Upcoming Events

Oct
11
Sun
2026
Conscious Platonic Touch and Cuddles Workshop @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK
Oct 11 @ 14:00 BST – 17:00 BST
Conscious Platonic Touch and Cuddles Workshop @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK

This afternoon is run by Elara who is an experienced practitioner and facilitator. It will be run in a safe and non-sexual environment where everyone’s boundaries are respected and honoured with positive intent. Our events provide a number of different nurturing touch and cuddle exercises set within firm boundary principles. Our aim is to leave you feeling relaxed, with your heart opened and soul nurtured.

Touch is an instinctive, natural language that we can all speak and understand. It’s essential for stimulating our nervous system and promoting healthy physical development. It is also critical for our mental and social development.  We will work with the beneficial effects of conscious touch and the resultant natural release of the feel good hormone oxytocin to bring you to a place of peace, empowerment, growth and self-connection.  Did you know that it’s a proven fact that just twenty seconds of physical contact can lift your mood for the whole day as it releases oxytocin?  Find out more about oxytocin and its potential healing power here .

This workshop is open to people of all genders of any age or sexual orientation whether you are single or in a relationship constellation.

This is a pre-book event only.

Doors open at 1:30pm – Workshop starts at 2pm

Investment: 

Early Bird: £25 (+ booking fee) (Ends 24th Sep)

Standard Price: £29 (+ booking fee)

Payment can be made by clicking on the above ‘Tickets’ button where there is a bank transfer option if you wish to avoid booking fees.

There are limited concession places, please get in touch with us at info@sacredlightevents.com to enquire.

Thank you

Elara

Oct
22
Thu
2026
Manchester Circle of Women – A Sisterhood Gathering @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK
Oct 22 @ 19:00 BST – 21:30 BST
Manchester Circle of Women – A Sisterhood Gathering @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK

You’re warmly invited to join us for the Manchester Circle of Women – A Sisterhood Gathering.

This is a relaxed and welcoming space to come together, slow down, and connect with others who may share similar life experiences. We meet in a circle as equals, creating a supportive environment where you can simply be — without pressure or expectation.

This gathering offers a chance to step out of the busyness of everyday life and into a space of connection, reflection, and support.

✨ What to expect:

* A calm, friendly and inclusive atmosphere
* Gentle guided reflection and simple practices
* Space for sharing, or simply listening
* Time to pause and reconnect

There is no pressure to speak or participate in any particular way. You are welcome exactly as you are.

This circle is open to anyone who resonates with the experience of women, including trans and gender-diverse people, nonbinary, genderqueer, and intersex individuals. We aim to create a respectful and inclusive space that honours the unique journeys, bodies, and life experiences each of us carries.

💫 Contribution:
There is no fixed cost. A suggested donation of £6 helps cover expenses, though this is completely optional.

📍 Location:
The Pathways Studio
Near MediaCityUK, M50 2XH

If this resonates with you, you are very welcome to join us 🌿

Oct
24
Sat
2026
The Kinky Magick Temple of Love @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK
Oct 24 @ 14:00 BST – 20:00 BST
The Kinky Magick Temple of Love @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK

THE KINKY MAGICK TEMPLE OF LOVE

A kinky Temple Ritual lead by Seani Love & Team

* Are you interested in the world of Conscious Kink and you don’t quite know how to get started?

* Do you love exploring erotic spaces and wonder what it’s like if those spaces are more structured?

* Do you fancy a beautiful day exploring heart-opening erotic fun with lovely people?

Then join us for a fun and sensual day of erotic and kinky ritual play.

We’ll spend the first part of the afternoon exploring exercises around consent and boundaries and eroticism ensuring everyone has a powerful, beautiful and safe day. These practices are powerful life-skills that will improve your love life to no end.

Later, we’ll share a guided cacao ceremony which will lead us into open play for the rest of the day ❣

There will be live musical space holding with a DJ – to be announced shortly 🎶🎶🎵🎶

There is no pressure to participate in any exercise that doesn’t feel right for you. It is our intention to create a space where your boundaries are nurtured and honoured at all times.

Join us for an amazing evening of kinky magick love to find out more!

This event is open to people of all genders and sexual orientations. We might balance genders if there is an obvious imbalance by restricting some genders from buying tickets. The best way to secure your place is you buy your ticket early.

*** You can come by yourself, with a friend, a partner or partners.

*** Also feel welcome to invite others who you would like to explore the space with.

This is a sober/drug free event : non alcoholic drinks only in this space.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

There are only a limited amount of tickets available – no tickets at the door. You need to register beforehand via the link.

Thank you. We are very much looking forward to this.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Price:

Early Bird – First 8 Tickets of Each Category: £75

Regular: £85

Location:

The Pathways Studio in Manchester.

