Workshops

The workshops below all take place on Friday July 10th They are in the same order as on the program schedule page.

What happens when you let yourself receive without earning it or performing?

Many of us learned to be givers who focus on others’ desires and perform for them, often at the expense of our own needs. For us, saying what we want can feel vulnerable.

This playful workshop invites you to explore what it’s like to listen inward, name the touch you desire, and allow yourself to receive. Designed as a gentle entry into the weekend, you can participate as an observer or with a partner in each activity. All touch practices are optional, clothed, and non-genital.

Expect simple touch-based games and opportunities to practice receiving pleasure in a supportive container. You may participate fully clothed or wear only shorts or pants. Bring a yoga mat (optional), along with your playful curiosity.

All bodies are welcome.

Society offers us such a fractured connection paradigm that says, ‘within the successful relationship equation, I must sacrifice authentic expression in order to ensure the security of the attachment,’ which is often learned in childhood and solidified through our adult lives.

If you’re ready to shift away from that paradigm, then Authentic Relating is for you.

Authentic Relating is an opportunity to practice bringing your most authentic self to interactions to build deeper, more meaningful connections by focusing on honouring your authentic expression at the perceived expense of the security of the attachment.

This workshop consists of a breath and movement meditation to root ourselves in our body followed by a connection practice centred around interacting with partners as authentically as we can through responding and actively listening to question prompts. At the end, we’ll have time to share our experiences with the group and document via journaling.

Paper and pens will be provided; feel free to bring your own personal journal.

Today's session focuses on a total system-Mind/Body/Spirit reset through a dynamic approach. The goal is to counteract the constant stimulation and stress caused by our hyper-connected lives, which overload our nervous systems and lead to feelings of overwhelm and more stress. Many of us fail to unplug and reconnect with ourselves, despite the popularity of practices like breathwork. This session, however, is designed to be a fast track to resetting your system. Rather than a traditional relaxation practice, it involves rapid, intense breathing to give your nervous system a controlled shock. This approach aims to quickly bring you to a calm, centered state. The session combines conscious connected breathing, curated music, and personal coaching to help you achieve a fresh start and reset your mental, physical, and spiritual state.

Heads up: this session includes breathwork, music, and coaching. It can be intense. If you have heart issues or prefer a lighter experience, it might not be the best fit right now. Bring a yoga mat, water, and possibly have a small pillow or cushion.

What does it really mean to connect with another person? This workshop invites you into a journey of discovery — where touch, presence, and play become portals to something deeper. Through consent-focused, energising exercises, we dissolve the walls that keep us guarded and replace them with curiosity, laughter, and genuine human warmth. Intimacy is not about sexuality — it's about being truly seen. Whether you're deepening bonds with people you already know or opening fresh connections with those you haven't yet met, Playful Intimacy creates a charged, safe space where something real can happen between people. Come ready to surprise yourself.

Our Life Force Energy (eros or sexual energy) is dynamic. To encourage it to grow and move throughout the body, we can look to the elements. In this workshop, we will explore the 5 elements of earth, fire, water, air and ether. Finding them within our own bodies through movement and sound and then expressing them through our hands as we touch one another.

Life Force energy is alive with constant change. Each element has a distinct quality and healing function. Learning how to move our erotic energy with the 5 elements gives us new insight into our own arousal, our erotic need for change while giving us new ways to assist others in growing their erotic aliveness.

Expect nudity. Full body and genital touch. Please bring yoga mats, personal lube, a small and a large towel.

Almost everyone arrives at Ignite on Day 1 carrying some version of anxiety — and this workshop is designed to meet them there. Using tools from mindfulness, cognitive therapy, and somatic practice, participants will learn to befriend anxiety rather than fight it, discover their most common self-critical thoughts are widely shared, and leave with practical skills they can use for the rest of the weekend and beyond. Expect a playful icebreaker, some honest Post-It notes, a movement break, and a lying-down meditation to close. Bring a yoga mat. No nudity expected — though not unwelcome.

Caucuses are containers for an organization, network or movement to meet in order to do our different work.

Our QTBIPOC caucus will have a cuddle space, chill vibes, and space for people to share what’s on their heart.

This is your space and we invite you to use it how you see fit: find some rest, share an experience, laugh, cry, breathe, be. Observe both the inner voice and the witness.

This circle is for you if you are QTBIPOC (Queer/Trans/Two Spirit folks who are also Black/Indigenous/People of Colour) only.

The workshops below all take place on Saturday July 11th. They are in the same order as on the program schedule page.

Come and co-create ritual space in which we view queer experience and identity through the lenses of history, tradition, spirituality, and culture. We will contemplate how our queerness is passed down through a lineage of human and nonhuman ancestors, taking time to honour our ancestors’ courage and resilience, and to notice how we are influenced, inspired, wounded and resourced. This ritual is a group contemplation and enactment of a queer cosmology, exploring age-old questions such as: “what is queerness?”, “why does queerness exist?”, and “where does queerness come from?” This ritual is based on the work of Daan Van Kampenhout, facilitated with permission, and incorporates inspiration from archetypal psychology, science and biology, social history, queer ecology, and transformative justice.

Get ready to move, sweat, and groove. This upbeat class blends yoga-inspired flow with dance grooves from around the world to help you unlock rhythm, coordination, and confidence.

Through drills, repetition, and freestyle exploration, participants learn foundations from Hip-Hop, Afro, Latin, Vogue, Disco, Dancehall, and Party Dance while developing their own movement style.

With solo movement, partner exercises, and group dance moments, this class creates a playful space to explore rhythm, culture, and expression.

No experience needed — just bring your energy and love of music.

