Emergent Eros

Intimacy - Creativity - Community

3rd - 7th June 2026
with Gayatri Beegan

There is a longing that doesn’t come from lack.
It comes from having tasted something true and knowing there is more.

More depth.
More intimacy.
More aliveness.

You’ve already done inner work — attended workshops or festivals, touched moments of profound openness and connection — and still find yourself seeking something real that endures.

You’re tired of peak experiences that promise transformation, yet don’t support what it takes to stay present in the unpolished, uncertain, everyday moments.

You’re done with spaces that celebrate intensity, but shy away from the relational truth of sitting with another human in all their beauty and messiness.

In a culture shaped by speed, performance, and curated selves, even the most committed seekers can find their capacity for sustained presence quietly eroding.

Emergent Eros is an invitation into a more truthful rhythm of relating.

A creative, relational space where intimacy is lived rather than performed — shaped over time and held in community.

Offered for the third year running, Emergent Eros is a new paradigm in conscious sexuality gatherings.

Curated and hosted by Gayatri Beegan, and 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.

The theme for the 2026 gathering is: Let’s get real — and a little bit messy.

A rebellion against the airbrushed perfectionism of the digital age.
A reclamation of your wild, vulnerable human self — in all its perfect imperfection.
A space to meet complexity with curiosity, courage, and care.
To be more honestly human — together.

Festival Summary

Begins on:
Wednesday June 3 from 11:00

Ends on:
Sunday June 7 at 16:30

Duration:
5 days / 4 nights

Hosted by:
Gayatri Beegan

“After Emergent Eros, I’m looking at people differently and don’t mind people looking at me. I’m chatting to strangers at the shops with ease. This is so profound for me. I don’t feel as ashamed of myself and my body and this reflects in how I’m viewing my world. It’s life changing.”

– Lauren

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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 aliveness, so that intimacy becomes a source of creativity, meaning, and vitality in your life.

The pillars of our togetherness

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Meet your Facilitators

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Gayatri Beegan

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 Wingfield

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.

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Amelia Griffiths

Amelia (she/her) is the Organisational Lead for Emergent Eros. She brings over two decades of experience in luxury hospitality and retreat operations, holding both the practical and energetic dimensions of transformational experiences with precision and grace. Weaving operational excellence with emotional intelligence, she ensures guests and team feel exquisitely cared for. Known for her calm, grounded presence and heart-centred leadership, Amelia supports spaces where intimacy, play and personal exploration can unfold with integrity and care.

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Bear Philips

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.

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Dave Bevan

Dave (he/they) has been supporting groups and individuals with matters of the heart for more than 10 years. His superpower is compassion, and the ability to create spaces where you know that all of you is not only welcome, but precious and valued. This applies whether he is volunteering to support young offenders with “A Band of Brothers” or helping clients with sacred sexuality sessions.

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Shanti & Hugs

Shanti & Hugs are hosting the Garden of Earthly Delights — a space devoted to sacred sensuality and intimacy arts.

Shanti (she/her) is a sacred sexuality practitioner with a deep grounding in tantric ritual, ceremony, and embodied practice. A mother, mover, somatic educator, and artist, she brings a rich, intuitive presence that weaves creativity with depth.

Hugs (he/him) is a certified Sexological bodyworker and Orgasmic Expansion Coach, devoted to supporting others in discovering their capacity for pleasure through embodied practice, self-inquiry, and conscious touch. He is also a blacksmith — a maker in both the physical and relational realms.

Together, they create spaces that are intimate, playful, and deeply held – where exploration, connection, and aliveness can unfold.

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Katy Cara

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!

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Julia Samel

Julia (she/her) is passionate about movement and dance. Through over 20 years teaching Brazilian Forró, plus decades of exploration in Contact Improvisation, 5 Rhythms and various free-flow practices, she has developed “Moving Connections” inviting people to explore connections that support us to meet ourselves and others with authenticity and care, welcoming all that we are in every moment. Julia holds space heart-fully and sensitively combining all she loves in everything she does, bringing lightness and humour, with a unique care and sensitivity for all those who attend.

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Madalaine Munro

Madalaine (she/her) is a Sexologist specialising in attachment and the nervous system. She works with people who keep finding themselves in cycles of emotional unavailability, insecure attachment, or intimacy that never quite feels safe. She weaves together the sacred and science in a trauma-informed approach working with clients worldwide through coaching, group programmes, and retreats. Madalaine leads Embodied Love the sister conscious intimacy gathering at Leela for those 40 and under.

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“Having never attended a Leela event before, I wasn’t sure what lay ahead. From the moment I arrived I was welcomed and able to relax. Despite challenges on the journey I took at Emergent Eros, I felt supported and safe throughout the week and had a wonderful time learning, growing and healing. I am already recommending it to friends and looking at how I can continue my own development.”

– Patrick

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.

Creativity

Creativity flows through the festival in many forms — music, ecstatic dance, movement, and sacred ceremonial space. These are not offered as performances to consume, but as invitations to participate, explore, and express yourself in ways that feel authentic and alive.
The schedule offers a sense of the journey we will embark upon together, while remaining responsive to what is emerging in the collective field, allowing the festival to unfold with vitality and integrity.

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 an Integration Call afterwards — offering space to arrive resourced, reflect on what has been lived, and carry it into everyday life.

Finlay Forster Davies

Fiona Bradley Poole

Maria Mountain

Sabrina Thomas

Lisa Collins

Your Care Team

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Clive Withers

Emily Barnard

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.

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