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FEM sTIVAL

A Three-Day Journey into the Whole Woman
29–31 May • Lisbon•Portugal

For three days, FEM STIVAL becomes a living village:  a space where women come together to explore the richness of who we are. Not only the polished parts, but the hidden ones: the doubts, the fire, the longing, the softness, the mess, the wisdom.

You will be guided through rituals, workshops, temple spaces, talks, movement, and honest conversations that honour the full spectrum of womanhood:  the softness, the storms, the sensuality, the rage, the joy, the quiet, and the mystery.

We will explore shadow and light with equal reverence:
• The parts of you that long for freedom
• The places that ache for expression
• The desires you’ve buried or forgotten
• The strength that rises when women gather
• The wisdom of your body as it changes and transforms

This is not a festival of performance. It is a festival of truth. You are invited to participate, honoring your curiosity, pace, and rhythms

This is a weekend to exhale. To unravel. To be seen without having to explain yourself. To celebrate your body and story. To reconnect with your instinct, your sensuality, your voice, and your delight in being a woman.

All parts of you are welcome: your light, your shadows, your curiosity, your truth.

Come as you are.

Leave inspired. Leave connected. Leave more of yourself than ever.

FEM sTIVAL Overview

You can imagine three days divided as follows:

  • Day 1: Grounding, Safety & Connection

  • Day 2: Exploration, Shadow, Sensuality & Surrender

  • Day 3: Celebration & Integration

Location

The FEM STIVAL is in Portugal, 20 minutes away from Lisbon, by car. We will be at Enxara Collectivo,  


Who Is FEM STIVAL For?

It’s for those who:

  • Feel drawn to deepen their journey into embodiment, self-awareness, and pleasure

  • Want to be witnessed, supported, and celebrated in sisterhood

  • Crave rest, ritual, grounding, and renewal

  • Wish to reconnect with playfulness, curiosity, and the simple joy of being alive

  • Feel ready to express truth, desire, sensuality, and power in a safe and sacred environment

  • Are ready to soften, shed, or transform old patterns around love, intimacy, or sexuality

  • Want to understand their bodies more fully: from cyclical wisdom to sensual health to rites of passage

  • Seek community, honesty, and experiences that nourish both the body and the soul


What You’ll Experience

  • 14 Transformative Workshops blending embodiment, tantra, somatics, and shamanic practice

  • A Temple Nights for women-only to explore the art of sensuality and connection

  • 1 Ecstatic Dance to awaken your body’s freedom

  • 3 Talks on women’s health & relationships

  • A Saturday Market Day featuring female entrepreneurs sharing thier crafts. If you would like to participate in the market and are an entrepreneur with your own small brand and locally produced goods, we’d love to hear from you. If you’d like to apply to be a stallholder at the market, please fill out the application form here.

  • A Safe & Consent-Based Space where every boundary is respected

  • Creative & Networking Spaces to connect personally and professionally

  • Soulful Friendships that honour authenticity and compassion


FEM STIVAL Tickets + Accommodation Options

Residential FEMstival Tickets include:

  • 3 days- 2nights of accommodation at Enxara,

  • All meals are covered breakfast, lunch and dinner,

  • Access to all workshops & temple night

  • TED Talks, market & evening events. 

  • Different type of accommodation options available

We have two type of accommodation - Ideal for groups of friends or solo travellers happy to share

In the House - Comfortable shared room with 2, 3 or 4 single beds a private bathroom located just next door.

In the Yurt - Experience a unique and peaceful stay close to nature ,with single or triple beds with bathrooms conveniently located nearby

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Meet The Team

FEMstival was founded by Tova Leigh and Chiara Ferri in 2025, born from a shared vision to bring awareness, connection, and playfulness to the exploration of love and intimacy. What would we like to see in these events? Which kind of inspiration would we like people to leave FEMstival with? Therefore, what do we need to offer?

Our mission is to create a growing community of embodied beings:  awake, expressive, and fully alive.

Tova Leigh

Tova is all about mixing deep self-discovery with real-life, practical tools. Tova and Chiara created FEMstival to help women reconnect with their bodies, trust their intuition, and tap into their own strength. Tova has built up a loyal online community of nearly 3M, she is passionate about female empowerment and loves creating spaces where women can build connection, confidence, and a true sense of freedom. Tova’s also the author of books that encourage women to be themselves, fully and boldly, without apology.

