New Eros communities

Living projects and hubs around the world

There are only a handful of community projects worldwide, where a conscious and open approach to relationships and sexuality truly stands at the center. These rare spaces allow a new culture around Eros to be explored and embodied in an ongoing social container. They serve as living laboratories where love and intimacy are liberated from old patterns, where sexuality is honored as sacred, and where the challenges of jealousy, shame, and possession can be transformed into trust, transparency, and authentic connection.

Here we present some of the most important examples—pioneering communities across the globe that are shaping the field of sex-positive living, conscious intimacy, and eros-centered culture.

Tamera - healing biotop in Portugal

Tamera in southern Portugal is one of the most renowned intentional communities in Europe, founded in 1978 as an international peace research and education center. Its vision is bold and radical: to contribute to healing global violence by healing the roots of separation and fear within human beings, especially in our relation to love, sexuality, and Eros. The founders recognized early on that the crises of war, ecological destruction, and social fragmentation are deeply connected to the way humans relate to intimacy, jealousy, power, and trust. They set out to explore a new cultural field where love is no longer ruled by fear, lies, or possession, but can unfold freely in connection with community, truth, and solidarity.

Central to Tamera’s work is the idea that global peace cannot be achieved solely through political agreements or ecological technologies. Peace requires a profound reconciliation between the feminine and the masculine, between human beings and nature, between Eros and Spirit. The community develops cultural models that demonstrate how it is possible to live free of violence when trust is established in the most vulnerable areas of life: love and sexuality. This approach is known as “Terra Nova” – a vision of a healed planet where cooperation and trust form the basis of human culture.

To share this research with the world, Tamera created the Love School, a deep program of collective study, practice, and healing around relationships, partnership, and sexuality. Here participants are invited to step into a field where jealousy, competition, and secrecy can be transformed into trust, transparency, and solidarity. Alongside the Love School, Tamera offers community courses and intensive trainings, bringing people from all continents into direct experience with the structures, agreements, and tools that allow communal life to flourish beyond fear. These educational offerings are not theoretical workshops but lived laboratories where new culture is practiced every day.

In this way Tamera has become a living example of how healing our relationship to Eros is inseparable from healing our relationship to Earth, and how a free and fearless love can open the path toward ending violence on a planetary scale.

ZEGG - Center for Experimental Cultural Design - Germany

ZEGG (Zentrum für Experimentelle Gesellschaftsgestaltung – Center for Experimental Cultural Design) is an intentional community and seminar center in Bad Belzig, Germany, founded in 1991. Like its sister project Tamera in Portugal, ZEGG is dedicated to researching new forms of living together and healing the wounds of separation, fear, and violence that mark our global culture. At the heart of ZEGG’s work lies a radical exploration of love and Eros, and the conviction that global change begins with transforming the way we relate in intimacy and community.

ZEGG’s central insight is that much of the world’s violence and mistrust is mirrored in how we handle sexuality, jealousy, and love. When fear and repression dominate intimate life, they breed lies, competition, and hidden violence. Conversely, when people dare to speak openly, to share their truth, and to create a culture of transparency, a new field of trust can arise. This is not only healing for individuals, but also foundational for a culture of peace.

One of the most well-known contributions of ZEGG is the ZEGG Forum, a unique group process where participants explore personal and collective themes in a protected, non-judgmental space. The Forum invites deep authenticity and vulnerability, creating a resonance field in which hidden fears, desires, and longings can be voiced and witnessed. Over the decades, this process has spread widely and is now practiced by intentional communities and networks around the world.

Alongside the Forum, ZEGG offers a wide range of community courses, summer camps, and educational programs on topics such as love, partnership, sexuality, ecology, and sustainable living. These programs give participants the chance to experience communal life directly, to learn communication and conflict-resolution tools, and to discover how free Eros and committed community are not contradictions but mutually supportive.

In this way, ZEGG has become a living laboratory for a new culture: a place where people experiment with love free of fear, where transparency replaces secrecy, and where a conscious relation to Eros is seen as a vital step toward healing our societies and our planet.

