TOUCH&PLAY UK
RAWR!
25-30 July 2026
Earth Spirit Retreat Centre
Near Glastonbury, Somerset, UK
Offerings
The Official Offerings From Our Facilitators:
Index: Click on each offering to read the complete information
- Hot, Wild and Sacred — A Journey with the Archetypal Feminine (open to all genders).
Bibi Gratzer: Intensive Teacher offering a Tantra inspired workshop for all gender.
- My Lovers, Human and More-Than-Human.
David Bloom: An intensive inspired by somatic work and eco-sexuality practice - Human Puppets.
Álvaro Santisteban Dieguez experiments with movement, domination and the underlying dialog about consent and desire.
- Slow-Motion Dancing
Álvaro Santisteban Dieguez offers a playful lab on the possibilities of moving, dancing and interacting in a very slow manner.
- Elemental Breathing Method (EBM).
Nathalia Westmacott’s creation of a fucking formidable diagnostic and self-regulaitng tool for all.
- Rediscovering The Animal Within.
Nathalia Westmacott’s raw and passionate workshop to awaken our inner and ancient animal.
- KuddleKlub:
Alexandre Dandelion: Single Class Teacher and BodyWorker offering bodywork sessions and a workshop near the start of the retreat to help us connect with consensual, snuggly interactions, consent 101 and a whole lot of supportive fun!
- Touched by Sound – The Sonic Erotic Choir.
Moss Beynon Juckes will offer the sonic erotic choir -embodying the erotic voice through somatics, body -voice work, consent and contact improvisation.
She will also will play live music for sessions and host as dj for ecstatic dance moments.
- Embodied Ritual – Moving from Grief to Eros.
Marie “Murry” Echo: Musician passionate about kink, connection, magic and mystery will be offering her magic opening of our vulnerable selves.
- Daniel Blackmore: Our honorary team member and artist passionate about natural materials will be offering:
Natural art and body painting sessions
Make your own paints, toys and more!
Our Organising Team: Neil, Skye, Jamus and Akasha
will be offering afternoon and evening
delights including:
- Daily singing
- Daily Dancing focused on CI and ecstatic dance.
- Oracle- the Touch&Play way into exploring collective consciousness.
- Kink ‘Fungeon’ Explorations,
- Sensual Temple Spaces
- No-Talent Talent Show
- Touch&Play CI Jam (where everything is welcome!)
Complete Offerings Information:
Bibi Gratzer
will be offering an Intensive Class
Hot, Wild and Sacred — A Journey with the Archetypal Feminine (INTENSIVE)
What I love most about this work is watching people remember themselves. When the wild and sacred are welcomed together, something softens and something powerful awakens — a deeper permission to be fully alive.
It’s time to let out your wild sexual feminine — whatever body you live in. She is the one who helps us remember the miracle of being alive. She is the part of us who dances in ecstasy, who weeps for days, who longs to feel everything: the pain, the bliss, the rage, the desire, the longing, the fear. This is the space where all of her is welcome.
In order to bring her fully alive, we first reclaim the parts of ourselves that were lost — our innocence, our erotic connection to nature, our trust in the sacredness of our own bodies. From there, we let her rise.
This intensive is an embodied exploration of the archetypal feminine as a living force available to people of all genders, bodies, abilities, and experience levels. You do not need prior experience in tantra, movement, or intimacy work — only a willingness to meet yourself with curiosity.
What we’ll explore:
We will journey through the connection between emotion and sexuality, desire and devotion, eros and aliveness. Practices may include:
• Embodiment practices rooted in somatics and body awareness
• Ritual, breathwork, sound and movement/dance
• Energy orgasm and subtle energy exploration
• Sex Magic as a way of working consciously with desire and intention
• Archetypal inquiry into the wild sexual feminine and her shadows
How we work:
This is a participatory, experiential space that balances:
• Solo practices for deep self-inquiry
• Paired exercises (always consensual and optional)
• Small-group exploration and witnessing
Some practices involve strong embodiment and can be physically or emotionally activating, while others are slower, meditative, and reflective. Everything is offered as an invitation — never a requirement.
Important practical details:
• Open to all genders, sexual orientations, and levels of experience
• No prior training required
• Participation is always optional; you choose your level of engagement
• Optional nudity may be invited in certain practices, but never required
• No explicit sexual activity is required; the focus is on awareness, embodiment, and energetic exploration
• Exercises may include movement, sound, and emotional expression, but can be adapted to different abilities
What participants often receive:
This work is less about performance and more about inquiry. Rather than chasing a particular peak experience, we practice listening to what arises — sensation, emotion, resistance, longing — as a form of meditation and self-discovery.
