Events Calendar
Boundaries As Medicine - 1 day course
Unlock the Power of Healthy Boundaries
Boundaries are essential for thriving in life and relationships. They provide clarity and safety, allowing deeper, more authentic connections. This workshop will help you identify, assert, and uphold your personal boundaries with confidence, giving you tools that serve both in everyday life and within the sacred space of intimacy.
Whether you struggle to say “no” or are stepping into sacred sexuality and Temple spaces, this experiential workshop will give you the foundation you need to feel safe, empowered, and respected.
Touch As Medicine - Oxytocin Dance Meditation
Join us for an evening of sensual, non-verbal connection through conscious, loving touch. In this immersive, guided experience, you’ll explore the healing power of oxytocin—the hormone of trust and bonding—while nourishing your body, mind, and nervous system.
Touch is always optional, and this journey is just as much about learning what it means to touch and be touched with presence, consciousness, and consent as it is about the experience itself. You’ll be invited to reflect on how most of us have experienced touch in the past—often without true presence or mutual agreement—and how transformative it can be to experience touch that is fully consensual and mindful.
Whether you wish to engage in touch or simply explore the energy and space around you, this is an opportunity to heal, relax, and reconnect.
Cacao & Connection - Beltane Celebration
Cacao & Connection is a heart-centered social gathering designed to nourish the body, mind, and spirit through intentional connection, shared presence, and the ceremonial magic of cacao. Over the course of five hours, we will drink ceremonial cacao, share in a circle from the heart, and participate in embodiment and connection practices that invite authentic expression and deeper bonding. With a focus on nourishment, you will have the opportunity to explore what it feels like to truly connect with yourself and others in a safe, open, and supportive space.
Milk & Honey Festival - Poland
I will be there as a Facilitator and an Artist
Imagine a place where the whole of you is welcome – the imperfectly perfect beautiful human that you are.
Where you are lovable in all your light, darkness, and glitter.
Where you can be courageously vulnerable and real.
Where your quirky, shameless, erotic self is cherished, loved and appreciated.
Eros As Medicine - 6 day residential retreat
Bring Yourself to Temple Beloved.
It’s Time to Meet Yourself.
Finally, Beloved.
No more Delays and Excuses.
Between you and the Altar of who you really are.
Discover that you are Nothing but Everything.
All the way down and all the way through.
Everything in the Nothing.
Stand naked in your quaking glory.
Put down your burdens.
Re-write your story.
Sacred Union Temple
Welcome to The Sacred Union Temple - a Temple experience for everybody
With Bibi Gratzer, assisted by Joy Mittens
Do you want to empower yourself sexually and reach new sexual horizons through marrying your inner masculine and feminine?
Are you curious about sacred sexuality and tantra and long for a deeper understanding of how you can transform sexuality from a goal-orientated, pornographic act into a communion with the Great Mystery?
Are you ready to invite your soul-energy to come fully into your body, which will support you to understand your individual purpose in the great web of life?
If you have answered these questions with ‘yes’, then join the Sacred Union Temple—a unique afternoon and evening event that blends ancient wisdom with future-focused exploration of your inner self. This is a safe and guided space for individuals, couples, spiritual seekers, and those interested in ancient and modern tantra to connect with their deeper desires, overcome inner fears, and celebrate the sacredness of the body.
Goddess Worship Temple for Female Bodies
Welcome to Goddess Worship Temple
With Bibi Gratzer, assisted by Joy Mittens
Isn't it time to worship your body as the temple of the Goddess? Isn't it time to treat yourself with the deepest love, care, and pleasure that possibly could live inside your body? And isn't it time, woman, to claim your voice, and connect to a deeper knowing inside of you?
Claim yourself as a soul-being, ultimately powerful, ultimately beautiful.
You may have dreamed of an all female temple but didn't quite make it, or you may have attended a few temples like this before - wherever you are at in your sexual exploration, you are welcome.
This Temple is a unique full day event that blends ancient wisdom with future-focused exploration of your inner self. This is a safe and guided space for people with yonis interested in ancient and modern tantra to connect with their deeper desires, overcome inner fears, and celebrate the sacredness of the body.
Imbolc Temple with Shanti & Joy
The journey through the dark of winter has been long percolating and the first stirrings of spring are still an imagined whisper. It can be hard to see the light at the tunnel in this time, and yet spring always comes, in the end.
So in the long cold dark, what have you found in your inwards journey?
What do you fear, yet wish could be brought to light and seen and accepted by your tribe and yourself?
We welcome Bridgid, the maiden of spring, and this first fire festival, to guide us back into the the light. Stirring our spring Eros, let us meet it as Medicine, in Temple. This will be an introductory exploration into how we approach Eros as a Powerful shamanic medicine that can transform your life.