Time:
Arrival: 13:30
Door closes: 14:00 – no entry possible afterwards

About the facilitator:

Seani:
Seani Love (he/him) is a male sex worker specialising in erotic journeys using the wonderful overlaps between Conscious Kink, BDSM and neo-Tantra. With training in counselling, theatre, Urban Tantra and many other hands-on and hands-off modalities, he has won numerous accolades including Sex Worker of the Year at the Sexual Freedom Awards in London in 2015.

His work combines techniques from erotic ritual, extreme sensitivity to consent and boundaries and Jungian psychology to create powerful pathways to empowerment, healing and self-discovery. As an international workshop facilitator, Seani Love has supported many on their journey to places of increased power, sexual expression, body awareness and self-love.

Oct
31
Sat
2026
My Naked Mask – with CLOSER @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK
Oct 31 @ 10:00 GMT – Nov 1 @ 16:00 GMT

Investigating Erotic Archetypes through dance, touch  and creativity.

brought to you by project CLOSER

In the spirit of Halloween, “My Naked Mask” is an invitation to play with our erotic masks. Rather than thinking of a mask as something we hide behind, we will explore this theme as a tool to help us discover different facets of ourselves in playful, creative, and delicious ways. 

Using tools of dance, touch and other forms of creative expression to investigate these facets of ourselves and each other, we will explore embodied responses to some of these questions: 

  • How can we show up naked, unveiled, and authentic, while at the same time consciously playing with our masks?
  • What happens when we trade our familiar masks for new ones?
  • What new discoveries might we make?

My Naked Mask, taking place on October 31 and November 1, is a delicious twist to Samhain festivals. And as we move towards the darker half of the year, we’re going to invite discovery and expression to our erotic  aspects in an experiential safe(r) space that brings freedom, fun and sexual creativity to life.

This workshop is split into two days that can be booked individually or together as a full weekend immersion. 

  • Day 1 is a workshop vibe.
  • Day 2 is a party / playground vibe.

All CLOSER workshops invite us into our sense of aliveness by offering permission to the erotic life force energy that nourishes our unique way of being in this world. Rather than relegating the erotic to a compartment of life or narrowing it down to the sexual, we allow creativity, openness, integrity and vulnerability. These workshops are open to everyone, creating a space for different sexual orientations and experiences.

Day 1 — Saturday 10am – 6pm

Explore

We’ll take time to explore and develop our different erotic facets, our erotic masks with playful yet profound inquiry.

Through a unique and specific combination of embodied techniques, Day 1 offers a guided process to feel and explore a variety of archetypes and personalised erotic energies. Day 2 provides a space to express and play with these erotic energies.

We’ll bring curiosity to:

  • How can wearing a mask and embodying a role (archetype) give expression to parts of me that otherwise don’t come to the surface?
  • How may I give form to what I discover within an experimental and safe(r) space?
  • Could these archetypes offer me a new way of relating to myself? To others?
  • Can I try things I don’t usually allow myself to explore?

We’ll use tools of:

  • 5Rhythms® Dance
  • Sexological Bodywork®
  • Expressive arts — writing, painting
  • Games and sharing
  • Touch and massage

No previous experience necessary.

Together, we will drop away from daily surroundings, and gently land into ourselves to meet our eroticism through the body x dance x creativity.

Day 2 — Sunday 11am – 4pm

Express

Day 2 is a creative playground to express all your Erotic Archetypes. We’ll begin the day with grounding exercises, guided touch and sharing followed by a 3 hour free flow.

This is a delicious opportunity to celebrate all our Erotic Masks, inviting our juicy aliveness to be seen, to be held and to drop into embodied contact with each other. Stepping into the portal to be in all our essence with awareness, sensuality, wildness, tenderness …. and all that is alive within us!  

At the heart of Day 2, a 3hour live DJ set will carry us through the free flow with spaces to dance, to draw, to play and to rest. 

We’ll bring curiosity, non-judgement and openness to EXPRESS:

  • How does my energy want to be expressed, witnessed, met?
  • What do I long to offer, and what am I ready to receive?
  • What lives more freely in me, once I give space to these parts of me?

BOOKING DETAILS

You are welcome to join us for only one day or for the whole journey.

EXPLORE (Saturday): 

Early Bird – £85 (+ booking fee) (Early Bird ends 5th October)

Standard – £100 (+ booking fee)

 

EXPRESS (Sunday): 

Early Bird – £50 (+ booking fee) (Early Bird ends 5th October)

Standard – £65 (+ booking fee)


EXPLORE + EXPRESS COMBINED (Weekend): 

Early Bird – £115 (+ booking fee) (Early Bird ends 5th October)

Standard – £145 (+ booking fee)

If you wish to avoid booking fees, select ‘pay by bank transfer’ at the checkout and follow the directions.

My Naked Mask is brought to you by project CLOSER

Samar Linn and Markus Habibi created project CLOSER; which is based in Berlin, as a unique, experiential approach to celebrate the Erotic as a creative life force. All workshops engage with a multi-layered exploration of eroticism that includes sexuality, desire, intimacy, fantasy, aesthetics such as clothing and even engages the mind.

