TTF 2026 PROGRAM

Toronto Tantra Festival

2026 Program

the sovereign heart

Our program is brimful with offerings and experiences that are designed to awaken, expand, and delight you!

From introductory talks, beginner-friendly and advanced-level workshops and practices, to deeply sacred rituals and expansive experiences that will explore our SOVEREIGN HEART theme, there is something for everyone in this “choose your own adventure” program.

The Schedule will be announced in August.

For now, read through the descriptions and notice when your heart feels magnetic. Notice if something intrigues or scares you (and especially when it’s a little bit of both!).

The Program – like the whole Festival – is a journey.

It’s already begun!

TALKS

Let your mind be enriched by the insightful discussions on topics presented by our expert lineup of speakers. Learning has never been so sexy!

CONSENT CULTURE TALK

Presented by Jovana Zmaj and Triambika Ma Vive

Every year, we gather the whole festival together to teach the basics of embodied consent and affirm our commitment to practicing Consent Culture together as a community. Triambika will contribute her decades of wisdom to this talk this year.

WOMB CONSCIOUSNESS

Presented by Brittney Guimond

We are living in a time where the awareness of the womb is growing at last. This talk invites you into the profound beauty of womb consciousness. Learn about the cosmology within female anatomy, the shamanic nature of the womb, and why womb wellness is essential to birthing a new culture. Men are highly encouraged to join.

FEMININE PRINCIPLES OF SUCCESS

Presented by Olya Shekinah

This talk reveals the feminine laws of creation that govern sustainable expansion and lasting impact. Explore what it means to create from the feminine – granting ourselves permission to let life move through us, expanding our capacity to hold greater wealth, power and influence, and offering our beauty and magic as a gift to the world. Learn how success becomes a natural byproduct of coherence between who you are and how you move.

RESTORATIVE REPAIR: FIGHT CLUB FOR LOVERS

Presented by Priestess Francesca

Most of us were taught that conflict is a sign of failure, leading to a binary reaction: explosive volatility or the silent, suffocating death of “I’m fine.” But the problem isn’t the fight itself; it’s the faulty protocol you’re using to navigate it. To possess a Sovereign Heart means having the capacity to stay connected to your body and your values while navigating real, charged conflict. This workshop reframes conflict not as a threat to relational integrity, but as a high-voltage portal to deeper intimacy. We will strip away the “nice” veneer to get to the honest grit of partnership. You will learn how to map your nervous system’s trigger points, swap stonewalling for truth-telling, and utilize a specific, trauma-informed communication framework that turns a rupture into an opportunity for erotic and emotional expansion.

GATEWAYS TO GOD

Presented by Thalia Devi

What if the very part of the body we were taught to hide is actually one of the most direct portals to the divine? This provocative and illuminating talk explores the sacred intelligence of the sexual center and its role in human awakening. In tantric traditions, sexuality was never separate from spirituality, but was revered as a portal of creation, pleasure, and life force. Through embodied insight and tantric wisdom, this talk invites a radical reframe that restores reverence to the body. Discover how pleasure, presence, and sacred intimacy can become pathways to deeper connection with the divine.

EXPERIENCES

Our workshop & experience series is an opportunity for experiential learning. Explore your edges, drop into vulnerability, play with power dynamics, meet the elements like never before, and learn to make love to someone from across the room!

HEARTGASM: THE FIRST BEAT

Facilitated by Jaime Very and Harry Judge

This immersive opening experience is designed to melt the ice, open the heart, and begin weaving the relational field of our weekend together. Through playful practices, vulnerable conversations, conscious intimacy games, and unexpected moments of magic, you’ll explore how to stay rooted in your own Sovereign Heart while opening to authentic connection with others. Come ready to meet yourself, make meaningful connections, and discover what becomes possible when a group of strangers chooses authenticity over performance. Whatever you’re bringing and however you’re feeling, the heartgasm begins here!

THE NAKED DANCE

Facilitated by Beatrice Girouard-Archibald

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.

RELATIONAL ECSTASY: THE SOVEREIGN HEART IN UNION

Facilitated by Carine Amrita Rose and Warren B. King

What if the most radical act of sovereignty is allowing yourself to be truly met? This fully immersive, embodied journey for couples and partners, is an invitation to drop beneath the surface of your connection and discover what becomes possible when two sovereign beings truly meet. So much of modern intimacy is conducted from the neck up: negotiated, performed, managed. This experience is an antidote. Through Tibetan Five Elements Tantra and nervous system attunement, partners are guided into intimacy that is not “had” but fully inhabited.

