A Sensation Exploration -🔥🔥

(Eros / Sexuality / Intimacy)

Dive into the delicious World of Sensation! With an altar of sensory items, you will be invited to explore your desires through your senses & follow your pleasure! You will drop into your body … tune into what you’re craving … and co-create experiences through clear communication & mutual attunement. This workshop is for anyone who is a sensation freak or curious about deepening their connection to Sensation Play. Come discover how enjoyable being Human can Feel!

Queer Meetup - 🔥

(Heart Connection / Communal)

If you’re LGBTQIA+, questioning, or a supportive ally … Come Hang! This is a casual, welcoming space to meet, connect, and celebrate the full spectrum of identity and expression. We will meet in the Affinity Bell tent near The Fire.

Bio

Lauren is a sensation explorer & passionate about creating safe, playful, and empowering spaces where people can activate their senses for deeper connection, play, and pleasure. Her work revolves around guiding others to tune into their bodies, discover their sensation desires, express them with confidence, and co-create conscious, embodied play with loving presence. With a warm and supportive approach, she is passionate about weaving sensation, touch, and intentional connection into nourishing, fun, meaningful, and transformative experiences! With an altar full of sensation items, guided exercises, playful exploration, and clear agreements, attendees will practice honoring themselves and others - skills that ripple beyond the gathering into all aspects of life and relationships.

@LB_holistic_creation

Therapeutic Yoni Mapping - 🔥🔥🔥

(Eros / Sexuality / Intimacy)

In this class, partners will learn clinical names and geography of the yoniverse to come together for a healing yoni-nidra practice. Beyond simple attunement, it is the naming and recognizing of these parts that lead to their aliveness. Some grounding massage techniques will be sprinkled throughout the session.

Advanced Fingerbanging Fundamentals - 🔥🔥🔥

(Eros / Sexuality / Intimacy)

Ready to evolve your game from the typical finger-gun technique? After a brief mapping and fluffing to prepare the yoniverse, we'll get creative and cover two-handed, "multi-pronged" approaches designed to hit all the right spots at once.

Bio
Dr. Liz McDonald, P.T. 's healing journey began in 1996 when she sought out yoga to address her scoliosis, ultimately earning her Hatha yoga certification in Brazil in 2006. In 2008, Liz introduced cannabis enhanced yoga to the world and her class 420Yoga was featured in over 30 publications including The New York Times, Vice, and Yoga Journal. Liz addressed her own chronic pain through myriad manual, movement, and indigenous medicines, including Ayahuasca, Huachuma, and Iboga. Seeking a holistic framework for her eclectic healing experiences, Liz completed her Doctorate in Physical Therapy in Oakland. Liz has advanced training in CranioSacral Therapy, Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, and Trauma-informed approaches to chronic pain. In session, Liz weaves a rich tapestry of clinical and indigenous healing practices. Her private practice specializes in pediatrics, pelvic floor, and craniofacial healing. Her group offerings include yoni massage workshops and pelvic reset retreats co-faciliated with her shaman. She is passionate about helping people reclaim their bodies.

www.DrLizPT.com

Sacred Touch - CC 🔥🔥🔥

(Eros / Sexuality / Intimacy)

Sacred Touch is a journey into deepening the deliciousness of sensual touch, moment to moment to moment… Rather than trying to get somewhere or get it right, making touch sacred means layering awareness and intention into everything you’re doing - weaving together subtle energy, presence, enjoyment and intuition to create a space where intimacy, healing, and arousal coalesce!

The Art of Slow - 🔥🔥

(Eros / Sexuality / Intimacy)

The Art of Slow is an embodied exploration of subtle sexuality, of movement and energy exchange. Slow down enough to resource from the ground, move with relaxed aliveness, and fully inhabit your body. Luxuriate in taking your time in connection, following the energy of the moment, dancing with the seductive, the liminal, and the sacred.

