Into Intimacy
10-Week Online Interactive Course Exploring Jan Day’s Living Tantra
17 September – 26 November 2025
Wednesdays 7–9 pm, UK time
Discover yourself more fully and awaken your potential in relationship with yourself and others.
Our first intimacy is with ourselves; how we relate to ourselves completely shapes how we interact with the world. Our first intimacy is the gateway to meaningful connections and loving relationships.
This course includes ten interactive online sessions held by Karis Mae and João Mar and will be guided by intimacy expert Jan Day’s book: Living Tantra: A Journey Into Sex, Spirit & Relationship.
**Plus one bonus session where Jan Day will join for a Q&A.
Everyone is welcome to attend this course, whatever your relationship status or preferences.
During the live sessions, Karis Mae and João Mar will create a safe and dynamic space for you to explore themes around sexuality, intimacy and relationships. There will be guided meditations, exercises, small group sharings in breakout rooms, discussions, Q&A, as well as reading and practices to do at home in between sessions.
You will be guided through the teachings and principles of Living Tantra, inviting you to bring loving awareness to your relationship with yourself and others, and learning tools to bring more authenticity and presence into your everyday life.
Living Tantra teaches us to grow in consciousness and learn from all aspects of life. It offers a path for us to love ourselves more fully, weaving together all that we are into a single, integrated, whole being.
As part of this course you will:
- Practise being fully alive and present in your body, your feelings, your sexual nature, your heart, and your being
- Learn to welcome and hold challenging emotions, so they become allies rather than obstacles to intimacy
- Explore self-love through reflection and embodied practices that support you to befriend every part of you
- Learn tools to live more consciously and be more authentic in your relationships
- Deepen your capacity to listen both to yourself and others
- Learn how to express your desires, needs and boundaries with clarity and compassion
- Identify and move beyond patterns of behaviour and relating that do not serve you
- Explore and celebrate your sensual and sexual nature
- Be part of a community and shared journey where the ‘workshop’ is interwoven and integrated into your everyday life
Above all, this is a supportive place where you can truly be yourself. It’s a space where all emotions are welcome, and you can be seen and accepted in all of your colours.
Dates
This course will take place between September and November on Wednesdays at 7-9 pm (UK time) on the following dates:
September 17, 24
October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
November 5, 12, 19, 26
Jan Day will join as a special guest on 5 November for a Q&A session.
Price
Earlybird (book by 16 August): £200 (approx 233 euros / 2,593 SEK)
Standard: £250 (approx 292 euros / 3,250 SEK)
We have limited number of subsidised tickets available to those who cannot afford the full price of this event. Email joao.mar@yahoo.com to share why you want to attend and your circumstances.
What people say
“Despite initial nervousness about the course, it turned out to be a wonderful investment in myself and my ongoing learning journey. The facilitation was respectful, gentle and skilled which enabled participants to feel safe and open to rich conversation and mutual support. I have already recommended it others.”
"I really enjoyed Into Intimacy, it was such a safe place that I surprised myself in revealing some aspects of myself that i would otherwise have felt ashamed to. The facilitators held the space impeccably and were always ready to clarify matters and answer questions. It's deep work, but well worth doing and I now want to go deeper."
“This course helped me to go much deeper into the book than I would have been able to on my own, and to share the journey with others. The warmth, presence and effort of the facilitators shone through. Despite being an online course, it felt connected and interactive. It is good value for money.”
"Karis and João found a great formula in which they mix the knowledge of Jan Day with their own 'on the spot' presence and experiential knowledge. The rhythm of reading, excercising and the weekly exchange in their presence and support made it a profound and inspiring learning and healing process. Thank you."
"The course was a beautiful reaffirmation of connection with the self, and both João and Karis expertly guided the group through Jan Day's many helpful exercises."
