GROUNDED.

This workshop focuses on helping you establish a deep connection with your body and the present moment.

Through a series of body oriented 
exercises and meditative practices, as a participant you’ll learn to come ‘home’ to yourself, your body and your breath. The movement practices, combined with your breath and voice, will help you to release tensions and find a natural sense of stability and clarity. You’ll experience the feeling of standing strong and feeling centered and calm. This workshop is ideal for those seeking to enhance their mindfulness and emotional resilience. 

Grounding is a state of being but also a refreshing practice that can be deepened when exercised regularly.

Come home to the place where overthinking is not an issue and where you can feel sensitive but at the same time present and strong in your body!

This workshop includes a lot of bodywork:
bio-energetics, shaking, breathing, sounding and movement exercises.

SCHEDULE
09.45 Door open
10.00 Grounding session
12.30 Lunch Break (bring your own lunch)
13.15 Grounding session
16.00 End  & Goodbyes

Participation fee:

   - Regular Bird:
€ 115,- (incl. 21% VAT)
- Early Birds sign up before 23 March 2026: € 105,- (incl. 21% VAT)
- Bring a friend and you both pay: € 105,- (incl. 21% VAT)

Facilitators:
Tessa Curti-Nagtegaal & Somesh Valentino Curti

✨ New to our workshops? ✨
You might feel curious and a little nervous about joining a workshop that includes movement, voice, and emotion. That’s completely okay.
We create a safe and joyful space where you can reconnect with your body, express what’s been held inside, and feel more present and alive.
You don’t need to be experienced. You don’t need to talk much, use your voice or scream (yes, it's welcome during our workshops) if you don’t want to. Just bring yourself, as you are.

More information and sign up here:

https://emotional-release-workshops.com/grounded-workshop/

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On Sunday,
June 14, we gather again at Temple of Remembering. A sacred, playful and emergent temple space to connect deeper, and to explore your desires, boundaries, eros, pleasure and deeper rememberance through the portals of our heart and the sacred life force energy.

This journey moves into Eros the living pulse of life force that has always been within us.
Here, eros is not limited to sexuality. It is the subtle current of aliveness moving through the whole body, the heart, the senses, the breath, the skin, the nervous system, and the unseen layers of our being. It is the quiet flame that animates us, inspires creation, awakens pleasure, and connects us to ourselves, each other, and the wider field of life, the source.

Beneath all conditioning,
our Eros is innocent. It is the natural movement of life wanting to feel itself. A playful current. A soft curiosity. The openness of the heart, the body, the senses.

We slow down.
We return. We remember body as the first temple.

Inspired by Tantric practices and ancient Taoist wisdom of working with life force energy in its Yin & Yang forms,
this journey will guide us to awaken, feel, and circulate the subtle currents of eros with intention. We begin anchored in the body and heart, cultivating safety, relaxation, and trust. Through meditation, gentle movement, emotional release, subtle energy awareness, conscious connection rituals, playful exploration with the gentle support of a Blue Lotus Tea Ceremony, we awaken and celebrate the quiet whispers of this sacred life force. 

Join us 🔥:
https://hipsy.nl/event/200508-temple-of-remembering-the-quiet-eros-tantric-gathering-amsterdam

✨OUR INTENTION:

This portal is gently inspired by traditions that have touched and guided us deeply,
including Tantra, Taoism, and the wisdom of the heart. These rituals are carried with reverence as a way of honoring timeless pathways that guide us toward softness, truth, presence, and embodied remembrance.

As summer begins to bloom,
we first open ourselves to the gentle fire within before moving outward: the part of us that longs to move freely, connect authentically and innocently, play, be touched by beauty, and remember the natural sensual aliveness within each one of our body.

And slowly,
what first feels quiet may become alive. As it rises, the energy can move beyond the individual, flowing into the wider field and connecting to source as a living prayer.

We gather as we are:
tired, curious, longing, tender, joyful, open, uncertain, devoted, alive. Men, women, singles, partners, lovers, and fellow human travellers are invited to co-create a space where nothing needs to be performed or perfected.

✨THE FLOW:

The first part is building a safe container,
followed by workshop and exercises. We will move through embodied practices that invite the heart to open and life force eros to begin moving. We will explore yes and no, consent and compassion, inner sensing and outer connection. We will guide you into the body as the first temple and the heart as a living portal, inviting the subtle currents of eros to be felt from within. Through breath, presence, and energetic awareness, we may begin to experience the heart not only as an emotional center, but as a radiant source of pleasure, vitality, and connection. 