“In the presence of Love, all that is unloved comes up to be met: by Love”
One mistake people make in Temple is that they come expecting to simply have a nice time, and then they get very confused when their deepest core wounds are triggered, and they don’t know how to deal with it. Temple is not simply a play party. In Temple we are calling on spirit to guide us into our highest potential and fullness, fully embodied in this vessel of flesh. Spirit is wise, and knows that the road to your fullness often leads through the dark - through the parts of yourself you are afraid to face. Just like every year has a winter and a spring.
Return to Primal Innocence 5 day retreat
A 5 day shamanic journey into Eros as Medicine. Learn the necessary skills to safely work with your body, emotions & sexual energy as a profound transformative teacher and guide. Shed your shame and journey with your shadows in order to discover the ecstatic innocence at the heart of your primal nature.
Conscious Intimacy Weekend of Workshops
Come my friends, to our wonderful weekend of exploring (platonic) intimacy together. We will run 7 workshops/celebrations over 3 days and you can mix and match which ones you feel called to.
Explore potent life affirming skills to deepen and feel nourished by your connections.
Free online Q&A with Joy & Shiva
Shiva and I (Joy) have decided to offer a free online Zoom session where you can come and meet us and ask any questions you have about our work. We will be focusing especially on our upcoming events:
- Conscious Intimacy Weekend of Workshops 1st-3rd March in Glastonbury consciousintimacy.co.uk/weekend
- Return to Primal Innocence 5 day Residential Retreat at EarthSpirit pimalinnocence.com
So if you are interested but need to know more about us before you dive in, this is perfect for you.
The meeting will be recorded (and cut so that it only features our faces and voices, to protect the privacy of others on the call,) so if you have questions but can't make the call then please send them and we will answer them if there is time.
Ada Divine Awakening Festival, Montenegro
Again this year, I am teaming up with Shiva Śūnya to run the emotional support team for this bold festival landing this work in the Balkans
The Field Festival - Edge of Emergence, Netherlands
At this festival I will be facilitating Primal Innocence Tribal Dance:
Dance as you are - Let go of all the trying and striving and healing and growing and just let go into the joy of moving your body to the rhythm together. Move with the trust in yourself and exactly where you are at right now - if you feel shy, dance shy, if you feel sad, dance sad, if you feel big and loud dance big and loud, if you feel naked dance naked. Trust in the perfection of what is.
Wild Love Festival, Iceland
Joy Mittens & Shiva Śūnya, United Kingdom
Joy Mittens is a shamanic sexual facilitator and guide from the UK. She has dedicated herself to this work for 5 years and is passionate about bringing people to life through taking them back to a state of Primal Innocence, where their soul can shine through the layers of conditioning.
Shiva is a shamanic facilitator, he has a background working with plant medicines and has trained with Joy and with the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA) He is passionate about working with life force energy and holding space for transformation.
Workshop 1: Boundaries 101 - Women
Build your skills in recognising and setting your own boundaries and standing up for them. Owning your desires and asking for what you want. Standing in your centre when people don't respect your boundaries or try to persuade you to overstep them.
Workshop 2: Clothing Optional Ecstatic Dance
Let’s return to our wild innocence together and experience the simple togetherness that manifests when we are all just one human tribe moving to the beat.
Alchemy of Love Festival, UK (Healer)
Joy Mittens
Shamanic Sexual Bodywork & Coaching
Sensual and intimate massage for women and for men (and anyone in between). A gentle opening of the channels through massage for deep relaxation and moving of energy. This can be a blissful experience of relaxation, it can be experienced as energy moving through the body, and/or it can also bring up blockages that are ready to be witnessed and held - painful emotions, memories, shame - I'm here to meet whatever there is with loving presence. This can include massage of the external parts of the yoni or lingam if desired (the intention will be for relaxation, not arousal through stimulation, although arousal may be present and is welcome).
90 mins - £190
Return to Primal Innocence Retreat - Glastonbury, UK
Learn to listen to the wise language of your body, emotions and sexuality in a safely held and heart-centred container, to truly discover why your soul chose this incarnation and how to live it to the full.
We are tapping into the power of Eros, life force energy, to burn through all the blocks between you and your soul's fullest expression in the world.
Eros is the great magnifier for all the places within yourself that you don't like to look at - a perfect medicine to use shamanically to unearth the deeply ingrained patterns that are holding you back. It's not necessarily about having a good time - it's about being with whatever comes up, with acceptance and compassion.
