Emergent Eros 2027
Intimacy - Community - Ecstasy
9th - 13th June 2027
with Gayatri Beegan & Team
There is more to life than just getting by.
There is the pulse of music moving through your body.
The thrill of being truly seen.
Laughter that catches fire across a room.
A moment of connection that opens your heart and reminds you how much there is to feel.
You’ve already explored intimacy, sexuality and embodiment through workshops, retreats or festivals. You’ve tasted the potential within your eros.
And perhaps you feel the longing for more…
More joy in community.
More depth in intimacy.
More space for the fullness of you.
Emergent Eros is an invitation to meet that longing and discover how deeply life can move you.
To engage with community. To explore what becomes possible through intimacy. To enter the expansive territory of ecstasy - where the dance carries you, wonder finds you, and life feels vivid again.
Offered for the fourth year running, Emergent Eros is a new paradigm in conscious sexuality events.
Curated and hosted by Gayatri Beegan, the gathering is co-created with a handpicked team of leading facilitators in intimacy and relational practice, embodiment and movement, music and ecstatic dance, eros and sacred ceremony.
Emergent Eros is a hybrid event. You can expect the care and structure of a retreat with the choice and variety of a festival. The best of both.
Rooted in a trauma-informed approach - with care, choice and trust at its heart – this is a space where your boundaries belong alongside your desires. Where you can move at your own pace, and let your curiosity lead you towards new possibilities.
With deep roots, we get to fly high - and bring what we discover back into life.
Festival Summary
Begins on:
Wednesday June 9 from 11:00
Ends on:
Sunday June 13 at 16:30
Duration:
5 days / 4 nights
Hosted by:
Gayatri Beegan & Team
"I love how far and wide the definition of Eros truly reaches - and for me this festival created space and place for that to be enjoyed, celebrated and felt. I would definitely return."
– Amanda
Imagine a place where you get to …
💜 Inhabit your body more fully, so that sensation, pleasure, and presence can expand into richer, more alive experiences.
💜 Feel resourced and supported enough to meet your edges, so that growth happens through curiosity and choice rather than pressure or performance.
💜 Practise intimacy in grounded, relational ways that ripple out into your world – how you meet lovers, friends, and community beyond the event.
💜 Taste the nourishment of real human connection, so that your body, heart, and soul remember what it is to be met — and to meet others — fully.
💜 Awaken a renewed sense of awe and wonder, embracing the full spectrum of the human experience and deepening your reverence for it all.
What you can expect …
Intimacy
Intimacy is not something to perform or achieve — it is something to inhabit, practise, and feel. You will be guided by experienced facilitators of intimacy and relational practice, touch and eros, embodiment and movement, offering pathways into deeper presence with yourself and with others.
This is an exploration of intimacy as a lived experience: sensing your body, tracking your boundaries, opening to connection, and staying with what is true in the moment. Intimacy that is slow enough to be real, spacious enough to include complexity, and grounded enough to ripple into how you relate beyond the festival.
Community
Emergent Eros is held within a strong container of care and collective support. The event is supported by a dedicated Care Team, sharing pods, and intentional periods of integration and restoration.
Together, facilitators, care team, and participants co-create a field where depth, safety, and connection can grow — not as an ideal, but as a lived experience of being human together.
How we do this matters. To support a space that feels safe enough for real exploration — and an experience that enlivens our intimacy and eros — we hold a clear Code of Engagement. This is a shared agreement we enter into as a community, outlining how we care for ourselves, one another, and the collective space.
By joining the event, you are agreeing to participate in and uphold these shared agreements. You can read the full Code of Engagement here.
To cultivate this sense of connection beyond the days we gather in person, we come together for two Community Connection Calls in the lead-up to the event, and one Integration Call afterwards - offering space to arrive resourced, reflect on what has been lived, and carry it into everyday life.
Ecstasy
Ecstasy is an essential aspect of our humanity. It brings us into profound contact with life, renewing our capacity to feel, connect and imagine. In a world where so much leaves us distracted and disconnected, communal ecstasy can awaken a sense of belonging—to one another, to the Earth, and to the mystery of existence.
