Cindra
Banks
Year of training:
2022
Related qualification:
Certificate in Sexological Bodywork
How many and what type of workshops/classes have you previously facilitated?
Feast 2023 (2 x workshops, Embodied Lap Dance and Awakening Sensation), Sex Ed workshops at Our Secret Spot in Sydney 2022 (six month residential), Sexpo Australia-wide Sex Ed/Tantra Temple talks and workshops 2022/2023 (multiple) and many of my own intimacy/pleasure workshops/classes/events in Newcastle, Sydney, Gold Coast.
What qualities do you bring to your facilitation?
'- Experienced space holding
- Empathy and compassion
- Queer/Neurodiverse perspective/lens
- Playfulness and curiosity
- Confidence and proven skills in facilitation
- Fun and exploration, an openness to whatever unfolds
- Intuitively guided, so easily can shift/flow with the energy/vibe of the participants
- Maturity and experience in this space
What relevant skills and experience/qualifications do you have in addition to Sexological Bodywork?
'- Embodied Dance Facilitator Training
- Yoga 250hr TT
- Diploma of Counselling (almost completed)
- 10 years of coaching experience (embodiment/womens/intimacy/relationships)
- 12+ years of event facilitation experience (from yoga to holistic health to intimacy and pleasure)
Facilitator Bio
Cindra Banks is a certified Sexological Bodyworker, experienced Relationship and Intimacy coach, podcaster, and speaker. With 12+ years of facilitation experience, she’s led workshops for FEAST, Sexpo Australia, and Our Secret Spot, alongside her own sold-out events. Known for her playful, inclusive, and intuitive energy, Cindra creates spaces where people feel safe to explore, express, and embody every part of themselves and remember that pleasure is their power!
Workshop 1 Name:
Self Seduction
# of participants:
30
Workshop 1 duration:
90 Minute Workshop, 2 Hour Workshop, Evening Experience
Equipment needed:
Speaker, Cushions
Workshop 1's Intention:
'- Deep connection to self and gentle awakening of self appreciation
- Learn to cultivate the art of seduction TO yourself, FOR yourself
- Flipping the script on the concept of seduction and learning to be your own lover
- Discover new levels of gentle sensations and pleasure, in an accessible and nervous system regulated way
- Become comfortable to truly BE, invitation to explore and play with your body and sensation in a new way, without being performative/pressurised
- A space to shift focus from the external to the internal, a grounding experience that is purely for self, tapping into what each participant NEEDS beyond the logical
- Participants will leave feeling awakened from the inside out, juiced up and in awe of themselves, their bodies and their own deeply personal experience…And a map of pleasure that is most likely very different to what they are used to!
Workshop 1 rough format:
'- Welcome, drop in, boundaries and guidelines
- Explanation of workshop and relevant info
- Guided breath/visualisation to turn gaze inwards and beging seducing self
- Guided gentle self touch session (non-sexual)
- Use supplied materials (from nature/man made) to awaken erogenous zones
- Self strip tease (can film themselves if they wish, but this is not FOR others gaze)
- Space for further self exploration/rest/integration
- Sharing and after care.
Workshop 1 program description:
What if the deepest love affair you could ever have was with yourself? Self Seduction invites you to explore the art of turning yourself on, not for performance, but as an act of devotion. Through guided self-touch, sensory play, and a liberating self-striptease ritual, you’ll reconnect with your body, awaken gentle pleasure, and remember your innate magnetism. A grounding, sensual, and self-loving journey that will leave you juiced up, soft, and in awe of yourself.
Does W1 actively invite nudity?
It's optional but not a central part
Workshop 2 Name:
Erotic Awakening
# of participants:
30
Workshop 2 duration:
1 Hour Morning Practice/Offering, 90 Minute Workshop, Evening Experience
Equipment needed:
Speaker, Cushions
Workshop 2's Intention:
'- Awaken your inner erotic fire through movement, breath, and play.
