Brandon B. is a sex educator, writer, and performer living in Brooklyn, New York. He conducts workshops out of various venues including the famous Pleasure Chest in the West Village where he is the manager. In 2009 he created TheINQUEERY.com, a sex toy and product review site for gay men which attempts to make safer sex sexy for the community. In 2010, he began reading erotic pieces from his personal mini-art zine at various venues including a 12-month residency at The Bowery Poetry Club for the burlesque, queer, performance art show Auralfixia. In 2011, he was a model for the New York Sex Blogger Calendar and presented at the MOMENTUM conference in Washington DC. Currently he is the manager, writer, and model for DarlingHouse.net and is working with Guiding Proud as an LGBTQ youth mentor in New York City.

Stay up to date with Brandon via Twitter at @mebrandonb

Lee Harrington of www.PassionAndSoul.com is a passionate spiritual and erotic educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist and published author and editor on human sexuality and spiritual experience.  He’s been traveling the globe (from Seattle to Sydney, Berlin to Boston), teaching or talking about sexuality, psychology, kink, faith, magic and desire since 1995, and has no intention of stopping any time soon.  Along his journey he has been a brainy academic, a female adult film performer (under his previous name Bridgett Harrington), a world class sexual adventurer, an outspoken philosopher, a long-time sexuality and spirituality blogger (since 1998), a spirit worker and priest, and an award winning writer and artist.   Overall, Lee is a nice guy with a disarmingly down to earth approach to the fact that we are each beautifully complex ecosystems, and we deserve to examine the human experience from that lens.

His books include “Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond,” “Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé,” the “Toybag Guide to Age Play,” and “Shed Skins: Journeying in Self-Portraits.”  He has also worked as an anthology editor on such projects as “Rope, Bondage, and Power” and “Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink,” while contributing actively to other anthologies, magazines, blogs and collaborations.  Check out the trouble Lee has been getting into, as well as his regular podcast, spiritual pondering, tour schedule, free essays, videos and more over at www.PassionAndSoul.com.

Discussion Panelist Sunday: The Dark Side of the Light: BDSM and Kink As Sacred Sexual Practices

Erika Henson is dedicated to helping people live happy, healthy, balanced lifestyles. She assists people to find their unique path and quickly change their lives, finding harmony and success. She continuously trains and travels internationally with teachers and healers sharing transformational knowledge from classical tantra, raja yoga, spiritual astrology, cultural dance, and systems of ancient martial arts.

Erika received her BA in Individualized Studies from New York University completing a program combining neuropsychology, relationship psychology, ethnopediatrics, and creative arts therapies. She is in progress of receiving her MA/PhD at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology. She is a self-healing educator trained at the School for Self Healing, a children’s yoga teacher and anusara-inspired adult yoga teacher, nutritional consultant with training from the Open Center for Holistic Health in NYC, and experience in Energy Kinesiology for stress relief with training from the International College of Healing Arts.

A dancer by heart with great enthusiasm for living freely, Erika hosts seminars and one-on-one retreats with people around the world, integrating transformational dances, theater performances, and other creative arts into daily routines. She inspires others to break away from their comfort zones, play in nature, and awaken hidden passions.

Special Performance with Erika during Saturday Night’sMasquerade Halloween Drumming Puja!

Imani Mamalution of www.mamalution.com is a Sovereign High Vibe Priestess & the Visionary behind the MamaLicious Luscious Live Line & the Super Food Starter Kit. She serves as a Tantrika dedicated to the healing of Mother Earth & her inhabitants. She is a passionate mother of six “free-range” activist kids & dedicated to raising them with their instincts intact. Their all organic café has served as a learning laboratory for both her children & the community for the past decade. Her message is one of RADICAL homesteading, FEMININE sovereignty and food FREEDOM shaped by the power we have as western women to change the course of history simply with the ways we raise our families and do business as the leading consumers on the planet.

She is the author of The Absence of Soil & Recipes for a High Vibe Life: 5 ingredients or Less and offers MamaLicious Demos & Tantric Tastings around the globe to awaken & activate others to their fullest potential. Super Foods for Self-Preservation & Sensual Awakening activate the embodiment of our most passionate, alive & authentic selves! As community we explore the tastes & textures of the most mineral-rich & nutrient-dense foods on the planet and how to blend them into our daily lives. Through guided participatory, hands-on re-unions we experience heightened states of awareness and embrace the sensual, spiritual role food plays in each of our lives. The result is a deep, soul awakening where our intuitive psyche is re-activated and we are able to imprint the frequency of elevated consciousness into every cell of our being.

Imani is a super-nutritarian with an intense desire to secure access to mineral & nutrient dense super foods for all. She believes that real food is our birth right and has designed a business model to make it possible for other Mamapreneurs to feed their family real food and support their sustainable super food habits! She promotes peace on the planet through conscious conception, ecstatic birth, open loving, high love real-ationships, sustainable business practices, access to real food, the re-uniting of the High Vibe Tribe & re-membering that we are all One.

Short Presentation:  The Witch’s Pleasure Chest – Herbal Allies for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Safety and Pleasure

In The Witch’s Pleasure Chest, you will be introduced to powerful plant allies that support men and women’s sexual, emotional and spiritual health and pleasure-filled rituals that you can be explored solo or partnered that will create sensual nourishment in your relationship to self, beloved(s) and planet.  Learn about herbs allies that ground energy, increase libido and support overall health in common ailments like ovarian cysts, enlarged prostate, low libido, painful menstruation and PCOS.  Learn about herbal wise woman treatments that can support you during safer sex practices including herbal contraceptive alternatives and immune system allies that can support you in an ‘opps’ moment where your safer sex method fails and you may be at risk for a sexually transmitted infection.  If you do have a sexually transmitted infection you will learn about additional and alternative ways to support your body and emotional and spiritual health and keep yourself and others at low risk for transmission.  In this presentation you will become hip to Mother Earth’s medicinal moxy and merge with her “Veriditas” – the green force.

