THE OFFERINGS
INTENSIVES
Roisin Green & Jamus Wood
The Intimate Nature of Attention
An Embodied journey into Submission and Domination
This is a journey, a somatic approach to the play of Submission and Domination where we are looking to invoke a quality of intimacy. The fundamental tool we are using here is the movement of our attention; inwards in submission and outwards in domination. To be intimate in this play, so we don’t lose ourselves in another we need to begin by cultivating a deeper ground within.
We will start with a movement journey into nature to take time and space to arrive, to discover the mutuality of journeying inside and opening out into the world around us. Through Body Mind Centering we will access the intimate sensorial experience of our own bodies through the digestive system to open a sense of inner pleasure. And from a base of enquiry and ritual play we will explore the dance of attention as a group, in pairs, with toys and without. And then meeting each other in rituals of submission and domination we learn this intimate and creative language of attention.
Dino Spiri
Balance – Approaching a moving target
In order to playfully explore anything beyond or outside one’s own bodily and mental structures, a strong, unshakable connection to oneself is incredibly helpful. If you know how to contact that realm within yourself that is untouchable and where you are always safe, reaching out to others, provoking, inviting, seducing, tickling, touching & playing becomes easy and delightful. This Contact Improvisation intensive will offer structures and tools to explore learning yourself through sensing yourself. We will practice meditation and take time to slow down, so we can dive deep into sensing and detailed movement. As the body unwinds, your ability to fully taste sensations increases manyfold, your curiosity gets sparked, your range of choices expands. In order to connect to others we will practice unintentional touch. This quality of physical touch is very respectful and creates trust. From this place it is rather easy to find a gateway into anything else – excitement, detail, playfulness… you name it. CI technique will be our basis and common language to communicate and play with. Revisiting fundamental aspects of CI technique will be part of this intensive.
Beata & Peter
Too Hot to Handle – a handleable T&P edition
Stranded on a lonely island a bunch of horny people are prohibited to make out and therefore glimpse into desire’s intriguing ways. They not only get miraculously more turned on, but are also challenged with their subconscious patterns. Inspired by the infamous Netflix show of the same title, this intensive will care-, nerdy- and playfully explore its arousing balancing acts between: a) teasing with denied fulfillment b) doing what one shouldn’t be doing c) overcoming the previously ambiguous. And the tempting prize money for us will be a goldworthy adaptation: a deeper understanding of your own desire! Because the fun & games will serve as a harvest-ground to go deeper by creating unique maps of our psyches, including longings, needs, habits etc, using an experience-oriented psychotherapeu- tic tool called ‘idiographic system modelling’. With this, the different experiences in the experimental exercises can be understood and processed. So called structure-bound mechanisms of action can be addressed in order to not automatically following old patterns, but checking if they’re still helpful in the current situation. Novelty and compassion will be enabled. Treasures found.
SINGLE CLASSES
Mx. Gili
50 shades of No
An embodied shadow-journey through love, power and compliance. Using somatic inquiry and conscious kink to explore our unconscious habits and patterns around asking for what we want and rejecting what we don’t. Working mostly in alternating pairs, this is a personal journey supported by fellow travellers as a hall of mirrors.
Imraan Ismail
Extracting Gold from the hidden Places
“To confront a person with their shadow is to show them their own light.” Carl Jung
A playful, grounding exploration into our shadows, the dark spaces where so much hidden gold is stored, putting this into motion with conscious movement practice, with curiosity, organically finding new pathways to play, releasing stuck energy and dropping into new experiences. We start with exploring the inner world within ourselves. Then we expand our attention outwards, diving in to explore the vast territory that exists between exploring in threes and then dissolving into groups. This is a conscious movement workshop with music.”
Imraan Ismail
Feral Play – Following the Body’s Senses
Would you like to connect with others from a sensual, awakened body, the senses stimulated the body awakened.
We start with awakening the body in a primal way, stimulated by sound, touch, whispers…
Ulli Wittemann
SENSING THE WE IN US
What is it that we seek, when we come together to connect, share, learn and enjoy the magic of an intentional gathering?
In this workshop I will offer you an opportunity to experience deep connection, intensity and joy. A strong connection to myself will pave the ground for nourishing moments with others. What are the ingredients to feel the trust for opening up, for sharing my sensitivity, my power, my playfulness and vulnerability in an authentic way? What gives me that sensation of being welcome as I am? What enables us to not only create a moment of connection with one person but feeling home with a whole group of people? In my research with Acting, CI, my PLAYFIGHT system, working with boundaries, nature, movement and communication for 25 years I found a couple of qualities and tools, which seem to make it fairly easy to create such moments of shared bliss and lasting nourishment. You will find an enjoyable mix of clearly structured exercises, moments of verbal reflection, space for your questions and free play. Let’s move, be still, touch and listen, feeling ourselves and others as if we were one and being in touch with our heart.
