In plain words: the Arc is six months with the same circle of around twenty-five people. Seven evenings, three phases, from September to February — held by the same team from start to finish.
Six months. One cohort. A path walked together from first breath to Ignition.
The Arc is something altogether different from a single temple. Where a temple is one complete evening, the Arc is one continuous transformation. held over six months, walked in a cohort of at least twenty-five, woven with community, integration, and the steady presence of those who hold you.
Seven temples, three phases, one threshold. From the first recognition in September to Ignition on the fourteenth of February.
How an Arc works
What is it, really?
A series of seven held evenings spread across six months, walked with the same group of people from start to finish.
Why "Arc"?
Because it has a beginning, a middle, and an end — a curve you walk. You enter as one person and arrive as another. The shape gives it its name.
How is it different from temples?
A temple is a single evening, complete in itself. An Arc is a sequence — seven evenings woven together, with the same circle, deepening across time.
Who is it for?
People who have walked through at least one temple and want to go deeper, or who already know this kind of work and want a long, held container.
What's the commitment?
One evening every three to four weeks for six months, plus the integration that happens between. The cohort closes after the second gathering. From there, the circle is fixed.
I
Feel
Desire Unleashed
The door opens. What has been held returns to the body.
Sep · Oct
II
Express
Desire Embodied
What was felt becomes voice, movement, presence in the world.
Nov · Dec
III
Become
Desire Transformed
The new ground holds. You are no longer who you were.
You walk this with the same group from September through February. A circle of at least twenty-five travellers, large enough to carry real diversity and energy in the room, intimate enough that by the third temple, these are the faces who know the work you are doing. The cohort is fixed, but the door remains open. If the call comes mid-journey, you can still step in and we will help you find your footing.
II
Integration between temples
The temple is one evening. The transformation is the month that follows. Each temple is paired with reflection prompts, audio practices, and a private digital companion to keep the thread alive in your daily life.
III
A living community circle
A private space, held off public platforms, where the cohort speaks between temples. Questions land here. So do the moments of awe, the doubts, the integrations. This is where the work becomes a shared life.
IV
The same team, every time
The same facilitators, space holders and hosts. You meet us at the first temple, and we meet you at every temple after, walking beside you every step of the way. Not rotating presences. Not new faces. The same hands holding the same circle.
V
A 1:1 integration call
For Royal Hearts, a private session at the midpoint of the journey. Where the work meets your specific life, relationship, leadership, the inheritance of your body, and where the next half of the Arc gets aimed at what matters most.
VI
The threshold of Ignition
On the fourteenth of February, the Arc ends and House of Desires opens, in the same evening. Arc walkers cross that threshold first, by right. What you have built in six months is what walks through that door.
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House of Desires
Before you cross
House of Desires is a space of conscious sensuality and ceremonial gathering, held for adults who choose to be here.
What you are about to read describes experiences that are sensual, sacred, and consensual in nature. Every threshold matters: yours, and the threshold of those who hold the work.
Return to House of Royal Hearts
You found the door
Not everyone finds this door.
You were not looking for it.
But something in you was. Something quiet. Patient. Hungry.
The part of you that has been holding desire back your whole life. The part that knows there is more.
This is where the holding back ends.
House of Desires
The sister label of House of Royal Hearts.
Royal Hearts is the work. House of Desires is the world that work makes possible.
Here, the inner work becomes a living experience. A world of conscious sensuality, ceremonial gatherings, and masked celebrations where desires are unveiled, embodied, and brought to life.
It is not for everyone, nor is it meant to be.
For those who feel called, the journey begins on February 14, 2027, with Ignition.
Where desire becomes reality.
The Founding Event
Ignition
The moment desire catches fire.
The final temple of the first arc, and the inaugural night of House of Desires. Six months of preparation arrive at one threshold. Nothing left to hide.
14 February · MMXXVII
What Follows
The Two Worlds of House of Desires
After Ignition, two recurring event series unfold. Two doorways into the same world of conscious sensuality.
