RAWR!
25-30 July 2026
Earth Spirit Retreat Centre
Near Glastonbury, Somerset, UK
Team
Your hosts
Jamus Wood
Onsite coordinator
Jamus (he/him) dances, explores and has an innate curiosity for life. Deeply influenced and rooted by the practices of Body Mind Centering, Contact Improvisation, explorations into The Land and Embodied Consciousness, Jamus currently explores the more than human relationship with Dartmoor and the question of what does the land remember.
Touch&Play has been a rich place of learning, experiencing and play over the last ten years, so much so that he finds myself as part of the organising team for this unique and exciting experience.
www.jamuswood.co.uk
Akasha Phoenix
Production Coordinator
Akasha (she/her/they/them) is an eclectic soul that roams between Australia and the UK. She collects experiences and kindred spirits along the way, and sometimes holds space for intuitive creatives to play within the rainbow of the human realms and beyond. Akasha offers yoga facilitator training, somatic education, energy work and movement therapy.
Neil Morbey
Production and Facilitation
Neil (he/him) is a mindfulness and touch facilitator, coach and counselor from Bristol. His business is Positively-Mindful.com which is the vehicle through which he delivers workshops and courses in therapeutic practices, personal development, relational work and intimacy exploration. Neil also teaches Swing-Dance and Blues-Dance and Contact Improvisation.
Neil has also been a lifelong kinkster and since 2019 he has been teaching workshops to help make kink more fun and friendly to all, opening up the depth of playing at the dark edges of our consciousness.
www.positively-mindful.com
Skye von Nordheim
Production and Facilitation
A trained Psychologist, Skye (she/her/they/them) works with a wide range of modalities and methods that have one common goal: Making life longer, better and a little kinkier! Skye facilitates all things weird and wonderful such as Playful Submission and Dominance, Conscious Connection, Embodied Consent, Sensual Story Telling, Fusion Dance and Improvised Partner Dance, Connection to Nature, Self-Pleasure and Rites and Rituals. A seasoned Touch and Play member, Skye’s mission is to make play, connection and self-expression fun, consensual and accessible for everyone.
Skye facilitates regular events in Berlin and works at festivals, retreats and gatherings in Europe and beyond.
www.dancewithskye.de
Daniel J. Hayes
Touch&Play Founder
Medical doctor (M.D.) and epidemiologist (Ph.D.), professional mediator, Contact Improvisation practitioner and social entrepreneur.
Dr. Daniel J. Hayes is a medical doctor with a Ph.D. from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Back in the days he collaborated with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where he led malaria research projects.
He is the founder of Vidàlia, an eco-village an hour outside of Barcelona. Currently, he serves as the Executive Director of Earthdance Creative Living Project Inc., an artistic and cultural centre, and the world’s oldest Contact Improvisation community, based in Massachusetts, USA.
He has been practising Contact Improv for decades and plays since he was born.
touchandplay.org
Intensives Teachers
INTENSIVES
An Intensive Class is taught every mornings of the retreat with the same group so you can evolve together and build on whatever you created and learned beforehand. The three Intensive offerings run parallel so you will be part of only one group.
Bibi Gratzer
Intensive Teacher
Glastonbury-based Bibi (she/her) works with embodiment practices, ritual, breath, sound and dance. Through working with the archetype of the wild sexual feminine, Bibi supports folks to reclaim themselves as Earth again, as holy, and as interconnected beings that feel and breathe with life.
Bibi’s work is informed by a blend of somatic practice, temple arts training, shadow work, mystic traditions, systemic/family constellations, and masculine–feminine archetypal inquiry, as well as an integrated approach to sexuality. Bibi’s trainings include Layla Martin’s VITA method and TTT, The Temple Training.
David Bloom
Intensive Teacher
David Bloom (he/him) is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, parent, filmmaker, bodyworker, pianist, and fermenting Jewish mystic. Graduated from the MAC at HZT Berlin as well as the Urban Tantra Professional Training Program with Barbara Carellas. DanceWEB scholarship in 2012. His dance film trilogy Sex & Spacepremiered at the Berlin Porn Film Festival and was screened internationally.
His choreography has also been shown at Tanzfabrik Berlin, Dock11 Berlin, La Fête du Slip in Lausanne, Tanzquartier Vienna, and at the Stockholm Dance Film Festival. David has taught in many contexts, including HZT Berlin, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Tanzquartier Vienna, Human Architecture Lab in St. Petersburg, K3 in Hamburg, the M.A. of Contemporary Dance Education in Frankfurt, Touch & Play Festival, STRETCH Festival Berlin, BodyIQ Festival Berlin, Mozarteum University Salzburg, the Rietveld Academy for Fine Arts & Design in Amsterdam, & the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna. Current PhD candidate at Zurich University of the Arts and University of Arts Linz.
Class Teachers
Alvaro Santisteban Dieguez
Double Class Teacher
Álvaro organises sex-positive CI laboratories where the intersection between dance, bodywork and creativity are at the core of the exploration.
Deeply concerned by neoliberal mantras of constant self-improvement, his labs tend to prioritize the small and the slow, acknowledging that each lab is an opportunity and open question that is to be answered collectively – with our bodies, feelings and creativity.
Passionate about art and contemporary dance, Álvaro’s workshops aim to create the conditions in which the inner and outer beauty of things come together, providing a radical sense of aesthetic pleasure.
Nathalia Westmacott
Double Class Teacher
A longstanding facilitator and trainer in the breathwork community, Nathalia supports folks to find “Inspiration through respiration!” at The Greenery, her beautiful retreat centre in the midlands.
Alexandre Dandelion
Evening Offering and Body Worker
Berlin-based French kisser Alexandre Dandelion is a multi-facetted practitioner and facilitator. Drawing on his experience as physiotherapist, Alex gives original 1:1 bodywork sessions of abdominal massage, Chi Nei Tsang, and integral massage – his own blend of tantra and sensual kink. He’s also a breathwork facilitator and 100% cuddle monster!
Moss Beynon Knuckles
Single Class Teacher and Musician
A longstanding facilitator and trainer in the breathwork community, Nathalia supports folks to find “Inspiration through respiration!” at The Greenery, her beautiful retreat centre in the midlands.
Musicians
Marie “Murry” Echo
Live Music
Offerings:
• Exploritori…Yum!
Living in devotion to creativity, fae shapeshifts between and beyond archetypal roles of bard, dreamer, death doula, magician, priestesx and witchclown. They perform immersive theater ritual, curate expressive arts events, and teach embodied voice. She works as pro-dominatrix, consent educator, psychopomp, and organizes T&P Massachusetts. In reverence & revelry- Murry is always delighted to play and pray/prey.
Insta: @musemundi
Touch&Play UK organisers reserve the right to change or make adjustments to the schedule and the teaching team at any given time and at short notice.
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