Touch&Play UK 2025: Embracing Complexity

Touch&Play UK 2025 is going to be a little different and I’m excited to share it with you: The theme is ‘Embracing Complexity’ to honour the challenges and joys of group dynamics, but also just the complexity of life as a human being.

We have a real smorgasbord of unique offerings from 12 wonderful humans (see below).
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🍎 Secure your ticket now: Touch&Play UK, September 21-26, 2025 at Earth Spirit, Somerset https://uk.touchandplay.org/

This year’s ‘Embracing Complexity’ Offerings:

💃Your Teachers

❤️‍🩹Dr. Skye von Nordheim, from Berlin, will be offering: ‘from Dirty Talk To Sensual Story-Telling’ (Hot or what!) and a unique ritual creation workshop: ‘Witches In The Woods’.
Maya Schwartz, from Germany/France will be offering ‘The Dance That Doesn’t Want Anything’ - A CI exploration of gravity and support, which leads nicely into her second class; ‘Landings’. Maya will also be helping coordinate the soothe and care team, to support people to process their vulnerability.

❤️‍🩹Alex Berdicevskis, from Sweden, will be offering partner-dance and kink fusions with ‘Less Is More: Complexity In Leading And Following’ and ‘The One and The Many’ - some really experimental stuff for Touch&Play.
Christie Animas, from Belgium, will be offering the wonderful her unique parts work (that I’ve done loads of and highly rate); ’’Fool Expression: Meeting the Many Within’ and ‘Playing with Power, Influence & Relational Alchemy’ which will help you explore all your parts in the great play of this retreat.

❤️‍🩹Akasha Phoenix, UK, will be offering a unique workshop exploring the predator/ prey aspects of our nature in ‘Complexity of Human Being’ as well as a ‘Temple Introduction’ for one of the array of event delicacies. Akasha will also be coordinating the Work-Exchange team and click here if you’d like to come and help set things up in exchange for a cheaper ticket.

❤️‍🩹 Noam Raz, from Berlin, will be bringing some playful and deep explorations of ‘Kissing Dojo’ and ‘Dress/Undress’ where we get to explore our bodily sensations in play.

❤️‍🩹 Daniel Blackmore will be offering after lunch Art workshops where you’ll get to create your own kinky tools or masks and give you the chance to record the jams on paper through charcoal and pastels.

🕺Your Hosts🕺

❤️‍🩹Jamus Wood is our site coordinator but is also offering a wonderfully kinky relational workshop called ‘Bound / Unbound’ - drawing inspiration from Shibari (Japanese Rope Play), without ropes, we will use our bodies to bind.

❤️‍🩹Neil Morbey, from the UK, will be offering one of my most daring workshops ‘Caring Kink: Transforming Shame Into Sexy’ alongside hosting the whole event and helping you all to feel welcome.

❤️‍🩹Dr. Daniel J. Hayes (DeeJay) - the founder of Touch&Play, from USA/Holland, will be alongside me again and he will bring his signature offerings of The Oracle’ - to help us tune into the collective consciousness at Touch&Play- and ‘Evening Grief Ritual Ceremony’, to help you express and know that all the tender and raw parts are welcome and important.

🎶Your Musicians: 🎶

❤️‍🩹Aquila will be offering Fluid interactive sound carpet, featuring guitar, bass, didgeridoo, flute, percussion, voice and looping. He will help us sing together each day to come into harmony with one another.

❤️‍🩹 Marie “Murry” Echo (current T&P Massachusetts organiser)will be offering Interactive music in Murray’s unique style but also will be donning the persona with a fine pencil mustache named “Sir Real” who is host to the fantastical evening - The ‘Exploritori…Yum!’ - Which is your chance to offer wild and weird experiences to other participants.

🦚Other Elements On Offer🦚
🛀Hot Tub, Sauna and Time To Relax - We think that having some time to relax, connect and digest our exciting experiences is a key part of Touch&Play so we have plenty of space for that.
🏺Daily Jams - We love to move and dance together and we want even more of that this year, so we’ve scheduled them in the afternoon and evening
🦜Daily Sharing and Touch Groups - We believe that if you can have a little group to connect with daily and share words and/or touch it can help integrate and enjoy the experience of Touch&Play even more.
🩰Lots of dance - Every morning and every night there will be lots of dancing options, including DJ sets in one space and Contact Improvisation Jams in another.
🫦The Yurt of Possibilities - We have an unheld space where all possibilities are welcome 24/7.
⛓️Kink Lounge Demo and Tour - If you’re curious about BDSM we will be hosting a fun and welcoming introduction to the space on the second evening.
❤️‍🔥Temple Evening - On the third night we welcome you to slow down and come into presence with a guided temple experience.
🫂Cuddle & Intimacy Space - We love a cuddle and so we have a dedicated and held space on the fourth night, to encourage more intimacy and connection.
🎭‘No Talent’ Talent Show - On the final night we welcome you to bring out your characters, theatrics, music, poetry and whatever talents or non-talents you would like to perform.
✨Touch&Play Special Jam - On the final night we introduce the CI jam in a special to allow for all things to happen, which can be spicy, sensual, silly or soft. You choose.

❤️‍🩹All Parts Of You Are Welcome
We will have an online community meeting before the event to help you feel fully welcome. Once you get the ticket you’ll get the link. This is your invitation to arrive as you are and to express your full self, embracing all your complexities. Discover what you didn’t expect. Test your edges with a group that aims to hold care and creative curiosity.

🍎Secure your ticket now: Touch&Play UK, September 21-26, 2025 at Earth Spirit, Somerset https://uk.touchandplay.org/