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Welcome to the schedule planner for Interfusion Festival occurring on January 9 - 13, 2025. If you purchase multiple tickets under one e-mail, please use the following form to confirm the e-mail of each individual in the group to ensure they may access schedule sign-ups.


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Thursday, January 9
 

5:30pm EST

Live Musical Performances
Thursday January 9, 2025 5:30pm - 8:30pm EST
Sit back and relax or sing along to live musical performances.
Thursday January 9, 2025 5:30pm - 8:30pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

6:30pm EST

Choose Your Own Adventure: Navigating From Your Inner Compass in Connection
Thursday January 9, 2025 6:30pm - 8:00pm EST
Want consistently juicy, connecting experiences on the dance floor? Want the most satisfying cuddle or massage experiences possible? Want more meaningful and long-lasting connections? In this playshop, we will practice moving from embodied desire and letting our bodies do the talking (knowing we always have words if we want them). Learn to identify and express your own body’s yes, no, and the spectrum between. Practice the art of sensing the subtle signs of yes and no in others. Discover the playfulness, presence, and pleasure of finding the sweet spot of mutual desire without words. You will leave with skills to create conSENSUAL connections throughout the rest of the festival and the rest of your life!
Artist
avatar for Indigo Dawn

Indigo Dawn

Care & Consent Program
Indigo Dawn (they/them) is a Somatic Therapeutic Coach, Touch Therapist, and Cultural Activist who lives and works towards a world of joy, safety, and serenity for All.  As founder and Director of the Consent Program for Interfusion Festival, they prevent & address consent incidents to seed growth, empowerment, and healing. Since 2016... Read More →
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Dr. Sarah Taub

Care Center Director, Care & Consent Program
Sarah Taub, Ph.D. (she/her), (www.sarahtaub.com) teaches relationship and community skills and helps groups deepen their intimacy. She facilitates group processes including consensus decision-making, business meetings and retreats, conflict resolution sessions, and ZEGG Forum (... Read More →
Thursday January 9, 2025 6:30pm - 8:00pm EST
Studio E (Salon III)

8:30pm EST

IFX Opening Ceremony: Welcome to the Interfusion Festival X Experience
Thursday January 9, 2025 8:30pm - 9:30pm EST
Thursday January 9, 2025 8:30pm - 9:30pm EST
Studio E (Salon III)

10:00pm EST

AcroYoga Night Jam
Thursday January 9, 2025 10:00pm - Friday January 10, 2025 2:00am EST
Acroyoga Jams are play spaces where we share what we have learned with each other and have fun.  Come to support others and in turn be supported.

Artist
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Eric Sipes

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
Eric Sipes found a love of movement arts when he began teaching himself to breakdance via videos from a file sharing program back in early 2000. Hardly able to contain his excitement and passion for movement, he began sharing his practice with any and everyone.After moving to Baltimore... Read More →
Thursday January 9, 2025 10:00pm - Friday January 10, 2025 2:00am EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

10:00pm EST

Ecstatic Dream
Thursday January 9, 2025 10:00pm - Friday January 10, 2025 2:00am EST
Ecstatic Dream is a premiere ecstatic dance floor, tea house, and lounge space.  Each night we will begin with a fun guided warm-up at 9pm followed by multiple waves of Ecstatic Dance with rotating DJ's. 

Ecstatic Dream is:
A safer dance space for ecstatic or not movement where we can embody ourselves fully
A flow arts and performance area for spontaneous eruptions of creativity. 
A grounding space to downregulate and chitchat share tea in a Gongfu-inspired "Proper-Tea House" setting
A social squishy lounge space for connection and quiet conversation
An altar space for self reflection and integration
And most of all, surprise and mystery

Your full participation is invited and welcome in this community centered offering.
Bring it all! Bodies, emotions, minds, and hearts.
In Ecstatic Dance, there is no right or wrong way to move, no steps to learn, and no patterns to memorize. 
We kindly ask everyone to respect consent, and keep chit-chat, shoes and devices off the dance floor.
Thursday January 9, 2025 10:00pm - Friday January 10, 2025 2:00am EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

10:00pm EST

Fusion Preparty Social
Thursday January 9, 2025 10:00pm - Friday January 10, 2025 2:00am EST
Interfusion X preparty fusion dance social.

11:00pm - 1AM: DJ Afrodeshiak
1:00am - 2AM: DJ Efosa

Artist
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DJ Afrodeshiak

Night Program
DJ Afrodeshiak (Amber Nsofor) was born in Wakanda, Africa. Shortly after birth she was brought to Nashville, TN where she was raised. After she graduated college she discovered and fell in love with international partner dance music such as Salsa, Timba, Bachata, Zouk, and Kizomba... Read More →
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DJ Efosa

Night Program
DJ Efosa, alongside his bro Aaron Montgomery (DJ Swift), started learning how to DJ in 2020 during the pandemic under the tutelage of internationally respected DJ Fro-Yo (Tom Lev). In addition to learning from Fro-Yo, Efosa started to learn from other knowledgeable DJs such as Brixx, Nhat, Archie, RX, Casanova, and others in the Brazilian Zouk & Kizomba world. Whenever possible, he desires to connect the traditional, modern, and less explored styles of music... Read More →
Thursday January 9, 2025 10:00pm - Friday January 10, 2025 2:00am EST
Studio E (Salon III)

10:00pm EST

The Serenity Lounge
Thursday January 9, 2025 10:00pm - Friday January 10, 2025 2:00am EST
The Serenity Lounge is tucked away on the 2nd floor intentionally, as it's an oasis of quietude, plush pillows and soft landings. Slip off your shoes and slip into some stillness and rest. Bring your whisper voice, a book, a friend, or your favorite chill time activity.
Thursday January 9, 2025 10:00pm - Friday January 10, 2025 2:00am EST
Studio I (Alexandria)
 
Friday, January 10
 

9:00am EST

The Dance of Thai Massage 🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
This workshop will emphasize flow in Thai massage, as you lift, move, and sink, letting gravity and breath guide your movements while you drop into the physical connection between giver and receiver. Students will embody both roles. Note that there will be more bodily connection in this sequence, and while Thai massage can feel intimate, it is not sexual. Bring a massage partner, or find one in class that you feel comfortable with. 

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
Artist
avatar for Elise Foster

Elise Foster

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
In 2011, Elise "flew" for the first time and immediately fell in love with AcroYoga and it’s lineage of yoga, acrobatics and Thai yoga massage. Like nothing else she has experienced, AcroYoga has the ability to transform lives. As an AcroYoga and Thai yoga massage teacher, Elise... Read More →
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Dean Hively

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
Dean is a teacher of AcroYoga. His classes emphasize safety, form, and the energetics of partnership. He has a laid back and positive approach to life and teaching, with a goal to promote joy, amazement, and comfort in community.AcroYoga frees us from the assumed barriers we put on... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

9:00am EST

Physical Empathy: Patience and Non-Assumption in Partner Dance 🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Do you ever feel nervous asking someone to dance? Or during the dance? Me too!
In this workshop we will explore ways to express and show compassion and empathy for each other, and ourselves, on the dance floor. Starting from before we even arrive at the party.
Using the principles of patience and non-assumption, we create more space for ourselves and our partners to simply exist. And in that simple, quiet space, we can find our magic.
The class will include some discussion, as well as exercises on how to approach and begin a dance, what to do during a dance, how to end a dance, and how to think about the dances we have. While the focus will be on Brazilian Zouk application, the principles can apply to all partner dances.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
Artist
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Jeremy Hale

Brazilian Zouk Program
Jeremy Hale is a professional dancer, movement analyst, and teacher. Originally from Los Angeles, USA, he grew up in a performing arts family and began professional dance training in Contemporary Modern and Contact Improv in 2001 and graduated with a degree in dance from UCLA in 2006... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio F (Salon IV)

9:00am EST

Affinity Group: LGBTQIA+ Gathering Circle 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
How does your identity influence how you show up in your day-to-day life and at Interfusion Festival? The goal of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans / Gender-Nonconforming, Queer / Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Plus Gathering Circle is for participants to share their experiences and their wisdom, access tools for self-care and heart-to-heart communication, and engage in collective healing. This group is open to LGBTQIA+ -identified individuals seeking an open, non-judgmental, heart-centered space.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
Artist
avatar for Keira (Dawson) Driver

Keira (Dawson) Driver

Care & Consent Program
Keira (Dawson) Driver (She/They) is an activist for love and light in the world. Her dream is to help create a world that works for all humans; based in authenticity, radical acceptance and compassion, informed consent, equality, and personal empowerment. She has been making that... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio G (Salon V)

9:00am EST

Butoh, Sensuality, and the Nervous System I/III 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Drawing from her own background as a burlesque/vaudeville and butoh dancer, Vangeline teaches a workshop that explores the link between sensuality and Butoh, as well as receptivity and its impact on the nervous system. This workshop will also draw from the techniques of Noguchi Taiso. No dance experience is necessary, this is an all-level class and beginners are welcome. Some experience with mindfulness or somatic practice can be helpful. This workshop is trauma-informed.
*Participants will have free access to Vangeline’s online lecture on the topic as a companion to the workshop

🌶 Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
Artist
avatar for Vangeline Helene Gand

Vangeline Helene Gand

Conscious Dance Program
Vangeline is a teacher, dancer, and choreographer specializing in Japanese butoh. She is the artistic director of the Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute (New York), a dance company firmly rooted in the tradition of Japanese butoh while carrying it into the twenty-first century.With her all-female dance company, Vangeline’s socially conscious performances... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio C2 (Salon F/G/H)

9:00am EST

Afro Groove: All Levels Afrobeats 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
This class is designed to help you find and feel the groove that makes this genre so irresistibly danceable. The groove..the underlying rhythmic pulse, is the soul of dance, driving movement and connecting dancers with music. You will learn to internalize this groove, allowing your body to move intuitively with music. Feel the music, let the rhythm take control, move your body to the beat, and let the groove guide you.

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🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
Artist
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Rose Turuka

Expressive Arts Program
Originally from Zanzibar in East Africa, Rose Turuka currently resides in Detroit, Michigan. With Afrobeats dance at the core, Rose grew up learning and moving to the various African tunes that have shaped her as a dancer and instructor today. She began her journey in teaching and... Read More →
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Marc Brewer

Expressive Arts Program
As featured on America’s Got Talent, internationally renowned artist Marc Brewer, based in MI, USA, is one of the world’s most sought-after Afro-Latin Dance instructors, performers, choreographers, and judges. Certified through Broadway Dance Center’s rigorous training program... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio E (Salon III)

9:00am EST

Laughter Yoga: A Gratitude Practice 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Laughter Yoga is a playful and fun way to tap into our natural state of joy. When life gets tough - turn to laughter! This is an excellent tool to turn frowns upside down, yet, more importantly, to tap into real states of gratitude and higher vibrations.
This workshop you will experience heart opening laughter games, mindset practices, and cathartically moving through emotions so that you can experience expansion, lightness, and the magnetic gratitude that turns life into paradise.


🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
Artist
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Sarah Lawson

Healing Arts Program
Laughter Yoga found Sarah Lawson in 2015 and has lit up her world ever since. As an intuitive healer, she offers a unique laughter yoga experience, creating with you a magical joyful journey to lightness. Along with a Laughter Yoga Leader certification, she is a certified biodynamic... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio D (Salon I/II)

9:00am EST

The Goddess Workshop: The Divine Feminine 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Connect with other inspiring humans as we reconnect with our inner-feminine. Let’s explore, discover, and have fun while learning how to create a feel-good life through heart-healing connection, visualization, movement, and more. Soothing, healing, and magical…. yet practical.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position. 
Artist
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Liz Strom

Healing Arts Program
Liz Strom is a transformational life coach, founder of Creative Calm Solutions LLC, author of the forthcoming book “Led By The Unseen”, double-organ transplant survivor, speaker, and healer. Her passion and dedication in working with others have been life-long with beautiful results... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

9:00am EST

Unlocking Self Expression: Solo Open Form Movement 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
“A solo practice is centered around building a relationship with our imagination”
-Tom Weklser
In this experience, we explore how you move as an individual. While we may occasionally work with others, our primary focus is on making you a more efficient and creative mover. We utilize a practice that explores the common denominators amongst movement disciplines, showing how the same drill can teach a yogi, dancer, acrobat, or even a couch potato to ground, float, meld, mold, or develop any other skill or quality we want through the lens of play. We call this practice "movement."

