Meet Ananda!
Ananda Amit Angelo is a sex shaman, leader, coach, and a father of three from Israel. He is a certified Sex &
Happiness coach and a Facilitator at ISTA life. In his work, he supports people's empowerment and pleasure.
His mission is: reclaiming the ecstatic-innocent wisdom of our body by letting go of guilt and shame around sexuality.
With 20 years of professional dance, leadership, and community building and 7 years of Tantra experience, leading retreats, sacred temples, 1:1 coaching, and body sessions.
“I have devoted myself to un-shame pleasure and sexuality, connect them to the heart, and serve humanity to a paradigm shift of love. I am inviting my brothers and sisters to play freely and walk this earth shining their pleasure and light."
"WE ARE ALL CONNECTED IN LOVE TO EACH OTHER”
You can find out more about Ananda's work here:
Instagram: @ananda_amit_angelo
Facebook: Ananda Amit Angelo
Meet Anir!
Anir Leben is a Vocal Mystic, Embodied Creative, and Somatic Mentor devoted to the sacred intelligence of voice, body, and ritual.
Rooted in shamanic practice since age 17, her path bridges psycho-spiritual discernment, ancestral remembrance, and the relational arts of communication, improvisation, and trauma-informed integration-shaped by decades of experience in communal, transformative spaces.
A certified VITA Coach, trained dancer, water therapist, and longtime Contact Improviser, Anir's work opens pathways to integral expression, erotic aliveness, and embodied presence. As a sound artist, she explores voice as a living, relational instrument. Through 1:1 mentorship, Somatic Voice sessions, and Immersive Temple Thresholds, she holds space for complexity, embodiment, and multidimensionality-inviting the tenderly brave to reconnect with inner and outer existence, awaken a felt sense of interbeing, and, from this attuned connection, allow soulful co-creation to unfold with this One Sacred Life.
More about Anir’s Work:
IG: @agile.arts
Meet Till & Shirka!
Till (any) and Shirka (she/her) invite humans to explore their desires, embrace their uniqueness, and find a little more freedom in themselves.
Shirka comes from a background in music, performance, and visual arts. In recent years, she’s also dived into bodywork and is on her way to becoming a Lomi Lomi practitioner. With many years in the sex-positive scene, she has slowly but surely grown into her inner dominatrix – a role that once pushed her out of her comfort zone but now feels in her element. She loves inspiring others to discover their own expression. Her passion? Creating spaces where people can explore their sexuality and boundaries in a safe, playful way.
Till has spent years teaching – languages, theater, flow arts – while also setting stages on fire as a self-employed fire dancer and performance artist. Sex-positive spaces became a place of deep personal growth for him, and now he brings that energy into his workshops: a mix of lightness, depth, and a good dose of humor. He loves guiding people to the edge of their comfort zone, where they think, “Wait..! Can I really do this?” – only to realize, “Oh yes! And it feels amazing!”
Till & Shirka come from the “Burning Man” culture and highly value the principles of Self-Responsibility, Co-Creation, Immediacy and Self-Expression.
Together, they host S+ Workshops and Temples in Berlin, Vienna & Zürich – for everyone looking for sensual exploration, personal growth, playful fun, and a juicy community.
For dates & tickets:
🌍 Website & Newsletter: www.tilltailor.com
📢 Telegram Channel: https://t.me/TillTailorShirka
Meet Patricia!
Patricia is a neurodivergent, nature- and health-loving BIWoC, born in Saxony and the only Sexological Bodyworker in Dresden.
She has been a pioneer in this profession since 2022 and guides her clients in a process- and resource-oriented way to regain access to their body intelligence and thus discover or expand their erotic and sensual potential from within. She mainly works 1:1, but also offers workshops and retreats.
Her own challenging health and life story has led her to learn what she does now. In addition to being a Sexological Bodyworker, she is also a Breathwork Facilitator and guides her clients deep into their subconscious or into a relaxed nervous system. She not only brings specialized knowledge, but also a lot of empathy.