CLOSER is devoted to all forms of erotic expression and does not focus on specific practices, yet all are invited. We acknowledge and make space for all the feelings that accompany us such as fear, shame, guilt, sadness. And yes, to joy too. Of course the body plays a key role in our expression and we create many methods to listen to, express and move the sensations.

CLOSER events are open to all, creating a safe(r) space for different horizons, sexual orientations and experiences. Whether you are comfortable and familiar with these topics, or exploring them for the first time, you are invited to join us.

About Samar Linn

Samar has a promiscuous love affair with music, is enamored by dance and is a curious investigator of freedom of expression. She is a certified 5Rhythms® teacher, a trained Integrative Coach and Bodyworker. Samar runs a range of workshops and regular classes to bring more curiosity to ourselves, openness to our uniqueness and permission to embrace the magic in daily life. Her raw attitude, vulnerability and fascination in ways to embody freedom of expression provide an electric, creative and safe environment.

Samar co-facilitates project CLOSER which is a dedicated space to investigate the erotic pulse through regular workshops, retreats and playgrounds.

About Markus Habibi

Markus firmly believes that only creative expression offers a way to avoid being lost in the whirl of the mundane. This expression gives shape to a language that connects us with ourselves and with the world. It may emerge in words, in dance, in visual art, or in erotic expression. 

He offers creative and erotic explorations that cultivate integrity, playfulness, depth, and an awareness of the “space in between“. His workshops are not about delivering ready-made truths, but about opening spaces for co-creation where participants develop their own language and deepen communication, intimacy, and embodied presence. He is certified in Sexological Bodywork® and a passionate and experienced dancer.

Nov
19
Thu
2026
Exploring Bioenergetics @ The Pathways Studio
Nov 19 @ 13:00 GMT – Nov 22 @ 17:00 GMT
Exploring Bioenergetics @ The Pathways Studio

We (Jon and Elara) are delighted to bring this one-of-a-kind Bioenergetics Yearlong Training for the third time to the UK. This is one of less than five yearlong Bioenergetics trainings worldwide.

If you are curious about bioenergetics but don’t want to commit to a yearlong training, you are welcome to try the first block which is standalone.

How we embody and express our energy makes our psyche and our patterns of reactions to life visible. We hold in our bodies the energy we dared not express when we were vulnerable children, both as a tension in the muscles and as a charge of energy in the organs and connective tissue. This fixed form of expression and defence is called our character. It is our social, adapted self, and blocks and represses our spontaneous flow of life energy, our wildness, including large amounts of our sexuality and creativity.

***What is Bioenergetics?***

Bioenergetics is not to be confused with the body of work that comes from biochemistry but comes from Wilhelm Reich and the therapy developed by his students.  This body of work not only includes bioenergetics itself but also Bioenergetic Analysis (Alexander Lowen), Biodynamic Psychology and Massage (Gerda Boyesen) Ron Kurtz (Hakomi) and Biosynthesis (David Boadella), Radix Therapy (Charles Kelly), Stanley Keleman (Formative Psychology) and the work of Leonard Orr, Arthur Janov and Stanislav Grof also draws upon it.

This training will cover both theoretical and practical grounding in the work of Reich and his followers.

Bioenergetics in general seeks to release old trauma, habits, and unconscious defensive attitudes and to liberate our life energy for aliveness, pleasure and for self-actualization. It seeks to change the base of our existence from an attitude based on fear and the unconsciousness to a mindfulness of our choices and an ability to express ourselves from our heart, our sex and our spirit. This yearlong training includes:

  • An analysis of our own character and patterns, which we respect as a necessity for survival
  • An understanding of the biographical causes of any stuckness and limitations
  • Strategies for managing trauma and fear
  • Supporting individuals to find freedom of expression and creativity as autonomous human beings

More specifically Bioenergetics is a self-exploration through becoming aware of tensions in your body. These tensions are created by the energies of past formative experience which are imprinted on your body.  These create your character, the person you became under the influence of your parents and your society.  By becoming aware of this we can release the tension and free up our energy to choose life in each moment. Thus, we are able to free up a huge amount of energy for our aliveness, our creativity, our pleasure and joy in life to create our conscious path and fulfil our dreams.

The ability to read the energy and character of others and know how to support their energy will also be taught.  As such, it is an invaluable training both for oneself and as a professional resource for those working energetically with others.

