RAWR!

25-30 July 2026
Earth Spirit Retreat Centre
Near Glastonbury, Somerset, UK

TOUCH&PLAY UK
Exploring the Mystery of
Collective Creation

A rallying cry for the parts of us that were civilized, silenced, or carefully curated.
RAWR! is an invitation back into the body — into aliveness, vulnerability, power, instinct and connection. Soft edges, sharp teeth for an integrated, sovereign self.

We’re here to stand together, shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, to allow rage, grief, love, power, pain, compassion and healing to mingle, cross-fertilise and nourish our growth beyond co-existence. We’re not here to compete, compare, or perform. 

We are here to say:
I see you. We need you. You belong. Let’s look at this together. 

We’re here to call in, embrace and celebrate the many faces of love, romance, humanity, play, family, friendship and eros, knowing none is better or lesser than the other. This is siblinghood, not posturing. Scars welcome.

This is the place and time to say, we’ve had enough. Enough of endless scripts about who we should be, who we should side with and who we should be at war with. RAWR! burns those scripts. May we rise from the ashes and listen to understand and not to argue, may we look into each others’ eyes and see the most beautiful version of ourselves look back at us in love, compassion and well-wishing.

Yes, there is anger. And beneath it, there’s grief, disconnection, longing and a thousand small betrayals that tell us love, in its many colours, is not safe. Let’s rewrite those scripts too and feel those uncomfortable feels as an act of rebellion, of self and co-love, turning our hurt and pain into the wisdom, strength, depth and power that it is. 

No more turning against each other, no more turning against ourselves. This is a raging love letter for connection, community, and values that hold strong in the face of hatred, division, bypassing, and bullshit. 

RAWR! is a creative, collaborative and courageous field rooted in:

  • Primal courage — meeting big feelings with curiosity, guts and instinct 
  • Vulnerability — seeing and being seen free from performative masks 
  • Connection — meeting ourselves and each other through body, breath and earth

Play — celebrating pleasure, laughter, sexiness, rest and joy as liberation

RAWR! workshops explore:

Movement, dance, voice, joy, pleasure, rage, grief, ritual, consent, rhythm, connection, relational edges and explorations, kink, embodiment, eros, self- and co-regulation, play, empowerment, creativity and cultural shift.

Come as you are. Bring your claws. Bring your soft belly. Bring your wise heart.
Let’s RAWR!

Touch&Play
offerings:

 

  • deCIDE consent workshop

  • Morning intensives

  • Afternoon single sessions

  • Dance spaces and Contact Improv Class & Jam
  • Voice journeys and singing cercles
  • Group spaces to process

  • Free time in the afternoons for rest and/or emergent revelry!

  • Held spaces for connection conversations.

  • Evening dances, rituals, intimacy spaces and co-created experiences.

  • Intro to kink and playspaces

  • Spa area

How to get Involved

 

  • PARTICIPANT

    Join Touch&Play UK as a co-creating, proactive and engaged participant.
    Bring all of you to the gathering and be an invitation to others to show up in their full truth and integrity. Enjoy the field, take the days as they come and bask in the British sun.

    We’ve got early bird, mid bird and late bird tickets and a range of accommodation options including:

    • Camping in your own tent or
    • Staying in your own van or
    • Sharing a cosy on-site yurt in 3s or 4s in a beautiful and quiet field
    • Sharing on-site caravans in 2s or 3s
    • Sharing dorms in max. 7s
    • Sharing standard rooms in 2s or 3s
    • Sharing upgrade rooms with en-suite bathrooms in 2s or 3s
    • Enjoying your own private room 
    • Indulging in a luxury suite in 2s, 3s or 4s

     

  • ASSISTANT

    Do you want to be part of the team, learn from and with experienced facilitators and receive a stipend for your work?

    We’ve got 11 assistant spots to make magic happen this year. You’ll be part of an assistant team with your own pod meetings, work meetings and creative co-creations led by one of our amazing co-organisers, Akasha. 

    You can get busy with a range of structural tasks such as setting up and taking down workshop spaces and creative pursuits including designing and decorating evening spaces for jams, temples, play and cabaret. Due to the nature of our assistant roles, we typically require physically fit people that are keen to sink their teeth in creative as well as muscle work. 

    Learning from the facilitators: In addition to structural and creative tasks, as an assistant, you have the opportunity to learn from and with our facilitators through shadowing their work, being available to demonstrate exercises, via close communication regarding their workshop planning, execution and evaluation and perhaps even co-facilitate a short warm-up or cool-down exercise. Each assistant can allocate themselves to one facilitator. This is an opportunity for you to learn, grow and get involved with the facilitation side of Touch&Play and is entirely voluntary. 

    If you’re looking for a way to support the T&P community from within, to grow together with us and if you need some financial assistance, then this is a wonderful opportunity. 

    Logistics: You’ll arrive on site Saturday 25th July 12pm to meet and assign roles. This is where we get to bond as a team and decide if we prefer morning or afternoon shifts during the retreat. Then the next few hours we work together to transform our venue into a colourful playground. This first part is important so we need assistants to arrive no later than 1pm. 

    Each day you’ll work with your team for around 2.5 hours, which still leaves plenty of time to enjoy the retreat in full. Duties shouldn’t interfere with doing any of the classes. 

    You are expected to stay until Thursday 30th July, 3pm. The final day is pack-down, which again is an important part. To return the venue back to its original state. 

    We offer a £200 for returning assistants/helpers/work exchangers and a £150 stipend for new assistants.

     

  • ACCESIBILITY STIPEND 

    If you struggle to meet the requirements of our assistant role, you can apply for one of our accessibility tickets that are especially available for persons with disability, BIPOC backgrounds and low income (less than £18k/year).

     

  • FACILITATOR / SPACEHOLDER / MUSICIAN 

    We are currently closed to facilitation and space holder applications as we are drawing on the rich network that we have accumulated over the past years through our open application processes. You cannot imagine how many amazing teachers, offers and visions are piling up on our desks! 

    Some other ways of getting involved this year and/or to obtain a stipend are mentioned above – You can apply as assistant, via our accessibility tickets and contribute as a participant with the option of sharing a morning offer and/or during our community offering afternoon. 

     

    We hope that you will join us this year at Earth Spirit in the capacities that are currently available.
    We encourage keen facilitators to check out other Touch&Play events with on-going application processes
    If you have your application package ready (facilitator/spaceholder bio, offers, photo, homepage/social media), please do feel free to send this to us for future reference to: uk@touchandplay.org

DANCE & EMBODIMENT
CREATIVITY & PLAY
POWER, KINK & SELF-EXPRESSION
RELATIONSHIPS & COMMUNITY
YOU BELONG HERE

Touch&Play embodies an international movement, a spirited and adventurous family rooted in various local communities across the globe.

Touch&Play is an exciting and growing global network of local communities that come together around a set of shared practices and a common culture.

We’ve been organizing retreats and community gatherings since 2010 and have held events in 16 different countries and 4 different continents.

Our events strike a balance between the local context and culture where a retreat takes places and the global embodied, humanistic and spiritual practices and values that underpin our work. In the end we are striving to build a deeply caring and seriously playful world where we can live authentically and in peace with ourselves and our communities.

“Leave your relationships more beautiful than you found them”

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REGISTRATIONS WILL OPEN SOON