Emergent Eros
Intimacy - Creativity - Community
June 3 - 7
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
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“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
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
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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.
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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.
“The workshop leaders were excellent: skilled, caring, and fully present. It felt like we were all on a shared journey, opening our hearts and exploring intimacy in a way that felt safe, respectful, and well held. For me, it created a deep sense of connection with myself and with others… I left feeling happier, more confident, and more loving… It truly was a powerful experience of intimacy in community, and I’m so grateful I took part. I have beautiful new friends and an open heart to move forward in my life.” – Anya
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.
A Message from the Facilitators
“Emergent Eros was utterly transformational, and that is because I felt so held and safe. I was able to drop into my body and trust the different processes offered by incredible facilitators. I have already raved about how amazing this retreat was, because the friends who have seen me can see the brightness in my skin and eyes. I am SO much more alive, and truly full of gratitude.” – Loveday
Meet your Facilitators
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Guest Facilitators
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Your Care Team
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.
Fiona Bradley Poole
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Fiona is an artist, singer and devotee of the heart. Her spiritual journey over the past fifteen years has led her to explore somatics, sacred sexuality, feminine mythology, dreamwork and Earth-based practices. After moving from the US to the UK, her motherland, five years ago, she discovered a deep sense of belonging within temple culture. She now lives in Cornwall where she facilitates spaces for authentic connection, intimacy, song and community.
Maria Mountain
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Maria (she/her)is a playful, loving and deeply devotional woman who cares about the emergence of intimacy in all its forms. She works as a Tantric masseuse, Love, Sex and Relationship coach, yoga teacher, and facilitator of authentic connection. With the years she has discovered an increasing capacity to let life move through her with trust and openness — sometimes peaceful and flowing, and sometimes like leaping headfirst into the unknown.
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.
Guy Murray
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Guy is curious about the intersection of depth psychology, embodiment and spiritual development, and how relationships can become spaces for transformation. He draws on practices including parts work, Compassionate Inquiry and integration support for transpersonal spaces. Fascinated by Eros, longing and belonging, Guy brings warmth, presence and a wicked sense of humour to spaces where honest, playful exploration can unfold.
Sabrina Thomas
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Sabrina (she/her) is a lover of life. A cis woman who identifies as solo poly and pansexual. She delights in movement, ocean dips, gym and weights, music and good food — all things that make her body feel alive. Trained in the Language of Consent, she teaches embodied self-intimacy and meditation, and offers skills in tantric massage and deep listening. Sabrina has supported care teams at numerous sex-positive and kink events and is at home in spaces that are kinky, queer and joyfully celebratory of pleasure.
Finlay Forster Davies
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Emily (she/they) is an ever-curious human increasingly immersed in the weird and wonderful communities of the South West of England. Her life is rich with loving chosen family, care for her sibling and her children, and supporting others through the healthcare system. Emily delights in connecting deeply with other humans, walking in the woods, making things with her hands, dancing and swimming.
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.
Sorrel Renton-Green
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Sorrel (she/her) is delighted to once again be part of the Care Team for Emergent Eros. A holistic therapist by training, she is currently studying for a diploma in psychosexual counselling. Sorrel loves the crazy, beautiful journey of life and values connecting deeply with others in mutual joy, love and respect. She looks forward to supporting participants and tending the field of connection at Emergent Eros.
Emily Barnard
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Finlay is a certified Somatic Sex and Intimacy Coach devoted to supporting men to reclaim their innate confidence, presence and capacity for pleasure. He believes compassion, embodied awareness and communication skills are keys to visceral aliveness, fulfilling intimacy and resilient connection. A long-time practitioner of Contact Improvisation, Finlay’s curiosity and attunement extend well beyond the dance floor. He is nourished by time in the wild, playfulness and depth.
Mark Jones
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Mark has over ten years’ experience in men’s work and has facilitated men’s circles at a number of summer intimacy festivals at Leela. He is trained to Master level in NLP and has additional training in hypnotherapy, Reiki and a range of mind–body approaches including Tantra massage, somatic coaching and shamanic practices. Mark is passionate about supporting people to discover their true empowerment and is a firm believer in the power of Yin.
Practical Information
Arrival and departure times
Arrival Wednesday June 3rd 2026 from 11 am.
Ends Sunday June 7th 2026 @ 4:30 pm.
What’s included …
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Festival & Accommodation Costs
Pricing details…
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First release tickets
£475 + accommodation – SAVE £125
Your ticket includes:
Full access to all workshops, music, and events
5 days / 4 nights accommodation (or camping)
All meals and teas
Sauna access and festival facilities
Second release tickets
£550 + accommodation
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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
Our Cancellation policy can be found here.
Food at Leela
All food is vegetarian, drawing inspiration from cuisines from around the world. Garden produce is used when available including green salads and culinary herbs.
There is a separate tea making area with a wide range of beverages which include herbal teas, coffee, decaf, green and black teas, hot chocolate, plus cow’s milk and alternative milks.
We cater for the following diets …
Dairy-free / Egg-free
Gluten Free
Sugar conscious
Vegan and vegetarian
Food is prepared in a shared kitchen where allergens are present. See our food information page for details.
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