TOUCH&PLAY UK
RAWR!
25-30 July 2026
Earth Spirit Retreat Centre
Near Glastonbury, Somerset, UK
Team
Your hosts
Jamus Wood
Core Team
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
Core Team
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
Core Team
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
Core Team
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
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.
www.bibigratzer.com/about
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.
www.davidbloom.info
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.
www.breathworktraining.com
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!
https://linktr.ee/AlexandreDandelion
Moss Beynon Juckes
Single Class Teacher and Musician
Moss Beynon Juckes is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary dance artist, composer, and somatics facilitator whose work intricately weaves intimacy, relationship and embodied practices. Drawing from an experimental background, she explores the body as a landscape reflecting our social conditioning and interconnectedness with the environment and other species.
Through somatic facilitation, body voice work, consent and contact improvisation, Moss creates space for transformative experiences of touch, offering opportunities for individuals to reconnect with the body in deep, often surprising ways.
Her approach emphasizes the importance of embodiment in communication, health, and perception, while also engaging in critical dialogues on queer ecology, interspecies communication, and neurodiversity. In her work, the body becomes a conduit for reimagining relationships-both human and non-human-and opening new possibilities for understanding intimacy and connection in a rapidly changing world.
Musicians
Marie “Murry” Echo
Live Music
Marie/Murry’s (fae/they/she/eyeball) primary partnership is with the meandering magic of the Muse.
Their artistry is a convergence of song, sensuality & ritual. Murry has facilitated several intensives and labs at Touch & Play Mexico & US, exploring the ecosensual & archetypal somatics of intimate explorations.
Both a contact dancer & vocal improviser, the union of movement and sound is at the core of her practice of somatic instrumentation.
In reverence & revelry- Eye am so delighted to play and pray with you all.
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.
Thank you for your understanding.
TOUCH&PLAY UK
RAWR!
25-30 July 2026
Earth Spirit Retreat Centre
Near Glastonbury, Somerset, UK