MÉXICO

12- 18 February 2026

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Team

Mara

Mara

T&P Mexico Host

 

Sannyasin, seeker of presence, calmness, awareness, and deep connections.  Mexican, an aerial dance teacher, and a member of the Touch&Play Global Team.

Daniel J. Hayes

Daniel J. Hayes

T&P Founder

 

Social Entrepreneur, Community leader, Practical Idealist with an MD. and Ph.D. in Tropical Medicine. He’s been dancing, playing, meditating and conversing Contact Improvisation (CI) for over 20 years. He is the founder of the Touch&Play Movement and the Vidàlia eco-village outside Barcelona. He is the current Executive Director of Earthdance the oldest CI based Intentional Community located in Western Massachusetts and partner in CAMP an arts and cultural retreat center on the Coast of Oaxaca. He’s been exploring the intricacies of the Relational Body for over 15 years and is committed to building a more peaceful and authentic world through his social entrepreneurial and creative endeavors.

Justine & Phil

Justine & Phil

Offers "Shame Lab” (Intensive)

Justine:
I believe in the transformative power of pleasure, understanding our bodies and embracing our sexuality with confidence, enthusiasm and love.

My approach is rooted in compassion and kindness, both to ourselves and to others. I create a safe and welcoming space where open conversations about sex and relationships are not just encouraged but celebrated. I’ve spent years studying, practicing, and exploring various facets of sexuality. My passion is sharing this knowledge and guiding others on their own paths of self-discovery. Helping people connect more deeply with themselves, communicate clearly with others, and find pleasure and comfort in their bodies.
Whether it’s coaching individuals, hosting edgy parties, or facilitating retreats, I find joy and meaning in creating safe spaces where magic can happen.

Phil:
A core mission I have is to help create safe places and spaces for folks to freely express themselves without fear of judgment, especially in the world of BDSM. I have been an active member of our kink community: creating a community home, creating an education facility, serving on the Board, being an ambassador to the curious.

Another core mission of mine is to interact with individuals that are curious about finding their own path to freedom. Providing coaching and mentorship. Providing hands on experiences that open up possibilities. Providing tools and practices that allow folks to find their way. Find out more about us at

www.embracearousal.com

 

Marie "Murry" Echo

Marie "Murry" Echo

Offers "Fooling around" (Intensive)


Marie Echo/Murry’s (fae/they/she) primary partnership is with the meandering magic of the Muse. Living in devotion to creativity, fae shapeshifts between and beyond archetypal roles of bard, dreamer, magician, priestesx and trickster.

They perform immersive theater ritual, curate expressive arts events, and teach embodied voice. In reverence & revelry- always delighted to play and pray.

Instagram:  @musemundi

 

Ximena Velasco

Ximena Velasco

Offers "Birthing from your roots" (Intensive)


I love swimming in deep waters trying to remain in an ocean of curiosity that keeps me flowing in the excercise-research-practice of experiencing-understand what Human being means .

I have travel a lot inside and outside during my life, I did studied Antrolopogy, Prenatal Psychology, craneosacral therapy, contemporary dance, contact improvisation, Somatic Movement BMC, Thai massage, Bioneuroemotion, Feldenkrais, Yoga, Ceremonies and Rituals, Buddhism, Traditional Mexican Medicine, Doula, Somatic Trauma Therapy, etc.

Integrating as a healing path is what I do resonate with in this days, learning to be Present with what is, with what we feel, validating and including what we have left out from ourselves. Tuning in deeper to listen a more refined perception that emerges informing of how It’s needed to creat meaning of life that matches the Present.
Learning to enhabit spaces that allows me to bring in new information, new posibilites, new pathways, new perspectives inviting freedom so I can keep creating authentic connections with this amazing powerful mysterious source of life.

Instagram: @ximena_velasco_castro

Iliana Muñoz

Iliana Muñoz

Offers "Hunting What Haunts Me" (Single Class)


Iliana Muñoz is a Mexican performing artist whose practice has expanded into somatic, ritual and immersive facilitation.

Trained in theatre and interdisciplinary creation, her work explores consciousness, vulnerability, and embodied storytelling as pathways toward personal and collective insight. Moving between the world of performance and the world of intimate, community-based rituals, she creates experiences that invite participants to listen from the body, expand their imagination, and encounter themselves through presence, sensation, and poetic inquiry.

Her recent explorations focus on shame, obscenity, and the tender territories of the self that are usually pushed to the margins—both personally and culturally. Iliana’s methodology integrates voice, movement, meditation, writing, and ceremonial elements to create atmospheres where participants can reveal themselves gently, playfully, and with courage.

Originally from Mexico City and currently based in Tepoztlán, she works at the intersection of contemporary ritual, somatic research, and decolonial listening. Across her artistic and facilitation work, Iliana is committed to creating spaces where people can soften, take risks, and be witnessed with care.

www.ilianamunoz.net

 

Gabriela Akiti González

Gabriela Akiti González

Offers: "Dancing my shadow" (Single Class)

A performer of life and an entity in constant construction, I inhabit fluid genders and pronouns. I hold a Master’s degree in Dance Therapy and work as a channel for Akashic Records; my practice unfolds through the research of bodies—their limits, capacities, and possibilities for transformation. With over ten years of therapeutic and holistic experience—and three years navigating the kinky universe—I weave together my facets as an aerial dancer, nude model, therapist, and artist to create spaces where the emotional, the spiritual, and the performative enter into dialogue.

