Team
YOUR HOSTS
Manuela Bosch
Organizer / Production Team
Single Class Facilitator
Offers Class:
Altered Listening
Manu moves between the structured logic of social innovation and the wild intelligence of the body and nature.
As a Generative Facilitator, she accompanies transformation processes for purpose-driven people and organizations. To learn to dance with today’s disruptions, she supports building future skills for inner clarity and relational intelligence in leadership. She facilitates spaces, where simplicity and playful experimentation can lead — seemingly incidentally — to deep transformation. In wilderness, virtual and physical places.
Manu sees retreats and events like Touch&Play not as leisure, but as vital arenas where values are negotiated, connection is forged, and futures are prototyped.
www.manuelabosch.de
Instgram: @manuelabosch_
Beata Absalon
Organizer / Production Team
Single Class Facilitator
Offers Class:
Speed F*cking
Beate or Beata – both names suit her German-Polish background – designs workshops, gatherings, and counseling sessions that invite participants to engage with the fact that people are inconvenient. Rather than trying to eliminate or gloss over this reality, she finds it worthwhile to recognize and work with it, as it forms the basis of ethical relating.
Drawn to fractures and friction, she pursued a PhD on consent and published her book Not Giving a F*ck, which explores the erotics of failure and the importance of non_sexual liberation. Although she dislikes the word “coaching,” that’s basically what she offers in her one-on-one settings, supporting clients in their intimate lives. Next to that, she is part of the workshop collective luhmen d’arc, currently preparing her retreat Tantra with a pinch of salt.
www.luhmendarc.com
IG: @beateabsalon
INTENSIVE TEACHERS
Rosalind Holgate Smith
Intensive Class Facilitator
Offers Intensive:
Contact in Depth
Offers Talk:
The vocabulary of Touch in Contact Improvisation
Rosalind is a Dancer, Choreographer and Somatic Movement Educator. Rosalind has over 15 years of experience teaching Contact Improvisation and takes inspiration from studies in Body-Mind CenteringⓇ, Authentic Movement, Skinner Release Technique, Martial-Arts and moving outdoors with trees, mud and water. As an artist she creates performance installations that explore intimacy between people, place, and the environment and is completing a PhD concerning touch as an encounter with Otherness and the vocabulary used in Contact Improvisation.
https://rosalindholgate-smith.com/ https://www.instagram.com/rosalindholgatesmith/ . https://www.facebook.com/rosalind.holgatesmith
Niall Fallon
Intensive Class Facilitator
Offers Intensive:
Take off your mask and wear mine
for a moment
Niall Fallon (Irish/English, he/they) is an interdisciplinary practitioner and transformation artist. Through performance and immersive ritual, they create spaces of embodiment, ecstatic theatricality, and dynamic play. He explores themes of trust, mythology, control, sensuality, and psychosomatics. Niall is the founder of The Playhouse Berlin Collective as well as a theatre director, performer, intimacy coordinator and choreographer in places such as the Salzburg Festpiele, Komische Oper, Dutch National, Dock 11, Edinburgh Festival and across India. He specialises in artistic practice development and holistic experiences.
www.niallfallon.com
www.theplayhouseberlin.com
SINGLE CLASSES TEACHERS, ARTISTS & CARE TEAM
Janina Vivianne
Peace Council Coordinator, Ritual&Single Class Facilitator
Offers Class:
TRE – Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises
Offers Ritual:
4 Circle Selflove Ritual
Janina Vivianne (she/her) is a Sexological Bodyworker, Sex & Intimacy counsellor, and workshop facilitator. Since 2018, she has been dedicated to fostering sexual empowerment, self-acceptance, and creating safer spaces for individuals to explore their sensual journeys. Janina’s work emphasizes intimacy, connection, self-love, and consent. Drawing from her own lived experiences and expertise, she combines bodywork techniques with insightful intimacy counseling to empower people in reconnecting with themselves and others.
www.pleasure-empowerment.com
Justi Tutti Gusti
Work Exchange Coordinator
Justi Tutti Gusti is an educator, community artist and performer. Besides holding a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts from Glasgow School of Art and an International Master in Adult Education for Social Change, she has over 10 years of experience coordinating and facilitating community arts. She is also currently studying SOMA Intimacy, aiming to become a somatic intimacy therapist. Her methodology is inspired by research in burlesque, clowning, butoh, ballroom culture, theatre improvisation, somatics, the work of Bill Plotkin and various other movement practices. Burlesco Wacko is Justi’s current methodology presented and evolving during various gatherings, retreats and festivals.
https://www.instagram.com/burlesco_wacko
Rebecca Frances
Smoothe & Care Coordinator
Single Class Facilitator
Offers Class:
Giving Space. An approach to massage
Rebecca is an ex-yoga teacher, masseuse and researcher whose work circles around relaxation, arousal and altered states of consciousness. She holds a degree from Cambridge University and grounded her intellectual exploits into physical practice through yoga, sexological bodywork, qi gong, butoh, pranayama and thai massage, all the time chasing the language behind exactly what happens when two bodies touch.
https://www.luhmendarc.com/events/tantra-with-a-pinch-of-salt-20250920
insta: @feel_more_bln
Asis Aviv
Ritual and Single Class Facilitator, Peace Council
Offers Ritual:
The PRAY•GROUND!