Bio

Michael McDonald is a lover of subtle sexuality, embodiment, energy, consent, consciousness, and healing. He is a transformational coach and creator of Relational Alchemy, relational practices and metaskills for creating an unusual amount of intimacy between people. With a style described as part Mr Rogerts, part Inception he brings 14+yrs of experience in facilitation, Luminous energy healing, neo-tantra, process work, and spiritual clarity into his subtle sexuality work.
authenticintegrity.com

The Art of Sensation Play - 🔥🔥

(Eros / Intimacy / Relating)

In this fun, hot and playful class, you will begin to expand your repertoire of touch skills. First, you will learn to attune to your partner via simple yet powerful embodied somatic techniques. Then you will learn somatic ways to engage with others such as caresses, nails, bites/nibbles, light hair pulling, grabbing, kissing, light spanking, pushing/pulling, wrestling/pinning, flirting/teasing, and more. Then perhaps, if there’s time, you will discover and practice fun roles to embody while using these skills such as an animal, the god*dess/human, the nymph, the fairy, and the satyr.

This practice is much like learning how to communicate with partners in a language of physical touch, pleasure, and sensations. You will have the opportunity to “speak” to each other through the combined various touch skills and role play and will learn to "read" your partner’s responses through breath, movement, sound, and touch. And as you become more and more fluent in this language, the result will be greater and deeper ease in communicating through touch and play and better listening to your partner when it comes to connecting with their body and making them feel loved and cherished in your dance.

Consent/Sovereignty: All skills and roles will be taught in a container of consent to make all engagements pleasurable, safe, and powerfully transformative for everyone.

Who: This class is both for singles and couples. Friends coming with friends with the desire to practice these skills is also great.

What to bring/wear: Participants should wear comfortable clothes that allow access to the body and skin. Optionally, you can bring a belt or sarong for one of the exercises.

“I thoroughly enjoyed this somatic touch class. I was very impressed with the way you held the space and created a container that was simultaneously warm, sexy, and safe. I did the activities with my long-term partner and it was a very healing experience for us. During the class, I had a realization about why certain types of touch have been triggering to me because of prior experiences in my life. I am excited to move forward with this knowledge and have this class to thank for that huge growth opportunity. The intro activity facilitation was fantastic for getting me into my animal body, and I loved all of the detailed tips Philippe gave about how to create an interesting experience while touching someone, all without doing anything explicitly erotic.” ~ Adrienne

Playing on the Playground: Exploring the Values & Agreements of FireLight - 🔥

(Transformational / Psychology / Relationship / Relational)

In this class we explore the vision for the agreement structure that allows everyone to play as safely as possible on the "playground" that FireLight 🔥 creates. Playing on this playground is, however, not inherently safe. Join me to dive deeper into how the values and agreements of FireLight 🔥, along with our rules and Engagement policies, can help co-create a coherent field where we can all explore and play well together. I will also answer any questions you might have about how to use the same structures at the festival to engage well with anyone.

Primal Temple - 🔥🔥🔥

(Eros / Intimacy / Relating)

This is the temple where the inner animal gets to come out and play.

Three intelligences working together, each with its own job. The mind keeps watch over the boundaries--like a steady father at the edge of the playground. The heart stays in contact with the hearts of those we play with--like a loving mother saying "𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒏, 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖." And the animal? The animal is the wild, carefree little kid who finally gets to run.

This is what we mean by 𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚--not out of control, but free of the controller. Children at the edge of dusk. Animals in their own bodies. Sensual/sexual/primal expression that doesn't need to translate itself into words to be real.

