JANUARY 28–31, 2027 · FLINTON, ONTARIO
Brad Amberheart, Lead Facilitator
Sara Downing, Co-Facilitator & Retreat Host
Eros and pleasure are our medicine.
An intimate gathering of no more than 10 participants · All genders and sexual orientations welcome
Reserve Your PlaceWhat happens when we give ourselves permission to experience pleasure not merely as something delightful, but as a pathway to healing, transformation, and the realization of our most heartfelt dreams?
Join us for four days and three nights of embodied exploration, soulful connection, playful discovery, and pleasure magic in the beautiful countryside of Southern Ontario.
Together, we'll explore the wisdom of our bodies, deepen our relationship with the Earth, celebrate our erotic aliveness, and discover new possibilities for how we want to BE in our lives.
Your full expression as a soulful, erotic human being is welcome here.
You are the source of your own pleasure. Together, we get to enjoy.
No more than 10 participants · All genders and sexual orientations welcome
Sliding-scale contribution: C$300–C$1,150, including meals and accommodations.
Reserve Your Place
Imagine giving yourself four days to step away from your usual responsibilities and immerse yourself in the pleasures of being fully alive.
A time to listen to your body.
To discover what your heart truly desires.
To explore connection with others through curiosity, tenderness, playfulness, and authentic expression.
And to invite your erotic vitality into the service of your dreams.
Throughout our time together, we'll create opportunities to connect with ourselves, with one another, and with the living Earth.
We'll explore pleasure as a source of nourishment, healing, inspiration, and transformation.
Our practices invite us to move beyond habitual ways of thinking and enter more deeply into the wisdom of our bodies.
What dreams are waiting to be spoken aloud, affirmed, and brought more fully into our lives?
These are some of the delicious questions we'll explore together.
Through guided movement, visualization, sensory awareness, and playful connection, we'll invite ourselves out of our busy minds and into the experience of our living, breathing bodies.
Sara will guide us into connection with our soft animal selves, inviting movement, curiosity, activation, and play.
We'll explore how our bodies naturally respond when we give ourselves permission to feel, express, and connect.
The winter landscape surrounding Sara's country home offers an invitation to slow down, listen, and reconnect with the natural world.
We'll venture into the woods to honor the land, make offerings to the Earth, and welcome the support of nature, ancestry, and our spiritual guides.
Through presence, gratitude, and embodied awareness, we'll deepen our relationship with the Earth and the life that surrounds us.
Brad will guide practices designed to awaken our senses and deepen our capacity for embodied pleasure.
These may include gentle touch, blindfolded sensory exploration, affectionate connection, massage, eye contact, breathwork, vocal expression, and the movement of energy through the body.
We'll explore how pleasure and erotic vitality can support our visions for our own well-being, the well-being of those we love, and the healing of our world.
Each participant is invited to honor their own desires, boundaries, and pace of participation.
On Friday and Saturday evenings, we'll gather for our signature Pleasure Magic rituals.
One by one, participants who wish to receive will be invited into the center of the circle.
Supported by the loving attention of the group, each recipient will have the opportunity to express what they desire, what they are healing, and what they wish to invite more fully into their lives.
Together, we'll explore how embodied pleasure, affirmation, loving attention, and collective intention can become powerful allies in personal transformation.
What we're doing here is pure magic. We are creating our lives from the inside out.
In the midst of whole-body pleasure and bliss, you'll be invited to speak your heartfelt affirmations aloud, or to receive words of encouragement, love, and support from the group—affirming that you are the full embodiment of health and vitality, and that the deepest, most sincere desires of your heart have already been granted to you.
Brad and Sara will guide the experience, supporting both individual expression and the shared energy of the group.
There will also be time simply to enjoy.
Time for rest, conversation, quiet reflection, and spontaneous connection.
Sara will lovingly coordinate our meals, with participants taking turns helping with food preparation and cleanup.
Sharing the kitchen, the table, and the everyday pleasures of living together is part of the experience.
And yes, Sara is a lot of fun in the kitchen, honey!
Arrival is between 3 and 5 p.m. We gather for a welcoming dinner, followed by embodied practices and an opening circle to connect with one another and clarify our intentions.
A day of playful embodied exploration, communion with the winter landscape, and our first evening Pleasure Magic ritual.
We deepen our exploration of embodied pleasure, connection, and personal transformation, culminating in our second evening Pleasure Magic ritual.
A morning of joyful connection, followed by brunch and our closing circle. Departure is between 2 and 4 p.m. Assistance with cleanup and putting the house back together would be appreciated.
Pleasure Heals is an intimate gathering of no more than 10 participants.
We welcome people of every gender and sexual orientation, and celebrate the uniqueness of each person's body, desires, identity, and expression.
Our intention is to create an atmosphere of respect, care, freedom, and loving attention.
Participation in individual practices is guided by personal choice, clear communication, and respect for boundaries.
This is an alcohol- and drug-free gathering.
Throughout the retreat, participants are invited to cultivate, conserve, and circulate their erotic energies rather than venting them, particularly during free time, to deepen and amplify the transformative power of our evening rituals.
Above all, we invite you to listen to your body and honor your own experience.
Our gathering takes place at Sara's country home in Flinton, approximately three hours' drive from Toronto, two hours from Ottawa, and four and a half hours from Montreal.
Surrounded by the natural beauty of rural Ontario, we'll enjoy a setting that supports intimacy, relaxation, connection, and communion with the beautiful natural winter landscape.
Sara's home is a delightfully quirky, rustic, and eclectic old farmhouse, filled with character, colorful treasures, cozy corners, and the unmistakable warmth of a home that is genuinely lived in and loved.
