Offerings
Liquid Love
Liquid Love is a collective experience exploring the sensuality of flowing skin to skin contact using warm organic oil. The concept is simple: we will pour warm, fine, neutral oil on to your skin, from where it will spread out over your whole body and form a lubricious substance, which allows you to float in a sea together with other oily bodies. Everyone is invited to respect their own rhythm and limits to touch and nudity.
We invite you to move and allow yourself to be moved without intentions or sexual orientation. Releasing our usual desire to take action on erotic sensations and thoughts we invite you to be present with them and to relax into the energetic flow of the bodies around you. This is a place where you can love and be loved in an impersonal and unbound manner and above all a place to super charge your soul.
Bound 2 Dance
A simple exploration of what happens to our dances and connections when we introduce a rope or two or three…
With a beginners mind and through a suggestive regression to our childhood we will start by playing and moving by ourselves with this new ever-bending and never-stretching dance partner.
Once we feel curious and comfortable we will pair up with others that might or might not have a rope of their own and explore how these different power dynamics and these bridges can inform our physical dialogues. Finally, if time permits we will create a small rope jam where participants can freely interact with others and the ropes in the space. The work is open to everyone and focuses on the connection aspect of bondage we will however be learning one or two simple knots and going over some general guidelines to keep everyone safe and sound. (If you have your own ropes please bring them along).
Play Party
An evening of sharing in erotic connection, with a facilitated opening structure to guide us in. Vulnerability, wild and innocent play, vibrant aliveness, and sexual expansiveness is all welcome here. There are infinite ways to participate – diving into the center of a writhing puppy pile or being witnessed in an intimate encounter with one other person, taking in the space as a curious voyeur, sharing a sexy dance, having a platonic cuddle… The possibilities are wide, and the bonding is deep. The group will be encouraged to both honor personal boundaries, and hold a sense of inclusive openness towards one another.
Exploratorium
An evening of roaming about an array of participant-led stations. The exploratorium is a dynamic, co-created event. Stations at past Touch&Play festivals have included a radical permissionist fairy, kissing booth, consensual non-consent room, sensation play station, glory hole, cuddle area, 1:1 contact dance lessons, outdoor pee play, oil massage, and more. Bring your wild ideas and let’s explore!
PLAYING WITH RESTRICTIONS
In this workshop I will combine some tools of CI with a few elements of my PLAYFIGHT system.
As a base to go deep and wild we will create a high level of awareness and sensitivity in the beginning. A proper warm up and some technical exercises can allow us to invite more intensity and play with more power and strength in the second part of the session. Short moments of verbal exchange will give us a deeper understanding about the multi-layered experience and help us stay connected on a body, mind and heart level. You will find a clear structure with a lot of listening, joy and a potential for cleansing some clogged channels of suppressed power. For some people this work has included emotional openings or breakthroughs in terms of self empowerment and aliveness. Throughout the session I will keep reminding you to choose your level of intensity to play safely and finding a nice flow together. You don’t need any skills or special fitness to join – just be ready to sweat and have a second T-Shirt with you! 😉
Kink 101
This playshop is an introductory, hands-on session explaining and exploring the concepts and play or praxis of BDSM and Kink.
We will start by setting some ground rules to create a safer container and present the idea that Kink is just another way of expressing love for one another. We’ll briefly speak about the physcology and physiology of these experiences and then move into a more practical part. Highlighting the different types of Kinky interactions that people traditionally explore: Rope play, Role play, Power play and sensation play we will choose a few to dip our toes or sink our teeth into. Finally we’ll provide participants a wide array of toys and tools to examine and try out on themselves or others. As we’re bound to be a group with people with many levels of experience you might also just find someone to (literally) show you the ropes through some unstructured play time at the end.
Sexy Performances
Empower your inner-exhibitionist to take the spotlight! Flaunt your badass, playful, expressive self with a song, dance, kink demo, or anything else you’d like to offer. We will witness each other’s bravery and radiance, holding a space of support and celebration.
