QUEER TEMPLE NIGHT for Women*

BEFORE YOU BUY YOUR TICKET

This is a consent-centred, safety-positive space. Everyone who attends is vetted before they arrive — no exceptions.
To begin, please complete our vetting form and book a short curiosity call with us.
Your ticket is only valid once you have been confirmed through that process.

Start here:
VETTING FORM: https://www.shamanictherapy.co.za/queer-temple-intake
CALL SCHEDULE: https://calendar.notion.so/meet/amynelson/shamanictemple

SHAMANIC TEMPLE PRESENTS: QUEER TEMPLE NIGHTS for WOMEN*
1 August 2026 | The Spice Yard, Salt River, Cape Town 17h30 — 23h30.

Sacred, authentic, and nurturing ritual space held for queer people, by queer facilitators.

This is the second Level 1 Queer Temple evening.

WHAT THESE NIGHTS ARE

An evening to gather and explore sexuality, embodiment, and connection. We work with music, guided experiences, consented exploration, and optional reflective sharing. This night is about gently finding ways to connect more meaningfully with ourselves, our spirit, sensuality, erotic energy, and truth. We then get to explore and discover these energies in our connections with others, and with life itself.

Somatically: We work directly with the body, with breath, movement, sensation, and self-contact as a way of coming home. The body is the doorway into everything else.

Relationally: We practice making contact, with ourselves first, and then, if and when it feels right, with others. Consensual partnered exercises create the conditions for genuine meeting: presence without agenda, touch without assumption, connection without pretence.

Psychologically: We work with what you carry. The shame, the conditioning, the stories you inherited about your body, your desire, your right to take up space.

Shamanically: We connect with ourselves as part of the Great Mystery, and explore our connection with the living world that we are part of. There are no forced beliefs. Shamanism encourages deep remembering and connecting to your wisdom. Our queer-centric approach facilitates an exploration into conscious sexuality not limited by heteronormative assumptions. Here we find a deeper connection to self and through that a greater capacity for intimacy with other.

WHAT WE WORK WITH

Inside the temple, we move between guided practice and open time.
You might encounter:

• Cacao & Blue Lotus ceremony and opening circle, where we name what we're carrying and what we're curious about
• Breathwork: using the breath to move energy, open sensation, and access states the ordinary mind rarely reaches alone
• Somatic presence practices: learning to feel the body from the inside, rather than performing it for the outside Gentle self-contact and self-pleasure as a practice of coming home to yourself
• Consensual partnered exercises: making contact with another person with full awareness, full consent, and no agenda Silence and free temple time: unstructured space to integrate, rest, witness, or simply be
• Closing circle: landing back into ordinary reality, together The practices offered remain an invitation. You are always the author of your own experience.

If you want to spend the entire evening sitting quietly in a corner, that is a full and valid way to be here.

WHAT YOU'LL GET FROM THIS EXPERIENCE

There's something that happens when queer women gather in a space held for them. A letting down. A remembering. The particular magic of being witnessed by those who know some deep truth you all share on some level. Who get the specificity of queerness without explanation. In this red-tent-like ceremony, you get to feel what's alive in you.

You get to discover what your body actually wants, separate from what it's been taught to want. You get to meet dimensions of yourself you've never had room for, and connect to your sexuality in a way that's entirely yours. To move, to sound, to desire without script or apology. And you get sisterhood. Where you are celebrated and your body is safe. Where sensuality and strength and pleasure are woven through your spiritual aliveness. This is the space where you remember what you always knew.

WHAT IS LEVEL 1?

This evening is a Level 1 space. That means: It is designed to support people who are new to conscious-sexuality or shamanic temple work. You do not need prior experience of anything. You do not need a practice, a lineage, or a vocabulary for this. You need only a body, a willingness to be honest, and enough curiosity to walk through the door. Level 1 also means the practices are introduced slowly, with full explanation and full choice at every step. Nothing escalates without the room being ready. The facilitators hold the pace, and the pace is yours. Nudity is welcome and explored, but absolutely not expected. Sensuality and erotic energy are present. Explicit sexuality is not the focus at any point. You will never be asked to do anything. You will be invited, and you will decide.

