REVELAR
São Paulo
19-23 February 2025
THE OFFERINGS
Contact Improvisation · Movement & Dance · Consent & Communication
Self-Exploration · Creativity & Play · BDSM & Kink
Nature & Wilderness · Eros & Sensuality · Community & Spirituality
DAILY OFFERINGS
We will journey together through a series of facilitated workshops, semi structured experiences and co-created group processes. As the retreat progresses the content will slowly evolve to explore the deeper and edgier spaces of embodied relationality.
deCIDE Consent
By DeeJay
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.
Ecstatic Breathwork – Get High on your Own Supply
By Raynefyre Grayce
This guided ritual connects breath, movement, sound, and self-touch to what’s alive in body, mind, and soul. Together, held by a soundscape and my guidance, we explore the energetic essence of being, expanding beyond the physical to raise our vibration, awareness, and capacity for sensation. Inspired by Barbara Carrellas’ Firebreath Energygasm, this practice invites participants into states of bliss, cathartic release, and embodied discovery, visualizing the vibrant spectrum of the seven chakras.
This ritual creates a powerful space for individual and collective transformation. It encourages participants to reconnect with their inner worlds while fostering openness and co-creation within the group. Sharing this practice amplifies intentions, generating a field of mutual support and emotional resonance, where each person’s journey contributes to the whole.
A solo yet communal experience, this journey bridges inner awareness with shared coherence. It’s an ideal way to begin an event, clearing space for authentic self-expression and cultivating a container of trust and creativity. Whether new to breathwork or seasoned in embodiment practices, all levels are welcomed, and the experience meets each participant exactly where they are.
The Dance of Kali
By Carol Esteca
An experience that incorporates techniques used in Osho’s active meditation combined with other elements and the archetype of Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction. Extremely corporal and intense, it proposes visualisation, vocalisation, postures, breathing and intensity to promote processes of catharsis and bodily and emotional release.
The great dance of destruction to release the resignification of traumas and beliefs. This experience, if carried out with the necessary intensity and commitment, can promote profound and impactful transformations.
Deep Shell
By Lu Celestino
Is an aquatic dance laboratory. A danced and collective journey of diving into the rivers of perception of active listening and consenting touch. In the precious and delicate sonar vibration of the membranes of limits and encounters. Expanding the perception of listening to the ear, as proposed by Thérèse Bertherat, creator of Antigymnastics. Exploring the layers and textures of the touch of sound waves on the skin, in the ossicles, in the earth and in the air. From the cochlear fluids, which are electrical and transmit sound information, to the translucent filter that subjectivity exerts in choosing what to listen to. The ear is also an erotic orifice.
External ear, middle ear and deep labyrinth. Recognise the anatomy, physiology and psychology of the auditory system. With one more dive, find the archetypal sound of the rivers within. Welcoming lullabies, the pulse of the heart and the vibration of the bones. With this grounding, entering the water, welcoming dreams and cradling memories, ‘being water welcoming water into the water’ as proposed by Harold Dull, creator of Watsu.
Inspired by the practice of Contact Improvisation and Biodanza exercises in the water, we ended by exploring the physical qualities of water as a support for experimenting with another relationship with weight, touch and pleasure. We returned to the state of dance, opening up a space for free experimentation with dancing, now with and in the water.
Ah! We’ll start with a dance by the pool, in the sunshine of the DJ! So come with your sparkly outfit, because we’re going to dive, slide, play and float!
Mirror Mirror: How to Reveal a More Creative Me?
By Lyngar Daluz
In this experience, we will start with portraits that will serve as portals of self-discovery, investigating how what attracts us reveals hidden layers of who we are. By arousing curiosity and identification, we will explore new possibilities for existing and interacting in an imaginative and sensory way.
Combining the practices of therapeutic photography, creativity and queer sexuality, we will dive into the process of recognising what dwells within us and what we wish to embody. This journey culminates in the creation of new forms of expression and interaction, using nature and various materials to transform our bodies into territories of sensory exploration and reinvented erogenous zones.
The experience offers a safe space, guided by consent, to explore touches and interactions that transcend the limits imposed by gender norms or social standards. It’s an invitation to dance with the unknown, expand one’s erotic repertoire and reveal new possibilities for authentic existence.
SHUT UP I LOVE YOU
By Liisa Fatuma
Getting mean & gentle at the same time… A playful kinky discovery journey about communication, leading & following, power & surrender. How is it to go into slightly dangerous areas – between and within ourselves – with a loving baseline to everything we do?
An experimental space aiming for physical & non-physical contact and for a researching approach to power dynamics, pleasant discomfort & desires. This is about an inner area that (at least in the beginning) feels slightly forbidden, or breaks with classic images of what “good loving sexuality/sensuality” is, and is looking for pleasure. It may include content that involves physical impact, playing with holding, pressing, stroking, spanking, tying… Sensual and/or sexual experiences may happen, while there won’t be any instructions asking for genital touch or explicit sexual activity.
The instructed exercises will be in pairs or trios, alone or with the whole group. We may play with some toys and experiment a lot around creating consensual power imbalances as well as adventuring around the limits of comfort & tempting challenge. Not participating in certain things is always welcome at any point.
Relational Alchemy
By Karin Flores
An invitation to dive into the universe of relationships, where the body becomes the key to unveiling dynamics, patterns and new possibilities for being in connection.
Contact Improvisation* appears as more than a movement practice; it is a relational language that reflects and transforms the roles and interactions we experience in everyday life.
