Secret Garden
Nov 29-Dec 5 2026 – CAMPZipolite, Mexico
WELCOME TO SECRET GARDEN
• An Oasis of Earthy Queer Delights! •
At this Touch&Play gathering, we invite our LGBTQ+ community to immerse ourselves in a dedicated space for intimately exploring the relational body and our erotic existence. Our journey centers on Contact Improvisation, caring kink, authentic connection, and a culture of consent. Together, we carve out an uplifting sanctuary for queer joy, shared grief, honest expression, and embodied liberation as we embrace the expansion and edges of our eros.
We are so excited to finally offer this container—a dream years in the making, born from our collective yearning for queer, embodied, and community-led explorations of the relational body. After seasons of envisioning and longing, we gather now to co-create what we have all been seeking: a space where our queerness, our bodies, and our ways of relating are not just welcomed, but celebrated and centered.
Secret Garden is created for those of us who identify as LGBTQ+, offering an intentional container for queer exploration and connection. We gather in the privacy of CAMP in Zipolite, Mexico—just a leisurely five-minute stroll from the vibrant, welcoming nudist beach. We are grateful for the opportunity to express our sensuality freely in this colorful, accepting corner of Mexico.
Step into the Secret Garden and discover the magic of coming together in community. Let’s celebrate our identities, engage in meaningful interactions, and cultivate a deeper understanding of ourselves and each other!
Are we ready to meet each other at our edges, with curiosity and care?
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
Be part of the experience.
We’re an experimental container and open to inspiring off-beat ideas that can support the wider Touch&Play exploration of the Relation Body.
Touch&Play gatherings are co-creations that emerges from an intimate collaboration between the curation team, and the teachers, artists, helpers and participants that join the retreat.
Teacher applications are now open. Once the team is selected, we will share detailed information about the full lineup and offerings.
Applications will soon be open for helpers and scholarships. You can also write to us to queer@touchandplay.org or igna@touchandplay.org
We will soon open registrations. Reserving your ticket in advance not only secures your spot but also helps our organization create a better, more seamless production.
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Testimonials
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Venue
Our home will be in CAMP, Zipolite. La Costa Chica de Oaxaca.
Here, we are right beside the Pacific ocean, under the powerful sun, and stationed in a beach town that’s been a pioneering hub for Mexican queers and nudists.
Antony and Maybel, co-founders of CAMP, have been in the Touch&Play family for years. They’ve built this retreat center with the vision to host T&P retretas, following principles of social engineering, traditional Mexican architecture, and eco-responsibility – sourcing the building materials locally. We love their kinship with our community and their incredibly beautiful space they created!
Accommodation options
Next to CAMP we find El Santuario, a camp ground from a local family with shady sites and extra space for us to spread out and enjoy sleeping in nature. Access to CAMP facilities. Bring your own tent or reserve a Glamping. No electricity provided.
If you prefer to sleep in another place nearby and come during the day, the commuter ticket is your option, which includes the entrance to the festival and the meals.
Common Spaces
Our HOME will be a beautiful space build with traditional “palapas” where all the rooms convey onto the garden.
It has two dance workshops with sustainable tropical wood, a hang out playful area and a theatre black box.
There is a bond fire that presides the common space, a natural pool and a sauna.
We are surrounded by nature next to the Pacific Ocean and 5 minutes walking to down town.
Secret Garden
Nov 29-Dec 5 2026 – CAMP Zipolite, Mexico
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