The Intimacy Training 2026

Susanne is devoted to helping her clients heal and release trauma – to experience safety, freedom, love and compassion; to challenge and create boundaries; to come home to oneself. She has an incredibly diverse educational background, which she brings to her equally varied offerings as a healer and therapist.

From her work as a psychotherapist and body-oriented trauma therapist, to her medical background as a midwife for more than two decades, Susanne is a deep well of knowledge and experience-based wisdom.

With her passion for working holistically with the body, mind and spirit, Susanne is the creator and founder of The Gaia Method, a body-oriented modality developed over 30 years of practice in experimental bodywork therapy. Visit Susanne’s website to learn more: https://www.the-gaia-method.com/

“Our deeper aim is to help you connect to your essence. To consciously be able to create in life, manifest and express yourself.”

Triambaka’s path has taken her on a long, pioneering journey that has ultimately led her to become one of today’s leading voices in a new era of awakened sexual consciousness. From tantric pilgrimages through the ashrams of India, to shamanic ceremonies in the jungles of South America, she has dedicated her life to cultivating the capacity to serve as a transformational catalyst and guide for awakening, healing, sexual empowerment, and wholeness.

Triambaka’s work has brought her to global stages, exclusive destination resorts, and on to Playboy television as a sex and relationship expert. She is a lead facilitator and co-founding member of ISTA, the International School of Temple Arts, offering paramount trainings for sexual healing practitioners throughout Europe, North & South America, Middle East, and Australia.

Having worked with thousands of students and clients all around the world, she is incredibly grateful to have the privilege of supporting men, women, and couples to expand into their fullest, joyful expression of sexuality, intimacy, and life.

Visit Triambaka’s Website: https://www.triambikamavive.com/about

David Cates has devoted 40 years of his adult life to exploring sex, intimacy and connection. He travels the world as a deeply respected tantra teacher, sexual healer, mentor and beloved elder. His recent explorations involve using tantric embodiment practices to create synchronized group heart fields. He created the Belly2Belly practice so random strangers can move together into a palpable shared experience of trust and loving connection. David is committed to showing men and women how to tap into the power sources in our own bodies and give birth to new realities.

Janine Ma-Ree has a passion for the feminine mysteries, the holy dark and the path of the mystic.

She offers Shamanic Womb Journeys, Immersion days, private sessions, facilitates as lead faculty at International School of Temple Arts. She also offers other workshops as they emerge. Janine draws on over 25 years experience in wholistic health as a practitioner, presenter and facilitator as well as the many mentors, guides, teachers and experiences that she has been gifted on her life’s path.

Christian Pankhurst is a world-leading authority on heart-centered communication and heart-intelligent relationships. He is the creator and founder of Heart IQ™, a revolutionary new language of the Heart designed to help individuals, couples, families and communities reconnect and heal at the deepest levels possible. ‍ In 2009, he was awarded the title of “Britain’s Next Top Coach” after winning a national coaching competition with a majority of votes from ninety-two countries. Following this success, Christian opened the Heart IQ™ Academy in 2011, creating a professional training organization that has certified over 300 personal and small group coaches as well as large event facilitators in over twenty-five countries around the world. ‍

In July 2004 Felix conceived and curated the first edition of the xplore Festival which took place at Dock 11 in Berlin. Since then every year in July the festival gathers a large number of international presenters and some hundred artists, BDSM–folks and other free spirits, who come together for workshops, lectures and talks on creative sexuality, BDSM and Tantra. xplore can be categorized as Social Choreography and promotes an Ars Erotica in the sense of Foucault’s writing. In March 2007, Felix Ruckert opened his own venue in Berlin: schwelle7, dedicated to participatory work and experimental body practices. He curated, created, taught, performed and lived there until May, 2016. Besides its focus on Dance and Body Art, schwelle7 also proposed workshops dedicated to practical and technical aspects of SM-Play, looking into theoretical, esthetic or philosophical issues related to BDSM.

A native New Zealander with a global heart, Rex Rafiq has been leading transformational programmes with men and women for 25 years. Founder of Essentially Men, the ground breaking mens work of Aotearoa New Zealand, co-founder of the Heart Politics Gatherings and author of Fatherless Sons (Harper Collins) and On Their Own (Finch) he is trained in group work, psychodrama, expressive therapies, co counselling and has a masters in Social Ecology. His experience has been honed from working extensively with groups in all kinds of settings from the wilderness to corporations, prisons to ashrams, and anywhere in the community people are showing up for wisdom.

Former actor and producer-turned-sex and relationship educator/media personality, Reid Mihalko has been called "America's favorite sex geek," and helps adults and college students create more self-esteem, self-confidence, and greater health and accountability in their relationships and sex lives using an inspiring mixture of humor, personal stories, keen insight, and comprehensive sexual health information.

Godfrey’s pioneering journey into the roots of human experience is grounded in a lifetime of somatic practice that began when he was 16 years old. Unintimidated by the ideologies and hierarchies of tradition he has been developing methodologies of Somatic Intimacy for over 40 years. His groundbreaking work makes available the full power of human intelligence by way of the pleasure nature of the body and Consciousness. His teaching is as direct as it is potent, simple as it is profound. At its core is a dynamic understanding of human nature in all of its richness and power. His powerful somatic methodologies, each in their different ways, dissolve and digest the left-over traces of unresolved past experience that damagingly distort the free flow of natural intelligence.