- Reconnection to the wild, primal essence - the part of you that is free, expressive, and alive.
- Learn to access pleasure and sensual energy through the body, not the mind.
- Explore how sound, rhythm, and self-touch can amplify aliveness and arousal.
- Experience embodiment practices that upregulate your energy and confidence in a safe, inclusive space.
- Release shame, inhibition, and tension through movement and expression.
- No dance experience required — this is about feeling, not performing.
- All bodies, abilities, identities, and expressions are welcome.
- Leave feeling liberated, turned on by life, and deeply connected to your body’s natural rhythm and power.
Workshop 2 rough format:
'- Opening circle, grounding, and creating safety and boundaries
- Introduction to the concept of erotic energy as life force, and how movement can awaken it
- Guided movement warm-up to drop into the body and release inhibition
- Progressive embodied dance journey, exploring speed, rhythm, space, and sensation.
- Movement explorations inspired by animals, elements, and archetypes to awaken your inner eros
- Encouraged use of sound, breath, and self-touch to deepen connection and aliveness
- Free movement jam and group connection, fully expressed, playful, sensual, and uninhibited
- Integration and grounding through stillness and rest
- Closing circle and reflection.
Workshop 2 program description:
Erotic Awakening is a vibrant, upregulating movement journey to light yourself up from the inside out. Move, shake, sound, and play as you awaken the wild, sensual energy that lives in your body. No dance experience needed, this is about feeling, not performing. All bodies and abilities are celebrated. A sweaty, sexy, silly, soul-freeing experience that reconnects you to your pleasure, power, and raw embodied joy.
Does W2 actively invite nudity?
It's optional but not a central part
Workshop 3 Name:
The Devotional Body
# of participants:
30
Workshop 3 duration:
1 Hour Morning Practice/Offering, 90 Minute Workshop, Evening Experience
Equipment needed:
Speaker, Cushions
Workshop 3's Intention:
'- Reconnect with your body as sacred, a temple of sensation, intuition, and love
- Integrate the energy, insights, and awakenings from the festival into grounded embodiment
- Explore devotional movement, breath, and ritual as pathways to deep self-connection
- Learn to anchor erotic energy into the heart and nervous system for stability and safety
- Experience the beauty of slowing down and being fully with yourself
- Cultivate gratitude, reverence, and softness toward your body and being
- All bodies, abilities, and identities are welcome, no experience needed, just willingness
- Leave feeling deeply nourished, centred, and grounded.
Workshop 3 rough format:
'- Opening circle and grounding meditation to arrive in the body
- Setting intention and creating sacred space (candles, breath, sound)
- Guided slow movement and breathwork to awaken the heart-body-eros connection.
- Devotional self-massage as an act of reverence and gratitude
- Gentle movement or flow to music, embodying erotic connection through motion
- Rest and integration: stillness, journaling, meditation to anchor the experience
- Closing ritual and reflection sealing the energy with softness and presence.
Workshop 3 program description:
A slow, sensual journey into devotion and embodied eros. The Devotional Body invites you to honour your erotic energy as sacred, through breath, touch, and gentle movement that grounds you deeply in your own pleasure. No experience needed; all bodies and identities are celebrated. A nourishing, reverent space to integrate your FEAST experience, anchor your aliveness, and remember that your body is the temple, and pleasure is the prayer.
Does W3 actively invite nudity?
It's optional but not a central part
Are you happy to facilitate support pods?
Fuck yes!
Are you interested in contributing to/facilitating at pre-retreat events
YES!
Is there anything else that you would like us to know as organisers?
I have had such a magical experience at FEAST, from participation in 2022 to facilitation in 2023 and would love to opportunity to be part of this amazing movement again next year. I am pretty flexible with timings and capacity for the proposed workshops FYI, happy to fit in and flow where needed! I have been having a break from facilitating and coaching this past year so don’t have currency, however if I am accepted, I will get this as soon as I find out!