From there,
the journey opens into a Sacred Eros Ritual with silence, touch, play, devotion, recognition, passion, surrender and celebration of simply being alive.

Later, the night will open into a spacious free-flow temple field where connection, intimacy, presence, sensuality, and stillness can unfold naturally, guided by your heart desires, your eros, your consent. We will be able to practice what we have explored and freely connect within the shared agreements.

At the end,
we will close the night together intentionally.

✨ THIS IS FOR:

This is not a space for only seeking new highs or chasing another intense experience.
We are inviting a different kind of ecstasy: a return to the pulse beneath all movement, the stillness that breathes, and the orgasmic nature of eros as a portal to deeper connection.

No prior temple or tantric experience is required.
This is a space to explore in your own way, at your own pace. You are welcome wherever you are: with your longing, curiosity, vulnerability, truth, joy, and willingness to listen to the quiet whisper of what wants to be moved and remembered through.

Sexual energy and eros are welcome here as sacred life force,
not as performance, pressure, or goal. The group boundary is no penetration in this temple. Together, we explore the many ways eros can move as pleasure, aliveness, creativity, intimacy, tenderness, manifestation, and embodied truth.

If you long to explore and reclaim eros and sexual energy as part of your birthright,
at your own pace, in safety, gentleness, realness, and heart-connected presence, this space is for you.

If you long to feel met and held in a field of innocence,
human warmth, sensual aliveness, and something greater than yourself that guides you home into remembering who you truly are...

Then this is for you.

✨ PRACTICALITIES:

- Location:
Temple of Happiness, Amsterdam
- Time: 15:00
- 23.00
CET, Sunday, June 14, 2026
- The door opens from 14.30
CET, we will start the opening at 15.00
.
Please arrive earlier or on time, as we will close the door once we start ON TIME.

Please bring a potluck dinner dish for yourself and to share with others.

- TICKETS OPTIONS

Early Bird:
88€ (sold out)
Normal Bird: 108€ (until June 4)
Late Bird: 128 € 
Duo/2 Female Bodies: 140€
Duo/Partners (at least 1 female): 160€

✨ REGISTRATION PROCESS:

Spaces are limited!
To secure your place, purchase a ticket and complete a brief registration: https://forms.gle/48TszqMxYrvRy8eq8 

Tickets are non-refundable.
If you can’t come, please give or re-sell your ticket to someone else (the other person must fill out the registration form). If there are any exceptional reasons that you can’t come, feel free to reach out.

For more details 
(e.g. prep, what to bring, the address…), you will receive a Welcome Email a few days before the event. 

✨ WHAT OTHERS HAVE EXPERIENCED:

"I’ve tried different events and temples in the past months and this was my favourite. Nice slow pace, space for depth, playfulness and sensuality. Very nice guidance. I also liked the vibe of the group a lot, it felt easy to relax and open up." - Anonymous

“Just amazing.
I've had the privilege and joy of attending two of Leila's temple night events, and the level of inclusion, respect and welcoming is unlike any others I've joined. For anyone wanting to experience group intimacy without an X rating, these temples are an excellent choice. Safety and consent is put first, and I was also blown away by the group's special care.’ - Peter

“My partner and I had a wonderful first experience as a couple at Leila's temple.
We really liked the exercises and the vibe. We felt safe and open to connect to ourselves, each other and others, and enjoyed the mix of spirituality, presence and playfulness. ” - Anonymous

“The workshops and temple felt near to my heart.
I loved the slow and in depth exercises which were all about genuine presence and connection to each other, ourselves, our bodies, our pain and our pleasures. The essence of what we are beyond our minds and evaluations, which I would call loving awareness, was profoundly sensed. ” - Anonymous

“What an intense sensation for my first temple.
I felt so free, so safe. So held. Truly a very special and sensual experience with these two beautiful women who are very powerful in their guidance.” - Sanne 

✨ YOUR GUIDES:

LEILA

Rooted in the East and living in the West for half of her life,
after a decade working in Business/Corporate, Leila Li decided to quit and have been committed to walking the path of remembrance a path of embodying the wholeness, where body, heart, and soul are reunited through presence and prayer, from where we can remember who we truly (and already) are. 

