AUSTRALIA
15-20 March 2024
Transform your relations through embodiment and authenticity
Come and be part of a beautiful community.
Touch&Play has made its way to Australia!
Enter this vessel that provides a consensual and supportive environment for expanding into a fuller expression of our true selves.
Join this inspiring movement and create a meaningful impact in your community.
TOUCH&PLAY Discovery Retreat
Our Discovery Retreat will be filled with inspiring offers that form the bedrock of the Touch&Play work and community.
In these smaller gatherings programming is focused on a single track creating a strong group field and a deep shared journey.
Our schedule while structured has flexibility to shift to the needs and wishes of the group. Our facilitators will adapt the order and content of certain offerings to enhance the community’s experience.
We start with a deep dive into Touch&Play’s Embodied Consent work practice expressing our desires and boundaries in an effective way.
During the days the core facilitators will offer a number of shorter workshops to familiarise folks with the different T&P flavours and the evenings are dedicated to jams and more open and improvisational activities.
To enhance the co-creational aspect of the gathering T&P community members are welcomed to share their own offerings during one of the days of the retreat.
Body of work
Topics and offerings at Touch&Play retreats are rooted in the exploration of the Relational Body and encompass a variety of practices, including Contact Improvisation, Movement & Dance, Consent & Communication, Self-Exploration, Sensuality & Sexuality, BDSM & kink, Nature & Wilderness, Community and Spirituality.
Additionally, we have developed our own practices and frameworks that provide stability and structure to our work. All within an inspiring and diverse community of dancers, somatic leaders and embodied explorers.
Your hosts
Discover the souls behind T&P Australia
Dr. Daniel Joseph Hayes
Daniel is a medical doctor and holds a Ph.D. from the Liverpool school of Tropical medicine. 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.
Akasha - Janine Leagh
Akasha lives a life in service and in response to the omnipresent life force energy. She bows in reverence to the Sacred Self and believes it not separate to the human experience. British born but a wanderer by nature, she worked on Cruise Ships before residing in Australia until 2020. A teacher’s teacher, facilitator, mentor, Somatic trauma therapist and student of the Conscious Movement arts she has facilitated students Internationally for over 25yrs.
Nick
Nick works with heart centred people creating deep, nourishing spaces, to reconnect with our inner wisdom – getting clarity and alignment on what really matters –using breathwork, movement, embodiment and consent practices, ritual and sound.
He is passionate about seeing humans in their fullest expression – asking for what they want, being unapologetically themselves and lovingly dismantling any conditioning that no longer serves.
Meet the amazing team
Touch&Play gatherings are co-creations that emerges from an intimate collaboration between the curation team, and the teachers and artists 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.
The Venue
Midginbil, near Mullumbimby and Byron Bay
Northern New South Wales
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This is a retreat about play, vulnerability