There is potency in entering this territory together. Through music, movement, breath and ceremony, we explore the meeting of body and spirit. The dance becomes a prayer. Joy rises, tears flow, and the heart opens to the vastness of being alive.
Ecstasy has room for the full spectrum of feeling. Grief, anger, tenderness and delight can all move within it. Together, we make space for life to move through us, awakening connection, awe and new possibilities.
"I had not foreseen the impact this event would have on me. The skill, care and beauty with which all the elements of this event were seamlessly integrated into a dynamic whole came together to affect profoundly the way I think, feel and behave."
- Chris
Meet your Facilitators
More facilitators coming soon
Gayatri Beegan (host)
Gayatri Beegan (host)
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Gayatri (she/her) is the curator and host of Emergent Eros. Since 2012, she has guided thousands through journeys of erotic awakening, embodied intimacy, and communal transformation. A visionary leader, she is known for holding spaces that are both deeply sacred and deeply human — where playfulness, reverence, vulnerability, and ecstasy coexist. At the heart of her work is a devotion to guiding people back to their essence, so they may stand in power, open in love, and move through life awake, aligned, and free.
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Jewels (she/her) has been teaching Sacred Sexuality for more than 30 years and her work is rooted in Earth based embodied spirituality. Having supported thousands of people to make profound shifts in their lives, Jewels brings a rare wealth of experience, wisdom and skills. Because of this, she is able to meet the wild edges of transformation both personally and collectively. She delights and welcomes all expression of Eros; seeing them as portals into our fully empowered and liberated Holy magnificence. Jewels’ work is soul deep, unique and lead from the heart.
Jewels Wingfield
Jewels Wingfield
Bear Philips
Bear Philips
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Bear (he/him) believes more connection, more pleasure & more joy is all possible! He works as both a trauma-informed bodyworker & relationship coach, supporting individuals & couples around authentic relating, intimacy, pleasure & alternative relationship styles. As The Feminist Love Coach he works with men around questions of masculinity & how patriarchy impacts our ability to have meaningful and authentic relationships.
Katy Cara
Katy Cara
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Katy (she/they) is a nature-loving single mum, yogi and everyday priestess. Practical, spiritual and mystical, she is a lover of the beautiful mess of being human – the dark and the light and everything in between. With her heartful and no bullshit approach, Katy wants to help others to feel empowered to live a more deeply aligned and vibrant life – coming back to ourselves, back to our true nature and back into relationship with life. Breathe, slow down and listen. Let’s do this!
Lisa Collins
Clive Withers
Your Care Team
More Care Team coming soon
Lisa Collins
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Lisa (she/her) is a qualified counsellor and coach with 20 years’ professional experience in Human Resources, specialising in complex casework.
For the past eight years, she has held sacred sexuality and intimacy spaces for individuals, couples, and groups, and offers traditional Kambo ceremonies, a transformational Amazonian frog medicine. Lisa loves nothing more than being in devotional service, providing a loving, safe space to experience your true nature and divinity within.
Clive Withers
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Clive (he/him) is a somatic life coach, writer and musician who plants one boot in the mud of the wild world — hills, roots and soil — and the other in the interior fire of the self. His work explores the meeting place of the visceral and the philosophical. Trained in Tantra massage, Clive brings grounded presence, poetic sensibility and a steady nervous system to the living, breathing field of Emergent Eros.
Maite Alonso
Maite Alonso
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Maite (she/her) has been exploring meditation, yoga, movement, bodywork and dance since 1990, following a deep call for healing and integration. Originally trained as a nurse in Spain, she later trained in London as a Movement and Drama Therapist in the Sesame Method. Through her work with yoga, massage, meditation and kirtan, Maite creates warm, nurturing spaces that invite connection, embodiment and soul-making.
How does your day look at Emergent Eros?
For the early risers, there’s a choice of two morning sessions: active meditation to get your body moving, or yoga to ease you into the day.
