Meet Seani Love!
Seani Love (pronouns: he/him but you can call him Daddy) one of the 2 founders of Taboo Festival has made his career exploring the dark places of the human shadow as much as the light aspects of human sexuality. His expertise is in taking his clients and workshop participants on journeys into bliss, surrender and empowerment using a variety of sexual, neotantric, kinky and ritualistic techniques. He studied trauma at Arizona Trauma Institue and has a number of certificates in the realm of healing, sexuality, therapy and shadow processing.
Seani was award the title of UK Sex Worker of the Year at the 2015 Sexual Freedom Awards. He also appears in the 2018 Berlinale Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Winning film, Touch Me Not.
By exploring and integrating our shadows, we come to know ourselves and the world better which takes us on a step closer to wisdom, self-love and total empowerment.
Meet Fennel Waters!
Fennel (any pronouns/may/hem) a.k.a The Fenwitch, is a queer, neurosparkly, sapio & pansexual hu-being; a qualified life coach (empowerment, relationships & intimacy, attachment styles), facilitator, speaker, accredited Mindfulness trainer, and working witch.
Their life turn-on is personal development, [mental] health & wellbeing, and Emotional Intelligence.
For 30+ years they have been working on their own transformation (ongoing!), as well as in the corporate world, conscious communities, and in private practice.
They lead the S€x Positive Community Vermilion, that encourages awareness of, co-creation, and co-education in, autonomy, authentic relating, consent & boundaries, neo/tantra, inclusivity, diversity, and conscious kink & BDSM.
Fennel will be teaching
Last Night On Earth and Erøtic Embodiment & Striptease - more details on both of these soon!
Meet Saurora Grace!
Saurora Grace is a Tantric Sexologist, sex worker, and unapologetic shame slayer. She works at the edges of what’s sacred, filthy, and wildly human, where kink meets ritual, where bodies get worshipped, and where nothing is too much.
She’s here for the moaners, the screamers, the curious, the kinky, the soft, the wild, the disabled, the disobedient, the ones who’ve been told their desires are too weird, too loud, too complicated. She’s not here to tame you. She’s here to help you take the leash off.
Her work is rooted in deep body-based practice. Tantra. Somatic sexology. Conscious kink. Erotic ritual. Real-world sex work. This isn’t just theory, it’s blood, sweat, rope burn, laughter, release.
She specialises in working with disabled people, not from a place of pity or therapy, but from a fierce belief that pleasure belongs to everyone. Every body. Every story. Every scar. Every edge.
Sessions with her are intense. Transformative. Filthy. Fun. She brings depth, fire, and a fuckload of permission. You might cry. You might laugh. You might come. You might leave a different person.
Just real, raw, radical permission to be who you are and want what you want.
Come play. Come unravel. Come get filthy. 😜
Meet Diana Mau!
Channelling down from the cosmic planes is often times the order of the day for Welsh-born shadow tantrika and intuitive astrologer Diana Mau, whose parallel love of theatrics, play and creative expression inspired her in 2003 to dream up and co-found Volupté – the very first burlesque cabaret supper club in London this side of the 21st century.
A natural psychic intuitive, she has spent the last 8 years immersed in the realms of the shamanic and her beloved Underworld, where she has adventured and journeyed with everything from ritual theatre and storytelling, shadow and power play, Tantra, somatic work, Qabalistic magic, and Existential Kink – a practice and philosophy that has been deeply woven into her life since 2016. Her own experiential account of the practice made it into the 2020 book by founder Carolyn Elliott, and she has been a certified Existential Kink coach since 2023.
Diana has lived for many years on the magical crystal island of Ko Phangan in Thailand, where she recently opened Pandora’s Box, a space that offers – as well as an array of other delights – the mystical erotic Temple: Love’s Labyrinth.
Amongst her many other guises, she has also been Deputy Editor for a South East Asian entertainment travel magazine, and has owned and run a number 1 backpacking hostel in Thailand.
Meet DK Leather!
