Anthropos: The Sexuality + Consciousness Urban Festival 2026
There are festivals, and then there are festivals that make you question things. Anthropos falls firmly in the second category. This downtown Toronto two-day event — held June 27 and 28, 2026 at the Centre for Social Innovation on Spadina — is built around a single, quietly radical idea: that in a world saturated with screens and optimized-for-engagement everything, most of us have quietly lost the thread of real human connection.
The programming covers a lot of ground — sexuality, embodiment, conscious relating, AI and intimacy, the nervous system, desire, conflict, community — but it’s not a seminar. It’s immersive, participatory, and designed for people who are genuinely curious, not just looking to collect ideas. If you’ve been orbiting this world for a while or have never set foot in anything like it, this is a smart place to start.
💬 Thought-provoking talks
💡 Hands-on workshops
🧘 Embodied practices
🧠 Sexuality & consciousness
📷 Multi-location, downtown Toronto
🔒 Anthropos is an adults-only event (18+). The festival is alcohol-free and non-residential — you’ll need to arrange your own accommodations in Toronto.
✨ Why This Festival Is Worth Your Time
We spend a lot of time talking about loneliness, disconnection, and the strange ways technology is reshaping intimacy — usually on social media, which is part of the problem. Anthropos is something different: a dedicated space to actually explore those questions in person, with other people, through real dialogue and embodied practice.
The festival is organized by ONE Conscious Experiences, the team behind the Toronto Tantra Festival. But Anthropos isn’t a tantra retreat or a spiritual weekend — it’s closer to a very thoughtful conference that happens to involve your body as much as your mind. Talks are sharp and provocative. Workshops are practical, not performative. And the facilitation is deliberately trauma-aware, which matters when the topics get personal.
You don’t need to arrive with experience in conscious relating or embodiment practices. The whole point is that there’s an entry point for wherever you are. The tone is grounded and exploratory, and participation is always invitational — you set your own pace.
📚 The Program: Three Layers of Engagement
The Anthropos program is organized into three distinct formats, and the mix is intentional. You can go deep on ideas, pick up practical tools, or drop out of your head entirely — ideally all three over two days.
💬 Talks
Sharp, thought-provoking presentations from thinkers and practitioners exploring what it means to stay human in the age of AI and algorithmic intimacy. These are conversation-starters as much as talks.
🤔 Workshops
Practical sessions where you actually do something: emotional intelligence tools, navigating conflict, somatic practices, nervous system regulation. Designed to leave you with skills you can use, not just ideas to sit with.
🧘 Practices
Embodied, in-the-room experiences: yoga tantra flow, circling, voice activation, intimate relating playshops. Drop out of your analytical mind and into something more immediate. No experience required.
🎤 2026 Talks: The Big Questions
The talk lineup is built around questions most of us are quietly sitting with but don’t have a dedicated space to explore. Each session brings a different angle — scientific, spiritual, somatic, critical — to the central themes of the festival.
What happens to love in a world without heartbreak?
Impacts of Technology on Love and Relationships — Nicolle Hodges
Real intimacy is defined by rupture and repair. But when algorithms curate our attractions and virtual connection promises everything without the mess, what happens to the capacity for genuine, lasting love?
Merge with the machine or awaken Tantric inner union?
The Tantric Path in the 21st Century — Katrina Bos
An examination of what ancient Tantric philosophy actually says about consciousness, union, and the body — and how strikingly relevant it turns out to be in an age of AI and digital saturation.
What if our deepest intelligence is curved?
Reawakening Our Non-Linear Intelligence — Laura Batson
A look at the kinds of knowing that linear, productivity-optimized life tends to shut down — and what becomes available when we let the curved, intuitive, body-based intelligence back in.
How do you go from wishing you had a community to building one?
The Architecture of Belonging — Adam
Community doesn’t happen by accident. This talk gets practical about what it actually takes to build real belonging — the structural and relational choices that either create containers for connection or quietly undermine them.
What if AI wasn’t disconnecting us, but helping us return to ourselves?
AI: the Collective Mirror — Katarina & Michael
A more unexpected angle on the AI conversation: what if the machine is a mirror, reflecting back our patterns with unusual clarity? A session for people who want to go beyond the standard “AI is ruining us” take.
Is “slow socializing” the answer to the loneliness epidemic?
Conscious Carnality & Slow Socializing — Fatima
A challenge to our culture of fast-paced, transactional social interaction — and a case for something radically slower, more sensory, more present.
How can menopause be a time of a woman’s empowerment?
The Hormonal Body: Menopause, Desire & Power — Poroshat
Reframing a life transition that medicine tends to pathologize and culture tends to erase — exploring desire, identity, and power in the hormonal body.
