Unlike other groups, we do not have to rent a venue as we own our own and can bring you our workshops at reduced prices, fully catered and with beautiful overnight accommodation, so no extras to add on to the price except your travel costs.  No-one can compete with our content - price or facilities and no-one can compare with your facilitator for expertise learned 'on the job' and not from a book or workshop - and there can be no better teacher.

We do not go into great detail about what is safer sexual practices as after over 20 years of education, we expect you to be a responsible adult and to have found out - by now - what is safer and what is not.  These weekends are not designed as safe sex educational weekends (although we ALWAYS promote safe sex and have numerous leaflets, booklets and educational material here at Hamilton Hall for your education.)  EVERYONE is welcome and EVERYONE should be aware of the risks involved and take appropriate action.  It is not ' what you do'  it is 'how you do it.'  and we expect everyone attending to be responsible, safe and mature in the manner in which they behave sexually.  

God gave man a penis and a brain and only enough blood to run one at a time,  and we do not appreciate ignorance, stupid attitudes and moronic behaviour where others are / could be  put at risk. 

If  you are in doubt,  please ask John.

You  do not need to keep attending workshop after workshop on the same subject as many groups will lead you to believe.  Once you have been shown and taught the basics,  you just need to practice. Many, however, return and repeat the same weekend workshop with us simply because they love it so much and it's always different, although the same, and is always a great laugh and  can be really therapeutic.  Many other trainers have learned their expertise with us here,  so why not come and learn from the master ( ha ha ) at the original - the 'one and only' - Hamilton Hall. 

Some tantra groups ask you not to practice during the workshop weekend,  to keep the energies intact and within the person,  while we say that while you are surrounded with like minded people,  practice all you like, in the privacy of your room - naturally -  and not during the workshop itself. 

A lot of guys teaching similar workshops have learned it in a class, in another workshop or from a book and have never - actually - mastered the art of achieving what it is they teach.   Their sexual experience is fairly limited and experience is the best way of learning anything, as we all know.

With laughter and an easy going manner, he will share many of the stories from his past in order to facilitate a change of emotional thought within others concerning their conditioning surrounding sexuality.
He may make light of it to make you laugh, but NEVER doubt his passion that runs deep concerning this subject and - sometimes - he can become quite emotional recounting experiential times of spiritual sexuality and connections encountered.

You may be shocked and outraged - amused and filled with awe
and whatever your reaction may be, laughter is always the best healer and the best way forward.

No-one else has the power
No-one else has the experience
No-one else understands sexuality in quite the same manner
and no-one else has the abilities to teach, from first-hand experience,  the way you are taught this weekend and no-one else works within an exclusive and residential gay environment.

You see - no-one else has had  the guts to in vest their life's work, money, blood sweat and tears into opening their own venue - and running it exclusively for gay and bisexual men,  to share sexual, self and spiritual development of mind body and soul and run it as a NOT FOR PROFIT venue, as

and as John says -

'humour is the best healer, - and I always work with laughter '

Do not accept anything less from anywhere or anyone else

your host

If during the winter months we have to add a £10 surcharge on to the cost of the weekend workshops because of the costs involved with heating the building ( remember guys - our costs have increased as much as 45% in the last year for gas and electricity and these utilities then have  Climate Levy Tax added to that - and then the total has VAT added to it at 17.5% as a business ) we ask your understanding and generosity in not making a fuss.  Our workshop costs are amongst the cheapest in the entire UK and we ask your understanding and appreciation of this.  If we ask for a £10 surcharge, please give generously and with an open heart.   It is already hinted at that bills could go up by a further 70% by Christmas, and we have to cover our costs,  but let's hope the increases are not to bad and we have a mild winter ahead..

and guide gay and bisexual men to find self fullfillment through sexual, emotional, physical and spiritual enlightenment. The teachings we share are based on personal experience that were learned over many years of practice and which are well written about in many TANTRA books by many great writers, even though our teachings are based - as we say - purely on intuition and experience and our teachings go way beyond what any of the ancient masters and their teachings state, and you will be told concepts and ideas that are not shared anywhere else. This encourages the integration of all aspects of our life which includes sexuality as part of a spiritual journey. Tantra teaches that our fundamental nature, the core of who we are, is pure, perfect, and divine, and we endeavor to share a greater awareness of the true divine Self, to connect with the Self and to be aware in the 'now moment' exactly how divine we truly are.

Hamilton Hall recognizes the special needs and unique advantages of those who have developed a gay identity. Many of our gay / bisexual customers tell us that they were raised in a culture that views gay love as unnatural and immoral and these false notions about sexuality and lifestyle often get internalized, leading to feelings of shame, unworthiness and loneliness. Most traditional religions add to the spiritual isolation of gay men by promoting these notions, which these days cause many to reject traditional religions, throwing themselves into work, sex, drug and rock'n'roll - ( so to speak ) and this does not help sort the 'problem' - it just masks it in busy busy busyness. Hamilton Hall can help gay and bisexual men develop a well-integrated identity that can be a positive asset in their spiritual and every-day life. When you learn some alternative truths - some different ways of seeing things, then life can change dramatically for the better.

Tantra is widely misunderstood in the west and we prefer to use the expression 'Ecstatic Awareness'. Many are put off the teachings of Tantra as it comes with all sorts of Hindu and eastern philosophies that can confuse a western mind.

