A Haven for Tantrikas, Embodied explorers and Sensual Artists
Koh Phangan Feb 4- March 3
The Liberating Love residencies are gatherings of embodiment enthusiasts, yogis/yoginis, ritualists and nature-loving beings who gather to celebrate life and co-create a unique experience of community together. Over the weeks we will hold a unique space to co-create, learn, play and grow together in a beautiful natural space, combining our needs for restoration and rejuvenation with our desires to create and celebrate!
If you feel the call, this is your invitation to gather, live and love with us. Our intention is to give space for our community to really connect and get to know one another, creating a space for new friendships and collaborations to blossom. If you join us, you'll be an active member of our temporary community and you'll be invited to bring your magic to the table too.
The deep inner need for genuine connection and a supportive community has never been more alive in our hearts, especially as we are facing the pain of separation in our world.Many of us working in the transformative and healing fields have felt the weight of scarcity, separation and capitalism's pressure on us to push our creativity solely to earn our living... and many of us are craving support and a sense of togetherness where we can live and share without the burdens of these pressures, where we can give and receive nourishment and fill our cups so that we can continue to do our work in the world from a place of fullness.
Now, we are creating a space with a special intention to connect with those in our field - a web of support and allyship, to fly the 'freak flag' for like-minded individuals to come together for a period of time where magic can unfold. We're bringing the lovers, the mystics and the playful creatures together for a special period of time to nourish our need for connection and our desires to bring the soul-tribe together.
If you're an intimacy professional, sex/love coach, Tantrika, Eros or embodiment facilitator, intimate bodyworker or therapist seeking a sanctuary where your unique gifts are not only welcomed but celebrated, then the Liberating Love Residency is your haven. We're inviting those who share our intention to be in service of love, pleasure, eros and the awakening of the body to come together. We also welcome long-term community members with extensive experience in these spaces. We are representing the new generation of grounded Sacred Sexuality and Embodied Liberation work in this world, one that is sensitive, aware and devoted to deep systematic change in our world. We share a passion for revolutionary impact and wish to use this space to inspire one another as to how our work in the world can create deep collective changes and evolutionary love.
What is a Residency?
If you've never been part of a residency before, you might wonder what it is or how it is different from your usual retreat or training.
The distinction between a retreat and a residency lies in the duration, focus, and the nature of participant engagement.
Retreats are shorter-term experiences typically centered around a specific theme with a structured schedule, fostering a focused and immersive exploration of a particular subject. They are 'pay and play' in nature- often higher cost and everything is fully provided for you, including a full schedule.
In contrast, residencies are long-term experiences spanning several weeks or months, emphasizing an open-ended and inclusive community living space. They are co-creative in nature, so everyone is both participant and creator.
Residencies promote a more flexible schedule and ongoing participant engagement, allowing the community to shape its experience organically. The schedule is mostly open (with a few core offers) and participants can offer what they are inspired to offer in the timeslots available.
While retreats prioritize individual development within a set timeframe, residencies emphasize communal living, shared responsibilities, and the continuous co-creation of a vibrant and supportive environment over an extended period.
We find with residencies it's ideal to stay at least 2 weeks, if not a month, to allow you to rest into the community, take your time to get to know people and have space to be inspired and share yourself.
There are no requirements to have to participate in anything beyond the compulsory community circle, and you can dip in and out as you please. You could want to hang out reading and chatting all day or get involved in all the activities- it's a choose-your-own-adventure style experience with no goal in mind beyond fostering a thriving community together.
Please note that the residency is so cheap because of this format, and to let go of a transaction-based, entitled mindset when you join. Like 'Burning Man' style events, there will be a structure but what happens is up to what each and every community member brings to the table. There are no full spectators and your energy and contribution is essential for the success!
This is the space for you if..
You yearn for a community, a haven where you can freely explore, play, relax, and connect.
You love connecting with the earth and having nurturing, grounding experiences that root you down and simplify things.
You're willing to be an active part of community and contribute- not just take or expect everything to be fully handed to you (this is not a high-ticket retreat!)
