Beltane 2011 Draft List of Presenters

Travel, schedule, or budget constraints may cause this list to change.

Current as of 18 Apr 2011

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Abe, Aurora, & the FoV Team: Abraham Street and Aurora Kelly are among the co-creators of Fires of Venus, a festival of ritual and revelry&mash;drumming, dancing, kissing, singing, and making love—where love is a spiritual path and joyful prayer. They’ve produced sacred sexuality and ordeal rituals, workshops, events, and scenes together since 2002. As board members of Sacred Mark Sanctuary, they are passionate about exploring the uses of the body to access Spirit.
Stoking the Fires of Venus

Anita Wagner is a polyamory advocate, coach, blogger, spokesperson, and educator. She is a past organizer of the Polyamory Leadership Summit and serves as polyamory community advisor to CARAS. She is a faculty member at KinkAcademy.com. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Loving More© and Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness, and is co-founder and former member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for 21st Century Relationships/the Foundation of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom. She is also a past board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom. Anita has presented (or will soon present) educational programs on polyamory at Momentum con, Poly Living, Loving More Retreats, Transcending Boundaries, Washington Area Secular Humanists, Good Vibrations, The Floating World, Sex 2.0, Dark Odyssey, Black Rose, Southeast Leather Fest, Building Bridges, Free Spirit Beltane Gathering, Florida Poly Retreat, and to a variety of alternative sexual and relationship organizations. She has keynoted and been a featured speaker at polyamory conferences and pride celebrations and has authored articles on polyamory and bisexuality. Anita has appeared on television in interviews on polyamory in Washington, DC and Baltimore and in news articles in Newsweek, the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post and Salon.com, amongst many others.
Emotional Edge Play: Polyamory for BDSM/Leather/Fetish Folks
Safe Enough and Free Enough: Communication and Boundaries in Alternative Relationshipland
The Shadow Side of Eros: Sex Addiction

Arakeane exploits the diversity of his religious, sexual, and spiritual background to bring a unique mix of talent to the pagan community. His Baptist, Methodist, Evangelical, Thalamic, and Mormon background from his early years intermingles with his vast experience in sadomasochism, liberal sexuality, and avant-garde spirituality tempered by his various Wiccan experiences and practices for the past 20 years. A Naval Officer, Engineer, Physicist, Computer Scientist, and Dungeon Master by trade, Arakeane interleaves his professional training into his quest for spiritual awareness and comprehension. The thrice sworn soul-mate of the High Priestess Selene, Arakeane has been in the public Pagan forum since the late 1980s. Most noted for his open work entwining diverse pagan practices with Wicca, Arakeane has been an embarrassment to fundamentalists from many Pagan traditions for well over a decade. A Distinguished Toastmaster, off-Broadway New York actor, trained in NLP, holistic healing, and a diverse set of other spiritual disciplines, Arakeane's spontaneous and entertaining presentation style typically delights his audience. Even if you've taken a previous year's workshop, you're sure to be delighted with the continuous changes introduced, and Arakeane's ability to spiritually immerse you in the subject matter.
Raising Power through the Shadows: Enhancing Sexually-Oriented Relationships
Raising Power through the Shadows: Spanking Spirituality

Ariana Lightningstorm has been doing palmistry and tarot readings professionally for more than 30 years. She got her first Tarot deck when she was 10 years old. Her professional career began as a reader at the MD Renaissance Festival and she has been helping people to find their way to a more joyful and fulfilled future ever since. She started training to do handwriting analysis more than 3 years ago and has often worked at the International Spy Museum as well as private parties and corporate events. She also teaches palmistry and tarot classes to those who want to delve further into the art and science of reading the hand or cards. Visit her online at www.ancient-mysteries.org/ariana.html.
Beginning Practical Palmistry
Intermediate Practical Palmistry

Ben Silver is a singer, musician, and poly and bi activist who has been in an open primary relationship for 25 years. He and his partner started a support group for committed non-monogamous relationships in the 80s which met monthly for over 15 years.

