the nourishment of seeing and being seen with your fellow humans. Facilitated by Michael McDonald, transformational coach and facilitator.

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SAGE ARDAS

Frequency Date EQ

Frequency Date EQ is way for singles to connect in a mindful way. While entraining the frequency of partnership and attuning to your best self. These somatic practices will have you tuning in to your yesses.

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Nana Abena &
David Mee-Lee

The Body Language of Love, Intimacy, and Sensuality

Experience how to connect and communicate, through your body language to foster love, intimacy, and sensuality.

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Diana Soline

Love Your Heart Chakra

A ritual for opening the heart to unconditional love—for yourself and for all beings. Through breath, movement, and vocalization, you will be gently guided to connect with Love as a source of infinite wisdom and compassion.
Diana Soline is a Neo-Tantra teacher, Zen Buddhist, visionary artist, and musician with over 25 years of experience facilitating transformational practices.

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TAMARA VODOVOZ

Partner Thai Massage

Celebrate love through mindful touch and presence, following this guided practice to give and receive the healing of Thai massage. Rooted in the Buddhist principle of Metta (loving kindness) experience a parter practice of emotional co-regulation that deepens our sense of love and connection with humankind.
Tamara will guide you through easy Thai massage techniques including joint mobilization, acupressure, traction, and rhythmic compression. The practice becomes a flowing, meditative exchange where one partner gives with care and the other receives with trust.
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Honey of the heart

Vocal Opening Workshop

This is an accessible, inclusive workshop designed for all voices—no singing experience required. Through gentle vocal exploration, breath, and guided reflection, participants are invited into deeper self-connection and shared presence. The workshop draws from empathy practices, group facilitation, and simple harmony to create a grounded, nourishing container.

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Zan LOWE

Polarity Play Dance

Explore the playful embodiment of polarity, from structure and flow to initiation/reception and guidance/surrender. No partner necessary (although bring one if you’d like!) and participants will get the opportunity to experiment across each polarity spectrum regardless of gender. Exercises are approachable with no movement-specific background and pull from Zan’s ten years of teaching Brazilian Zouk, an improvised and nuanced sensual partner dance.

DAMIANA LOVES

Devotional Love: The Art of Worship & Presence

A guided worship and connection ceremony devoted to awakening the heart through presence, reverence, and embodied awareness. Through orgasmic breath, sound and ritualized connection, we honor the sacred within ourselves and each other—activating life-force energy, devotional love and non-sexual orgasmic bliss, without agenda or expectation. This experience is an invitation to slow down, soften, and experience worship as a living, embodied state of love.

Tamara bliss

Zouk Micro Fusion
Partner Dance

Experience Brazilian Zouk with the inclusivity of Fusion Dance. This playshop will introduce the framework of fusion and incorporate the patterns and undulations of zouk. The goal is to build the confidence to be down to dance with a partner to any kind of music and have fun. Tamara’s practice is informed by over two decades of massage therapy, so workshops are based from anatomical knowledge and setting up success with solid form.

Pauline Romas

Awakening the Heart and the Vagus Nerve

Shake off stress, soften your nervous system, and let your heart come more fully online. This workshop blends somatic grounding, nervous-system science, and playful connection to help you relax, open, and feel more at home in yourself and with others. We’ll start by releasing tension and building safety in the body, then gently move into heart-opening experiences that spark awe, gratitude, and authentic connection. Come play, reconnect, and remember: your heart already knows the way!

MAREN METKE

Compassionate Communication

Learn how to apply the tools of NVC to your relationships. Practice and understand the skill of empathy in a safe group setting with support and guidance. Get to know and trust yourself and others with more clarity, awareness, alignment and depth, and differentiate between interdependence and codependence.

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Victoria angel heart

Tap Into Love

Tap Into Love is a psychedelic journey where you are the medicine! You’ll be taken on a deep healing journey to release whatever is blocking you from feeling fully connected to your heart and empowered to manifest and BE the love you desire. Expect to leave feeling lighter, more free, and more fully aligned with your heart. This will be a closed container, so please arrive on time!

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Robin Jaffe

Partner Yoga

No yoga mat or yoga clothes needed – mostly standing or seated. Through the values of attunement, consent-to-touch, mindfulness, trust, deep listening and compassion we explore playful connection and levity with partner and group yoga postures and shared breathwork. No yoga experience needed. Open hearts welcome.

