Welcome to
SUMMER SECRETS
Friday, 8 pm
OPENING PLAY
Workshop by Joris, Anja & Claudia
We start into this weekend by connecting with ourselves and others, and refresh our consent skills in a fun, juicy way.
How do you really like to touch and be touched?
What are your body and senses longing for?
How do we create lush abundance together?
With this sensual and playful transition we get our minds and bodies ready to dive into a weekend of pleasure.
90 minutes
Joris Kern explores both con-sensuality and sexuality for a long time already. Since 2009, Joris gives workshops on topics related to consensual sexuality, but also works as a mediator and coach, has explored and learned about different body work styles, contact improvisation, acting, solution focussed therapy in the context of trauma and has written two books on con-sensuality as a mindset.
.Joris loves creating spaces in which people feel they can be themselves and loves seeing people grow and blossom.
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Saturday, 10-11 am
MOVEMENT CLASS
Workshop by Claudia Löwen
Wake Up & Tune In – Movement Ritual
A gentle, playful start to the day.
Through humming, purring, shaking, stretching, free movement and mindful touch, we awaken our bodies, senses and nervous systems. Inspired by Tantra, Somatics and Conscious Kink, we explore presence, vitality and the joy of connection – with ourselves and with one another.
60 minutes
Claudia is a body therapist ,specialised in Tantra, Shiatsu, Somatics and Conscious Kink, and for more than 14 years she has been supporting people in getting to know and love themselves, their relationships and their incredible potential a little more deeply.
As well as working with individuals, couples and creative relationship networks, she also offers encounters with horses and horse-led journeys.
She looks forward to exploring, growing, playing and discovering the many facets of connection together with you at the festival.
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CLAUDIA LÖWEN
Saturday, 12-1.30 pm
ART OF SURRENDER
Workshop by Julius (Helsinki)
In this workshop, we explore surrender through somatic practices with subtle elements of BDSM. The workshop focuses on embodied presence, interaction, and the dynamics of power exchange. We approach surrender primarily as a bodily state – the ability to listen to the body, the breath, and the nervous system’s responses in the moment. Through breath, weight, touch, and movement, we explore pathways toward deeper bodily awareness and experiences of surrender.
Workshop content:
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Giving and receiving weight
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Movement manipulation and being moved by another
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How breath, touch, and movement can support letting go of control
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Bodily expressions of resistance, tension, and softening
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Negotiation, consent, and boundaries
The exercises are done individually, in pairs, and in small groups. The workshop focuses on somatic exploration, connection, and the subtle shift when control begins to soften and the body allows itself to be held, moved, or guided.
Please bring comfortable clothes suitable for movement.
90 minutes
Julius Elo (they/them) is a performance artist based in Helsinki. They create performance concepts and participatory works in which the audience is placed at the core of the experience in various ways. Julius is one of the founders of Reality Research Center, Wonderlust Festival, and Helsinki Shibari Collective. They has been working with BDSM practices and communities for over 15 years in Helsinki and Berlin.
Saturday, 2-2.30 pm
FRUITS OF LIFE
Dance Performance by delta® & Julia
Duration: 30 minutes
We are born, we live, and we die.
These three stages of existence are inextricably interwoven—even if we remain unaware of it.
Every life is born to unfold and to bear new fruit before it passes away. How profoundly are we all—is every individual—gifted with this cycle; yet how profoundly, too, are we challenged by it—particularly in old age.
In *Fruits of Life @ Anthropocene*, we engage with fierce intensity with the all-encompassing principle of "Die and Become." We explore its entire spectrum: from the monumental to the loving, to the tender.
How does the individual experience this process—and how does humanity as a whole?
We oscillate between grotesque denial and radical honesty.
We wrestle with the interplay of closeness and distance.
We dance within this wondrous force field known as "Life."
Saturday, 3-6 pm
KINKY FLOW
Massage Workshop by
Anja, Jana & Stefano (Berlin & Rome)
KINKY FLOW is the kinky, spiced up sister of a sensual massage ritual. The perfect mix of soft and
rough, pleasure and pain, combined to create a special sensual experience.
