Touch&Play is an international festival - a sexy, adventurous, embodied and deeply heart-centered family - that has found its way to the shores of Mexico.

Touch&Play is a branch off of the contact improvisation (CI) dance community; while traditional CI asks what happens when two physical bodies meet, we ask what happens when two alchemical humans meet. We will research, experientially, these questions around the nuances of social dynamics.

We will explore ourselves as relational beings, in relational bodies. We can delve into our relationships to ourselves, to each other, to the natural world, and to the divine (whatever that means for each of us!).

Touch&Play events entail facilitated workshops, daily morning circles and evening activities, small-group processing & peer support, discussion groups, embodied rituals, participant-led offerings, and many emergent shenanigans.

The main tenets of our work:
-Contact improvisation, somatics & dance.
-Nature connection and spirituality.
-Boundaries, consent, conscious sexuality, and power play.
-Tribe, inclusivity, and sustainable living.

Practices we draw upon include:
authentic movement, performance and witnessing, BDSM, gender f*ckery, primal play, rope play, ecosexuality, expressive arts, grief work, radical honesty, Nonviolent Communication, conflict transformation and restorative justice.

For more information, visit our Facebook event.

Calling in artists, activists, ritualists, visionaries, earth lovers, emotional intelligence nerds, healers, bodyworkers, witches, somatic practitioners, sacred sluts. 

To cross pollinate, co-create, and bask in a liberatory community. 

To cultivate a microcosmic culture of authenticity, empowered consent, embodied presence, earth connection, deep compassion, reciprocity, wild creativity, sex and body positivity, platonic intimacy, and community nurturance. 

Welcome to Hopeful Gathering.

A co-creative retreat for artists, activists, ritualists, earth lovers, healers, bodyworkers, facilitators, witches, somatic practitioners, sacred sluts. 

To rejuvenate, cross pollinate, co-create, and bask in liberatory community. 

To cultivate a microcosmic culture of radical inclusion, empowered consent, embodied presence, earth connection, deep compassion, reciprocity, wild creativity, sex and body positivity, platonic intimacy, and community nurturance. 

With reverence, we extend our arms open, and welcome you into a container of holding, expressing, embodying, and releasing the grief that you may carry.

As we collectively transition out of quarantine, finally able to gather again, we see this prime opportunity to come together and do the necessary work of processing our personal and communal grief. The past year and a half has held untold pain from isolation, virus and death, political tumult, racist state violence, more and more mass shootings, and an ever-unfolding climate crisis. So many of our personal lives experienced disruption and breakdown throughout the pandemic, reflecting the larger collapse of unsustainable, uncaring systems around us.

Grieving - full, messy, unfiltered grieving - is an essential medicine for an ailing, heartsick soul. Here in the west, we often lack the space and support - even the knowledge and skills - to fully delve into a complete, cathartic grieving experience - particularly one that is communally held. In response, we feel called to create opportunities to learn about, and practice, the powerful art of processing grief.

We invite you to join us for a three-part gathering. We will form a deeply supportive community, learning how to hold each other as we step bravely, humbly, and open-heartedly into grief. Together, we will be present with whatever comes up, and allow space for whatever needs to unfold, to move, to die, or to come alive.