Highden Temple - New Zealand

Highden Temple, in New Zealand, is a contemporary Mystery School founded by Bruce Lyon. Set within a stately Edwardian manor and surrounded by wild native bush and meticulously maintained gardens, Highden offers a sanctuary where soul initiation, spiritual leadership, and embodied community converge

Its signature offering is the six-week Temple Training, an immersive living experience designed for conscious, sacred living. Participants engage in a soul-centered curriculum combining shamanic practice, ceremony, ecstatic ritual, and ritual construction. The training is described as a living expression of source‑code—the creative, loving matrix of an ecstatic community

Highden's ethos centers on building a new cultural map—one that roots love, spirituality, and a sacred relationship with the Earth at its core. The environment—marked by a 28‑stone mandala embedded in the land—supports immersive spiritual transmission and collective initiation

Testimonial accounts highlight the depth of transformation this environment fosters: individuals speak of shedding ego layers, embodying soul qualities, feeling safer in their own bodies, and discovering soulful purpose. One participant noted their initiation into "the voice of my soul" through the transformative power of lived ritual, collective vulnerability, and emergent connection.

Lolia Place - Hawaii

Lolia Eco Village, also known as Lolia Place, is a sex-positive, LGBTQIA+ inclusive intentional community on the Big Island of Hawai‘i. Located along the lush Red Road near Pāhoa, it offers a unique blend of off-grid ecological living and conscious relating. The village runs on solar energy, rainwater catchment, and composting toilets, modeling sustainable culture in harmony with nature. Guests and residents share organic vegetarian meals, co-working areas, and a spa with wood-fired hot tub and cold plunge, all in a clothing-optional but consent-based environment.

What makes Lolia stand out is its community ethos: clear agreements rooted in respect, authenticity, and humor, no drugs or alcohol on site, and an emphasis on direct, compassionate communication. Here sexuality is embraced as a natural, celebrated part of life, supported by boundaries and mutual responsibility. Just a short walk from the ocean and near Kehena Black Sand Beach, Lolia invites travelers, nomads, and seekers into a sanctuary where sustainability, community, and free Eros meet in daily practice.

JucyPlace - Portugal

JuicyLand in central Portugal is a newly founded intentional community and living temple space. Surrounded by lush nature, flowing rivers, and fertile land, it offers a sanctuary where time slows down and people reconnect with what truly matters. Rooted in community, authenticity, and Eros, JuicyLand hosts gatherings, rituals, and trainings that weave nature, spirituality, and conscious intimacy. Events like the ISTA Community Gathering reveal its role as a vibrant hub for global seekers, a place where sustainable living, sacred sexuality, and deep connection converge into a new culture of trust and freedom.

Monte California - Portugal

Monte California in central Portugal is an emerging intentional community envisioned as a “neighborhood of friends.” Private homes nestle within shared gardens and temple spaces, creating a balance of intimacy and togetherness. The project is guided by values of autonomy, care, and conscious living, where each person contributes to the land and community in their own way. With houses like Casa Cali, Casa Sol, and Casa Lua, and surrounded by wild beauty close to the sea, Monte California offers a sanctuary for healing, creativity, and the cultivation of a new culture of connection.

InanItah - Nicaragua

InanItah, set on the sacred Isla de Ometepe between twin volcanoes, is an earth-based spiritual community and transformational living-learning center founded in 2009. Guided by the dynamic energies of Fire (with Gaia Ma, August–February) and Water (with Paul, February–August), the site offers rhythm-infused seasons of expression, ceremony, and ecological co-creation.

Guests—whether as visitors or volunteers—are invited to immerse in daily yoga, meditation, breathwork, dance, cacao ceremony, shared plant-based meals, and natural-building workshops, all woven into a tapestry of presence and conscious community. With handcrafted cabins, off-grid infrastructure, and panoramic views, InanItah awakens personal and collective transformation through the seamless integration of land, spirit, and human connection.

