About
Austin Embodiment Festival is a transformational gathering curated by Everyday Tantra—bringing together movement, breathwork, tantra, somatics, connection, music, and conscious community. Rooted in presence, healing, and authentic expression, the festival creates space for exploration, nervous system regulation, intimacy, and personal growth through immersive workshops, experiences, and meaningful human connection.
Peter Petersen
Peter Petersen is devoted to three core passions: movement, music, and meditation. For over 24 years, he has taught Sheng Zhen Qigong, and since 2011 has seamlessly woven dance into his offerings. Thus creating a unique, embodied experience that bridges stillness and expression.
He has shared his work in a wide range of settings, from health clubs and hospitals to retirement communities, international Tantra festivals, and luxury wellness resorts throughout Mexico and the United States.
For the past 11 years, Peter has traveled and taught alongside Monique Darling, offering Tantra and his distinctive fusion of qigong and dance across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His work invites people to connect with what is most alive in their hearts, and to courageously express that aliveness in the world.
This is more than a profession for Peter, it is his life path, a calling he intends to live fully, until he draws his final breath.
Monique Darling
Lead faculty for Awaken as Love; author of 'Beyond Cuddle Party' and workshop facilitator extraordinaire has led over 2000 workshops in the past 18 years. She was born on this planet with the unique gifts and soul calling to help you remember how magnificent you truly are! Messages from your ancestors, your spirit guides, your body, nature, your soul, are all called upon and utilized so that you walk away knowing how deeply the cosmos loves you for YOU, exactly as you are, so you can begin to love and accept yourself too. YOU, you are the Gift! She is the founder of Everyday Tantra an organization dedicated to empowering people who are questioning the assumptions of how their life should be and to offering tools for self expression that create trust, inner knowing and wisdom to enjoy the life they have. Monique has taught at colleges across the US including Yale. She has been featured on TLC and The Dr’s as well as various radio shows, podcasts and magazines across the globe. She specializes in helping others reclaim their power and natural sensuality by transmuting fear and repression into courage, self-love and freedom. Her primary purpose is helping folks bring out their vulnerability, energetic embodiment and fearless relating
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