Sound is a multi-functional erotic engine. When we engage eros with sound, we dislodge shame and reconnect to the primitive intelligence buried beneath our modern mental dominance. Most of us have emerged into our sexual adulthood in a secretive silence. Consequently, our eros and our silence have been seared together. It is time to undo the need to hide our sound as it gives us access to a part of our pleasure spectrum that many of us never knew was missing.

In this workshop, we will engage sound in a variety of erotic ways. Sound as a transformer of our sensations. Sound as an amplifier of our pleasure. Sound as touch. As vibration. As a way to remain in connection with our partners.

With a focus on the somatic body, noticing shifts in energy and sensations at transition points, we will become aware of the gift sound makes in ability to feel and express our erotic power.

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In this intimacy ritual, we will co-create a space of agreement within which to explore fantasies, heal inner wounds, find our fledgling voices, define our masculinity, and claim our sexuality.

The first portion will include a discussion about your childhood experiences of sexual awakening - whether they were private and secret, or shared with others - so that we can learn about the unique ways your sexuality has been shaped and formed. The purpose of this discussion is to remember who you were: what do you remember wanting as a child? What sort of companionship and friendship served you? What did you notice feeling around the older men around you? Perhaps a father, a big brother, an older cousin, a camp counsellor, a teacher? What kinds of touch were wanted? What was unwanted? Was trust abused?

The remaining time we will explore a roleplay and stay guided by erotic pleasure, in all its numerous forms. Maybe there is a wound to heal. Maybe there is a window into a new world. Maybe we surrender to a deeper level of trust. But we stay committed to the question: how does my inner child want to be touched? How does he want to touch and explore? What helps me feel close and connected? Can I voice my Yeses and Nos?

Due to the sensitive nature of this topic, this experience might be too edgy for those of us with significant unresolved childhood sexual experiences. This space is not therapy. We will practice safety and consent through a green-yellow-red system.

Poetry is a playful way in to the body/mind/spirit. Eros is our life force. To be erotic is to be involved in our senses-from wind on the skin to sex and back. In our time together we will listen to poetry, write/create poetry (there will be prompts and formats, no need to worry about being a writer), engage in negotiated sensual experiments inspired by poetry, watch poetry, move as poetry, taste poetry. Come play!

Are you interested in domination and submission? Or curious about the fundamentals of tantra? Or want to deepen your connection to pup/kitten play? This workshop weaves all three into an experience that will empower you in scene negotiation, space holding, and surrender, with pup/kitten play as a lens. We collaboratively build a tantric ritual in which power can be surrendered in a safe and exciting way, using collars or hoods as a focal point. We start by creating safety through boundaries, limitations, role explanations; by building excitement through discussing desires, fantasy, and shared meaning; and finally practice the ritual/scene together.

Expect to move, get on your knees if that is available, and for there to be explicit nudity and sexuality in the space. Bring your own gear if you want, but this is not required: collars will be available for use.

The workshops below all take place on Sunday July 12th. They are in the same order as on the program schedule page.

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Our rosebuds are often a source of shame, fear, and trepidation. At the same time, they can open us up to a new world of pleasure, sexual expression and embodied presence. Starting with butt massage, we will relax the muscles in the area. External anal massage is a complete experience in itself, inviting givers and receivers to discover the intimacy and subtlety of this exquisite region of our body. Internal prostate massage is optional. Men offering massage will use gloved hands. Men receiving will be guided and encouraged to request and refine the exploration to meet their curiosity. Please arrive in the morning freshly douched (let go of perfection). Bring your own partner to explore with, one to give and one to receive.

Bring your yoga mats & towels.

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What happens when sex is completely anonymous? So often, the motivation to do so is secrecy, shame and fear. The people drawn to gloryholes often don’t want their desires and actions tied to their identity. As such, they live compartmentalized.

What if our motivation was to experience sex removed from identity - without all the usual stories of: What does this mean? Does he like me? Do I like him? If I do this once, must I do it again? If I say no, will it sever the connection? As such, anonymity is also a kind of freedom, freedom from being judged, or judging. What new pleasures could be unlocked? What agency could I step into? What insecurities might I shed?

In this ritual, you’ll be split up into two groups with a cloth barrier between. We’ll discuss the non-verbal language of consent that we can use to negotiate our encounters. You’ll only participate as much as you feel called to.

We will create a ritual container in which to witness, explore, and share desire. The contemplation throughout will be, “What do I want? How can I create an experience that will fulfill me?” The free-format experience allows for different ways of interacting with others using the power of witnessing, consent, movement and touch, in which you will create your own journey. This can be a charged container as you’ll be tasked to find your own partners, and negotiate your own boundaries. Please bring your yoga mats.

The River of Love is a moving meditation. One that invites us to see ourselves. Not as individuals but as part of the same flowing source of Life Force energy that creates everyone and everything. When we see ourselves in this way, we are changed by the beauty we see and feel in every pair of eyes.

As a meditation, it is simple. In pairs, we step into The River of Love path. Look into one another’s eyes, take a deep breath together and slowly walk together. The key power of the River of Love is maintaining eye contact with each partner.

Over time, the river dissolves our separateness. After one or two trips down the river, we get used to the flow. Our centers of intelligence shift from our heads to our hearts. Ideally done in the nude in nature to beautiful meditative music, the River of Love is powerful reminder that we are all One.

In our post-modern and tech forward world, physical touch is so important, now more than ever. And yet here we are: withering on the vine, touch starved.

Studies have found that physical touch calms our nervous system and slows down our heartbeat. It lowers cortisol, our stress hormone and releases oxytocin, our cuddle hormone.

Sink into your body, relax your mind, open your heart and join us in co-creating a positive touch container to envelop yourself in a nourishing embrace.

This workshop is a touch-centred workshop. There will be a short movement practice to start, followed with a large time window filled with an explorative touch practice centred around longer, sensuous touches and embraces. Dress down to your preferred level.