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.
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 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 Dr Diva!
Dr. Diva is a player, creator, performer and international presenter of retreats such as Schwelle Vienna and Xplore, as well as workshops such as "Dirty Talk", "Changing Reality", "Bliss" and many more.
With many years of experience they are also a sex educator and relationship-coach for couples and individuals.
For Dr. Diva it’s all about connection, because if you really see the other, if you are truly meant by the other – a quantum leap will happen with your desire, lust and love. This is so much greater than the perfect ass or the most beautiful eyes. It moves beyond a common moment, to a magical dance, be it only for one night, which leads to intimacy (into me I see).
Dr. Diva believes that vulnerability, connection and consent change your life, and the way you see the world. Fascinated by the huge, hidden potential within us, Dr. Diva seeks ways to set it free.
Their approach is playful, with lightness, humour, empathy and love. Love for self and others, with all their facets.
“I have got a thousand faces, and all of them are true.“ (Henry Miller)
You can find out more about Dr Diva here:
Facebook: Dr Diva
Meet Paulina!
Paulina (aka Priestess Pow) is a conscious sexuality practitioner and space holder with Temples of Eros (London), neo tantrika, sensual domme and a certified energy healer.
She is passionate about creating ritualistic and ceremonial containers and a whole variety of spiritual paths and practices.