Offers Class:
Yasss Queen! : Divine Diva Activation
Asis Aviv (they/them) is a facilitator, spiritual guide, somatic practitioner and a multidisciplinary performance artist. Born in Israel-Palestine, Asis celebrates their identity as a gender-transcended Arab Jew,- while anchored in the label-less Soul. As a faculty member with the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA) and founder of PRAY•GROUND, Asis crafts transformative experiences that invite people to step into their authentic power and be in love with the mystery. Through their work, they create spaces for deep heart connection, growth, rest and a whole lot of fun!
Matthias Lange
Single Class Facilitator,
Peace Council
Offers Class:
Trusting myself in the presence of you
Dr. med. Matthias Lange, a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, worked at the University Medical Centre Hamburg Eppendorf for almost 20 years. Since 2017, he works as a psychotherapist in his own practice.
In addition to his depth psychology training, he is a hypnotherapist, ego-state therapist and couples therapist. He is also a lecturer at the „North German Couples Academy“ (NPA).
Since 1992 he is practicing the peaceful martial art Aikido. In 2001, he founded and has since then run the Aikido Zentrum Hamburg, where he, besides teaching Aikido also organises events focusing on mindfulness, presence, free movement and authentic encounters (e.g. Conscious Playfight, Conscious-Primal-Play).
Instagram: @aikidozentrumhamburg
Barbara Bess
Ritual and Morning Class Facilitator
Offers Ritual: (BE)LONGING_nightwalk
Offers Moring Class: Cycling the sources
Since studying choreography at the HZT Berlin, Barbara has been developing projects, performances, festivals, and laboratories at the intersection of urban and rural spatial culture. Barbara is currently establishing formats for somatic education and research in an old village school.
With a focus on co-creation and process-oriented work, residencies, retreats, and ceremonies, she provides potential spaces for sensory and extrasensory perception take place. With love, aesthetic sensitivity, and embodied intuition, Barbara creates intimate, atmospherically charged spaces for sustainable coexistence.
Rituals and customs, embodied entities, the individual body, and the surrounding structures and elements of the respective location are key factors in the effectiveness of her work.
María Paula Acevedo
Ritual Facilitator
Offers Ritual: The Oracle
Maria Paula, Founder of JOYNMOVE, originally from Colombia, brings her passion for embodied movement, touch, and human connection to the Touch & Play Germany team. As a movement guide and bodyworker, she helps people reconnect with their bodies and emotions through dance, playful movement, Pilates, Animal Flow, and intuitive massage.
She believes in the healing power of touch and the body’s innate wisdom. With a warm and joyful approach, she creates spaces for freedom, expression, and deep connection. Her mission is to help others feel grounded, alive, and at home in their bodies.
joynmove.de
Alex Schallhammer
LAB Facilitator
Offers: LAB (Paralell to intensives)
Alex is a psychological and sexual counsellor based in Salzburg, Austria. He holds degrees in psychology, philosophy, pedagogy, and design education. His passions include travel, Contact Improvisation, alternative relationship forms, and Authentic Relating. He is in a long-term, ever-evolving relationship. After attending Burning Man in 2014, his life took unexpected turns towards consciousness, community, dance, and sex positivity. In the last two years, he discovered Authentic Relating (or perhaps, it discovered him). He loves listening and holding space for processes in groups, couples, and individuals.
MUSICIANS
Daniel Avi Schneider
Musician
Daniel Avi Schneider is a berlin based violinist, singer, composer and multi instrumentalist.
Born into a Swiss – Israeli musician family and trained since a young age Avi draws from a deeply natural connection to music as well as from extensive classical and jazz studies.
Having played big stages across Europe with his bands Bukahara, Shishko Disco, ILYF and with Ahmed Eid he still feels most at home in intimate settings.
Where it’s possible for the lines between performers and audiences to blur, diving together into a flow of deep presence and sensitivity.
Sura
Musician and Singing Circle
Offers Singing Circle: All creatures sing
Sura, born rachel flora solomon, grew up & lived between brussels, the usa, palestine/israel & the netherlands, embracing their mixed origins as a jewish eastern european & north african decedent, their music reflects all of those influences and beyond. they mostly work as a performing musician, giving concerts and releasing albums, since 2018 with their co-founded band: las lloronas, and now on their own. they started music in the streets, traveling, then with kids and people with alzheimer.
Lately, in addition of performing and preparing their latest new album: i will be dead, they host workshops, rituals and empowering gatherings for people who want to sing and dare to dare. this last year they co hosted 2 sexpositive events in belgium and is committed to continue making “hope contagious” through pleasure activism, play and vulnerability collective practices.
https://linktr.ee/sura_sol
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