BOUND BY CHOICE

Facilitated by David Freeman

Rope reveals what is already present in the body. The moment the feel of the rope meets the nervous system, patterns of surrender, control and resistance surface. In this experiential lab, participants explore how containment, pacing, and explicit agreements create trust rather than coercion. Through guided rope practice, participants learn how sovereignty and surrender can coexist without collapse.

BELLY WORSHIP

Facilitated by Braden Alexander

To connect our heart with our sexuality, we must cross the bridge of the solar plexus, the place of power, identity, and emotion. However, the belly holds stagnant emotions, unprocessed traumas, body-shame, and wounds that we carry around for years. The simple practice of belly worship, that is, loving, reverent attention to another’s soft centre, can unfurl these aches and feelings, allowing them to live, swell, and be released. In this guided, partnered practice we will be honouring all that the belly holds.

FROM PERFORMANCE TO PRESENCE

Facilitated by Jason Wu

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.

UNBOUND: THE SACRED RECLAMATION

Facilitated by Carine Amrita Rose

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.

POLARIZED LOVE

Facilitated by David Freeman and Joana Matos

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.

KINGS OF THE EARTH

Facilitated by Gabriel Cournoyer

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.

DIVINE LOVEMAKING: AWAKENING SHIVA-SHAKTI

Facilitated by Marda Love

A sensual tantric deepening into the sacred current of love where the body becomes the living temple of Shiva and Shakti. Through breath, movement, and kundalini practices, you can awaken the life force that flows between Shiva and Shakti in the eternal dance of presence and creation. Lovemaking is explored as a sacred energetic transmission that begins within the self and expands into energy connection with others.

WOMB ACTIVATION

Facilitated by Olya Shekinah

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.

PSYCHIC HEART SURGERY

Facilitated by Triambika Ma Vive

Your heart has been protecting you. Now it’s time to let it breathe. In this partnered practice, breath, sound, and somatic bodywork, we’ll clear the emotional blocks stored in the heart. Feel what becomes possible when love and sexual energy finally flow together.

EMBODIED BOUNDARIES

Facilitated by Dia de Salus

Learn foundational tools to support your capacity for presence; deepen your exploration of what Yes & No feel like in your body; and learn how to dance with your Truth in connection with others. This workshop aims to give you a blueprint with which to navigate your full festival experience.

TASTE THE TABOO: LET YOUR FREAK FLAG FLY!

Facilitated by Priestess Francesca

Why do your freakiest, most taboo desires still leave your heart racing in terror, your chest collapsing in shame, and your mind talking you out of your longest-standing fantasies? A Sovereign Heart requires knowing what is true for you and expressing it with care; but you can’t express a desire you are too terrified to look at. This experience goes straight to the mechanics of desire. We will demystify the nervous system’s fear of the dark erotic, offering a structured, shame-free protocol to embrace your holy freak. You will walk away with a tangible framework to bring your most vulnerable truths into your relational dynamics with confidence, sanity, and grace.

DEVOTIONAL YONI & LINGAM MASSAGE

Facilitated by Thalia Devi

This sacred tantric practice honors the sexual organs as gateways of life-force, healing, and spiritual awakening. In this guided experience, participants are invited to approach intimate touch through reverence, presence, and devotion. Together we explore how conscious touch can awaken subtle energy, dissolve shame, and cultivate deeper intimacy. This practice moves beyond performance or goals, inviting touch to become a meditation and a pathway to deeper pleasure, healing, and liberation.

SOVEREIGN NERVOUS SYSTEM

Facilitated by Joana Matos

Sovereignty is revealed when intimacy intensifies. The moment someone steps closer, when attraction, silence, or difference stirs, the nervous system reacts before thought does. This workshop trains your capacity to remain steady in those moments without collapsing, controlling, or withdrawing. Through breathwork and guided relational practice, participants strengthen embodied steadiness so connection can deepen without self-loss.

FULL BODY BLISS

Facilitated by Angela Dawn

Step into expanded pleasure and awakened intimacy in this powerful, experiential couples workshop. You and your beloved will explore tantric practices specifically designed to awaken full body o’s; those delicious, wave-like states of ecstasy that ripple through your entire being, far beyond localized pleasure. Leave radiant, deeply bonded, and equipped with practical tools to create full-body ecstatic states in your intimate life.

THE SACRED PHALLUS

Facilitated by Warren B. King

Most men are never truly introduced to their own bodies. Yet, in the tantric tradition, the phallus, once awakened, becomes the “Vajra”, the Thunderbolt of Wisdom. It is not merely a sexual organ but a vessel of life force, a channel of creation, and when truly understood, an instrument of healing for oneself and for a partner. This workshop, rooted in the Shangpa Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Tantra, creates a men’s-only container where the body’s forgotten wisdom is unearthed once again.

