🏛️ Temple of the senses: sovereign

Temple of the Senses is your invitation to journey with your ErΦs through the portal of sensation.

Each edition explores a different facet of embodied pleasure, from soft surrender to playful mischief to the mysteries of transformation.

Think ancient Priestess Temple with a modern twist.

In this edition, we’ll explore intimacy through the lens of embodied sovereignty. You’re invited to come home to ourselves. To remember that your body is yours. We explore Eros grounded in sovereignty, where yes is fully embodied only when no is a possibility.

But Erotic Sovereignty is of course rooted in consent and it goes beyond.

Consent is a protocol between two people, an agreement. It can be transactional when one sees the other as a body to be accessed if permission is granted.

Sovereignty means something else here. It's a way of seeing the other person. Not as someone whose permission is the only thing you need, but as a multi-dimensional being you are getting to know. Their no isn't an obstacle to your yes, it's information about who they are. So is their yes.

This Temple is about that kind of meeting. Where every person in the room is a sovereign being to be recognised, not a body to be approached with the right script.

Real intimacy lives here. Between people who see each other fully.

✨ NEW TO TEMPLES?

A Consent workshop will be held on Wednesday 8th July 7pm - 10pm: this is mandatory for those of you who haven’t attended my Temple spaces before and open to those wishing to learn more about Consent. We’ll cover topics around Consent and Temple etiquettes. This aims at offering you the opportunity make the most of your time at Temple. Make sure you book your Consent workshop ticket before or at the same time as your Temple ticket. If you cannot attend this date and are new to Temples, please book a private session to learn about our Consent framework.

🪞 What to Expect AT TEMPLE:

• Guided practices to explore curiosity, play, and desire in a supported, slow-paced way.

• Sensory experiences designed to heighten awareness, connection and mischief, think feathers, blindfolds, whispers, taste tests, and more…

• Free-flow time to move through stations, rituals, or quiet integration, following your desires or your stillness.

• A non-performative space where every body, desire, and consensual expression is welcome.

• This temple welcomes all bodies, all genders and sexual orientations, and those attending solo or with loved ones.

• It’s a space for intentional, consensual connection. Just because you want to play with someone doesn’t mean they’ll want to play with you, and that’s okay. Desire isn’t owed, and we honour everyone's autonomy here.

🔐 A Few Things to Know:

• Consent, boundaries, and self-responsibility are foundational.

• This is a clothing-optional, drug and alcohol-free space (excluding medication). Anyone arriving intoxicated to Temple will be refused entry.

• This is a non-heteronormative, non-mononormative space.

• All practices are optional and guided with care.

• No tickets sold at the door, bookings are essential.

📍 location:

• Consent workshop (Wednesday 08/07: 7pm - 10pm): Balam Balam Place - 15 Phoenix St - Brunswick

• Temple (Saturday 11/07: 3pm - 9pm): AKA Studios - 130C Nicholson street - Brunswick East

Any questions? Email thevelvetlilith@gmail.com