Jessica Ashby

About the facilitator

Jess Ashby is the founder of Divinely Untamed Temple Nights & Retreats and a facilitator of transformational spaces exploring intimacy, embodiment, desire, and relational dynamics. Raised by a lineage of deeply religious women and deeply disconnected from her own sensuality, her path into sacred sexuality began as a journey of reclaiming her body, her truth, and her aliveness.

Over the last 18 years she has explored conscious relating, BDSM, temple arts, embodiment practices, and sacred sexuality through both personal practice and lived experience. She is an ISTA graduate with extensive experience holding spaces that invite people into deeper self-awareness, emotional honesty, and authentic connection. Her work is rooted not in performance or ideology, but in the messy, beautiful reality of being human.

Jess is particularly passionate about helping people recognise where they abandon themselves in the pursuit of love, intimacy, and belonging. Through a blend of tenderness, honesty, and depth, she supports people in cultivating greater self-trust, emotional capacity, and embodied sovereignty. Her contribution to this field is creating spaces where shadow, desire, vulnerability, and connection can be explored with curiosity, responsibility, and compassion, helping people bring these insights into their everyday lives and relationships.

More info:
Website: www.thegaiagrapher.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/divinelyuntamed.uk & www.instagram.com/thegaiagrapher

Workshops

The Art of Staying Open 🌶️

Love is often less about opening and more about noticing the moments we leave ourselves when intimacy becomes real. In this experiential workshop, we will explore the subtle ways we abandon our truth, desires, boundaries, and needs in the pursuit of connection, belonging, and love. Through embodied practices, honest connection, and a powerful trust-based group exercise, participants will be invited to stay connected to themselves while being seen, supported, and held by others.

Together, we'll explore what happens when we stop performing, fixing, and managing, and instead allow ourselves to be fully present with what is true. This workshop is gentle in pace but deep in its invitation, offering a space for vulnerability, self-awareness, and authentic connection. Participants can expect a journey of self-discovery, relational exploration, and practical insights that can be brought into everyday life and relationships.

What to bring:
Cushion & Yoga Mat

The Edge of Desire 🌶️🌶️

Desire has the power to bring us alive, but it can also reveal the ways we grasp, perform, manipulate, control, or abandon ourselves in pursuit of what we want. In this embodied and relational workshop, we will explore attraction, longing, boundaries, and erotic charge while learning to stay present with desire rather than becoming consumed by it. Through honest connection, experiential practices, and opportunities to make authentic requests, participants will be invited to notice what happens when desire is welcomed without needing to be acted upon.

Together, we'll explore how to hold desire with greater self-awareness, responsibility, and freedom. This workshop is playful, vulnerable, and gently provocative, offering a space to explore the edges of wanting, receiving, rejection, and self-trust. Participants can expect meaningful connection, personal insight, and a deeper relationship with their own desires.

What to bring:
Nothing

Ask the Oracle 🌶️

Some questions stay with us for years. Others arrive quietly in a single moment and ask to be heard. In this interactive Q&A workshop, participants are invited to bring whatever feels most alive, meaningful, confusing, exciting, or challenging in their lives right now. Together, we'll explore the questions that are asking for attention, whether they relate to love, intimacy, relationships, sexuality, personal growth, life purpose, spiritual practice, or any other area of life. There are no right or wrong questions, and no topic is too small or too big for the circle.

Through curiosity, honest inquiry, lived experience, and collective wisdom, unexpected insights may emerge and new perspectives may unfold. Participants can expect a space of openness, authenticity, and discovery, where the questions themselves often become gateways to deeper understanding and the next step on their journey.

What to bring:
Cushion