PRACTICES

The practice series will introduce you to the foundational energetic, somatic, and spiritual techniques that help to activate, clear, and masterfully move Life-Force energy through the body.

ALCHEMY OF THE HEART

Facilitated by Rory Walkom

A sovereign heart doesn’t turn away from pain or suffering, but knows the great alchemical power within it. Reversing the instinct to turn away from your pain, you’ll connect with the place in your heart that can hold all suffering, transmuting and transforming it. Through Atisha’s Meditation, an ancient Tibetan Tantric practice, you’ll cultivate a heart that can hold greater compassion for yourself, and all humanity.

TANTRA YOGA

Facilitated by D.A.

A solo awareness breath and movement practice to orient you to the pleasure available in your body in every moment.

KUNDALINI ACTIVATION

Facilitated by Anastasia Tumanova

Anastasia will be offering a Kundalini Activation, a gentle yet powerful energy transmission that supports the awakening of your natural life force energy. During the session participants lie down, relax, and allow the energy to move through the body while music guides the journey. This process can help release emotional blocks, activate deeper states of awareness, and reconnect you with your inner vitality. Each experience is unique and unfolds naturally according to what your body and nervous system are ready for.

SIX HEALING SOUNDS

Facilitated by Yanshuf Kadesh

The Six Healing Sounds are a Taoist approach to clearing the emotional body in a subtle, meditative way. Practice this technique of Neidan and clear excess or toxic emotional energies from the 5 organ systems of the body (Fire, Earth, Metal Water, and Wood).

STRONG MEDICINE

Facilitated by Jovana Zmaj

It is likely that some part inside all of us is waiting to be rescued – searching for the newest teacher, modality, lover, guru, or festival (winkwink) to show us the way. But there is a medicine no one else can serve you except yourself. In this session, you will be guided in somatic self-dearmouring; the practice of bringing your hands to your own body to dissolve the physical, emotional and energetic blocks that are in the way of the free-flow of your Life-Force energy.

ORGASMIC MANIFESTATION

Facilitated by Amyann Faul

Did you know you can channel your Eros into creating the life of your dreams! Learn to do a sacred solo sex magic practice in a powerful group container. You will be guided through a proven formula to raise your creative lifeforce energy and manifest your highest aligned dreams and visions.

HONOUR THY MONARCH: RITUAL QI GONG

Facilitated by Jen Lucescu

Open the doors to your inner temple in this embodied Qigong class centred on movements for the Heart – the seat of the Fire Element and the Emperor archetype in Daoist medicine. Together, we will awaken & attune to our own sovereign energy. We will practice cultivating clarity, radiance, and self-honouring presence, flowing from grounded Earth to heart-centered expansion and back again – nourishing ourselves while establishing clear boundaries. The practice culminates in a collective ritual, exchanging heart radiance with others while ensuring our sacred heart remains solidly seated in its place of honour, so that we can participate in luminous action in the midst of a complex world.

SHIATSU MASSAGE FOR BALANCE

Facilitated by Ori Flomin

Experience the nourishing and grounding practice of Shiatsu through guided partner exchange. Shiatsu is a Japanese healing massage technique based on gentle pressure, touch, passive stretching, and promoting the natural flow of energy in the body through the meridian pathways. In this accessible and playful session, with an emphasis on opening the heart meridian, learn simple yet effective techniques that support balance and vitality.

SEXUAL JEDI: CORE PRACTICES

Facilitated by Yanshuf Kadesh

This is an intensive workshop on the ancient Taoist male-bodied Sexual Kung Fu practices that increase vitality, stamina and orgasmic potential. Learn sexual energy cultivation based on the Neidan teachings brought to the West by Master Mantak Chia.

RITUALS

Rituals are intentional acts that we can use to make or mark profound shifts in our lives. They are made all the more powerful when we do them together in community. Our rituals this year will offer you an opportunity to heal, explore, and meet yourself in the Great Mystery.

NEW MOON RITUAL

Facilitated by Rory Walkom

In the energy of the dark moon on the first night of the Festival, connect to your life force energy as prayer. Through conscious sound, breath, movement, you’ll cultivate and raise your energy up, as an offering to the divine. With the intention to call in your heart’s highest desire, you’ll become the vessel to receive the blessings of this offering into your being.

WOMB REVERENCE

Facilitated by Brittney Guimond

During this guided ritual, deepen in reverence and intimacy with each other, and the Creator of All Life, the Womb. Please come with your partner, or someone you already have established safety and connection with. I can say with confidence that every woman somewhere within, desires to have her womb held with presence, care and honour; without goal. In this time-space, a softening like no other can happen. Without words, there is a somatic conversation between the holder and the held that has the possibility of melting generations of pain held between her hips.

