A day of embodied liberation, conscious connection, and sex-positive celebration for gay men.
Ready to open deeper intimacy, fuller pleasure, and honest self-expression?
The Erotic Gateway offers a one-day immersion that links therapeutic workshops with a guided erotic play party. The space supports gay men who want to meet their desire with safety, respect, and freedom.
This is more than a party – this is a full-day journey for men who want to stand in their erotic power. You will be skilfully guided through a series of exercises that support you to listen to and trust your sexual intuition, before choosing how you wish to express your sexuality with others.
This event runs monthly. Come once or return as part of your growth.
What to Expect: 9.30am to 6 pm
The guided workshops and embodied practices invite you to:
• Embrace your body with confidence
• Explore consent and boundaries with clarity
• Release labels that restrict you
• Ask for what you want without shame
• Learn tools for pleasure, regulation, and presence
The workshops tune your body and mind, so you feel steady, clear, and ready for the erotic space.
The day moves into a guided sex-positive play party. You get room to meet others, explore touch, and show your erotic self. Connection, intimacy, and expression all have a place here.
Everything stays invitational. Consent guides each step. No experience needed. Bring honesty and curiosity.
Your Facilitators: Armand and Sam bring together their collective years of experience facilitating group sessions and providing one-to-one support, integrating trauma-informed therapy with tantra and other bodywork practices.
Armand Botha
Armand works as a body psychotherapist, facilitator, and educator, supporting people through embodied personal change. His background includes training at the Core Energetics Institute in the Netherlands, alongside further study in Neo Tantra, Sexological Bodywork, Internal Family Systems, and Body Poetry. Based in London, Armand works with individuals and groups, with a particular focus on gay men. His work invites direct, lived contact with the body, emotion, and desire, moving beyond insight alone into felt experience. Armand supports the reclaiming of intimacy and pleasure as essential aspects of a full and connected life. He works with the mind body spirit connection as something practical and present, helping loosen long held patterns, restore movement and energy, and build trust in self and relationship. He works alongside participants rather than above them. Presence, warmth, clarity, and vitality shape the work.
Sam Cotton
Over the past ten years, Sam has supported hundreds of people through meaningful personal change, working one to one, with groups, in residential retreats, and in interactive workshops. His work centres on embodiment, relationship, and lived experience. He draws on psychology, somatic practice, and group process, while staying grounded in real life rather than theory. Sam’s background includes training in addiction psychology, counselling, solution focused psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, and relational work. He is also a fully qualified Hoffman Facilitator. Alongside private practice, Sam has worked as an addictions therapist at The Priory and taught immersive, residential personal development work. In workshops, Sam creates spaces rooted in honesty, care, and curiosity. He works alongside participants, bringing steadiness, humour, and openness into the room.