Your guides will be Dr. Harnoor Singh (@movementwithnoor), a doctor of physical therapy, and Logan DiTillo (@logamotion), a nomadic movement teacher and acrobat. They are well-educated and extremely welcoming teachers of this art. Their goal is to guide you through a playful, eye-opening, and liberating hour and a half of Solo Movement.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

Artist
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Logan Ditillo

Martial Arts Program
Logan Ditillo is a born mover as well as a teacher who captivates audiences. His passion for creating profound somatic experiences, playful interactions, and existential epiphanies is immediately evident. Logan's vibrant personality is supported by extensive knowledge from top movement... Read More →
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Harnoor Singh

Martial Arts Program
Dr. Harnoor Singh stands at the intersection of passion and expertise, weaving together his love for movement, holistic well-being, and education in physical therapy. His journey began as a yoga teacher, where he uncovered the transformative power of movement on both physical and... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio B2 (Salon J/K)

9:00am EST

Manifesting Through the 7 Chakras: Teaching and Sound Journey 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Join us for a transformative workshop led by Reiki and sound healer Emma Olmedo. In this immersive session, Emma will guide you through teachings on balancing and harmonizing your chakras from the crown down to the root, helping you identify and address any disharmonies and activations that may need more support. By understanding and activating each chakra, you will learn to manifest your desires from a place of deep alignment.

Following the teachings, Emma will lead you through a healing sound journey using sacred instruments such as the gong, ocean drum, (7- chakra) crystal singing bowls, chimes, and merkaba crystal singing pyramids. This powerful soundscape is designed to cleanse, activate, and harmonize your entire chakra system, leaving you balanced, rejuvenated, and aligned with your highest potential to kick start your Interfusion Festival. Join us in this sacred space to elevate your consciousness and manifest your true desires through the power of the 7 chakras.


🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position
Artist
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Emma Olmedo

Director of Healing Arts & Wisdom and Science, Healing Arts Program
With over a decade of experience as an intuitive healer, Emma brings a unique blend of Reiki, clairvoyance, and Shamanic training to support her clients' healing journeys. As the founder of KiVibes in Tyson's Corner, VA, Emma has created a warm and inviting community where individuals... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio A (Skyview)

9:00am EST

The Serenity Lounge
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - Saturday January 11, 2025 3:00am EST
The Serenity Lounge is tucked away on the 2nd floor intentionally, as it's an oasis of quietude, plush pillows and soft landings. Slip off your shoes and slip into some stillness and rest. Bring your whisper voice, a book, a friend, or your favorite chilltime activity.

Friday January 10, 2025 9:00am - Saturday January 11, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio I (Alexandria)

11:00am EST

AcroYoga Spotting for ALL 🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Do you wanna keep your friends safe?? Do you wanna toss higher and more confidently?? Do YOU want to BE THE SAFETY?!? Well then THIS IS THE CLASS FOR YOU!! In this spotting workshop we will go through the foundations of what makes spotting so effective and allows our entire practice to exist!! From tumbling to tossing we will go through it all and keep everyone safe while doing it!! Even though this is an ALL LEVELS offering you can expect to do challenging moves and big skills where spotting is NEEDED!!
 
Level: All (but we will do big skills still!!)
Pre-reqs: Open mind, keen eyes, fast hands and a willingness to work in groups!!

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

Artist
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Kerri Hilton

Acroyoga and Bodywork Program
Kerri Hilton, also known as K.Hil, is a badass mover with unique shoulders and a wicked sense of humor, nothing gets past their keen eye and sharp wit!! Whether coaching folxs on how to save themselves better or keeping people safer than ever, K.Hil is here for all of it and ready... Read More →
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Taylor Robart

Acroyoga and Bodywork Program
Taylored ACRO has done 1 an ACRO before and only knows ACRO IN ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME!! Precision coaching, spotting, dynamic movements and unique cues will help hack your ACRO brain while soaring to new heights!!
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

11:00am EST

Trigger Point Thai Bodywork for Shoulders and Wrists 🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
This workshop combines the techniques of Traditional Thai Massage with the theory of Myofascial Trigger Point therapy. Trigger points are like little knots in muscle fibers that are located in the belly or center of a muscle. The application of pressure and the movement of muscles in Thai Massage is very effective for relieving these knots. You will learn some common trigger point locations and how to relieve them on another person. This is perfect for anyone who does work with their hands or handstands or yoga.

 🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nu
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Kimber Brenneman

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
Kimber Brenneman, PhD is a 500 Hour Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher and an AcroYoga teacher in Columbia, MD. She became a Certified Thai Bodywork Practitioner in 2015 at the Thai Bodywork School and Coaching the Body Institute in Evanston, IL. Her training included Traditional... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio B2 (Salon J/K)

11:00am EST

Brazilian Zouk Newcomer Bootcamp I/III 🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
This progressive workshop series will give you the tools you need to start your journey in Brazilian Zouk. Learn the fundamentals, understand a bit of our history and etiquette, and be prepared to step into a brand new world of limitless possibilities in shared, expressive dance.  

🌶️ 🌶️  Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
Artist
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Jessica Lamdon

Brazilian Zouk Program
Jessica Lamdon, also known as "Unicorn", (the nickname she was crowned by her mentor and partner Ry'el) Internationally renowned artist, instructor, performer, actor, MC, professional hugger, has been dancing since she was 8 years old. She began with competitive international 10-dance... Read More →
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Vinícius de Souza | DJ Viscious

Brazilian Zouk Program
Hailing from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil- Vinny began dancing with Salsa in 2012. Originally, dance was more of a side passion, until 2014 when he fell into the rabbit hole that is Brazilian Zouk. Training extensively under Henri Velandia and Jessica Lamdon of ZenZouk, in addition to other... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio F (Salon IV)

11:00am EST

Elemental Seed Ritual for Manifesting Your Desires Through Movement 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
This is a ritual that was downloaded to Peter from the universe, where he will take you on an adventure through music, movement and connection, both inward and outward.  We will all first set an intention and then Peter will take you on a journey that has you move through the 5 elements.  Earth, Water, Fire, Air, an Ether. Music is selected to take you through each of the five elements to help you bring forth your dream, goal, or desire into manifestation. If you love to move your body to passionate music, you will adore this ritual.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Peter Petersen

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Peter Petersen's three main passions in life are movement, music, and meditation. He has been teaching qigong for over 22 years and has been a certified Sheng Zhen Qigong teacher for the last 20. He has taught in health clubs, hospitals, retirement villas, and several different wellness/spa... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio C2 (Salon F/G/H)

11:00am EST

The Ground of Self: Contact Improvisation Series I/III 🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Join us for three sessions where we'll explore, learn, and grow together in Contact Improvisation. Whether you're new to this dance form or looking to deepen your skills, these sessions will provide a supportive space for discovery and development.
We'll focus on enhancing our understanding of Contact Improvisation*, aiming to foster a greater sense of openness and ease in our movements, paying attention to the improvisational and relational skills involved in the practice, for authentic and in-depth exploratory processes. 
We'll explore the biomechanics underlying Contact Improvisation dancing, through somatic explorations, enhancing our technical proficiency. Furthermore, we'll explore expanding our presence and refining our sensory listening and attention skills. This will establish a spacious canvas of shared awareness, serving as the foundation of our being together, that facilitates new ways of relating, expressing and collaborating safely in a non-verbal way. Before doing and wanting we want to emphasize our ability to be and to participate, connecting and nourishing a common ground,
from which the emergence of our creative embodiments and synergy of voices can happen.
We foster a welcoming space, devoid of judgment and expectation, a secure container that embraces diverse expressions and embodiments, enabling agency and consensual interactions, towards presence, creative discovery, and dancing. 
Day 1: We will explore the possibility of anchoring our movements in clear yet dynamic “roots”, which allows for the emergence of definition and stability while liberating a wide range of possibilities and effortless motion when improvising with a partner in contact.

Day 2: Our focus will be on aerial alignments that support our body's structure, facilitating weight sharing and enabling graceful suspensions and gentle flights.

Day 3: We will play developing creative dances emphasizing the dynamic interplay between kinaesthetic elements and individual creative expression. Intuitively meeting the others, synchronizing and creatively co-creating embodied dialogues.

To get the full benefit of Irene’s facilitation and support the possibility of an in-depth development of the process we suggest you attend all three sessions.  

* In CONTACT IMPROVISATION we move with one or more partners, relating and understanding each other through sensory listening without adhering to fixed sequences and roles. We learn to physically relate and communicate through fine-tuning and touch, dynamically traveling together through space, and combining our bodies closely, exploring all levels from standing to the floor. This practice encompasses solo, partnering, and group dancing, fostering creative skills through embodied and sensorial connections.

🌶️ 🌶️  Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
Artist
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Irene Sposetti

Conscious Dance Program
Irene Sposetti, a versatile performing artist, facilitator, and dancemaker originally from Italy, has cultivated a rich artistic journey over more than two decades as an independent freelancer across Europe, Asia, and North America. Her work is deeply shaped by her extensive travels... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio E (Salon III)

11:00am EST

The Enchanting Art of Tease: A Burlesque Adventure 🌶️🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Welcome to "The Enchanting Art of Tease," a burlesque class that promises to awaken your inner sensuality and confidence. In this brief yet exhilarating experience, you'll dive into the world of burlesque and learn the timeless art of tease, leaving you feeling empowered and alluring.

In this compact but impactful class, you'll have the opportunity to explore the essence of burlesque through movement, confidence-building, and the art of tease. This class is designed to give you a taste of the glamorous world of burlesque and boost your self-assurance.

**Requirements:**
No prior dance or performance experience is required. All levels of fitness and backgrounds are welcome.

Embark on this whirlwind adventure of self-expression, confidence-building, and artistic exploration. You'll immerse yourself in the enchanting world of burlesque and leave with a newfound sense of allure and empowerment.**

🌶️🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
Artist
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GiGi Holliday

Expressive Arts Program
GiGi Holliday is Washington D.C.’s resurgence of glitz, glamor, and allure. Armed with eyelashes and an arsenal of glitter she has enticed audiences with her clever blend of sass and wit. Lady GiGi Holliday had her start after studying the art of burlesque in Trixie Little’s Burlesque... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio G (Salon V)

11:00am EST

Heart-Centered: A Movement Journey 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Our world is currently on the journey of our lifetime – from head to heart, and each of us have been invited to join & find own way to integrate these two epicenters of our humanity. Whether this is a path you know well or one that feels foreign, and even scary, this practice is for you – because yes, we need all of us to reunite with our true nature, love, in order for us to thrive.
Join in community to witness, heal, and share your heart in new and familiar ways. Expect to go on a 90-minute journey, both with yourself and in community, including yin, kundalini & vinyasa yoga, energetic practices, and heart centering guidance. Leave feeling more connected, nourished, and full of remembering.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

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Elyza Dolby

Yoga Instructor, Healing Arts Program
Elyza Dolby is a 500-RYT yoga instructor, space holder, movement facilitator, and mama to a bright little sun, currently living + loving in the mountains of Northwest New Jersey.During the pandemic, she went from teaching yoga full-time to realizing and cultivating a vision for birthing... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

11:00am EST

Discover the Joy of Sensual Living: Enhance Your Relationships and Self-Love 🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Embark on a journey to embrace and celebrate your sensuality with "Discover the Joy of Sensual Living: Enhance Your Relationships and Self-Love." This enriching workshop is designed to help you cultivate sensual awareness and deepen your connection with yourself and those around you. By exploring the power of SELF-touch, breath, movement, and mindfulness, you'll learn practical techniques to enhance your relationship to yourself, and foster a profound sense of self-love.
Participants will engage in guided exercises that promote bodily awareness and presence, allowing you to fully experience and enjoy the pleasures of the senses. Through activities that focus on self-care, emotional intimacy, and authentic communication, you'll discover new ways to connect more deeply with your own body and with others. Join us to unlock the joy of living sensually, improve your relationships, and nurture a loving relationship with yourself.


🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality
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Lawrence Lanoff

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Emerging from the energy of 80s New York, Lawrence is a transformative force in the realm of personal power and self-perception. Pioneering a unique approach to spirituality, sexuality, and self-liberation, he propels individuals to access their untapped potential. Now, through dynamic... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio D (Salon I/II)

11:00am EST

Authentic Self-Relating: Trauma and our Many Selves 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
In this workshop, I’ll introduce a unique perspective on the mind that opens the door to self-compassion and self-understanding rather than judgment and shame. We'll explore the nature of trauma, how it impacts the many parts (selves) within each of us, and how we can form compassionate relationships with our parts to help them heal.
We'll discuss a unique therapeutic and self-growth approach called Internal Family Systems (IFS), which is a wonderful technique to help us get in touch with our true selves, see the big picture, and get to know our minds in a more intimate way.

We’ll then do some experiential exercises to guide everyone through discovering some of their parts, as well as forming initial relationships with them. We’ll encourage some brief shares by those who are willing to do so, followed by some Q&A as time permits.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Terry Baranski

Wisdom & Science Program
I’m a trauma-informed mental health practitioner who focuses on root causes rather than symptoms. I go underneath behaviors, thought patterns, and diagnoses to address what is actually causing a client's problems. I use a compassionate, non-judgmental, and non-pathologizing approach... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

1:30pm EST

Instagrammable: Acro Lifts for Your Social Media 🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Spice it up, soar, and spin your way in class, on the dance floor, and onto your socials. This is an exhilarating acro dance workshop for dancers of all levels with challenging yet accessible skills. Led by experienced instructors and performers, participants will master the art of dance lifts with grace and flair. This will be the kind of stuff you’ll want to post on Instagram and whatever social media you have. The skills will be visual and broken down so that you can learn them in a safe and effective manner. With instruction on basing, flying, and spotting, attendees will be able to explore synchronized lifts and acrobatic sequences with confidence. This workshop opens the door to captivating choreography, empowering dancers to elevate their performances with lifted artistry. And yeah, you’ll want to post what you learned and show off a little. 

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity
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Tori Abel

Acroyoga and Bodywork Program
Tori is a distinguished performer and educator with a lifelong dedication to the arts. From an early age, she immersed herself in gymnastics. This blossomed into a love for cheerleading, acrobatics, and dance, building a strong and diverse foundation in movement. Her passion and skill... Read More →
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Rob Li

Acroyoga Program
For 30 years, Rob Li has been immersed in the world of acrobatics and cheer while sharing his knowledge and extensive experience with people of movement. After being a cheerleader for Drexel University, the Philadelphia Soul Arena Football Team, and the Philadelphia 76ers NBA Team... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

1:30pm EST

Dance Calligraphy in Brazilian Zouk Lambada: From Print to Cursive 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Ry’el will take you on a fun journey through the feeling of Brazilian Zouk Lambada in chronological order—from its origins to present day.  The goal of this workshop is to provide leaders and followers alike, a seamless flow within a structure.  We will learn the dance through 3  kinetic geometrical “alphabets”— circle, line and diagonals— taking your dancing from print to cursive through a series of fundamental steps and combinations, developing smooth transitions and flow between each one of them.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Ry'el Zenzouk

Brazilian Zouk Program
Ry’el (Henry Velandia ) Performer, choreographer, instructor, and Creator of ZenZouk, a method of teaching Brazilian Zouk lambada and overall body movement through multiple exercises and philosophies based on the “elements” Including earth water fire, and air- as symbols for... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio F (Salon IV)

1:30pm EST

F**k Up Better: Gold Standard Apologies 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
A powerful restoration practice is a transformative tool for maintaining trust and connection within our communities and relationships, and  can even give us the confidence to take more risks together. The Gold Standard Apology is a six-step process informed by the best minds in restorative and transformative justice; coaching, and conscious communication. Activities include dyad story shares, practice sessions and discussion of the most common pitfalls of harmful apologies. Participants emerge with an elevated and even transcendent understanding of what real accountability actually looks like, and a concrete practice for conducting restoration in their own lives.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Mischa Byruck

Care & Consent Program
Mischa Byruck (He/him) is a men’s sexual integrity coach. He has supported over 100 clients to take accountability for harm and return to their lives transformed. He is the consent education partner of Bonobo Network, the Bay Area’s premiere sex-positive community organization... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

1:30pm EST

The Authentic Man: Skills for Conscious Masculinity 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Have you ever wanted to have deeper and more intimate conversations with others, or found that your conversations and connections aren’t quite having the impact or the depth you desire? Do you want to connect with others in profoundly intimate, trustable, soulful ways, and build relationships with people that are built on transparency, integrity, and responsibility?

Led by ART International Co-Founder and Senior Course Leader Ryel Kestano, this session brings together the most powerful and immediately applicable tools, skills, and exercises within the practice of authentic relating to produce a profoundly transformational immersive experience specifically tailored for people who identify as men.

This session is designed for all men interested in more consciously defining and navigating the notion of “masculinity” in today’s world--no matter where you are along your journey. The tools and skills you will learn in this course have a long and proven lineage of great potency in navigating all kinds of social contexts, dynamics, and relationships that men navigate in their lives. 

🌶️  Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Ryel Kestano

Conscious Communications Program
Ryel Kestano is the Co-Founder, CEO, and Senior Course Leader at ART International. Ryel is primarily responsible for the development of ART’s courses and programs, and leads the company as it expands to reach more people with the transformational practice of authentic relating... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio C2 (Salon F/G/H)

1:30pm EST

Urbankiz: Developing the Connection & Awareness 🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Join me for a dynamic and immersive experience where participants will have the opportunity to explore the beautiful world of Urbankiz. It is a rhythmic partner dance that originally derived from Kizomba and Semba. Now, it's known for its intricate footwork, smooth body movements, and deep connection between partners.

This workshop is designed for dancers of all levels – from beginners who are just starting their dance journey to experienced dancers looking to refine their skills. Throughout the workshop, participants will learn fundamental Urbankiz steps, techniques for leading and following, partner connection exercises, musicality, and styling.

I will guide you through a series of fun and engaging exercises that focus on developing your ability to connect with your partner through movement and music. We will create a supportive and inclusive environment where you can feel comfortable exploring new steps, building confidence in your dance abilities, and connecting with fellow participants who share a passion for Urbankiz.

Whether you are looking to improve your dance technique, connect with others through movement, or simply have a great time learning something new, this workshop is the perfect opportunity to dive into the world of Urbankiz and elevate your dance skills to the next level.


🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.



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Pamela Hernandez

Expressive Arts Program
Hailing from Texas, she grew up immersed in Latin dances and Country Swing until discovering Kizomba, which captivated her immediately. Acquiring proficiency in Kizomba and Tarraxinha in San Antonio, she swiftly transitioned to mastering the “French Style” of the dance prior to... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio G (Salon V)

1:30pm EST

Meditation Music and Sound Bath 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Dante will lead you into a comfortable and receptive state to support deep relaxation using sound healing instruments like crystal singing bowls, antique metal singing bowls, wooden drone flutes, pan drum drums, and chimes. Once the sound bath begins, allow the vibrations to soothe the mind, clear any blockages within the body, and guide you into the present moment. Discover the powerful and healing effects of singing bowls and experience sounds that will re-harmonize the entire body.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Dante Baker

Healing Arts Program
I was first exposed to sound healing at a Homa Organic Farm in 2010. The owner used crystal bowls and chanting to support the health of his plants and to facilitate group meditations. I facilitate sound meditation events all over the east coast in yoga studios, holistic wellness facilities... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

1:30pm EST

Speed-Flirting: Creating Playful Connection 🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Flirting is a natural human expression of playful connection, but the usual definition of flirting as just a sxxual thang limits our ability to engage with people authentically. Asking permission to flirt can seem daunting, but playful, consensual connection can be a game changer that removes the worry and struggle that our intentions will be misunderstood or that our no won't be honored. Speed-Flirting is a rambunctious, workshop/social event for folks of all ages designed to help us upgrade our skills and reconnect to our sense of play and connection. What if flirting meant increasing the fun and play in any interaction? What if flirting made you feel safer and more connected rather than creeped out? Add more aliveness to your existing relationships and make new friends in the most exciting way possible through a series of structured, group games and hilarious exercises with lots of easy-to-apply tools for breaking the ice, overcoming awkward moments, and for building deep-connection through play.
🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Thomas Daily II

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Thomas Daily II, hailing from Bloomington, Minnesota, where I entered this world amidst chaos and parents burdened by trauma. As a young adolescent, I began delving into the profound impact of trauma. Along my journey of unlearning and acceptance, I embarked on backpacking adventures... Read More →
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Reid Mihalko

Intimacy and Sexuality Program
ABOUT REID MIHALKO: As seen on NETFLIX' "Chelsea Does..." alongside Chelsea Handler and HBO’s “Sex Diaries,” Reid Mihalko (he/him) of ReidAboutSex.com is an internationally known sex and relationship educator who helps adults create more self-esteem, self-confidence, and greater... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio D (Salon I/II)

1:30pm EST

The Gentle Art – A Jiu Jitsu Experience 🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Step into a world of mental agility, physical fitness, and the breath that binds them.
Jiu Jitsu with "The Gentle Art," a unique workshop designed for enthusiasts of all levels eager to explore the art of self-defense. This immersive experience focuses on the core principles of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) while emphasizing the gentle, yet effective techniques that define this martial art. You will enhance your foundational understanding and practice essential positions, movements, and submissions
Applying BJJ principles to defend yourself against larger and stronger opponents using leverage, technique, and timing; enhancing your mental focus, discipline, and resilience through mindful practice and breath control.

Requirements:
- Comfortable workout attire (athletic wear)
- Positive attitude and a willingness to learn
- Respect for fellow participants and instructors


🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

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Jamal Pender

Martial Arts Program
Born and raised in New York City, Jamal Pender found his love for Martial arts and movement as a kid in the 1980’s when he began Learning Karate and jiujitsu in Harlem, NY. As a lifelong martial artist Jamal shares his passion for building confidence and community with everyone... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio B2 (Salon J/K)

1:30pm EST

Brazilian Zouk Intensive (Add-On)
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm EST
The Brazilian Zouk & Flow Intensive (BZFI) brings to you the essence of this unique dance facilitated by world-known international instructors. It is designed to deepen the understanding of Brazilian Zouk's unique fluidity and movement with the more experienced dancer. Rather than working on combinations and patterns, we will study concepts and from those build movements that are full of fluidity.

Registration for this add-on requires meeting prerequisites and completing an application process. In order to participate, it is necessary to have a full pass for the Festival. After submitting your application and responding to the check-out questions in full, your request will be assessed by the Interfusion Zouk Team. If additional information is required, such as a video of your dance, it will be communicated to you by email. If you do not meet the qualifications for the intensive this year, you will receive a full refund of the intensive ticket.
Friday January 10, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm EST
Studio H (Rosslyn)

3:30pm EST

AcroYoga “Swimming” Lessons! 🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Get your AcroYoga practice ready for the beach with a new L-based washing machine from Elise and Dean. We’ll teach a variety of front, back, and upside down flying poses, with swimming strokes for flair, and an optional pop. Safety and spotting are emphasized. All levels of experience welcome, no partner necessary. 

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Elise Foster

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
In 2011, Elise "flew" for the first time and immediately fell in love with AcroYoga and it’s lineage of yoga, acrobatics and Thai yoga massage. Like nothing else she has experienced, AcroYoga has the ability to transform lives. As an AcroYoga and Thai yoga massage teacher, Elise... Read More →
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Dean Hively

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
Dean is a teacher of AcroYoga. His classes emphasize safety, form, and the energetics of partnership. He has a laid back and positive approach to life and teaching, with a goal to promote joy, amazement, and comfort in community.AcroYoga frees us from the assumed barriers we put on... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio B2 (Salon J/K)

3:30pm EST

MicroZouk: Exploring Principles of Touch in Brazilian Zouk 🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
At first glance, Zouk might look like big flashy hair whips, serpent-like body rolls, and gravity-defying tilted one-footed spins! And it is all that! But there’s also a tiny little world of intricate pathways that we explore in each other's bodies that are sometimes even imperceptible to people watching.  In this class, we will explore those pathways. We’ll explore principles of touch, frameworks for exploring micro-movements, and lots of exercises to help you be more mindful, creative, and comfortable while dancing zouk in close embrace.