RELATING AS LIFE

Facilitated by Casey Easton and Jared Wholeheart

We are not separate from life. We ARE life, moving through seasons of creation, maintenance, and dissolution in an endless cycle of becoming. This experiential journey invites you into direct relationship with that current: the one Life that animates all things, expressing itself through you and through each other. Advanced and embodied, this is not a workshop about relating…it is moving, breathing, dancing, feeling…as Life itself.

YONI GAZING: SELF PRACTICE

Facilitated by Jennifer Polansky

Cultivate confidence and worthiness at the deepest level. When you gaze into Her, you come into contact with the universe. Messages are received, questions are answered, and what felt confusing and ungrounding becomes unwaveringly clear. Yoni gazing is a meditative practice of looking at your yoni through a mirror to unveil the layers and masks of who you thought you needed to be, anchoring in self-love & acceptance of who you truly are. Release judgment of your body, connect with your authentic sensuality, and remember the sacred power of your femininity.

THE GOLDEN EGGS: A SOMATIC INITIATION INTO THE POWER OF MENOPAUSE

Facilitated by Luce Beaulieu

Throughout their lifetime, women experience embodied initiations: menarche, menstruation, pregnancy and motherhood, and menopause. In many ancestral cultures, the crossing into menopause was held as one of the most significant initiations of a woman’s life. Somewhere along the way, we lost that. What was once revered as a rite of passage became something to manage, medicate, and survive. In this ritual, midlife women will be guided through a shamanic rite of passage rooted in the ancient myth of Inanna and the concept of the Golden Eggs, the dormant seeds of wisdom and power that awaken in a woman when she stops fighting her transformation and begins to claim it.

TEMPLES

Temples are free-flowing, sacred spaces for togetherness as we celebrate sexual freedom and love.

CUDDLE TEMPLE

Facilitated by Maya Dion

A soft, welcoming temple dedicated to safe, heart-opening, and nourishing touch and co-regulation. You are invited to rest, reconnect, and experience the healing power of conscious cuddling in a beautifully held, consensual environment. Whether you come alone, with a partner, or with friends, Cuddle Temple offers a gentle container for platonic affection, presence, and emotional intimacy.

QUEER POLARITY FOR EVERYONE: TEMPLE

Facilitated by Braden Alexander and Ori Flomin

Tantra teaches us to work with polarity, most commonly the polarity of The Masculine (Shiva) and the Feminine (Shakti). Yet in the infinite dance of the cosmos, there are countless polarities at play. Explore an expanded world of polarities through a guided series of activations such as daddy/child, caregiver/receiver, worshipper/deity, ogre/nymph. Discover the fun of polarized play through a queer lens.

REVERENT & RAVISHED TEMPLE

Facilitated by Casey Easton

In this guided experience for pairs, you’ll explore the art of sacred seduction through touch and energy. Slow, intentional, full-bodied, and devotional. As the giver, you’ll learn to move between masculine and feminine states of attention: penetrating with presence, then drawing your partner toward you with magnetic receptivity. Advancing and inviting, claiming and beckoning, weaving the two currents that create real arousal. As the receiver, your only task is to open and be moved. Each partner gives, each receives. Expect an evening of devotion and desire in equal measure. All bodies, orientations, and experience levels welcome.

TEMPLE OF THE ABUNDANT HEART

Facilitated by Jared Wholeheart

Explore the heart in its full expression, where Eros is not indulgence but initiation. Desire, turn-on, resonance, attraction, connection, sovereignty, crown, life itself, polarity, spirit and matter: not a ladder to climb but a sphere to inhabit, each quality lighting up the others all at once. Experience the heart as a gateway rather than obstacle; wide enough to hold desire, discernment, and devotion in the same breath; wide enough to hold spirit and matter as one current. This is a temple space held by consent and practice; you may switch partners throughout, or stay with one partner the whole time. As the heart opens, so does the capacity to meet life itself, undefended, awake, and abundant. Come ready to penetrate and be penetrated through the heart, into the fullness of abundance.

The Program is enriched by...

Intentional Opening and Closing Ceremonies

Ecstatic Church

Our legendary Sunday morning ecstatic dance

Galactic Sound Bath and Live Musical Performances

Ritual Theatre & Immersive Art Installations

ALL-ACCESS

Emotional Support Team
Sauna and Cold Plunge
Red Tent
Sacred Fire
Private Lake

Socials & Collective Play!

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