TEMPLE OF REVERENCE - Couples Temple

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This is a consent-centred, safety-positive space. Everyone who attends is vetted before they arrive.

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.

If you purchase a ticket before receiving confirmation, it will not be valid, and you will be refunded minus transaction costs.

Start here:

VETTING FORM LINK: Shamanic Temple Intake form:
https://amy0777.wixforms.com/f/7480577160906802183

SCHEDULE VETTING CALL on Whatsapp +27 71 603 6077

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Shamanic Temple presents

TEMPLE OF REVERENCE: Queer & Straight Temple for Couples

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 | The Spice Yard, Salt River, Cape Town

Soft land 18h00 — final closing 23h30. Doors close at 18h25!

A ceremonial space for straight and queer couples to explore sacred sexuality, embodied presence, and erotic spirituality together

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WHAT THESE NIGHTS ARE

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Several couples move through this ritual together in one room, and every couple works only with each other. Your gestures, your elements, your silences pass between the two of you and nobody else. The other couples in the room are companions on the same path, not partners in the practice.

We are entering a practice of sacred worship, the kind humans have turned to across every culture and every age to mark transitions, to deepen bonds, and to touch something larger than the daily self. You will move through a guided ritual as the one tending, then again as the one received.

Ritual regulates the body before it ever touches the mind. Measured, intentional ceremony lowers cortisol, brings two nervous systems into rhythm with each other, and opens the parts of the brain that register safety and trust rather than threat. When touch is slow and consented and unhurried, the body learns something the mind cannot argue with: that vulnerability with this person is not danger.

We speak little across the evening. In the quiet, the analytical mind steps back and the hands become the voice. Your stillness becomes the offering.

Power moves through this ritual openly. One partner leads and tends, the other receives and is worshipped, and then you switch, so both of you leave having practiced holding power with care and receiving it with grace.

Nudity is welcomed and often part of the ritual, though never mandatory. Touch is sensual throughout and may move into erotic territory between the two of you, at your own pace.

No prior ritual or conscious-sexuality experience is needed to arrive ready for this.

An evening to slow down. To explore sexuality, embodiment, and connection through ritual and intentional practice.
These nights are about gently finding ways to deepen intimacy with yourself first, and then with others. We work with the body, breath, movement, sensation, and the quality of attention you bring to another person.

Somatically: We work directly with the body—breath, movement, sensation, presence—as a way of coming home to yourself and to others. The body is the doorway into everything else.

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

Psychologically: We work with what you carry. The conditioning, the stories you inherited about your body, your desire, touch, intimacy. This is where shame softens.

Shamanically: We connect ourselves as part of the Great Mystery, and explore our connection with the living world we are part of. There are no forced beliefs. Shamanism encourages deep remembering and connecting to your own wisdom.

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WHAT WE WORK WITH

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Inside the temple, you move between guided ritual and open time together. You might encounter:

— Opening circle, naming what you carry into the room and what you're curious to explore with each other

— A sequence of elemental blessing rites, moving through touch, scent, sound and breath as you tend to one another

— Guided practices where you alternate between leading and being led, tending and being tended

— Breathwork to bring your nervous systems into rhythm with each other

— A closing rite of shared nourishment and intimacy

— Free ritual time to rest, integrate, or simply be with each other

— Closing circle, landing back into ordinary reality together

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WHAT YOU'LL GET FROM THIS EXPERIENCE

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You get an evening built entirely around the two of you, where every element of the ritual is designed to bring you back

into contact: with your own sensation first, then with your partner's. You get to practice leading with care and following

with trust, and to feel what shifts in you when the roles reverse. You get silence long enough to actually arrive in your body, and touch slow enough to notice what you usually miss.

Couples often leave having remembered something about each other that daily life had quietly worn smooth. That is what this ritual is built to restore.

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WHO THIS IS FOR

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Couples, queer or straight, in any gender configuration, wanting to build or expand the connection between

them
Established partners ready to practice both giving and receiving power, with intention
Couples curious about ceremony, ritual, and altered states reached through breath, touch, and attention rather

than substances
Those who want to remember each other's bodies as sacred rather than familiar
Partners willing to work mostly in silence, and to let touch carry what words usually do
Couples at any stage, from newly together to decades in, looking for a fresh doorway into each other

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WHO THIS IS NOT FOR

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Couples looking for a party, a performance, or an audience
Couples who aren't ready to be vulnerable
Couples who need to control what happens in a room
Couples looking for a party, a performance, or an audience
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.

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YOUR FACILITATORS

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Amy Nelson

Shamanic Therapist holds a degree in counselling 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.

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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.

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ACCESSIBILITY

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This space is neurodivergent-supportive. Any needs or considerations are welcomed during the intake conversation. Please note that the venue is not wheelchair accessible.

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PRICING & PAYMENT

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Early Bird R1550

Standard R2050

Abundant Heart R2850 (your ticket + one gifted place for a couple on the waiting list)

Community Sponsored - Contact Us

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HOW TO BOOK

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We ask everyone to complete a short vetting form and join us for a brief call before purchasing a ticket. This is not an obstacle — it is how we make the room safe for everyone in it, including you.

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

Step 2 Book a vetting call

Step 3 Once approved by facilitator you can continue booking your ticket.

Questions? Message us directly with your questions or if you cant find a suitable spot for your call

+27 71 603 6077

Please note that if you have previously been vetted by us you can skip ahead and purchase your ticket.

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

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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Upcoming Workshops, Talks, Events & Temples

September

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

https://www.shamanictherapy.co.za/event-details/temple-of-reverence-straight-queer-temple-for-couples

Sat 19 September — Conscious Dance Event (details to follow soon)

Fri 25 September — Queer Women's Temple (Level 1)

https://www.shamanictherapy.co.za/event-details/queer-womens-temple-night-25sep

October

Fri 16 October — Shamanic Kink Temple for Queer Men

Fri 23 October — Shamanic Kink Temple for Queer Women

Sat 31 October — Sound Journey

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

Spaces are intentionally limited to preserve the intimacy and safety of each container.

📱 Message 071 603 6077 to secure your place