Chiara Ferri

Chiara is a trauma-informed somatic sex & relationship coach, group facilitator & dearmoring practitioner. She blends embodiment and nervous system awareness practices with rituals embedded in tantric traditions. Her work creates safe, grounded spaces for authentic transformation and empowered connection. At the Femstival she will be having the hat of organizer, but also she will be running two workshops: the Phoenix Rising & Magnetic Love.  Besides the co-creation of the Femstival with Tova, Chiara offers 1:1 coaching sessions online and in-person for individuals & couples as well as group workshops for all genders & sex orientations. She also offers a personalized retreat for couples. Her signature for women is called The Rose Path. She is the co-founder of CorpoRea, a project to bring her work to corporations, & Genera, an NGO aiming at reducing sexual violence and bringing sex & gender awareness to teens and parents. Her main focus is Italy, where she is from.

Mahé Mae

Mahé Mae is a muse, somatic alchemist & artist who studies the feral feminine as a portal to initiation and magic. Her embodied wisdom merges the primal intelligences of earth and eros to remember our true nature: wild, sensual & connected to the source.  Her field of knowledge is rooted in performance art, trauma healing (NARM), non-violent communication, hands-on de-armouring, ritual work, ancient temple arts, and the mystery of the womb. Mahe would be leading the Temple Space on Saturday 30th of May You can find out more about Mahé Mae on her Instagram @currentsofher_ or

via her website https://mahemae.com/ There you will also find a weekly online offering, self-paced courses, The Erotic Muse in-depth online study for women,

 

Yuna Moutran

Yuna is a somatic practitioner, embodiment facilitator, sound healer, and mentor working at the intersection of nervous system repatterning, embodied sexuality, and sonic intelligence. With over 15 years of experienceacross movement, somatic therapy, sacred sexuality, sound healing, and facilitation, Yuna’s approach is precise, grounded and deeply body-led. Her work supports people to return to safety, sensation, and relational presence through trauma-informed somatic practices, connection & intimacy work, voice and sound, ritual, and slow embodied inquiry. Yuna will be offering a workshop on “Healing the Sisterhood, a talk on motherhood & Sexuality, & a morning practice. Yuna will be guiding a sound healing journey during the temple night led by Mahe.  Yuna works online and in person, offering private 1:1 mentorships, immersive retreats, online programs, and her signature in-person Somattunement sessions. You can find out more about Yuna on her IG page https://www.instagram.com/yuna.earth/ 

Joanna Lewins

Joanna is an embodiment facilitator, DJ, and vocalist who uses music and movement to open spaces of liberation, expression, presence, and embodied connection.
She has been guiding eclectic ecstatic dance journeys with live vocals across Europe and the UK. At the Femstival, Joanna will open on Friday night with her love of this work, guiding you into your bodies. 
On Sunday, she will offer a beautiful integration workshop inspired by her InBody work, which supports you to land insights into your body, nervous system, and to embody all that you have received in our days together. Her work invites women to listen deeply, move honestly, and remember the wisdom already alive within them.
As part of the weekend, she will also be offering 1:1 sessions of Vocal Embodiment that weave in somatic work, energy healing, voice, and freedom of expression. You can read more about her work here @joannalewins.music and https://joannalewins.com/


Jana Zappe

Jana is a Somatic Bodyworker & Coach, Embodiment Facilitator and Tantric Massage Therapist. Her spaces encourage you to remember your wild, raw & untamed nature and to reclaim the parts inside yourself, which have been shamed, shut down. Her work invites you to come home to your body and to connect to your inner source of wholeness, life force, and pleasure.  At the FemStival, Jana will guide a workshop on “From Shamed to Untamed”; “Untamed Woman in the Bed”, & a morning practice.  Jana is based in Portugal, where she organizes transformative Embodiment Events & Retreats for women and Tantric Date Nights & Immersions for Couples. During the Femstival, Jana also offers 1:1 Hands- On Somatic Bodywork Sessions. You can read more about her work at www.janazappe.com or on her IG page https://www.instagram.com/jana.zappe

 
 

