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Ecstatic Community Immersion is July 16–19, for three nights.
We will have the entire property to ourselves (no personal retreats at the same time). The schedule below is subject to change at any time due to factors beyond our control. |
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Thursday, July 16th
3pm: Check-in (get settled, relax, and soak) 4:15–5pm: Singing Bowl Sound Bath with Arya Brown [Spiral Tubs] 5:00pm: Name Necklace Crafting [Lodge Front Deck] 6:00pm: Dinner 7:30pm: Welcome Circle 8:00–9:15pm: Ecstatic Dance with Bonbon Spirit 9:45–10:30pm: Contact Improv Fundamentals with Ryza Re [North Wing] 10:30–midnight: Contact Improv Jam (ambient music by Bonbon Spirit) [North Wing] 10:00–11:30pm: Tea Lounge Social Snuggle with Mohit [River Yurt] 10:30pm: snack time! |
Friday, July 17th 8am: Breakfast 9:15–10:45am: Orientation, Container Setting, & Connection (Mandatory Session) [Front Lawn] 11:15am–12:45pm: Ecstatic Dance with DJ Vonobo (Victor Warring) 1pm: Lunch 2:15–3:00pm: Singing Bowl Sound Bath with Arya Brown [Spiral Tubs] Erotic Blueprints™ Pathway [Front Lawn] 3:00–4:15pm: Overview of the Erotic Blueprints with Avery Deane 4:30–6:00pm: Dancing the Erotic Blueprints with Avery Deane Fusion Dance Pathway [North Wing] 3:30–4:30pm: Fusion Dance Basics with Bentley 4:30–5:45pm: Social Fusion Dance with Mother Void 6:00pm: Dinner [plus sharing and Q&A in the North Wing, esp for 1st timers] 7:30–9:00pm: Ecstatic Dance with Luke Rain [Front Lawn] 9:45pm–midnight: Amoeba Dance with PJ [North Wing] 10:00–11:15pm: Soulful Noise with Avery Deane [River Yurt] 11:00pm: snack time! |
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Saturday, July 18th 8am: Breakfast 9:30–10:45am: Ecstatic Dance with Inner Forest [Front Lawn] 11:30am–1:00pm: Squish Lab with Raynsong 12–12:45pm: Singing Bowl Sound Bath with Arya Brown [Spiral Tubs] 1pm: Lunch 2:30-3:30pm: Community Connection & Sharing with Avery Deane [Front Lawn] 3:45–5:45pm: Orgasmic Breath Magic with Avery Deane [North Wing] 3:45–5:45pm: Deepening Contact Improv with Paul Deering and Ryza Re [Front Lawn] 6:00pm: Dinner 7:30–9:00pm: Ecstatic Dance with Mother Void [Front Lawn] 9:45pm–12:15am: "Dance Eros" with Victor Warring [North Wing] 10:00–11:15pm: Song Circle with Raynsong [River Yurt] 11:00pm: snack time! |
Sunday, July 19th
8am: Breakfast 9:30–11:00am: Ecstatic Dance with Bonbon Spirit [Front Lawn] 11:00am–12:00pm: Integration & Closing Ceremony [Front Lawn] 1pm: Lunch 3pm: Departure deadline (Note: Must be out of cabins, yurts, and rooms by 1pm) |
Session Descriptions
Amoeba Dance: This is a practice of group Contact Improvisation, exploring what it means to dance as one. The dance score is: slow, grounded, gentle, and all-connected. We start with an opening circle to establish an attuned and safer container, move into extended facilitation to get the connection going, and then luxuriate in a long session of Amoeba Dance.
Community Connection & Sharing: [description coming soon]
Contact Improv Fundamentals: We will explore the foundational principles of the form: navigating a rolling point of contact, sharing weight, and riding momentum. We will use deep physical listening to track gravity while maintaining safe boundaries. Come build the baseline skills to move fluidly and spontaneously. This session is without music.
Contact Improv Jam: Step into an open space to practice and play with the forms of physical dialogue. This session uses a backdrop of ambient music to support your movement, weight sharing, and spontaneous collaborations. Drop in at your own pace to explore connection, solo exploration, or witnessing the room.But consider that this particular session will be on the lawn instead of a hardwood floor, so that some aspects of contact improv will be a little bit different.