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Sean T Fox

Heart Connection Qi Gong

Daoism and Chinese Medicine know the Heart as the Palace of the Emperor and Empress wherein the clarity of Spirit resides. Join us for Heart Connection Qigong, where we move, breathe and stretch into a potent flow state to connect deeper with our own center and with each other.  We will cultivate and clarify our communion with the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual Heart to open into greater peace, joy and connection.

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Be & Fruit

One Rope Play

One Rope Play is bondage that involves one rope. It’s a foundation for beginners and new exploration for experienced riggers. Instead of focusing on technique, you’ll focus on connection, intuition, and non-verbal communication (verbal communication also welcome and encouraged). You’ll learn to support others bodies into new positions that feel safe, secure and allow for surrendering, alternating between receiving and shaping the experience. People can come alone or partnered. Rope provided.

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Halo Seronko

Shiva-Shakti Puja

Join Halo Seronko of Shakti Temple Arts for a ritual worship of the creative energies that live inside all of us from a Tantric perspective. In partners, explore the practices of becoming deity and devotee, of worshipping and being worshipped, of transfiguration and ultimately Union.

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Hannah Bourke

The Alchemy of Eros Ceremony

An alchemical multidimensional meditation to connect Heart, Higher Self, and Eros within. Transmuting density and opening greater pathways to creativity, sensuality, and bliss through the pure current of Eros life force energy. Facilitated by Hannah Bourke, a trained clairvoyant psychic, intuitive healer, musician, and Ascension Guide.

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MYA Moon

The Sacred Art of Intimacy

 Communication as the Gateway to Trust, Safety & Connection
Mya Moon is a Tantric Mystic and Transformational Speaker exploring intimacy through conscious communication and somatic awareness. As an embodiment facilitator, she guides audiences into deeper trust, clean boundaries, and authentic self-expression through her S.A.F.E. Framework. Her work blends teaching, conversation, and embodied exploration to cultivate intimacy in how we relate to ourselves and one another
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Jul Bystrova

Our Heart Portal

In this mini workshop, learn more about the powerful force that lives within our chests, from both a scientific and a spiritual perspective. Together we will explore a practice that helps us work more intentionally with this force to experience real transformation and activate a sacred alchemy that can shift the challenges facing us and lift us into a more joyful life. Jul has spent her life at the intersection of science, spirituality and healing. She is the author of “Relationality: a living philosophy” and has had a thriving healing and teaching practice for over 25 years.

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Eliza Maroney

The Taste of Eros: A Sensory Journey Into Turn-On & Life Force

A guided, blindfolded sensory ritual using fruit and taste to awaken eros, deepen presence, and reconnect you to your innate turn-on and life force energy. Through slow savoring and embodied awareness, you’ll explore pleasure as a pathway to vitality, intimacy with self, and a more alive relationship to the present moment. Eliza Maroney is an embodiment guide and facilitator devoted to awakening eros as a sacred life force, weaving together sensual awareness, ritual, and deep presence. With a grounded yet playful approach, she invites participants to slow down, savor sensation, and remember pleasure as your greatest North Star.

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Elina Zhang CoLoving

Sensual Connections

We will share embodied connection practices inspired by tantra, consent, dance, somatics, attachment theory, as solo, duo & group to deepen our presence, love, connections, wholeness, sensuality & playfulness. Elina facilitated 100+ heart-opening events around the world and is the creator of Embodied Co-loving community.

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Leela Maya

Improv for a Fearless Heart

Improv for a Fearless Heart is a theatrical game-based improv playshop utilizing individual, partner, & group games as well as somatic skill building and scene work. Focusing on connection to self, connection with others and our environment, together we will reveal and transform fears and anxieties and watch them melt into creative play and heart based playful authentic connection!
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Brigitte WIttmer

Dance of Connection:
Presence & Play

Welcome into a space of love, union, and playful exploration. Through movement, partner exercises, and improvisation, Brigitte guides you to feel your body, sense your connection, and move with curiosity and ease. Together, we’ll cultivate presence, responsiveness, and the joy of bringing the magic of movement into every interaction—on the dance floor and beyond.
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