“I will take you… from who and where you are closer to who and where you want to be, using your own mind, body and spirit” ~ DK Leather
DK is a multiple award winning trans, polyamorous, shamanic, Leatherman, a Daddy and a Daka*, who’s become somewhat notorious for playing amongst the dark, edgy and taboo. As head of the first gender-inclusive leather family in the UK (since the nineties) he has shared the wealth via workshops, demos and performance on all things kink and power-exchange. He’s also an Urban Tantra professional and assistant teacher so along with his spirituality, truly relishes playing with energy, kink and ritual.
He’s coming to Taboofest exceedingly delighted and excited to be offering both delicious gender-fuckery, and sharp & shiny pointy things!
He is also a well known (advanced accredited) holistic psychotherapist, supervisor, author, and a prolific educator in all things GSRD (gender, sex, relationship diversities).
Awards among several; Pride in Diversity’s Role Model of the Year 2025, two Lifetime Achievement awards, and a Community Champion award.
- “A Daka or “Sacred Intimate” is a man who serves as a counsellor/therapist/healer/guide with the capacity to remain objectively present and grounded while purposefully and therapeutically employing erotic energy to evaluate, counsel and address a client’s deeply personal issues regarding sexuality, intimacy and relationship—fostering healing and integration thereof.” (wiki)
Everything you wanted to know about DK is here: https://linktr.ee/DKLeather
Meet Angel !
Head Angel – Emotional Support Lead
Angel is a sensual alchemist, body whisperer, and trauma-savvy mystic with over 30 years of experience guiding humans back to the sacred intelligence of their bodies. She blends conscious touch, sound healing, nervous system wisdom, and emotional depth to hold space where vulnerability becomes power and every part of you is welcome.
As Head Angel (and yes, that name is soul-earned), she leads the Emotional Support Team with unwavering presence and soft strength a true temple guardian - tending the space with grace, humour, and a fierce tenderness that allows tears, trauma, turn-on (or all three )
Whether you arrive in tears, tenderness, activation, or ecstasy, Angel will meet you exactly where you are. She’s here for your softness, your stillness, your expansion, and everything in between … no need to explain, and nothing to hold alone.
No judgment. No fixing.
Just presence and power.
Her touch is intentional.
Her mission is your return to self.
Her motto?
✨ “You get to feel it all — and you don’t have to feel it alone.” ✨
You’ll likely feel calmer just standing near her - and if not, she’ll offer you a grounding stone, a deep breath, or a wink… whatever your nervous system truly needs.
Erotic Fireplay
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 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.
Ecstatic Flogging – The Dance of Bodies and Whips
Ecstatic Flogging – The Dance of Bodies and Whips
In this Taboo Festival workshop, we invite you to experience flogging and spanking as ecstatic, connected, and deeply pleasurable practices—beyond punishment or power play.
Flogging can be an intense form of sensual massage. It can become a tool for deep connection, a gateway into altered states of consciousness such as trance or flow.
It may even offer a cathartic release—freeing emotions or tensions we’ve been holding inside.
Or perhaps it's simply the joy of letting the flogger fly, hearing its rhythm in the air, witnessing the responses it evokes, and co-creating a dance of sensation, rhythm, and presence.
There are so many ways to dive into this energy-charged, focused, and playful exchange. In this workshop—open to all experience levels, bodies, identities, and constellations—you’ll get to explore some of these possibilities through practical exercises, live demos, and moments of shared discovery, accompanied by grounded insights and practical tips.
Please bring your own flogger if you have one.
We will also have some available to borrow.
Nikkiema is joining us!
Nikkiema Rai is a Somatic Sexologist, Sexological Bodyworker, speaker, and facilitator. She has studied, worked and coached in the sexuality industry for over 8 years now, and during that time, she has facilitated at some of the most pioneering sexuality schools in the world, hosted dozens of pleasure activation circles, kink and erotic workshops, women’s and mixed space circles, and self-pleasure workshops, as well as working directly with individuals and couples. Nikkiema is passionate about ritual, sexuality, relating, and all things somatic, and is best known for her transformational work supporting people to create rich lives and relationships full of depth and connection.
Together with Seani Love, she'll be running Saturday Night's Kinky Magic Temple of Love.