Themes for this yearlong training are:

  • Primal therapy, birth and intrauterine experiences and imprints that affect our lifetime patterns of energy.
  • The difference between character type and response
  • Understanding the patterns and needs of one’s character type
  • Moving from dependency to independence
  • Being aware of your feelings and expressing them appropriately and communicatively
  • Knowing what you want and what you don’t want and communicating that safely and respectfully
  • Assertiveness
  • Raising your energy levels, being more alive, aware, sensitive to life.
  • Grounding and standing on your own feet
  • Increasing the flexibility of one’s attitudes
  • Flowing with life instead struggling against it
  • Opening to aliveness and pleasure
  • Being able to be present and to stay in contact

We will support you to gain an understanding of:

  • The phenomenon of resistance and how to use and work through it.
  • How to work energetically and physically with projection, both positive and negative.
  • The different kinds of touch, their intent and applications: holding, containing, focussing, making conscious, confronting, soothing, mothering and fathering, supporting, grounding.
  • The emotional plague, repression and rebellion.
  • Armouring and core energetics, energy and character.
  • Imprints, memoire corporelle (cellular memory), regression, aspects of Janov and Grof.
  • The relationship between consciousness and energy, catharsis, demons, creative confrontation, witness consciousness.
  • The importance of breath, Reichian and other breathing techniques.
  • The orgasm reflex, the birth reflex.
  • Character analysis – the character types and their use in therapy.
  • Therapy and spirituality.
  • Techniques to raise energy, bioenergetic stress positions, Osho meditations.
  • Grounding and its importance, both through the feet and through the eyes.
  • The segments and their order of opening.
  • The contribution to the field of Reich‘s students including: Alexander Lowen, Ron Kurtz and Hakomi, David Boadella and Biosynthesis, Gerda Boysen and family and Biodynamics.
  • Self-regulation, the inner wisdom and balance of the body

***Who is this Training For?***

It is open for people who wish to explore their own patterns of holding and be able to release this energy and live fuller and more expansive life.  Feeling more alive, creative and deepening their pleasure and joy in life.

It may also be useful for those who have some experience in verbal therapies and want to explore particular themes through bodywork, or who want to deepen their experience of themselves through the methods of bioenergetics.  It is also designed for therapists, therapeutic masseurs and counsellors who wish to include working with the physical body and the energy body in their repertoire of therapeutic methods and interventions.

THIS WORKSHOP IS OPEN TO INDIVIDUALS & COUPLES / TRIADS / OTHER CONSTELLATIONS OF ALL GENDERS, SEXUALITIES & BODY TYPES.

This training can be undertaken as a yearlong Bioenergetics training comprising 4 blocks or Block 1 can be done as a standalone introduction to Bioenergetics.

In Block 1 the key aspects we will be exploring, through theory but mainly practical exercises, are:

  • The relationship between tension and relaxation
  • Some patterns of holding / armouring
  • How to support the flow of energy
  • Reich’s concept of segments and looking at some of the key ones
  • How to support ones energetic flow

***Logistics***

The training starts at 13:00 on the Thursday and finishes at 17:00 on the Sunday.

The training occurs at The Pathways Studio, Manchester and is non-residential. 

The cost included in the ticket is just for the teaching fee.  You will need to organise your own transport to get there and sort out your own accommodation and food.

The class size will be a maximum of 24 to allow valuable coaching time and exploration of their own character responses.  A minimum of 8 people are required to give attendees a typical cross-section of different energies and character responses to explore in person.

Dates:
Block 1: 19-22-Nov-26
Block 2: 28-31-Jan-27
Block 3: 15-18-Apr-27
Block 4: 24-27-Jun-27

YOU ARE WELCOME TO COME AND EXPERIENCE BLOCK 1 BEFORE SIGNING UP TO THE OTHER BLOCKS AND WE HAVE PRICING TO REFLECT THIS (SEE BOOK TICKETS).

Dec
8
Tue
2026
Block 2 – The Art of Transformational Tantra Massage @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK
Dec 8 @ 13:00 GMT – Dec 13 @ 17:00 GMT

This training is for those who want to explore tantra massage for their own personal development or wish to develop their skills further to become professionally certified tantra massage practitioners.

What is True Tantra Massage?..

“We see tantra massage, practiced ethically, consciously and in true consent as a pathway into tantra, a life led in presence, awareness and connection with ourselves, others and beyond.”  – Elara and Jon

This course has been developed to set a benchmark and standard for what Tantra Massage should stand for at the pinnacle of what it can be. The training is about learning to receive and give tantra massage as a transformational tool providing an initiation into tantra.    It is one of the few courses in tantra massage accredited by ASIS, the leading professional body in this field and is also accredited by Trusted Bodywork.

The word tantra has been often misappropriated to sell sexual services under the name tantra massage. Even the best-intentioned massages often overemphasize the sexual aspect of tantra, which is fundamentally about sacred sexuality expressed through the heart.
Tantra is an ancient practice that opens the door to an experience of ourselves as beings of energy and consciousness.

The key principles of tantra
1 To experience yourself as a bridge between heaven and earth, earth and heaven.
2 To experience that you have an energy body as well as a physical body, through which you can connect to the ocean of life energy that surrounds you.
3 Tantra is a path of increased sensitivity, through which we can be freed from the addiction to stimulation.
4 Your body is the sacred temple of your spirit.
5 Sacred sexuality is about being, not doing.
6 Experiencing the energy body takes you into expanded consciousness.
7 To experience yourself as a formless flow of energy, taking form through the conscious focus of your awareness.

Who is this Course for?

