Offerings

INTENSIVES

There will be 3 Intensive Classes which run parallel during most mornings of the retreat.

You pick one intensive and stay with it for the duration of the event. This allows the intensive facilitators to take their group on a journey where they can build very unique experiences. This is often one of the most memorable experiences at Touch&Play, with powerful insights, deep learning and personal transformation. 

Guilty Pleasures

CHAPTER I: FORBIDDEN         with Liisa Fatuma (they/she)

Days 1+2 of this intensive

A mission to travel to hidden places in us. 

Who else can we be if we allow it? Which uncomfortable things in us can we value? How vulnerable can we be about our weirdness? 

A kinky invitation to go into aspects of ourselves that we feel ambivalent about, hopefully have some fun with it, and maybe create more peace about how we are. 

Addressing nuances of temptation that feel slightly dark or forbidden, we will create settings of intentional power hierarchies and play with exposing, holding, maybe grabbing, pressing, slapping, scratching and more. 

No need to be experienced in the field of kink to participate, and you can always skip any part of any suggestion that we give you. If you want, you can explore and also challenge yourself here.

CHAPTER II: PERMITTED        with Tom Segal (he)

Days 3+4 of this intensive

We long to be authentic, loving and rebellious. At the same time, we long for safety, predictability, belonging and conformity.

Between these polarities, we fear mistakes. We fear hurting others, being criticized or being seen too clearly.

Do we dare to meet our shame and guilt, neither sinking into them nor running away from them? Can we let our stumblings inspire us into deeper contact with ourselves?

What would it be like to playfully compete over whose story is the most shame-soaked or guilt-loaded?

What happens when you confess your “sins” inside a church of your own design?

We will approach our shame and guilt shyly but deliberately. We will use tools from conscious BDSM and kink, playback and improvisation theatre and authentic relating.

Attuning Permeability

with David Schäppi (he/him)

At the core of this dance intensive is our ability to be permeable — in encounters, in movement, and with touch.

Our longing for flow, connection, and intimacy is tricky: these states can’t be produced on demand. Like falling asleep, they come to us. Rather than adding to our system through trying and wanting, in this workshop we investigate how to be reached, how to be moved, what is needed so the world comes to us.

Our journey begins by inhabiting the body. We dance. We play. We meet. 

We research a state of falling and expanding through relaxation — not forcing, but letting go of control and embracing the unknown. 

Falling can become flying…

I wish to create a space where we research with soft precision — where we slow down, allow the nervous system to calm, and learn to engage in relating from a place within.

Becoming Less

with Trinidad Garcia (she/her/elle/them)

A 4-day intensive of deceleration, eros, and the identities that live underneath our performances.

What are we told is sexy?

What do we do—subtly, constantly—to be accepted, chosen, desirable?

And what might we discover if we stop trying so hard?

In this intensive we practice a kind of undoing: a soft stripping-away of the “should,” the polished self, the efficient self. We slow down until we can feel the somatic body again—the body that freezes, reaches, braces, performs… and the body that can also listen, choose, and play.

We’ll work with partnered and group-based practices to meet the places where surprise, shock, or pain can pull us into stillness—and to explore what becomes possible when we have time, support, and choice. Not to force catharsis, but to widen our capacity for presence: to stay with what’s true, at the pace it wants.

Across four days we move through improvisation, butoh-inspired exploration, and psychological roleplay—inviting unfamiliar parts of us to take the lead, to speak through movement, voice, gaze, touch, and silence. We practice decentering the “main character” of our identity, and noticing the inner hierarchies that give more power to what seems grown-up, sophisticated, successful, or “together.”

We pause. We rest from the demands.

In silence, listening appears. In listening, need emerges.

From there, eros and improvisation begin.

Come if you’re curious about becoming less of what you think you should be—

and more of what you actually are, when you’re not rushed..

SINGLE CLASSES

Arvid Jense (non-binary, they/them)

Acting Upon the World, From the Inside Out

How do we act upon the world without losing ourselves in reaction, burnout, or abstraction?