(attached pic by @johannaweilert)
Temple of God
Amanda and Stefanie will be co-hosting the Temple of God.
Do you know that you are God? And that God is Sexy and Powerful and Fun AF?
The easiest way to access your Divinity is via your Erotic Pleasure body. Come and experience this truth on a sacred ritualistic group journey.
Both Stefanie and Amanda are experienced Temple Priestesses on a life mission to illuminate this knowing for people, and in the most deliciously wonderful ways.
Pleasure is the bridge between the Human and the Divine. Take our hands and let us show you the way to Sexy Heaven.
The Totally Regular Humans Campfire
We all are unique and special, which means that being unique and special is the new normal.
This is a sharing and witnessing circle around "not so normal" experiences, states, adventures and insights, without attempting to make them fit into any language or dogma.
Playing with The Devil
In this workshop we will play with embodying this ancient playful archetype. The original horny creature. The original wildness in us that's been restricted, policed and monitored.
That insatiable inner beast that wants to play, frolic, experience, with a little bit of too muchness, as the exact perfect dose.
This workshop and playspace will celebrate horniness and insatiable desire in a playful embodied container.
Notorious Love - The Holy Trinity
Steve Shiva and Amanda Biccum will be presenting the workshop 'Notorious Love - The Holy Trinity', an edgy and powerful experimental and embodied journey through the ‘Holy Trinity’ of Animal, Human and God to connect with and embody dark and potent love towards oneself and others in community in order to experience true belonging without compromise.
You will explore how to release yourselve from the self-imposed prison of not showing up fully in the world, and become a ‘Notorious Heart’, that beats relentlessly, authentically, playfully and powerfully through life.
Learn consent, boundaries as well as how to share your truth with compassion.
Love & Grief
Anir presents Love & Grief - a ceremony that she's hosted several times in and around Berlin. On this occasion she will be including sexual expression, too.
It will be hosted in a circle format. This work is inspired by the truth mandala and a grief ritual that she once participated in at xplore.
That Just Fucked Feeling
Amanda will be presenting That Just Fucked Feeling .
The aim: to walk away feeling as though you've just been (well) fucked with this embodiment and breathwork journey.
This is a clothing on experience where you will be invited to work with different partners throughout the journey.
Meet Stefanie!
Stefanie, Co-Founder of Taboo Festival, has been attracted to the world of tantra, sacred and conscious sexuality like a moth to a flame since she had her first genuine experiences of its power and beauty in 2019.
It is her work, her play, her passion and her community.
She has studied and worked with ISTA for a number of years and is a VITA certified Sex, Love and Relationship Coach. She also shares her gifts in Dakini sessions and in group sex and body positive events wherever she may be in the world.
She is on a soul mission to show people the truth of who and what they are, and with that her work is very much about freeing people from the delusion of the shame that binds them and moving instead towards being fully and proudly sexually expressed humans in all of their shapes and colors.
For her, this festival is about empowerment. It is an invitation to evolve into the highest and best version of yourself. She wants you to take this opportunity to express yourself in all of your authenticity.
Step into your power and shine!
Her workshops 'Sex Magic Ritual to Save the World', 'Making Love to the Shadow' and 'Temple of God' will be running at Taboo Festival ‘24
You can find out more about Stefanie's work here:
Instagram: @stefanieoconnor.life
Facebook: Stefanie O’Connor
Website: https://stefanieoconnor.life
Queendom
Welcome to the ritualistic Femdom experience, celebrating the exquisite power and beauty of the Goddess as well as the beauty of those who freely choose to be of service to Her.
This workshop and play space to follow is designed specifically for Goddesses in feminine bodies and worshippers/servants in all bodies. Please celebrate the occasion by dressing in Goddess robes (or your favourite kink wear) or a black attire with a submissive accent (such as a collar or a harness). Please note: submissive by no means means inferior. On the contrary, consciously choosing the place of service to the Goddess points to an inner power which has been deeply integrated.
