About this Event

Purchase tickets here - https://bit.ly/dancemeetstantrabayarea Dance Meets Tantra - birthed in Boulder, CO - has been a sold-out monthly immersion and due to popular demand is now traveling to the East Bay of San Francisco! We are brimming over with FULL F*CK YES to bring this magic to the potent Bay Area community. So, we are coming, to strip away our masks, build our capacity and explore the messy, sweaty, beauty of our vulnerable bodies, hearts, & souls. Led by an attentive and powerful facilitation team, we will establish a foundation of consent, care and self-responsibility to unleash our deepest desires and our greatest capacity for deep sensual connection and creativity. Bay Area - we are so excited to share this practice with you. So, what is Dance Meets Tantra? Dance Meets Tantra is a transformational journey at the intersection of dance, tantra, ritual theatre, kink, shadow-work, breathwork & contact improvisation. Perhaps you’ve been feeling the call. For dance to evolve, deepen, and become more energetically attuned. For tantra to be more embodied, playful & activated. You intuitively know something incredible is possible when embodied movers come together with full permission to be alive, connect, and share their magic. Dance Meets Tantra is a space of: - Vulnerability: to be fully alive we need to get real. We safely and compassionately own and get present to the full range of our emotions, fears, blocks and discomfort. - Permission: to be the fullest expression of ourselves - including our sensual and erotic nature - however that looks. - Safety: boundaries, consent, attunement, and self-responsibility are essential to navigating safe space together. About the event: This is an opportunity to spend a day moving, breathing, learning and loving together with an incredible group of embodied humans. We will drop into profound tantra and movement-based workshops to strip away our masks, build our capacity and explore the messy, sweaty, beauty of our vulnerable bodies, hearts, & souls. Led by an attentive and powerful facilitation team, we will establish a foundation of consent, care and self-responsibility to unleash our deepest desires and our greatest capacity for deep sensual connection and creativity. You will depart this experience deeply connected with a beautiful tribe and feeling fully alive, on fire, and ready to bring new ways of being, connecting, and creating into the rest of your life. How do I know if this is for me? - You read this far and are feeling excitement - You are a dancer and love any opportunity go deeper into your dance - You are exploring tantra and looking for a potent and embodied space to practice - You want to become deeply confident in expressing your ‘yes’ and ‘no’ *If you're feeling the call, we invite you to join us *Space is extremely limited and this will sell out. Your Dance Meets Tantra team: Lead Facilitators: Atilla Cidam + Spencer Jacobson Apprentice Facilitator: Olivia Nichole *artwork by - Olivia Nichole Logistics and FAQ COVID Protocol: all participants are asked to take a rapid test the morning of the event - before entering into the space. You can either bring your test and take it at the door or take it at home and take a picture that has a time stamp. Masks: wearing a mask will be optional as it is optional in Alameda county for events of this nature. Meals: We will break for lunch and complete in time for dinner. - Lunch: Please bring your own - Dinner: we plan to go out to dinner with as many of you wish to join! (In service of maintaining our time integrity and intimacy of the container we ask participants not to go out for lunch) Time: To maintain the safety, connection and intimacy of our container we ask that participants plan to attend for the entire duration of the immersion 9:00am to 6:30pm *Doors will open at 900am and no one will be admitted past 930am. There will be no exceptions. Space: is limited to the first 50 sign-ups Address: East Bay Community Space | 507 55th St, Oakland, CA 94609 Refund Policy: - There are no refunds. Credit to a future event will be offered in the case of a positive test for COVID, exhibiting symptoms of COVID, or having been exposed to COVID within 5 days of the event. Tickets are transferrable to another participant in advance of the event. - We will not be able to respond to any questions about ticketing or participation during the 48 hours before the start of the event. About the facilitators: Spencer is a transformational facilitator, DJ, somatic bodyworker and men's coach with a passion for the art of gathering humans to play, love, and heal. He is forever a student of the embodiment healing arts - having extensively studied dance, sacred sexuality, somatic experiencing, cranial sacral therapy, and yoga. Spencer is committed to bringing presence, play and possibility to every moment, while walking into the unknown. www.spencerjacobson.com Atilla is an erotic coach here to support all beings in unleashing their soul purpose onto the world through depth, vulnerability, and mischief. With his training in tantra, conscious kink, Erotic Blueprints, sacred medicine, dance, and