Having taught various forms of Vocal Improvisation for about 25 years, Ben runs a monthly CircleSinging Series in NYC and teaches and performs regularly on both coasts. For the past two years, Ben has been an invited leader at the Oakland CircleSinging marathon “Sing for Your Life.”
CircleSinging
Hap-Poly Ever After: Long-Term Poly Partnership

Bendyogagirl has been teaching and training groups and individuals for almost 30 years. She has extensive experience with body/mind disciplines including several forms of meditation and yoga, as well as cognitive therapeutic techniques, all of which she has studied for decades. Bendy is committed to serving community and creating spaces in which people may learn and grow. Her teaching style is humorous, informative and interactive. Just like she. Bendy has been actively exploring D/s and authority exchange for over 25 years, and she has a long history with BDSM. While her proclivities tend towards authority exchange and spiritual awakening through kink over all else, she is a lover of rope, deep impact, sensation, takedowns, and having fun!

Currently based in Boston, Bendy Yoga Girl co-founded MAsTMass, runs The Submissives' Round Table, is the Speaker Liaison for NELA's programming team, volunteers with the NCSF, and is an activist for personal freedom. Bendy presents on a variety of topics, including spirituality and BDSM, yoga, leadership, organizational development, bottoming, and authority exchange.
The Way of D/s: a Model for Power and Authority Exchange

Beth & Preston: Beth is a professional massage therapist and doula (childbirth assistant) and Intrinsic Coach. She has a long history of using touch to facilitate healing through massage, for assisting mothers through the birth process, for supporting infants in her water babies classes, and for working with animals. She has adapted her touch and coaching training, along with her personal experience, to the scene and to areas of spiritual, sexual, and relationship growth and healing. Her focus is on touching lives in ways that enhance and enrich.

Preston brings balance and humor to Beth’s presentations. A technical person by profession, he keeps Beth on focus. He made his 30-year marriage a study in what satisfies a woman. While it may not have succeeded with his first wife, he has developed an incredibly sensitive approach to touching others, which he frequently uses to introduce newbies to BDSM via Sensation Stations at Exploratoriums and other settings. He has also paired massage training from Beth with his foot and touch fetishes to offer a truly wonderfully sensual foot or full body massage. After working with Beth through his own issues with erectile dysfunction, he supported Beth through breast cancer surgery, chemo, radiation, and long-term treatment with hormone suppressive drugs.

Through all of this, they have mastered the art of a very satisfying sexuality that goes way beyond hormones. They delight in sharing their learning with others; visit them online at www.bethandpreston.com.
Intentional Sexuality Ritual
Intentional Sexuality Workshop

​For nearly two decades, Capt. Gordon has been deeply involved with the Body Modification and Tattooing industry. After much reflection it was his spirituality that brought that brought him to that place to learn about tribal cultures of all kinds. Over the years, with his experience, he has been able to bring a wide range of skills and techniques to many different communities. As Vice President and now Ambassador of SMS he has sought to improve the communities he works within through safety awareness, art, and sacred sexuality. Some of his interests include ritual and ceremonial facilitation, ritual tattooing, piercing, flesh hook suspension facilitation (both safety and technique), cutting and branding, body transformation weekends, healing arts, ritual art and theater, body play, BDSM, D/s and M/s relationships, fire performance, and ordeal facilitation. He also gives various educational workshops on safe blood play, piercing art, extreme vs. edge play, sensual take-down, and more.
Roughhousing and Sensual Take-down
Sacred Body Modification

Chaya Leia Aronson Sylvia, RN, BSN is a Registered Nurse, a Certified Practitioner and teacher of the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy™, and a Reiki practitioner, as well as a long-time dancer and yoga practitioner. Chaya is currently mentoring with ALisa Starkweather in the facilitation of the Belly and Womb Conference, which will have celebrated its twelfth year this past March. Chaya has also studied a variety of dance modalities including belly dance, contact improvisation, Anusara yoga, and authentic movement. Chaya is deeply committed to helping individuals find healing and wisdom in their wombs and bellies through ecstatic, sacred, sensual movement and exploration of self. Visit Chaya online at www.purplerosehealingarts.com.
Behind the Veil
Freedom Through Movement: Sinuous and Serpentine