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A TRAINING OF 4 BLOCKS, PREVIOUS BLOCKS MUST HAVE BEEN COMPLETED BEFORE GOING ONTO THE NEXT BLOCK.  YOU CAN FIND OUT THE DETAILS OF THE NEXT BLOCK 1 AT www.transformationaltantramassage.co.uk/

This course is designed for people who want, through tantric massage, to get more in touch with their body, open their body to energy, heal any old disapproval of their bodies
and negative feelings like fear or shame, and to learn to deeply relax, so that their natural energy will start to flow and thus bring up any physical, energetic or emotional issues that need to be released or healed.  The body has its own wisdom and if we or our mind can stop being in the way, then beautiful moments can happen that will connect us again with our natural state of oneness, pleasure, joy and flow.

This course is experiential and is aimed at:

• Anyone who wants to dive deeply into the practice of tantra massage
• Those who are interested in becoming a qualified and experienced professional tantra massage practitioners
• Existing massage practitioners who wish to add tantra to their repertoire
• Existing tantra massage practitioners who wish to expand their repertoire of
practice and techniques and who enjoy the philosophy of tantra as well as the practices

To this end, it consists of two 5 day blocks and two 6 day blocks, and for those who want to get a professional certificate, they need to do some additional post-training studies as well.

THIS WORKSHOP IS OPEN TO INDIVIDUALS & COUPLES / TRIADS / OTHER CONSTELLATIONS OF ALL GENDERS, SEXUALITIES & BODY TYPES.

More information including pricing, dates and detailed information see www.transformationaltantramassage.co.uk/

Love Elara and Jon

Dec
9
Wed
2026
The Fundamentals of Tantra Massage @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK
Dec 9 @ 13:00 GMT – Dec 13 @ 16:00 GMT
The Fundamentals of Tantra Massage @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK

“We see tantra massage, practiced ethically, consciously and in true consent as a pathway into tantra, a life led in presence, awareness and connection with ourselves, others and beyond.”  – Elara and Jon

The words “tantra massage” have been often misappropriated to sell sexual services.  In addition, even the best-intentioned tantric massages often over- emphasize the sexual aspect of tantra, an ancient practice that opens the door to an experience of ourselves as beings of energy and consciousness.  Tantra is non prescriptive and allows everyone to find their own truth.

These five days invite you to explore the basic principles of tantra and how they form the foundation to authentic tantra massage.  This block can be done stand-alone and is also the first block of  the year long Transformational Tantra Massage Training which can take you on your own transformation journey  on one’s own transformational journey and ultimately to a professional qualification to support other people’s journey.

During the five days, you will be invited to learn:

  • The basic principles of Tantra
  • Tantric Rituals and their importance particularly in a massage setting
  • To improve communication skills around consent and boundaries
  • How to connect with energy in different ways and how your energy can affect others
  • Where energy may be held in the body and how to release it
  • Specific massages that release tension
  • Finding more aliveness in oneself and how to support others to do so
  • Basic hygiene protocols

This training is experiential and is based on your personal experience, both in receiving and supporting others to have their own personal experience.  In doing this you will have the opportunity to explore some of your personal story through embodiment. This event is not suitable for healing deep personal trauma. Tantra is non prescriptive and allows everyone to find their own truth.

At the end of the training, you will have been given the opportunity to take away:

  • An experience of what tantra is
  • Tools for communicating consent and boundaries
  • Massages that support people to find their energetic flow and zest for life
  • Rituals you can practice
  • Insights into your own personal patterns of response
  • Methods for finding relaxation in both routine and more difficult situation
  • More awareness of your body
  • Getting the right support for the work you do

This workshop is open to all who are over 18 and wish to explore, one or all of the following: Personal self-development, want to learn massages for friends and partners and active and aspiring practitioners.

Ticket Prices and Booking are HERE

You can pay by bank transfer to avoid the booking fee. Please contact us at info@transformationaltantramassage.co.uk for more information.

This is a standalone journey of self-discovery however it also forms the foundation for our Transformational Tantra Massage Programme, for when you understand yourself more you are in a better place to be of service to others. Subsequent blocks enable you to dive deeper for self-insights. Then, if you choose, you can ultimately become a professional tantric massage practitioner to facilitate others journey’s discovery, using the medium of touch.

More details of how this standalone training sits within the Transformational Tantra Massage Programme can be found at www.transformationaltantramassage.co.uk. You are welcome to email us at info@transformationaltantramassage.co.uk with any questions or to request a full brochure. If you wish to see the pricing for the whole Programme then please click HERE.

Our events are open to individuals, couples, triads and other constellations and expressions of all genders, sexualities and body types.

The class size will be a maximum of 24 to allow valuable coaching time and exploration of their own character responses.  A minimum of 12 people are required to give attendees a typical cross-section of different energies and character responses to explore in person.