🌶️ 🌶️  Medium-spicy (The workshop invites extended close physical contact with others significantly more so than usual): The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Kuna Hamad

Brazilian Zouk Program
Kuna Hamad is a creative and dancer who has facilitated at each Interfusion Festival since 2017, where he taught Make Love Dancing and performed with Tori Rodriguez.
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio F (Salon IV)

3:30pm EST

Hug Medicine and Conscious Cuddle Playground: A Gourmet Oxytocin Infusion🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Did you know that according to the renowned family therapist Virginia Satir we need 4 hugs a day for survival, 8 hugs for maintenance, and 12 hugs to thrive? We are born wired for touch and many of us are actually starved of deep nourishing connection. Join us for a delicious hugging meditation practice and an exquisite assortment of platonic touch activities to nourish and soothe your body, mind, heart and spirit.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Lael Rasch

Conscious Communications Program
Lael Rasch is a Holistic Sex, Intimacy and Relationship Coach, Couples and Family Therapist, Somatic Trauma Therapist and founder of Bodhi Sacred Sanctuary, a conscious wellness practice that inspires awakening, growth and transformation of body/mind/heart/spirit. Lael is passionate... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio C2 (Salon F/G/H)

3:30pm EST

Harmonizing the Dance of Life: A 5Rhythms Journey 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Step into the sacred space of movement and connection with master teacher Ann Kite, as she guides you through an immersive 5Rhythms workshop. This transformative experience invites you to explore the dynamic interplay of the 5Rhythms—Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness—each serving as a gateway to discovering your unique path to harmony within.
Ann Kite will create a supportive and inspiring environment where participants can delve deep into the essence of each rhythm, uncovering their own authentic movement and expression. Through curated music, guided exercises, free-form dance, and reflective practices, you will learn to harmonize the various facets of your being, cultivating a greater sense of balance, peace, and joy.
Workshop Highlights:
  • Flowing: Embrace the fluidity of life, connecting with your body's natural grace and intuition. Learn to move with ease and receptivity, finding harmony in your relationship with yourself and the world around you.
  • Staccato: Tap into the power of clear, decisive movement. Discover how to articulate your desires and boundaries with precision, fostering harmonious interactions in your personal and professional life.
  • Chaos: Release the need for control and surrender to the wild, unpredictable nature of existence. Experience the cathartic freedom of letting go, allowing chaos to guide you to deeper levels of authenticity and transformation.
  • Lyrical: Celebrate the lightness and joy of being. Explore playful, spontaneous movement that connects you with your inner child, enhancing your ability to find harmony in moments of pure presence and creativity.
  • Stillness: Enter the realm of quiet introspection and deep listening. Cultivate a sense of inner peace and alignment, discovering the profound harmony that arises from stillness and mindfulness.
Ann Kite's expertise and compassionate guidance will support you in navigating the 5Rhythms practice, helping you to integrate these powerful teachings into your daily life. Whether you are new to 5Rhythms or an experienced practitioner, this workshop offers a unique opportunity to deepen your practice and find harmony in the dance of life.
Let the rhythms guide you to a place of profound harmony and connection, where the dance becomes a living meditation and a celebration of the soul.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Ann Kite

Conscious Dance Program
Ann Kite is a distinguished 5Rhythms Master Teacher, holding an MA in Education and certified in both the Waves and Heartbeat levels. With extensive experience across the Eastern USA, Greater DC, and Canada, she enriches the lives of many through her workshops and classes. Ann has... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

3:30pm EST

West Coast Swing 101 🌶️🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Welcome to the world of West Coast Swing, where every step is a journey and every move is a discovery! West Coast Swing 101 is an introductory class designed to teach the basics of this popular dance style. From foundational steps like the "sugar push" to essential techniques in leading and following side passes, participants will learn the key elements needed to start dancing West Coast Swing confidently. The class covers connection, styling, patterns, and timing, providing a solid foundation for further exploration in this dynamic and versatile dance. With a focus on fun and inclusivity, West Coast Swing 101 welcomes dancers of all levels to come and join the swing!


🌶️🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Markus Smith

Expressive Arts Program
Markus Smith is an accomplished and award winning dance champion, choreographer and instructor under the dance company StuckOnSwing. He has been featured on Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance”, BET’s “106 and Park” program, and the movie Love N’ Dancing. With the unique... Read More →
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Tren Veal

Expressive Arts Program
Originally from Louisiana, Tren started swing dancing in the state of Texas. Over the years she has competed and won many West Coast Swing Jack & Jill’s and Strictly Swing contests placing in the top 5 in the Champions Division. Her love and passion for the dance shows on the dance... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio G (Salon V)

3:30pm EST

Sacral Alchemy Ceremony: Manifestation through Liberation 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Our sacral chakra is an energy center that houses the most powerful and potent energy in our bodies. It is the nectar from which life is created: whether that is human life, art, music, creativity or in pursuit of our dreams and purpose in this world. It is also a space that often holds many of our deepest woundings, shame and blockages.  Manifestation using our creative life force energy asks for our channels to be clear and to attune our sacral, heart and highest consciousness to one another.  

In this journey together, I will take you on an embodied experience of visualization, breath work and energy activation to liberate and open your channel.  Our ceremony will close with a powerful meditation connecting you to womb consciousness, the portal of all creation, honoring the sacred, divine essence within us all. 


🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

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Nilgun Akselioglu

Healing Arts Program
Nil is the founder of Kyss My Blyss and is a trauma-informed Certified Sex, Love and Relationship coach trained in the VITA Method through the Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality. The practices she shares with clients and community weaves ancient Tantric and Taoist wisdom, modern... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

3:30pm EST

TouchLab: Exploring Touch for Intimate Partners 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Would you like to deepen connection with yourself, a beloved, partner, spouse or lover? In this experiential workshop, learn about how you can revolutionize relationships through presence, intention, communication & touch.  Playful, sexy and smart, this class is designed for the curious who desire to amplify arousal, presence and potency.  Join us for hands-on embodiment and somatic massage practices with a partner. This workshop is for couples or partners and has the option for partial nudity with bottoms on. You should arrive with your partner to enter the space.

🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️  Spicy: The workshop invites participants to bring up, focus on, act from, or interact with others using their sexuality or sexual energy; OR welcomes nudity.
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Michael Blackin

Owner, Temple In The Trees | Intimacy and Sexuality Program
Michael Blackin is a Tantric educator who is passionate about supporting couples and individuals on their journey to greater intimacy which in turn leads to stronger communities and, by extension, a better world.  He is dedicated to helping others reach their highest good, creating... Read More →
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Lara Blackin

Owner, Temple In The Trees | Intimacy and Sexuality Program
Lara is a Tantric Educator, Sacred Intimacy Practitioner, and Visual Artist specializing in therapeutic, sensual &  energetic touch bringing aliveness to the art of living + loving.  A creative leader & guide who brings multidimensional vision to her offerings, she facilitates the... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio D (Salon I/II)

3:30pm EST

Acro Intensive: Whip-carian Series I/III (Add On) 🌶️ 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:30pm EST
APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE

Day 1 - Precision Icarian
The first day we will focus on cleaning up Icarian skills to make them precise and tempo-able. Expect to refine skills you have done before - working towards mastery of these skills. We will also incorporate some unique pops and drills you may not have worked on before! This lesson will build towards linking skills together for seamless icarian flows.

Prereqs: Straight throws in bird and throne

Day 2 - Whip Mastery
We will work towards building whip technique for more dynamic skills. We have specific techniques that we have learned from teachers all over the world as well as developed through our own training that we love to share. This lesson will give you a deeper understanding of these skills and all of the building blocks needed for progressing toward more dynamic whip pops. We will touch on nervous system regulation, dynamic spotting, and how to keep these skills safe.

Prereqs: Comfort in bird, throne, reverse bird, and reverse throne. Some experience attempting whips is helpful.

Day 3 - Jump Start your Whip Pops
Whether you’ve done a handful of whip pops, or you’re still working towards your first one, this class will have content for you. We will have a short recap of the first two lessons leading into dynamic entries in and out of whips. Multiple levels of content will be offered and students can work at their own pace. Our goal is to offer a clear and safe pathway - it is most important to us for our students to learn when they are ready for the next progression, and when they need to continue repping out certain drills.

Prereqs: Comfort with whips, and basic icarian transitions such as bird to throne. Doing the first two workshops covers these prereqs.

APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE - Registration for this add-on requires meeting prerequisites and completing an application process. In order to participate, it is necessary to have a full pass for the Festival. After submitting your application and responding to the check-out questions in full, your request will be assessed by the Interfusion Team. If additional information is required, such as a video of your skills, it will be communicated to you by email. If you do not meet the qualifications for the intensive this year, you will receive a full refund of the intensive ticket. APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
Artist
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Jenae Brianne

Acroyoga and Bodywork Program
Jenae is a teacher and creator who believes that acro is a powerful way to build community. Jenae empowers acro students to build a sustainable, long-term practice through effective communication, strong fundamentals, and pattern recognition. Jenae enjoys all genres of acro but excels... Read More →
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John Thorpe

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
John is an AcroLove teacher, the owner of The MVMT Collective, in Meriden, Connecticut, and is passionate about sharing the benefits of movement. With over a decade of experience as a movement instructor, he began his journey in powerlifting and then diversifying into various disciplines... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

3:30pm EST

Zouk Day Party
Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 8:00pm EST
Brazilian Zouk daytime social dance party.



Friday January 10, 2025 3:30pm - 8:00pm EST
Studio H (Rosslyn)

5:30pm EST

Integration Offering
Friday January 10, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Guided decompression and integration led by a facilitator. 

Friday January 10, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

5:30pm EST

Live Musical Performances & Tea
Friday January 10, 2025 5:30pm - 7:00pm EST
Sit back and relax or sing along to live musical performances.

Friday January 10, 2025 5:30pm - 7:00pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

7:00pm EST

Rolling out the Red Carpet for No 🌶️
Friday January 10, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Learn this advanced, trauma-informed, and pleasure-focused sexual communication technique and become a hero for all future partners! “Rolling out the red carpet for No” is not a consent technique; it's a way of being that addresses the realities of social power dynamics. It means making it as pleasurable to say no to you as it is to say yes! Activities include rejection experiences, dyad shares, role play scenarios, a game, and small group discussions. Participants emerge with a new language for navigating sexual encounters that transcends affirmative consent and traditional gender roles. They leave better communicators: more trauma-informed, pleasure-focused, and self-aware.

🌶️  Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
Artist
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Mischa Byruck

Care & Consent Program
Mischa Byruck (He/him) is a men’s sexual integrity coach. He has supported over 100 clients to take accountability for harm and return to their lives transformed. He is the consent education partner of Bonobo Network, the Bay Area’s premiere sex-positive community organization... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Studio E (Salon III)

9:00pm EST

Contact Improvisation Jam
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00pm - 11:59pm EST
Starting with an opening circle and group activation each night will take its unique course as a group improvisational space to the closing circle. The group activation may touch on technique, partner work, consent or creative improvisation practice. There is opportunity to build on the energy of the previous nights and days.

During the jam there may be periods of silence and periods of live improvised musical accompaniment from invited musicians.  In these moments we invite you to also treat music as a dance partner that touches everyone in conversation.  Participants with musical instruments and interest may have an opportunity to join the conversation with permission of the invited musicians. Kindly you may bring your instruments.

While the primary focus of the space is contact improvisation, solo and partnered improvisational movement of other forms is welcome when it fits in the ground rules.

Ground Rules:
  • Practice Nonverbal & Verbal Consent
  • Activate Deep Listening: Practice attunement to self, partner(s), and others in the space
  • Observation is Welcome
  • Solo Movement is Welcome
  • Keep conversations and other interpersonal interactions to the peripheries
  • Please be mindful of sound especially after 11:30pm as the sound here travels through the entire hotel.


