Touch and Play
ROLE PLAY IMMERSION
October 29 - November 1st, 2026
at Earthdance
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Demons to Daimons | Monsters to Mothers
A 3-day immersive T&P role play experience
Embody your existential kink.
Role play your archetypal edges.
Explore fears and desires in a group setting rooted in consent, care and creativity.
In 1995, E.R.O.S (Embodied Rituals of Summoning) opened its doors: a psychosomatic laboratory in Western Massachusetts whose mission is to create a liminal bridge to the Otherworld.
After decades of research, last year an incredible breakthrough was made.
Now they have called together a carefully chosen circle of psychonauts to hold the bridge open. Will you step across?
Join us for a world-building weekend where we collectively create a shared imaginal reality in which archetypes are real, spirits have agency, and our bodies are the portal.
Participants will play as characters with a unique intention to connect with the Otherworld: as lovers, shadow dancers, explorers, alchemists, and earth stewards.
Over the course of the weekend, players will explore being moved, influenced, or even overtaken by these forces discovering what happens when the boundary between self and archetype begins to blur.
This is an advanced container for those with extensive experience in Touch&Play and/or other adjacent psycho-somatic practices. The intention of the weekend is to create a shared mythic frame, a magical circle in which participants can experiment with their edges in a slightly altered reality.
About the Touch&Play Movement
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”
CI, Dance & Embodiment
Eros & Creativity
Kink & Self-expression
Community Builders
Testimonials
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The Venue
Earthdance welcomes guests from around the world to engage in events that center movement and embodied practice, Contact Improvisation, and collaborative art making.
The retreat will take place at Earthdance Creative Living retreat center in Plainfield in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts.
We are grateful to continue hosting this event at Earthdance – an arts organization, rental and retreat center that hosts workshops, artist retreats, and community programming. At its foundation are dance, somatics, movement research and interdisciplinary arts training with an awareness towards community building.
Earthdance is surrounded by forest in Western Massachusetts, on unceded, ancestral Nipmuck, Pocumtuc and Wabanaki Confederacy Land.
ACCOMMODATION
Earthdance provides 2 lodging options: campsites and shared dorm rooms.
The Apple Orchard and 125 acres of forest provide ample space for personal tent camping. Campers have access to the shared bathrooms in the main Farmhouse which include indoor and outdoor showers.
The Gratitude Lodge (a.k.a. the Earthdance dorm) is connected to the Farmhouse by a short wooded trail. The Gratitude Lodge offers an assortment of large and small rooms featuring dormitory-style bunks and beds (twin & queen size). The dorm also has a shared common area and bathrooms.
COMMON SPACES
Two large beautiful dance studios, communal dining area, cozy living room, library/’soothe space’, dungeon, and lots of open, outdoor spaces await.
OUTDOORS
Earthdance is embraced by acres of private woods.
SAUNA & HOT TUB
A wood-fired sauna sits just feet from a cold plunge into the quarry.
A hot tub is available on the deck of Nine Mountain. For those not staying there, a fee of $5 per soak or $20 for the whole week is expected to be paid.
FACILITIES
Little Earthdance shop and free shop.
Local food coop 5 minutes by car.
Touch and Play
ROLE PLAY IMMERSION
October 29 - November 1st, 2026
at Earthdance
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