The Body as Oracle: Shared Roots of Kink, Tantra & Theatre Therapy for Transformation
Guest Post with Viktoria Kalenteris, Holistic Intimacy Coach (20 yrs)
November 19, 2025
What if your body could tell its story through movement, play, and sensation?
Kink and Tantra, much like theatre therapy, invite us into that creative, embodied arena where healing happens through expression, imagination, and presence.
At its essence, Kink and Tantra share the same therapeutic framework as theatre therapy, which has long used techniques like improvisation, role-playing, storytelling, and movement to support emotional release and self-discovery. Both create a stage for transformation — one where your body becomes both the storyteller and the story.
The Shared Roots of Kink, Tantra & Theatre Therapy
Theatre therapy helps people process emotions that are difficult to articulate verbally. It uses tools like puppetry, mask work, acting out scenarios, and body movement to give shape and voice to inner experiences.
In the same way, Kink and Tantra rituals become embodied stories — creative ways to explore power, vulnerability, pleasure, and shadow with consent and care. It’s not performance for others; it’s transformation for the self.
Core Techniques for Embodied Healing
Improvisation — Spontaneity is where truth lives. It allows participants to try new behaviours and emotional responses in real time. In Kink and Tantra, this means staying present, curious, and responsive — learning to trust the moment.
Role-Playing — Stepping into different personas (Giver, Receiver, Dominant, submissive, caretaker, muse) helps us see ourselves from new perspectives. Each role becomes a mirror reflecting the parts of us ready to be integrated.
Storytelling — When we bring personal stories into scenes or rituals, we transform experience into art. Storytelling helps us process emotions and reclaim authorship over our life narrative.
Puppetry and Mask Work — In theatre therapy, props or masks help externalize feelings. In Kink and Tantra, items such as ropes, fabrics, or costume elements serve a similar purpose — creating just enough distance to safely explore what was once hidden.
Enactment — Reenacting life experiences allows for reimagining and resolution. A Kink or Tantra scene can become a ritual of release or reclamation, helping you rewrite old scripts with agency and awareness.
Movement and Dance — Sometimes words are not enough. Through movement, breath, and touch, the body expresses what the heart is unable to speak.
Sculpting — Theatre therapy uses “living sculptures” to represent emotions or relationships. In Kink and Tantra, the body itself becomes a sculpture of sensation and expression — shaped by trust, consent, and care.
Mirroring — Whether through synchronized breath or subtle gestures, mirroring builds empathy and nonverbal connection — a physical dialogue of attunement and understanding.
Supporting Processes of Healing and Integration
Projection — Using roles or rituals to express inner feelings through external scenarios.
Empathy & Distancing — Gaining perspective while staying emotionally connected.
Witnessing — Being seen in vulnerability creates profound healing.
Autobiographical Performance — Crafting and performing one’s story to reclaim agency and voice.
Developmental Transformations (DvT) — Using improvisation to explore multiple aspects of the self.
Props & Space — Sensory elements (rope, feathers, ice, candlelight, or sound) transform the external space into a mirror of inner landscapes.
The Body as the Stage for Healing
Kink, Tantra, and theatre therapy all recognize that healing is not merely cognitive — it is embodied. Through movement, imagination, and relational play, we give voice to the parts of ourselves that long to be seen, touched, and transformed.
Through role, ritual, and resonance, we meet the hidden parts of ourselves and invite them into dialogue. The scene becomes a sacred space where emotion transforms into movement, sensation becomes language, and connection becomes medicine.
When practiced consciously and with consent, Kink and Tantra are more than adult-themed play — they are somatic storytelling.
They are theatre for the soul.
They are the art of embodied transformation.
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About the Author
Viktoria Kalenteris is the founder of Playful Loving, a holistic love initiative. A transformational counsellor, Tantra teacher, trauma-informed facilitator, and lifelong student of embodied consciousness, Viktoria brings over twenty years of experience guiding individuals and couples into deeper connection, passion, and joy.
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IG: @playfulloving
Tom Walters
Mariel’s focus on supporting individuals to reconnect with their inner wisdom was where I saw a parallel in the results I seek for my Life Coaching clients. I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to address her weekly group sessions and present a strategy to create more positive moments in one’s day and tap into their authentic self.
I described two language tools that allow clients to become aware of what blocks the positive moments of their authentic self. I identify negative words in our daily language, heard, spoken, and thought with, that shift our focus away from connecting with our inner wisdom.
Thank you Mariel to be able to support your positive and effective efforts in your Somatic Therapy practice.
Tom (Thomas) Walters
Life Coach and Author.