“Contact Improvisation is a dance form based on the communication between two or more moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia.” - Nancy Stark Smith
Artist
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Umair Ahsan

Conscious Dance Program
Umair is a passionate student of the technology in each of our bodies, in continued research via various somatic practices with a primary focus in Contact Improvisation. He is a lover of life and community.  Umair organizes a biweekly contact improvisation jam and participates in... Read More →
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Irene Sposetti

Conscious Dance Program
Irene Sposetti, a versatile performing artist, facilitator, and dancemaker originally from Italy, has cultivated a rich artistic journey over more than two decades as an independent freelancer across Europe, Asia, and North America. Her work is deeply shaped by her extensive travels... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00pm - 11:59pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

9:00pm EST

AcroYoga Night Jam
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00pm - Saturday January 11, 2025 3:00am EST
Acroyoga Jams are play spaces where we share what we have learned with each other and have fun.  Come to support others and in turn be supported.

Artist
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Eric Sipes

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
Eric Sipes found a love of movement arts when he began teaching himself to breakdance via videos from a file sharing program back in early 2000. Hardly able to contain his excitement and passion for movement, he began sharing his practice with any and everyone.After moving to Baltimore... Read More →
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00pm - Saturday January 11, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

9:00pm EST

Bachata Party
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00pm - Saturday January 11, 2025 3:00am EST
Bachata social dance party
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00pm - Saturday January 11, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio G (Salon V)

9:00pm EST

Brazilian Zouk Party
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00pm - Saturday January 11, 2025 3:00am EST
Brazilian Zouk social dance party 
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00pm - Saturday January 11, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio E (Salon III)

9:00pm EST

Ecstatic Dream
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00pm - Saturday January 11, 2025 3:00am EST
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00pm - Saturday January 11, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

9:00pm EST

Kizomba Party
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00pm - Saturday January 11, 2025 3:00am EST
Kizomba social dance party
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00pm - Saturday January 11, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio D (Salon I/II)

9:00pm EST

West Coast Swing Party
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00pm - Saturday January 11, 2025 3:00am EST
West Coast Swing social dance party
Friday January 10, 2025 9:00pm - Saturday January 11, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio G2 (Salon VI)
 
Saturday, January 11
 

9:00am EST

Thai Bodywork 101 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Give yourself a treat and learn how to care for others in this sweet workshop.  Through skillful guidance, you'll learn how both giving and receiving Thai Bodywork can help your brain quiet down and allow your body to unwind.
While exploring traditional Thai techniques and other tools for respectful connection, you will assist and support a partner while keeping your own body in proper alignment to stay comfortable.  We'll take turns giving and receiving, allowing you to both care for another and also explore the depths of your own relaxation. In the end, you'll sail on out thoroughly ready to meet whatever comes next.  
This workshop is open to everyone, and no previous experience is required. You are welcome to sign up with a partner with whom you want to work, but also feel free to come alone and we'll pair you up with a new friend!

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
Artist
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Bassam Kubba

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
“Drstadharmasukhavihari," means to live happily in the present moment. Bassam has lived in five different countries and has worn several professional hats: software engineer, professional climber, yoga teacher, and acrobatic performer. He has finally settled down in Manhattan as... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

9:00am EST

Zouk Triads and More! Dancing with More Than One Partner 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
In this class, we’ll explore a few basics, with a twist! While Brazilian Zouk is primarily a partner dance, it’s not uncommon to see three, four, or as many as 50 people all dancing together, leading and following across the dance floor!  The first time I saw a lead with two follows, I was transfixed.  And when I first tried to do it on my own, the challenge actually helped me improve my one-on-one leading because I was more aware of both sides of my body!
We will explore a few basic moves, with one lead and two follows.  All participants will learn how to play all three roles.  If things move quickly with the class, we may explore movements with two leads and one follow!

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

Artist
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Kuna Hamad

Brazilian Zouk Program
Kuna Hamad is a creative and dancer who has facilitated at each Interfusion Festival since 2017, where he taught Make Love Dancing and performed with Tori Rodriguez.
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio F (Salon IV)

9:00am EST

Affinity Group: BIPOC Gathering Circle 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
How does your identity influence how you show up in your day-to-day life and at Interfusion Festival? The goal of the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Gathering Circle is for participants to share their experiences and their ancestral knowledge, access tools for self-care and heart-to-heart communication, and engage in collective healing. This group is open to BIPOC-identified individuals seeking a decolonized therapeutic space


🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
Artist
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David Thurston

Care & Consent Program
David Thurston is an organizer with the Center for a New Culture, as well as a psychotherapist and community organizer in Washington DC. He publishes poetry under the name BYPO PHOENIX at byporevolution.com and has produced seven zines of printed work. David’s creative work engages with themes of collective liberation, amplifying erotic energy, celebrating neurodiversity, and cultivating emotional resilience. David is trained in the principles of emergent strategy and has a long history in work to up... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio E (Salon III)

9:00am EST

Butoh, Sensuality, and the Nervous System II/III 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Drawing from her own background as a burlesque/vaudeville and butoh dancer, Vangeline teaches a workshop that explores the link between sensuality and Butoh, as well as receptivity and its impact on the nervous system. This workshop will also draw from the techniques of Noguchi Taiso. No dance experience is necessary, this is an all-level class and beginners are welcome. Some experience with mindfulness or somatic practice can be helpful. This workshop is trauma-informed.
*Participants will have free access to Vangeline’s online lecture on the topic as a companion to the workshop.

  🌶️  Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
Artist
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Vangeline Helene Gand

Conscious Dance Program
Vangeline is a teacher, dancer, and choreographer specializing in Japanese butoh. She is the artistic director of the Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute (New York), a dance company firmly rooted in the tradition of Japanese butoh while carrying it into the twenty-first century.With her all-female dance company, Vangeline’s socially conscious performances... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio C2 (Salon F/G/H)

9:00am EST

Yin Yoga & Sound Healing 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
This workshop is open to all levels of asana and meditation experience. Dante will lead a 45-minute yin yoga class to prepare the body for sound meditation. Yin Yoga is a style of yoga that focuses on long, passive holds of seated or lying down postures typically held for three to five minutes or longer. It targets the connective tissues, such as the ligaments, fascia, and joints, rather than the muscles, as is the case in many other styles of yoga. Afterward, you will experience a wide variety of sound frequencies. Sound healing uses tuned, deep-vibrational instruments such as wooden flutes, crystals, and metal bowls during meditation, balancing dissonant frequencies in the body and bringing them into harmony.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

Artist
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Dante Baker

Healing Arts Program
I was first exposed to sound healing at a Homa Organic Farm in 2010. The owner used crystal bowls and chanting to support the health of his plants and to facilitate group meditations. I facilitate sound meditation events all over the east coast in yoga studios, holistic wellness facilities... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

9:00am EST

Manifesting Your Desires 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Learn how to bring creative life force in and through you to manifest your desires. Understand internal conflicts that may block you and learn tools for integrating and loving yourself more completely.  Bring a journal for this journey!  Be ready to experience acceptance, approval, and arousal like never before.

🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ Spicy: The workshop invites participants to bring up, focus on, act from, or interact with others using their sexuality or sexual energy; OR welcomes nudity.
Artist
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Nikki Lunderg

Intimacy and Sexuality Program
Sex Coach Nikki has 15 years of experience professionally working in the erotic arts.Wearing many different hats, she has helped thousands of people experience morepleasure through private sessions and classes. While her experience in the field isprodigious, she has the education... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio D (Salon I/II)

9:00am EST

Introduction to Self Defense 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
A key component of martial arts training is learning to avoid situations where you have to fight. But if you find yourself in a position where your safety is at stake, preparation makes all the difference. In this highly interactive lecture and movement-based class, students will hone the mindset, planning, and situational awareness skills that help avoid violence, as well as effective foundational moves for escaping a hold and fending off an attacker.

🌶️ 🌶️  Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
Artist
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Dr. Timaree Schmit

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Sexologist Dr. Timaree Schmit is a professor, writer and consultant in human sexuality and believes that sexual freedom is the foundation of social justice. She is the co-host of the long-running Philly favorite sex education/comedy show DTF: Darryl & Timaree Fun Hour, long-time LGBT... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio B2 (Salon J/K)

9:00am EST

Contemplation: A Writing & Inquiry Journey 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
When is the last time you gave yourself space to dive deep within you & ask...  who am I? What is needed of me? How can I serve? How can I show up for the highest good?
This practice is here for you to change your answer to, "Today, actually," — and perhaps invite more of this into your life as integration from this potent weekend of transformation.
With nothing but a journal & pen in hand, we will traverse time and space to create a container of curiosity, contemplation, and creation. What comes of this time together is to be determined, but prepare to be surprised (and perhaps delighted) by what becomes possible when you give yourself the spaciousness to question... everything...

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
Artist
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Elyza Dolby

Yoga Instructor, Healing Arts Program
Elyza Dolby is a 500-RYT yoga instructor, space holder, movement facilitator, and mama to a bright little sun, currently living + loving in the mountains of Northwest New Jersey.During the pandemic, she went from teaching yoga full-time to realizing and cultivating a vision for birthing... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio A (Skyview)

9:00am EST

Slow Burn Burlesque 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
It is always a good idea to take it slow and make them wait. Let’s create an elaborate confidence game that develops in several stages over an extended period of time, also known as a slow burn. Together we will discover mesmerizing movements that mystify yourself and others.

In this engaging and supportive class, you will learn the fundamentals of chair dance as a form of self-expression and empowerment. Whether you're a seasoned dancer or stepping onto the dance floor for the first time, our experienced instructors will guide you through a journey of movement, rhythm, and sensuality.

This class is open to individuals of all dance levels and backgrounds who are eager to explore the fusion of dance, sensuality, and empowerment. Whether you want to build confidence, enhance your self-expression, or simply have fun while dancing, this class is the perfect fit.

Note: This class proposal is intended for an adult audience and promotes a safe and respectful environment for exploring sensual movement.

Comfortable clothing that allows movement is recommended.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
Artist
avatar for GiGi Holliday

GiGi Holliday

Expressive Arts Program
GiGi Holliday is Washington D.C.’s resurgence of glitz, glamor, and allure. Armed with eyelashes and an arsenal of glitter she has enticed audiences with her clever blend of sass and wit. Lady GiGi Holliday had her start after studying the art of burlesque in Trixie Little’s Burlesque... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio G (Salon V)

9:00am EST

The Serenity Lounge
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00am EST
The Serenity Lounge is tucked away on the 2nd floor intentionally, as it's an oasis of quietude, plush pillows and soft landings. Slip off your shoes and slip into some stillness and rest. Bring your whisper voice, a book, a friend, or your favorite chilltime activity.

Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00am - Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio I (Alexandria)

11:00am EST

Foundations of AcroYoga 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Welcome to the world of AcroYoga, where we are all powerful enough to base, nimble enough to fly, and trustworthy enough to spot! This intro level class will cover some of the basic poses as well as dive into the AcroYoga philosophy. Come ready to challenge your boundaries and assumptions about what we all are able to do. Enthusiastic consent is as important a concept as physical safety and the mechanics of the movements.
Class Level: Beginner
Class Prerequisites: Willingness to try new things and respect each other’s boundaries.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
Artist
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Taylor Robart

Acroyoga and Bodywork Program
Taylored ACRO has done 1 an ACRO before and only knows ACRO IN ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME!! Precision coaching, spotting, dynamic movements and unique cues will help hack your ACRO brain while soaring to new heights!!
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Jayon Payne

Acroyoga Program
Jayon Payne is a mover based out of Asheville North, Carolina. Raised in Western NC, Jayon has trained across the east coast, finding his love for circus arts in Boston Massachusetts. With a background in parkour, martial flow, and is now directing their energy towards partner acrobatic... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

11:00am EST

Skyward Ascent: Mastering the Art of Handstands 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Embark on a transformative journey into the world of handstands with Jay, instructor,  handbalancer, and acrobat extraordinaire. This workshop blends foundational warm-ups with innovative drills to enhance your handstand prowess. Jay's approach combines traditional techniques with creative insights, ensuring a dynamic and rewarding experience. Whether you're starting out or refining your skills, you'll discover effective spotting techniques and personalized coaching tailored to your level. Embrace the thrill of defying gravity and elevate your handstand practice to new heights!

