Daniel 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.

Natasha is a committed yogi and believes strongly in experience-based learning and embodiment. She has a Masters in Communication for Development from Malmo University in Sweden. Her academic work focuses on housing justice movements in Europe and South Africa and her political work is focused in Environmental Justice movements. She has been involved in many short and long-term experiments with individual and collective freedom and lives in an autonomous occupied space in Northern Europe, that works with direct democracy and participatory decision making. She has performed or been involved in many artistic explorations of social and environmental justice and she has organized community-based sex and body positive spaces and events with a focus on curiosity and exploration and embodied consent for around 15 years.

Shane Wilson and Bonnie Aungle, aka Eros & Psyche, are Sacred Sexuality Specialists and Conscious Kink Educators, helping people to reach their full potential for pleasure and connection. They are trauma-informed and utilise many tools in their work including somatic sexological therapy, Tantra, KaHuna bodywork, sensory exploration, embodiment, BDSM and the Wheel of Consent; as well as social de-conditioning, RBDSM, Radical Self-Inquiry, Non-Violent Communication and how to navigate healthy non-monogamous relating. They work one-on-one, with singles, couples, and/or groups. They have facilitated workshops at festivals and have been guest speakers at international forums, on podcasts, and in Virtual Reality spaces. They love to perform at festivals and events. Shane & Bonnie teach Shibari at Peer Rope Byron Bay on Thursday evenings, and Lismore on Wednesdays. Bonnie is a Tantric Rope sWitch, and Shane is a Rigger who has been playing with rope bondage for over 30 years; Shibari specifically for about 7 years. They have training in both the Osada-Ryu and Kazami-Ryu schools of Shibari, including private tuition from Avalon – an internationally acclaimed Master Rope Artist, and founder of the Peer Rope dojos. @peerropebyronbay

Transformational Therapist
Background in Gestalt Therapist and Workshop facilitator.

Sean is passionate about supporting people to live to their greatest potential – to feel fully alive, completely free, openly authentic and expressive in each and every moment whilst also feeling a deep sense of embodied safety. A lover of life, of embodied loving, of freedom of full self expression.

I’m an aware relating coach, social worker, former Aware Parenting Instructor, insatiable seeker, and committed practitioner of mindful relationships. My work has been deeply influenced by Hakomi (somatic psychology), Nonviolent Communication, somatic practices and Internal Family Systems among many other inspirational teachings. I am passionate about relationships that are deep, intimate, compassionate, emotionally intelligent, and slow and quiet enough for sensitive nervous systems to relax in.