The main agenda is for us all to engage in a beautiful experience that is both sober, connected and wholesome, as well as kinky, edgy and transgressive. The two can absolutely go hand in hand.
Everyday Kink
Have you been curious about the juicy, wondrous world of sub/dom dynamics and sensation (or impact) play in particular?
Great news!
This workshop offers a gentle, beautifully held space in which to unleash your hidden sensation play mastery. And the great news is, you don’t need a premium priced, perfectly weighted leather flogger (if you have one already though, great!) to really taste the intimacy and beauty of engaging with others in this way.
Simply bring: kitchen utensils such as wooden spoons or foam beaters (essentially, anything that feels rather interesting when used to caress or hit the surface of your skin), silk scarves or sarongs, feathers or pocket fans, fruit and vegetables such as: pineapple, large courgette, strong celery stick.
Communication & Boundaries
Only when we feel safe can we allow our desires to be truly free!
Do the words Consent, Negotiation and Boundaries leave you feeling perplexed? Or do you ever struggle to express your boundaries? To have them heard and honoured?
Consent can feel like a minefield, with risks in how we hear and respond to each other.
In this trauma-informed workshop we’ll look at three levels of consent: Verbal (language), Non-verbal (body-language), and even touch on Energetic levels of communication (also known as Emotional Attunement).
We’ll explore how we communicate our boundaries, how we sometimes lose sight of each other’s - and what we can do to look after our own.
An experiential workshop with exercises focussed on connecting to ourselves and our bodies.
Open to all, irrespective of gender or orientation. Bring yourselves and an open, curious mind!
Meet Greg!
Greg has been exploring his many interests around kink, ecstasy, connection, ecstatic states, and personal truth power for 20 years. Integrating many different experiences and ideas from healing, psychology, movement, breathwork, energetics, somatic empowerment and group spaces, he is coming full circle to reconnect with his deepest kinks after several dormant years. He is excited to facilitate spaces to allow inner truths to be revealed, authentic connections to happen, and our essential intuitive beings to blossom with minimal interference from unneeded social expectations.
Playing with Fire
Fireplay is a captivating, spellbinding, and extraordinary form of play in BDSM. Embracing the risk of flames caressing one's body can ignite a deeply sensual and exhilarating experience. Despite initial trepidations, people often find these sensations surprisingly gentle yet imbued with an electrifying intensity and dynamic vigor.
Fireplay sessions inherently embody an element of unpredictability and danger, invoking a dramatic essence. For the person stroking another's skin with fiery torches, this practice demands technical skills, strong attentiveness, and deep immersion. Through dedicated practice, both participants can experience a profound connection and trust with each other in this fiery dance of play.
In this 3-hour workshop, you will:
- Learn essential tools and techniques of fireplay.
- Discuss crucial safety measures involved in this play.
- Gain insights into how you can create your own session/ritual.
- Practice helpful and clear communication (verbal and non-verbal) before and during the
session. - Explore what happens on the receiver/bottom side and how they can contribute to a
successful fireplay session. - Enjoy opportunities for experimentation and practice.
You will need to bring:
- A cotton blanket or a large towel.
- If you have long hair, something to tie it up.
Sadistic Desires: Creating Connection through Pain
Join us for a transformative 2-hour workshop where we open up a safe and supportive container for the exploration of our sadistic appetites.
Our aim is to empower you to embrace these impulses without feeling ashamed or guilty, while also understanding and satisfying each other's needs in our play.
What do you really need to navigate your sadistic desires? How can you feel safe enough to unleash your inner beast or monster in a controlled way? How can we deepen our connection through the exploration of pain?
We'll demonstrate practical scenarios and offer exercises so you can gain insights into navigating this complex and paradoxical terrain in a lighthearted and playful way.