🌶️  Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position
Artist
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Jay Mpelezos

Acroyoga Program
Jay began practicing Acro in 2015. His path began with yoga asana and when he found Acroyoga and partner acrobatics, it was love at first sight. Jay began teaching in a year later in 2016 and held classes for Build A Machine Fitness, Sol Rise, and East Meets West Yoga. He has performed... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio B2 (Salon J/K)

11:00am EST

Brazilian Zouk Newcomer Bootcamp II/III 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
This progressive workshop series will give you the tools you need to start your journey in Brazilian Zouk. Learn the fundamentals, understand a bit of our history and etiquette, and be prepared to step into a brand new world of limitless possibilities in shared, expressive dance.  

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
Artist
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Jessica Lamdon

Brazilian Zouk Program
Jessica Lamdon, also known as "Unicorn", (the nickname she was crowned by her mentor and partner Ry'el) Internationally renowned artist, instructor, performer, actor, MC, professional hugger, has been dancing since she was 8 years old. She began with competitive international 10-dance... Read More →
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Vinícius de Souza | DJ Viscious

Brazilian Zouk Program
Hailing from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil- Vinny began dancing with Salsa in 2012. Originally, dance was more of a side passion, until 2014 when he fell into the rabbit hole that is Brazilian Zouk. Training extensively under Henri Velandia and Jessica Lamdon of ZenZouk, in addition to other... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio F (Salon IV)

11:00am EST

Men's Circle 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Brothers! Have you ever felt called to connect with your fellow man?  Ever feel like you need a non-judgmental, supportive place to talk openly about your hopes, fears, desires, vulnerabilities, dreams?  What if you could become part of a community of men that strives to elevate one another? If this feels right, then this Men’s Circle is for you. Open to all male-identifying beings.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
Artist
avatar for Michael Blackin

Michael Blackin

Owner, Temple In The Trees | Intimacy and Sexuality Program
Michael Blackin is a Tantric educator who is passionate about supporting couples and individuals on their journey to greater intimacy which in turn leads to stronger communities and, by extension, a better world.  He is dedicated to helping others reach their highest good, creating... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio H (Rosslyn)

11:00am EST

The Ground of Self: Contact Improvisation Series II/III 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Join us for three sessions where we'll explore, learn, and grow together in Contact Improvisation. Whether you're new to this dance form or looking to deepen your skills, these sessions will provide a supportive space for discovery and development.

We'll focus on enhancing our understanding of Contact Improvisation*, aiming to foster a greater sense of openness and ease in our movements, paying attention to the improvisational and relational skills involved in the practice, for authentic and in-depth exploratory processes.

We'll explore the biomechanics underlying Contact Improvisation dancing, through somatic explorations, enhancing our technical proficiency. Furthermore, we'll explore expanding our presence and refining our sensory listening and attention skills. This will establish a spacious canvas of shared awareness, serving as the foundation of our being together, that facilitates new ways of relating, expressing and collaborating safely in a non-verbal way. Before doing and wanting we want to emphasize our ability to be and to participate, connecting and nourishing a common ground, from which the emergence of our creative embodiments and synergy of voices can happen.

We foster a welcoming space, devoid of judgment and expectation, a secure container that embraces diverse expressions and embodiments, enabling agency and consensual interactions, towards presence, creative discovery, and dancing.

Day 1: We will explore the possibility of anchoring our movements in clear yet dynamic “roots”, which allows for the emergence of definition and stability while liberating a wide range of possibilities and effortless motion when improvising with a partner in contact.

Day 2: Our focus will be on aerial alignments that support our body's structure, facilitating weight sharing and enabling graceful suspensions and gentle flights.

Day 3: We will play developing creative dances emphasizing the dynamic interplay between kinaesthetic elements and individual creative expression. Intuitively meeting the others, synchronizing and creatively co-creating embodied dialogues.

To get the full benefit of Irene’s facilitation and support the possibility of an in-depth development of the process we suggest you attend all three sessions.  

* In CONTACT IMPROVISATION we move with one or more partners, relating and understanding each other through sensory listening without adhering to fixed sequences and roles. We learn to physically relate and communicate through fine-tuning and touch, dynamically traveling together through space, and combining our bodies closely, exploring all levels from standing to the floor. This practice encompasses solo, partnering, and group dancing, fostering creative skills through embodied and sensorial connections.

🌶️ 🌶️  Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
Artist
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Irene Sposetti

Conscious Dance Program
Irene Sposetti, a versatile performing artist, facilitator, and dancemaker originally from Italy, has cultivated a rich artistic journey over more than two decades as an independent freelancer across Europe, Asia, and North America. Her work is deeply shaped by her extensive travels... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio E (Salon III)

11:00am EST

Joyful Fusion Bellydance Movement Experience 🌶️🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Let’s tap into having fun and feeling good by practicing a unique spin on contemporary belly dance. We’ll play with combinations which fuse modern urban styles found in hip hop, retro funk styles such as locking, and the timeless art of raqs sharqi. Let’s build coordination, work on isolating movements, and expand our dance styles with fun travel steps. This workshop will be high energy, prepare to sweat and have fun. 


🌶️🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
Artist
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Ebony Qualls

Expressive Arts Program
Ebony Qualls has been teaching belly dance since 2003. She is based in Washington, DC and is a regular headlining teacher and performer at dance and wellness festivals throughout Asia, Canada, South America, Europe and the US. She has led workshops at multiple Wanderlust, Lululemon... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio G (Salon V)

11:00am EST

Naad Yoga 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Naad Yoga is an ancient practice that combines sound and meditation to bring about a profound sense of integration, harmony, and self-love. Rooted in the principles of Vedanta and the universal vibration of "Om," Naad Yoga uses Indian classical music to help participants quiet their minds and connect deeply with their emotions. The workshop explores the 22 primary emotions (shrutis) expressed through the 60 healing ragas of Indian classical music. Participants will experience these emotions and moods through two specific ragas: Bhairo, which aids in cleansing and releasing unhelpful emotions, and Desh, which fosters joy and happiness. This immersive sound journey aims to align the listener’s chakras, promoting emotional and spiritual well-being.
The workshop begins with an introduction to the science of Naad Yoga, followed by a sequence designed to resonate with and activate the lower chakras through deep bass notes (Kharaj). Participants will then engage with Raag Bhairo, encouraging the release of emotional blockages, particularly at the heart and throat centers, complemented by gentle touch healing. This is followed by the uplifting Raag Desh, which promotes joy and celebration. The session concludes with a debrief, sharing experiences, and a Q&A. Throughout, the practice emphasizes the power of enhanced listening and communal chanting (kirtan) to deepen interconnectedness and spiritual awareness, ultimately guiding participants towards discovering the inner teacher within themselves.


🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

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Rubaba | Hemant Kapoor

Live Music Collective | Healing Arts Program
Healing the world one note at a time, Rubaba enables all beings to realize their full creative and spiritual potential through a transformative practice that combines Ecstatic Kirtan, Ecstatic Dance, and Naad Yoga to foster unity with the divine.Rubaba is a seasoned multi-instrumentalist... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

11:00am EST

Pressure Play: How To Push & Pull & Squish Your Lovers To Mind-Blowing Connection 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Boost the fun and your self-confidence with playful, clothes-on skills that will amaze your loved ones! Did you know that the muscles and ligaments in your pelvis can act like ropes and pulleys, helping you access greater pleasure and body awareness? Discover the fascinating, nerdy, sex-geeky reasons why many of us love the weight of our lovers pressing down on us, or why we squeal and wriggle with delight when that special someone rides us or holds us down, and how biting or being bitten activates your Vagus nerve allowing you to turbo charge arousal... Pressure Play is a concept designed by sex and relationship educator Reid Mihalko of ReidAboutSex.com to help adults understand and explore the unique ways we can unlock the hidden pleasures and fun trapped within our (and our loved one’s) pelvic. And the best part? Pressure Play works whether you’re naked or fully clothed... In this interactive playshop, learn (and feel) how to turn body weight, a towel, or a pillowcase into opportunities for everyone to stop holding back and start feeling closer, safer, and more confident than ever.

🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ Spicy: The workshop invites participants to bring up, focus on, act from, or interact with others using their sexuality or sexual energy; OR welcomes nudity.
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Reid Mihalko

Intimacy and Sexuality Program
ABOUT REID MIHALKO: As seen on NETFLIX' "Chelsea Does..." alongside Chelsea Handler and HBO’s “Sex Diaries,” Reid Mihalko (he/him) of ReidAboutSex.com is an internationally known sex and relationship educator who helps adults create more self-esteem, self-confidence, and greater... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio D (Salon I/II)

11:00am EST

Understanding Your Inner Climate™ With Ayurveda 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Climate change is real! Both inside as well as outside. This groundbreaking concept reveals how the state of our inner environment dictates our overall well-being. Diseases are intricately interconnected, not only among themselves but also across our mental and physical planes. By understanding and mastering your Inner Climate, you can navigate the changes within your body and return to optimal health

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Nidhi Pandya

Wisdom & Science Program
Nidhi is an Ayurvedic Doctor based in NYC and the creator of the Inner Climate Method (TM). This groundbreaking approach, which merges timeless wisdom with modern science, represents the essence of her 15 years of dedicated practice and deep understanding of Ayurvedic principles.Raised... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

11:00am EST

Unlocking Neuroplasticity (Changing the Brain!) for Happiness 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Join us to explore the fascinating world of neuroplasticity and its profound connection to well-being.
We are here at this festival because we are grovers and movers, lovers of play, and folks that like to boogie on the dance floor!! And, learning new movement patterns floods the brain with dopamine- the brain’s reward, satisfaction, and pleasure hormone. It’s why we like it so much!
In this playshop, we will discover other ways to increase happiness and well-being by stimulating neurogenesis (the birth of new brain cells) and neuroplasticity (the birth of new neural pathways).

🌶️Mild:
 The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open positio
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Eleanor Bramwell

Wisdom & Science Program
Eleanor Bramwell is a radical visionary dedicated to serving folks waking up and thriving. As the founder of BodyWise Trauma Institute, she worked alongside faculty members to develop professional continuing education trainings for nurses, social workers, massage therapists, and yoga... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio C2 (Salon F/G/H)

1:30pm EST

Acroyoga L-basing: Washing Machine Time 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
 Prepare your wings for blast off with these two gregarious teachers from NYC. This class will run through a dynamic washing machine that has multiple options to challenge the experienced and lower the challenge for others. Come prepared not just to connect, grow, and learn but to have the time of your life. 
Level: Beginermediate
Prerequisites: Some side star experience

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Bassam Kubba

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
“Drstadharmasukhavihari," means to live happily in the present moment. Bassam has lived in five different countries and has worn several professional hats: software engineer, professional climber, yoga teacher, and acrobatic performer. He has finally settled down in Manhattan as... Read More →
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Mendel Romanenko

Acroyoga and Bodywork Program
Mendel grew up in the Bronx and his passion for movement began with break dancing over 14 years ago. His curiosity led him to hip-hop, parkour, gymnastics, and yoga. In 2012, he had his first AcroYoga experience and has since been thoroughly hooked into the world of partner acrobatics... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

1:30pm EST

Heart it! More Instagrammable Acro Dance Lifts for Your Social Media 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Let’s keep it going! More cool dance lifts! Spice it up, soar, and spin your way in class, on the dance floor, and onto your socials. This is an exhilarating acro dance workshop for dancers of all levels with challenging yet accessible skills. Led by experienced instructors and performers, participants will master the art of dance lifts with grace and flair. This will be the kind of stuff you’ll want to post on Instagram and whatever social media you have. The skills will be visual and broken down so that you can learn them in a safe and effective manner. With instruction on basing, flying, and spotting, attendees will be able to explore synchronized lifts and acrobatic sequences with confidence. This workshop opens the door to captivating choreography, empowering dancers to elevate their performances with lifted artistry. And yeah, you’ll want to post what you learned and show off a little.


🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Tori Abel

Acroyoga and Bodywork Program
Tori is a distinguished performer and educator with a lifelong dedication to the arts. From an early age, she immersed herself in gymnastics. This blossomed into a love for cheerleading, acrobatics, and dance, building a strong and diverse foundation in movement. Her passion and skill... Read More →
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Rob Li

Acroyoga Program
For 30 years, Rob Li has been immersed in the world of acrobatics and cheer while sharing his knowledge and extensive experience with people of movement. After being a cheerleader for Drexel University, the Philadelphia Soul Arena Football Team, and the Philadelphia 76ers NBA Team... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio B2 (Salon J/K)

1:30pm EST

Brazilian Zouk: Exploring the In-Between 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
This class is centered around exploring the movements that hug around your Brazilian Zouk fundamentals. Movements between ‘moves’ is in some ways the most important part of our dance. 
We will work on raising more awareness of your upper body in a passive continuous flow with our partner. We will integrate expressions of the chest and head motions to enhance your own flow.


🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Evelyn Lopez

Brazilian Zouk Program
Evelyn is one of the most sought-after Brazilian Zouk artist, dance instructor, and choreographer in the world. She was born in Transylvania (Romania) and grew up in the Netherlands.In 2006 she was confronted with her destiny "Brazilian Zouk", where she fell in love with the dance... Read More →
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Evelyn Lopez

Brazilian Zouk Program
Derrick was born in Hawaii. In the early ’90s, Derrick moved to California where he first got into breakdancing.He learned about power moves, which is a form of West Coast B-Boy gymnastics – break dancing.This way of dancing focused on spinning (windmills, air-flairs, halos... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio F (Salon IV)

1:30pm EST

Putting the Sensual in Consensual: Nonverbal Consent Communication 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Despite what you may have heard out there, consent doesn’t always have to be verbal—in fact, so much of human communication happens nonverbally that insisting on using words all the time can feel clunky, inadequate, and decidedly unsexy. In this workshop, we will practice moving from embodied desire and letting our bodies do the talking (knowing we always have words if we want them). Learn to identify and express your own body’s yes, no, and the spectrum between, and practice the art of sensing the subtle signs of desire and discomfort in others. Discover the playfulness, presence, and pleasure of finding the sweet spot of mutual desire without words. You will leave with skills to create sensual consensual connections throughout the rest of the festival and the rest of your life!

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Fuzzy Shostak

Founder, Educator, Consent Beyond Yes | Care & Consent Program
Fuzzy Shostak (they/any) is an organizer, author, and educator of consent, co-ops, contact improvisation, and alternative economic systems. Chronically ill, disabled, polyamorous, queer, gender transcendent. Founder of six co-ops, including Consent Beyond Yes—a worker co-op doi... Read More →
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Emma Daley

Consent Beyond Yes | Care & Consent Program
Emma Daley (they/she) is a body psychotherapist, consent educator, author, and occasional math tutor who is passionate about helping people live fully and authentically. While completing their Master’s degree in somatic counseling at Naropa University, they co-founded Consent B... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

1:30pm EST

Conscious Connection for Intimate Partners: Tools for Building Secure Self and Relational Attachment 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Do you seek to up-level your conscious relating skills with your Beloved or Intimate Partner(s)? Do you desire to be more deeply known, seen and fully gotten by your partner but struggle to have the tools to navigate more high conflict situations in your relationship? In this educational and experiential workshop you will have an opportunity to explore key components of secure self and relational attachment and ways you can shift from conflict to deep connection through a series of relational mindfulness practices.




🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

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Lael Rasch

Conscious Communications Program
Lael Rasch is a Holistic Sex, Intimacy and Relationship Coach, Couples and Family Therapist, Somatic Trauma Therapist and founder of Bodhi Sacred Sanctuary, a conscious wellness practice that inspires awakening, growth and transformation of body/mind/heart/spirit. Lael is passionate... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio C2 (Salon F/G/H)

1:30pm EST

Shake Your Groove Thing: Introduction to Latin Hustle 🌶️🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Explore the characteristics, movement, and musicality of this popular social dance. We’ll dance solo and invite you to dance in partnership as we connect with the essence of Disco/Soul music and Latin Hustle dance. Expect a vibrant, high-energy atmosphere that will leave you feeling invigorated and inspired. Join us as we bring the Disco era to D.C.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Marc Brewer

Expressive Arts Program
As featured on America’s Got Talent, internationally renowned artist Marc Brewer, based in MI, USA, is one of the world’s most sought-after Afro-Latin Dance instructors, performers, choreographers, and judges. Certified through Broadway Dance Center’s rigorous training program... Read More →
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Rose Turuka

Expressive Arts Program
Originally from Zanzibar in East Africa, Rose Turuka currently resides in Detroit, Michigan. With Afrobeats dance at the core, Rose grew up learning and moving to the various African tunes that have shaped her as a dancer and instructor today. She began her journey in teaching and... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio G (Salon V)

1:30pm EST

Goddess Initiation: Healing the Sister Wound and Invoking your Inner Goddess 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
I believe that each one of us is an embodied expression of the divine. This workshop is an opportunity for all women and female identifying beings to come together, to sit in prayer, to celebrate and support one another, to take up space, to be seen and heard, to reclaim their power and sovereignty. In the Goddess Initiation, we will co-create a brave space for women and female identifying beings to share from the heart, to practice celebration of self and one another, to dance and pray and awaken their inner Goddess/Goddex. 

The journey will take you from meeting your inner child, to embodying your innate divinity through a series of activities that are curated to connect you deeply to your original essence using guided visualizations, breath work, movement, dance and authentic relating exercises. By remaining open, curious and compassionate to one another’s experiences, we take steps towards healing the sister wounds that permeate our collective and personal experiences and create space to invoke the inner Goddess/Goddex within. 


🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position
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Nilgun Akselioglu

Healing Arts Program
Nil is the founder of Kyss My Blyss and is a trauma-informed Certified Sex, Love and Relationship coach trained in the VITA Method through the Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality. The practices she shares with clients and community weaves ancient Tantric and Taoist wisdom, modern... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

1:30pm EST

Sync & Engage: An Immersive Workshop Exploring Taboo Intimacies 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Embark on a journey where two unique realms of connection converge at our immersive experiential event… Are you actively exploring the art of mindful connection, yet intrigued and eager to delve into the captivating world of adventurous exploration? Do you cherish your close-knit community of exploration, while harboring curiosity about incorporating elements of holistic practices? This is your opportunity to seamlessly merge these dimensions within a secure and well-structured setting. Expand your wisdom (and your heart): Come together to engage, discover, and experiment. By doing so, you'll enrich your capacity to bond; amplify your sensorial awareness; cultivate your intuition; and draw nearer to unlocking your complete sensual potential. Monique Darling, a specialist in mindful connection, and Major Tom, a connoisseur of daring exploration, will skillfully blend these two experiences into a singular, delectable journey!

🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️   Spicy: The workshop invites participants to bring up, focus on, act from, or interact with others using their sexuality or sexual energy; OR welcomes nudity.
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Monique Darling

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Workshop facilitator extraordinaire, Monique Darling, has led over 3000 workshops in the past 13 years. She is the founder of Everyday Tantra an organization dedicated to empowering people who are questioning the assumptions of how their life should be and to offering tools for self-expression... Read More →
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Thomas Daily II

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Thomas Daily II, hailing from Bloomington, Minnesota, where I entered this world amidst chaos and parents burdened by trauma. As a young adolescent, I began delving into the profound impact of trauma. Along my journey of unlearning and acceptance, I embarked on backpacking adventures... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio D (Salon I/II)

1:30pm EST

Brazilian Zouk Intensive (Add-On)
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm EST
The Brazilian Zouk & Flow Intensive (BZFI) brings to you the essence of this unique dance facilitated by world-known international instructors. It is designed to deepen the understanding of Brazilian Zouk's unique fluidity and movement with the more experienced dancer. Rather than working on combinations and patterns, we will study concepts and from those build movements that are full of fluidity.

Registration for this add-on requires meeting prerequisites and completing an application process. In order to participate, it is necessary to have a full pass for the Festival. After submitting your application and responding to the check-out questions in full, your request will be assessed by the Interfusion Zouk Team. If additional information is required, such as a video of your dance, it will be communicated to you by email. If you do not meet the qualifications for the intensive this year, you will receive a full refund of the intensive ticket.
Saturday January 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm EST
Studio H (Rosslyn)

3:30pm EST

Acro Dance - Partner Lifts, Dips, and Twirls 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Whether you’re performance-bound or just looking to start a riot on the dance floor, these creative tricks are a blast to try together. This all-levels acrobatics dance class will lift you and your dance partner’s moves to new heights by combining dynamic movement and flowing dance lifts. With clear instruction and analysis on basing, flying, and spotting, Bassam & Mendel blend creative partner acro moves with detailed technique. This class is for both enthusiastic beginners and experienced practitioners. Come with or without a partner!

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Bassam Kubba

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
“Drstadharmasukhavihari," means to live happily in the present moment. Bassam has lived in five different countries and has worn several professional hats: software engineer, professional climber, yoga teacher, and acrobatic performer. He has finally settled down in Manhattan as... Read More →
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Mendel Romanenko

Acroyoga and Bodywork Program
Mendel grew up in the Bronx and his passion for movement began with break dancing over 14 years ago. His curiosity led him to hip-hop, parkour, gymnastics, and yoga. In 2012, he had his first AcroYoga experience and has since been thoroughly hooked into the world of partner acrobatics... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio B2 (Salon J/K)

3:30pm EST

Brazilian Zouk: Wi-Fi Magic 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Wondering how can we dance together yet apart? In Brazilian Zouk Lambada anything is possible! Join us for an exploration of the fundamentals and basic concepts of Wi-Fi—visual/non-touching lead/follow, an important part of the evolution of Brazilian Zouk Lambada. 
Lets elevate and expand your dancing beyond physical connection. We will train how to lead and follow from afar, enhancing our sensitivity through visual cues and personal improvisation without losing a beat.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Ry'el Zenzouk

Brazilian Zouk Program
Ry’el (Henry Velandia ) Performer, choreographer, instructor, and Creator of ZenZouk, a method of teaching Brazilian Zouk lambada and overall body movement through multiple exercises and philosophies based on the “elements” Including earth water fire, and air- as symbols for... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio F (Salon IV)

3:30pm EST

Falling in Love with Your Body 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
What are the ways your body gives you pleasure? Why do we often have such complicated relationships with our bodies? Where are we getting messages about how we should feel and why are we hearing them? In this workshop that combines small group discussion, lecture and movement, sexologist and professional fitness instructor Dr Timaree will help you examine the sources of negative body image, as well as identify your strongholds for body love.

🌶️ 🌶️  Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Dr. Timaree Schmit

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Sexologist Dr. Timaree Schmit is a professor, writer and consultant in human sexuality and believes that sexual freedom is the foundation of social justice. She is the co-host of the long-running Philly favorite sex education/comedy show DTF: Darryl & Timaree Fun Hour, long-time LGBT... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio C2 (Salon F/G/H)

3:30pm EST

Embodying Harmony: An Advanced 5Rhythms Exploration 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Join master teacher Ann Kite to deepen your 5Rhythms practice.  Ann will guide you through a profound exploration of how the 5Rhythms can be integrated into every aspect of your life. Building on the themes of Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness, you will learn to embody these rhythms in a more intricate and personal way, enhancing your ability to live in harmony with yourself and others.
Workshop Highlights:    
  • Deepen your connection with the rhythm of Flowing, cultivating a more profound sense of trust and intuition. Learn advanced techniques to navigate life's transitions with grace and ease.  
  • Explore the power of precise, intentional Staccato movement. Develop a greater capacity for clear communication and authentic expression in your relationships and endeavors.  
  • Embrace the transformative potential of Chaos. Through advanced practices, learn to harness the energy of unpredictability and change, using it as a catalyst for personal growth and creative expression.  
  • Elevate your experience of Lyrical, tapping into the joy and spontaneity that comes from deep presence. Discover how to sustain this lightness in your daily life, fostering a sense of continuous renewal and inspiration.  
  • Journey into the heart of Stillness, exploring the depths of inner peace and clarity. Learn advanced meditation and movement practices that support a sustained sense of harmony and connection with presence..
Ann Kite's deep wisdom and compassionate teaching will provide you with the tools and insights needed to integrate the 5Rhythms more fully into your life. This workshop is an opportunity to refine your practice, connect with a community of like-minded individuals, and experience the profound healing power of dance at a more advanced level.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Ann Kite

Conscious Dance Program
Ann Kite is a distinguished 5Rhythms Master Teacher, holding an MA in Education and certified in both the Waves and Heartbeat levels. With extensive experience across the Eastern USA, Greater DC, and Canada, she enriches the lives of many through her workshops and classes. Ann has... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

3:30pm EST

West Coast Swing Flavor 🌶️🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
In this class, we will explore styling options to add flair to your dancing, from footwork variations to arm styling. We'll work on refining techniques to make your movements smooth and polished. Plus we'll introduce a variety of patterns and variations to expand your repertoire. From simple combinations to more complex sequences, you'll have plenty of moves to keep your dancing fresh and exciting. Let's level up your West Coast Swing! By the end of the class, you'll leave with a newfound appreciation for this captivating dance style and a set of skills that will set you on the path to becoming a confident West Coast Swing dancer.