We will explore the body in its physicality and poetry, navigating its infinite possibilities for moving in partnership. Together, we will investigate the bonding dynamics that inhabit us, transforming movement into a channel for discovering where we meet, where we resist and where we can expand.
Non-verbal consent* will be our compass, a tool that guides us in dances where boundaries and contours unfold, offering a space of mutual respect and clear communication.
– Where do my desires find their limits?
– Can I say ‘no’ to this dance? How?
– How do I express what I want?
– Am I willing to give myself up? To express my desire?
– What roles do I usually take on in relationships? Can I inhabit other roles?
We’ll also delve into the *power dynamics* that permeate our exchanges. Through structured games, we will explore how power emerges – physically, emotionally and energetically – and how we can recognise and move through these forces with greater awareness and sensitivity.
ContacTantra
By Bruno Garrote
Bruno studied medieval Indian Kashmiri Shivaism (‘Tantrism’) theoretically for his doctorate and is a trained therapist in Neo-Tantric sexual meditations and massages.
Briefly explaining the principles of Tantra and Neo-Tantra, making this historical bridge from the medieval to the post-modern, this experience will take into account the moment of the participants and we will do meditations and/or tantric massages in pairs or groups that will expand into a practice of Contact Improvisation, passing on basic principles of relationship between bodies and then left free to explore in a Jam.
The Oracle
By DeeJay
“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)
Liquid Love Ritual (TBD)
By DeeJay
An Immersive Sensual Experience of Communion. The Liquid Love Ritual is a collective journey of the senses. It is an exploration of sensuality in its purest form and can invoke a strong feeling of love for oneself, one’s community and for life itself. For more information please read our Liquid Love Guidelines.
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.
DAILY OFFERINGS
We will journey together through a series of facilitated workshops, semi structured experiences and co-created group processes. As the retreat progresses the content will slowly evolve to explore the deeper and edgier spaces of embodied relationality.
RITUALS AND EVENING OFFERINGS
Evenings will be semi-structured explorations, with space for dance, play, magic and sacredness.
In our revelry we remember to honor the seen and unseen energies that are dancing with us on this journey. We cultivate intentional spaces to be in reverence and relationship with the sacred spark of aliveness in everything. With love we offer and with love we receive.
We embrace our desires, creating awareness into our shadows and our interdependecy, and we will invite sensuality and sexuality into our dances when it feels right.
Intro to Contact Improvisation & Jam
By Karin Flores
Contact Improvisation was born from academic dance research in the 1970’s in the USA and is at the heart of our practices. The form has spread all over the world as a Postmodern Folk Dance. It’s practice can lead to profound personal and relational refinement and flourishing. At it’s peak it allows the weaving of multiple dynamic flow states where the emergent dance is greater than the sum of its parts. We will explore the basics and the edges of Contact Improvisation.
Eros Evocation
By Inge Veldscholten
Evening ritual which invites to open to sensuality. The main idea is to use blindfolds to get away from our usual sight-focussed reality and connect with our envirmonent and physical reactions of attraction and repulsion through smell, taste and touch. These exploration will help the group to open to sensual play.
Evening with Eros and Kink
By Karin Flores & Deejay
By delving into the dark world of Rope, Role, Power and Sensation Play we choose a path of liberation. Confronting and embracing our shadows we hope to dispel shame , build confidence and find integrity in our boundaries and desires. This evening fusion explores the tools, terminology, and nuances of setting up scenes and/or experiences through the nuanced approaches & lenses of BDSM, Kink & Eros. Beginning with a short performance and demo, followed by Q&A with experienced players, and then flowing into self guided exploration.
Somatic Grief & Prayer Ritual
By Karin Flores & DeeJay
Life contains suffering and collectively embracing our pain and our sorrows will help us to digest and compost the things in our life that do not bring us joy. Being seen and held in our grief can cultivate our self compassion and our prosilience. This ritual centers around a simple embodied score, in order to invite grief, love, prayer, and presence to move through the body and be released in order to cultivate more space in and around the heart. Bring your grief, your longing, your love, your tears, your grumbly pain, your beauty, your Being.
Orgasticah Celebration Ritual
By Lyngar Daluz
Let’s celebrate diversity and authentic pleasure through a space that invites imagination and artistic expression through erotic involving tunes and space, where eye-to-eye and heart-to-heart connection takes a leap and the body flows in harmony and pure joy!
My desire is to co-create the space with participants, curating desires and DJing for it.
Exploratorium
offered by the the collective
A space to explore the different possibilities of sensuality, play and touch. Areas to explore with a Guardian or a pair of guardians that can be replaced thru the evening. The areas would vary depending on the emergent offerings.
Touch&Play Jam
By Karin Flores & DeeJay
On the final evening, an emergent threshold ritual to relish and honor our experiences in this co-created dream. We will dance, offer gratitude, connect and turn towards the horizon of the dawn of living in deeper connection with our desires and boundaries. A yummy and supportive opportunity to prepare for integration and the return. How do we carry the fruits of our time here together back into the other realms of our lives?
RITUALS • WORKSHOPS • EXPERIENCES
Our time together
WORKSHOPS: the retreat is filled with inspiring offers that form the bedrock of the Touch&Play work.
SPACE TO INTEGRATE: Sharing groups, cuddle spaces, swimming pool and beautiful nature offer space to integrate our experiences.
EVENING ACTIVITIES: Evening activities will be full of intrigue and delight! Curated dance spaces, rituals, a costume party, an evening of performances, an exploratorium, and more!