"An excellent course that is well presented and facilitated with sensitivity and insight which aims to empower those attending to apply the principles of weaving and integration of body (including sexuality), mind and spirit within themselves and in relationships. Life changing and incredibly freeing while learning how to create boundaries and confidence as an individual through discovering our uniqueness and that we are to be respected and loved."
"The Living Tantra course was amazing to get to know myself, get in touch with my feelings and cultivate a better relationship with my body and my partner! I loved that we had a safe space to share vulnerable things with each other during the course. I felt very safe and well guided during this whole time and the lessons I’ve learned will stay with me for a long time. Thanks for this beautiful experience, João and Karis."
"An excellent book, helping me to really look at a multitude of areas influencing my intimate relationships. Really well set out looking first at the self, then sexual nature, relationships and that outside of ourselves. A lot of exercises to undertake throughout the course, not light night time reading! A great starting place for those a little intimated by a week long course involving physical touch!"
Questions
If you have any questions about this course, feel free to get in touch:
João Mar: joao.mar@yahoo.com +351 932875173 (WhatsApp / Telegram)
Karis Mae: karis@karismae.com +46 760083439 (WhatsApp / Telegram)
About Karis Mae
Karis Mae is on a mission to bring more connection in the world. She is an authenticity advocate, connection nerd and self-confessed cuddle queen. Her passion is to get to the heart of being human; to dive into the depths of relating where authenticity and vulnerability meet.
Her group work centres on intimacy, relating, self-love and embodied consent, always held through a trauma-informed lens. She brings a warm, grounded presence and a practical, no-nonsense approach that helps people feel safe enough to go deep.
Karis has trained in trauma-informed group field facilitation with Rachel Rickards and Catherine Hale (https://the-field.com/), with intimacy expert Jan Day (www.janday.com), consent educator Matthias Schwenteck (www.somaticconsent.com) and Heart IQ circle work founder Christian Pankhurst (https://www.heartiq.org).
Her spiritual and personal development path has been touched by many modalities and teachings over the last 15 years, including yoga, tantra, meditation, satsang, radical honesty, consent, embodiment, circle work and authentic relating.
About João Mar
João was born and raised in Portugal and has lived in the UK for 15 years. After many years as a university teacher in African Literatures, he started a spiritual journey towards personal freedom and happiness and soon realised that his passion and calling lay elsewhere.
He left the academic world and quickly took a deep dive in the world of tantra and sacred sexuality. He did his Tantra Teacher Training with Jan Day at the School of Being in 2013/14 and has since complemented this with further work with different teachers and trainings.
His passion is to share his teachings with a holistic approach, which helps others to reach their full potential in different aspects of their lives.
He uses tantra and conscious sexuality (workshops and private coaching sessions) to support people and empower them to unblock everything that prevents them from being in touch with their true essence and universal love.
Most of all, he provides people with the tools to clear their own paths for healing, growth, authenticity, freedom, vitality, pleasure and happiness… always with compassion and integrity.
About Jan Day
Living Tantra teacher, relationship expert and psycho-spiritual teacher, Jan Day has been teaching and leading workshops in Europe and Hawaii since 1999. She brings extraordinary warmth and compassion to her work in groups, with individuals and with couples focussing on intimacy, sexuality, self-love and growing consciousness. She creates a learning environment where people can get a vital education in communicating effectively, creating authentic intimate long-lasting relationships, understanding themselves and their sexual nature and how to find a warm hearted and healthy expression of their sensual nature.
Jan Day brings to her teaching a deep understanding and a warm appreciation for people’s need to find and to trust their own unique journeys into being. Her life and work have been influenced by both Eastern and Western spiritual teachers. She was a sanyassin of Osho for 15 years.
www.janday.com
Cancellation policy
If you can no longer attend, you are welcome to transfer your ticket to another person. Please email us with the name and email of the person you are transferring your ticket to.
• If you cancel up until 1 week before the course start, 50% of the full payment will be refunded.
• If you cancel within 1 week of the course start date, the payment is not refundable.
• If you decide to leave the course after it has started, the payment is not refundable.