Cookie Monster & The Mad Scientist: Cookie Monster is Aphrodite's pyromaniac slave. The Mad Scientist is a dashing electrophile and fledgling Satyr.
Ritual for Aphrodite & Pan
Workshop on Aphrodite & Pan

Dakota is a certified professional hypnotist, certified massage therapist, wiccan, and bisexual lifestyler whose journey has surely been a roundabout one. This long-time computer programmer found her true path in alternative therapies. After becoming an established massage therapist, Dakota felt that hypnosis would be a good complimentary therapy to help her clients alleviate problems that were affecting them physically and emotionally. Through hypnosis, she has helped with everything from smoking cessation to performance anxiety, and has even taken her skills to the stage. In addition to her Richmond, Virginia practice, Dakota performs tailored stage hypnosis shows for clubs and private events. She loves Beltane because it helps bring out her inner goddess, and she is always looking for ways to help others do the same. This year, Dakota would love to unleash everyone's inner goddess or god through the power of hypnosis.
Release Your Sensuality Through Trance

David & Kit Cat: A follower of Shamanic/Heathen practices, David has been constructing and leading rituals, teaching workshops, and guiding experiences for well over 20 years. His writings have been published multiple times in the Green Egg, Circle Magazine, and on various pagan websites.

Kit Cat is a seeker, a teacher, an explorer, and a discoverer. She is a practitioner of rhythmic magick; she is one who delves in the fog and finds sensual gold; she is an earthy, Earth Goddess, a bad-ass girl with a Bad Ass, and a wicked woman with a whip; touching and being touched, stroking, tasting, nibbling and sampling life as it comes...
The Sacred Five-fold Kiss and the Practice of Deep Worship
Safe Struggles

​It has been said that Del is more of an experience than a person. As a queer transgendered disabled gypsy sex educator, author, trickster, pastoral care counselor, and shaman, he leads people through life's more challenging twists and turns. He is a council member of Clan Tashlin, an earth based teaching and magical order. Del has also worked with the ritual group Sacred Mark Sanctuary, doing energy pulls and hook suspension as ordeal. A pagan priest since 2000, and kinky since birth, Del especially enjoys exploring, teaching, and guiding people through experiences that combine their spirituality and sexuality. An avid gamer in all forms (video, board, and role-playing), Del lives in suburban Maryland with his own personal Ninja whom he calls Daddy, and two collared submissives he adores. He can be reached at awesome.del at gmail dot com.
Littles Time with Mr. Del

Dianna is a writer, teacher, and Initiate of the Blue Star tradition. Recent years have offered some intense learning opportunities, including physical and emotional trials; every one has shown her how to give more to others. This is Dianna's tenth Beltane festival, and she appreciates every opportunity to give back to the community that is her home. Meanwhile, she is enjoying living out her new superhero name: “Orgasmagirl.” Dianna shares a home with four cats, two dogs, a snake, and her partner Michael.
The Pen is Mightier than the Vibrator
Sex After Trauma
What Doesn't Kill Me: Healing a Shattered Self

'Dirty Mother' Denise Cumor is devoted to making vaginas happy and empowered; she has dedicated most of her adult life to this purpose. Growing up in our patriarchal culture where women are objectified, sexually abused, and shamed for their acts of sexual exploration, she found herself being pushed under and so began to reclaim her sexuality and to help other women do the same. Identifying as a Pagan and learning to embody the Goddess in all her forms has given her the confidence to build on this reclamation. Experiences that have profoundly strengthened her commitment: working as a stripper for 4 years on Baltimore's infamous 'Block;' teaching OB-GYN protocol to medical students with Johns Hopkins; selling adult novelties with Athena's Home Novelties; directing and acting in various productions of the Vagina Monologues; being a part of the Spiral Dance Womyn's Center, where she taught sex workshops; making ceramic dildos and vagina rattles; and vending at The Red Tent, where she sells adult novelties, sacred feminine art, books/media, and organic feminine hygiene products. She has been making music for over 20 years, and her current musical project is Red Wound.
Casting for Sacred Body Imaging, Fetish, and Bondage Play
Reclaiming Women's Rites and Mysteries
The Yoni and The Speculum

