Conscious Play Fighting followed by optional Temple
Liberate your inner predator, prey or wild inner child.
Feel into – and luxuriate in – the primal. Our instinctive parts are so stunning and precious and hellishly sexy too 😈
This workshop will give you an opportunity to explore them in depth. The workshop is a non-sexual, pants-on space to explore body self-connection and non-verbal communication through play. All physical abilities are welcomed.
We welcome all genders, sexualities and orientations and are queer and trans friendly.
(The venue is up a flight of stairs and therefore not accessible to wheelchair users, sadly)
You can choose to come for the workshop only, or stay on for Temple-night to dive into all the juicy energies you’ve awakened in a space where mindful sexual expression is welcome and celebrated 🔥
Important – by purchasing a ticket, you agree that the organisers or venue will not be held responsible for any injuries that may be caused by this activity.
Tickets are separated by gender to ensure diversity. This is a mixed group where you can spar and challenge anyone to play-fight, within agreed boundaries and embodied consent.
Conscious Play fighting Workshop
4:00 - 6:30 pm
Play fighting is all about connection to your own body and juicy energies flowing through it first. Only from that space you can wrestle and play in a wholesome, connected, delicious way with other beings. What you discover in this kind of deeply embodied connection with others is likely to surprise you! Perhaps your body, and spirit, crave gentleness and flowing, perhaps there’s a lot of passion, fire and wildness yearning to be expressed. You might awaken your creativity or meet your Inner Child.
You won’t know until you dive into it full in!
In the workshop, we will talk through safety issues, demonstrate techniques and go through a series of exercises to warm up and connect with others. Importantly, we will explore boundaries and consent and communicating them both in an explicit and in a nonverbal way. Everyone who wants to, will have an opportunity to challenge another (or more beings at once!) for a play fight in the ring.
Details of the afternoon play fighting workshop:
- 3.45-4 pm arrival
- Please do not consume recreational drugs or alcohol for 24 hours prior to the event
- Water, tea and snacks provided
- There are no refunds. If you cannot attend you’re welcome to try and resell your ticket on Temples of Eros Facebook and Telegram groups.
- If you have COVID, your ticket may be transferred to a future event
- Bring a water bottle
- Wear yoga/gym clothes for the workshop
- No strong perfumes or scents
- Please remove all jewellery and sharp or loose piercings before
Conscious Primal Temple (can only booked as an add-on to the workshop)
7 pm - 10:00 pm
Having met some incredibly juicy humans in a feisty wrestling match, why not take to the next level by engaging with them at Temple night, welcoming all sorts of consensual sensual and sexual expression?
In this Temple we will specifically explore giving and receiving non verbal consent and the primal flavour of sexuality through several connection games and rituals at the start of the night.
After approximately 1 hour of embodied interactive practices, we open the space to free flow of interaction, which can include continuing play fighting or any other consensual interaction. There will be assistants on-hand, to hold space for you, teas and snacks throughout the night.
What you may see in the space, depending on the flavour of the night (which we can never fully predict!): Sensual and/or sexual play, in two's three's and groups. This doesn’t mean you’re expected to participate in this way.
Whatever you have to bring on the night, emotionally, physically, spiritually is important, welcome and a valued contribution to the collective energy. It could be that you’re in the mood for a hug or conversation. Or on the contrary, feeling quite sexual. In our temples there’s space for everything!
If you would like to stay for the Temple, please select the inclusive ticket (workshop+temple).
Your facilitators:
Roy Graff is a psychotherapeutic counsellor, life and relationship coach who draws on his training in Psychosynthesis psychotherapy, Radical Honesty, Non-violent Communication and Wheel of Consent training to offer coaching and mentoring to individuals, couples and polycules. He can help you with relationship issues, honesty and authenticity in relating, life transformation and major life crises. Roy has been running play fighting workshops since 2022 at festivals and cities including London, Brighton, Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol.
Paulina Tenner likes to call herself a Transcendental Whore. She is a keen practitioner and student of tantra, shamanism, BDSM and other forms of conscious sexuality with organisations such as ISTA (also as an assistant). She has experience as temple night host and facilitator, circling facilitator (meditation in connection), as well as a fetish model and burlesque artist! 💃 She’s passionate about open and wholesome sexual expression and creating spaces where others can access their full sensual and sexual potential. She’s also a deeply spiritual being. She’s recently launched her first business book, “Laid Bare: what the business leader learnt from the stripper”.
Testimonials from past participants:
- Article written by one of our participants, and captures the essence of the play fighting experience.
"Play Fighting workshop was everything I had hoped for: well-organised, fun, energetic and intense. It was lovely to witness a variety of play fighting styles from competitive to sensual to almost erotic (had I stayed for the optional Temple, I’m sure eroticism would have been the main energy ingredient). I was pleased to see how quickly a bunch of standers are able to authentically connect with each other on a wide range of levels within the safety of the play space. Kudos to the organisers, Roy and Paulina, for their excellent team work and professionalism. I can highly recommend to anyone to attend it.
Kristina (@lora.poly)."
"It was with great anticipation that I went to the Play fighting workshop and temple. I was not disappointed it provided a space for me to be physical, powerful and playful with others. Wrestling, pushing, grabbing, snarling, rolling around - I loved it. A place to let out my inner animal without inhibition. I came away more confident and grateful to experience this part of my erotic nature with others. I learned so much about myself thank you.
Dee"
"I really want you to know how immensely profoundly healing my experience was at last night's temple. For almost all of my adult life, sexuality has been a source of deep unhappiness for me (sexuality being something to be ashamed of, to be suppressed, and which has caused so much misery for me). I'm so overwhelmingly grateful to have discovered these temple events, and last night's temple was a huge huge life-transforming experience for me. It transcended anything I could possibly have hoped for. It was one of the most profoundly wonderful beautiful joyful loving intensely-pleasurable liberating healing euphoric experiences of my entire life. (…) I feel like my life has been profoundly irreversibly changed by this experience."
M.
"A wonderful, well held evening spent with a diverse group of like-minded souls. The event had everything, warm hosts, delicious cacao and snacks, interesting conversations, and very juicy, sensual and delicious interactions."
A.
"Having only been to one temple night previously that didn't seem to resonate, I was hesitant and anxious about attending another. However, I needn't have worried. As soon as I arrived, I was warmly greeted by Paulina, Margot and their helpers and immediately felt welcomed and included. After savouring some cacao and partaking in some introductory exercises to get everyone more acquainted, it turned into a beautiful warm loving evening with copious amounts of social, sensual and intimate exchanges. Can't wait for the next one."
P.
"I was made to feel very welcome, despite being late to arrive, not just by the hosts but by everyone present. The acceptance of me as a person, probably at the extreme upper end of the age range present, was also profound. I had never been to anything of this type before, and for me the ceremony, the exercises on consent and then the free interactions were healing for me - especially as I have spent my entire adult life feeling unworthy of anyone's sexual attention."
R.
"Paulina, my heartfelt thanks for creating such a rich, gentle and deep Temple Night at your home - and to Margot and Daniel for their holding. The location helped the evening have a particularly intimate quality. I enjoyed warm exchanges with many beautiful beings. It’s good to know there will be more gatherings."
D.