Workshop · Canada

Tantric BodyDe-armouring Level 1 Workshop

Awakening: Release and Reconnect

Venue: Calgary, Canada
Taught in English.
Adults 18+$680 CADPrivate registration and confirmation
Participants sharing an embodied Tantric Body De-armouring workshop with Andrew Barnes

The experience

ReleaseReconnectAwaken

Tantric Body De-armouring invites you to return to the living intelligence of your body. As breath deepens, tension softens and held energy begins to move, new possibilities can open in your sexuality, your relationships and the way you meet life.

25+Years in the making

A focused Level One journey

Level One is an immersive journey into non-genital body de-armouring and the living intelligence of your body. Across four days, you will give and receive de-armouring, dance each day, explore sexual energy, sexuality and relationships, and take part in rituals that open new pathways to sensation, emotional freedom, pleasure and vitality. The experience moves between depth and celebration, inviting you to feel more alive in your body and more connected to the creative pulse of life.

Throughout the Level One workshop

Woven through the experience

These practices return throughout the workshop, creating a living rhythm of movement, meditation, ritual and celebration while the de-armouring work progressively deepens.

  • Daily dance, embodied expression and celebration
  • Kundalini Yoga
  • Heart-Centred Sexuality Meditation
  • Cacao Orgastic Breath Dance Meditation
  • Sananga ceremony

Level One

Return to the Body

Level One is an immersive journey into non-genital body de-armouring and the living intelligence of your body. Across four days, you will give and receive de-armouring, dance each day, explore sexual energy, sexuality and relationships, and take part in rituals that open new pathways to sensation, emotional freedom, pleasure and vitality. The experience moves between depth and celebration, inviting you to feel more alive in your body and more connected to the creative pulse of life.

  • Preparing yourself and another person for de-armouring
  • Sexual and relational education through The Relationship Map
  • The Reconciliation Ritual Between Women and Men

Release. Reconnect. Awaken the pleasure and vitality of being fully alive.

Explore the full Level One experience

Level One brings Tantric Body De-armouring to life through direct experience. You will discover how to prepare yourself and another person for a session, then enter the practice as both giver and receiver, learning how attentive touch can meet the body’s trigger points and invite tension, emotion and held energy to move. As the body opens to deeper sensation, energy once bound in effort can become available as presence, vitality and pleasure.

The retreat reaches far beyond the de-armouring sessions. Daily dance opens expression and celebration; Kundalini Yoga awakens the body’s energetic intelligence; Heart-Centred Sexuality Meditation brings sexuality into relationship with love, spirit and expanding consciousness; and Cacao Orgastic Breath Dance Meditation turns music, breath and movement into a current of embodied ecstasy. Alongside sexual and relational education, the Relationship Map and shared reflection, these experiences reveal how the body, sexuality and relationships shape one another, transforming how you understand the way you love, desire, express yourself and meet life.

The Sananga ceremony and the Reconciliation Ritual Between Women and Men become powerful turning points within the journey, bringing ritual, celebration and shared humanity into the retreat. There are moments of depth and exhilaration, tenderness and laughter, personal revelation and genuine connection. Level One is designed to leave you with more than memories: a new relationship with your body, a deeper understanding of sexuality and relationships, and a richer connection to yourself, to others and to the creative pulse of life.

Level Two

Future pathway · Level Two is not part of this workshop

Deepen and Expand

Level Two carries the journey deeper into the body and pelvis, meeting subtler layers of physical tension, emotional stress and protection that can limit sensation and energetic flow. Optional yoni or lingam de-armouring (female or male genital de-armouring) brings this work into the sexual body. As these layers soften, the body can become more present, responsive and resilient, creating the inner ground from which tantric practice may later be explored with greater depth and stability.

  • Following subtler sensation, emotion and energetic response
  • Exploring where the pelvis, genitals, emotion and sexual energy meet
  • Developing resilience to remain present as intensity grows

Release creates space. Presence builds resilience. The body becomes ready for what comes next.

Explore the deeper purpose of Level Two

With the language of de-armouring already living in the body, Level Two invites a more intuitive encounter with subtler layers of holding. The work follows sensation, emotion and energetic response more deeply through the body and pelvis. What once felt fixed may begin to reveal itself as something that can move, soften and reorganise.

The purpose of this deepening is preparation. Most people know orgasmic pleasure as a brief peak lasting only seconds. For tantric practices to open into sustained waves of pleasure and altered states of consciousness, the body, mind and nervous system need the resilience to remain present as intensity expands. By releasing physical tension and emotional stress, including through yoni and lingam de-armouring, Level Two helps create that capacity.