DAILY OFFERINGS
So-Sein Sascha
Early Morning in your very Middle
We will celebrate our outbreaths and by itself evolving movements, initiated by classical Yoga Asanas to fully expand our so called “inner guest-house”
In order to host our-Selves thoroughly, embodying more and more. All just to celebrate real self-love. Every morning So-Sein Sascha will invite you to feel even more safe and pleasant in your own body. Discover the subtle authentic movement aspect of your Yoga Asana and enjoy the deep allowance of you breathing-out.
Aquila Sunrise
Soulful and groovy circle singing
Joining voices together in collaborative self-expression, we tune into ourselves and each other, exploring pop songs, mantras, rainbow vibes, you name it. Making it all deep and heartfelt, yet light and playful.
RITUALS
Daniel J. Hayes
Liquid Love
The Liquid Love RItual is a collective journey of the senses. It is an exploration of sensuality in its purest form and can invoke a strong feeling of love for oneself, one’s community and for life itself! Warm, organic coconut oil is poured onto your skin, from where it will spread over your whole body and form a lubricious substance, which allows you to engage in flowing skin to skin contact and float in a sea together with other oily bodies. Everyone is invited to respect their own rhythm and limits to touch and nudity. Allow yourself to be moved without intentions or sexual orientation. Be present with erotic sensations and thoughts but rather than act on them, 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.
Bilal Nasim
The Deep River: Dancing with Grief and Eros
There is a balance between grief and eros – they are intimately connected, each can be a gateway for the other, and a deepening of our relationship with one can deepen our relationship with the other.
Many of us will have experienced moments where deep eros and intimacy with ourselves or another can make way to grief, or the journey into grief can open into the aliveness and charge of eros. This can happen in large or small ways, but more often than not, it is by ‘accident’, something of a passing curiosity.
In this open ritual we explore the connection between grief and eros with intention and safety. We will work with a modified version of Joanna Macy’s ‘bowl of tears’ grief ritual, where individuals will be able to step into a circle to express their grief and be witnessed. This will be followed by an opportunity for individuals to explore their erotic field, either solo or with a pre-chosen partner. This will be a guided eros practise involving touch and mindfulness, and will be a non-penetrative space.
benji in the role of the trickster martyr scapegoat witch human sacrifice
PL ease U are PL(play&love)Ease Play & Ground
YOUR PRESENCE
Touch&Play from its inception has been based on questions rather than answers. We don’t pretend to know what it is that you want or need nor what you will actually take with you from your time with us.
We frame out spaces as being both Experimental and Experiential and invite you to be the principal author of your journey. Through that lens we gift the opportunity to contribute to and enrich the journeys of those around you. We form an (a)temporal and interdependent community where all our thoughts, feelings and actions are woven together in a rich relational web.
How do you want to show up in this tribe and what do you want to offer? As you step in and become familiar with our practices and culture, you will see many ways of adding your grain of salt. Perhaps you feel called to join our Soothe & Care Team or hold a booth at the Exploratorium; maybe you decide to sign up for an extra chore or propose a community offering or affinity group. The ways of stepping up are many and you get to feel into how you weave yourself in.
We welcome everyone to step in…
We aren’t just creating an event to come experience, Touch&Play cultivates community. It takes all of us stepping-in to co-create a safer space. This event is also more enriched and enlivened by what we all weave into it. Everyone who is not holding a role, will be asked to sign up for clean shifts. We also will be inviting you to consider stepping-in in other ways.
Some of the ways include offering something during the Performance Night or Exploratorium, sharing a Community Offering, hosting a meal time Affinity Group, facilitating a jam or supporting a ritual.
COMMUNITY OFFERINGS
Pre-event, participants will be invited to submit proposals for a 1.5 hour community offering. This could be a workshop or guided experience. A limited number will be selected to facilitate during one of the afternoons. Instead of a class, possible experiences that could be offered are: *Massage and Chocolate Lounge, *Erotic Storyhour Naptime, *Fortune-telling booth, *Cuddle Puddle.
SOOTHE & CARE TEAM
The Soothe&Care Team is a group of volunteers who are available throughout the event for inner-personal support. The intention is to cultivate a community of co-regulation. Volunteers attend one pre-event video meeting and a required in-person training meeting at 3pm the day the event begins. Volunteers choose when they have the capacity to be of support which can look like deep listening, breathing together, offering validation, or taking a walk.
More ways to support and feel supported…
SHARING GROUPS
We invite all the participants to be part of a small group and engage actively every day in a specific time created for that.
Sharing groups is one of the ways to support the integration of the T&P experience. It’s about listening, sharing and feeling part with our diverse and wild realities.
PEACE COUNCIL
In case some interpersonal support is needed during the event we have conflict support and mediation.
MEDICAL & EMERGENCY SUPPORT TEAM
When you register please let us know if you are a medical doctor/counselor/therapist/first aid trained or crisis intervention specialist and are open to being contacted by an organizer during the festival in case of an emergency (NB. this is an anonymous list and you wont be contacted by participants directly).