Essence & Edge
8-13 July 2025
Offerings
TROUPES
Everyday we will journey with our Troupe (intensive for the touch&play old cats), in a workshop framework with a guiding facilitator or a co-created group Lab experience. Each time the environment will change to explore the relationality of embodiment in space.
SINGLE CLASSES
Each afternoon you can spontaneously choose the class you would like to join.
deCIDE Consent
offered 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.
The Oracle
offered 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)
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
offered by participants
Self-organized spaces offered by participants 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.
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.
RITUALS AND EVENING OFFERINGS
In our revelry we remember to honour 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.
Evening with Eros and Kink
offered by Daniel Joseph Hayes, Marie Murry & more!
Our first evening fusion exploring the tools, terminology, and nuances of setting up scenes and/or experiences through the nuanced approaches & lenses of BDSM, kink, sensuality & Eros. Beginning with demoing of scenes, followed by Q&A with experienced players, and then flowing into free exploration with toys & techniques.
Grief Ritual
offered TBC
Exploratorium – Ritual: Elements of Eros
offerd TBC
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 through the evening. The areas would vary depending on the emergent offerings.
Liquid Love Ritual
offerd TBC
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.
Touch&Play Jam
offerd by the Team
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 live?
RITUALS • WORKSHOPS • EXPERIENCES
Touch&Play organisers reserve the right to change or make adjustments to the schedule and the teaching team at any given time and at short notice. Thank you for your understanding.