And--because we are still adults--the animal plays inside the field of full attunement, consent, care, and consideration that we bring to one another, even non-verbally. That field is what makes the wildness safe. 🌿

We open with a ritual to 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 you into your inner sexy primal self--to engage, play, and touch with your whole body and all your senses with whoever else has come out of the den. Then we enter 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒂. ✨

The Arena is a (mostly) non-verbal play space. We want the mind to relax its talking and let the body glow in its truest sensual/sexual/primal form. Hands turn into 𝒑𝒂𝒘𝒔--for moving, not for feeling or touching. Clothes stay on wherever you'd rather not receive direct touch. There will be a secondary play space for other kinds of play, and a social space for words--for maximum consent, clarity, and connection. 💬

And lovingly, all the way through, watchers will be keeping an eye on the Arena--supporting greater safety, greater pleasure, greater depth for everyone present. 🐾🔥

Bio

Philippe Lewis is a relationship educator, coach, and framework developer with over 23 years of teaching in intimacy, attachment, consent, and conscious sexuality. He founded Exquisite ❦ Love as the home for his body of work — guiding people and communities toward an attunement culture through frameworks of his own development including Considerate Non-Monogamy (CNM), the Foundational Consent Sequence (attunement → connection → trust → consent), and the 7 Intelligences. He co-founded The Journey to Secure retreat and the Secure Network membership community, produces the FireLight 🔥 micro-festival near Yosemite, and runs The Somatic Playground weekly class series in San Francisco and Oakland. His five core values — attunement, care, consideration, collaboration, and accountability — guide his work as teacher, partner, lover, facilitator, and father.

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See his Offerings page: www.exquisite.love/this

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Boudoir Bodyscapes - CC - 🔥

(Heart Connection / Communal)

You are already beautiful, as you are.

With your consent, you will shed clothes and arrive nude into earth, light, and open sky — your body becoming landscape. Through stillness, poetry, and intuitive movement, you and a small circle of fellow participants sculpt presence from air, surrendering into what emerges when we stop hiding. What arises is not any single photograph but a living ceremony — across bodies, mountain, and trees, dissolving into collective luminosity. Vulnerability is the practice. Presence is the offering. Beauty is not performed but revealed. I hold the frame. The Sierras hold everything else. Come ready to be seen. Come ready to be opened. Something shifts when you surrender — when you remember you are not your body but the awareness moving through it — unguarded, unhidden, free. What you carry in dissolves into light, and what remains is unmistakably, irreducibly you.

Here, in your body, you have come home to love.

Bio

Priyatam is an alchemist whose creative spirit bridges ancient wisdom and contemporary art. He lives and works in San Francisco, and tends both art and earth from his studio on Cobb Mountain, pursuing the sacred heart of non-dual tantra. His poems and short stories have found home in Baltimore Review and beyond, while his figurative art graced galleries and art centers from Northern California to Santa Fe. Currently weaving together poetry collections and a novel over a decade in the making, Priyatam also advises startups and large tech companies in artificial intelligence.

https://www.instagram.com/priyatam.art/

E.P.I.C. Intimacy Playground - Embodied Presence in Connection - 🔥🔥

(Eros / Sexuality / Intimacy)

A potent blend of embodied connection, exploration & primal play~ Step into an attuned, welcoming space where connection awakens through presence, slowing down, and deep listening. We begin by arriving and landing home in ourselves—attuning to breath, sensation, and life-force energy. From here, we open to meet others with curiosity and presence. Energy builds as we weave, play, and explore within the group field. Together, we explore sensing, feeling, meeting our edges & desires, and finding more connection and delight! We’ll enter a primal, wordless space~Welcoming the full spectrum of expression, from the wild, hungry tiger to the soft, purring kitten. A space to follow what feels alive, true, and emerging in the moment. Explore presence, energy, and touch, showing up just as you are, following what’s most alive and satisfying!

Arise & Shine: Sensual Morning Yoga Flow - 🔥

(Movement / Dance / Somatic)

A delicious way to begin the day. A mindful, playful vinyasa flow class to awaken the senses and open the body. Through deep listening and exploration, we’ll release, energize, and reconnect with the pleasure of movement. Leave feeling more clear, alive, and renewed.