shadow-work, Atilla helps reprogram nervous systems to allow and embody the full range of the ecstatic expression of their life force. He has a PhD in social psychology, and has spent prior lifetimes designing large scale social programs that empower millions to lead fully aligned lives. Sweetness of truth, ruthlessness of love. If you’re feeling the call, join us. Olivia self-actualizes you through the body. She facilitates the unfolding of your power, pleasure and feeling safe to feel your body. Olivia walks amongst many worlds and passions - but all of them orbit around the mission of Embodied Sovereignty. Through tantra, somatic experiencing, ritual theatre, pleasure-work, authentic relating, pattern rewiring, ceremony, dance and voice activation she weaves journeys into the realization of Safety, Sensuality, Expression & Power.. She is a coach, facilitator and content creator, driven by liberating love, divinizing pleasure, and operating from vulnerable play. Testimonials: "Dance Meets Tantra awakened a deeper part of my authentic soul that knows her wildness in the heart of community. It has inspired my creatress soul awake in new light, igniting my inspiration, creating new channels of my own power to roar through my whole being.... alive. My deepest prayer is to enchant this world into it's fullest, most beautiful expression.... Dance Meets Tantra is a gateway to just that. Thank you for sharing the art and the medicine of this work." - Kathena Marie "Dance Meets Tantra is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before…and I can’t stop thinking about it! If you want to embrace your authentic self, learn techniques to connect more deeply with loved ones, create new intimate connections, and are ready to dive deep into your fears and desires, then I highly recommend checking out one of their events! Don’t be surprised if it changes your outlook on yourself and relationships, it's intense, but so worth it!" - Nicole Nichole "My power is in confronting my shadows, my pleasure is in embracing my pain. This is the sexiest I’ve felt in my life. Who have I become? The sacred slut that I already am. Thank you <3." -Michelle Sun "Dance meets Tantra exceeded my expectations. I felt truly supported on such a deep level that I got to share the depth of pain with the eyes and hearts of love and be truly held by community in a way that allowed me to open to the divine. DMT builds safety in connection! You practice expressing your full self, even the parts of you that are afraid, and let your nervous system learn that you are loved just as you are! This space is potent, fun, explorative, and deeply supportive. I personally got to open deeply because of the level of skillful support that was available in the space. I have a lot of experience with this type of work, and have had a lot of criticisms in the past. This team was able to hold me on the level I was truly needing, so I could open to a new level." - Aya Amrita "Dance Meets Tantra is a refreshing leap into the depths of desire, emotion, connection, and intrinsic play that all humans share yet rarely have the chance to express, especially in a community setting. First and foremost, it is held in a supportive, consenting, loving, and playful container with true integrity. The facilitators are experienced, clear, and empathetic. The utilization of de-armoring connection through dance (with demonstrative instruction, permission, and practice) is an incredibly effective prerequisite for opening more deeply into the intimate, vulnerable, revealing, emotionally raw, and activatingly energetic experience of engaging in tantric exercises and practices. There was truly not one of us who felt unsafe in participating and exploring the boundaries of our edges in sovereignty. We were encouraged to dig deep into our blockages, conditions, projections, desires, and even traumas through processes that allowed us to open up in ways that were nourishing, healing, intimate, sexy, and incredibly fun. By the end of the day we were a tight-knit community sharing gratitude, often in tears of joy, to be able to have experienced something so very needed in the midsts of repression that has led to so many unhealthy manifestations of the human sexual experience in our time. I am grateful that this work, and this play, is being done and I hold it as a high priority in our collective movement forward as embodied, integral, healthy vibrant beings tapping more and more into our true nature—connection, celebration, authenticity, vulnerability, while honoring the inherently sexy source from which we all came." - Jeremy Taragape ~Thank you, thank you. Can't wait to play. - Atilla, Spencer & Olivia

Dance Styles

Contact Improvisation (100%)

Organizer

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Olivia Snyder

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Leslie Grace

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Melanie Morris Christie

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Dance Meets Tantra

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Atilla Çıdam

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Spencer Jacobson