Temple Foundations
Maya and I are now intensely working on the new series of workshops with which we want to bring the temple culture to Prague. For more info on the upcoming workshop, please read HERE
What does the `temple culture' even mean?
Word temple can stand for many things, including churches. In our line of work, a temple is a sacred space where intimacy, sensuality, and spirituality merge. It is a place of reverence, where sexuality is honored as a pathway to expanded awareness, and to healing. Unlike modern perceptions of sexuality, which separated sex from the sacred, the temple invites individuals to reclaim their erotic energy as a force of transformation, creation, and connection.
This vision is deeply rooted in the ancient temples found in civilizations like India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Mesoamerica. The Tantric temples of India, such as Khajuraho, depict erotic sculptures that symbolize the dance of Shakti (divine feminine) and Shiva (divine masculine), reflecting the union of polar energies. Similarly, the temples of Inanna in Sumeria were spaces where sacred sexuality was practiced through rites of hieros gamos (sacred marriage), connecting human lovers with the divine.
In these ancient traditions, sexuality was not separate from spirituality but rather a gateway to transcendence. These temples recognized the alchemy of eros, where desire was transformed into devotion, and physical pleasure became a means of communing with the cosmos.
A modern temple of conscious sexuality seeks to restore this wisdom, offering a space free from shame and repression, where people can engage in practices like breathwork, conscious touch, and energy work. Here, sexuality is celebrated as a prayer, an art, and a portal to the sacred, echoing the ancient understanding that in the depths of desire, one can find transcendence.
Why and how do we that?
We do not aspire to hold full-on temples in the spiritual sense or as initiation. We know, that on the level of common urban humans, rather than aspiring to reach the divine, it is all about starting softly and moving slow. About unlearning the ways we used to treat our body and other bodies. And learning about oneself. Because this work is highly sensitive. A lot of trauma, triggers, oppression dynamics, and violence is connected to sex. Sex can be used as a mean of war. We know this.
We met each other in temples where we experienced a lot of joy and freedom. Rather than wild orgies, we both move in spaces where there is a lot of gentleness, respect, slowness, laughter and very often no sex at all. It is more about shedding shame and all the narratives of right and wrong. It is about not taking things too personal. It is about being present and respectful and enjoying the present moment with all the surprises it can bring. Sometimes, a temple space can feel very innocent, like a playground from the times when we were little. And when you feel that, in a room full of adults, you know you encountered somethings extraordinary. And this is our mission, our why. We want our participants to feel the enjoyment and freedom, while in group of other humans, enabled by the same understanding of consent, boundaries, and acceptance.