Bio

Rani Joy is an embodied creatrix devoted to supporting others in deepening their exploration within the playground of life. For over three decades, she has been sharing practices of embodiment, play, presence & authentic connection. She has a Master’s Degree in Transpersonal Counseling and is a Somatic Therapist specializing in Hakomi. Rani Joy is also a longtime facilitator of dance, contact improvisation, authentic movement, authentic relating, and connection practices. A lover of inquiry, creativity, meditation, growth, and play, Rani weaves depth and delight in her offerings. She creates a welcoming attuned space where participants are invited into deeper connection to self, each other, and the collective field. Her work invites people to slow down, listen deeply, attune to their truth, explore edges, desire, and feel seen, touched, and inspired! Her workshops are heartfelt, fluid, and alive — offering a safe and engaging space for healing, expression, intimacy, and embodied transformation.

https://www.instagram.com/ranijoy.lovelife/

Energetic Kinnection Dancing -🔥🔥

(Movement / Dance / Somatic)

This mashup of ecstatic and partner dancing, is an exploration of what emerges at the intersection of structured and unstructured dance, when two or more people attune to each other’s movement, with skill and curiosity. With a few simple tools, a balance is struck between individual flow and the invitation to co-creation. In this dance, we de-emphasize touch and work directly with the energy between beings, allowing the intelligence of the partnership or collective to take the lead

Song Circle -🔥

(Heart Connection / Communal)

Singing is a time-honored vehicle for bringing hearts together in collective expression, creating a visceral sense of non-separateness. The community-singing (aka song circle) movement builds on this tradition with songs of deep relevance for our times -- invoking emergent themes of eco-spirituality, heart-consciousness, and righteous courage, rising to the challenge of our times. All songs, while musically rich, are designed to be easily taught and welcoming for all voices, regardless of experience. We may also pull out a few popular cover songs, just for fun. Either way, expect to get your vagus nerve activated and experience a lot of joy and a visceral sense of non-separateness.

Bio

Singing

René has been leading the monthly community song circle 🍃 Soup 🌻 Song 🦋 Soul 🎶 in the East Bay for the past three years, and has introduced the practice of community song circles to communities around the country, including Reno, Nashville, and Salt Lake City. His focus is on creating containers of heartfelt belonging, which he also explores through various coaching modalities and conscious movement. His work is dedicated to the principle that we all find our voice in the way it harmonizes with all the others.

https://comealive.me/singalive/

Dancing

René has been partner dancing for over 20 years. He has trained in Lindy Hop, blues dance, folk dance, modern, contact-improv, and ballroom dance. He has taught swing, fusion and blues dancing at various venues, including Lindy in the Square, Friday Night Blues, Shades of Blues and Off-Grid Blues, and teaches partner dance for wedding couples (https://comealive.me/dance-with-love). In addition to helping people connect on the dance floor, René helps people connect off the dance floor, with his life-coaching practice (https://comealive.me).

https://www.facebook.com/kermitgman

Consent: Attuned Engagement from Start to Finish - 🔥

(Transformational / Psychology / Relationship / Relational)

What if consent wasn’t just about avoiding harm—but a powerful tool for creating deeper pleasure, connection, and trust? In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore consent as an ongoing, embodied practice of attunement to yourself and to others. You’ll learn how to tune into your body’s signals of “yes,” “no,” and “maybe,” clarify your boundaries, and express them with confidence and care. We’ll cover practical frameworks like FRIES and RBDSM, as well as essential skills such as non-verbal communication, navigating trauma responses, and receiving (and honoring) a “no.” Through guided exercises, partner practices, and real-time roleplay, you’ll build confidence in having consent conversations before, during, and after connection. You’ll also practice debriefing experiences, an often-overlooked skill that can deepen intimacy, repair, and learning. This workshop is experiential, supportive, and grounded in real-world application. Expect embodiment practices, playful interaction, and meaningful connection with others. Whether you’re new to these conversations or looking to deepen your practice, you’ll leave with tools to create safer, clearer, and more pleasurable experiences for yourself and your partners.