🤔 Workshops & Practices: Beyond the Theory
This is where the festival earns its “embodied” label. The workshops and practices are built for participation — you’re not watching, you’re in it.
WORKSHOP
Emotional Intelligence & Stress Cycle Completion — Megan
As AI grows, emotional intelligence becomes the next frontier. This session covers practical tools for completing the stress cycle — the biological loop that most of us leave unfinished, and the cost of doing so.
WORKSHOP
Restorative Repair: The Blueprint for Human Friction — Francesca
Conflict isn’t a problem to eliminate. This workshop reframes it as something to work with — and gives you a practical framework for navigating it without the damage that usually follows.
WORKSHOP
Harm Reduction Strategies for AI Use
Not anti-AI, just honest about the edges. A practical session on how to stay grounded in yourself while navigating AI tools in your work, relationships, and inner life.
PRACTICE
Intimate Relating Playshop — Jaime Verk
What happens when you slow down enough to truly feel another human presence, beyond the digital filter? A guided, facilitated experience in real-time connection. Advisory Circle member and intimacy coach Jaime Verk has been working in this space since 2011.
PRACTICE
Yoga Tantra Flow — Alaya
A somatic movement practice following the body’s natural impulses. Not a yoga class in the conventional sense — more an invitation to let the body lead.
PRACTICE
Collective Voice Activation — Arkaya
The voice as a tool for presence and release. This session explores what your voice sounds like when you’re not managing how you come across — which turns out to be the interesting question.
PRACTICE
Intro to Circling — Rachelle
Circling is a relational practice built around full presence with another person. If you’ve never tried it, this is the entry point — and it tends to be more surprising than it sounds.
🔔 Note: Some smaller breakout sessions and somatic workshops may require advance sign-up due to limited capacity. Instructions will be shared with registered participants ahead of the event.
📍 The Essentials
Festival Dates
June 27–28, 2026
Two days, downtown Toronto
Two days, downtown Toronto
Venue
Centre for Social Innovation
192 Spadina Ave, Toronto
192 Spadina Ave, Toronto
Tickets
Early Bird from $180 CAD
Book at anthroposfestival.ca
Book at anthroposfestival.ca
Age Requirement
Adults only — 18+
Format
Non-residential · Urban · Multi-location
Arrange your own accommodation
Arrange your own accommodation
Alcohol & Substances
Alcohol-free event. No recreational substances during programming.
🌲 From the City to the Forest: The ONE Bundle
Anthropos is designed as the first step in a two-part arc. The second is the Toronto Tantra Festival — a four-day, all-inclusive residential immersion in the Ontario forests, happening September 10–13, 2026. If you’re curious about the territory that Anthropos opens up, the Tantra Festival is where you go deeper.
ONE Conscious Experiences offers a bundle combining both events at a discount. Only 40 bundles are available.
Anthropos
2 days · Urban · Non-residential · June 27–28, 2026
Toronto Tantra Festival
4 days · Ontario forests · All-inclusive · Sept 10–13, 2026
📍 Getting There
Anthropos is held at the Centre for Social Innovation at 192 Spadina Ave — a well-known gathering space in the heart of downtown Toronto, easily reached by transit from any part of the city.
🚋 TTC
Spadina Station (Line 2) is a short walk north. Streetcar routes on King and Queen also connect easily to the venue.
🚗 Driving
Street parking is limited in this area. Green P lots on Peter St or Richmond St W are your best bets if you’re driving in.
🏊 Bike
Bike lanes on Spadina Ave. Bike Share Toronto stations are nearby. Spadina is one of the city’s most cycle-friendly streets.
💡 A Few Things Worth Knowing Before You Go
📅 Book early. Early Bird passes start at $180 CAD and are limited. If you’re going, don’t wait — this type of event fills from its community.
👗 Wear comfortable clothes. You’ll be sitting, moving, and possibly lying on the floor at various points. Dress practically, not formally. A water bottle and notebook are worth packing.
🤝 You don’t need to come with a partner. Many attendees come solo. The facilitation is designed for individuals as much as couples.
🚫 The event is alcohol-free. This is intentional and worth knowing in advance. The idea is that presence is easier without it.
😠 You don’t have to do everything. Participation in any session is always invitational. If something isn’t landing for you, you can step back, opt out, or simply observe.
🚫 Tickets are non-refundable but transferable. If your plans change, you can transfer your ticket to another participant for the same year, with a $25 admin fee. Notify the team in advance of any transfer.
❓ Common Questions
Ready to Go?
Anthropos is a rare thing — a festival that takes the most human questions seriously and gives you real space to explore them. June 27–28, 2026 at the Centre for Social Innovation, Toronto.
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Details may change — always confirm dates, program, and ticket availability on the official Anthropos Festival website before heading out. Information sourced from experienceoneness.ca.
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