Divetta has been a member of the BDSM community for more than 15 years. As a submissive bisexual woman, she has spent years exploring the kinky side of sex, the challenges and intimacy of power exchange relationships, and the joys and pains of both monogamy and polyamory. Her experiences have taught her to truly see and value each individual, because it is in the unique expression of each person's language of love, sensuality, and sexuality where we find the limitless possibilities of joyful and powerful relating. She believes that each of us is in a relationship to learn something about ourselves that we can ONLY learn in that relationship, and one of the adventures of living life in relation to others is to discover what it is that we will learn. She is currently blissfully owned by a wonderful dominant, and is in the process of writing a book on her sexual memoirs. Divetta is an experienced life and executive coach, trainer, consultant, and submissive. She is qualified to administer and debrief the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator. Having delivered workshops on this topic to the vanilla world dozens of times, she is eager to share the information with the kinky world so they can benefit from the insights and discoveries that she has put to good use in her own D/s relationship.
Deepening the Sexual & Spiritual Connection in your BDSM Relationships

Eric S considers himself a heathen philosopher. Eric now follows a Norse path influenced by classical philosophy, pragmatism, and scholarship. He has always felt most strongly tied to Heimdall, even when he didn't really realize why or what that meant. Eric is drawn to forms of guardianship at many levels.
Rage, Fear, and Survival: Using Dark Emotions For Healing And Growth
Rage, Strength, and Spirituality

Erik didn't send us a bio.
Erectile Dysfunction: The Good News
Masturbation Circle
Masturbation Circle—Reprise
Saturnalia on the Lawn

HennaDancer: To say I'm eclectic is putting it almost embarrassingly mildly. My current life, in no particular order: henna, raising kids, temari, spinning thread, polyamory, knitting, SCA, being wife to my bestest friend, singing, treating my depression, baking, drawing, conspiracy theory (mostly laughing at), computer games, dealing with an autistic child, painting, laughing, BDSM, belly dance, reading mostly fantasy and science fiction, really good sex, Indian, Persian, and general Arabic material culture and history, and whatever shiny thing wanders by next. I teach a lot of these things at various events devoted to them. Visit me online at www.hennadancer.com.
A Goddess's Secrets: The Other Reason for Belly Dance
Guedra: North African Trance Dance/Ritual

Kate has been involved in Scene activities for some time, and has been active in the metro-DC kink community for more than ten years. Her eclectic path has covered diverse ground, and she enjoys educating folks about the varied and different ways to explore life through many kinds of play. During that time, Kate’s involvement in the spiritual side of kink has grown and flourished, leading to a focus on ecstatic experience through sensation, and connection with the Divine through ordeal. Probably owing to early and repeated certification in American Red Cross safety courses, Kate’s keen to provide knowledge and environment for folks to safely be as kinky as they please. Kate also encourages you to try out new and different sensations at The Exploratorium!
Healing and Hot Wax
You Want to Do What? or, BDSM 101

Lee Harrington is an eclectic artist, spiritual and erotic educator, gender radical, and award winning published author on human sexuality and spiritual experience. He has been an active part of the international kink and sex positive communities for over 14 years, and his stories make people laugh while showing you that eroticism can be as serious, sexy, or silly as you make it. Serving as a spiritual guide as well, Lee's eclectic paganism is heavily rooted in his upbringing as the daughter of an Irish Catholic and a Goddess-worshiping Lutheran, as well as his studies of Street Magic, Feri, Ceremonial Magick, Huna, and other paths. He has been part of CUUPs, GoddesSMack (a pagan dyke SM circle in Portland, OR), serves as a Priest for Temple of Atonement (Atoning and Educating Burning Man and the World), and actively incorporates bondage and other forms of BDSM and fiber magic into his spiritual workings as a shaman in service to Bear. His books include Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond, and his writings and photography have appeared in numerous other publications, such as Dark Moon Rising: Pagan BDSM and the Ordeal Path, including under his previous name, Bridgett Harrington. Learn more at www.PassionAndSoul.com.
Cord Magic Made Easy
Falling In Love with Ramblewood: A Mindfulness Hike