This workshop invites participants into an embodied inquiry that links inner clarity with outer orientation. We begin with a short somatic exploration to sense how values, tension, and desire for action live in the body. The focus is gentle and grounding, offering a shared baseline rather than intensity.

From there, we move into a collective mapping process using paper. Participants externalize values, questions, contradictions, and longings, noticing where personal and collective concerns overlap or diverge. This visual field allows patterns to emerge beyond individual stories, making visible what often remains diffuse or internal.

The final phase brings the work back to the personal level. Participants distill what matters most right now, identifying a guiding star rather than a fixed plan. The emphasis is on setting a course that feels sustainable and honest, informed by contact with others and with the wider world.

The workshop treats Touch and Play as a rehearsal space for meaningful action, where intimacy, reflection, and responsibility meet.

Meeting the Unwelcome Guest

In conscious communities, some qualities are welcomed and others quietly pushed aside. Neediness, jealousy, power hunger, numbness, collapse, or the wish to disappear often remain unnamed, yet they shape our interactions.

This workshop offers a grounded approach to community shadow work, moving from embodied exploration into relational inquiry. We begin with movement to let the body speak, then slow down into stillness to sense what wants attention. From there, participants are introduced to a simple parts based process inspired by the Wilber 3 2 1 framework, adapted to a somatic and relational context.

Participants practice meeting an inner part or relational dynamic with curiosity rather than avoidance. Some explorations are internal, others involve witnessing or gentle contact, always with clear consent and choice.

The intention is not catharsis, but integration. By making shadow material contactable, participants gain practical tools to work with difficult inner states and collective dynamics, both in practice spaces and beyond.

Kiku Roth (she/they)

Beyond the seen

Exploring beyond the seen — the unknown within yourself and in relation to others.

Trusting yourself enough to dive into the un(fore)seen can be deeply vulnerable — and quietly rebellious. In a world that often demands speed and numbness, coming home to your body, attuning to your senses, and moving at the pace of trust and curiosity becomes an act of resistance.

This workshop is an invitation to melt into slowness and stillness. Exploring from a state of being rather than doing- vulnerable and deliciously rebellious.

This blindfolded journey begins with space to arrive in your own body, breath by breath — discovering the juiciness of movement and the touch you can offer yourself. From there, you’ll start to explore your surrounding, accompanied by another being who supports your sensory unfolding. We then move into a blindfolded Contact Improvisation Jam — dancing together beyond what can be seen. As soft, sensual, or sexy as you want it to be.

“Loose your mind
and come to your senses”
– Fritz Perls

Patriarchy in motion

FLINTAs only*

A shared experiential space to explore how patriarchal structures shape our lives and inner worlds. A place for feeling, moving and shifting what often becomes frozen, stuck or overwhelming. A body-based, community-oriented workshop for grounded vulnerability and embodied empowerment.

We begin by sensing into the ways patriarchy lives in and through us — and by meeting the emotions and wounds that come with it. Through witnessing, expression, and shared presence, we create space for what has been held alone for too long.

From there, we move toward our collective capacity for change: reconnecting with agency, resilience, solidarity, and the power of community.

You can look forward to:

• Inner work on collective themes
• Emotional expression & supported feeling
• Individual + group experiential practices
• Authentic Movement
• Embodiment & dance
• Community sharing
• Somatic ritual work

MORNING CLASSES

Barbara Bess (she/her)

Morning Classes with Somatic Practices

Through somatic practices and Contact Improvisation, we explore the fascia of the body in relation to the surrounding environment, tuning into a beginner’s mind. The morning breath of the specific space invites us to wake up on the ground, moving together with awareness and curiosity, growing gently from individual presence into a communal body.

Anchoring and resourcing practices, informed by both somatic awareness and CI principles, can become nourishing daily rituals to carry you through the days ahead.

ART & RITUALS

Anne Hüsges (she/her)

Seeing & Being Seen — A Whole Body Gazing Ritual

We look at bodies all the time. And we are being looked at all the time.

Often through lenses of desire, comparison, insecurity, the fear of not being enough or even the fear of feeling enough, shining a light, and being judged for it. Even in spaces where nudity exists “”naturally””, being truly seen and seeing other souls in their bodies often remains surprisingly difficult. This workshop invites an intentional shift: from unconscious or secret looking to conscious, open, consensual gazing.