Dance Eros: DanceEros is an erotic, inclusive ecstatic dance for taking ownership of our bodies and inviting Eros through the front door as an honored, welcome presence. You are invited to move the erotic with truth and authenticity: slow and inward, bodacious and bawdy, playful and proud, shy and curious, solo or with others—in whatever way is true. We begin by building a safer container of consent and agreements…then we dive in! This session is "high possibility" and "low expectation".
Dancing the Erotic Blueprints: Each of the 5 Erotic Blueprint Types (Energetic, Sensual, Sexual, Kinky, Shapeshifter) show up in our bodies and in many areas of our lives, most especially in dance! This guided embodiment exploration will be set to music and offer the opportunity to explore each of these 5 frequencies on the dance floor.
Deepening Contact Improv: Take your practice off the floor and into three dimensions. Move past the basic mechanics as we explore the skills of supporting, flying, and entering effortless lifts using skeletal alignment rather than muscle strain. This session focuses on navigating spirals, handling disorientation, and expanding your awareness to sustain longer, more dynamic dances.
Ecstatic Dance (x 6): Our root practice! Drop out of your thinking mind and into your body and emotions. It's an invitation to open to whatever arises, be it catharsis, release, or connection with self and others. Please refrain from social talk in the dance space.
Fusion Dance Basics: Learn the fundamentals of improvisational partner dance. We will explore how to fuse your movement with a partner to any style of music, focusing on a heart-to-heart frame and the dynamics of lead, follow, and switch. This session focuses on the core connection skills without choreography, emphasizing safety and clear boundaries on the floor. For safety, there is no rolling on the ground or lifting/flying—this is different than Contact Improv.
Integration and Closing Ceremony: Gather one last time as a village to anchor and digest the experiences of the weekend. This session offers a structured space for reflection, community sharing, and honoring the connections we built together. We will close our container with a formal ceremony, sending you home grounded and complete.
Name Necklace Crafting: Time for a little arts & crafts! Stop by and make a name necklace for the weekend. It's a creative way to help everyone get to know one another and make our community feel more familiar from the start.
Orgasmic Breath Magic: [description coming soon]
Orientation, Container Setting, & Connection: This is the session when we introduce everyone, go over healthy boundaries & consent, and begin building camaraderie as a cohort. Attendance required.
Overview of the Erotic Blueprints: Energetic, Sensual, Sexual, Kinky, Shapeshifter. These energies show up in many parts of our lives, including the bedroom. This introduction will help you understand these frequencies, find which pathways resonate for you, and begin to recognize them in others.
Singing Bowl Sound Bath: Awaken your senses through the grounding resonance of
singing bowls, centering your energy while soaking! This session offers a meditative space to settle into collective stillness.
Social Fusion Dance: This session is a chance to play with the form, have fun, and dance to deep, yummy music and live violin. We usually trade partners after each song, giving you the opportunity to share unique, spontaneous dances with different people across the community. For safety, there is no rolling on the ground or lifting/flying—this is different than Contact Improv.
Song Circle: Gather to lift your voice and share the simple joy of community singing. We will learn accessible songs using call-and-response structures and easy, layered harmonies that are quick to pick up. This session is all about connecting through sound, blending our voices, and creating a resonant collective space together.
Soulful Noise: Connect breath, body, voice, and soul in community through vocal toning, playing with resonance and dissonance, sharing songs, and closing with a harmonic sound bath. Supported with crystal bowls, bells, chimes, and shruti box.
Squish Lab: Practice navigating connection and touch in a playful, trauma-informed container. This session uses concepts from partner yoga and childlike wisdom to explore self-consent, communication, and boundary expression. We will begin with clear group agreements, then move into guided partner stretching and group snuggling flows.
Tea Lounge Social Snuggle: Drop into a relaxed, unfacilitated space designed for slow connection and downtime. Warm tea will be served alongside plenty of cushions, offering a comfortable environment for quiet conversation, resting, or easy snuggle time. Come and go as you please to unwind and connect at your own pace.
Community Connection & Sharing: [description coming soon]
Contact Improv Fundamentals: We will explore the foundational principles of the form: navigating a rolling point of contact, sharing weight, and riding momentum. We will use deep physical listening to track gravity while maintaining safe boundaries. Come build the baseline skills to move fluidly and spontaneously. This session is without music.