Everyone knows how to watch a television, you switch it on and flit from channel to channel. But what makes it work ? How does the remote control do its thing ? Where does the signal come from and how ? Confused ?
Well don't be, you see, everyone can watch TV while very few actually understand how it works... and what's more... you don't need to in order to enjoy the programmes.
Same goes for Tantra, or at least, what is commonly called Tantra.

You do not need to get bogged down in an eastern culture and belief system. You do not need to learn a load of Sanskrit words and other complicated things foreign to you, in order to enjoy the practice of what TANTRA achieves. You do not need a teacher spouting long foreign words at you and you don't need them to put themselves on a pedestal. Tantra is NOT restricted to those who study Hindi or any other philosophy and anyone - from any culture - following any religious belief - or none at all, can connect with the energies we use - and which are actually universal energies - and enjoy their life giving qualities and a true connection to something - BIGGER, from within.
In this case, by harnessing and expanding the energies and boundaries of your conventional sexuality, one can learn to harness the Divine Energy, glimpsed only briefly by most, and use this as an avenue to the God within.
You see: in many ancient beliefs and faiths, sexuality was seen as the ultimate sacred act - the most holy sacrament., a time of holy worship and was often facilitated in the temple where ordinary men and women would join in an orgy ( holy celebration ) of sexual freedom in order to experience the God Within, as the sexual energies raised are the strongest and most powerful energies we have within us in order to connect and open the Third Eye and touch on the spirit of Divinity that lays within us all.

( take a breath...)

Of course we are also aware that sexuality may not be your journey, as meditation may also not be for you, and that your journey may be through some other medium altogether. Sexuality and spirituality do not always marry comfortably with some people who are - maybe - still stuck in the viewpoint that sex is dirty and wrong... and so another avenue to their God within will be searched and - hopefully - found. There are many different ways of watching the TV and many different channels available... just as there are many different journeys into the Self - and if this workshop turns out not to have been 'your thing' then at least you will be wiser about what is and what is not - for you.

Some Tantra Schools have claimed that what we offer is not true Tantra - based in Hindu traditions, and I am proud to say, I agree, it is not. I have learned everything I know through experience and never - ever - through reading a book or attending a class on the subject. I do not teach what someone else has taught me and I have not followed another in awe to get to where I am today. I have been open to channel since I was a small boy of just 8 years of age and have always had that 'knowing' and while other schools teach from ancient techniques that have worked for many over the centuries and usually always from an eastern outlook filled with structures and symbols and organized rituals,  I find that this simply does not work for many in the west who have doubts, questions and a refusal to get involved with yet another belief structure that - to many - as their own western belief structure has not helped, then why should another ? Especially one based in a completely alien culture.

Attitudes towards sexuality have changed in the last 50 years and the hippy period of the 1960's saw a HUGE change in the way people generally viewed sexuality. But there is STILL too much clap trap associated with sex... too much guilt, fear, doubts and worries, and to this, our teachings and the way I facilitate them, is aimed at lightening the load and helping to bring you into an awareness that much of what you have been told ... much of what society believes, and much of what is believed to be 'straight - gay or otherwise'- is wrong.

Sex is not dirty. Sex is not the original sin.
Sex is not X rated and sex is not only for procreation.
and sex between men is God given and right.

As gay and bisexual men, we also have a great deal of religious intolerance surrounding our lifestyle and the sooner we learn what an evil deed the church perpetrates in these matters, the sooner we can get on with living our lives - freely - sexually and in peace with ourselves and whatever God we may choose, or not, to believe in.

Since ancient times, sexuality was always seen as a holy act. These weekends introduce you to many aspects of that, and the physical, - and the spiritual,- and the emotional- and the - well - come and find out for yourself...

I look forward to welcoming you to Hamilton Hall and to what may be a life changing experience.

In Peace.

John Bellamy

Only through personal exploration can you learn what is - and what is not - for you.

* we have a 'couples only' weekend planned where couples will work with their partners throughout.

Although we say these weekends are ideal for couples to share the experience as well as being ideal for singles, we ask that if you have any issues which may cause you distress and/or anxiety, then we suggest that maybe you and/or your relationship are not ready for these workshops.  Other than the 'couples only' weekend,  we do not allow couples to work together, as everyone works with each other and we do not get to choose our partners, and any emotional baggage that you may have, while being respected, is uninvited. We intend 'taking the piss' - having a laugh - making what some may consider to be cruel jokes - NOT AT THOSE ATTENDING BUT AT LIFE IN GENERAL - and generally finding the funny side of sexuality and laughing at it, and if you have abuse, incest or any such issues surrounding sexuality that you have not 'sorted' and you feel may cause you to take offence from others who do not share your 'stuff' - then we mean absolutely no harm or disrespect in making light of certain issues and lampooning where we see fit, in order to instill healing. If you cannot accept this, then we advise you to find another workshop as we do not offer therapy and do not need individuals baggage causing distress for others.

MANY bisexual men find great warmth and acceptance from these workshops after a lifetime of seeing sexuality from a very different position than many gay men, and this can be hugely constructive. Learning acceptance of our own personal sexuality is vital for inner growth and completeness.