Lord Percival has been active in the scene, both in private and in public, for over 35 years. While many of us know him for his mastery of rope, Percival also has an extensive knowledge of many other areas of play, including but not limited to: takedowns, breath play, caning, whips, electricity, knives, and mental bondage. Education is a particular passion of Percival's. He has been a teacher, lecturer, mentor, and trainer in the scene for over 20 years. Currently, he is on the Board of NELA, where his role is Director of Programming.
Rituals and Protocols for D/s and M/s dynamics
Scening as a Spiritual Practice

Lord Percival & Bendyogagirl
Energy Play: When Two or More Discrete Individuals Intermingle As One
Scening and Catharsis

Mandrake is a former professional exotic dancer, an anthropologist, an historian, a Priestess in the Spirits Cauling Tradition, an author, and a tease extraordinaire. She has been a presenter with FSA events since 2003, and has been published in the pagan literary community since 2007. She works actively in her local community, and works with the academic community to educate on the realities of modern paganism and the diverse culture of the American pagan community. She is currently finishing her Master's degree in Public History.
The Brush's Kiss: Sensual Bodypainting for Lovers
Exotic Dancing as Foreplay for Couples+
The Fine Art of the Tease: Be the God/dess of Their Dreams
Morning Sexercise

Michael Rios & Sarah Taub are part of the Network for a New Culture. They live at Chrysalis, an intentional community in Arlington, VA, and co-manage the Abrams Creek Conference and Retreat Center in Mt. Storm, WV. They and others regularly organize new culture events aimed at creating a culture based on awareness, compassion, and freedom rather than on fear and judgment.

Sarah has been studying human dynamics for years, through aikido, co-counseling, group facilitation, and the cognitive sciences. She recently left her safe Ivory Tower job to dive into social and political activism. Her current koan: only when you let go of urgency can you be truly effective.

Michael has been creating and living alternative lifestyles and personal growth experiences for 40 years. His favorite social organization principles include guerrilla capitalism and responsible anarchy.
Building a Sex-Positive Culture
Finding the Sweet Spot
Relationships Without Drama

Ms B Haven is a child of the universe and practices an inclusive, pluralistic, and holistic spirituality. She has earned a Masters of Theological Studies from Drew University Theological School, with a concentration in spiritual disciplines, healing, and retreat ministry. Miss B has been ordained by the Universal Brotherhood Movement and is a labyrinth facilitator. She leads programs in personal growth, spiritual discernment, and relationship dynamics (she also loves playing games, storytelling, dancing and making music). Miss B practices several different styles of meditation and chanting and has studied and worked with the labyrinth in a variety of settings (ask to see the labyrinth that she takes with her wherever she goes). She has been exploring the intersection of spirituality, sensuality, and sexuality, for several years, and more recently the connection between bdsm, spiritual disciplines, and sexuality. The divinity that abides in Miss B Haven seeks the divinity in all that she encounters. Peace to All.
Shameless Self-promotion: The Fine Art of Profile/Resume Writing
You in a Box

Paul didn't send us a bio.
Making Chainmail as a Meditation Technique

Puck's love affair with chocolate began when she encountered a Tobler Mocha bar at age 6. She and her spouse/co-presenter, the Brewmaster, enjoy sharing chocolate and other delectables with friends and strangers (and sometimes with strange friends).
Chocolate Ritual and Bacchanal

PyrateGrrl has been involved with the public BDSM scene for 10 years, and has been one of the knife station presenters for Beltane's Exploratorium since 2007. A switch on every level one can switch on, she's been on both sides of a lot of experiences, and brings that empathy to her classes. She believes strongly in the importance of connection and intent in the practice of BDSM. Her path is one of self-knowledge, using whatever tools seem to work best.
Primal Touch: Using Your Body to Deliver Pain, Love, Intensity
To the Point: Knifeplay for Beginners

