is a four-day initiatory retreat held at midsummer, at the height of the year’s erotic charge, on an expansive ranch outside Los Angeles.

The Atelier opens with disciplined instruction in the erotic arts: living sculptures, portraiture, leatherwork, ritual design. And closes with embodied practice that only makes sense once you have held the tools in your hands. Dinner salons bridge the two: A conversation at the edge of what you have just touched. You will make and you will be made.

SATURDAY | ARRIVAL & MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL

Reverent revelry! The fairies are fervently frolicking and before you know it, they have stolen you away to take part in their Shakespearean Solstice Rites.  You will be picked up from an LA meeting place at noon and whisked away to our mountain top retreat as a guest of honor in the Fae Midsummer Court. 

SUNDAY | ATELIER DAY 1 

We begin to drop into the Temple arts together. Body worship and mixed-media practice invite you into the body as altar, as image, as living art.
Morning opens with floral sculpture, as an act of devotion as much as design. The afternoon moves into shibari: deliberate, intimate, and exquisitely precise. By evening, we bring it all together - adorned, bound, and beautiful - and capture what we have made.

MONDAY | ATELIER DAY 2 

The material world calls. Today we work with leather, power, and the architecture of clean intensity - crafting objects with our hands that carry meaning forward, then stepping into the exquisite negotiation of dominance and surrender. The evening opens An Elemental Temple.

TUESDAY | ATELIER DAY 3 

We turn toward authorship. Drawing on everything the hands have made and the body has learned, you design ritual itself: your symbols, your thresholds, your ceremony. Expression that comes from soul, witnessed in delight. 

WEDNESDAY | DEPARTURE

A final shared breakfast. A closing circle to bring us to completion. 

You leave with a body of work; physical creations to show the world or keep private. An understanding of eros as craft, ritual as architecture, and as valued co-creator of life in the temple.