All You Need is Beltane

Thanks to everyone who helped make THE Beltane 2010 so great! The weather was perfect and so much fun was had. Next year's dates are April 28-May 1, 2011, with pre-conferences on April 27-28. Mark your calendars.

Every year, we like to refine our events somewhat. 2010's major refinement was the addition of a social network just for Beltane attendees. It is hosted, experimentally, on Ning.com. We hope you will use this community to get to know your fellow attendees, make arrangements to meet up at the event, share information, arrange rides, etc. You also may have noticed that the name of our event has changed. We got many negative comments over the years about including the word "sexuality" in the name of the event, thus we chose to simplify the name. We hope you will find these changes enhance your experience of our event.

Each year pagans, polyamorists, swingers, tantra practitioners, members of the leather community and other people with a passionate attitude towards life gather together in Northern Maryland to celebrate Beltane with a variety of rituals, workshops and experiences. We embrace life and each other in an open environment full of excitement and joy. We invite you to become part of that community.

Here, you will find a supportive environment for exploring the sexually sacred and celebrating the ecstatic. You will find others of a like mind with whom you can experience different ways of loving, different roads to achieving bliss. You'll be able to join an intentional community exploring the many facets of love and sex and the many ways they can be sacred.

In 2010, we'll have nationally and regionally known presenters offering workshops, lectures and hands-on demonstrations covering topics such as tantra, polyamory, personal intimacy, sexual orientation & gender issues, the changing definition of the family and communication skills. And of course, we will have workshops where the focus will be fun. All with a spiritual bent.

We’ll also have drumming and dancing around the bonfire each night, and we are putting extra effort into making our fires real events at Beltane this year. Play parties and other fun things we know you'll enjoy will be offered nightly as well. And don't miss our new Sexploration space which debuted to rave reviews at Fires of Venus 2008. In addition, we will host Babylon's Temple again. This is a space which is set aside from the rest of the event as an opportunity to take a break from the sometimes-frenetic pace of the Beltane Gathering. You can relax and get counseling, perhaps a tarot reading, pray, meditate, whatever. We encourage you to explore it.

Our pansexual, clothing optional retreat attracts adults 18 & over from all backgrounds, orientations and walks of life. The only thing we ask is that you have an open mind and be nonjudgmental.

Beltane is held on a private 200-acre campground on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Northern Maryland. Only minutes from I-95, it is about 90 minutes from Philadelphia and 45 minutes from Baltimore.

You can find this year's preliminary workshop info here.

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