TEAM
TEAM
We – the organizers and workshop teachers – are coming together in cross-cultural collaboration.
And we – the participants – are a group of dancers, movers, somatic learners, spiritual magic makers, embodied humans, vulnerable deep-divers, and relational explorers. With curiosity, care, and perhaps a bit of mischief, we call in this community, expanding within and expanding throughout, to gather in a new creation.
All are warmly welcome, to come as your full, unfiltered, beautiful self.
Swan Alyon
offers Biophany
Dr Swan Alyon is a psychotherapist and theatre practitioner. Swan earned their PhD from the University of Cambridge, trained at the Jacques Lecoq school of physical theatre, and holds certifications in tantra yoga, pranayama, and hypnotherapy. They have been guiding individuals and groups for more than 10 years and curated events in 13 countries on three continents. They are the founder of the Institute of Devotional Arts, which brings together contemplative and creative arts
http://devotionalarts.org
Christine Linnea
offers Raw & Real
Is a dancer, singer & medicine woman.
She is the caretaker and guardian of the portal “Drømmesalen” (Hall of dreams), in which she lives on Møn island in Denmark.
Here she cultivates and cares for several plant species, two bee families and three chickens.
She is a skilled crafts woman and a hunter.
At times, when guided by spirit, she travels to meet and weave with the world family.
Most of the times she shares ceremonies with elemental spirits & plant masters, sing her songs and give individual sessions, but still, from time to time, she comes to facilitate a journey through the body, raw & real.
This is one of those.
Welcome.
Laci Sárkány
offer Triangles – Strongest shape of insecurity and Restricted into freedom – Playing with scores
Laci Sárkány – Co-founder and owner of Zendit Kibbutz, a retreat place in Hungary, contact improvisation and ContaKids teacher, shiatsu practitioner and teacher.
He is also experienced in facilitating men, women and mixed gender self awareness groups.
We try to live and teach based on our philosophy ZENDIT. The essence of it is that though the need for change comes from our difficulties and a sincere contemplation and self awareness is also necessary but real growth happens through joy.
Donal Gannon
offers Pathways to Pleasure ~ A Somatic Exploration of Consensual Touch and Restoring Collective Soma ~ Cultivating practical skills to support groups to thrive
I am a catalyst for personal, relational, and cultural transformation, striving to take steps towards a world that works for all.
Since 2003, I have been travelling extensively providing training, facilitation, consultancy, system building, mediation, and coaching to individuals, couples and groups of all shapes and sizes (families, teams, organisations, communities).
In these, I use an extensive tool kit from various modalities to develop skills in conscious communication, effective collaboration, authentic relating, community/team building, shared leadership, cultural transformation, as well as personal and relational healing.
I continue to collaborate as a Certified Trainer with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC), Creative Director of HeartSpace Collective, and a member of the Cultural Catalyst Network (CCN), the School of Consent, Sociocracy For All, and Arise to Succeed.
donalgannon.com
Ignacio Alem Zabalaga
Sooth&Care coordinator
I’m 33 years old, born and raised in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Part of a huge family, so I grew up with a sense of community and cooperation. I started meditation at 12 and since then developed a profound and authentic relationship with myself and the unknown. In my 20s I lived in a spiritual and celibate community. I currently work in family constellations, crystal therapy and the leadership and coordination of an artisanal cheese Coop I founded 13 years ago. I started dancig CI 4 years ago where I met Inge, my polyamorous partner. Involved in T&P Cologne.
Inge Veldscholten
Work-exchange coordinator
At age 24 I started travelling full-time. Before that I got an interdisciplinary university degree in cultural anthropology and conflict studies. My love for life, people and teaching has since then developed towards holistic and somatic practices like ayurveda, yoga, bodywork and other forms of somatic movement and dance. For the past 13 years I have travelled the world and studied and taught these disciplines as well as contact improvisation, butoh, tantra, authentic movement, Rolfing, trager approach, and some EFT, BMC and Feldenkreis. Operators manager of T&P Cologne.
Marina Tsartsara
Embodied videography
Marina Tsartsara: Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, Dance & Visual Artist (MSc Videodance, MPhil Performance Autoethnography), Mindfulness facilitator and Somatic Therapist.
Coordinator of the Postgraduate course: Expressive Arts Therapy, Trauma & Embodiment offered by Poiesis Institute, and Founder of the Somatic Art Practice®, a method of embodied artmaking.
Marina has been part of the T&P movement since it’s beginning.
www.somaticwellbeing.info
Riki Parenti
offers Music Soundscape for contact jam and rituals and Journey through Voice
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
Trini García
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.
Queralt Jorba
Touch&Play Global Coordinator
I have an extense background in the fields of Psychology and Dance. One of my superpowers is helping folks identify the patterns that keep them stuck and the direction where they bloom. I also have wide experience in couple counselling on the field of non conventional relationships.
I feel called to honor our animal human nature and include social transformation in our day to day actions. I’m a mama and I’ve been part of intentional communities for many years. I flow around the glove rooted in my catalan-iberican roots. I have my shared nest between Catalunya and Massachusetts.
I’ve been nourishing the Touch&Play organization since its beginnings as a way to contribute to make this world a better place. I would love to support you in entering this inspiring community.
Daniel Joseph Hayes
Founder of Touch&Play
Dr. Daniel J. Hayes is the founder of the Touch&Play Movement and the Vidàlia eco-village outside Barcelona.
He is the current Executive Director of the Earthdance Creative Living Project, an arts & cultural community and institute in Western Massachusetts.
He’s been exploring the intricacies of the Relational Body for over 10yrs and is committed to building a more equitive and authentic culture through his social entrepreneurial and creative endeavours.
TEAM T&P Global:
Mara (Cynthia): Social Manager
Nick & Zinnda: IT
