Shamanic Kink Immersion
Shamanic Kink Immersion
Up to 35 in group
Sep 22 - 28, 2026
Retreat Highlights
- Learn practical tools for consent, negotiation, boundaries and communication
- Explore power exchange, sensation and roleplay in a structured setting
- Build confidence expressing desires, limits and preferences
- Practice creating intentional, negotiated kink scenes
- Develop stronger skills for giving, receiving, leading and surrendering
- Spend seven days in focused, hands-on learning with experienced facilitators
About this Retreat
Francesca Gentille is a Certified Clinical Sexologist, relationship counselor, initiated shaman, author, and internationally recognized educator in sacred sexuality, Tantra, conscious kink, and the therapeutic potential of BDSM. With decades of experience weaving sexuality, spirituality, ritual, communication, and embodied healing, Francesca brings a rare combination of professional expertise, deep compassion, playfulness, and reverence to her work.
A co-creator of Shamanic Kink, Francesca has spent many years exploring how the tools and archetypes of BDSM can become pathways for self-discovery, empowerment, intimacy, shadow integration, and transformation when held within a conscious and intentional container. She has taught internationally at sexuality and BDSM conferences, educational institutions, temples, workshops, and transformational gatherings, and is an instructor with the International Institute of Clinical Sexology.
Francesca’s approach brings together the science and soul of sexuality. Her teaching honors both the tenderness and the wildness of the human erotic experience, inviting participants to meet desire, power, vulnerability, boundaries, pleasure, and authentic expression with greater curiosity and awareness.
As a ritualist and priestess, Francesca has facilitated ceremonial and transformational spaces for more than three decades. Her work draws from extensive study and experience in cross-cultural spirituality, sacred sexuality, Tantra, communication, relationship work, and conscious BDSM.
Within the Shamanic Kink Immersion, Francesca serves as a co-facilitator, bringing wisdom, humor, warmth, and a deeply accepting presence to the space. She is passionate about creating environments where people can explore the hidden, powerful, sensual, and sacred parts of themselves while developing greater capacity for choice, communication, connection, and embodied self-trust.
Shadi Terra is a Shamanic Kink teacher and practitioner, sex and relationship educator, and transformational ritual facilitator whose work bridges conscious BDSM, sacred sexuality, embodiment, and shamanic practice.
With years of immersion in tantric, spiritual, sexual, and shamanic traditions, Shadi brings a deeply experiential approach to transformation. Their work explores how conscious engagement with power, desire, archetype, vulnerability, and ritual can become a pathway toward greater self-awareness, empowerment, intimacy, and authentic expression.
As a co-creator and co-facilitator of Shamanic Kink, Shadi helps participants explore the transformational potential of BDSM through intentional, consensual, and carefully held ritual spaces. Together with Francesca Gentille, Shadi has developed an approach that weaves ancient ritual practices with contemporary kink, sacred sexuality, and relational work.
Shadi is passionate about supporting people of diverse gender identities, sexual orientations, and backgrounds in reclaiming their power, honoring their unique gifts, and discovering greater freedom in how they relate to themselves and others. Their facilitation invites curiosity, courage, playfulness, and deep personal inquiry while emphasizing consent, communication, presence, and conscious choice.
Within the Shamanic Kink Immersion, Shadi brings an embodied, intuitive, and grounded presence, supporting participants as they explore the edges of desire, power dynamics, surrender, archetypal play, and personal transformation within a nurturing and intentional container.
Details of this retreat
The Shamanic Kink Immersion is a weeklong experiential journey into the meeting place of conscious kink, sacred sexuality, ritual, embodiment, and personal transformation.
In this intimate group container, we explore how the tools, archetypes, and dynamics of BDSM can move beyond erotic play and become powerful pathways for self-discovery, healing, empowerment, connection, and expanded awareness.
Throughout the week, participants are guided through the three foundational realms of BDSM - roleplay, power exchange, and sensation - while learning to engage with them through intention, presence, consent, communication, and ritual. Each experience builds gradually, allowing you to deepen your capacity to listen to your body, communicate your desires and boundaries, explore power consciously, and meet parts of yourself that may not often have space to emerge.
Shamanic Kink invites us to approach desire, surrender, dominance, vulnerability, pleasure, fear, shame, play, and personal power with curiosity rather than judgment. Through carefully facilitated exercises, partner and group practices, ritual scene work, reflection, and integration, participants are invited to discover what becomes possible when the erotic and the sacred are allowed to meet.