Deeply inspired by the ancient wisdom of the Tao 
(Way of Nature), Tantra and the Sufi Heart, she carries her own medicine of her medicine woman, deep feminine and tantric priestess- sharing her gifts in simple ways and in ritual spaces - in the way she transmits, touches, devotes, moves and holds spaces for fellow ‘travellers’ in their healing journeys with loving presence.

Her work is shaped by many years of extensive learning and facilitation from various ancient traditions and teachers,
and by her devotion to walking truthfully with Life as the Teacher. As a Tantra and Shamanic Practitioner, Bodyworker and Medicine Guide, she works with powerful Life Force Energy and and the Heart as the essence and as the portal. She has supported hundreds of clients to reconnect with their sexual energy and hearts, and regain their true power.

Explore more:
https://www.leilali.com

BLOSSOM 

BE is the founder of 
**Dark Blossom House of Transformations**, a sensual, body-based, trauma-informed ecosystem rooted in the threefold arc of **Awareness, Transformation, and Liberation**: excavating what has been hidden in the dark, bringing nourishment and the light of awareness to it, and allowing what was once buried to blossom into embodied freedom. 

With nearly 10 years in tantric-centered spaces,
she has supported and co-held close to 100 temple events, retreats, trainings, and festivals internationally. Her work is rooted in the remembrance that the body is the first temple and the heart is a living portal.

In this edition of Temple of Remembering,
Blossom brings her Dark Blossom lens into the field, inviting participants to experience eros not only as sexual energy, but as the sacred current of aliveness moving through the whole body, heart, senses, and soul.

PLUS 3-4 EXPERIENCED SPACE HOLDERS 

For any questions,
kindly email to email (welcome@leilali.com) or whatsapp Leila (+31 613596848)

With love,
Leila & Blossom

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Beleef opnieuw hoe levend je jezelf gaat voelen door te bewegen.
Hoe je dansend en makkelijk allerlei
spanningen uit je lichaam kunt laten verdwijnen.
En dat helemaal op jouw eigen manier.

Soms dans je samen, soms alleen.
Sommige dansen zijn sierlijk en rustig, andere zijn speels en vurig.
En je hoeft geen ‘danspasjes’ te kunnen; het gaat goed zoals het voor jou goed voelt.

En of je nu jong bent of juist ouder,
of je nou een soepel of een stram lichaam hebt,
Biodanza lukt je altijd! 

Kom en beleef het zelf!

Joanna Duregger begeleidt
elke woensdag-avond de groep
en je kunt elk moment instappen! 

Informatie en aanmelden:
Locatie:    Tempel voor Happiness , Condensatorweg 36, 1014 AV, Amsterdam (privé-ingang direct om de hoek aan de zijkant van het gebouw op de Isolatorweg 2 paarse deuren na ong. 30 meter)

- Gratis parkeren vanaf 19.00 uur.
- ong. 10 minuten lopen vanaf metrostation Isolatorweg
- 14 min. lopen vanaf treinstation Sloterdijk 

Datum:  Elke week op woensdag
Inloop vanaf 19.10 uur
Aanvang:   19.30 uur 
Einde:       22.00 uur (ongeveer)

Kleding:
Neem kleding mee waarin je makkelijk kunt bewegen.
Comfort:    Voor water en thee wordt gezorgd.

Opgave:  Kom je voor ‘t eerst? 
- Bel Joanna (06 2192 4662) of 
- Stuur een berichtje via WhatsApp. 
- E-mailen kan ook: joannaduregger@gmail.com

Prijzen:
Proeflessen: 3x voor € 39,-
Los: € 20,-
Abonnement (5x): € 85,-

🌸 Temple of Love & Celebration

Tantric Energetic Lovemaking Workshop 
+ Temple Evening
Saturday June 20 - Amsterdam

You are warmly invited to a full-day journey into connection,
energy, and embodied presence.

This Temple is a combination of a guided workshop and a playful,
conscious evening space where you can explore and integrate what you’ve learned supported by an experienced team of spaceholders.

✨ What is Tantric Energetic Lovemaking?

Tantric energetic lovemaking is not about sex as an act.
It is about energy, awareness, and connection.

