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Exploring the Relational Body and the edges of Contact Improvisation To move with physics is to realize your body.

To dance with chemistry is to accept your soul. Combining both could be the most exhilarating thing you've ever done!

10/05/2026

Asha is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, integrative bodyworker, aquatic therapist, facilitator, and dancer whose work guides the body toward functional fluidity through an ongoing apprenticeship to embodiment, liberation, and integrity in movement and connection.

As a mover and practitioner, Asha’s practice has been shaped by the Contact Improvisation, Axis Syllabus, aquatic dance and freediving, contemporary dance and Playfight.

In both his personal practice and facilitation, he orients towards experiences that cultivate an available, responsive body; trust in relationship to gravity and ground; and presence within disorientation and change.

He holds a BA from Hampshire College in integrative psychology, medical anthropology, and cognitive science, and trained as a Certified Massage Therapist at the McKinnon Body Therapy Center.

As a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, his work draws on SE, parts-based approaches, and Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry. As an aquatic therapist, Asha has studied Aguahara and Fluid Presence in Brazil, Mexico, and Spain. He offers aquatic workshops and retreats between California and Europe, and works as a somatic counselor, bodyworker, and facilitator.

www.escolacqua.com

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✨TOUCH&PLAY Q***R 2026👽
🌿SECRET GARDEN🌿

📆 Nov 29-Dec 5 2026
📍 CAMP – Zipolite, Mexico

👉More Info & registration in bio

🧚🏼‍♀️Come as you are.
🌱Come be part of the shift.

09/29/2026

At this Touch&Play gathering, we invite our LGBTQ+ community to immerse ourselves in a dedicated space for intimately exploring the relational body and our erotic existence. Our journey centers on Contact Improvisation, caring kink, authentic connection, and a culture of consent. Together, we carve out an uplifting sanctuary for q***r joy, shared grief, honest expression, and embodied liberation as we embrace the expansion and edges of our eros.

We are so excited to finally offer this container—a dream years in the making, born from our collective yearning for q***r, embodied, and community-led explorations of the relational body. After seasons of envisioning and longing, we gather now to co-create what we have all been seeking: a space where our q***rness, our bodies, and our ways of relating are not just welcomed, but celebrated and centered.

Secret Garden is created for those of us who identify as LGBTQ+, offering an intentional container for q***r exploration and connection. We gather in the privacy of CAMP in Zipolite, Mexico—just a leisurely five-minute stroll from the vibrant, welcoming nudist beach. We are grateful for the opportunity to express our sensuality freely in this colorful, accepting corner of Mexico.

Step into the Secret Garden and discover the magic of coming together in community. Let’s celebrate our identities, engage in meaningful interactions, and cultivate a deeper understanding of ourselves and each other!

Are we ready to meet each other at our edges, with curiosity and care?

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✨TOUCH& PLAY Q***R 2026👽
🌿SECRET GARDEN🌿

📆 Nov 29-Dec 5, 2026
📍 CAMP – Zipolite, Mexico

👉More Info & registration in bio

🧚🏼‍♀️Come as you are.
🌱Come be part of the shift.

Link in BIO

09/21/2026

ShiatsuRazz/Critter Cacho-Nguyen is a q***r, trans, two-spirit relationship anarchist who facilitates monthly Xukawa Circles, inviting people in to build authentic connection and community through the practice of indigenous circle practice.

They are a trained conflict mediator and restorative practices facilitator, currently in school working towards their MSW with the goal to offer native group therapy and q***r, poly relationship therapy.

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✨TOUCH&PLAY Q***R 2026👽
🌿SECRET GARDEN🌿

📆 Nov 29-Dec 5 2026
📍 CAMP – Zipolite, Mexico

👉More Info & registration in bio

🧚🏼‍♀️Come as you are.
🌱Come be part of the shift.

Link in Bio for more info

09/20/2026

Kelindah Bee (aka Theydy Bedbug) is an educator, trans inclusion-consultant, performer, and producer.

They grew up in Indonesia and Singapore and since 2016, have performed in venues throughout NYC and beyond as their drag alter ego, “Theydy Bedbug.” Kelindah has been an artist fellow with Q***r | Art, EmergeNYC, a resident artist with Siren Arts: TRANSFORMER and Musical Theatre Factory, and a NYSCA and BAC grantee. They have been profiled by THEM, The NY Times, and Rolling Stone.