Series I · Embodiment
Desire Unveiled
Where desire becomes reality.
An evening where sensuality, awareness and authenticity come together. Desire Unveiled is an invitation to no longer keep your desires hidden, but to feel them, speak them, and live them.
In a safe, elegant and sensual setting you are given the space to explore what truly moves you. Through connection, music, performance and intentional encounters, masks may fall and true presence takes the floor. Not fantasising about desire. Letting it happen.
Step into a world of mystery, seduction and conscious sensuality. At The Desire Masquerade, masks become an invitation to let go of who you think you should be, and give space to what truly lives within you.
An exclusive evening of music, ritual, performance and sensual encounter, where curiosity, consent and respect form the ground. Explore the unknown. Meet yourself behind the mask.
Not abstractions. Specific rooms. Specific moments. The world we are making, in concrete form.
I
A room where looking is not a transgression
Fifty people in candlelight. Slow music. Long, held eye contact between strangers and lovers alike, with no one pretending it isn't happening. The relief of finally being allowed to see and be seen, without apology, without performance, without the social fiction that we are not bodies in a room together.
II
An evening where desire is spoken out loud
A circle, intimate, masks on. One by one, voices name what has been held private for years. Not as confession. As ceremony. The room receives each desire without judgement, without pity, without the rush to fix or to fulfil. To say it aloud, with witnesses, is the beginning of letting it live.
III
A masquerade where the mask sets you free
A great hall. Strings, smoke, low gold light. Behind your mask you are no longer the role you arrived in. You are the part of you that has been waiting for an evening like this. Dance, conversation, slow approach and slow retreat. Consent is asked in full sentences. Every choice is held.
IV
A space where the erotic is sacred again
Breath, voice, slow movement. The body remembering it was holy before anyone told it otherwise. The pleasure of arousal without urgency, without destination, without anyone watching for what comes next. Desire as a current to be felt, not a problem to be solved.
V
An ending where no one rushes back
After the music slows. Tea. Silence. Soft blankets. People sitting close, not speaking, knowing what they have just been part of. The slow return to the world outside, with the door of the room still open inside them. The understanding that this happened, and that the next one is coming.
VI
A desire I carry — Evelien
A bed raised like an altar
A bed lifted high in a candlelit room. Two bodies above, in sacred union, held by the attention of those gathered below. Not watched. Adored. The witnesses do not consume; they bless. The lovers do not perform; they receive. Eros as iconography. Pleasure as ceremony. The oldest reverence remembered.
This is a room I am building. The desire to be seen this fully — and to see another this fully — is one of the truest desires I carry. House of Desires is the place I am making it possible.
From the Other Side of the Door
A few true things
We have not asked anyone to write about what happens here. Some things ask for silence after, not words. Until those words come, what is true is this.
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This is not a club. It is not a party. It is a room held with the same care as the temples, with one difference: here, the door opens further.
— The Heartcore
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Every threshold is consent. Every choice is yours. Nothing happens that has not been chosen, by you, in the moment, with full breath.
— The Heartcore
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If you have been hiding the part of yourself that wants this — you can stop hiding it here. That is what the room is for.
— The Heartcore
If any of these are true
If you have walked the inner work and want a room where the body finally gets to walk too —
If you have been keeping a part of yourself private even from yourself, and you suspect it is the most alive part —
If you have looked for this kind of gathering and only found rooms that were either too cold or too crass —
If you are tired of pretending desire is not running the deepest currents of your life —
— this is the door you have been looking for.
Glimpses
Inside the room
Fragments. Not full images. The deeper visuals are reserved for those who walk through the door.
Candlelight
The mask
The meeting
Behind the veil
The List
By invitation only
∼ 60
Guests per gathering
Closed
Before each event
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Gatherings per year
Invitations are sent in private letters, in advance of each gathering. The list is small, and we close it before every event. Once closed, no further guests are admitted, regardless of who they know.
Leave your name. We will write to you when the next door opens.
We write rarely. We share nothing with anyone. Removing yourself is a single sentence away.