It is a practice of:

Coming deeply into your own body
Awakening and circulating life force energy
Meeting others from a place of presence and attunement
Moving beyond the mind and ego into a shared field of awareness

Through breathwork,
meditation, and connection exercises, you will learn how to:

Stay rooted in yourself while connecting with others
Feel energy in your body and beyond (your energetic field)
Open without losing yourself
Transform tension, numbness, or blockages into flow

This work can bring:

Deep relaxation
Increased vitality
Emotional release and healing
A sense of connection and expansion
🌿 The Flow of the Day

15:00 - Doors open / arrival
16:00 - Workshop begins (guided practices & exercises)
Evening - Temple space (free flow exploration)
23:00 - Closing circle (shared integration)
After closing - Co-creation: we clean up together

The evening Temple is the heart of the experience:
A carefully held space where you can move freely between:

Meditation spaces
Connection practices
Gentle touch & massage (with consent)
Playful areas (such as shibari or creative expression)
Rest, cuddling, or simply being

There will be light snacks and soup available 
(no full meal).

💫 What Makes This Temple Special?

This is not a random free-flow space.

You will be guided into:

Safety and grounding first
Clear boundaries and consent awareness
Subtle attunement instead of performance
Energy awareness instead of physical focus

You are supported by an experienced team of spaceholders throughout the entire journey.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Is this a sexual event?
No. This is not a sexual event.

We work with sexual energy,
but in a refined, conscious, and non-genital way.

What are the boundaries?
Underwear stays on
No genital touching
No penetration or sexual acts
No explicit sexual interaction

Touch is welcome only with clear consent and attunement.

What is allowed?
Eye contact
Breath connection
Conscious touch (non-genital)
Movement, dance, expression
Emotional release
Stillness and meditation
Cuddling (with consent)

Do I need experience with tantra?
No, but openness helps.

If you are completely new,
we recommend also joining one of the full-day tantra workshops offered regularly by Temple of Happiness.

This Temple includes a shorter workshop to help you enter the space safely and consciously.

Can I come alone?
Yes, absolutely.

Many people come alone.
Exercises are guided in a way that supports both individuals and connections.

What if I feel overwhelmed?

That’s completely okay.

You are always invited to:
Take space, Rest Observe instead of participate,

There is always support available from the team.

What should I bring?
Comfortable clothing
Something you feel beautiful / relaxed in
A water bottle
Your openness and curiosity
🌟 Call for Experienced Participants / Spaceholders

Are you already experienced with tantra and temple spaces?

You are warmly invited to join the space holding team.

In exchange, you receive:

Free access to this Temple
Participation in one of the three full-day courses (April, May, or June) as a participant

These course days are a beautiful way to deepen your practice and align with the field before the Temple in July.

✨ The earlier you apply,
the better so we can build a strong, attuned team together.

Feel free to reach out if you feel the call.

💌 About the Facilitator

This event is guided by Janine Vermeulen,
experienced tantra teacher and founder of Temple of Happiness.

With many years of experience in:
Tantra
Embodiment work (massage, Dance)
Breathwork & meditation
Group facilitation

She creates spaces that are deep,
safe, playful, and transformative.

🌸 Questions?

If you feel unsure or curious,
you are very welcome to reach out.

This space is about clarity,
consent, and trust and your questions are part of that.

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🕊️ BAREFOOT HAPPINESS 
- FINAL PARTY
Closing Celebration of Temple of Happiness
📅 Saturday June 27

After almost 10 years,
the time has come to close this chapter.
Temple of Happiness has been a place of dance, connection, growth and so many beautiful encounters.

And now… we gather one last time to celebrate,
to share, and to say goodbye.
With deep gratitude for everyone who has been part of this journey 💛

🌿 A final gathering
This is not just a party.
It’s a moment to:
- celebrate what we’ve created together
- reconnect with familiar faces
- share, dance, laugh and maybe feel a little of it all
And most of all to be together one more time in this space.

🍲 Program - June 27
18:00
- Potluck
Bring something delicious to share
19:30
- Opening & community moments
Cacao, short workshops, music or offerings
✨ You are invited to contribute a small workshop, performance or act
(send your idea to: janine@templeofhappiness.nl)

22:00
- Dancefloor opens
With DJs and a final night of dancing together
01:00
- Closing ceremony

🌿 A transition
From July 1, Temple of Happiness in this form will come to an end.
The space will be continued by Rakesh & Elfriede,
who will bring their own energy and vision after the summer.
And for me Janine a new phase begins,
with a focus on bodywork and massage.
You can find more here:
🔗 https://www.wildeziel.nl⁠�

🌿 One last time

This is your last chance to experience this space as it has been.
To dance here.
To connect here.
To feel what was created here.

With love,
gratitude and open arms,
Janine & the spaceholding team 💛

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