This is not about performing kink “correctly,” pushing past your limits, or becoming someone you are not. Choice and consent remain central throughout the immersion. You are invited to participate at the level that is authentic for you, while developing greater awareness of your own yes, no, maybe, desire, boundaries, and capacity for conscious choice.
The journey is both deeply personal and relational. You may encounter hidden aspects of yourself, experiment with new expressions of power or surrender, deepen your relationship with pleasure and embodiment, and experience the profound medicine of being witnessed within an intentional community.
The immersion welcomes people who already have meaningful experience in at least one of the following areas and a genuine curiosity about the others: sacred sexuality or conscious intimacy, BDSM or conscious kink, and transformational or ritual healing work.
Held by experienced facilitators Francesca Gentille and Shadi Terra, the Shamanic Kink Immersion offers a space to explore the edges of who you are - not simply for intensity or novelty, but in service of greater wholeness, freedom, intimacy, and embodied self-knowledge.
Come ready to be curious.
Come ready to communicate.
Come ready to meet yourself in unexpected ways.
In this intimate group container, we explore how the tools, archetypes, and dynamics of BDSM can move beyond erotic play and become powerful pathways for self-discovery, healing, empowerment, connection, and expanded awareness.
Throughout the week, participants are guided through the three foundational realms of BDSM - roleplay, power exchange, and sensation - while learning to engage with them through intention, presence, consent, communication, and ritual. Each experience builds gradually, allowing you to deepen your capacity to listen to your body, communicate your desires and boundaries, explore power consciously, and meet parts of yourself that may not often have space to emerge.
Shamanic Kink invites us to approach desire, surrender, dominance, vulnerability, pleasure, fear, shame, play, and personal power with curiosity rather than judgment. Through carefully facilitated exercises, partner and group practices, ritual scene work, reflection, and integration, participants are invited to discover what becomes possible when the erotic and the sacred are allowed to meet.
This is not about performing kink “correctly,” pushing past your limits, or becoming someone you are not. Choice and consent remain central throughout the immersion. You are invited to participate at the level that is authentic for you, while developing greater awareness of your own yes, no, maybe, desire, boundaries, and capacity for conscious choice.
The journey is both deeply personal and relational. You may encounter hidden aspects of yourself, experiment with new expressions of power or surrender, deepen your relationship with pleasure and embodiment, and experience the profound medicine of being witnessed within an intentional community.
The immersion welcomes people who already have meaningful experience in at least one of the following areas and a genuine curiosity about the others: sacred sexuality or conscious intimacy, BDSM or conscious kink, and transformational or ritual healing work.
Held by experienced facilitators Francesca Gentille and Shadi Terra, the Shamanic Kink Immersion offers a space to explore the edges of who you are - not simply for intensity or novelty, but in service of greater wholeness, freedom, intimacy, and embodied self-knowledge.
Come ready to be curious.
Come ready to communicate.
Come ready to meet yourself in unexpected ways.
Schedule
8:00 AM — Breakfast
9:30 AM — Morning Circle & Shamanic Kink University
Teaching, discussion and exploration of conscious kink, ritual, somatics, sexology and transformational practices.
11:30 AM — Shamanic Kink Dojo
Guided experiential practices exploring consent, communication, sensation, power exchange, archetypes and embodied awareness.
1:00 PM — Lunch & Integration Time
3:00 PM — Afternoon Workshop / Practicum
Partner and group exercises, conscious scene-building, ritual practices and facilitated exploration.
5:30 PM — Rest, Nature, Sauna, Swimming & Personal Time
6:30 PM — Dinner
8:00 PM — Evening Ritual / Ceremony / Practice
Experiential ritual, cacao ceremony, community practice or facilitated Shamanic Kink exploration.
10:00 PM — Integration & Closing
*Schedule varies throughout the immersion to support the unfolding group process, ceremonies and experiential practices.
9:30 AM — Morning Circle & Shamanic Kink University
Teaching, discussion and exploration of conscious kink, ritual, somatics, sexology and transformational practices.
11:30 AM — Shamanic Kink Dojo
Guided experiential practices exploring consent, communication, sensation, power exchange, archetypes and embodied awareness.
1:00 PM — Lunch & Integration Time
3:00 PM — Afternoon Workshop / Practicum
Partner and group exercises, conscious scene-building, ritual practices and facilitated exploration.
5:30 PM — Rest, Nature, Sauna, Swimming & Personal Time
6:30 PM — Dinner
8:00 PM — Evening Ritual / Ceremony / Practice
Experiential ritual, cacao ceremony, community practice or facilitated Shamanic Kink exploration.
10:00 PM — Integration & Closing
*Schedule varies throughout the immersion to support the unfolding group process, ceremonies and experiential practices.