It fuses touch elements of Lomi Lomi full body massage with warm oil, tantra massage, impact and domination play. In other words this is the sub paradise!
A combination of comfort, trust & adventure.
This workshop is for newcomers, for the brave and for the shy. No previous experience is necessary!
You will learn to expand your fantasies on a massage table. Our approach is playful, creative and intuitive, based on trust and consent. Our rich experience gives you impulses on how to find a YES to your power, intimacy and self empowering with joy and curiosity.
Please bring a lunghi/sarong, a large towel and your massage oil with you.
3 hours
ANJA & JANA GORALSKI
are sisters, body-and trauma therapists and - together with Stefano - the creative minds behind Kinky Flow. They are also the founders of Lomi Ausbildung Berlin. For many years, they have been teaching touch & sensuality, embodiment, communication, dominance and surrender, while facilitating workshops at festivals, retreats and events within the international kink community. With humour, warmth and a deep love for playful exploration, they create spaces where touch, kink, connection and curiosity can meet.
Whether you are completely new to this world or already experienced, they invite you to discover new possibilities of pleasure, connection and play — always at your own pace.
STEFANO TAIUTI
is a bodyworker, Lomi practitioner, movement teacher and Butoh performer. With a background in dance, mime and performance arts, he has been researching movement, embodiment and human expression for more than three decades. Japanese Butoh dance has been a central influence in his work since the 1990s, alongside a wide range of practices including contemporary dance, contact improvisation, qigong, tai chi and capoeira.
As a long-time facilitator within the sex-positive and kink community, Stefano brings a rare combination of sensitivity, creativity and experience to Kinky Flow. His work invites people to explore touch, power, presence and play in ways that are both adventurous and grounded.
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KINKY FLOW
Saturday, 8 pm
PLAY PARTY
Katrine Bregnum will play a live sound set during one of the play nights.
Her sonic work unfolds as sensual, layered electronic soundscapes combined with live vocals.
Her performance is shaped in the moment, inviting the audience to step in,
interact, and co-create the sound. Those who wish can join her in play,
becoming part of an evolving, collective composition.
Saturday, at midnight
Our circle performance is a playful journey through power, submission and self-love — told through one-wheel artistry, live music and a consciously held circle. Sensual, bold and intimate, our performance invites the audience into a world where strength meets surrender and connection becomes celebration.
30 minutesYolenn is a performer and artistic dancer whose practice with the single wheel began in 1999. Moving between power and vulnerability, purity and play, she creates poetic and intimate performances that open a timeless space for presence, authenticity and deep connection.
Polina is a singer, music producer, actress and performer exploring how sound, music and improvisation can transform spaces and foster connection. Through layered vocals and soundscapes, she creates immersive atmospheres that invite depth, vulnerability, play and presence.
Further information:
YOLENN
CIRCLE PERFORMANCE
by Yolenn & Polina
Sunday, 10 am
MORNING MOVEMENT & DANCE JOURNEY
Workshop by KAT
At the SUMMER SECRETS festival, Katrine will offer a somatic movement class guiding participants into a deeper relationship with their own body. Through improvisational tasks, imaginative exercises, and principles of authentic movement, the practice opens space for pleasure, fluidity, and playfulness. At the same time, it activates the body physically, raising the pulse and building stamina and flexibility.
60 minutes
Katrine Bregnum multidisciplinary artist oscillating between movement and sound. She is a Graduate from the Performing Art school "Performers house" Denmark and the school for Contemporary Dance "Die Etage" Berlin.
She has been part of several productions from Lenka vueknrva, Yeri Anaria, Chaim Gebber amongst others. As a sound-artist Kat has been working and touring with her solo project, aswell as cross disciplinary for dance, installations and A/V productions.
Since 10 years she has been presenting both as a mover and sound artist in s+ positive and tantric festivals, institutions and spaces.
Her main interest as a creator roots in improvisation and instant composition. To be right in the vulnerable curiosity, letting go of any prejudices ideas and control of any outcome. Her most recent research and practice "Becoming animal" is a practice of letting go. Not to become less. But to give space for more of what is not the pre-programmed concepts of our identity and „reality".