After breakfast, we come together for our Morning Gathering. Beginning with music and dance, this is a chance to shake up your energy and start the day in community. You’ll hear from the workshop facilitators about their offerings, helping you tune into what feels right for you, alongside essential information for enjoying your time here.
Then it’s time for your choice of morning workshop - from relational skills to grief ritual, from embodied movement to a cuddle session.
Integration is woven into the day. Lunchtime is spacious, with time to rest and digest after enjoying Leela’s delicious, freshly prepared food.
The Garden Café opens, and we gather for a singing and music jam. For many people, this is a favourite part of the day: sharing songs, finding harmonies, and seeing what emerges.
You might also choose to book a session with our team of therapists and practitioners, offering massage, talking therapy and a wide range of healing modalities.
In the afternoon, another choice of workshops awaits - from breathwork to play fighting, from somatic sensing to sacred ceremony.
Dinner brings another nourishing meal and time to enjoy good company.
In the evening, we gather for connection and celebration. This might be a tribal ecstatic dance, an awakening-the-senses ceremony, or a devotional concert with hearts and voices coming together in song.
And when the day’s programme is complete, there’s more to explore. Unwind in the sauna, dance into the night with our DJs, or follow the call of your bed.
For those drawn to explore further, there’s the Garden of Earthly Delights: a held space for sensual connection, tended by our dedicated team. Here, you can put the day’s learning into practice through presence, communication and consensual touch. There is something profound about sharing a space where pleasure is welcomed and desire can be met openly, with honouring and acceptance.
The Garden of Earthly Delights is a clothing optional space and holds a clear boundary of “no penetration”.
Throughout the day, you’re invited to follow your own rhythm—making space for adventure, connection and the rest that allows you to savour it all.
Explore the outline programme for a sense of the shape of each day. We’ll share the full programme once the facilitators and their offerings are confirmed.
"I can remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child. As I grew up everything started getting grey and dull. Emergent Eros made the world blaze up again."
- Bill
Who is this for …
💜 You read the invitation and feel a sense of aliveness or resonance in your body.
💜 You’re curious about exploring intimacy and sexuality in expansive, emergent, and relational ways.
💜 You’ve already been on a journey of personal growth and feel a genuine call to explore intimacy, sexuality, and embodiment more deeply.
💜 You have the capacity to care for yourself in a group space — including knowing when and how to ask for support.
💜 You value being part of a culture that attends to the bigger picture, including care, consent, inclusivity, and diversity, and you want to be in spaces that support this.
Who is this not for …
💜 You feel bored, confused, or unmoved by this invitation.💜 You’re seeking a sexualised environment or casual sexual encounters rather than a relational, consent-based container.
💜 You’re completely new to personal development, particularly in the realms of intimacy, sexuality, and embodiment.
💜 You are currently in active trauma, feel easily overwhelmed in group spaces, or are unable to ask for support when needed.
💜 You’re not interested in the wider relational and cultural context, or in how your presence impacts others.
The pillars of our togetherness
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Releasing old scripts and stories around sexuality and returning to a sense of original innocence. Letting go of assumptions, expectations, and preconceptions, and inviting aliveness through curiosity and play. Moving beyond what we think we know and expanding into the emergent moment.
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Permission to be you, and to bring all of you into the space. Acceptance of difference in our embodiment and expression. Cultivating harmonious and respectful connections with Self, Other, and Spirit.
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We acknowledge that personal development spaces in the UK — particularly within Tantra and Sacred Sexuality — are predominantly White, cis-gendered, heterosexual, and able-bodied. We are committed to fostering an environment that supports all beings in moving beyond inherited conditioning and unconscious bias, towards a more inclusive and welcoming world — in service of liberation for all.
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We are not only individuals on our own journeys, but social beings in a shared, collective space. We acknowledge the complex — and sometimes messy — nature of human relating, especially as we question assumptions and loosen long-held preconceptions in order to imagine new ways of being together.
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We welcome a wider spectrum of human experience — from grief to joy, from playfulness to reverence. Reconnecting with humility, awe, and wonder, and remembering what it is to stand in service to life itself.