We're especially calling in fellow facilitators, teachers, coaches, therapists or guides who are seeking genuine connections within your field — desiring an authentic space where your wisdom is recognized, new collaborations can emerge and inspiration can be shared.
Alternatively, you might be a spiritual seeker tired of short workshops, accumulating countless 'tools' over the years. Now, you're eager to immerse yourself fully, to live and breathe this path with your kula, stepping away from the ordinary day-to-day and providing your being with the space it craves to truly embody this transformative work. You've done all the foundational work and explored retreats and spaces before, you're not at all new to these spaces and ready to dive in together. You know how to hold yourself in these spaces and don't need hand-holding anymore.
This community experience is not tailored for beginners; it's created for those who have walked this path for a while. If you've attended multiple workshops, festivals, and retreats, if you could consider yourself pre-'initiated,' then this is for you. We meet as equals in the space where we are all taking roles as teacher, student, leader and participant at different moments over the time together. It's a self-responsible co-creation and we are all supporting one another. You're part of the creation and what we each bring to the experience will make it what it is.
If you yearn for a profound space to dive deeper with others who share your aligned expressions, then this is the immersive experience you've been searching for, we'd love to connect and celebrate this beautiful existence together with you.
Not sure if you fit the bill? Just apply anyway and we'll let you know!
Our Spaces
The next residency will be held on Koh Phangan island, often known as 'Tantra Island' located in Thailand. It will run between Feb 4 and March 3
This tropical paradise is known for being a space of healing and transformation, and we have a team of faciltiators living on the island, as well as those joining for the month, bringing this together.
The location itself is kept private due to the nature of our work, but we can tell you that it is a lovely space in Srithanu (West side of the island) with a lovely big shala, lots of space to move and play, a communal kitchen, chill space and fire pit as well as a small river for cooling off in.
There are 7 small bungalows on the land to rent, or you can rent a space on the island and drive in to spend your days with us.
Location will be shared if/when your application is approved.
Conscious Community Laboratory
The Liberating Love Residency offers a unique space for intentional community, rooted in the principles and practice of Tantra and Yoga, Authentic Relating, Sacred Sensuality, Somatic Embodiment and regenerative earth-honouring living.
To maintain healthy and sustainable community structures, we will hold a weekly community circle (‘Forum’), share responsibilities taking care of the space (there will be cleaners but in between that), and cultivate a structured approach to resolving tensions or miscommunications among community members. We also have a thorough application process for those who wish to join us, and all of this will be adapted as needed as our journey unfolds.
Our values revolve around transparency, honesty, inclusivity, consent, compassionate care, healthy interdependence, and integrity within our shared space. Our community is queer-celebratory and we welcome all expressions of the rainbow and gender spectrum here- and we do not facilitate things that encourage limited views of gender or sexuality. If you refuse to honour alternative pronoun use for people who request it, or insist on splitting groups m/f, then this is likely not the space for you.
We extend a warm invitation to individuals who resonate with these community values and are ready to participate actively, fostering a loving and compassionate environment. This is not merely a place to purchase a ticket and passively participate; we are all co-creators of this experience and share responsibility for the harmony or disharmony that emerges when our values are upheld or compromised.
Our aim is to communicate and embody these values as clearly as possible, inviting everyone to coexist in the most loving way conceivable.
Our core team brings years of experience from various intentional communities, and we recognize the beautiful messiness of our humanity. Therefore, we intend to hold space for repair when we can, provide space for growth and learning, and prioritise the needs of the entire community organism. It's essential to acknowledge that, if alignment with our shared community values and restoration processes proves unsuccessful, individuals will be asked to leave. It’s important you feel the alignment of what we’re offering here and join us to be part of the magic if it’s aligned.
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Everyone attending is contributing to the community, and everyone will be asked to help support the space by helping set up and pack downs of the workshop area, keeping your own room clean if you're staying with us and all pitching in to make things function smoothly.
