April 28th – May 3rd, 2026
A rebellion of soft playful connection
You little rebel. How dare you join Touch&Play?
I am Vulnerable
Vulnerability isn’t weakness; it’s the key to intimacy and community building.
Our rebellion can start from within. How many times have we wanted to share our vulnerable parts with others and were stopped by a thought “I won’t be understood” or “It’s not worth it”? How about choosing to open this time?
Every time we take the risk to show what’s really happening inside us, and we are met with openness and care, we start to learn that it is safe to be seen, safe to find support, safe to bring more of ourselves here.
Love becomes more than attraction or comfort. It provides the freedom to explore new edges, express more fully and expand — allowing for all our complexity to come into our play.
This space that holds our light and shadows can be built over time — inside ourselves, with a partner and within a broader community.
We seek positive rebellion; trying to open softly instead of hardening, leaning into the trust that we all seek for a space where we are valued for our uniqueness.
I am a Rebel
Non Conforming & Attuned
Trusting & Empowered
Diving In & Pausing
Real & Silly
Touch & Play
I am Touch&Play
VulneRebel is our proposal to shift from focusing “up” to authority and direction, into an expansive, horizontal gaze.
This intention starts at the level of organisation. We want to expand the field you play and explore in, with more horizontal structures — sociocracy. Touch&Play Cologne 2026 is being produced by Jukka, Inge, Dennis, Alina, Ryan, Nele, Tomas and David — with Deejay in the role of advisor.
We aim to shape safer, artfully held spaces that both provide comfort and serve as a container for taking meaningful risks together.
We invite consent work, contact improv, eros, somatics, and kink to converse and intertwine, expanding our repertoire of ways to relate. We cultivate a culture that is explicitly inclusive and allows for everyone’s inspirations to shine.
—all bodies, all ages, all relationship constellations, all nervous systems valued equally—
How do you rebel?
When are you vulnerable?
We invite you to take a vow with us: To look at how we co-create our reality when relating. We believe that this is a step towards existing in harmony with humankind and ultimately the beautiful world that is our home.
Are you ready to be a VulneRebel?
Let’s Play
Touch&Play gatherings are co-creations that emerge from an intimate collaboration between the curation team, and the teachers, artists, helpers team and participants that join the retreat. We’re an experimental container and open to inspiring off-beat ideas that can support the wider Touch&Play exploration of the Relation Body.
About Touch&Play
Touch&Play is an exciting and growing global network of local communities that come together around a set of shared practices and a common culture. We’ve been organizing retreats and community gatherings since 2010 and have held events in 16 different countries and 4 different continents. Our events strike a balance between the local context and culture where a retreat takes places and the global embodied, humanistic and spiritual practices and values that underpin our work. In the end we are striving to build a deeply caring and seriously playful world where we can live authentically and in peace with ourselves and our communities.
“Leave your relationships more beautiful than you found them”
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Eros & Creativity
Kink & Self-expression
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