Create Your Sexual Menu: Discover and Describe Your Biggest Turn-Ons - 🔥🔥

(Eros / Sexuality / Intimacy)

What actually turns you on, beneath the surface? In this experiential workshop, we’ll explore your core erotic feelings—the emotional states that most deeply fuel your desire and make sex come alive for you. Some of us want to feel adored, cherished, and ravished, and others desire to feel powerful, naughty, and trusted. Most of us resonate with a combination of feelings unique to us. You’ll be guided through visualization practices, reflection, and interactive exercises to uncover your unique patterns of desire. Together, we’ll use those feelings to build clear “menu items” or sexual journeys into which you invite a partner. We will help you flesh out your menu items with tangible expressions like tone, touch, words, and fantasy so you can communicate your desires with more clarity and ease. This space is playful, nonjudgmental, and designed to celebrate the full diversity of erotic imagination. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of your erotic world and practical tools for creating more intentional, connected, and satisfying sexual experiences.

Bio

Chuck’s passion is to empower people to bring more pleasure and sensuality into their lives. He combines lessons from the Somatica® Institute, the Orgasmic Meditation community, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and developmental psychology to teach about touch, emotional intimacy, and hidden routes to pleasure. As a facilitator, he is skilled at creating a container of safety, acceptance and eroticism that lays the ground for deep transformation and freedom. Chuck’s a certified Somatica Sex and Relationship Coach, Orgasmic Meditation Life Coach & Trainer, and NLP Master Practitioner.

River Black is a Sacred Intimate and a Somatica-certified Sex and Relationship Coach who practices online and in Berkeley, CA. As a sexual healer, she believes all bodies are sacred. In her practice she creates loving presence, witnesses without judgment, and holds space for transformation to emerge. River teaches workshops on embodied boundaries, consent, and polyamory. She is a founding member of the Pleasure Collective in Sebastopol with April Hirschman where she co-taught a series of classes themed around romance, passion, energy, and dominance. River founded the first-ever Sex Workers Student Union while in grad school and is passionate about ending sexual shame, expanding the menu of options, and creating more avenues for pleasure.

Chuck Rockey: https://www.facebook.com/ChuckRockeyRelationshipCoaching

River Black: insta: @ariverblack

The Alchemy of Kink: Using Power Dynamics for Growth & Intimacy - CC -🔥🔥🔥

(Eros / Sexuality / Intimacy)

One of the original "kink-as-transformational path" workshops is back! Launched in 2013 and chosen as "best facilitation" at Colorado LeatherFest in 2016, The Alchemy of Kink will dive deep into the intimacy and self-discovery that can come from exploring our erotic and intimate edges. Creating a heart-centered, safe, and sexy environment together, we will explore how kink can serve as a powerful transformational tool.

🔥 Explore the differences between BDSM just for pleasure versus an empowerment oriented approach

🔥 Explore personal preferences and turn-ons around power, leadership, receptivity and surrender

🔥 Learn specific language you can use turn up the heat in any moment with your partner(s)

🔥 Learn safe, gradual, step by step processes to find the right level of kink and power exchange for YOU.

This is not a "how to spank your sweetie" workshop. The focus is on self-exploration, self-disclosure, trust, and co-created hotness. It is a choose-your-own-clothing-level event with juicy conversations and consensual interactive exercises designed to open your heart and ignite your desire. (This will not be a traditional BDSM play party, although what you do afterwards is up to you!)

Participants will walk away with:

⭐️ Deeper insights about their essential sexual and erotic nature

⭐️ Concrete techniques for using desire, turn on and arousal for personal growth, healing and transformation

⭐️ More confidence in knowing and communicating their desires and boundaries

⭐️ Feeling energized, alive and on purpose with their sexuality

Improv Shadow Playpen - CC - 🔥🔥🔥

(Transformational / Psychology / Relationship / Relational)

What are the part(s) of you that want more expression? What would you have to release, or step into, to let those parts out? What could become possible if you were willing to look stupid, petty, unsure, powerful, or selfish? This interactive, unscripted experience invites everyone to be both player and audience member. Led by Sasha Loves You, we will explore longing, absurdity, grief, desire, identity, and creative power. You will get to know others and yourself on a new level. We begin with dropping into our bodies, practicing connection and self-disclosure, and gradually coming to focus on one or two people who are ripe and ready for an adventure, a breakthrough, or a release. Through coaching, ritual, representation, and improv, the group will accompany and support these travelers through their passage and let themselves be transformed as well in doing so. Every activity will be consensual. And you'll commit to being self-responsive, so that you can go as deep as you want while being safe. Nothing is guaranteed! This is an emergent co-created group journey. Side effects may include wonder, awe, hilarity, tenderness, and the feeling of being a tiny pilgrim underneath a vast, cosmic mushroom. Wearing a hat.

