Intensive Teachers
Atilla Çıdam & Olivia Nichole
Atilla Çıdam & Olivia Nichole Atilla is a heart guide with a mission to empower you to embody your most vibrant, authentic self in the world without excuses or limits. Using his training in tantra, conscious kink, Erotic Blueprints, sacred medicine, movement, and...
Dr. Hazel-Grace Yates
Dr. Hazel-Grace Yates (they/she) is radical permissionist and pleasure warrior here to help eradicate global toxic sexual shame. Through her compassion, playful and dynamic facilitation, she is endlessly passionate about humans celebrating their bodies, soul and sex....
Kathleen Rea and Leslie Heydon
Dancing into Place and the Collective Sensual Experience: A dance based workshop intensive that explores sensuality. The underpinnings of this work are the special blend formed by Kathleen (Cat Ray) and Leslie (Madame Lou Lou) along with their personal experience and...
Headliner Teachers
Kelindah Bee Schuster
Kelindah Bee Schuster Kelindah Bee is a draglesque artist known as Theydy Bedbug, and an educator at Brooklyn Arts Exchange. In performance, they use caricature, lip sync, embodied movement and striptease to reclaim their body, queer the youth, unsettle gender and...
CJ O’Reilly
CJ is a passionate communitarian, dancer, martial artist, and life-as-artist, and community organizer. They conspire for a world where dance and physical expression are commonplace and even taken for granted, rather than a spectacle. They currently live in Asheville, NC.
JWow
JWow I/We are JWow, The Urban Bliss Shaman™. I/We come to sacred gatherings to pray and hone my/our praxis of living fully into an isness of seculospiritual-love-in-action. Through contiguous glatitude; Erootic™ movements; and shine-and-shadow...
Organizer Team
Daniel (DJ) Hayes – Touch&Play Co-Organizer
Founder of Touch&Play, Dani is also a medical doctor, public health scientist, eco-anarchist & practical idealist. He’s been playing, dancing, meditating and conversing CI for over a decade.
Moti Zemelman – T&P Director/Producer
Moti Zemelman, MFA, began practicing Contact Improvisation 33 years ago. Over the past 26 years he has taught and performed across USA, Canada, Central America, Mexico, Europe and Israel.
Béu Tornaghi – Touch&Play Co-Organizer
Born in BraSil, citizen of the world, Béu has been traveling between the USA, BraSil, and Europe for several years, dancing, offering Somatic Movement Therapy & Education, as well as Translation & Interpreting
Staff
Andrew Kalleen – Musician
Andrew Kalleen I believe in the essential nature of song—the power of music to ease, penetrate, uplift, overwhelm, and unify. It is the most potent magic I have encountered. I’ve found immense fulfillment as a steward of the sonic space in gatherings throughout my...
Chaya Leia Aronson – Grief Ritual Facilitator
Chaya has maintained a private practice offering Maya Abdominal Massage, Holistic Pelvic Care and Health and Sexuality Coaching for over a decade in the Northampton MA area and virtually. She has great passion for and skill in supporting people to find authentic...
Shay Au Lait – Inclusivity Team Leader
Shay Au Lait Equal parts playfully innocent and dangerously kinky, Shay Au Lait is a provocative, intoxicating Sorcerer hailing from the Windy City. (Chicago, IL) Shay is a Producer, Performer, and Instructor specializing in burlesque, cabaret, pole dance, go-go, and...
Lior Allay – Photographer
Lior Allay (they/them) is a non-binary, disabled artist & light alchemist on a quest to manifest an empathy utopia. “You’ll find no photographer with more enthusiasm + energy.” I’m wildly passionate about creating authentic imagery that invites surrealism...
Aeric Meredith-Goujon – Photographer
Aeric Meredith-Goujon is a visual artist working primarily in photography. Raised in Southern Indiana, Aeric came to New York City to continue his education and he earned his MFA in photography from Pratt Institute in 1999. Animated by the thrill of spiritual inquiry...
Brett Roche – Sous Chef
Brett Roche - Sous Chef
Dietrich McGaffey – Head Chef
Dietrich McGaffey - Head Chef (Edible Alchemy Foods) Dietrich McGaffey is a satyr with many hats. Village Witch, Apothecary Technician, Sauceror, Herbalisto, Yoga Maestro, Dionysian Devotee, Lunatic. Founder of Edible Alchemy Foods and Botanica Yoga, Dietrich travels...
Hazel Turrone – Soothe & Care Team Lead
Hazel Turrone - Soothe & Care Team Lead I have been exploring the realms of alternative healing for almost 30 years, in particular through the forms of physical bodywork, energetic healing, herbal medicine, shamanism, and ancestral lineage repair. As a...
Liv Frank – Inclusivity Team Lead
Liv Frank - Inclusivity Team Lead Liv is a relational and somatic explorer, facilitator of growth and intimacy, and community cuddle fairy. She holds events through BodyPrayer, that delve into embodiment, connection, and radical community building. She is also a...