WHO THIS IS FOR

• Queer women, trans women, or trans men who want to experience sacred sexuality in this rare container
• Queer people drawn to the energy of this container
• Those curious to expand their sexuality, intimacy and connection
• People new to temple or conscious-sexuality work
• Those carrying shame around their body, desire, or history, who are ready for some of that to soften
• People who have felt out of place in conscious-sexuality spaces built on heteronormative assumptions
• Those in any relationship structure: single, partnered, non-monogamous, chosen family
• Neurodivergent people.
• We do our best to improve access This is for you if you wish to tend the wounding around queerness and femininity

WHO THIS IS NOT FOR

• People who are looking for a party or a hookup
• People who aren't ready to be vulnerable
• People who need to control what happens in a room
• People who do not identify as queer in any sense
• Those coming primarily to find sexual partners
• Anyone unwilling to engage with our vetting process
• Those in acute mental health crisis. We care about you, and this is not the right container right now. Feel free to contact Amy for individual support.
• Anyone uncomfortable with the possibility of nudity or sensuality in a ritual space, even as a witness
• Those with very active PTSD that feels overwhelming, or those who have recently experienced a severe stressor that may impede your capacity to safely manage yourself in a sexual space.

You are welcome to reach out for specialised individual support to help you build capacity to safely be in spaces like this Not sure? Reach out. We'll help you work it out honestly, and with care.

AM I QUEER?

If you are asking, you are probably welcome here. Queer is not a fixed identity with a membership form. It is a word many people use to name their experience of being outside the dominant story — in their sexuality, their gender, their way of loving, or simply in how they move through the world. You do not need a label. You do not need to be out. You do not need certainty. If something in you recognises this space and feels drawn to it, that recognition is enough. Send us a message if you want to talk it through.

YOUR FACILITATORS

Amy Nelson

Shamanic Therapist holds a degree in counseling psychology, is the creator of SomatoSensual Therapy, and is a relationship coach and sexuality educator. Amy comes from a family lineage of healers and seers, and is initiated in shamanism. Her work holds what most spaces keep separate: the psychological and the sacred, the erotic and the spiritual, the science of the nervous system and the wisdom of non-ordinary states. In the temple, she brings her full breadth of experience and depth. https://www.shamanictherapy.co.za/

Ancois Human-Nelson

Co-facilitator, space holder, and experiential DJ. Ancois holds the experience of someone who has walked a path from fearfully withheld to bravely trusting and opening, despite every step feeling unbearably uncomfortable and unnatural. Her insight into the struggles of birthing her authentic self help to create space for those who feel like they're never "get it right". Ancois helps participants learn the power of their sacred resistance, and offers a grounded, safe, unshaming steadiness for moments when fears take hold.

ACCESSIBILITY

This space is neurodivergent-supportive. Any needs or considerations are welcomed during the intake conversation. Please note that the venue is not currently wheelchair accessible, and we hold that limitation honestly.

PRICING & PAYMENT
We keep seats open in every evening for people who cannot pay. If money is what's standing between you and this space, message us to join the waitlist.
If you buy an abundant Heart ticket you sponsor someone.

HOW TO BOOK

Step 1 Complete the vetting form: https://www.shamanictherapy.co.za/queer-temple-intake

Step 2 Book a curiosity call

Alcohol and substance free · Nudity-positive · Consent-centred · Beginner-friendly

OTHER EVENTS:

Tue 21 July — Sexual Content in Psychedelic Facilitation: The Conversation We're Not Having — Amy Nelson, guest speaker at The Psychedelic Society

Thu 23 & 30 July and 4 and 11 Aug — Sexual Energetic Safety Workshops hosted by Amy Nelson with guest Dr Sara Mo, Gogo Kian Terra Sora, Dr Flo

Sat 8 August — All Queer Expressions Temple (Level 1) — with guest facilitator Francis Chouler

Sat 15 August — Rope as Ritual: Shibari Temple for Straight & Queer Couples — featuring Tonic Tantra

Tue 8 September — Relational Attunement: Tools for Talking About Sex and Desire — online workshop by Amy Nelson

Fri 11 September — Temple of Reverence for Straight & Queer Couples

Fri 18 September — Sacred Kink Temple for Queer Women — featuring Domme Claire

Fri 25 September — Sacred Kink Temple for Queer Men — featuring Domme Claire

📱 Message 071 603 6077 to secure your place