FUSION DANCE
Fusion Dance is improvised solo-, partner- and group-dance that draws on all sorts of different music and dance styles to make magic happen. Think ballroom but more expansive. There are no prescribed steps but I can teach you tools that make for a good dance connection, smooth movement and some serious magic. Everybody can lead, everybody can follow. No previous dance experience or partner needed.
BLINDFOLD JAM
We will step into darkness, where we interact on the dance floor with each other’s energies – rather than physical appearance. How are our dances enhanced, challenged, narrowed and expanded by removing our sense of sight? How does this affect our sense of both self and others in the relational space? A few guided exercises will lead us in, before we enter a flow of mystery and maybe some magic.
SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY THROUGH BDSM
The objective of this workshop is for you to learn how to free your spiritual self by using BDSM. I will guide you to break down parts of yourselves that are in the way of your own happiness. We will look at core wounds; core beliefs; feelings of emptiness, loneliness, or not being enough; and other self-destructive aspects of ourselves. BDSM activities will be offered to help you connect with your intuition and authentic self.
YAGNA (Fire Ceremony): Homa Therapy
In ancient times the balance of nature and the well-being of its human inhabitants were maintained by communities practicing Vedic healing fires. Remnants of these fires are found in historical records of the Celts, Inca and Native American cultures, to name only a few. Some surviving indigenous cultures still practice fire ceremonies today.
There are two basic energy systems in the physical world: heat and sound. In performing Yagna, these two energies are blended together to achieve the desired physical, psychological and spiritual benefits. By offering specific substances to the fire and singing Vedic Mantras, we will cleanse the air, the soil and our human bodies and refresh the whole ecosystem with new energy.
ZinnDa will be holding the space – an experienced facilitator who grew up in a traditional Indian Brahmin family, and is continuing his family’s vision of selfless ritualistic offerings. Performing this ritual together has a strong potential to bring us together as a group, reminding us of the connection between us as a human family and the environment.
The Sensual Fundamentals of Contact Improvisation
Explore the sixth sense of the vestibular, play with the physics of body and earth, deepen into and through layers of physical empathy, and expand into each other sensing the collective underscore…
Ground Fluid
This workshop series is about tuning into the body’s wisdom through what is called the cycle of satisfaction (yielding/pushing/reaching/pulling) and water dance (mouthing and suctioning) to awaken the body and allow the dance to dance us. Through somatic experiences, we will be remembering and embracing our embodied, playful animal nature through touch, contact and weight sharing within contact improvisation principles. We will cultivate a sense of erotic self connection, before starting to relate to others. We will then be exploring our limits in pleasure and pain, by yielding and pushing, sinking in the waters into relaxation states through mouthing and suctioning and will be coming back to earth by reaching and pulling.
GROUP PROCESSING & DISCUSSIONS
We will have space for coming together as a community each morning, plus smaller support groups to check in with each day. Different mealtimes will have facilitated discussions; we will delve into topics like polyamory, inclusivity, and ethics of spiritual/erotic tourism. There will also be mealtime check-in discussions for Latin American participants (in Spanish) and trans/nonbinary participants.
THE JELLYFISH DREAM
This is an invitation to connect with the waters that inhabit us, with the waters that carried us in the womb and continue to flow through our bodies, to the waters of the earth, to the mysteries and treasures lying in the deepest depths of the dark blue oceans, to the meeting point of earth and sea, to heartbeat. To become water, to become sea creatures. Through movement, meditation, drawing and water rhythm, to activate the flow and song of water within ourselves.
From Trauma to Tantra
At times in highly sensitive spaces when we are confronted at the edge of our sensual, sexual, and present fray, we can be in deep need of nervous system regulation. With the right tools and direct insight we can find the ability to come back into executive functioning and learn from our experiences. When immersed in our triggers and trauma responses we have a wonderful opportunity to cultivate resilience and build a road map to more mental, and physical health