Proud to Introduce More Facilitators

Dear Tantric beings,

Pride month has arrived… officially marking the start of the LGBTQ+ Summer! 😂

Ticket sales are going well, so we wanted to update you and let you know we have just 20 beds left! But don’t worry… We have affordable camping pitches available if you’d like to bring a tent, and we’re looking into some further Glamping/ camping options if you’d like a set-up ready option!

As we enter into June, we’ve just enough time top spread the cost into 3 equal payments which some of you may find helpful…

In this update, we’re excited to introduce two more of our wonderful UK-based facilitators: Tal & Stuart Waters. With more awesome heart-led energy to the Festival, with creative workshops which include dance, writing and movement. Their ability to hold inclusive spaces and representation of our queer, trans and neuro-spicy brothers is going to bring something truly beautiful to the Festival experience.

If you’ve been thinking about joining us but would like to know more, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We’re always happy to answer questions, connect personally, and help you feel into whether this experience is right for you.

Think intimacy. Think play. Think edge. Think conscious connection.

For The Love Festival booking page go directly to: The Love Festival UK. And please follow us on Instagram and share our posts!

Sending you all heartfelt love,

Joey & Richie

P.S. And before we all arrive together in Glastonbury next summer, don’t forget Richie and Joey are hosting a special one-off Tantra Conscious Kink Taster evening this June at Anatomie London — home of queer Shibari and kink. This playful, consent-led evening is designed for everyone from the tantra-curious to the more experienced explorer looking for connection, edge, intimacy, and conscious play.

And finally — if you’re feeling excited about what we’re creating, please help us spread the word. Share this newsletter with friends and communities who might resonate, follow The Love Festival on Instagram, repost or retweet our content, and help us grow this beautiful movement of connection, play, presence, and queer joy.

Based in Devon, Tal writes gay supernatural fantasy with erotic, sex-positive flavours: think lust demons, hot demon hunters and cum-guzzling ghosts, managing all-too-human problems. With an epic five-book Scottish series and a standalone London ghost romance to his name so far, he writes from a gay, trans perspective, exploring consent, authenticity, outsidership and resistance.

Threaded through are the messages that pleasure is our divine right, and that, however separate we may feel, we walk this strange and wonderful human life together.

Tal's books, begun during the pandemic to manage the isolation of blood cancer, have won various awards, including the Paranormal Romance Guild's Reviewer's Choice Awards for LGBT+ Fantasy Mystery Series (2023), LGBT+ Erotica Series (2024) & LGBT+ Erotica book (2024). He's a single parent and an earnest devotee of pleasure, research and tea.

Stuart Waters is a dance artist, teacher, creative consultant and coach. He’s spent over 25 years working across the contemporary dance theatre world, performing, teaching and touring across the UK, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Colombia, India, Thailand, Ethiopia and Tanzania.

In the past decade, Stuart has been creating his own work, shaping a distinctive artistic voice rooted in his lived experience as a queer, intersectional human. Alongside this, he’s developed a creative consultancy practice that centres inclusion that focuses on disability, neurodivergence, mental health and queer perspectives. www.head-on.co.uk

At the heart of Stuart’s initiatives, whether that’s making perfromance works, teaching/training or coaching, Stuart holds a commitment to radical inclusion, care and play. He loves creating spaces where people can explore new perspectives, connect to their bodies, and experience storytelling through movement in ways that feel open, accessible and alive.

The Love Festival - Playful. Powerful…
A little bit magical.

29 August – 2 September 2026 Earth Spirit Centre, near Glastonbury, UK

Conscious Tantric Kink Workshop - London

Sunday 7 June 2026, 6pm - 9pm

Anatomie Studio, Arch 113 / Unit 17 Station Passage, SE15 2JR, London

Join Richie & Joey (and a host of kinky queers) at Anatomie Studio London for an evening of hands-on, facilitated exploration blending tantra, consent, intimacy, and conscious play. Expect connection, breath, touch, and just the right amount of spice… think Shibari, playful kink, light impact play, and deliciously charged energy.

This is a good way to meet other men interested in tantra and The Love Festival in a safe, sex and kink positive space.

Cost: £ 49

Booking on OutSavvy: Conscious Tantric Kink Workshop Tickets | 07 Jun @ Anatomie Studio London, London | £49 | OutSavvy