Katrine Bregnum is a contemporary dance and sound artist.
Sunday, 12.30-2 pm
OUCH… YES!
In case of pain: Dance with it!
Workshop by delta® & Julia
PAIN IS MY GAIN.
Physical pain: I know it.
Pain in the soul: I know it.
Consciously using both as allies—right?!
Pain is uncomfortable.
"Ouch" is a simple yet brilliant message: Change is needed.
Let's use that, let's dance with it!
A kinky workshop all about feeling, moving, witnessing,
and letting go.
Goals: Becoming familiar with your own unique channel for experiencing pain, Consciously and non-judgmentally connecting physical and emotional pain, as well as pain and movement and Kinky practice: playing with self-determined pain with loving care.
90 minutes
Julia lives in Berlin – polyamorous, pansexual – and works as a speech therapist. The body as a communicator has always fascinated her. She acts this out as art since 2014: in playfighting and since 2019 in workshops and performances together with Delta RA`I and other artists. Her art addresses physicality in pleasure and pain, being human in relationships, authenticity, sexuality.
delta RA’i is a dance performer and choreographer. He is a Butoh dancer and a co-founder—alongside Minako Seki and Yumiko Yoshioka—of the first German-Japanese dance company, Tatoeba-THÉÂTRE DANSE GROTESQUE. He also performs in a wide variety of interactive dance pieces, including collaborations with Felix Ruckert. In his kinky performances and workshops, the central focus is the spirituality underlying BDSM as a form of erotic play. These works blend artistic expression and loving devotion with the evocation of an intense sensation of "pleasure-pain" for the body, culminating in a liberating catharsis for the soul.
Sunday, 3-4.30 pm
DANCING with the Whip!
Workshop by Vesna (Berlin)
Fancy a dance? And perhaps letting someone else dance under your whip for a change?
Vesna invites you to take part in an experiment where she combines her love of dance with her passion for impact play with whips, offering you the chance to experience what it might feel like when your whip (flogger, riding crop, paddle, etc.) gradually becomes part of your body, perhaps even as you whip whilst dancing – or make your partner dance along with you.
Depending on your experience – whether you’re a complete beginner, or have experience with dance, impact play, or both – there’s plenty of opportunity to try out all sorts of new things, and you might just discover a fantastic new form of play and dance that suits you.
There will be space for mindful experimentation as well as for exuberant play – entirely according to your current and individual needs. A specially curated selection of very diverse music will accompany us on this journey – and at times even guide us – allowing us to experience a wide range of energy states, emotional landscapes and qualities.
90 minutes
Vesna is like the Slavic goddess of spring, whose name she was given several decades ago, She loves the green, blossoming vitality and also the playful lightness in which, quite unexpectedly, there can sometimes lie a deep, mischievous wisdom. Her meandering path has taken her, over the years, through a wandering exploration of philosophy, astrology, psychology, art and other cultural studies, whilst at the same time always leading to a passionate love of movement through various forms of dance, martial arts, BDSM... Ultimately, it’s also about constantly forging new connections between everything that moves, inspires and fascinates her about people and the world. In all of this, through joy as well as pain, the most liberating discovery is that of all the different and diverse ways in which she can be, embody and live. Helping to foster this sense of liberation in others is something that is very important to her.
Sunday, 5-6 pm
CLOSING CIRCLE
As we close the SUMMER SECRETS festival with circle, may we carry the connection, joy, and inspiration we've shared here into the world beyond this festival.
Thank you for bringing your energy, presence, and unique spirit to this gathering.
May our paths cross again, and until then, travel safely and keep the magic alive.
60 minutes
Sunday, 6.30 pm
FINAL DINNER
As we share this final meal together, we celebrate three unforgettable days of connection, creativity, and discovery at SUMMER SECRETS festival.
Thank you for the laughter, conversations, and moments that turned strangers into friends and memories into stories. May the spirit of these days stay with us long after tonight, until we meet again.