Through the "Take-Allow" dynamic from the Wheel of Consent, we will address the concept of "taking for your personal benefit" while ensuring the integrity of the partner's limits.
You'll learn practical strategies for communicating effectively, for co-creating hot and intimate encounters, and for cultivating deeper connections through the exploration of intense sensations.
The Unveiling
The Unveiling is a slow ritual undressing of clothes and the social layers beneath which we exist.
In this ritual we dive into the affects of touch, exploring the skin as continuous, through the orifices of the mouth, nose, anus and into the digestive tract.
The session will guided as a somatic meditation in which we will focus on sustaining slow continuous pressure as we slide along the surfaces of the ground, ourselves, the fabric of our clothes.
As slowly as possible will undress ourselves and each other, pausing just at times to see and be seen.
Face-sitting: An Introduction to Female Domination
Would you like to explore your dominant side? Or are you curious about your submissive side?
Then this explicit workshop by Shirka & Till is tailored for you!
Come in pairs, but please note: Doms – only individuals with vulvas & Subs – individuals with faces!
We provide guidance and create a safe space for you to step out of your comfort zone and bring to life fantasies of female dominance and male submission.
You don’t have to conform to stereotypes; you can play your role as it suits you.
In this workshop:
- We discuss desires and fantasies. We practice negotiation, consent, and communication within the scene.
- We delve into the dominant/submissive roles and energy through brief exercises.
- The facilitators demonstrate a step-by-step play script.
- We enact this playscript (or parts of it) and conclude with free play.
Erotic Hypnosis - Make your weird fantasies even wilder
Mistress Psyche will be holding this exuberant, erotic and explicit exploration of gender fantasies and hypno role play which will blur the boundaries of reality and fantasy.
A hot and horny workshop which will explore the use of role play and hypno in exploring alternate, gender focused identities.
Mistress Psyche will use her experience as a professional Domme and hypno practitioner to extend her session work to a group context.
Come with an open mind and expect to have fun!
The Sex Lectures
The Sex Lectures is a series of 12 minute talks hosted by 6 speakers, around different themes.
Understanding your Erotic Psyche
This workshop will explore peak erotic experiences and what they tell you about arousal and avoidance.
Upgrade your Senses
Smell, taste, hear, see, feel: A guided and meditative sensual journey to a deeper, magical, sensual experience.
Sensory stimuli excite and tease our fantasy and stimulate detailed and fine sensations.
Sensuality is liveliness, sensual awareness brings deep, real lust for life. We become aware of our sensual super powers and experience ourselves in a new way.
Meet Steve Shiva!
Having first been introduced to Tantra over 14 years ago in the OSHO International Resort, Pune, India, since then Steve Shiva continues to be drawn to its power of transformation and healing.
For him, its honoring of the divine feminine, and its alchemical power of transgressing the traditional by living the totality of all levels of ourselves makes Tantra the only path that allows us to new experience the truth of who we are - powerful, human, divine, love, dark and light all at once.
The essence of his work is always the same - cultivating and curating a relational space which empowers everyone to live totally, playfully and most important of all, authentically. He believes that our world can transform through connecting to and embodying the truth - that we are infinitely powerful, and the divine feminine and divine masculine in one.
Be notorious. Be real. Come alive.
His workshop 'Notorious Love - The Holy Trinity' will be running at Taboo Festival ‘24
You can find out more about Shiva's work here:
Instagram: steve.shiva.notorioushearts
Facebook: Notorious Hearts
Youtube: Man-In Retreats and Workshops
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/steveshiva.notorioushearts
Pussy Power
A workshop for Pussy owners who desire to learn how to tap into the power that resides within their womb.
The birthplace of creativity and where we receive money, wealth and pleasure.
Embodiment practices to connect with the life force and energy of the pussy.
There is enormous power within our pussies, and when we learn to connect and tap into our sexual energy it is a powerful way to create and manifest in life and business.