Jo Guerreiro

Jo Guerreiro (she/her) invites you back into your body. She's a Somatic Sexologist and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, passionate about creating safer spaces for people to attune to their own rhythms, explore embodied intimacy, and rediscover connection - with themselves and with others.At the Femstival, Jo will be guiding a workshop, “Intro to Kink” & a morning practice. Jo is based in Portugal, where she offers 1:1 Somatic Experiencing sessions & Sex & Relationship Coaching for individuals, couples, or constellations. Jo also offers custom Workshops & she is one of the facilitators at Lisbon Temple Nights. You can find out more about Jo on her website https://www.joguerreiro.com/  and IG page @iamjoguerreiro

 

FEM STIVAL Values

Consent • Embodiment • Empathy • Curiosity • Inclusion & Diversity • Body Awareness

At FEM STIVAL, we honor the full expression of womanhood in all its forms.

We acknowledge that language around gender, sexuality, polarity, and identity carries weight.

When we speak of women, men, masculine, feminine, or energetic polarities, we do so with care, not to divide, but to give shape to experiences that are sometimes easier to describe through these concepts.

We respect every participant’s identity, pronouns, and lived experience. Our intention is to create a space where each woman feels welcomed, seen, and included.

While this edition is women-only, we celebrate diversity and envision future editions expanding to all expressions of humanity. We imagine this festival growing in depth and reach, becoming a place where embodied love and intimacy can be explored in its many forms.

Above all, our goal is to cultivate awareness, connection, integrity, and playfulness, and to offer a grounded, nourishing container where community can naturally emerge.

Participant Agreements

These agreements exist to support a psychologically and physically safe environment for everyone. We cannot guarantee that the space will be free of triggers or discomfort — this is part of any deep work, but we can commit to clear guidelines that support safety, consent, respect, and personal responsibility.

By participating in the Femstival, you agree to the following General Agreements 

General Agreements

  • You must be 18+ to join the festival

  • No pets are allowed on-site

  • Tickets are non-refundable, but transferable; please notify us by email when transferring a ticket

  • The festival is a drug- and alcohol-free event. This includes natural or legal psychoactive substances. If illegal substances are found, we are required to follow local law

  • You understand that the festival is not a substitute for /therapy and that you are responsible for your emotional, physical, and psychological well-being.

  • You take responsibility for your boundaries: what you give, what you receive, and when you choose to change your mind.

  • If you have health conditions that may affect your participation, you agree to inform the organization beforehand.

  • The organization is not responsible for lost or damaged belongings; we recommend bringing only essentials.

  • Photos or videos of other participants are not allowed without explicit consent.
    The organisation may take photos or recordings for documentation or promotion; if you prefer not to appear in them, please inform us.

  • Nudity is welcome only in designated workshops or spaces where it is clearly announced; it is always optional, never expected.

  • Please use mobile devices only when necessary, and never during workshops or sacred spaces.

  • The organisation and facilitators are not liable for material, physical, or psychological difficulties during or after the festival.

  • By registering, you consent to the required use of your contact details for festival communication; you may unsubscribe from future updates at any time.

  • The festival program may change due to unforeseen circumstances.

Contact & Relational Agreements

  • You agree to respect participants of all backgrounds, identities, orientations, religions, and cultures.

  • You honor the pronouns and names chosen by others.
    What happens in the festival stays in the festival: you may share your experience, but not the stories of others.

  • You agree to follow the guidance of facilitators and staff, and to leave a workshop quietly if you do not wish to participate.

  • You will attend the welcome ceremony and the first-day mandatory workshop, as they set the foundation for the festival’s safety and coherence.

  • Any sort of penetration is not permitted anywhere in the festival area.

  • Exchanges of sexual energy may happen only in designated workshops or temple spaces and always with explicit consent and clear boundaries.

  • Consent is essential: you do not touch, kiss, or embrace anyone without asking and receiving a clear “yes.”

  • You agree to immediately honor a “no,” without negotiation or pressure.

  • If you are unsure about someone’s boundaries or about what was consented to, you commit to clarifying before continuing.

  • Space holders, facilitators, and the emotional support team are available throughout the festival; anything shared with them is confidential, unless safety requires otherwise.

Violation of these agreements may result in removal from the festival without reimbursement.

  • We trust in the integrity, maturity, and care of every woman attending.
    We trust in our shared ability to co-create a brave, honest, and respectful space.

For any technical questions regarding tickets please contact alex@tovaleigh.com 

For any questions regarding the festival, please contact info@intimaseecoaching.com 

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