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💛 Kinky Tantra: Curious about what happens when Tantra gets kinky? Come play at the edge of power, pleasure, and surrender.
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At the intersection of neo-Tantra and conscious kink lies a vibrant playground where polarity is defined not by gender, but by energy, intention, and mutual consent. This meeting point invites both empowerment and surrender, offering space to explore how playfulness and mindfulness open doors to creativity, healing, and connection. Through conscious engagement, participants uncover new ways of expressing themselves, releasing emotions, and relating authentically with others.
Conscious kink embraces explicit polarity in intimate interactions. In everyday lovemaking, the roles of giver and receiver, leader and follower, can blur, sometimes leading to disconnection. Kink reintroduces clarity and excitement through intentional role-play, helping us access parts of ourselves that long to be seen. Held with awareness and consent, these practices become powerful tools for healing trauma, reclaiming strength, and integrating dominance and submission within us all.
Tantra, by contrast, invites us into full acceptance of the present moment, without judgment. It is a path of surrender to what is, allowing bliss, peace, and joy to arise naturally when we release resistance to life’s flow.
When kink and Tantra merge, they create experiences that blend deep presence, safety, and unconditional acceptance with the thrilling edges of play, intensity, and ecstatic pleasure.
This workshop offers opportunities to:
- Learn the foundational principles of Tantra and BDSM, and how they complement each other.
- Experience “yes,” “no,” and the space in between, through your body’s wisdom and intuitive signals.
- Awaken your intuitive powers to deepen your play and energetic sensitivity.
- Integrate the principles of Impeccable Consent into the design of your scenes.
- Discover your body as your most sensual tool for play, learning Tantric ways to use hands and small impact tools (paddles, floggers).
- Learn full-body Tantric massage to awaken and circulate energy for intentional or orgasmic experiences. You’ll practice with undies on and get guidance to keep exploring at home, including optional kinky add-ons.
- Meet a diverse, welcoming community of like-minded explorers of all ages, genders, and experience levels.
WHAT THIS EVENT LOOKS LIKE
This is a two-day deep dive exploring a wide range of experiences. We'll build from the opening circle to introspective meditations, then towards connection with others, weaving in kinky aspects. Think of:
- authentic tantra meditation, Wilrieke-style: think tandava, inner flute, maybe waking your kundalini too.
- spank 'n tea: a relaxed exercise in playing with touch, including spanking and small floggers, with a cup of tea within reach. Prefer it gentle? Stroking and squeezing work instead of impact play.
- full-body tantric massage: learning how different bodies wake up, and how to spread that energy throughout the body (some say this lifeforce energy can attract things into your life, accelerate self-healing, and more).
- You'll practice with undies on, but get tips and tricks to practice naked at home too, with demos on genitals (vulva/penis models available in the workshop). Optional kinky add-ons included!
- play with touch and sensation using your hands and some yummy feathers and tools I'm bringing.
- plenty of opportunities to practice and share with each other, and, weather permitting, picnics on the banks of the Amstel in downtown Amsterdam.
Throughout the weekend, we’ll weave together meditation, breathwork, dance, sharing, touch, consent-based exercises, dominance and submission play, and optional impact play. Activities vary solo, partnered, and group. Partnering is never based on gender: come solo, with a partner, or with friends, and stay together or explore with others.
The weekend concludes with a short play party or free-flow session: a space to embody your learning in your own way, through meditation, massage, cuddling, journaling, or sensual play.
Participation is always fully optional. You’re invited to engage, witness, or rest at any moment; your presence is your participation.
This is a PINK workshop: sensual touch is welcome, but underwear stays on.
FOR WHO IS THIS WEEKEND?
This workshop is beginner-friendly, though those with a lot of experience in Tantra or kink are equally welcome. You don’t need prior experience, though workshops in tantra, consent, or cuddling can help. We ask you to be comfortable with nudity and sexy interactions in the room.
If you'd like some prior experience, consider Tantra for Every Body, a (Tantric) Cuddle Workshop, and/or a Pink Play Party as a good preface.
All our workshops are queer-centered and straight-friendly, embracing diversity beyond the traditional cisgender, straight, slender, able, neurotypical, or young body. Who's in the room varies week to week, but the space itself doesn't: the exercises, pairing, language, and facilitation stay queer-centred regardless of who shows up.
This event welcomes folks from all walks of life. We are LGBTQIIA+-informed (Wilrieke and most of the team identify as such), slut-friendly, trauma-informed, and non-monogamy-informed. White folks are overrepresented in our team, and our life experiences are coloured through that lens, though we come from varied social backgrounds: health, wealth, neurodiversity, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
We welcome folks with disabilities and adapt exercises to fit you where we can. A support person or animal for your care is welcome without buying a ticket. Please reach out about any special needs so we can discuss how to support you — we'll tell you honestly if we can't meet them.
You can come alone (many people do), with partner/s, or with friends. If you come with a partner, you're welcome to stay together the whole workshop, or play with others too.
A NOTE ON THE TANTRA I TEACH
There are many flavours of tantra. The tantra I teach can be considered ‘eclectic neo-Tantra’: a mixture of different lineages and styles of Tantra, brought to you through the lens of a white, queer, Dutch person raised and socialized as a woman.
Great masters brought the original tantra to the Western world. I learned not from them directly, but from their students (or their students’ students), across lineages including Osho/Bhagwan Rashneesh, Chogyam Rinpoche, Crazy Wisdom, Tao Tantra, and Kashmiri Shaivism.
These lineages carry a lot of wisdom, but are often not free from abusive practices. That’s why I weave neuroscience and consent practices into my teachings.
👋 ABOUT WILRIEKE SOPHIA
Wilrieke Sophia (they/them) is a sex & intimacy educator and coach, (TEDx) speaker, author, and founder of Exploring Deeper and Cuddle Workshops International.
Their work empowers people through self-knowledge, radical self-inclusion, and consent. Participants learn to feel their boundaries and desires in their bodies, not just talk about them, grounded in trauma awareness and neuroscience, with topics ranging from touch and intimacy to sexuality, neo-tantra, and kink.
Wilrieke has facilitated hundreds of workshops worldwide for groups of up to 250 people, and collaborated with renowned teachers such as Betty Martin. They train, supervise, and mentor other facilitators, advise artists and scientists, and (guest) teach at high schools and universities.
With Red Flags in Workshops, Wilrieke creates free materials on accountability, abuse, and power dynamics in the intimacy and wellness communities.
https://www.exploringdeeper.com
https://www.redflagsinworkshops.com
https://www.wilriekesophia.com
Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Fetlife: @WilriekeSophia
SOME PRACTICAL INFORMATION
The week before the event, you'll receive an email with details for the day, including the address and what to bring. Sign up with the email address you actually use, and check your spam filter if you haven't received one five days before the event (if you've unsubscribed from our newsletter, these emails can't reach you!).
Timings:
Saturday: 10.00h – 18.00h (doors open at 9.30h)
Sunday: 10.00h – 18.00h (doors open at 9.30h)
We provide snacks; you provide your own meals (potluck style) and lodging.
➡️ Make sure to have a decent sheet before the play party. Check the FAQ for tips and recommendations.
ACCESSIBILITY
This workshop space is called De Ruimte - we're in the room DOWNSTAIRS. The venue is on the ground floor. The front door has a height difference that may cause problems for wheelchairs; there's a backdoor without one. The bathroom isn't dedicated all-access, but is fairly spacious and private. There are stairs to the kitchen area, and mattresses so you can lie down as much as you want.
There's a small fridge, no cooking/heating facilities, and (shared) showers.
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