Unfuckingleashed
An opportunity to unshackle.
An opportunity to uncover and release the generational patterns that are blocking you fully from owning your power, sexuality and all of you.
A space to release shame & the BS stories that are getting in the way of you showing up fully as yourself. No topic is taboo in this deep dive workshop.
I coach intuitively so will flow with the needs of the room, the participants bring the content and I will tap into and know the exact questions to create transformation.
Meet Amanda Biccum!
Amanda Biccum is an Intimacy Coach & Embodiment Mentor. She has studied at the International School of the Temple Arts (ISTA), Beyond Temple and was a lead assistant at The Field Trauma Informed Facilitator Training. She is one of the founders of ‘Mr. & Mrs - conscious parties.’
Her work focuses on guiding women back into connection with their bodies, their pleasure and their sexuality. She firmly believes that our body is our temple and coming back ‘home’ to our bodies is the pathway to more pleasure and deeply fulfilling relationships.
She spent many years traveling the world learning from various teachers, disciplines and spiritual practices around the world. She has also taught at different Tantra Festivals & workshops all over the world teaching Feminine Embodiment & Deeper Intimacy workshops and retreats such as “The Deeper Intimacy Collective”.
Her workshops: ''That Just Fucked Feeling' ''Notorious Love, The Holy Trinity' and 'The Temple of God" will be running at Taboo Festival ‘24
You can find out more about Amanda here:
www.amanda-biccum.mykajabi.com
Instagram: @theamandabiccum
Facebook: Amanda Biccum
Sex for the Less Able
Society makes the assumption that disabled people don't have sex.
This workshop opens a lid on that world, showing the participants what it might be like to have sex as a disabled person, and how to make it more possible.
Energy Genitals
In this workshop Kirstine invites you to explore the possibilities of owning different genitals... Perhaps your genitals will be cock shaped, or maybe you'll grow a womb, or they may even resemble something else entirely...
Come and play; all you need is an imagination.
3 circles - Ceremony of Communal Self Pleasure
3 Circles is a ceremony of self-pleasure is an open invitation to explore your body, your choices and your unique sexual expression in a welcoming ritual of intimacy in the community.
It is an opportunity to witness and to be witnessed, to transform shame into celebration and to join an erotic collective of pleasure activists.
Participation in this ritual can be illuminating, empowering, challenging, revealing, freeing, energising, nurturing, normalising, affirming and honouring! There is optional nudity and optional self-touch without talking, distraction or touch with others.
We have a clear hygiene and consent protocol which involves no touch between participants. The ceremony is a celebration of mindful pleasure practice / soloving in a communal context.
Each of the 3 concentric circles welcome 3 ways to participate:
The outer Witnessing Circle sets the seated physical boundary of our ceremonial space and is where we meditate, connect our eyes to our hearts, witness with a soft gaze, and integrate the multiple sensory inputs.
The Awakening Circle, one step in, is where we set up our self-pleasure station and can explore self-touch, movement and breath, receiving inspiration from the collective and circulating arousal in our bodies.
The Celebrating Circle in the middle invites joyous movement, playfulness, ecstasy, aliveness and glowing solo eroticism.
The Wheel of Consent
Kian, using game and play, will be teaching you about the wheel of consent; expect to take a lot away from this important workshop!
Magical Face BDSM
Dorte's workshop is focused on the face, and how there is a magical playground of endless possibilities in terms of sensual BDSM.
In this workshop we explore all the different parts: the eyes, the mouth, the chin, the throat , the hair and what amazing things we can do with it.
We will work in pairs, and start out with a conversation about consent, triggerpoints and aftercare.
Anal Joy
Welcome to a celebration of the butt!
As a true non-binary genital, butts can be played with in any gender constellation - and that can unlock some very juicy new dynamics.
We'll start slowly with a discussion around pleasure, shame, and everything in between from the perspective of the anus and get all soft and vulnerable.