Participants often leave with a deeper connection to their body, a more trusting relationship with desire, greater emotional permission, and a felt sense of belonging to something larger — to earth, to community, to life itself.
What I love most about this work is watching people remember themselves. When the wild and sacred are welcomed together, something softens and something powerful awakens — a deeper permission to be fully alive.
David Bloom
will be offering an Intensive Class
My Lovers, Human and More-Than-Human (INTENSIVE)
How can we expand the Desires that emerge between human beings to include a sensuous, multi-directional relationship to more-than-human entities, even to the space itself? In other words, how can we cultivate a consensual erotic relationship with the world at large?
What if the Earth were not (only) our “mother”, who gives unconditionally and can be taken for granted, but a LOVER, with whom we co-create a mutually respectful erotic connection?
In this intensive, we will begin by working somatically, with processes such as the digestive system – fundamentally connected to both desires and boundaries – in order to support the emergence of a complex, embodied intersubjectivity. We will also explore exercises around intimacy and consent, drawing from conscious sexuality practices like tantra or BDSM, looking for that deep state of consent that is not only an act of saying “yes” or “no”, but a continually unfolding “con-sentire”, feeling together.
Nudity and explicitly sexual interactions are possible within the intensive, but not at all required. We will move very slowly, and the well-being of all participants will be centered at all times. We will explore how boundary makes relationship possible; to others, to our selves, to the world.
We will then bring our awareness to our relationship with the space itself, asking not only, “what do i desire of the space?”, but also “what does it desire of me?”
The intensive is open to all genders, abilities, and experience levels. It draws heavily on my current PhD research around sexual, mystical, and choreographic practices as tools for experiencing a consensual erotic relationship to the world. It is informed by dance/choreography, Body-Mind-Centering, philosophies of perception and language, and ritual practices.
It honors the pioneering Ecosexuality work of Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, while also taking a few steps backwards and slowing down: marrying a tree can feel several steps too far removed from our everyday reality, so we will ask the question, “how do I bring my body to the point where I would even start to develop an interest in a relationship with a tree?”
We will encounter the other in a way that invites them to inhabit their own subjectivity, whether that other is human or not.
Alvaro Santisteban Dieguez
will be offering 2 Single Classes
1.Slow-motion dancing
Half dancing experience, half co-created immersive performance, in this workshop we will explore the potential of dancing, moving and feeling in slow motion while intense electronic music is played.
How can we overcome the urge to match the energy and speed of the music? Can we transform it into an internal, slow burn of the senses?
As the session unfolds, we will also have the chance to experiment the triple role of performer / audience / director of a co-created performance through the manipulation of light.
This lab is suitable for all genders and abilities and does not require prior knowledge of the topic.
Nudity or contact with other persons is entirely a personal choice and is not necessary to experience the session.
The lab is inspired by the dance performance “Crowd” by the choreographer Gisèle Vienne and by my passion for slow movement.
2.Human puppets
Reversing Pinocchio’s tale, we will turn our bodies into those of a puppet and explore the feeling of letting go. To do that, we will divide ourselves into puppets and puppet’s masters, and switch between both roles.
Although some puppets might be able to emit sounds if the right buttons are pressed, they can’t really talk. So, in order to properly play with them as a puppet master, it’s necessary to pay great attention to their usage instructions. Because each puppet is unique and carefully handcrafted, reading and following this set of instructions, where their “Do’s” and “Don’ts” are specified, it’s crucial.
A well-maintained puppet can be a source of joy for everyone and might lead to interactions with other puppets.
This workshop is suitable for all genders and abilities and does not require prior knowledge of the topic.
Some degree of nudity and/or sexual contact is expected, although participants can define their boundaries and level of nakedness in their personal “set of instructions”.
The lab is inspired by some classical CI exercises and although there is an underlying s/m dynamic within it, my fascination with it lies in the physical and compositional possibilities of the body.
Nathalia Westmacott
will be offering 2 Single Classes
1.Elemental Breathing Method (EBM)
A powerful journey through the wisdom of the five elements — Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether — using conscious breath, movement, awareness and inner exploration. Guided by internationally respected breathwork teacher Nathalia Westmacott-Brown, this workshop invites you to reconnect with the elemental forces within your body and psyche.
Each element offers a gateway to healing and transformation: grounding through Earth, emotional flow through Water, vitality through Fire, expansion through Air and spacious awareness through Ether. Through carefully held breathwork practices, reflection and embodied presence, participants are supported to release what no longer serves and awaken a deeper sense of balance, aliveness and connection.
2.Rediscovering The Animal Within
Take a journey back through the layers of who you are — beyond identity, beyond conditioning, and back to the roots of life itself. Guided by Nathalia Westmacott-Brown, this immersive workshop invites participants to reconnect with the raw intelligence of the body and the instinctive wisdom that lives beneath the surface.