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*Nāda Brahma: The Universe Is Sound* by Crystal Aeyan
”In my constant search for God, examining every leaf, tree, raindrop, every sunset, every storm, the continuous dance of the ocean waves, and every smile that appeared before me to whisper the secret codes of the sacred invisible, I DID find a divine spark in all things and in all beings. But the most impressive, breathtaking, purest manifestation of the divine essence was found where sound waves embrace each other in mystical harmony and weave the brilliance of cosmic existence. Everything is vibration. Everything is resonance. And in this sacred resonance, I found God and myself.”
Reality – as we know it – manifests itself in vibrational frequencies. On a cellular, atomic and subatomic level. We’re all oscillatory systems, made up of sound waves. But beyond the science, interpreted by the mind, it is the mystery through which sound transforms us that is so fascinating. The sacred connection that happens in the ineffable moments of hearing something that aligns with our soul. The sudden quieting of the emotional storm when we meditate and are guided by otherworldly frequencies. Like a crying baby that calms down hearing its mother’s voice singing a lullaby. There is something so soothing in listening to or creating music that anchors us in the Divine Essence. Sounds that connect us with the Spirit Realm, that create harmony, that trigger emotions and memories, and remind us of who we really are.
Music is the sacred geometry of sound, and the most intimate manifestation of God. Not just any kind of music, but the kind that activates your soul and reconnects it to Source. You feel it, you know it, and you don’t question it. Music that brings you into Presence and aligns you with God.
When we gather as tribe in circles and ceremonies, we invoke the presence of the Divine through drumming, chanting, singing, playing sacral instruments. For music is the prayer that continuously reconnects us with Source. That takes us on an inward journey, and potentiates our spiritual and emotional healing. Those are the moments when we feel that we are one with God. One with the Universe. We are part of the Great Cosmic Collective.
And as the sages said: Nāda Brahma: The Universe Is Sound. A metaphysical insight into the vibrational nature of existence. God is Love. God is Sound. Sound is Love.
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Crystal Aeyan is a Canadian sound alchemist, intuitive singer, channel, medicine musician and vocal coach, based in Mexico. She facilitates ceremonies and holds workshops for opening the voice and healing the heart and soul, in Mexico and around the world. You can see some of her work on Instagram: @madreselvamusic. In October she will be releasing her new single El Planeta Azul – The Blue Planet, in Spanish. Check out the preview of the song on her profile. In November she is releasing another song, Annate – To Be Reborn, in channelled light language, and in December the single Butterfly – Metamorphosis, written for the Transcendence Festival.
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(October 1, 2025) – Convoy, Courage and Canada with Ray McGinnis & Donna Laframboise
“As the ‘pandemic’ moved into its second year, Vancouver resident Ray McGinnis was experiencing a growing disconnect between public health statements and what he was experiencing and discovering. Several friends and relatives were experiencing serious adverse reactions from the mRNA vaccines. He attended a rally in Vancouver on February 5, 2022, in support of the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa. He heard an Indo-Canadian woman who had been fired from Global TV over the mandates tell her audience that the what we were witnessing at our protest would not be reported on the news that night. He later witnessed distorted reporting about the Vancouver protest on the local news that night. In November 2022, he travelled to Ottawa to hear firsthand the testimony of witnesses at the Public Order Emergency Commission. He was astonished at the testimony given by fourteen witnesses he heard that undermined government and media depictions of protesters in Ottawa as violent and a posing a danger to our democracy. He would later read through all 76 transcripts of POEC testimony, and the 2,200-page inquiry Report. He was troubled by how weak the Report’s basis was for giving the Trudeau government cover for its invocation of the Emergencies Act and the freezing of bank accounts.
On October 1st, Ray McGinnis will highlight some of the testimony at the public inquiry, problems with its Report, and the federal ruling that the governments’ action was unconstitutional. He will discuss the importance of scrutiny as a skill we need to develop as citizens if we are to hold our government to account. He will comment on truth as a value, and the need to discuss how we come to discern what is true. If democracy is something we value, truth needs to be safeguarded. If we are to understand our story as a nation and pass it on to the next generation, we better get the story correct. Otherwise, we pass on a history that is made up of lies and half-truths.
A common document to Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths is the Ten Commandments. The ninth commandment states “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.” When an individual or a group is smeared with false allegations by people in positions of power, many ordinary citizens will choose to believe the lies. The experience of the Freedom Convoy is a case study of the disconnect between public statements made by politicians and the media about peaceful protesters, what was being livestreamed from the protests, and intelligence assessments by police and intelligence agencies on the ground. McGinnis will discuss the historic significance of the Freedom Convoy and the rise of propaganda as a tool to distort and suppress public discussion about pandemic measures, and historic charter rights like freedom of assembly, the right to a livelihood, bodily autonomy, and freedom of mobility.