Jan
28
Thu
2027
Bioenergetics – Block 2 and Beyond @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK
Jan 28 @ 13:00 GMT – Jan 31 @ 17:00 GMT
Bioenergetics - Block 2 and Beyond @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK

We are delighted to bring this one-of-a-kind Bioenergetics Yearlong Training to the UK. This is one of less than five yearlong Bioenergetics trainings worldwide.

How we embody and express our energy makes our psyche and our patterns of reactions to life visible. We hold in our bodies the energy we dared not express when we were vulnerable children, both as a tension in the muscles and as a charge of energy in the organs and connective tissue. This fixed form of expression and defence is called our character. It is our social, adapted self, and blocks and represses our spontaneous flow of life energy, our wildness, including large amounts of our sexuality and creativity.

***What is Bioenergetics?***

Bioenergetics is not to be confused with the body of work that comes from biochemistry but comes from Wilhelm Reich and the therapy developed by his students.  This body of work not only includes bioenergetics itself but also Bioenergetic Analysis (Alexander Lowen), Biodynamic Psychology and Massage (Gerda Boyesen) Ron Kurtz (Hakomi) and Biosynthesis (David Boadella), Radix Therapy (Charles Kelly), Stanley Keleman (Formative Psychology) and the work of Leonard Orr, Arthur Janov and Stanislav Grof also draws upon it.

This training will cover both theoretical and practical grounding in the work of Reich and his followers.

Bioenergetics in general seeks to release old trauma, habits, and unconscious defensive attitudes and to liberate our life energy for aliveness, pleasure and for self-actualization. It seeks to change the base of our existence from an attitude based on fear and the unconsciousness to a mindfulness of our choices and an ability to express ourselves from our heart, our sex and our spirit. This yearlong training includes:

  • An analysis of our own character and patterns, which we respect as a necessity for survival
  • An understanding of the biographical causes of any stuckness and limitations
  • Strategies for managing trauma and fear
  • Supporting individuals to find freedom of expression and creativity as autonomous human beings

More specifically Bioenergetics is a self-exploration through becoming aware of tensions in your body. These tensions are created by the energies of past formative experience which are imprinted on your body.  These create your character, the person you became under the influence of your parents and your society.  By becoming aware of this we can release the tension and free up our energy to choose life in each moment. Thus, we are able to free up a huge amount of energy for our aliveness, our creativity, our pleasure and joy in life to create our conscious path and fulfil our dreams.

The ability to read the energy and character of others and know how to support their energy will also be taught.  As such, it is an invaluable training both for oneself and as a professional resource for those working energetically with others.

Themes for this yearlong training are:

  • Primal therapy, birth and intrauterine experiences and imprints that affect our lifetime patterns of energy.
  • The difference between character type and response
  • Understanding the patterns and needs of one’s character type
  • Moving from dependency to independence
  • Being aware of your feelings and expressing them appropriately and communicatively
  • Knowing what you want and what you don’t want and communicating that safely and respectfully
  • Assertiveness
  • Raising your energy levels, being more alive, aware, sensitive to life.
  • Grounding and standing on your own feet
  • Increasing the flexibility of one’s attitudes
  • Flowing with life instead struggling against it
  • Opening to aliveness and pleasure
  • Being able to be present and to stay in contact

We will support you to gain an understanding of:

  • The phenomenon of resistance and how to use and work through it.
  • How to work energetically and physically with projection, both positive and negative.
  • The different kinds of touch, their intent and applications: holding, containing, focussing, making conscious, confronting, soothing, mothering and fathering, supporting, grounding.
  • The emotional plague, repression and rebellion.
  • Armouring and core energetics, energy and character.
  • Imprints, memoire corporelle (cellular memory), regression, aspects of Janov and Grof.
  • The relationship between consciousness and energy, catharsis, demons, creative confrontation, witness consciousness.
  • The importance of breath, Reichian and other breathing techniques.
  • The orgasm reflex, the birth reflex.
  • Character analysis – the character types and their use in therapy.
  • Therapy and spirituality.
  • Techniques to raise energy, bioenergetic stress positions, Osho meditations.
  • Grounding and its importance, both through the feet and through the eyes.
  • The segments and their order of opening.
  • The contribution to the field of Reich‘s students including: Alexander Lowen, Ron Kurtz and Hakomi, David Boadella and Biosynthesis, Gerda Boysen and family and Biodynamics.
  • Self-regulation, the inner wisdom and balance of the body

***Who is this Training For?***

It is open for people who wish to explore their own patterns of holding and be able to release this energy and live fuller and more expansive life.  Feeling more alive, creative and deepening their pleasure and joy in life.

It may also be useful for those who have some experience in verbal therapies and want to explore particular themes through bodywork, or who want to deepen their experience of themselves through the methods of bioenergetics.  It is also designed for therapists, therapeutic masseurs and counsellors who wish to include working with the physical body and the energy body in their repertoire of therapeutic methods and interventions.

THIS WORKSHOP IS OPEN TO INDIVIDUALS & COUPLES / TRIADS / OTHER CONSTELLATIONS OF ALL GENDERS, SEXUALITIES & BODY TYPES.

