Awaken Sensuality Retreat

Event forEveryone

DateSat, Aug 8

FormatIn person

LocationD'Arcy

Awaken is a week-long intimate outdoor gathering featuring facilitated workshops and experiences to support us in embodying, connecting, and expressing our deepest desires. Though embodied connection to ourselves and others we seek to unlock our deepest levels of self-expression, held by a community and a culture that thrives on our authenticity and vulnerability.

Dates: August 8-15, 2026

Location: Private Location 1 hr north of Pemberton, BC

Pricing: CAD $1000 (Early Bird), CAD $1250 (Regular)

Meal Plan: $525 (vegetarian), $600 (with meat + wild fish)

🌷Imagine being part of a community where your authentic expression of your sexuality was welcomed and celebrated, rather than shamed or repressed.

🌷Imagine being part of a culture where your peers helped and supported you work through your fears and limiting beliefs, so you could express yourself fully and fulfill your desires.

🌷Imagine a place where your authentic communication and action with your eros supports trust amongst your community rather than creating jealousy or division.

Awaken is a one week, facilitated immersive experience where you can re-discover yourself in a community that embodies these values.

🌲 The Location:

Awaken will take place at a 120 acre waterfront off-grid community north of Pemberton, BC. The setting is private and wild, surrounded by crown land and situated on a beautiful lake.

The property features a few buildings for shared activities, a wood fired sauna on a lakefront beach, an outdoor kitchen, composting toilets, an outdoor solar shower, and spaces designed for connection, pleasure, and integration. Accommodations will be camping in a heritage apple orchard setting, with the option to upgrade to a luxury furnished bell tent.

🌲 This might be for you if you are:

Wanting to awaken your innate eroticism that we often bury under layers of social conditioning, judgment, and shame.
Wanting to experience a more free and open way of being in a safe and guided container.
Seeking to explore your desires outdoors in a wild and beautiful place.
Wanting to practice more authentic and honest ways to connect with others.
Curious what is possible for your self-expression in a community of open-minded people.
Looking to meet like-minded people through vulnerable and playful exploration.

🌲 Some of this year's highlights are:

•Eco-Sensuality Workshop

•The Art of Body Worship

•Shibari Performance with Plants

•Empowered Play Workshop

•Temple Nights

•Erotic Ritual Theatre Performance

•Sensual Thai Yoga

....and many more yummy workshops and experiences!

🌲What makes Awaken Sensuality unique:

•It's a week-long immersion - this allows for slooowness and nervous system attunement as we navigate intimacy and connection in a wide range of experiences throughout the week

•Awaken primarily takes place outdoors on a very magical off-grid property nestled between mountains with private lake access - we really are living in close connection with the land

•Awaken is a sober event - no alcohol or recreational drugs permitted

•Awaken fosters a culture of truth, transparency and openness

•We have a private lakeside cedar sauna!!!

Find all the event details including how to apply on our website:

https://awakenevent.org

Apply Here:

https://tinyurl.com/mppun8u

Take our Quiz: Is Awaken Calling You?

https://xnxetpms.formester.com/f/8lxWwwMUa

How it works

1Once you click I am interested, AwakenSensuality will be notified by email
2You will be contacted to set up a date and time and let you know how to pay, if applicable
3Please email us at [email protected] if you have any questions or issues with your booking
✦Enjoy your experience!

Frequently asked questions

This is an experience that will allow you to participate in sexuality to the extent you are comfortable, within the bounds of enthusiastic consent. It is best described as a week-long facilitated sex-positive community.

We will be requesting attendees to go for an STI screening close to the event, and to disclose relevant health information when needed. More details in the application form and sent out to accepted participants.

We view consent as an ongoing collaboration between two or more people in constant verbal, physical, and emotional dialogue about what each of them needs in order to willingly, safely, and pleasurably engage in an interaction together. Our first workshop during the event is mandatory for all participants to attend and will delve deeper into consent in a thorough but fun and engaging way, and is inspired by Betty Martin’s Wheel of Consent work.

Awaken will be a substance free event. Substances like alcohol, marijuana, and other recreational drugs can impact a person’s ability to give and perceive consent. If a person is so altered that their ability to give and perceive consent is called into question, they may be denied entry to or asked to leave the event.

We are committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment welcome to adults of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, relationship orientations, races, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, and abilities. We strive to provide an atmosphere that fosters a sense of community and connection, where individuals can feel empowered to express themselves authentically and explore their sexuality within the limits of informed and enthusiastic consent. We are committed to listening to feedback to continuously improve. While we strive to create an inclusive environment, our experience has been that primarily people of heterosexual or bisexual orientations tend to attend our events in the past so if you identify with another sexual orientation please check with us first to ensure that we will be able to meet your expectations for the type of experience you are hoping for.