Séan Ó’Faoláin

Tantra festival presenter and performer jay hoad

Seán is dedicated to empowering individuals to fully embrace their potential as spiritual sexual beings through a blend of ancient and modern tantric teachings and psychotherapeutic methods. With 18 years of intensive study across various tantric traditions, Seán integrates his deep knowledge of yoga, meditation, and ecstatic dance into his practice. He is a qualified Yoga Teacher, Gestalt Psychotherapist, Transpersonal Counsellor, Shamanic Breathwork Facilitator, Sexological Bodyworker, and Massage Therapist.

Currently, Seán works with individuals and couples as a trauma-informed Gestalt Psychotherapist, Relationship and Intimacy Coach, and Tantric Bodyworker. He also enjoys facilitating group work, having been a facilitator with ISTA for the past seven years. Before his work with ISTA, he co-facilitated Tantric and Sacred Sexuality workshops with Tantra Is Love in Melbourne and led regular men’s Tantric training groups.

WORKSHOP FACILITATED BY Séan Ó’Faoláin

Ecstatic Breathwork

This experiential workshop introduces breathwork as a powerful tool for transformation. Participants will learn fundamental techniques for using the breath to enhance awareness, relaxation, and personal expansion. We will explore various breathing patterns and embark on a guided breathwork journey aimed at creating greater space and freedom in the body, clearing blocked energies and emotions, and fostering a deeper connection between the heart and sexual energy. Join us to awaken your life force and experience profound rejuvenation through breath.

various breathing patterns and embark on a guided breathwork journey aimed at creating greater space and freedom in the body, clearing blocked energies and emotions, and fostering a deeper connection between the heart and sexual energy. Join us to awaken your life force and experience profound rejuvenation through breath.

Co-Regulation for Connection

It is often said that the opposite of love is fear. While love connects us, fear can create separation. However, fear doesn’t always have to divide us; it can bring us closer if we learn to engage with it openly and curiously. In this workshop, participants will explore how to feel and understand fear intimately, creating a greater sense of safety within themselves.

We will courageously delve into our vulnerability and work towards mastering our unconscious nervous system responses—fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. Through a guided, experiential journey, we will deepen our awareness of our connection and disconnection patterns, fostering a sense of safety that allows us to let go and surrender.

We will dismantle the unconscious walls of protection that, while keeping us safe, also keep us separate. Instead, we’ll learn to develop conscious boundaries that promote safety and connection. The workshop will involve various dyadic practices to cultivate deeper intimacy and sensitivity, concluding with a belly-to-belly breath meditation. Together, we will dissolve the barriers that separate us and unite as a single current of love.