Together, the two levels complete an important arc. Level One opens the language of the body; Level Two deepens its ability to listen, release and remain present. You leave with a more spacious inner landscape, a clearer relationship with the sexual body and a stronger foundation for the tantric practices that may come later.

Facilitator

Meet the person guiding the event

Portrait of Andrew Barnes

Andrew Barnes

MHSc (Sexual Health)

Andrew created Tantric Body De-armouring and has developed and taught the modality since 1998. He guides this Canadian Level One workshop as an experiential journey into the intelligence of the body.

Read more about Andrew

Andrew has facilitated retreats and taught about relationships, sexuality and embodied awareness since 1998, working in around 50 countries. His approach combines clear teaching with warmth, humour and respect for each person’s pace. It is grounded in informed consent, trauma-informed awareness and the understanding that meaningful change develops through collaboration, not force.

  • Teaching since 1998
  • Work in around 50 countries
  • Creator of Tantric Body De-armouring
Visit Andrew’s About page

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The pleasure of being fully alive

What may begin to unfold

The body comes alive

As layers of tension soften, sensation can return with greater colour and depth. Areas that once felt quiet or distant may awaken with warmth, subtle movement and a renewed capacity to feel pleasure.

Vitality returns

Physical holding and emotional stress can contain enormous amounts of life energy. As they begin to release, that vitality may return as expression, creativity, joy and a deeper sense of inhabiting your own body.

The shift travels home

For some, the retreat becomes a personal turning point. What opens here can ripple into sexuality, relationships and daily life, bringing greater intimacy with your body, more authentic connection and the freedom to meet life with more of yourself present.

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Workshop dates and times

10:00 to 19:00
12 February 202711:00 am – 8:00 pm

Friday 12 February 2027

Body-based de-armouring practice as giver and receiver Embodied movement and dance Kundalini Yoga Heart-Centred Sexuality Meditation Sexual and relational education Ritual, reflection and shared integration

13 February 202711:00 am – 8:00 pm

Saturday 13 February 2027

Body-based de-armouring practice as giver and receiver Embodied movement and dance Kundalini Yoga Heart-Centred Sexuality Meditation Sexual and relational education Ritual, reflection and shared integration

14 February 202711:00 am – 8:00 pm

Sunday 14 February 2027

Body-based de-armouring practice as giver and receiver Embodied movement and dance Kundalini Yoga Heart-Centred Sexuality Meditation Sexual and relational education Ritual, reflection and shared integration

15 February 202711:00 am – 6:00 pm

Monday 15 February 2027

Body-based de-armouring practice as giver and receiver Embodied movement and dance Kundalini Yoga Heart-Centred Sexuality Meditation Sexual and relational education Ritual, reflection and shared integration

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Practical information

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Venue and arrival

Calgary To be confirmed

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After registration

Confirmed participants receive private access to the Andrew Barnes Workshop Companion, with arrival details, workshop preparation, the programme, what to bring and the participant information form.

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Local organiser

Kat Rachael coordinates the local arrangements for this Canadian workshop.

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Ride Share App and Workshop Companion

After registering, participants can use the private Ride Share App in the Workshop Companion to offer a lift or request one. Drivers and passengers arrange the journey and any shared travel costs directly with each other.

Choice, consent and wellbeing

A retreat shaped around choice and respect

These shared agreements help create a relaxed, human atmosphere in which everyone can listen to their body, meet each practice in their own way and remain connected to what feels true for them.

01Your body, your paceYou are invited to follow what feels right for you in each moment.

Every practice is an invitation. You may join in fully, adapt it, observe, pause or stop, and changing your mind is always welcome.

Clear agreements and ongoing consent support the experience without asking you to explain or disclose more than you genuinely wish to share.

02Nudity and intimate themesSome practices explore sensuality or include optional nudity, without assuming that everyone will choose the same experience.

Nudity is never required, and your boundaries remain your own regardless of what others choose.

There is no expectation of sexual contact. Any interaction with another person begins with clear, specific and freely given consent.

03Meeting others in the practicePartner and small-group invitations offer ways to explore shared energy while leaving room for different levels of participation.

You can choose whether and how you work with others, and another form of participation will be available when a particular invitation is not right for you.

Individuals and couples of all genders and sexual orientations are welcome as part of the same shared retreat experience.

04Wellbeing and additional supportThis is an experiential personal-development retreat rather than medical or psychological treatment.

The retreat is not intended to diagnose or treat trauma, mental health conditions or medical concerns. If you are unsure about suitability, you are welcome to contact us before registering.

Health, dietary and accessibility information that helps us support your stay will be gathered privately through the protected post-registration intake form.

You will receive these agreements again with your confirmation, together with the practical information that helps you arrive feeling prepared.

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12–15 February 2027
Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

CAD $680Taught in English.Private registration and secure checkout

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