The timetable is co-creative, and what happens will be based on what all of us want to contribute. We hope that everyone can offer at least 1 thing to the community during their stay- such as a morning practice, workshop or ritual. If you don't facilitate then you can support others who are leading, or bring other gifts of yours to the mix :)
We did our best to keep costs as low as possible for the residency to make it accessible to our community, and we have found that having everyone participate in the care of the space is supportive for helping people to feel involved, have 'purpose' in the space, cultivate humility and avoid entitlement or privilege energies in the community.
Care-team and emotional support is a shared responsibility, and we are all here to hold and be held by one another. If someone needs support and you have the time, space and energy then you're the person to do it!
Emergent Co-Creational Offerings
We as a community and facilitation team intend to offer experiences that are inspired, aligned, and attuned to the collective energy of the group, rather than adhering to a rigid schedule. We embrace the magic of our group dynamics to tailor our offerings to what emerges as alive, desired, or needed in the space.
Expect experimental offerings not typically found in traditional workshop settings, as well as rituals co-created to honour the space, astrological events, and the spontaneous inspiration of our co-creative magic. What happens will be up to what we as a community want to happen, and how we will use our collective genius to co-create.
This approach fosters a vibrant and unique ‘living in the field’ that cannot be replicated through pre-planned event schedules.
Be assured that our core facilitator team is profoundly skilled and trained, guaranteeing a high-quality experience, regardless of what unfolds. You'll also get to experience offerings from other community members who will bring their wisdom to the space too!
You can expect the daily embodiment classes at a regular schedule (6 days per week) and some other core offerings happening during your stay, while other offers will change and flow with the group. Weekly temple spaces, ecstatic dance, contact dance, breathwork and community sharing are to be expected with more goodies sprinked in.
Weekly Plan
Here is the basic flow for the time together, which may be subject to change and evolution.
Sundays will be our 'transition day' where people check in or out, and a 'free day' for exploring the island or relaxing
Regular offerings (weekly)
- Morning movement and/or meditation practice 6 days a week (Yoga, embodied movement, fitness, meditation, Tantric Yoga etc)
- Breathwork (eg Bindu Breathwork, Energy Breathwork etc)
- Dance: (Ecstatic dance, Contact Improvisation, Ritual Dance, Juicy Erotic Ecstatic Dance etc)
- Compulsory community 'Forum' / Transparency Circle
- Nervous system regulation practices
- Temple Night space
Other offerings throughout the residency
- Primal playfight
- Dance of Surrender (Tantric movement meditation)
- New moon and full moon rituals
- Performance/open stage/ ritual theatre
- Silent days and spaces
- Communication and Intimacy workshops
- Shadow Work circles
- Shibari
- + more!
We also welcome guest contributions from artists, musicians, dancers, photographers, and other creative souls. We'd love for you to be part of our co-creation, offering opportunities to share your skills, gifts and wisdom.
There will be a board for folks to put up their offerings and share their magic with the group.
Co-Working
Many of our community members are digital nomads and content creators. To cater to this energy, we will create a dedicated co-working space during certain times of the week, where individuals can work and play.
Co-working times will generally be between breakfast and lunch on weekdays and conscious business meetups or sharing experiences may emerge in these times.
We recommend you get a sim card with unlimited high speed internet for your time in Thailand, they're very cheap to purchase and very fast.
Sex-Positive community
Our community embraces a sex-positive ethos, where open and healthy discussions about sexuality are not taboo but rather celebrated. While sexuality is not the sole focus of our space, it's an integral part of our culture. This means you can expect to find sexuality workshops and related topics on our schedule throughout the months. However, it's important to note that this does not imply our community is exclusively centered around sexual activities, nor should attendees have specific expectations regarding the level of sexual expression during their stay. Our events may vary, with some weeks dedicated to sexuality-themed activities and others not.
We invite individuals to join us primarily for the sense of community, love, and connection that we cultivate. Embracing sexuality as a natural and healthy part of human life is a shared value here.