Through breathwork, blindfolded exploration, evocative music that gradually builds in complexity, and carefully held inner process, you’ll be invited to travel from our simplest forms of life toward the fuller expression of your human-animal nature. As the journey unfolds, participants are supported to awaken vitality, intuition, playfulness and a healthy relationship with their primal energy.
A powerful and liberating experience of remembering the untamed life force that has always lived within you.
Alexandre Dandelion
will be offering
KuddleKlub
Consensual, snuggly interactions, consent 101 and a whole lot of supportive fun!
Tell me what you want,
what you *really really* want.
When you ask for a hug
or offer to cuddle…
What are you craving?
Closeness? Comfort? Warmth?
“Something more”?
Not your usual cuddle workshop!
A container to explore a platonic horizontal intimacy rooted in slowness, presence, attunement and playfulness.
An invitation to release pressure and performance, tune into your needs, wants, and won’ts, and experience intimacy as nourishment and play.
A practice of honest communication, consent & boundaries, exploration, collaborative snuggle orchestrations and free flow.
This workshop includes intro talk, consent agreements and communication practice, grounding meditation and embodied presence, group sharings and collaborative snuggle orchestrations in small pods, free flow and big group sharings. KuddleKlub is a non-sexual sex-positive workshop. Arousal and excitement are welcome. Touch is optional, negotiated, and consent is reversible. Sexual (génital) touch is not part of KuddleKlub.
A review by Pauline Marie Antoinette
https://www.sensuali.com/b/inside-kuddle-klub-a-first-hand-account-of-cuddle-therapy-37682/
An interview
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTxowsBkzRI/?igsh=MWI0cGl0dW8zODcwbA==
Moss Beynon Knuckles
will be offering
Touched by SoundThe Sonic Erotic Choir
A collective, naked journey through sound and movement meditations, from animal calls to transcendent chanting. In this workshop, we move and vocalize together through embodied physical and vocal scores, realigning the voice and body through the principles of evolution.
We will re-discover extended vocal techniques, circle songs, screamcore, group sounding, and the verbalization of collective psychosomatic experiences. Through slow technique, specific time based scores and group exercises, we create an intimate and psychedelic sonic space, culminating in a sound orgy that closes with an intimate exploration of singing into the body, fully clothed.
This workshop is nude, though not touch-based, touch may emerge organically as part of the experience and you will have the verbal physical skills to take care of your boundaries. This is an invitation to explore and embody new possibilities for sound and movement.
DJ Moss & Ecstatic Dance
A guided warm up dedicated to high intensity movement and trance forms that emerge from your own need to move and express yourself how you want. Warm up will be followed by free flow dance to get the day started with a DJ set by Moss.
Marie “Murry” Echo
will be offering
Interactive music
Each year, this evening offers participants a chance to taste and share various kinky, fetish, fantasy, coregulating, and connective offerings. Participants are invited to join in on the fun by curating a special offering, fluffing the space, and attending with curious delight.
Meet Murry’s Touch&Play persona with a fine pencil mustache named “Sir Real” who is host to the fantastical evening.
deCIDE Consent
We’ll study and practice the Touch&Play’s deCIDE Consent Framework, empowering everyone to communicate their boundaries and desires in an effective and authentic way and collectively building the culture of care we envision.
The Oracle
“What if you are holding the piece that I’m looking for?”
The Oracle is a semi-structured ritual space for collective emergence, reflection and processing what is alive in the group. It’s a group process that has many uses and is capable of showing us layers of truth that perhaps we were not aware of previously. (www.oracleprocess.org)
Evening Events
offered by T&P team
Curated & facilitated by the core team, these nightly group events include Connecting thru Kink, the Exploratorium: interactive sensual offerings & explorations, The Embodied Talent Show, and Ecstatic Essence evening.
Community Offerings
offered by participants
Everyone can step into leadership with an afternoon dedicated to community offers. Proposals will be selected based on the groups interests and motivations.
Affinity groups
supported by Team & participants
Community-organized spaces for those who wish to connect around shared identities, interests, or inquiries. These groups can meet during free time or meals to discuss, explore, and deepen their perspectives and needs. These include: Newcomers, BIPOC, & Queer Affinity spaces.
Sharing groups
Space to digest and integrate. An opportunity to gather in a small, consistent group to reflect on your journey. A space to share your evolution, struggles, and celebrations, offering support and integration from your pears as you navigate the experience.
TOUCH&PLAY UK
RAWR!
25-30 July 2026
Earth Spirit Retreat Centre
Near Glastonbury, Somerset, UK