Toronto Tantra Fest 2026

The Naked Dance is a guided journey through conscious nudity and ecstatic movement, inviting participants into vulnerability, play, and liberation. The experience opens with a consent-based foundations and gentle somatic practices that build safety, nervous system awareness, and body acceptance. Through guided exercises, participants explore personal edges at their own pace, with nudity always optional and never pressured. The workshop then flows into an ecstatic dance experience, where free-form movement becomes a celebration of authenticity in a sacred, non-sexual space.

**To participate in this workshop, please bring :
- a yoga mat

Somewhere along the way, parts of us were taken: our power called too much, our pleasure called selfish, our voice softened until it disappeared. Yet, what we could not safely feel or express did not vanish, it went inward, becoming stuck energy quietly keeping us small and exiled from our own fullness. The blocks to our pleasure, power, and sovereignty are not cognitive, they are somatic, and they can only be reached through the body. Unbind yourself in this Five Elements somatic journey where breath, movement, sound, and elemental alchemy, bring us back to our divine essence that has been intact all along.

**To participate in this workshop, please bring :
- your personal nest - level 10 comfort level (yoga mat, sarong or sheet, pillow or cushion, etc.)
- this workshop is open to all

This experiential workshop is designed for men who want to explore how sexual performance pressure can shape intimacy, desire, and connection to the body. Many men have been taught to approach sexuality through expectation, self monitoring, and outcome rather than presence, authenticity, and embodied awareness. Through guided reflection, somatic practices, and body based exercises, participants will explore how shame, anxiety, and pressure can pull them out of connection with themselves. The workshop offers space to better understand the mind body dynamics of sexual performance and reconnect with a more grounded sexual presence. It is an invitation to move away from pressure and toward greater self trust, embodiment, and authentic intimate connection.

**ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP :
- this workshop is for men

Energy in the body can be a source of vitality and expanded consciousness during sex and intimate connection. In this experiential session, you will be guided through an Awakening Consciousness Breathwork Practice focusing on three energetic centers — the belly, heart, and head. Drawing from universal principles found in mystic and embodiment traditions, the practice helps deepen awareness of subtle energy flow. Afterward, participants will be invited to share reflections and explore how cultivating energetic awareness can enhance intimacy, presence, and connection.

Come stand before the True Mirror and meet yourself without inversion or distortion; not the reversed stranger of everyday glass, but the living face the world has always seen. Here, left is left, right is right, and the eyes looking back are your own, unflipped and undivided.

At first the encounter can feel startling. A lifetime of mirrored habit may make you seem unfamiliar, even slightly askew. Stay. Breathe. Meet your own gaze. What often unfolds is something deeper: expression that does not collapse, light that remains in the eyes, a presence that feels whole. Many describe it as recognition of the self that has been here all along, undistorted, unreversed, finally visible.

The Mirror Palace will be open throughout the festival. You are welcome to visit at any time and sit with the reflection as long as you need.

If you would like to have a guided experience with John, visit at the designated times listed in the program. 

In this sacred workshop, you will journey through the Eight Gates of the Womb, a guided embodiment practice that invites you to reconnect with different aspects of the womb, release stagnant energy and emotional imprints, activate our innate life-force and Shakti energy, and awaken the wisdom, magnetism, and feminine power that already reside within. As you soften into the intelligence of the body and the wisdom of the womb, you can expand your capacity for love, pleasure, abundance, creativity, and authentic feminine expression, leaving with a deeper sense of connection, empowerment, and trust in yourself.

**ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP :
- please bring yoga mat and cushion to sit on
- this workshop is for women

A men-only journey where you can experience new ways of relating. This experience will invite you to heal years of broken trust and emotional distance and tap into the power of collaboration between brothers that can help all men rise as lovers and stewards of the Earth.

**ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP :
- this workshop is for men

When two sovereign people meet, polarity becomes clearer and more charged. Attraction, difference, and emotional heat surface quickly. This co-led experience explores how to remain rooted in your own truth while staying connected to a partner under tension. Through modeling and structured relational practice, participants experience how sovereignty strengthens polarity rather than destabilizing it.