"I loved coming to Emergent Eros at Leela. I felt fully welcomed, included, learned about myself… intimacy and safety for my relationship. This retreat allowed me to be myself, distance myself from the outside world and technology, explore my desires. I'm looking forward to next year’s festival already."
- Penny
Pricing, Reciprocity & Sustainability
Emergent Eros is held with a high level of care, attention, and responsibility. This includes the support offered before the gathering, the depth of facilitation during the event itself, and the integration held afterwards. This level of care is central to the experience.
While the true cost of offering this depth of care is higher, our pricing reflects a balance between honouring the work involved and remaining mindful of the wider financial context in which many people are making choices. Your contribution directly supports the sustainability of the event and the people who hold it.
For 2027, we offer three rates:
Super Early Bird Ticket: £450 - till 28th Feb
Early Bird Ticket: £550 - till 30th April
Standard Ticket: £650 - till 2nd June (bookings close)
Payment Plans are available for all tickets to spread out the cost.
Bursary Places - £350
We have a limited number of bursary places available for those who feel called to this event but would otherwise be unable to attend due to limited financial resources — for example, solo parents, people receiving welfare support, or those working in community, charity, or activist roles without access to other sources of income.
If you would like to be considered for a bursary place, please indicate this on your intake form and share about your current circumstances. We trust that this option will be used with care by those who genuinely need this support.
Festival & Accommodation Costs
Practical Information
Super Early Bird tickets
Till 28th February: £450 – SAVE £200
Early Bird tickets
1st March till 30th April: £550
Standard Price tickets
1st May till 2nd June: £650
Accommodation & Food
A camping pitch is included in your ticket (bring own tent and camping gear). If you’d prefer indoor accommodation or glamping, you can upgrade at checkout via your booking link. Check out our accommodation here.
At Leela, we serve delicious vegetarian food inspired by cuisines from around the world, using fresh produce from our garden whenever available. We also cater for a range of dietary needs, including vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free options.
Find out more about our food here.
Arrival and departure times
Arrival Wednesday June 9th 2027 from 11 am.
Ends Sunday June 13th 2027 @ 4:30 pm.
What’s included …
Full access to all workshops, music, and events
5 days / 4 nights (camping with own tent gear)
All meals and teas
Sauna access and festival facilities
Payment Plan
We understand that everyone's financial situation is unique, so we've designed our payment plan with flexibility in mind.
Secure your place by spreading the total cost into manageable instalments. We offer the option to pay a deposit and spread the balance over the remaining months before the payment deadline which is a few weeks before the start of the event. Payment plans are free, and payment dates will be clearly outlined when you book.
Cancellation & Refunds
Bookings & Cancellation Policy
You can view the refund and cancellation policy for this event here. Please note that this differs from the standard Leela policy.
Through the intake process – which may include an interview – time, care, and resources are invested in the event well in advance.
The refund and cancellation periods are set to honour this commitment, supporting both the energetic and financial sustainability of the event.
How to join…
At Emergent Eros, we’re committed to holding the gathering with integrity and care, with room for the messy, complex business of being human.
To apply, please complete the intake form. We ask everyone to fill it in for two reasons. It gives you a chance to reflect on your own journey with eros, intimacy and embodiment, and to feel into whether this is the right gathering for you. It also helps us understand how best to support you before, during and after the event.
Please answer as fully and honestly as you can. We’ll treat what you share in confidence. If there’s anything we’d like to
You’ll need a Google account to complete the form. If you don’t have one or have any trouble with the form, please email us.
What happens next
You’ll hear from us within 3–4 days of submitting your form. If you haven’t heard from us by then, please check your spam, junk or promotions folder for an email from [email protected].
Once your application is accepted, we’ll email you a booking link so you can pay and secure your place.
Privacy policy
Emergent Eros takes your privacy seriously. The personal data you share with us before joining an event (including potentially sensitive information) is collected solely to assess suitability, support your wellbeing, meet our duty of care, and communicate with you in relation to the event. Your data is stored securely and accessed only by the Emergent Eros core team, retained only for as long as necessary in line with UK GDPR, and then securely deleted. If you have any questions about how your data is handled, or wish to exercise your rights under UK GDPR, please contact [email protected]
Emergent Eros FAQs:
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Yes. Many people attend as solo explorers, and everyone is welcome.
