ABOUT

the Holy Eros Institute

If Holy Eros were on a dating app, the bio would sound something like this: 

We believe that intimacy has the power to change lives, and we are on a mission to make that power work for us.  

We envision a world where the sacred nature of love, sensual expression, and intimate connection is amplified and valued. Where each of us honors our inherent interconnectedness with each other and the divine lover within. Where we know that while love is the fabric of the universe, making intimacy work in real life takes practice. 

Holy Eros Institute is a place to gain new skills, heal past wounds, re-center intimacy as a sacred value, and meet like minded friends. Give us a shot – you might just find what you’re looking for. 

What We Stand For 

Holy Eros is about healing in community

Self-work is important, but we can only heal our relationship issues in relationship. This is why Holy Eros brings together top teachers in the field of intimacy, love, and relationships alongside seekers who want to deepen their skills in how to relate better. 

Holy Eros is a laboratory for intimacy 

Everyone is capable of loving and being loved. It just takes some practice. 

Few of us have multiple positive examples of healthy relationships. What fills that place is a library of dating horror stories, startling statistics about love and marriage, and misguided beliefs that we can be happy forever if we find “the one.” 

But positive relationships are possible. Getting there requires us to play, practice, and learn. It asks us to reimagine intimacy, not as a one-size-fits-all model, but developing a form that reflects the deepest desires in our souls.

Holy Eros is place to heal what hurts about relationships and celebrate what’s working

Just as we all carry the capacity for love, we also carry the capacity to be hurt by love.

While it’s easy to shut down or become cynical, the turning point is when we see that all of our experiences – positive or negative – can help us grow. 

Love is simple, but not always easy. This is what leads us to overthink love, to act on impulse, confuse sex with intimacy (or deny its power to create intimate bonds), or repeat patterns that don’t serve us. 

In the same way you might commit to a workout regiment, you can build the muscles in your heart (and other parts) to have the relationship of your dreams.

Holy Eros is a place to focus on relationships (even if you’re not in one)

Rather than trying to swipe your way to deeper intimacy, imagine if you focused on building your skills in connection, conflict resolution, sexuality, and embodiment. And by doing it with other people committed to the same, you might just find what you’ve been looking for all along. 


We aren’t promising that you will find the love of your life here, but our goal is to help you find the love in your life. 

OUR VISION

Through the transformative power of intimacy, sensuality, and the arts, we aim to elevate and amplify the sacred nature of love.  

Our ultimate goal is to foster a paradigm shift in the value we as a society hold for love, sex, and relationships by creating sacred spaces where art, ritual, and healing meet. 

We believe that through immersive experiences in community, we can learn to communicate with our bodies, honor our desires, and gain skills for meaningful connection with ourselves and others. In doing so, we can begin to honor our inherent interconnectedness with each other and find the divine lover within.   

OUR MISSION

MISSION

Through immersive erotic theatre, temple arts practitioner trainings, and transformative communities, we aim to create a culture of sensual exploration, intimacy education, and relational healing.   

Our events are centered around transformative rituals and sensual artistic expression. By taking part in Holy Eros Institute experiences, individuals will gain skills to heal past wounds, re-center intimacy as a sacred value in their lives, and meet like minded people and allies.

OUR VALUES

  • Cultivating inner safety while pushing edges. We believe that feeling safe is an individual experience that changes from moment to moment. We honor the dual process of moving at the pace of one’s own nervous system and also pushing edges in responsible ways.  

  • Healing can be fun. Healing doesn’t need to feel like work. Through pleasure we grow faster and go deeper. The realm of the erotic offers a playspace for learning and growth that can benefit all adults.   

  • Sensuality and sexuality are sacred. We center intimacy – both physical and emotional – as a way to honor our interconnectedness. By removing the compartmentalization of sexuality from healing work, we overcome purity culture and remove shame from these normal human experiences. 

  • Each person is responsible for finding their own moral compass and honoring others in their search. Maintaining a foundation of ethics is an important consideration for any person engaged in sexual/erotic exploration. These conversations around consent, desires, and limits should be flexible and constantly evolving.  

  • Shame is the greatest barrier that prevents meaningful sexual expression, and its removal comes from directly addressing the root. Not talking about desires or shaming ourselves or others for their yeses or nos creates isolation. When we expose shame to the light, it loses its stranglehold over us.   

  • Relational healing is at the root of individual healing. Any wounds that we receive are the result of relationships. While personal healing of one’s part in a dynamic is vital, the healing will only happen in relationship to another, whether platonic, romantic, or sexual.  We believe cultivating communities focused around relational healing releases the pressure we place on primary relationships to carry all the weight for our personal growth and healing.