Pyro Sadist aka Brian has been in the scene for over a decade. He has been with his collared slave dottie (slutress) since he entered the scene. Between the two of them they have collared their femsubs caroline and sammi. Together with dottie, Brian founded The Gate—one of the of largest munch groups in the Philadelphia area—which is still going strong and then started a second chapter of The Gate in Massachusetts. The two of them own Needle Play Design, their custom embroidering company. Brian and dottie have traveled as far north as ME, as far south as VA, and as far west as MO to play and teach. They have given instruction in Fireplay, Needleplay, and Singletails at various venues including The Space, the play space of The Society, Behind The Scenes, The Black Phoenix, Leather Retreat, Dark Odyssey Winter/Spring Fire, Dark Odyssey Summer Camp, and Camp Crucible.
Becoming the Dragon: An Intro to Fire Breathing
Dancing with Flame: Fireplay
Suck You: Introduction to Fire Cupping

Rebecca Vassy aka Diva Dasi is a writer, dancer, and artist with a theater education and many years of experience as a performer, which she now brings to the practice of sacred dance and ecstatic ritual. She is a regular presenter and staffer at FSA/THE events and has been writing and facilitating rituals and giving workshops for several years. An eclectic Pagan, God-spouse, and “kitchen mystic,” she is dedicated to the path of sacred romance, which celebrates the Divine in the context of lover and Beloved. She proudly serves as the Keeper of the Temple of Affection at Fires of Venus and as votary to Aphrodite.
The Garden of Sensual Delight: The Beltane Sensual Feast
RAVEnous Romance Dance Jam & Play(ful)space
Sweet Dreams Pajama Party

Red Wound is a modern day international musical collaboration between two artful lost souls. In early 2009, Rowye (programming) and Denise Cumor (vocals) collided with each other on the Internet in the gaming guises of trampy elves and at once became scheming fiendish friends.

With Rowye in Barcelona, Spain and Denise in Baltimore, their earlier tracks were all spawned through emails and chats. They had never met in person until recently, where a fire was lit and a deeper collaboration and connection has begun.

Red Wound is a moody and sensual exploration into the darkness of the love torn psyche. Denise's sultry vocals weave smoothly into Rowye's brooding musical arrangements, creating theatrical yet lush stories with a few edgy surprises. The live experience is an evolving vision that includes performance art, suspension, video, and theatrical lighting.
Concert

​Namasté. I'm Selene. I have been a Starwood Elder for over 10 years. My husband Arakeane and I have taught at FSG since the mid 1990s. I am the mother of two rambunctious teenagers young ladies, and pagan mentor to several others. I hold a B.A. in Psychology, and an M.B.A. in Management Information Systems. I have been exploring weaving, macrame, knotwork, jewelry-making, gemlore, and herbalism for as long as I can remember. I have 25 years' experience enjoying the exploration of alternative lifestyles. Arakeane and I have been involved in several successful long-term polyamorous relationships.
Become the Fire Bird

Staff didn't send us a bio (yet).
The Exploratorium
Playspace Hours

Stephanie has been a freeform practitioner of magick and spirituality for as long as she can remember. She has been an initiate of the OTO for six years. She is also an ordained Priestess of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (EGC). She has presented workshops and Gnostic Masses at William Blake Lodge, at Beltane and at Fires of Venus.
The Gnostic Mass: Liber XV
Ritual Purification and Magical Baths

SwitchMe identifies as a co-gendered, bisexual, polyamorous switch who finds pleasure in helping others discover the sheer joy and bliss of a free and uninhibited sexuality. He has been presenting and teaching for over 10 years on a variety of subjects, including body image, touch, deviancy, anthropology and computing. She is currently working on an advanced degree, conducting fieldwork in the Caribbean, and has several publications. With an increasing emphasis on breath and energy, his workshops focus on the many ways to let go of inhibitions and enjoy our sexuality.
Cuddle Party
Holi: A Celebration of Color

Teazel is a First Degree Initiate with the Blue Star Tradition and runs an Outer Court Grove (Vela) within the Washington DC Metro area.
Loving Your Whole Self

Temple of Surrender Kneeling before Her, we Surrender ourselves to Her power. All living beings bow before Venus and are given renewal through the power of letting go.