Contact Improv Jam: Step into an open space to practice and play with the forms of physical dialogue. This session uses a backdrop of ambient music to support your movement, weight sharing, and spontaneous collaborations. Drop in at your own pace to explore connection, solo exploration, or witnessing the room.But consider that this particular session will be on the lawn instead of a hardwood floor, so that some aspects of contact improv will be a little bit different.
Dance Eros: DanceEros is an erotic, inclusive ecstatic dance for taking ownership of our bodies and inviting Eros through the front door as an honored, welcome presence. You are invited to move the erotic with truth and authenticity: slow and inward, bodacious and bawdy, playful and proud, shy and curious, solo or with others—in whatever way is true. We begin by building a safer container of consent and agreements…then we dive in! This session is "high possibility" and "low expectation".
Dancing the Erotic Blueprints: Each of the 5 Erotic Blueprint Types (Energetic, Sensual, Sexual, Kinky, Shapeshifter) show up in our bodies and in many areas of our lives, most especially in dance! This guided embodiment exploration will be set to music and offer the opportunity to explore each of these 5 frequencies on the dance floor.
Deepening Contact Improv: Take your practice off the floor and into three dimensions. Move past the basic mechanics as we explore the skills of supporting, flying, and entering effortless lifts using skeletal alignment rather than muscle strain. This session focuses on navigating spirals, handling disorientation, and expanding your awareness to sustain longer, more dynamic dances.
Ecstatic Dance (x 6): Our root practice! Drop out of your thinking mind and into your body and emotions. It's an invitation to open to whatever arises, be it catharsis, release, or connection with self and others. Please refrain from social talk in the dance space.
Fusion Dance Basics: Learn the fundamentals of improvisational partner dance. We will explore how to fuse your movement with a partner to any style of music, focusing on a heart-to-heart frame and the dynamics of lead, follow, and switch. This session focuses on the core connection skills without choreography, emphasizing safety and clear boundaries on the floor. For safety, there is no rolling on the ground or lifting/flying—this is different than Contact Improv.
Integration and Closing Ceremony: Gather one last time as a village to anchor and digest the experiences of the weekend. This session offers a structured space for reflection, community sharing, and honoring the connections we built together. We will close our container with a formal ceremony, sending you home grounded and complete.
Name Necklace Crafting: Time for a little arts & crafts! Stop by and make a name necklace for the weekend. It's a creative way to help everyone get to know one another and make our community feel more familiar from the start.
Orgasmic Breath Magic: [description coming soon]
Orientation, Container Setting, & Connection: This is the session when we introduce everyone, go over healthy boundaries & consent, and begin building camaraderie as a cohort. Attendance required.
Overview of the Erotic Blueprints: Energetic, Sensual, Sexual, Kinky, Shapeshifter. These energies show up in many parts of our lives, including the bedroom. This introduction will help you understand these frequencies, find which pathways resonate for you, and begin to recognize them in others.
Singing Bowl Sound Bath: Awaken your senses through the grounding resonance of
singing bowls, centering your energy while soaking! This session offers a meditative space to settle into collective stillness.
Social Fusion Dance: This session is a chance to play with the form, have fun, and dance to deep, yummy music and live violin. We usually trade partners after each song, giving you the opportunity to share unique, spontaneous dances with different people across the community. For safety, there is no rolling on the ground or lifting/flying—this is different than Contact Improv.
Song Circle: Gather to lift your voice and share the simple joy of community singing. We will learn accessible songs using call-and-response structures and easy, layered harmonies that are quick to pick up. This session is all about connecting through sound, blending our voices, and creating a resonant collective space together.
Soulful Noise: Connect breath, body, voice, and soul in community through vocal toning, playing with resonance and dissonance, sharing songs, and closing with a harmonic sound bath. Supported with crystal bowls, bells, chimes, and shruti box.
Squish Lab: Practice navigating connection and touch in a playful, trauma-informed container. This session uses concepts from partner yoga and childlike wisdom to explore self-consent, communication, and boundary expression. We will begin with clear group agreements, then move into guided partner stretching and group snuggling flows.
Tea Lounge Social Snuggle: Drop into a relaxed, unfacilitated space designed for slow connection and downtime. Warm tea will be served alongside plenty of cushions, offering a comfortable environment for quiet conversation, resting, or easy snuggle time. Come and go as you please to unwind and connect at your own pace.
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