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
Getting Here
Directions
Easton Mountain Retreat Center, Upstate NY, 40 minutes from Albany, NY
Accommodation
Stay at Easton Mountain in the heart of nature, with cozy rooms and cabins, quiet corners to recharge, and plenty of space to connect with others. It’s relaxed, welcoming, and easy to settle into - a place that quickly starts to feel like home for the week.
Bunk Bed Room
Shared Room w/ 2 Queen Beds
Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi
Spa
Sauna
Pool
Towels
Free Parking
Kitchen
Tour Assistance
Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea
Cafe
Restaurant
Fitness Center
Yoga Studio
Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent
Nestled on 175 beautiful wooded acres in the mountains of upstate New York, Easton Mountain Retreat Center offers a secluded and nurturing setting for connection, exploration, and transformation.
Surrounded by forests, walking trails, ponds, open land, and expansive mountain views, Easton Mountain creates a sense of stepping outside everyday life and into a space where participants can slow down, reconnect with their bodies, and be fully present with the retreat experience.
More than simply a venue, Easton Mountain is a longstanding retreat community and sanctuary devoted to personal growth, healing, spirituality, authentic connection, and embodied living. Its welcoming and non-judgmental atmosphere makes it especially suited to the intimate and transformational nature of the Shamanic Kink Immersion.
The property offers a variety of indoor and outdoor gathering spaces, including an interfaith temple overlooking the pond that provides a beautiful setting for ritual, meditation, workshops, and contemplative practices. Guests can also enjoy the surrounding trails and natural environment during time between sessions.
Located approximately 30 miles north of Albany, New York, Easton Mountain feels deeply immersed in nature while remaining accessible from New York City, Boston, Montreal, and the wider Northeast.
For the duration of the immersion, the mountain becomes part of the experience itself - a place to explore, connect, rest, play, integrate, and return more deeply to yourself.
Surrounded by forests, walking trails, ponds, open land, and expansive mountain views, Easton Mountain creates a sense of stepping outside everyday life and into a space where participants can slow down, reconnect with their bodies, and be fully present with the retreat experience.
More than simply a venue, Easton Mountain is a longstanding retreat community and sanctuary devoted to personal growth, healing, spirituality, authentic connection, and embodied living. Its welcoming and non-judgmental atmosphere makes it especially suited to the intimate and transformational nature of the Shamanic Kink Immersion.
The property offers a variety of indoor and outdoor gathering spaces, including an interfaith temple overlooking the pond that provides a beautiful setting for ritual, meditation, workshops, and contemplative practices. Guests can also enjoy the surrounding trails and natural environment during time between sessions.
Located approximately 30 miles north of Albany, New York, Easton Mountain feels deeply immersed in nature while remaining accessible from New York City, Boston, Montreal, and the wider Northeast.
For the duration of the immersion, the mountain becomes part of the experience itself - a place to explore, connect, rest, play, integrate, and return more deeply to yourself.
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
Nourishing meals are an important part of the communal retreat experience at Easton Mountain.
Three meals are generally served each day - breakfast, lunch and dinner - allowing participants to relax into the immersion without needing to leave the property for food.
Breakfast typically includes a variety of options such as breads and bagels, cereals, yogurt, fresh fruit and hot breakfast dishes. Lunch and dinner are generally warm, buffet-style meals accompanied by fresh bread and salad.
Meals may include meat, poultry or fish, and a vegetarian option is available at each meal.
Throughout the day and evening, guests can also enjoy snacks, coffee, assorted teas and chilled filtered water in the dining area.
Meals are shared in Easton Mountain’s welcoming dining room, with outdoor deck dining sometimes available during warmer weather. Eating together becomes part of the retreat rhythm - a chance to nourish the body, connect with fellow participants and integrate between sessions.
If you have significant food allergies or specialized dietary needs, please let us know in advance. Easton Mountain may not be able to accommodate every dietary restriction, and guests with specific allergies may be encouraged to bring supplementary foods when needed.
What's Included
- Once you arrive to the venue, you may relax - we've got you:
- 7 days / 6 nights accommodation in a shared room + 3 full meals per day, with gluten-free, vegan, and meat/fish options
- All Shamanic Kink training sessions and experiential practices
- All training materials and supplies
- Ceremonial and group practices
- Beautiful gardens, trails and outdoor gathering spaces
- Unlimited snacks, 24/7 tea, coffee and purified water
- Time for rest, connection, reflection, and integration
What's Not Included
- Travel to and from Easton Mountain Retreat Center, flights and other transportation expenses, travel insurance
- Personal purchases and expenses
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