Secret Garden
Nov 29-Dic 5 2026 – Camp – Zipolite, Mexico
The amazing facilitation team:
Trini - Trinidad García Espinosa
Intensive Teacher
Found the colective Deria + rectificadora in 2001. Dedicated her life to the somatic bodies, contact Improvisation, sex education, postfeminism, gender politics, and ENM relationships. Activist, performer, choreographer, somatic mover and therapist.
Fundó colectivo Deria + rectificadora en 2001,dedicada a las cuerpas somáticas, contact improvisación, educación sexoafectiva , postfeminismo, políticas género y relaciones no- monogamas. Activista , performer, coreógrafa, movimento somático y terapeuta. Dedicada a la formación y prevención de violencia de género y coeducación sexual afectiva.
Instagram: @colectivoderiarectificadora
Niall Fallon
Intensive Teacher
Theatre director, embodiment facilitator, and PhD doctoral researcher living between Berlin and England. He makes work about bodies in relation: what passes between people when they move together, and what changes in that exchange when someone is watching.
He has facilitated at many festivals including Touch & Play Germany, and Stretch Festival – The Villiage Berlin. His theatre life runs from opera houses (Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Real Madrid, Dutch National Opera, Salzburger Festspiele) to Berlin cabaret, where he is the regular stage director of Cabaret Cravache.
He founded devising companies that toured India, East Asia, and Europe. He also directs The Playhouse Berlin, a collective built around movement rituals, connection exercises, and slow play in mind, body, and spirit.
In the room he works with connection and control, mythology and appetite, release and inner guidance, sensuality, and the place where psychosomatics meets eros.
He draws on Butoh, the night sea journey, and depth psychology. He builds structures where descent is as welcome as delight.
www.niallfallon.com
Kelindah Bee
Single Class Teacher
(aka Theydy Bedbug) is an educator, trans inclusion-consultant, performer, and producer.
They grew up in Indonesia and Singapore and since 2016, have performed in venues throughout NYC and beyond as their drag alter ego, “Theydy Bedbug.” Kelindah has been an artist fellow with Queer | Art, EmergeNYC, a resident artist with Siren Arts: TRANSFORMER and Musical Theatre Factory, and a NYSCA and BAC grantee. They have been profiled by THEM, The NY Times, and Rolling Stone.
In 2021 they founded the now biannual Drag Performance: Between & Beyond Gender program at BAX and currently facilitate Drag Performance workshops in NYC and Vermont. Additionally, they work as a Gender Expression and Identity consultant facilitating workshops and professional development training for clinics and non-profit organizations across the US.
They also facilitate public school residencies in Brooklyn focused on using performing arts to interrupt instances of identity-based harm and build empathy across difference.
In addition to teaching, they sporadically tour the US and Canada with NY Times Bestseller, Amanda Montell, for “The Big Magical Cult Show.” Their performances encourage audience members to expand their own self-expression.
In their performing and education work, they believe that fostering spaces of genderful play is one pathway to collective liberation.
www.kelindahbee.art
Asha F. Passalacqua
Single Class Teacher
Asha is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, integrative bodyworker, aquatic therapist, facilitator, and dancer whose work guides the body toward functional fluidity through an ongoing apprenticeship to embodiment, liberation, and integrity in movement and connection.
As a mover and practitioner, Asha’s practice has been shaped by the Contact Improvisation, Axis Syllabus, aquatic dance and freediving, contemporary dance and Playfight.
In both his personal practice and facilitation, he orients towards experiences that cultivate an available, responsive body; trust in relationship to gravity and ground; and presence within disorientation and change.
He holds a BA from Hampshire College in integrative psychology, medical anthropology, and cognitive science, and trained as a Certified Massage Therapist at the McKinnon Body Therapy Center.
As a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, his work draws on SE, parts-based approaches, and Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry. As an aquatic therapist, Asha has studied Aguahara and Fluid Presence in Brazil, Mexico, and Spain. He offers aquatic workshops and retreats between California and Europe, and works as a somatic counselor, bodyworker, and facilitator.
www.escolacqua.com
Mara
Single Class Teacher
T&P Mexico Host
Every time I’m invited to write a bio about myself, I notice how challenging it is to put into words who I am.
I don’t feel fully defined by a profession, a title, or the number of years I’ve practiced something.
Those elements are part of my path, but they don’t quite capture the depth of my lived experience.
What feels more true is an ongoing practice of presence and gentle observation—of myself, of others, and of the spaces we co-create.
If you feel curious to know more about me, I welcome you to come closer.
You can ask, connect, or simply share a moment.
And perhaps, in meeting each other, we can discover something real—
allowing connection to unfold naturally,
and trusting life to guide the experience we are here to live,
in presence, in care, and in love.
Instagram: @mara.hani.priv
Ger Mercado
Artist in Recidency
T&P Photographer
Mexican photographer with Indigenous Purépecha roots, born in 1991 in Veracruz, Mexico. He experienced a nomadic childhood, moving through 16 homes and attending 10 schools across Mexico’s diverse landscapes.
A self-taught photographer with a background in filmmaking, he began his journey at the age of nine using his mother’s camera.
After relocating from Mexico City to Oaxaca, he immersed himself in film photography, pushing its boundaries to capture the essence of his surroundings.
His work examines themes of gender, territory, and sexuality, challenging perceptions and exploring what is often considered dark or obscene, opening dialogue and provoking questions through the lens.
Instagram: @ger.merc
Razz/Critter Cacho-Nguyen
Peace Council, Evening support,
ShiatsuRazz/Critter Cacho-Nguyen is a queer, trans, two-spirit relationship anarchist who facilitates monthly Xukawa Circles, inviting people in to build authentic connection and community through the practice of indigenous circle practice.
They are a trained conflict mediator and restorative practices facilitator, currently in school working towards their MSW with the goal to offer native group therapy and queer, poly relationship therapy.
Instagram: @_surthriving_
Your Hosts:
Murry
Organizer
Murry (fae/they/she/eyeball) lives devotionally to the meandering magic of the Muse.
Fae shapeshifts between and beyond archetypal roles of boundless bard, dream druid, death doula, & cosmic clown creature. Their offerings are a convergence of creativity, connectivity, sensuality & ritual.
Murry has facilitated several intensives and labs at Touch & Play Mexico, US & UK, exploring the ecosensual & archetypal somatics of intimate explorations of play.
Both a contact dancer & vocal improviser, the union of movement and sound is at the core of their practice of somatic instrumentation.
In reverence & revelry- Eye am so delighted to play and pray with you all.
Instagram: @musemundi
Igna Alem
T&P Work&Play Coordinator
Organizer
Genderfluid, queer, poly and neurospicy human. Part mischievious, part gentle guide.
Always a curious explorer and N-egotiator at heart. Whether leading a group into laughter or holding space for quiet reflection, I make an effort to bring a playful spark and a grounded presence to every Touch&Play gathering.
My life is a colorful tapestry of travel, family constellations, relations and co-creating communities that span continents.
For over a decade, I’ve been part of an artisanal and local cheese cooperative that I started in Cochabamba, Bolivia, where I was born and raised. These days you’ll find me more often behind the scenes, handling the admin magic.
I’m also the Work&Play coordinator, co-creating with the local teams the T&P events that happen all over the world.
Excited to be back in mass for this edition to real-ate with you : )
Instagram: @ignuish
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Secret Garden
Nov 29-Dic 5 2026 – Camp – Zipolite, Mexico
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