McGinnis will also speak about his firsthand impressions of courtroom dramas in the case of the Coutts Two in Alberta, the trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber; and his visits to the Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, BC.”
BIO:
Ray McGinnis is author of Unjustified: The Freedom Convoy, the Emergencies Act and the Inquiry that Got It Wrong. He has previously published Writing the Sacred: A Psalm-inspired Path to Appreciating and Writing Sacred Poetry, and Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored. Before his sudden retirement at the start of the ‘pandemic,’ Ray had been teaching writing workshops across North America for over two decades.
Links:
X: @RayMcGinnis7
Website page: https://unansweredquestions.ca/unjustified-the-freedom-convoy-the-emergencies-act-and-the-inquiry-that-got-it-wrong/
Online Amazon, including reader reviews: https://www.amazon.ca/Unjustified-Freedom-Convoy-Emergencies-Inquiry/dp/1998365026/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
Donna Laframboise was part of the original National Post newsroom and has written for many newspapers and magazines. Now an independent journalist, in February 2022 she spent a week in Ottawa photographing the Freedom Convoy trucker protest. A few months later, she began interviewing people for a since-published book called Thank You, Truckers! Canada’s Heroes & Those Who Helped Them.
The trucker protest changed the trajectory of the pandemic. In January 2022, only one Canadian province had sent kids back to school on schedule after the Christmas break. Unions and doctors were calling for yet another lockdown. Life continued to worsen for the unvaccinated, as additional exclusions and penalties were implemented.
This book tells the stories of ordinary people who got behind the wheel of big rigs and drove to Ottawa from British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and many places in between. For a few weeks in the third winter of the pandemic, the eyes of the world were on Canada. Hope was rekindled in millions of hearts. Not because of something any politician did, but because working class Canadians were honking their horns and declaring: ‘Enough is enough.’ Only after the Convoy arrived in the nation’s capital did provincial governments begin backing away from vaccine passports; only then did get-back-to-normal gain momentum.
Police expected five Convoys to converge on Ottawa from different parts of the country. When thirteen showed up, their traffic plan collapsed. Public support was off-the-charts. Ordinary people quietly supplied cash, clothing, fuel, barbecues, generators, tents, and an ongoing banquet of food. Canadians from all walks of life stepped up: Manitoba Hutterites, mechanics, farmers, chefs, tradespeople, businessmen, nurses, police officers, military veterans, and retirees.
Some of the individuals in this book were eventually tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, assaulted, and arrested. Some had their trucks vandalized and seized, their bank accounts frozen (along with the bank accounts of their teenaged offspring and elderly parents). Within the pages of this book, readers meet the young mother from Quebec who brought the bouncy castles. They meet the mega donor from New Brunswick who was later doxxed by the media. This tapestry of courage, commitment, and kindness deserves to be part of Canada’s official history.
The media is supposed to be a check on the powerful; it’s supposed to hold government accountable. During COVID and the Convoy, journalists did the opposite. They took the side of the government. Against peaceful protesters.
Donna Laframboise is a former vice-president of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the author of five books. Buy Thank You, Truckers! on Amazon here. Learn more at
ThankYouTruckers.substack.com
(August 27, 2025) – From Stares to Stories: Life, Improv’d by Teresa Camilleri
A journey of resilience where laughter becomes the spark that turns challenges into play.
Humour has always been a part of my life. In many ways, it has been my quiet superpower.
I was born a Little Person, and as a child I endured the stares, the comments, and the mocking. It wasn’t easy; neither for me nor for my family who witnessed it. At some point, though, I made a conscious choice. If people were going to gawk, I decided to give them something to talk about; something to laugh with, not at. As Bonnie Raitt sings, I gave them “something to talk about.”
That choice opened the door to improv. I studied at Second City, performed in community theatre, and joined an improv troupe. Those years filled me with joy. Improv taught me the beauty of saying “Yes,” the courage of stepping into the unknown, and the freedom of play.
Five years ago, another challenge arrived: spinal surgery that left me in a wheelchair. Seriously? Another hurdle? Again, I did what I always do: I laughed and I cried. And then I chose. I chose to remember that I am still me, just from a different perspective: slightly higher up, and moving much faster now.
Recently, I had the chance to solo-lead my first improv class. It was exhilarating. The feedback I received told me that others saw the joy I felt, and I hope I’ll be asked to return. More than that, I hope the participants return, too, so we can keep learning, keep laughing, and keep discovering together what happens when we say “Yes.”
Because improv isn’t just theatre. It’s a way of living. And for me, it has been the way of turning stares into stories, and stories into freedom.
Teresa Camilleri