In 2021 they founded the now biannual Drag Performance: Between & Beyond Gender program at BAX and currently facilitate Drag Performance workshops in NYC and Vermont. Additionally, they work as a Gender Expression and Identity consultant facilitating workshops and professional development training for clinics and non-profit organizations across the US.

They also facilitate public school residencies in Brooklyn focused on using performing arts to interrupt instances of identity-based harm and build empathy across difference.

In addition to teaching, they sporadically tour the US and Canada with NY Times Bestseller, Amanda Montell, for “The Big Magical Cult Show.” Their performances encourage audience members to expand their own self-expression.

In their performing and education work, they believe that fostering spaces of genderful play is one pathway to collective liberation.

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✨TOUCH&PLAY Q***R 2026👽
🌿SECRET GARDEN🌿

📆 Nov 29-Dec 5 2026
📍 CAMP – Zipolite, Mexico

👉More Info & registration in bio

🧚🏼‍♀️Come as you are.
🌱Come be part of the shift.

Link in Bio

09/16/2026

Murry
Organizer

Murry (fae/they/she/eyeball) lives devotionally to the meandering magic of the Muse.

Fae shapeshifts between and beyond archetypal roles of boundless bard, dream druid, death doula, & cosmic clown creature. Their offerings are a convergence of creativity, connectivity, sensuality & ritual.

Murry has facilitated several intensives and labs at Touch & Play Mexico, US & UK, exploring the ecosensual & archetypal somatics of intimate explorations of play.

Both a contact dancer & vocal improviser, the union of movement and sound is at the core of their practice of somatic instrumentation.

In reverence & revelry- Eye am so delighted to play and pray with you all.

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Igna Alem
T&P Work&Play Coordinator
Organizer

Genderfluid, q***r, poly and neurospicy human. Part mischievious, part gentle guide.

Always a curious explorer and N-egotiator at heart. Whether leading a group into laughter or holding space for quiet reflection, I make an effort to bring a playful spark and a grounded presence to every Touch&Play gathering.

My life is a colorful tapestry of travel, family constellations, relations and co-creating communities that span continents.

For over a decade, I’ve been part of an artisanal and local cheese cooperative that I started in Cochabamba, Bolivia, where I was born and raised. These days you’ll find me more often behind the scenes, handling the admin magic.

I’m also the Work&Play coordinator, co-creating with the local teams the T&P events that happen all over the world.
Excited to be back in mass for this edition to real-ate with you.

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✨TOUCH&PLAY Q***R 2026👽
🌿SECRET GARDEN🌿

📆 Nov 29-Dec 5 2026
📍 CAMP – Zipolite, Mexico

👉More Info & registration in bio

🧚🏼‍♀️Come as you are.
🌱Come be part of the shift.

09/14/2026

Trini - Trinidad García Espinosa

Intensive Teacher

Found the colective Deria + rectificadora in 2001. Dedicated her life to the somatic bodies, contact Improvisation, s*x education, postfeminism, gender politics, and ENM relationships. Activist, performer, choreographer, somatic mover and therapist.

Fundó colectivo Deria + rectificadora en 2001,dedicada a las cuerpas somáticas, contact improvisación, educación s*xoafectiva , postfeminismo, políticas género y relaciones no- monogamas. Activista , performer, coreógrafa, movimento somático y terapeuta. Dedicada a la formación y prevención de violencia de género y coeducación s*xual afectiva.

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✨TOUCH&PLAY Q***R 2026👽
🌿SECRET GARDEN🌿

📆 Nov 29-Dec 5 2026
📍 CAMP – Zipolite, Mexico

👉More Info & registration in bio

🧚🏼‍♀️Come as you are.
🌱Come be part of the shift.

09/07/2026

Maybe the question isn't what will happen?

Maybe it's...

what might become possible if you stopped trying to know?

At Touch&Play, we enter the space between us with curiosity.

We move.
We touch.
We dance.
We listen.
We play.

We explore boundaries, desire, intimacy, pleasure, uncertainty, and all the beautiful things that can emerge when we become more present to ourselves and to one another.

There is no single way to experience Touch&Play.

For some, it's a dance.
For others, a deep conversation.
A surprising connection.
A boundary discovered.
A new friendship.
A moment of surrender.
A little more courage to be seen.

And sometimes...

something emerges between two or more people that belong to neither of them.

A third dance.
A shared rhythm.
A possibility that neither could have created alone.

🌿 This is Touch&Play.

A playground for the relational body.

And if something in you is already whispering “I want to experience this…”

Stay close.

✨ Touch&Play 2027 is coming.

Our 2027 editions are taking shape, and the dates will be announced very soon.

