TOUCH&PLAY BARCELONA RETREAT
21-24 MAY 2026
DANCE & EMBODIMENT
We delve into the depths of our being, connecting with our physical, emotional, and energetic bodies. Tapping into the rich reservoirs of energy that reside within we find integration, empowerment, and a deeper sense of wholeness.
CREATIVITY & PLAY
In our journey, we view interactions as a never-ending playground to engage with life and creativity as a powerful force that fuels our exploration and expression.
KINK & SELF-EXPRESSION
We embrace the diversity of desires and identities, fostering an environment where individuals can authentically explore their unique emotional and erotic landscapes.
RELATIONSHIPS & COMMUNITY
We recognize the importance of building supportive, nurturing connections with others, cultivating spaces where vulnerability is celebrated and relational growth is encouraged.
Touch&Play Barcelona Retreat
YOU BELONG HERE
Touch&Play embodies an international movement, a spirited and adventurous family rooted in various local communities across the globe.
With a blend of sensuality, embodiment, playful, and heartfelt connection, Touch&Play invites individuals to explore their authenticity and relational dynamics in safer and supportive spaces. It acknowledges that embracing life is not just about celebrating strengths and virtues, but also about acknowledging one’s limits, and shadows, fostering a holistic journey of self-discovery and growth.
Our desires are connected to our biggest shames.
Take a minute to connect with one of your vibrant desires.
And now tell me, what feelings surround it? How much do you believe you deserve it?
Our desires or cravings often stem from or are intertwined with aspects of ourselves that we feel ashamed of or uncomfortable about. This could mean that our desires may be influenced by our attempts to address or compensate for feelings of inadequacy, insecurity, or societal judgment related to these shameful aspects of ourselves.
Embrace it all and take responsibility.
Moreover, power dynamics significantly shape our desires.
Desire often involves a longing or craving for something, whether it be physical, emotional, or psychological. Power, on the other hand, refers to the ability to influence or control outcomes, individuals, or situations.
In relationships, power imbalances can influence our desires, as individuals may seek power to fulfill them.
It’s time to expand yourself and continue trusting that you belong.
By shedding light on these buried issues, we enter into a vulnerable space to ask for what we want, and embrace our desires openly rather than acting on them covertly, while also gaining clarity on the power we hold.
Our responsibility lies in cultivating awareness of our blind spots, those areas of our lives and perspectives where we may lack insight or understanding.
This is a gathering about play, vulnerability and building community rich in emotional, sensorial and erotic intelligence.
During four days, we’ll create a space to dance, play, and discover the Touch&Play work and community in an intimate gathering of up to 35 people.
Programming is focused on a single track creating a strong group field and a deep shared journey. Our schedule while structured has flexibility to shift to the needs and wishes alive.
We’ll start by exploring the Touch&Play’s deCIDE Consent Framework, empowering everyone to communicate our boundaries and desires in an effective and authentic way.
We’ll delve into Contact Improvisation, inviting sensuality and sexuality into our dances when it feels right.
For the adventurous, there’s a safer space to explore Rope, Role, Power, and Sensation Play.
Participants might be able to step into leadership with an afternoon dedicated to community offers.
Evenings will be open for self-guided exploration, with a special celebration on Saturday to cap off the weekend.
With immense love for this project and the spirit of co-creation, we extend this invitation to newcomers and those approaching with a beginner’s mind. Welcome home to our diverse community of dancers, somatic explorers, and embodied humans.
Offerings
- deCIDE Consent Workshop
- Morning classes
- Contact Improv Class & Jam
- Performance & intro to kink
- Eros and playspaces
- Land dance
- The Oracle
- Voice journeys and singing cercles
- Semi-guided evening events, dances & rituals
- Group spaces to process
- Blank canvas of free time for rest, connect and/or emergent revelry!!!
Exploring the Basics & Edges of Contact Improvisation
Contact Improvisation was born from academic dance research in the 1970’s in the USA. It has since 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.
Evening with Eros and Kink
By delving into the 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.
Touch&Play Jam
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?
Facilitación
TRINIDAD GARCÍA ESPINOSA
Performer /activist/ creator
Equally interested in the somatic field, the performance and improvisation, postfeminism and gender politics, identities, practices unconventional sex and relationships.
“I come from the field of culture, the performative feminist field of discourse analysis, dedicated to the training and prevention of sexist violence, through the movement for the promotion and coeducation in schools and institutes in sexual education. I’m as well interested with performance improvisation, post-feminism and gender politics, identities and sexual practices and unconventional relationships”.
Trinidad has been working regularly as a contact improvisation teacher since 2001 in Barcelona and at festivals such as the New year festival of Barcelona, dances Summer festival, Freiburg Contact festival, Madrid contact festival, in touch festival, Dance Here project, Xplore among others.
Venue
Our home
We will be in a tipical catalan house. Montserrat are the mountains that will accompany us.
COMMUN SPACES
Indoor dance space
Communal dinning room
Kiwa and other sacred spaces
SURROUNDINGS
Forest and nature
Village 10 minuts by car
ACCOMMODATIONS
Shared Bedrooms
Camping with tent or van
Nourishment
Local and organic products. Delicious vegetarian meals.
Nourishment involves not only the intake of nutrients but also the quality of the food, the environment in which it is consumed, the emotional and social aspects of eating, and its impact on the overall well-being of the planet we live in.
Economic contribution
Investing in Touch&Play means supporting your personal growth and being part of a project with values of sustainability, inclusion, and community.
You can find additional information on the registration page.
Practicalities
GETTING THERE
Once your register you will receive a document to self organize shared rides.
ARRIVING & DEPARTURES
Arriving Thursday from 15h to 17h
Departure Sunday at 15h
Questions
What language will the retreat be facilitated in?
We would love to facilitated the event in Catalan, and likely will be in Spanish or English, depending on the group needs.
What’s the easiest way to get to the venue?
Once you complete your payment you receive a message with a link to an spreadsheet to self organize share rides with other participants.
Private transportation. Dust road.
What to bring?
Thinks you might consider to bring:
Comfy cloth to move and roll around. Long sleeves recommended to dance Contact.
Shoes to be in the forest. Shoes to take them off and on 20 times a day.
Water bottle
Towel (no need to bring linen)
Toiletries. Natural insect repellent, mineral sun cream…
Earplugs and mask if you are a sensitive sleeper
Headlamp
Cash (ATM in the village)
Personal journey, contact cards, handmade products or other beautiful things you sell, your favourite costumes, toys, musical instruments…
What are the sleeping arrangements like?
We will all be in beds and bunk beds in shared rooms from 4 to 8 people. There are some spots for vans or free camping.
More questions
Contact
hello@touchandplay.org
Testimonials
★★★★★
The movement
“Leave your relationships more beautiful than you found them”
Touch&Play is an exciting and growing global network of local communities that come together around a set of shared practices and a common culture. We’ve been organizing retreats and community gatherings since 2010 and have held events in 16 different countries and 4 different continents. Our events strike a balance between the local context and culture where a retreat takes places and the global embodied, humanistic and spiritual practices and values that underpin our work. In the end we are striving to build a deeply caring and seriously playful world where we can live authentically and in peace with ourselves and our communities.
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