This training can be undertaken as a yearlong Bioenergetics training comprising 4 blocks or Block 1 can be done as a standalone introduction to Bioenergetics.

In Block 2 of particular relevance amongst things we will explore are propriocentric consciousness and energy, boundaries and consent, biodynamic breathwork, more Reichian response types and the body / mind relationship through theory but mainly practical exercises.

***Logistics***

The training starts at 13:00 on the Thursday and finishes at 17:00 on the Sunday for each block.

The training occurs at The Pathways Studio, Manchester and is non-residential. 

The cost included in the ticket is just for the teaching fee.  You will need to organise your own transport to get there and sort out your own accommodation and food.

You can avoid paying the booking fee by choosing to pay by bank transfer and transferring the payment.

*** Dates ***

Block 2: 28-31-Jan-2027
Block 3: 15-18-Apr-2027
Block 4: 24-27-Jun-2027

Feb
23
Tue
2027
Block 3 – The Art of Transformational Tantra Massage @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK
Feb 23 @ 13:00 GMT – Feb 28 @ 17:00 GMT

This training is for those who want to explore tantra massage for their own personal development or wish to develop their skills further to become professionally certified tantra massage practitioners.

What is True Tantra Massage?..

“We see tantra massage, practiced ethically, consciously and in true consent as a pathway into tantra, a life led in presence, awareness and connection with ourselves, others and beyond.”  – Elara and Jon

This course has been developed to set a benchmark and standard for what Tantra Massage should stand for at the pinnacle of what it can be. The training is about learning to receive and give tantra massage as a transformational tool providing an initiation into tantra.    It is one of the few courses in tantra massage accredited by ASIS, the leading professional body in this field and is also accredited by Trusted Bodywork.

The word tantra has been often misappropriated to sell sexual services under the name tantra massage. Even the best-intentioned massages often overemphasize the sexual aspect of tantra, which is fundamentally about sacred sexuality expressed through the heart.
Tantra is an ancient practice that opens the door to an experience of ourselves as beings of energy and consciousness.

The key principles of tantra
1 To experience yourself as a bridge between heaven and earth, earth and heaven.
2 To experience that you have an energy body as well as a physical body, through which you can connect to the ocean of life energy that surrounds you.
3 Tantra is a path of increased sensitivity, through which we can be freed from the addiction to stimulation.
4 Your body is the sacred temple of your spirit.
5 Sacred sexuality is about being, not doing.
6 Experiencing the energy body takes you into expanded consciousness.
7 To experience yourself as a formless flow of energy, taking form through the conscious focus of your awareness.

Who is this Course for?

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A TRAINING OF 4 BLOCKS, PREVIOUS BLOCKS MUST HAVE BEEN COMPLETED BEFORE GOING ONTO THE NEXT BLOCK.  YOU CAN FIND OUT THE DETAILS OF THE NEXT BLOCK 1 AT www.transformationaltantramassage.co.uk/

This course is designed for people who want, through tantric massage, to get more in touch with their body, open their body to energy, heal any old disapproval of their bodies
and negative feelings like fear or shame, and to learn to deeply relax, so that their natural energy will start to flow and thus bring up any physical, energetic or emotional issues that need to be released or healed.  The body has its own wisdom and if we or our mind can stop being in the way, then beautiful moments can happen that will connect us again with our natural state of oneness, pleasure, joy and flow.

This course is experiential and is aimed at:

• Anyone who wants to dive deeply into the practice of tantra massage
• Those who are interested in becoming a qualified and experienced professional tantra massage practitioners
• Existing massage practitioners who wish to add tantra to their repertoire
• Existing tantra massage practitioners who wish to expand their repertoire of
practice and techniques and who enjoy the philosophy of tantra as well as the practices

To this end, it consists of two 5 day blocks and two 6 day blocks, and for those who want to get a professional certificate, they need to do some additional post-training studies as well.

THIS WORKSHOP IS OPEN TO INDIVIDUALS & COUPLES / TRIADS / OTHER CONSTELLATIONS OF ALL GENDERS, SEXUALITIES & BODY TYPES.

More information including pricing, dates and detailed information see www.transformationaltantramassage.co.uk/

Love Elara and Jon

Mar
6
Sat
2027
(intro to) Kinky Sex Magick with Seani Love @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK
Mar 6 @ 10:00 GMT – Mar 7 @ 18:00 GMT
(intro to) Kinky Sex Magick with Seani Love @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK

* Are you ready to go deeper into the erotic mysteries of your own body?

* Do you want to learn how to better focus your inner energy, especially your darker, erotic impulses?

* Have you already touched on some ritual and archetype work and now you’re ready to dive much deeper into it?

Kinky Sex Magick is defined here as the art and science of using each other’s bodies, hearts and minds to create change in our world. 

In order to establish a temporary and cohesive safer container within this workshop, we will begin with some fundamental exercises such as; energy raising, consent & boundaries and safeword practice.

