20 - 25 February 2024 (Retreat)

25-28 February (Integration days)

Marie Murray

Marie Murray

offers Our Nature: Sauvage

Marie/Murry (fae/they/she/eyeball) is delighted to play and pray with you all! A song weaver, dream druid, death doula, cosmic clown, & forest dweller. Fae paint space with ruminative, playful and etheric strokes. Last year’s Touch & Play Mexico, they facilitated an intensive called “Mythic Mirror” that explored the mythopoetic landscape of our bodies stories through somatics & rituals. Both a contact dancer & vocal improvisor, the union of movement and sound is at the core of their practice of somatic instrumentation. Marie/Murry are so delighted to play and pray with you all! At this years workshop “Our Nature Sauvage” we will explore the primal divine nature & play of the elemental body.

Insta: @maythemuses

Pilar Echavarria

Pilar Echavarria

offers Thresholds

Somatic mover, nomad dancer, a researcher of states of dance, Subbody Butoh Midwife, Water healer and therapist, holistic Artist and Architect. Since 2006, I dedicated and focus on dancing, studying and researching the body through different arts and techniques of Improvisation, Movement, Somatic Arts, Aquatic Healing and Psychosomatic disciplines like: Butoh, Contact Improvisation, BMC, Continuum Movement, Authentic Movement, WaterDance, Fluid Presence, Mindfullness, among others. A research that takes place essentially in an experiential dimension based on listening, presence and trust in our body as an antenna, an instrument, a temple … This path has been a subtle, deep and bold diving into the Self; learning and guiding, creating, healing and performing, living and travelling through inner and outer landscapes, water and nature paradises.

https://www.facebook.com/pilara.echavarria/

Ximena Velasco

Ximena Velasco

offers From Sacred Intimacy to our Animal Body

I’m Ximena, from Mexico. I have a special interest and curiosity for Intimacy as Human BEINGS, How we experience our inner world? What is it made of? Which colors, smells, images, TEXTURES, sensations, sounds, etc, makes our inner universe ours? Intimacy has taken me to explore and study it in so many forms, shapes, expressions, in my own country and around the world. Since I was very young Dance came into my life and it was a gift to feel a space were I could move and feel my self living in this body, no words were needed and that was so Iiberating, after almost 30 years later I keep having the same feeling every time I do movemnet-dance. My work today is a meaningfull combinations of Embodiment and Presence, Emotions and Creativity, Imagination with Sensitivity, Playfulness with Responsibility, Transformation through Movment, Integration as a way of Freedom. Intimacy is a fascinating place that I keep coming back and going out again and again, as a Sacred way of living life. Im a mother, a dancer, a Somatic therapist, a lover of medicinal plants and flowers, I love touch as a way of communicating, I’m playful women that’s in a journey of becoming…

Insta: Ximenalila

Kaviar Dragón

Kaviar Dragón

offers Cultivating Presence and Letting Go

Kaviar is a lover, a dancer, a vessel for transmitting and expanding consciousness, and a creator. With a background in medical sciences and anatomy, Kaviar then found yoga and Tantra. His spiritual path became his true calling, as a wanderlust, change maker, and community organizer. Currently based in Mazunte, Mexico and born & raised in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, Kaviar is a facilitator, organizer and supporter at several trainings, festivals and events in Latin America, the United States and Europe, with workshops and events ongoing, including: organizing and facilitating Touch&Play Mexico, Awakening Sense retreat.

Certified in teaching Tantra and Hatha yoga (400hr RYT), and experienced and practicing in other trainings and techniques (ISTA Practitioner Trained, Osho, Thai Yoga Massage, Contact Improvisation);

Kaviar continues to offer vectors for healing and expansion with a heart to the divine.

To learn more visit: https://lnk.bio/KaviarDragon

Leela Kelley

Leela Kelley

offers Somatic Grief Ritual

Leela is a somatic therapist, astrologer, bodyworker, and ritualist. Also a clown, a kitty, a tree-whisperer, a weed-witch, a friend, a song catcher, a devotee of Venus, a phone call away from the Magician; a Cancer moon, she likes soft things.

Insta: 5th.house.venus

Aquila Sunrise

Aquila Sunrise

Musician

Aquila is a certified vibeologist and a seeker of Enbrightenment, with deep passion for communication, especially the language of music. Receptive and heartfelt approach is a common thread running through the variety of his instruments and styles, from ambient soundscapes, through groovy beats to soulful circle-singing.

@aquila_sunrise

Celia Schann

Celia Schann

Musician

Lûmenia (aka Célia Schann) is a French violinist and singer doing “Transformative Performances”, developing new concepts combining music and performance with healing and nature. The award-winning artist has been passionately working as a chamber musician and soloist on national and international stages since studying violin at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin and has played in numerous renowned orchestras.

https://linktr.ee/celiaschann

Gerardo Mercado

Gerardo Mercado

Photographer

Ger Merc its a Mexican photographer based in Oaxaca. Working in film and advertising industry but developing his artistic body of work around topics like identity, embodiment, anti racism and decolonial ideas.

Insta: @ger.merc

Michael Princess

Michael Princess

T&P essential

Wanderer, art appreciator, community lover, mischievous instigator, connection seeker. Honored to be part of the Touch&Play team co-creating containers for playful, kinky, vulnerable exploration in community

Mara

Mara

T&P Social Project Manager

As a beginner on the path of a sannyasin, I am a woman (mujer) in search of presence, calmness, and being aware. I challenge my fears and traumas, processing them in a loving and grateful way, to transcend my being, my freedom and live in existence in a social way. I am Mexican, an aerial dance teacher for almost 15 years, I have a degree in contemporary dance and I am a Community Manager for some brands. Right now, Touch&Play is the biggest project I am in love with.

Queralt Jorba

Queralt Jorba

T&P Global coordinator

A psychologist and psychotherapist with expertise in human relationships, trauma work, and personal growth. She holds a master in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and in Somatic Experiencing.

Queralt boasts over a decade of experience in the fields of Psychology and Dance. She has cultivated a specialisation in assisting couples who feel they tread an unconventional path.

She has been living in intentional communities for years gaining deep knowledge about group dynamic and organisations culture. Currently, she splits her time between Catalonia, where her roots lie, and Western Massachusetts.

Her daily choices, the way she raises her kids, and her livelihood represent her means of contributing to making the world a better place.

Queralt has dedicated herself to nurturing and sustaining the Touch&Play organisation since its inception. She enjoys accompanying people who want to join this inspiring community.

Daniel J. Hayes

Daniel J. Hayes

T&P Founder

Dr. Daniel J. Hayes is a medical doctor and holds a Ph.D. from the Liverpool school of Tropical medicine where he engaged in Malaria research funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also the founder of the Touch&Play Movement and the Vidàlia eco-village an hour outside of Barcelona (vidalia.coop). He is the current Executive Director of the Earthdance Creative Living Project, an arts & cultural centre and the oldest contact Improvisation community in the world based in Western Massachusetts, USA.  He’s been dancing and conversing CI for more than 20 years and exploring the intricacies of the Relational Body through Touch&Play for over 10 years. He is committed to building a more peaceful and authentic culture through his award winning social entrepreneurial and creative endeavours.

 Special guests: Pipaluk Supernova

Support at the Peace&Council: Jem Stops.

Our amazing Cheff: Arturo.

CAMP crew: Anthony, Maybel, Ernesto, Senem and the rest of the team.

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