Bio

Sasha likes to laugh.

Sasha likes to go deep.

Sasha likes it when healing and transformation don’t have to be so serious. And when play opens up our bellies for more breath, more joy, more grieving, and more Belonging.

Sasha Loves You has spent decades practicing and teaching embodied leadership, improv theatre, group process work, and ritual-holding. He co-creates experiences to laugh at ourselves, widen what we can feel and express, and move from orgasmic insight to humble daily practice after the workshop high subsides.

Some examples include creating the Irreverent Coaching Fishbowl interactive events in the pandemic; winning The Moth Story Hour live in Denver; replaying audience member stories through Playback Theatre London; and achieving a 100% success rate of ‘someone cried’ in his Alchemy of Kink workshops (good crying, I promise). He is also a professional facilitator and leadership coach for large organizations, and a teacher of the Embodied Transformation four-day workshop.

Sasha's mission is to host fun and life-changing conversations.

He believes that no matter how long or dark our path, every moment holds the possibility of more presence, more wonder, more inclusion. Sasha is a Fool.
https://www.instagram.com/yessashalove

Awaken Your Sensual Intuition - 🔥🔥

(Eros / Sexuality / Intimacy)

This workshop is a playful and powerful invitation to reconnect with your body, awaken your intuition, and tap into the subtle magic of your sensuality. Through guided practices, authentic connection, and consensual touch, you’ll explore how your body speaks through sensation, energy, and emotion — and learn to trust what you feel. We’ll explore both conversation and touch as pathways into deeper attunement, presence, and connection. Expect laughter, depth, and real moments of intimacy as you drop the masks, tune into yourself, and meet others from a place that is honest, alive, and beautifully you.

The Temple of Desire - 🔥🔥

(Eros / Sexuality / Intimacy)

Desire is alive in you — not something to chase, but something to feel, trust, and play with. This Saturday night temple is a sensual, immersive space to explore desire as a gift — to yourself and in connection with others. Through music, movement, and guided connection exercises that are playful, deep, and at times beautifully vulnerable, you’re invited to open, connect, and follow what feels true. Expect moments of magic, laughter, and real connection as you soften, explore, and let the night unfold through presence, beauty, and embodied aliveness.

Bio

Shezza is a somatic intuitive, intimacy guide, and author of Sexy New Earth. She is devoted to helping people feel deeply alive, secure, and connected in their bodies, hearts, and relationships.

Her work blends somatic therapy, Tantra, intuitive guidance, astrology, and the Gene Keys into experiences that are both grounding and deliciously alive. Through deep yet playful sensual connection exercises, Shezza invites laughter, tenderness, curiosity, and authentic intimacy without performance or pressure. She believes pleasure is intelligent, connection is medicine, and love begins by coming home to yourself.

The Eros of Attachment - 🔥🔥

(Transformational/Psychology /Relational)

Join us for an experiential and lighthearted workshop exploring the erotic attraction of the attachment styles. Through individual and partnered somatic exercises we will touch into what makes each style juicy, challenging, and our unconscious and conscious attractions. Learn to feel the erotic allure of the different styles, how they attract, where the limits arise, and ultimately how to more fully embody and exercise active awareness of attraction through the attachment theory lens.

Bio

As a student of the body and self-development, Trevor has pursued an endless path of mastery of the human potential. Combining the latest in somatic approaches with a holistic view of growth and healing, Trevor has dedicated himself to the exploration of consciousness and transformation through bodywork, movement, and mindfulness-based counseling.

Trevorgetsla.com