KINKY SHADOW WORK 101: BDSM & Kink as a Path of Deep Transformation

Event Details

1. 🕗 Workshop: 7:30pm
2. 🕗 Jam: 10:30pm
3. 🕗 Event ends: 12:30am
4. 📍 Location: Herald Square NYC (Full address provided in your confirmation email)
5. 🌟 Accessibility: This venue has elevator access

Join us in the fun and enticing worlds of Kink and Tantric practice for consensual adults. (Non Sexual)

We’re diving deep into the delicious and edgy terrain where shadow meets sensation. This workshop is for the brave-hearted explorers ready to use kink as a spiritual tool or ethical non-monogamy as a path to radial self-awareness.

Come for the workshop and stay for the Jam to practice what you learned and connect with other curious, conscious kinksters.

In this immersive two-part event, we’ll explore how our deepest triggers, jealousies, and fantasies can become sacred doorways to healing and transformation when held in love, presence, and community. We'll teach you how non-monogamy isn’t just a relationship style—it’s a shadow integration practice that helps you uncover and alchemize unconscious beliefs and unmet needs.

Conscious BDSM gives us the tools to embody archetypes, play with power dynamics, and express repressed emotions in a safe container.

Tantric principles offer us presence, breath, and energy awareness to integrate these experiences somatically, not just intellectually.

This is not a lecture — It is a ceremony where we are guiding you through embodied experiences, partner exercises, meditations, and juicy group explorations. No partner required. All genders, bodies, orientations, and levels of experience welcome.

What You'll Learn:

💜Foundations of Shadow Work: Understand the concept of the "shadow" from a Jungian perspective, exploring how disowned aspects of the self influence behavior and relationships.

💜Kink as Transformative Practice: Learn how kink and BDSM practices can serve as powerful modalities for exploring and integrating shadow aspects, emphasizing intentionality, consent, and emotional safety.

💜Personal Shadow Inventory Exercise: Engage in guided exercises to identify personal shadow elements, fostering self-awareness and setting the stage for conscious exploration.

💜Framework for Conscious Kink Practice: Discover the ALTAR Method—a structured approach to integrating shadow work into k!nk practices, focusing on awareness, language, trust, alignment, and release.

💜Safety Considerations: Discuss emotional safeguards, the importance of consent, and strategies for ensuring psychological well-being during and after shadow-oriented kink experiences.

💜Closing Integration: Participate in a guided visualization and group sharing to consolidate insights and set intentions for continued personal exploration.

We are having a 2-part evening of indulgence and learning. Come for the workshop and stay for the Jam to practice what you learned and meet other like-minded folks!

Exclusive "Jam" After the Workshop

After the main session, join our intimate Jam session, where you’ll have the chance to ask questions, practice the tools you’ve learned, and receive personalized coaching guidance from Danny and Vanessa Panzella-Velez. This is your opportunity to deepen your learning and apply the skills in a supportive and playful space.

About Us

Danny and Vanessa are trauma-informed Psychedelic Integration, intimacy and relationship coaches who specialize in helping couples heal and thrive through sacred connection. With over a decade of experience studying tantra, psychedelic integration, and somatic practices, they bring a unique blend of ancient wisdom and modern science to their teaching.

Vanessa and Danny’s journey from toxic relationship patterns to tantric intimacy has fueled their passion to guide others toward emotional safety and fulfillment. Through intimacy tool like psychedelic therapies, tantra, somatic, kink and pleasure healing Danny and Vanessa offer a compassionate approach rooted in trauma healing and nervous system regulation. Together, they’ve created transformative workshops, coaching programs, and events that inspire couples to embrace vulnerability, passion, and deep connection.

Danny Panzella-Velez

Trauma Informed Psychedelic Integration & Relationship Guide

Https://SovereignLove.NYC

TICKETS

Prices increase as tiers sell out—don’t wait! Bring a friend/partner and save.

🎟️ Workshop & Jam $72

🎟️ Workshop Only $40

LATE ENTRY AND REFUNDS

Refunds must be requested 7 days prior to event - if you can't make it, please gift or sell your ticket to a worthy soul. To protect the space, late arrivals will not be admitted after doors close, and refunds will not be provided.

Important Notice

Pagans Paradise events are intended for educational and entertainment purposes, and attendees participate at their own risk. Some events may involve physical or emotional exploration, and by attending, you agree to take personal responsibility for your well-being. Pagans Paradise upholds Eventbrite's community guidelines, this event is not sex-based, hookup-style, explicit, or pornographic, and all activities within our events are consensual, respectful, and professionally guided.

ABOUT US

At Pagans Paradise, we believe in creating a welcoming, joyful space for everyone to explore connection, dive into a range of educational resources, and nurture their authentic selves.

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Danny & Vanessa Panzella-Velez are the founders of Sovereign Love NYC as well as k!nk educators at Pagans Paradise. After healing their own relationship from toxic cycles using plant medicine, k!nk, and conscious communication, they now teach others how to integrate psychedelics, somatic tools, and shadow work into their love & sex lives. They offer psychedelic & relationship coaching and facilitate ecstatic community gatherings. 🌐 SovereignLove.nyc