It begins with an in depth learning about the essentials of boundaries, consent, and emotional maturity, through building a healthy relationship with your own body and the way eros moves through it, to (optionally) sharing it with others and divinity itself.
we are picking apart all of the baggage that we have confused with eros, and discovering the pure signal underneath the noise. We are getting back in touch with the sense of wonder, magic and joy in your relationship with your self and the world around you before you learned that there was anything to be ashamed or scared of, opening a pathway for the divine to flow through you.
"In the presence of love, all that does not know it is love yet, comes up to be met by love"
Coziness and Connection, Galstonbury
Join me and Shiva in our cozy living room for a laid back gathering with connection games to drop our masked and be deeply nourished.
Visions of Shiva - Bristol Temple
You are invited to this Temple, Visions of Shiva, a sacred and devotional evening held by Shanti, Shiva & Joy. In ritual space together.
Free Online Q&A with Joy & Shiva about our upcoming retreat: return to Primal Innocence
Come join us on Saturday at 4pm UK time for an online call where you can meet us and ask any questions about our work or our upcoming retreat Return To Primal Innocence
Emotional Release Workshop, glastonbury
You have to feel it to heal it.
On a physical level, emotions are chemical reactions in the body. Those chemicals are designed to move our body in a certain way. If we suppress that movement, they get stuck and cause problems.
On an energetic level, emotions are energy patterns that are designed to flow through us in a certain way. If we suppress that movement, they get stuck and cause problems.
Most of us are taught from a young age to suppress our emotions. Most of us are not taught healthy ways to allow these chemicals and energy to move in a way that is safe - not hurting ourselves or anyone around us.
When flowing freely and safely, our emotions are what gives life colour. Anger gives us the courage, grief gives us clarity, joy gives us purpose. When they are not flowing freely we can feel dull and pointless, or they can be volatile and damaging to us or those around us.
We will separate emotions (felt experiences in the body) from stories (the narrative in the mind). Stories can cause emotions and emotions can cause stories. Often once we move an emotion, we discover that our story about it is incomplete (e.g. when a small event triggers your anger, but actually the anger is built up from something else from the recent or ancient past that hasn't been processed)
In this workshop you will learn practical exercises using breath, sound and movement, to unblock emotions and release them.
Then you will be taken on a personal journey of using these tools to clear out your system. Followed by a period of integration and relaxation. During this journey you will stay in your own space, not interacting with anyone around you.
Introduction to §exua| Shamanism - 4 day Immersion
WHAT IS "SEXUAL" "SHAMANISM"?
Both of these words are gateways to a whole universe of significance and meaning, that is far beyond what the mind can comprehend, and as such it is very difficult to write a definition in words. I will attempt to wrap some words around what they mean - or at least what they mean to me - as a portal through which hopefully you will get some glimpse of what lies inside.
SHAMANISM
One way I like to describe shamanism is that it is a communion with Nature. Communion with the animals, the plants, the rocks, even the matter of our own bodies. It does not shy away from death and decay and the dark, but recognises it as sacred and essential and, in its own way, incredibly beautiful.
We are the sunrise, the butterfly’s wing, the kiss of sun on skin. We are also the worms, the decaying bacteria, the lion standing over its kill.
Shamanism allows us to descend into the density of our own humanity. It gives space for the not so popular aspects - the anger, the jealousy, even the hate. We get to meet our own demons, the parts of us we have relegated to the shadows in our scramble to believe that we are not that. And in the shadows they lurk, causing havoc when we let down our guard for a moment. But they are not our enemies, when our hearts can grow large enough to embrace the darker aspects of what it means to be human, they become our greatest allies in moving through this world and making a difference in what we came here to do.
SEXUALITY
One of the most suppressed, demonised and misunderstood parts of our natures, and yet it is the place in which we were all made, and can be unmade. Sexual energy is life force energy. It is pure aliveness. It is the very foundation of the natural world. In our society it has been twisted and put into a box of rubbing genitals together, when in reality it exists in everything that we are and everything that we do.
Sexual energy is the great magnifier. If you are willing to look at your shit, here is the lens that will show it all to you in excruciating detail. A medicine as potent as any plant medicine, and you don’t have to travel the world in search of it.
We all know the potential that the misuse of sexual energy has to harm, to destroy lives and communities. It has just as much power to heal and transform and forge a new world.
Humans connected to their sexual energy and aligned with love do not make good slaves to any system. Putting sex in the box of shame and evil is one of the great tools of control that we have been subjugated to.
Introduction to §exua| Shamanism Weekend
** Are you ready to descend into the murk of your own existence? **
Join us this April full moon (AKA Easter Bank Holiday Weekend) for a (relatively gentle) introduction to this world.
The sex education you wish you'd had
Suitable for any gender, sexuality, or relationship status