This isn't a polished luxury retreat center—it's a welcoming, wonderfully unconventional sanctuary where you can kick off your shoes, settle in, and feel at home just as you are.
A little glimpse of Sara’s cozy home and the beauty of winter in the Ontario countryside.
Sleeping accommodations are communal, with bedrooms shared among participants and some beds shared as well. This is part of the cozy, intimate, and welcoming atmosphere of our four days together.
Your retreat contribution includes all meals and accommodations for the three nights.
Sara will lovingly coordinate our meals, with participants taking turns helping with food preparation and cleanup.
Sharing the kitchen, the table, and the everyday pleasures of living together is part of the experience.
And yes, Sara is a lot of fun in the kitchen, honey!
Brad and Sara first crossed paths as fellow facilitators at the Forest Fairy Festival in rural Kentucky. Something clicked, and they’ve been bringing people together through workshops and shared adventures on both sides of the Canadian-American border ever since.
Together, they weave complementary gifts into experiences of embodied pleasure, soulful connection, playful discovery, and personal transformation—inviting greater freedom, authenticity, and joy.
Lead Facilitator · Tantric Guide & Sacred Intimate
Brad’s lifelong exploration of love, pleasure, and spiritual transformation began with his beloved Southern grandmother, Mamaw, who taught him the infinite capacity of the human heart to love and nurtured his connection with prayer, spirit, and soul.
Discovering the possibilities of ecstatic bliss within his own body at fourteen, Brad later recognized these experiences as the foundations of his path into erotic Tantra. His journey has been enriched by more than 25 years of study with his beloved teacher Rudolph Ballentine, numerous healing ceremonies and initiations with North American Indigenous elders, and profound encounters with spiritual traditions and teachers in Russia and Siberia.
As a Tantric guide and sacred intimate, Brad has devoted decades to helping people awaken their erotic vitality as a pathway to healing, creativity, self-discovery, and personal transformation. His distinctive approach weaves intuitive attunement, spontaneous song, rhythm, and guitar into experiences where he participates fully alongside those he guides.
Down-to-earth, quirky, emotionally expressive, and unapologetically himself, Brad brings both tenderness and exuberance to his work. His own journey has taught him that heaven is not simply a place we go when we die, but a state of love, freedom, and embodied ecstasy available to us here on Earth.
At Pleasure Heals, Brad invites participants beyond the limitations of everyday life into heightened states of awareness and pleasure, where new insights, deeper confidence, and a renewed sense of purpose can emerge.
Co-Facilitator · Embodiment Guide & Retreat Host
A self-described “big mama bear” with a deeply body-positive approach, Sara brings warmth, empathy, earthy playfulness, and a generous, nurturing spirit to the exploration of pleasure and intimacy.
With nearly 25 years of experience in holistic wellness, including Shiatsu, yoga, DBT skills training, and intimacy education, Sara has devoted her life to helping people cultivate loving relationships with themselves and others. Her own journey into Tantra and erotic exploration deepened her passion for helping people embrace their authentic selves, navigate their desires with confidence, and expand their capacity for pleasure.
At Pleasure Heals, Sara invites us to get out of our heads and into our bodies, awakening our soft animal selves through movement, curiosity, and play. She also opens her country home to us, offering a welcoming sanctuary rooted in the land itself, with delicious, nourishing meals and a generous spirit of hospitality.
With her bountiful, luscious presence and loving attention, Sara creates space for tenderness, erotic discovery, and the freedom to be unapologetically ourselves.
Moments from Brad and Sara’s shared adventures and creative work.
We offer sliding-scale pricing to make Pleasure Heals accessible to people with a range of financial circumstances.
Please choose the level that most accurately reflects your current financial resources. Those who contribute at the higher levels help sustain this retreat and make it possible for others with fewer financial resources to join us.
All amounts are in Canadian dollars.
For those who have financial assets or investments, liquid or otherwise, and can comfortably afford travel, vacations, and other significant discretionary expenses.
For those with a stable income and/or reliable access to financial support.
For those who can meet their regular needs and afford occasional treats or discretionary expenses.
For those with low income or limited financial resources.
All four levels include the complete retreat, meals, and accommodations.
Only 10 spaces are available.
Your required registration deposit is 50% of your chosen retreat contribution, or C$300, whichever is greater, up to the total fee.
| Total contribution | Deposit | Remaining balance |
|---|---|---|
| C$1,150 | C$575 | C$575 |
| C$850 | C$425 | C$425 |
| C$550 | C$300 | C$250 |
| C$300 | C$300 | C$0 |
All contribution levels include the full four-day retreat, three nights' accommodations, and all meals.
Any remaining balance is payable in Canadian cash upon arrival, or you may give your remaining balance to Sara in cash in the days or weeks preceding the retreat, if you like.
Whether or not you've attended one of Sara's or Brad's retreats before, we'll likely follow up after you register with a questionnaire and/or personal phone conversation. You're also warmly invited to reach out with any questions or to arrange a conversation with us.
This is an opportunity to answer your questions, get to know one another, and help all of us make the very most of this exquisitely delicious midwinter experience together!
Bring your curiosity.
Bring your tenderness.
Bring your playful spirit, your dreams, and your beautiful, soulful, erotic self.
Come discover what happens when pleasure, loving connection, and heartfelt intention meet.
Eros and pleasure are our medicine.
You are the source of your own pleasure. Together, we get to enjoy.
January 28–31, 2027 | Flinton, Ontario
With Brad Amberheart & Sara Downing
Reserve Your Place