SUNDAY WORKSHOP #4:  Super Food Demos & Tantric Tasting Immersions - An Experiential Hands-on Playshop with Imani & Atia

Embody your most passionate, alive & authentic self and maximize your orgasmic potential! Together we will explore our relationship to food and how it impacts our sexuality. By eating the most nutritious & delicious foods the planet has to offer we can increase our energy, stamina and ability to be fully awakened. By fusing together the worlds of Tantra and living foods we are able to experience abundance in all her magical forms!

Many of us know we are what we eat but often split ourselves from the experience of being in our bodies in all realms. Through simple exercises we will delve into the current role food plays into our lives and how we can become even juicier by indulging in food that is rich in vitamins, minerals and nutrients. Learn what superfoods are good for you, heighten your states of ecstasy, connect with your instinctual and intuitive self, learn simple recipes for a High Vibe life!

Within the ritual space we co-create as community we will discover the tastes & textures of a variety of foods and become inspired to integrate new ways of eating and loving into our lives. Through guided participatory, hands-on exercises we re-unite with our tribe and access heightened states of awareness while embracing the sensual, spiritual role food plays in each of our lives. The result is a deep, soul awakening where our intuitive psyche is re-activated and we are able to imprint the frequency of elevated consciousness into every cell of our being.

MamaLicious Line Featuring: sustainable * sensual * spiritual * superfood

• Edible Live Love Butters & Yoni Potions
• Mineral Rich Chocolate Delights
• High Frequency Flower Essences
• Nutrient Dense Living Foods
• Erotic Clothing Line
• Organic Body Care
• Detox Boxes

*Registration Required for Sunday’s Workshop #4 -  Register HERE

Discussion Panelist on Saturday’s Ecstatic Birth, Ecstatic Families: Raising Your Children w Their Sensuality Instincts Intact 

Roundup Special: Join Imani Saturday night and her High Vibe Raw Chocolate at the Halloween Costume Puja celebration!!

Isis Phoenix of SensualShaman.com is a Sensual Shaman and Ceremonial Priestess.   She is a Reiki Energy Master and founder of Naked Yoga NYC, an au natural yoga movement that consistently attracts international attention.  Her work and offerings are a unique combination of nature based wisdom and initiations woven together through an extensive five year apprenticeship with a Celtic Priestess, Path of the Sexual Shaman Seminars with Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Sexual Shamanic Priestess initiations with Anyaa McAndrews and Wise Woman and Green Witch Initiation with Susun Weed.

She offers Sensual Shaman Individual and Group Immersions that deepen wisdom and connection to creative orgasmic energy and its connection with all of creation.  Her work is dedicated to reclaiming the beauty, totality and pleasure of living fully in the human body and sensual spirit union and in right, loving and respectful relationship on the Earth.  Isis has a private sensual shamanic healing and ceremonial practice in New York City.  She facilitates private coaching, healing sessions and ceremonies including repatterning self-pleasuring rituals, weddings for opposite and same sex couples and public seasonal rituals that mark the Earthâ s cycles and seasons.  She is currently writing a book Asana Exposed â  a photographic essay on the transformative journey of naked yoga.

Isis and her classes have been featured in Metromix, Timeout, Jane magazine, NY Post, Tantra Café, NY Spirit, CBS, Fox News, BBC, Elle Magazine, Vogue, and Cosmopolitan.

Short Presentation: The Witch’s Pleasure Chest –  Herbal Allies for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Safety and Pleasure 

In The Witch’s Pleasure Chest, you will be introduced to powerful plant allies that support men and women’s sexual, emotional and spiritual health and pleasure-filled rituals that you can be explored solo or partnered that will create sensual nourishment in your relationship to self, beloved(s) and planet.

Learn about herbs allies that ground energy, increase libido and support overall health in common ailments like ovarian cysts, enlarged prostate, low libido, painful menstruation and PCOS.  Learn about herbal wise woman treatments that can support you during safer sex practices including herbal contraceptive alternatives and immune system allies that can support you in an “opps”  moment where your safer sex method fails and you may be at risk for a sexually transmitted infection.  If you do have a sexually transmitted infection you will learn about additional and alternative ways to support your body and emotional and spiritual health and keep yourself and others at low risk for transmission.  In this presentation you will become hip to Mother Earth’s medicinal moxy and merge with her “Veriditas” –  the green force.

Rev. Jenellen Fischer received her seminary and spiritual counseling training at The New Seminary Interfaith Minister Training Program, and One Spirit Interfaith Seminary of NYC where she was ordained in 2007.   She is a Spiritual Counselor, Liturgical Singer, Reiki Master, Intuitive Empath, Energetic Healer, and a Sensual Shaman, utilizing sensual energy for the healing of geographic locations, people, and animals.  She has been facilitating spiritual exploration for adults and children for over 20 years through her educational, meditation, and women’s spiritual support groups. As a sacred sexuality practitioner, along with her teaching and spiritual partner Steve Karuna Maitri, she is committed to helping expand people’s awareness of the powerful therapeutic benefits and joys of sacred spanking.

Rev. Jenellen Fischer along with Steve offer group workshops, private instruction, and personal sessions in New York City and Washington, DC to individuals and couples who wish to learn more about or experience Sacred Spanking as a modality for stress release, transformational healing, and expanding loving relationships.

Go to www.SpankingForWellness.com for more info!

Discussion Panelist Sunday: The Dark Side of the Light: BDSM and Kink As Sacred Sexual Practices