Our community is proudly inclusive of all sexual orientations, and we encourage an atmosphere where non-heteronormative expressions of sexuality and kink are both welcomed and respected. Additionally, we are nudity and body-positive, allowing individuals the freedom to swim and be nude in most areas of our space.
Food
Each residency will have a different option for food.
Koh Phangan-
Self-serve breakfast (large communal kitchen available)
Optional ordering of food from an external caterer- daily orders taken
Plenty of nearby restaurants within walking distance
FAQ
Kids and Pets
KPG- There are some parents involved in the residency and a large space. The bungalows are too small to share so you'll need to book accommodation off the property. During certain hours it's fine to have kids around, but obviously not during s+ event or silent times.
Can I decide last minute to stay or extend?
We have limited capacity so this will be at your own risk.
Privacy/ personal space
The space is large so finding an area to work and do calls should be no problem.
I'm not spiritual...
While our community has a strong Tantric influence, it's not needed for participants to be particularly spiritual or belong to any certain group. What spiritual community means to us is intentionality, love and connection to the earth. There will be some offerings that are not spiritual focused but a lot involve meditation, yogic practice, ritual and other spiritual elements.
What do I need to bring?
Your usual travelling items- personal toiletries, clothing etc. If you have instruments, circus props or anything fun to play with, bring that!
Core Team
In the residency, a dedicated core team is responsible for creating the space by booking the venue and co-ordinating the sales, the application process and facilitating aspects of the program.
The price is to cover the rental of the space, materials we need to purchase or rent, snacks, food, cacao and other ritual items and offerings. Additional funds will be split amongst the team to compensate for the many hours of labour creating the event. The focus is not on profit and prices are kept low to make it accessible. Our primary focus is on building a thriving community and fostering an experimental experience at a low cost to the community, and as a space to nourish ourselves and connect with you all, too.
Please approach our team with respect, kindness, and understanding, recognizing that they are both members of the community and participants, as well as in an organisational role.
We all will inhabit roles as teacher, student, facilitator, participant, friend and colleague during the residency, and the team are as much participants as anyone else and are not being paid for their facilitation roles, which are a gift to the community.
Koh Phangan Team
For our Thailand Edition, the container will be created and held by Luna Agneya, Natalie Abraham, Triss Tashi and Maanee Crystal. All of the team have extensive experience in facilitation, community living and event creation
Additional Experiences and Services
Beyond the standard community structure there will be some additional happenings over the months that you can decide to join, or not!
Nature Adventures and Excursions
During the residencies we may plan adventure days and trips to visit the local beauty and wonder.
*additional costs may apply.
Larger Events
Throughout the residency, we may offer full-day or evening events that are open to more of the community on the island. For evening events there is no extra charge for those in the residency but full day offers may be charged additionally to attend.
There will also be medicine ceremonies throughout the month for an additional charge.
Evolving Eros Mastermind
We extend an invitation to fellow Eros professionals and creators to join us in co-creating the new wave of Sacred Sexuality and Embodiment work. Whether you're a seasoned leader, a Sensual Arts graduate looking to deepen your practice, or simply curious about our work, we welcome you to participate in the Evolving Eros mastermind groups. These sessions will provide opportunities to connect, share insights, and discuss the evolution of our field.
To join, you must be part of our Evolving Eros online community .
We're open to hosting specific mastermind sessions, marketing and business circles, content creation days with photography and videography, and skill-sharing opportunities among our community members.
This presents a unique opportunity for those who have been interested in our facilitation training or retreats but unable to attend previously offered dates, a space to get to know our school, our teachers and our approach. It's a chance to connect with us and like-minded individuals who are passionate about grounded, empowering, and inclusive approaches to this work.
Join us for empowering discussions, co-creation, mastermind style support, content creation jams and more!
Accommodation and Pricing
Keen to join us?
Check out the accommodation options and prices for the journey! We've done our best to make the prices as affordable as possible.
Prices are in the Telegram Group for Koh Phangan. We offer a sliding scale for the weekly cost to join. Room rental contact the venue directly (contact will be given after successful application).