The Temple of Surrender invites its Mystics to show their bellies to the Goddess in all ways, for how can we truly become devotees of Her mysteries without allowing ourselves to surrender to them utterly? It is simplistic to think of Surrender as being entirely made up of BDSM and its related activities, though it has been said that bondage makes us free. Any act can be surrendered to. All loving relationships demand surrender of some kind, and there is a special sacredness to the act of surrendering sexually to your partner, whatever that may mean to you. Any person can find release in the Temple whether they are tied up or not. Mystics of our Temple will be given the opportunity to explore catharsis, give over control to another, and help others become unbound.
Chrysalis: A Ritual of Transformation

The Pink Sphinx of Babylon is an &ldqo;employee” of The Whore of Babylon. Her resume includes running the House of Babylon: Erotic Temple Work track for Mythical Journeys 2008 and presenting Sacred Sexuality workshops at many FSA and THE events. Her day job as proprietor of an occult shop has given her opportunity for insight into the daily lives of Pagans, witches and other seekers outside of gatherings. Before going into service under Ms. B., she co-authored two books with Raven Kaldera: The Urban Primitive and Welcoming Hera's Blessing.
Basics of Mythic Scene Work: Combining BDSM with Mythopoetic Role-Play for Magickal Purposes
The Elements are In Your Toy Bag!
Sexual Magickal Mystery Tour
Sexual Ritual Construction

Tom Swiss describes his spiritual path as “Zen Pagan Taoist Atheist Discordian,” which usually baffles questioners enough to leave him alone. He has taught workshops to a wide variety of audiences on subjects spanning the gamut from acupressure to Zen and from self-defense to sexuality. Tom is an NCCAOM Diplomate in Asian Bodywork Therapy, a karate teacher holding the rank of yondan (fourth degree black belt), a poet, a singer/songwriter, an amateur philosopher, and a professional computer geek. He is currently serving as President of the Free Spirit Alliance; visit him online at www.infamous.net.
Acupressure and Shiatsu for Couples
Cultivating and Controlling Sexual Energy
Zen and the Art of Love

Tony & Christina Vanderveldt met in 1989 at the tender age of 14. Becoming teen parents at the age of 15 catapulted the couple to face adult challenges and lit a fire in the two to start building a life worth loving.

Now the proud parents of six children, their passionate relationship for one another, the world and for love itself has allowed them to create a tremendous amount of knowledge, resources and skills. They are well known for being playful, peaceful and seemingly to have a limitless amount of positive energy. Their mission is to share well being with the world and to show you can have life your way. They are dedicated to partnering with people to overcome any obstacle by taping into their Core energy. They teach people to discover and lead the energy within their mind, body and soul to achieve their desires.

They founded Opening Horizons Well Being Company to manifest this mission. The coaching division of OHWB offers certified professional coaches with highly specialized skills for your unique situation—Sexual Diversity, Relationship Diversity, Bipolar, and ADHD to name a few! They are polyamory educators, relationship diversity experts, and energy management specialists!
Beyond Monogamy? Open Relationship? What's That Really Mean?