Seeing & Being Seen is a guided whole-body gazing ritual. With clear agreements, shared consent and gentle structure, participants explore what happens when they allow themselves to look and to be looked at — openly, slowly and with presence. The practice includes gazing at the entire body, including parts we usually hide, avoid, judge, eroticize or feel insecure about. Desire, discomfort, joy, embarrassment, furiosity or neutrality are all welcome. Nothing needs to be performed or fixed.

Consent is central, with space to sense oneself, communicate boundaries and stay in choice. The ritual is for all genders, held with care, respect and attention to group dynamics.

Yoni Prints – Ritual of Feminine Expression

This workshop invites people with Yonis to explore their bodies through the creative practice of watercolor printings with the vulva. Embedded in a small, supportive circle, participants are invited to experiment, play, and reconnect with their own body.

The focus is on curiosity, presence, and discovering the Yoni in new ways. Participants are encouraged to engage at their own pace and embrace the process as it unfolds — whether the results feel satisfying or challenging. If time allows, optional breast prints can also be explored.

Community Offerings – Offered by participants

Everyone is invited to offer their superpowers to the group. Maybe you want to hold space for a focus group discussion during a meal, offer a performance or facilitate a workshop. Proposals will be selected based on the groups interests and motivations.

Evening with Eros and Kink

To be determined

By delving into the dark world of Rope, Role, Power and Sensation Play we choose a path of liberation. Confronting and embracing our shadows we hope to dispel shame , build confidence and find integrity in our boundaries and desires. This evening fusion explores the tools, terminology, and nuances of setting up scenes and/or experiences through the nuanced approaches & lenses of BDSM, Kink & Eros. Beginning with a short performance and demo, followed by Q&A with experienced players, and then flowing into self guided exploration.

Somatic Grief & Prayer Ritual

To be determined

Collectively embracing our pain and sorrows allows us to digest and transform them. Being seen and held in our grief supports genuine connection.
This ritual is centered around a simple, embodied practice inspired by the teachings of Sobonfu Somé. It invites grief, love, prayer, and presence to flow through the body, releasing what no longer serves us and cultivating more spaciousness in and around the heart.

Liquid Love

To be determined

An Immersive Sensual Experience of Communion. 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.

Exploratorium

To be determined

A space to explore the different possibilities of sensuality, play and touch. Areas to explore with a Guardian or a pair of guardians that can be replaced thru the evening. The areas would vary depending on the emergent offerings.

In a span of six days we’ll be offering a container to play and discover within the foundations of the Touch&Play Project.

We will be collectively cultivating the space to dance, discover and connect within the framework of this off the beat micro culture.

There will be a variety of facilitated classes around (the edges of) Contact Improvisation, Movement, Consent & Communication, Self-Exploration, Sensuality & Sexuality, BDSM, Nature&Wilderness, Community and Spirituality.

Also we’ll make sure there are free slots which allow time to breath, integrate, connect further or which might be space for some voluntary community offerings.

We like to keep a certain flexibility in structure for needs that arise out of the group process, such as discussions, rituals, singing circles, jams and additional creative content.

Our time together begins with an opening circle ritual and cultivating a community of care through our consent framework.

After starting together in a daily morning ritual, each morning we will have the opportunity to take one intensive and going deep with the same facilitator and group.

The afternoons will hold single classes, community offerings, ritual, and spaciousness to rest, play and integrate.

Evenings are full of dance, play and exploration.

Touch&Play is alive. The organisers reserve the right to change or make adjustments to the schedule or teaching team at any given time and with short notice.
Thank you for your understanding.

Founded in 2010 the Touch&Play Project has a rich background in facilitating and creating different fusions/compositions of learning spaces around the exploration of the “Relational Body“. Through it’s community care structures (e.g. soothe&care, peace council) it offers a safer container to invite our emotions, sexualities, body politics and power dynamics into dance and relating. Core values are inclusivity, authenticity, physicality, embodied consent, post-positive sexuality, bdsm-friendliness and community building.