Barcelona
WORKSHOP
30 November 2024 / Barri de Gràcia
– A one day experience-
The trees have lost their cloaks, winter is arriving and with it our descent into darkness. As it grows colder we look for a hearth and home. We gather with family and friends to share our wild summer adventures and to give thanks for the lives that we live.
This is a time where we dive into ourselves to strip away, distil and keep only those things that will help us make it through to the light on the other side.
Embodiment
Authentic connections
Culture shifting
WELCOME TO THE TOUCH&PLAY WORKSHOPS
The Format
At Touch&Play, we enjoy exploring not only content but also different ways of sharing this work with you. We often organize multi-day retreats in natural retreat centers with room and board included. This time, we’re excited to explore a different format!
The Touch&Play Workshops are short, urban gatherings, independently organized by our local Touch&Play team.
The Content
These experiments, very different from the week-long retreats, offer an opportunity to dive into the T&P body of knowledge for the first time or to further deepen your personal practice and relationships within the community.
The topics can range from personal and community growth, dance, somatics, circle singing, expanding the concept of eros, kink, queer, authentic relationships, and much more. Check who’s leading the specific workshop and what topics will be explored.
Hosts
The teachers are leaders and participants within the Touch&Play community with a long history and passion for the subject they’re sharing. We hope they inspire you! Workshop teachers can range from T&P leaders with extensive experience in the field to passionate participants eager to share insights from their own explorations and interests.
Schedule & Offerings
More Info in the catalan page
The Touch&Play Local Workshops are for you if…
- You want to continue exploring your personal practice and boosting your personal growth.
- You want to keep deepening your relationships within the T&P community.
- You want to integrate the changes experienced during the T&P retreats.
- You’re curious about the work, have never attended a festival before, but are unsure if this is the right space for you.
THE VENUE
The retreat will take place in a space in the centre of the Gràcia neighbourhood (Barcelona). Metro Diagonal.
Nourishment
This is a cooperative game! Lunch will be included in the ticket price if we are a group of minimum 15 participants (the game ends Monday November 25th).
We will have an ayurvedic vegetarian lunch.
A tea station is available during the breaks.
Examples of menus to tempt your taste buds…
Menu 1: Savory buckwheat, tomato, and zucchini pie with pea cream. Grapefruit, quinoa, and fennel salad with mint. DESSERT: Chia, almond, and chocolate pudding jars. Herbal tea, water, bread, fruit.
Menu 2: Shepherd’s pie (vegan) made of lentils and vegetables with tomato, carrot, and ginger cream. Green salad with avocado and fresh cheese. DESSERT: Apple pie. Herbal tea, water, bread, fruit.
ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION
Investing in T&P means supporting your personal growth and investing in a project with values of sustainability, inclusion, and community.
We offer a tiered pricing structure with three options based on your financial capacity. Reserve your spot paying a deposit.
More info on the registrations page
PRACTICALITIES
Community Agreements
Refresh your memory by reading the Community Agreements
Practicalities
Once you register you will receive an email with all the practical information
Idioma
Will depend on the groups needs
YOUR HOSTS
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.
OBI
Instructor of Ancestral Tantra Kriya Yoga
@atky.sessions.bcn
Explorer of Buddhist meditation, Tibetan reiki, and aikido.
Passionate about dance in various fields: Contact Improvisation, Contemporary, Forró, Queer Tango, Contactango, Ecstatic Dance, Samba de Gafieira,… I have participated in different festivals and trainings: Freiburg Contact Festival, Contact Meets Contemporary in Göttingen, and multiple T&P and ecstatic dance events and gatherings.
Enthusiastic about everything related to somatic sexuality, conscious relationships, tantra, and non-conventional sexuality, I have participated in numerous trainings and events around these topics.
Currently, I offer regular ATKY (Ancestral Tantra Kriya Yoga) sessions in Barcelona. I have also shared this powerful technique of healing and personal evolution in tantric therapist trainings in Mexico City, at the T&P Barcelona Discovery Weekend, and in various other cities.
RIKI PARENTI
Riki Parenti is a music therapist and transpersonal therapist with a long background in the realm of sound, voice and movement.
Apart from working in the field of clinical music therapy, the last 4 years he is directing a weekly voice and movement laboratory in Barcelona where he mixes voice work as a self-growth and empowerment tool and playfulness through music games, body percussions and traditional folk songs singing.
He is also a CI dancer and musician in a lots of jams and CI festivals since 2010: his style is minimalist and meditative playing with voice, loops, acoustic guitar and organic sounds effects.
www.rikiparenti.net
“Leave the relationships more beautiful than you found them.”
ABOUT TOUCH&PLAY
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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