Whittney Matlock: Selecting, fermenting, distilling—An Alchemist's work is to explore. In my current experiment, I am Shamanic Alchemist, a Healer, and a Divine Pervert. I am fortunate to have travelled a spiritual path which thrives on diversity and encourages the blending of the various arts and skills I've learned along the way. A deep passion for wonder calls me forward to the adventure. The core of my practice and teaching is the art of self transformation through personal exploration. It's not how your explore Spirit—what counts is that you explore Spirit. My experiments blend together mixtures of various healing arts, ritual, spiritual devotion, sexuality, BDSM, meditation, ordeal, music, trance, and touch to create an elixir of enlightenment that works for me. I'll happily share my current brew with you. Though, I'd rather teach you how to ferment your own elixir that will help you shine from the gold which lies within you. I explore and teach about the ordeal path with the members of Kindlers of the Sacred Rhythm. My partner and I are facilitators for a public ordeal rite, SuspenDC. We also work on many projects that are of service to our various communities. Among these are shamanic journey playshops, sacred fire circles, poi spinning classes, and fire spinning gatherings. Currently, we are producing a weekend Alchemical Fire Ritual called Fire Light Gathering, set for Aug 24 in Prince William Forrest, VA. For information on upcoming events, check out sacredrhythms.org.

Be warned, my classes are not for everyone; I expect participants to participate. I'll show you how to open doors and windows that will shed light on your dark places. In the end, though, you are responsible for taking the journey. Take a chance, risk discovering parts of yourself you have lost contact with, you might even remember something within you which you long ago forgot about.
Flogging: A Doorway to Ecstasy
Ritual Trance Induction
Yoga for Sex

​Wintersong Tashlin is a shaman, magician, and presenter who has been teaching and running rituals for over a decade. Seeing pain and pleasure as valuable tools, he employs both in his spiritual work and his erotic play. In addition to magical and spiritual classes, Winter also teaches workshops on various erotic and kink techniques. Wintersong has presented for Kink Academy, Dark Odyssey, Floating World, Dark Moon Rising, FSA Beltane, Black Rose, and many others. He is a council member of Clan Tashlin, an earth based teaching and magical order built around a unique approach to magic, spirituality, and the relationship of people to the land and gods. Wintersong has been in documentaries featuring topics such as polyamoury, spirituality, and genital integrity in both the United States and Great Britain. He blogs at barkingshaman.blogspot.com and can be found on Fetlife simply as “Wintersong.”
Communication For Magical Erotic Play
Ritual for the Breaking of Energetic Ties
Sacred Sex for One

XtraSpecial Tom is The Kinky Eagle Scout. The Boy Scouts of America offer the best kink training in the world including Rope, Knives, and Fire—and First Aid to clean up the mistakes! As a senior in high school he was hog tying freshmen and trying not to burn down the forest. He's been called an Evil Sadistic Bastard more times than not! He has been active in the BDSM lifestyle for 13 years and involved in the local community at Ohio SMART and PRS for 9 years. He is Chair Person Emeritus of Ohio SMART, having served 5 terms before stepping down in June 2010 to focus more on presenting. Tom has been doing Fire Play for nearly a decade and teaching it for the past 6 years. Fire Flogging has been added to his list of fiery activities for the past 3 years.

Tom founded the Energy SIG of Ohio SMART and has run it for the last 2+ years. The group has had lots of great speakers come and teach about Cleansing/Grounding/Shielding, Chakras, Animal Totems, Guided Imagery/Meditations, Ghosts, Spirits, Psychic Energy Vampires, Intuitive Healing, Sacred Sexuality, Tantra, Reiki and much more. The group is currently training 12 people as Level 1 Reiki practitioners, Tom included. Tom tends to use energy in his play.

Tom's presentations and interests are eclectic and include Fire Play, Rope Bondage, Torturing with Twine, Impact Play, Cell Popping (Mark Your Partner for Life, or just a little while), Extreme Caning, Flogging, Sword and Knife Play, Mind F***s, Whips, Medical Play and more. Tom has taught at on these subjects and more for the past 6 years at Ohio SMART and other local, regional, and national events including FOV 2009, Beltane 2010, Shibaricon 2010, and CampOUT 2010. Tom also does ritual work involving Fire and Fire Flogging.
Fire Flogging Experiential
Rope Energy

Zammis recently finished her 3.5 year Master's Degree in Acupuncture at Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, MD and launched her new practice, Five Dances Acupuncture. She looks forward to sharing all of the tools she's learned with her community.
Community Acupuncture for Stress Relief