Founder, Lead Facilitator, Tantric Healer, & Dominatrix

Founder and Madam of the DNGN, Michaela makes sure no one makes it out alive. Leave your personality and everything you think you “are” at the door and prepare to be transformed by the immaculate containers & experiences she creates. Former Addiction Therapist turned Dominatrix & Medicine Woman, Michaela works with indigenous practices and techniques and pairs them with transformational BDSM & Kink teachings to reconnect you with turn on, pleasure, and the life you’re afraid to admit you long for.

To learn more about Michaela, visit her website here:
Liberatefromsuffering.com

Lead Assistant & Community Manager

Born and raised as a dancer, Alex has always valued freedom of expression. She bridges the gap between personal development and somatic intelligence. She is a long-time devotee of the earth and a dedicated wisdom keeper of the Indigenous cycles of life and our ancestral ways of being. At Carnival DNGN, she's Michaela's right (and left) hand. Overseeing every single detail from our aphrodisiac elixir bar to the attendee experience to managing set up and breakdown, Carnival DNGN truly could not happen without Alex.

Lead Dominatrix

A Doctor turned Dominatrix, Mistress Ashadar holds a doctorate degree in medicine, where she developed a keen interest in human psychology, sacred sexuality, and mind-body behavioral health. Mistress Ashadar has been extensively trained in conscious kink, tantric bodywork and divine sexuality and seamlessly intertwines intellectual prowess with the art of seduction through dominance. She exudes exquisite power exchange in her work, crafting an experience that transcends mere fantasy.

To learn more about Mistress Ashadar, visit her website here - Wickedsurrender.com

Erotic Blueprint Practitioner

From missionary in the pew to missionary & beyond in the bedroom, Ayce left a career of 20 years as a theologian to become a somatic sexologist! Their journey into this field of work has been deeply personal as they lost their job, family, and community to live a fully expressed and authentic life — as an erotically liberated transmasculine individual. Ayce is certified in the Erotic Blueprints, & Bondassage and is Carnival DNGN’s lead Erotic Blueprint Practitioner.

To learn more about Ayce, visit his website here - www.aycekyptyn.com

Erotic Blueprint Practioner & Tantric
Educator

Dan is a sexologist who has committed his life to studying and mastering the pleasure aspects of human sexuality. He is a certified Erotic Blueprint Coach, Surrogate Partner, Somatic Sex Educator, Sexological Bodyworker, Tantric Educator and more. Dan is passionate about helping women rediscover and reclaim their birthright and be their most powerful, beautiful, and fully expressed selves by engaging female energy, spirit, sensuality, and sexuality. He will bring everything to Carnival DNGN to engineer your pleasure.

To learn more about Dan, visit his website here - Pleasureengineer.com

Desire Angel - Tantra & Kink Specialist

Keith is a Tantric Healer, Sacred Sexuality Guide, and Therapeutic Kink Specialist. He creates profoundly healing, sacred, and intimate containers. Keith believes that the integration of sex and spirit is available to each of us and is one of the most profound transformations a human can experience. When working with Keith, you will experience radical self-permission to feel, enjoy, and express the full range of pleasure, desire, and intimacy possible. You will experience eroticism and eros free of shame or judgment and develop a new relationship with your sexuality.

To learn more about Keith, visit his website here - https://bit.ly/DakaKeith

Desire Angel - Following the Erotic Current & Discovering Desire

Kristen (aka Sofia Dragon) is a Sacred Intimacy guide, supporting individuals & couples to become more intimate with themselves, others, & life. She has been facilitating initiation for 1:1 & groups for almost a decade and uses a blend of Tantra, Conscious Kink, Polarity, Astrology, Parts Dialogue, & Depth Psychology to guide people into more of themselves & their authentic soul expression.

She believes that full expression of the Erotic Body opens you to your unique soul expression & supports the transmutation of core wounds and outdated nervous system patterns.

She is masterful at meeting her clients with deep presence & attunement, penetrating them with the truth that initiates transformation. In a session with Kristen, plan to be met FULLY in all of you, no stone unturned, leaving you changed, connected to your creative life force, and ready for MORE.

To learn more about Kristen, visit her website here - Sofiadragon.com

Desire Angel - Kinkifying Shame, Shadow, and Darker Emotions

Naveed is a somatic parts practitioner, freestyle rapper, and guide in the arts of Unshaming masculinity, primal play, and relational kink. His work draws deeply from the intelligence of nature and the innate wisdom of our bodies, embracing both the light and shadow within all of us. Clients often describe their experiences with Naveed as feeling held without judgment and finding safety to explore, transform, and be fully seen in their raw authenticity. Naveed believes in a gentle, attuned approach that prioritizes liberation and connection, letting us meet ourselves with love and fierce truth.

To learn more about Naveed, visit his website here - Naveedheydari.com

Desire Angel - Boundaries, Agreements, and Attunement

Marilys is an Embodied Relating & Intimacy Coach as well as a Facilitator of Transformational Group Experiences. Her trauma-informed holistic approach is rooted in Somatics and a deep understanding of the nervous system. With over 20 years of experience leading groups and crafting 1:1 experiences, she has a unique way of weaving lighthearted playfulness while powerfully holding space for deep transformation with grounded depth and presence. Her welcoming energy make leaning into edges towards expansive shifts surprisingly easeful. She founded Empowered Connection in 2022 and lights up supporting her clients experiencing the most fulfilling, empowering and authentic relational dynamics in all areas of their lives, from the bedroom to the office.

To learn more about Marilys, visit her website here - Empowered-connection.com

Tantra Facilitator & Couple's Support

After 30 years of being the classic western disembodied head on a stick, Ben has dedicated the last 7 years to practices of embodiment, somatics and awakening — into REAL human presence.

His primary tradition has been the study of classical tantra, with extensive time practicing modern Tantra, as well. Beyond those, Ben finds continued embodiment practice through Thai Massage, West African Drum and Dance, and Brazilian Zouk.. His mastery of working within the energetics of the rhythm of life to inspire and move the body is tantric in and of itself.

When he is not facilitating, coaching or with his children, Ben works within his primary embodiment practice as a Lumberjack, where he finds connection to nature, the body, and the Dark Masculine.

Ben is passionate about guiding others into new realms of embodiment, pleasure, and connection.

To learn more about Ben, visit his website here - Authenticessence.co

Tantra Facilitator & Couple's Support

Larinda has spent the last 20 years of her life in event and project production. This has taken many different forms from parties, psychedelic journeys, directing music festivals to sensual connection workshops. Within the projects she had been unconsciously began building a strong attunement for space holding and building communities.

While on her own journey of healing, she found Tantra and immediately felt a deeper call to service. Taking the Practitioner Training through the Embodied Awakening Academy brought a new understanding of trauma, energetics and somatics that has has proven successful with many of her clients.

Working closely within the Academy for the last three years has lead to incredible growth and understanding of love, communication and inner union. She is excited to be bringing these tools and practices to others, and to facilitate the deep journey into wholeness for others.

To learn more about Larinda, visit her website here - Authenticessence.co

Male Dom, Impact Play, Pressure Points, Fascial Grasping & Electrical Play

Wolf has been teaching and leading stations for over 6 years, including Impact Play, pressure points, conscious touch, and a novel technique that uses the fascia of the upper back to engage the “mother-kitten” response to induce subspace.

Wolf has extensive experience in BDSM & Kink and loves to support newbies in feeling safe enough to explore these edgy realms.

To learn more about Wolf, you’ll just have to come to the event to taste his magic.