Then we'll enter a skill sharing on butt techniques and finish off with some space for exploration - from playing with butts to trying on strap ons :)
Full participation is possible without taking off any clothes!
Full participation is also possible while completely naked ;)
Gender Play as Shadow Work and Personal Development
Sissification, feminisation and conscious gender play for personal development and most importantly…. to get you off.
A theoretical discussion and practical workshop with horny, no holds barred, examples on LGBTQIA’s identities gender constructs and their intersection with Jungian shadow work and personal development
Expect to learn and pimp up your personal development. And learn a little more about the authentic queer history of our shared human experience.
Meet Bear Phillips!
Practitioner of Love | Explorer of Conscious Kink
Bear Phillips (he/ him) is a trauma-informed bodyworker and Intimacy & Relationship Coach by day (supporting individuals, couples and thruples exploring authentic relating, intimacy, pleasure, and consent) and a poly-sexual, polyamorous and kinky-slut by night. In his coaching with men, he works with questions of masculinity and how patriarchy impacts our ability to have meaningful and authentic relationships.
More connection, more pleasure, more joy - it’s all possible!
Substack: @bearphillips1
IG: @bear_phillips
FB: Bear Phillips
Bsky: @bear-phillips
Meet Rosalind H Smith!
Rosalind Holgate Smith is a Dance Artist and Choreographer currently living and working in Berlin.
Inspired by her work with touch she creates performances and installations that explore intimate experiences between people, place and the environment.
She completed a BA(hons) in Fine Art & Choreography at Dartington College of Arts and a Masters in Dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance.
Rosalind has also studied somatic movement practices including Body Mind CenteringⓇ, Authentic Movement, Skinner Release Technique and The Axis Syllabus and taught Contact Improvisation all over the world, including with professional dancers, in Universities and with diverse groups including disabled adults, and older people.
At present she is completing a PhD that investigates how touch makes possible encounters with Otherness and the vocabulary used in Contact Improvisation at Kingston University, in London. She also offers somatic massage and aquatic bodywork and she teaches yoga and swimming with the Alexander Technique.
Her workshop: "The Unveiling" will be running at Taboo Festival ‘24.
You can find out more about her work here:
https://rosalindholgate-smith.com
Meet Shirka!
Shirka (she/her) has a background in music, performance and art.
With many years in the sex-positive scene, Shir has discovered her own unique way of expressing her inner dominatrix, a role which was out of her comfort zone for many years and now she enjoys it fully.
Inspiring people and creating safe spaces where individuals can freely explore themselves and their boundaries are two of her great talents.
Shirka and Till will be co-hosting the workshop 'Facesitting' at Taboo Festival ‘24.
Meet Alison!
Alison Pilling (she/they) is the creator & host of The Sex Lectures, learned kinkster, Sexoligical Bodyworker and all-round sex geek.
Ali has enjoyed roving around the erotic realms in a soul journey through sexuality. As a previously repressed catholic, identifying and overturning old beliefs opened up a new sense of what was possible. Connecting with eroticism, sensuality & shadow healing allowed a new understanding to emerge, leading to growing embodied awareness, personal freedom, pleasure and empowerment.
At TabooFest they will be sharing ideas around creative touch and and power switching, as well as hosting The Glastonbury Sex Lectures.
Meet Sura!
Sura Hertzberg is a pleasure facilitator and energy catalyst whose playground is the body and mind.
Her work holds multiple disciplines and mediums – ranging from psychotherapy to embodied art, practices from bodywork to ritual – and alchemizes themes of sexuality, pleasure, love, and altered states of consciousness.
Sura has engaged and guided various communities across the globe, from Berlin to the Bay area. She holds an MA in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and works transpersonally with couples, individuals, and groups.
Her most recent publication, Sex & Psychedelics Mag, is available on her website, surahertzberg.com and sexandpsychedelics.com
Sura will be presenting 'Fucking with Monogamy' at Taboo Festival 2024.