I identify as neurodivergent, polyamorous, demisexual, pansexual, and a switch. From this embodied experience, I accompany people in reconnecting with their bodies as territories of consciousness and pleasure. I integrate somatic exercises, movement, rituality, and performative practices oriented toward BDSM, understood as an artistic, symbolic, and therapeutic language capable of revealing memory, desire, and presence.

KInKTacto is a performative laboratory: a space where body, object, and scene become territories for sensory exploration. Here, felt movement, conscious touch and gaze, deep listening to limits, and relational dynamics emerge in situ—here and now—as pathways for self-knowledge, expansion, and erotic re-writing.

www.soygabriela.com/adsumakiti

Diana Origel

Diana Origel

Offers "Divinity; The door of the Divine expression of ecstasy" (Single Class)

Yoga university teacher, specializing in somatic yoga and practices for hormonal and digestive regulation, vitality and mindfulness.
Tantric therapist, Shibari rigger, and Mexican artist.
I educate and guide others on sacred sexuality.
Creator of the projects “The Eyes of Medusa” and “The Art of Being a Woman” Creator of Shibari & Tantra workshops, performances, and jams in Mexico.

Instagram: @shibari_shakti

 

Josh Fox

Josh Fox

Offers "Unpacking Grief"


He is a professional facilitator, musical magician, ritualist, and educator. He has dedicated his life to tending the village heart by creating connection, harmony, and deep healing through song circles, grief spaces, cacao rituals, and healing ceremonies.

For over a decade he has facilitated emergent, community grief rituals throughout the US– guiding villagers into deep emotional expression through music, intimacy exercises, and somatic awareness.

Fox radiates his joy and gentle presence through dance, puppetry, and songs that touch the soul and tickle the spirit.

www.foxhealing.com

Gerardo Mercado

Gerardo Mercado

T&P Photographer

Mexican photographer with Indigenous Purépecha roots, born in 1991 in Veracruz, Mexico. He experienced a nomadic childhood, moving through 16 homes and attending 10 schools across Mexico’s diverse landscapes. A self-taught photographer with a background in filmmaking, he began his journey at the age of nine using his mother’s camera. After relocating from Mexico City to Oaxaca, he immersed himself in film photography, pushing its boundaries to capture the essence of his surroundings. His work examines themes of gender, territory, and sexuality, challenging perceptions and exploring what is often considered dark or obscene, opening dialogue and provoking questions through the lens.

Instagram: @ger.merc

Ale Karasik

Ale Karasik

Multimedia + Testimonials


Alejandro Karasik holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Choreographic Composition with a focus on Body Expression (UNA, 2014); a Master of Arts in Solo/Dance/Authorship (HZT–Berlin University of the Arts, 2018) and a Postgraduate Degree in Sexology and Sexual Health at FUNDASSEX (2024). He is certified as Sexological Bodywork™ (ISS Australia, 2019); Introduction to Embodied Counseling (ISS, 2020); Somatic Sex Educator (ILASS Brazil, 2021); Facilitator of Therapeutic Activities and Tools of Tantra and Sacred Sexuality (Level 3, Escuela Tántrica, Argentina, 2023); Feldenkrais Method™ Teacher (Argentina, 2023); and ISTA Level 1 Graduate (2023 and 2024); Faculty Member in Sexological Bodywork™ Certifications (ILASS, 2024).

 

IG: @sexualidadysomaticas

 

Liv

Liv

Offers "Liquid Love Ritual" + Exploratorium


She is an Ashkenazi Kohein, a woods witch, a Sociologist, an erotic adventurer, and a community creature. She gets equally excited about exploring the world and sweeping her floor at home.

She has listened deeply and taken in wisdom from brilliant teachers in the realms of somatics, kink, tantra, ritual arts, earth-based healing, and liberation theology. She is an organizer with the international Touch&Play project, an ongoing student with the International School of Temple Arts, and has led numerous artist & activist communities. Her own journey with mental (un)wellness and personal empowerment has been her greatest teacher and instilled a passion for accompanying others towards the water. She sings, writes, hurts and heals, and you are welcome to join her.

www.mybodyprayer.com

Avi Schneider

Avi Schneider

Musician

Daniel Avi Schneider is a berlin based Violinist, singer, composer and multi Instrumentalist. Born into a jewish – swiss 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.

In his latest projects he extends the acoustic sounds of the violin with the help of electronic tools and and his electric mandolin. In this way he can cross the whole spectrum between intimate acoustic storytelling to creating deep and rich electroacoustic soundscapes.

Instagram: @danielavischneider

 

Alberto Alvarado

Alberto Alvarado

WEX Helper Team Coordinator

A quiet force of clarity, presence, and deep attunement.

Alberto is a conscious facilitator and community weaver who bridges structure and sensitivity with ease. With a background in agile leadership and group dynamics, he supports teams so that people, energy, and logistics flow with coherence and care.

Rooted in somatic awareness, he has a natural ability to sense what is needed before it is spoken, offering calm direction in moments of complexity. As Helper Team Coordinator, he supports the helpers from within—creating clarity, rhythm, and alignment so service becomes grounded, nourishing, and meaningful.

Instagram: @albertoalvarado23

 

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FROM THE OBSCURE TO THE OBSEEN - T&P MEXICO - 5th Edition
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EROS & SELF-EXPRESSION
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