Once the container is set, we’ll spend the weekend exploring some specific rituals on our own, with partners and potentially in small groups. 

We will explore intention setting, the power of woo (Winning Others Over), opportunities for personal growth and healing; as well as exploring the non-local potential of kinky sex magick.

Kinky Sex Magick is a level 2 workshop. In order to attend this workshop, there is a prerequisite to have already done some inner work in the field of sacred sexuality or conscious kink, as well as consent and boundaries. 

This is a queer-friendly event and explicitly open to people of all genders and sexual orientations. Singles, couples and other relationship orientations are all equally welcome. You do not need to believe in anything in particular to join this event. 

We strive to nurture your boundaries at all times, and there will never be any obligation to be naked or to have any specific kinds of touch that you do not want.

This workshop will be brought to you by Seani Love and his expert team from The School of Erotic Mysteries. 

TICKETS:

  • Early Bird: £220 (+booking fee) (limited numbers!)
  • Full Price: £280 (+booking fee)

Duo/Couple ticket

  • Early Bird – £420 (+booking fee) (limited numbers!)
  • Regular – £540 (+booking fee)

To avoid the booking fee, select pay by bank transfer at checkout.

Limited concession & helper places available – email info@sacredlightevents.com for more information

May
19
Wed
2027
Block 4 – The Art of Transformational Tantra Massage @ The Pathways Studio near MediaCityUK
May 19 @ 13:00 BST – May 23 @ 17:00 BST

This training is for those who want to explore tantra massage for their own personal development or wish to develop their skills further to become professionally certified tantra massage practitioners.

What is True Tantra Massage?..

“We see tantra massage, practiced ethically, consciously and in true consent as a pathway into tantra, a life led in presence, awareness and connection with ourselves, others and beyond.”  – Elara and Jon

This course has been developed to set a benchmark and standard for what Tantra Massage should stand for at the pinnacle of what it can be. The training is about learning to receive and give tantra massage as a transformational tool providing an initiation into tantra.

We are members of the Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists (ASIS), and are committed to ongoing professional development, ethical practice, and integrity in this field.  We adhere to their professional code of ethics, which supports safe, consensual, and trauma-aware practice.

The insurance provider of ASIS recognises the depth of our year-long certified Professional Training in Transformational Tantra Massage and, as a consequence, you can be insured both as a student and certified practitioner.  The training is also accredited by Trusted Bodywork.

The word tantra has been often misappropriated to sell sexual services under the name tantra massage. Even the best-intentioned massages often overemphasize the sexual aspect of tantra, which is fundamentally about sacred sexuality expressed through the heart.
Tantra is an ancient practice that opens the door to an experience of ourselves as beings of energy and consciousness.

The key principles of tantra
1 To experience yourself as a bridge between heaven and earth, earth and heaven.
2 To experience that you have an energy body as well as a physical body, through which you can connect to the ocean of life energy that surrounds you.
3 Tantra is a path of increased sensitivity, through which we can be freed from the addiction to stimulation.
4 Your body is the sacred temple of your spirit.
5 Sacred sexuality is about being, not doing.
6 Experiencing the energy body takes you into expanded consciousness.
7 To experience yourself as a formless flow of energy, taking form through the conscious focus of your awareness.

Who is this Course for?

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A TRAINING OF 4 BLOCKS, PREVIOUS BLOCKS MUST HAVE BEEN COMPLETED BEFORE GOING ONTO THE NEXT BLOCK.  YOU CAN FIND OUT THE DETAILS OF THE NEXT BLOCK 1 AT www.transformationaltantramassage.co.uk/

This course is designed for people who want, through tantric massage, to get more in touch with their body, open their body to energy, heal any old disapproval of their bodies
and negative feelings like fear or shame, and to learn to deeply relax, so that their natural energy will start to flow and thus bring up any physical, energetic or emotional issues that need to be released or healed.  The body has its own wisdom and if we or our mind can stop being in the way, then beautiful moments can happen that will connect us again with our natural state of oneness, pleasure, joy and flow.

This course is experiential and is aimed at:

• Anyone who wants to dive deeply into the practice of tantra massage
• Those who are interested in becoming a qualified and experienced professional tantra massage practitioners
• Existing massage practitioners who wish to add tantra to their repertoire
• Existing tantra massage practitioners who wish to expand their repertoire of
practice and techniques and who enjoy the philosophy of tantra as well as the practices

To this end, it consists of two 5 day blocks and two 6 day blocks, and for those who want to get a professional certificate, they need to do some additional post-training studies as well.

THIS WORKSHOP IS OPEN TO INDIVIDUALS & COUPLES / TRIADS / OTHER CONSTELLATIONS OF ALL GENDERS, SEXUALITIES & BODY TYPES.

More information including pricing, dates and detailed information see www.transformationaltantramassage.co.uk/

Love Elara and Jon

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This is the calendar of upcoming events, tantra workshops, peer exchange groups and community shares with Sacred Light Tantra and our friends.

Most of the events are held at The Pathways Studio in Manchester.

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