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Yes. You are in choice about how you move through the event — whether you participate together, separately, or a mix of both. Your needs and boundaries are honoured at all times. We recommend having a clear conversation in advance about how you will navigate any triggers or challenges as a couple.
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No. We invite you to follow your own authority — to pace yourself, honour your body and its needs, and allow space for integration. Integration time is built into the schedule.
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No. You can attend the entire event with your clothes on. Some spaces and sessions may be clothing-optional, which means others may choose to be naked. You are never required to do so yourself, and are always invited to participate in ways that feel comfortable and right for you.
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No. This is an alcohol and intoxicant free event. We ask all participants to honour this as part of the experience.
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The Leela Coffee Shop Garden Cafe will be open daily, serving coffee and sweet treats.
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Yes. The Wellbeing Centre will be open, with qualified practitioners and therapists offering treatments during the event.
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At Emergent Eros, we are committed to creating and evolving a distinct approach to sexuality events.
This means that, to the best of our capacity for an event of this scale:
participants are supported to assess their readiness and resourcing before attending
people are encouraged to tune into their capacity and choose workshops accordingly, rather than pushing through
periods of rest and integration are intentionally woven into the programme
a clear Code of Engagement supports group cohesion and safety
a Code of Conduct guides the Facilitation and Care Teams in their responsibility to the event
power dynamics between team and participants are actively acknowledged and addressed
group dynamics are held with awareness, recognising their impact on choice and agency
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There will be a held space in the evenings for sensual connection and exploration. The clear boundary of this space is no penetration.
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We want to support readiness and resourcing for all participants before they join the event. The intake process helps ensure that people are entering with awareness of their capacity, needs, and boundaries, supporting a safer and more coherent group experience for everyone.
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Yes. Monthly payment plans are available for all ticket types. Payments must be completed before the event begins. The earlier you book, the more accessible the monthly payments will be.
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You can view the Booking and Cancellation Policy here.
Through the intake process — which may also include an interview — time, care, and resources are invested in the event well in advance. The refund and cancellation periods are set to honour this commitment, supporting both energetic and financial sustainability for the event.
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Emergent Eros welcomes adults of all ages. Participants tend to be middle-aged, with many in their fifties.
If you’re under 40, you may also be interested in our sibling event, Embodied Love (30th May–4th June), curated by Madalaine Munro especially for people under 40.
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We welcome people of all gender identities and sexual orientations.
The Facilitation and Care Teams include a mix of cis-gender, heterosexual, gender-fluid, and queer people. The wider demographic of those who tend to attend events at The Leela Centre is primarily cis-gender and heterosexual.
If you would like to have a conversation about whether this space feels safe enough for you to step into, please let us know on your intake form and we would be happy to arrange a chat.
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We welcome people of all races and ethnic backgrounds.
The Facilitation and Care Teams are predominantly White, and we are actively committed to increasing diversity within the teams. The wider demographic of those who tend to attend events at The Leela Centre is also primarily White.
If you would like to have a conversation about whether this space feels safe enough for you to step into, please let us know on your intake form and we would be happy to arrange a chat.
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Emergent Eros is rooted in trauma-informed practice. All facilitators are committed to offering safer, inclusive, and trauma-aware experiences, and the intake process supports self-awareness, regulation, and resourcing before entering the space.
This does not mean that the event is designed to heal trauma. If you are in active trauma, this event may be too stimulating or overwhelming due to its scale and nature. In that case, we recommend seeking individual or smaller-scale support that can be paced to your specific needs.
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We aim to balance capturing the spirit of the event for future promotion with maintaining confidentiality within the space.
The event photographer will be active during morning gatherings and lunchtime, and not during workshops, so you can be fully in your experience without intrusion. We also have a clear opt-out process in place for anyone who does not wish to appear in promotional photographs. Your privacy and comfort are prioritised.
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We anticipate between 80 and 120 participants.