Maybe one of them will be the place where you meet something—or someone—you didn't know you were looking for.

Come curious.
Come alive.
Come play.

09/02/2026

Maybe you're not looking for another festival.

Maybe you're looking for something
you can't quite name.

Move.
Touch.
Play.
Connect.

What happens between us
when we become more available?

TOUCH&PLAY
The relational body as a playground.

LINK IN BIO

08/21/2026

Embody your existential kink.
Role play your archetypal edges.
Explore fears and desires in a group setting rooted in consent, care and creativity.

In 1995, E.R.O.S (Embodied Rituals of Summoning) opened its doors: a psychosomatic laboratory in Western Massachusetts whose mission is to create a liminal bridge to the Otherworld.
After decades of research, last year an incredible breakthrough was made.
Now they have called together a carefully chosen circle of psychonauts to hold the bridge open. Will you step across?

Join us for a world-building weekend where we collectively create a shared imaginal reality in which archetypes are real, spirits have agency, and our bodies are the portal.

Participants will play as characters with a unique intention to connect with the Otherworld: as lovers, shadow dancers, explorers, alchemists, and earth stewards.
Over the course of the weekend, players will explore being moved, influenced, or even overtaken by these forces discovering what happens when the boundary between self and archetype begins to blur.

This is an advanced container for those with extensive experience in Touch&Play and/or other adjacent psycho-somatic practices. The intention of the weekend is to create a shared mythic frame, a magical circle in which participants can experiment with their edges in a slightly altered reality.

✨TOUCH& PLAY LARP IMMERSION👽
🧝🏼‍♂️🧌DEMONS TO DAIMONS, MONSTERS TO MOTHERS🧚🏼‍♀️🧚🏼‍♂️

📆 Oct 29- Nov 1st, 2026
📍 Earhtdance– Plainfield, MA

👉More Info & registration in bio

🧜🏼🧜🏼‍♂️Come as you are.
🌱Come be part of the shift.

08/16/2026

*✨ Touch&Play Barcelona*
*Gathering Community*
*📅 October 9-12, 2026*

We’re meeting this fall in Barcelona for a weekend of *play, authenticity, discovery* and to keep building our community together 🌿

This will be an intimate gathering.
We’ll all begin together, and then you get to choose: stay for *1 night, 2 nights, or 3 nights* 🏡

*Reserve your spot with 50€* and pay the rest in cash on arrival 💶

We have a sliding scale to keep it accessible. Prices depend on accommodation type, your capacity to pay, and if you’ve joined an event with us before:

- *1 night: 111€ - 155€*
- *2 nights: 199€ - 277€*
- *3 nights: 299€ - 366€*

*What’s included:*
🛏️ Bed in a shared room OR camping/caravan space
🌱 Facilitation + community care
🍽️ 3 delicious vegetarian meals per day
🧖 Sauna + 🏊 Pool
📍 Venue in the beautiful Montseny forest, just a 10 min drive from Sant Celoni train station

*More info & contact:*
🌐 http://touchandplay.org/barcelona
💬 WhatsApp: http://wa.me/+34697903042
📧 [email protected]

Come as you are. We’d love to see you there! 🥳✨

*✨ Touch&Play Barcelona*
*Encuentro de Comunidad*
*📅 9-12 de Octubre, 2026*

Este otoño nos encontramos en Barcelona para un fin de semana de *juego, autenticidad, descubrimiento* y para seguir tejiendo comunidad juntas 🤝🌿

Será un encuentro pequeño e íntimo.
Empezamos todas juntas, y tú eliges: quedarte *1 noche, 2 noches o 3 noches* 🏡

*Reserva tu plaza con 50€* y paga el resto en efectivo al llegar 💶

Tenemos precio con escala móvil para que sea accesible. Depende del tipo de alojamiento, tu capacidad de pago y si has participado en un evento antes:

- *1 noche: 111€ - 155€*
- *2 noches: 199€ - 277€*
- *3 noches: 299€ - 366€*

*Incluye:*
🛏️ Cama en habitación compartida O espacio para camping/caravana
🌱 Facilitación + cuidado de la comunidad
🍽️ 3 comidas vegetarianas deliciosas al día
🧖 Sauna + 🏊 Piscina
📍 El espacio está en el bosque de Montseny, a solo 10 min en coche de la estación de tren de Sant Celoni

*Más info y contacto:*
🌐 http://touchandplay.org/barcelona
💬 WhatsApp: http://wa.me/+34697903042
📧 [email protected]

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