Embracing Your Eros
An Evening with the Authors
Join featured authors from the bestselling anthology Embracing Your Eros for an evening of storytelling, guided experiences, conversation, and community.
Together, we’ll explore themes of Eros through practices, stories, and experiences designed to deepen connection with self, others, and what makes us feel most alive.
Featured Experiences
🖤 Melisa Keenan (Publisher)
Bee Church
Storytelling, reflection, and ritual exploring Eros through the wisdom of bees, vitality, connection, and sacred relationship. Includes the sharing of honey as part of the experience.
🖤 Veenaa Saynana
Connection & Tantra-Inspired Puja
A guided experience including meditation, connection practices, movement, and community-building designed to support presence, connection, and deeper relationship with self and others.
🖤 Ayce Kyptyn
Healing Through Therapeutic Kink
Drawing from work in Erotic Blueprints, Bondassage, intimacy, healing, and identity, Ayce will guide an interactive experience exploring new possibilities for connection and expression.
🖤 David Olson
Story & Community
An author reflection and facilitated space for conversation, connection, and bringing the themes of the book into everyday life.
🖤 Kristin Warnaca
Full Spectrum Eros
Beyond performance and “goodness” is the raw, alive and territory of Full Spectrum Eros. Through somatic exercises and relational reflection, we will play with paradox and leave with ‘permission granted.’
🖤 Lorina Manzanita
Enjoy an intimacy enhancing somatic exploration of giving & receiving, boundaries & play. Explore trauma-informed practices that can help you connect within more integrity and pleasure.
Space is limited.
Come connect, experience the book in a new way, and spend the evening with the authors.
Details
July 10 | Oakland, CA
Private Location
Doors Open: 6:30 PM | Experience Begins: 7:00 PM
Book Signing + Connection + Embodied Experiences
Event Concludes: 9:30 PM
Investment
Early Bird: $25
Regular: $35
Late Registration: $45
YOUR TICKET INCLUDES:
• ENTRY TO THE FULL EXPERIENCE
• A COPY OF EMBRACING YOUR EROS
• TIME TO CONNECT WITH AUTHORS AFTER THE EVENT
COME FOR THE CONVERSATIONS.
STAY FOR THE PEOPLE.
LEAVE EXPANDED.
About the Authors
Sexuality is one of the most hidden, feared, and misunderstood forces in human life.
For many of us, it became tangled with shame, secrecy, trauma, religion, rejection, or the instinct to survive by going numb. What is rarely named is that sexuality is inseparable from eros, the vital life force that fuels our creativity, intimacy, vitality, and capacity to feel fully alive. When eros is suppressed, our aliveness contracts. When it is reclaimed, life begins to move again.
Embracing Your Eros is a compelling collection of true stories from people who turned toward this life force, often after long seasons of disconnection, fear, or pain. Across genders, identities, and lived experiences, these authors share what it takes to face trauma, conditioning, and shame, and what becomes possible on the other side. These pages explore grief and devotion, queerness and faith, sex work and marriage, illness and aging, loss and awakening, alongside embodied paths such as tantra, ritual, intimacy, and sex magic, shared as lived experience rather than theory.
Again and again, these stories reveal a powerful truth. Pleasure is not frivolous or dangerous. It is reparative, catalytic, and deeply intelligent. This book is for those healing from trauma, those already walking an embodied erotic path, and curious seekers who sense there is more vitality, depth, and connection available than they have been taught to claim.
Embracing Your Eros is an invitation to stop hiding, trust the wisdom of the body, and come home to a life force that has always been waiting.