Resonancia Community - Spain

Resonancia Community in the mountains of Andalusia, Spain, is a living laboratory where intentional coliving meets a conscious exploration of love, intimacy, and community. Rooted in resonance as a guiding principle, it brings together digital nomads, seekers, and creatives in an atmosphere that blends village authenticity with visionary culture. Beyond daily life in pods, treehouses, and communal spaces, Resonancia curates experiences such as Full Moon rituals, Hot Tub Affair celebrations, and the NomadNatureTemple summer event, weaving fields of play, sensuality, and spiritual growth. The community embraces sex-positive values, from conscious kink to tantra-inspired workshops, offering a safe space to transform shame, jealousy, and fear into openness, empathy, and joy. Resonancia invites its members to co-create a new culture of free Eros, authentic communication, and abundant heart-based living, showing how intimacy and freedom can thrive within a supportive community fabric.

Awakeland - Portugal

Awakeland Portugal is a unique meditation, tantra, and yoga retreat center rooted in conscious living and ecological care. Set amidst 21 hectares between the Monchique mountains and the Atlantic, this “place to breathe, feel, and simply be” is alive with reforestation projects, biodynamic agriculture, and soulful ceremony. Its geodesic domes, lakes, chill spaces, and domed group rooms host transformational gatherings—from contemplative retreats to Tantra festivals and dance ceremonies. Profits from events are reinvested into the land, fostering deeper harmony with nature and nourishing personal and collective awakening

Ängsbacka - Sweden

Ängsbacka is a renowned intentional community and festival center nestled near a forested lake in Värmland, Sweden. For over 25 years, it has been a welcoming sanctuary for personal and spiritual growth, offering a breadth of workshops—from yoga, meditation, and coaching to tantra, dance, and sacred sexuality—anchored in authenticity and heart-centered practice.

Its signature Tantra Festival (July 15–20, 2025) explores conscious sexuality, dance, and transformational connection through dozens of workshops, ceremonies, and heart-opening gatherings. Retreats like Body Love Tantra provide a safe, loving container to explore sensuality with presence, boundaries, and emotional integrity.

Ängsbacka is more than a venue—it’s a vibrant living network of volunteers and returning participants, rooted in consent, radical care, and shared sacred culture

Radical Faerie sanctuaries - USA, France, UK, Spain

Radical Faerie sanctuaries are queer, earth-based refuges where spirit, play, and community interweave. Emerging from the queer liberation movement of the 1970s, they invite a return to the wild—creating spaces of authenticity, ritual, and radical love. Sanctuaries such as Short Mountain (Tennessee), Wolf Creek (Oregon), Zuni Mountain (New Mexico), Faerieland (Australia), and Folleterre (France) host both seasonal gatherings and year-round residents. Life there unfolds through heart circles, ecstatic dance, ritual theater, drumming, and shared meals beneath open skies. Freed from mainstream norms, Faeries explore identity, eros, and spirituality in playful ceremony and deep ecological belonging. More than queer safe havens, these sanctuaries are living laboratories for new culture—where vulnerability, creativity, and freedom weave into a field of healing, reminding us that magic and community are essential medicines for a wounded world.

Osho International - India

Osho International Meditation Resort in Pune, India, is one of the world’s most famous centers for meditation, tantra, and conscious sexuality. Founded in the 1970s around the teachings of the mystic Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh), it has grown into a lush 40-acre campus with meditation halls, Zen gardens, pools, and eco-architecture. The daily program blends dynamic meditations, yoga, tantra-inspired workshops, and personal growth trainings with an atmosphere of play, dance, and community. At its heart is Osho’s vision of “Zorba the Buddha”—celebrating life’s sensual and erotic energies while cultivating deep awareness and meditation. Over the decades, thousands of seekers have come to Pune to explore new ways of relating, healing sexual repression, and discovering eros as a doorway to consciousness. Known for its bold integration of meditation and sexuality, Osho Poona remains a living laboratory for love free of fear, where eros and spirit flow together in freedom.

Humaniversity - Netherlands

Humaniversity is an experiential therapeutic community and school located on the North Sea coast of the Netherlands, near Egmond aan Zee. Founded in 1978 by Veeresh D. Yuson-Sanchez, it blends communal living with transformative personal growth, therapy, and professional development programs. Participants can choose from immersive 14-day Tourist Programs, multi-level Therapist Trainings, or “living‑in” experiences—offering an environment to explore relationships, emotional healing, authenticity, and embodied self-discovery through therapy, meditation, movement, and creative expression

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