🌶️🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or

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Markus Smith

Expressive Arts Program
Markus Smith is an accomplished and award winning dance champion, choreographer and instructor under the dance company StuckOnSwing. He has been featured on Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance”, BET’s “106 and Park” program, and the movie Love N’ Dancing. With the unique... Read More →
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Tren Veal

Expressive Arts Program
Originally from Louisiana, Tren started swing dancing in the state of Texas. Over the years she has competed and won many West Coast Swing Jack & Jill’s and Strictly Swing contests placing in the top 5 in the Champions Division. Her love and passion for the dance shows on the dance... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio G (Salon V)

3:30pm EST

Rooted: A Restorative Cacao Circle for the Body and Spirit 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Ceremonial cacao is sacred plant medicine that has been respected for centuries by indigenous cultures. Its power draws from innate healing and energy-giving properties; both on a physical and energetic level.
Embark on an journey inward through a fusion of reflection, meditation, and movement. Learn about how ceremonial cacao offers deeper embodiment and inner connection. Then immerse into a heart-centered space with a freshly prepared ceremonial cacao elixir. Tap in to sacred rest through a guided mindfulness practice, followed by restorative yoga.
This is a great session for those who are looking to open the doors to transformational work and sacred rest with the support of mama cacao and plant medicine.

What to Expect
🧘‍♂️ Guided meditation and mindfulness practice
🌬️ Restorative movement for gentle exploration of body and spirit

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Christina Hong

Healing Arts Program
Christina Hong, M.A., E-RYT 200, is a Yoga Teacher and Ceremonialist based in the suburbs of Washington, DC. She focuses on offering a practice that is embodiment-focused, accessible, and equitable; Christina works towards creating a world in which everyone feels safe, seen, and supported... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

3:30pm EST

Sensual Massage for Intimate Partners 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
This workshop is for couples or partners and has the option for partial nudity as part of the practice. You should arrive with your partner to enter the space. Sensual massage is the use of hands and body to stimulate the sense of touch and a way to simultaneously relax and excite both partners. Benefits of sensual massage include deeper connection, more intense sexual arousal and enhanced lovemaking. It can also be a powerful tool for building trust and overcoming fear of intimacy.
🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️  Spicy: The workshop invites participants to bring up, focus on, act from, or interact with others using their sexuality or sexual energy; OR welcomes nudity.
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Monique Darling

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Workshop facilitator extraordinaire, Monique Darling, has led over 3000 workshops in the past 13 years. She is the founder of Everyday Tantra an organization dedicated to empowering people who are questioning the assumptions of how their life should be and to offering tools for self-expression... Read More →
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Peter Petersen

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Peter Petersen's three main passions in life are movement, music, and meditation. He has been teaching qigong for over 22 years and has been a certified Sheng Zhen Qigong teacher for the last 20. He has taught in health clubs, hospitals, retirement villas, and several different wellness/spa... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio D (Salon I/II)

3:30pm EST

Acro Intensive: Whip-carian Series II/III (Add On) 🌶️ 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:30pm EST
APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE

Day 1 - Precision Icarian
The first day we will focus on cleaning up Icarian skills to make them precise and tempo-able. Expect to refine skills you have done before - working towards mastery of these skills. We will also incorporate some unique pops and drills you may not have worked on before! This lesson will build towards linking skills together for seamless icarian flows.

Prereqs: Straight throws in bird and throne

Day 2 - Whip Mastery
We will work towards building whip technique for more dynamic skills. We have specific techniques that we have learned from teachers all over the world as well as developed through our own training that we love to share. This lesson will give you a deeper understanding of these skills and all of the building blocks needed for progressing toward more dynamic whip pops. We will touch on nervous system regulation, dynamic spotting, and how to keep these skills safe.

Prereqs: Comfort in bird, throne, reverse bird, and reverse throne. Some experience attempting whips is helpful.

Day 3 - Jump Start your Whip Pops
Whether you’ve done a handful of whip pops, or you’re still working towards your first one, this class will have content for you. We will have a short recap of the first two lessons leading into dynamic entries in and out of whips. Multiple levels of content will be offered and students can work at their own pace. Our goal is to offer a clear and safe pathway - it is most important to us for our students to learn when they are ready for the next progression, and when they need to continue repping out certain drills.

Prereqs: Comfort with whips, and basic icarian transitions such as bird to throne. Doing the first two workshops covers these prereqs.

APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE - Registration for this add-on requires meeting prerequisites and completing an application process. In order to participate, it is necessary to have a full pass for the Festival. After submitting your application and responding to the check-out questions in full, your request will be assessed by the Interfusion Team. If additional information is required, such as a video of your skills, it will be communicated to you by email. If you do not meet the qualifications for the intensive this year, you will receive a full refund of the intensive ticket. APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
Artist
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Jenae Brianne

Acroyoga and Bodywork Program
Jenae is a teacher and creator who believes that acro is a powerful way to build community. Jenae empowers acro students to build a sustainable, long-term practice through effective communication, strong fundamentals, and pattern recognition. Jenae enjoys all genres of acro but excels... Read More →
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John Thorpe

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
John is an AcroLove teacher, the owner of The MVMT Collective, in Meriden, Connecticut, and is passionate about sharing the benefits of movement. With over a decade of experience as a movement instructor, he began his journey in powerlifting and then diversifying into various disciplines... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

3:30pm EST

Zouk Day Party
Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 8:00pm EST
Brazilian Zouk daytime social dance party.

Saturday January 11, 2025 3:30pm - 8:00pm EST
Studio H (Rosslyn)

5:30pm EST

Integration Offering
Saturday January 11, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Guided decompression and integration led by a facilitator. 

Saturday January 11, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

5:30pm EST

Live Musical Performances & Tea
Saturday January 11, 2025 5:30pm - 7:00pm EST
Sit back and relax or sing along to live musical performances.

Saturday January 11, 2025 5:30pm - 7:00pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

7:00pm EST

Interfusion Festival X: Festival-Wide Sound Healing Experience 🌶️
Saturday January 11, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Join us at Interfusion Festival X for a profound Festival-Wide Sound Healing Experience led by Dante Baker, David Martin, and Emma Olmedo. On Saturday, these esteemed sound healers will guide you through an immersive journey of healing and transformation. This unique session features a mesmerizing array of acoustic sound around the room, creating a powerful environment. In addition to stationary acoustics, mobile sound elements will move through the space, enveloping you in a dynamic, multi-dimensional soundscape.

As you lie back and surrender to the waves of sound, you will be transported into a deep state of relaxation and inner exploration. The combination of stationary and mobile acoustics is designed for deep relaxation and alignment. Join us for this unforgettable experience and let the resonant vibrations guide you on your path to wellness and self-discovery.

Instruments Included but not limited to: 5 Gongs, crystal & tibetan singing bowls, & ocean drum, flute, handpan, rainsticks, chimes, merkaba singing pyramids.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
Artist
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Emma Olmedo

Director of Healing Arts & Wisdom and Science, Healing Arts Program
With over a decade of experience as an intuitive healer, Emma brings a unique blend of Reiki, clairvoyance, and Shamanic training to support her clients' healing journeys. As the founder of KiVibes in Tyson's Corner, VA, Emma has created a warm and inviting community where individuals... Read More →
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Dante Baker

Healing Arts Program
I was first exposed to sound healing at a Homa Organic Farm in 2010. The owner used crystal bowls and chanting to support the health of his plants and to facilitate group meditations. I facilitate sound meditation events all over the east coast in yoga studios, holistic wellness facilities... Read More →
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David Martin

Healing Arts Program
David combines his skill set as a Yogi, Reiki Master and Neuro-Acoustic Sound Practitioner, to create an immersive experience in Naad Yoga (the Yoga of Sound) and Sound Meditation. Not only is the gong a sonic experience, it also facilitates a deep ultrasonic massage-like experience... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Studio F (Salon IV)

9:00pm EST

Contact Improvisation Jam
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00pm - 11:59pm EST
Starting with an opening circle and group activation each night will take its unique course as a group improvisational space to the closing circle. The group activation may touch on technique, partner work, consent or creative improvisation practice. There is opportunity to build on the energy of the previous nights and days.

During the jam there may be periods of silence and periods of live improvised musical accompaniment from invited musicians.  In these moments we invite you to also treat music as a dance partner that touches everyone in conversation.  Participants with musical instruments and interest may have an opportunity to join the conversation with permission of the invited musicians. Kindly you may bring your instruments.

While the primary focus of the space is contact improvisation, solo and partnered improvisational movement of other forms is welcome when it fits in the ground rules.

Ground Rules:
  • Practice Nonverbal & Verbal Consent
  • Activate Deep Listening: Practice attunement to self, partner(s), and others in the space
  • Observation is Welcome
  • Solo Movement is Welcome
  • Keep conversations and other interpersonal interactions to the peripheries
  • Please be mindful of sound especially after 11:30pm as the sound here travels through the entire hotel.


“Contact Improvisation is a dance form based on the communication between two or more moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia.” - Nancy Stark Smith
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Umair Ahsan

Conscious Dance Program
Umair is a passionate student of the technology in each of our bodies, in continued research via various somatic practices with a primary focus in Contact Improvisation. He is a lover of life and community.  Umair organizes a biweekly contact improvisation jam and participates in... Read More →
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Irene Sposetti

Conscious Dance Program
Irene Sposetti, a versatile performing artist, facilitator, and dancemaker originally from Italy, has cultivated a rich artistic journey over more than two decades as an independent freelancer across Europe, Asia, and North America. Her work is deeply shaped by her extensive travels... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00pm - 11:59pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

9:00pm EST

AcroYoga Night Jam
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00pm - Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00am EST
Acroyoga Jams are play spaces where we share what we have learned with each other and have fun.  Come to support others and in turn be supported.

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Eric Sipes

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
Eric Sipes found a love of movement arts when he began teaching himself to breakdance via videos from a file sharing program back in early 2000. Hardly able to contain his excitement and passion for movement, he began sharing his practice with any and everyone.After moving to Baltimore... Read More →
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00pm - Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

9:00pm EST

Bachata Party
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00pm - Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00am EST
Bachata social dance party
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00pm - Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio G (Salon V)

9:00pm EST

Brazilian Zouk Party
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00pm - Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00am EST
Brazilian Zouk social dance party 
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00pm - Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio E (Salon III)

9:00pm EST

Ecstatic Dream
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00pm - Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00am EST
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00pm - Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

9:00pm EST

Kizomba Party
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00pm - Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00am EST
Kizomba social dance party
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00pm - Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio D (Salon I/II)

9:00pm EST

West Coast Swing Party
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00pm - Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00am EST
West Coast Swing social dance party
Saturday January 11, 2025 9:00pm - Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio G2 (Salon VI)
 
Sunday, January 12
 

9:00am EST

Thai Pretzel Workshop 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Dive deep into the intricate world of advanced Thai bodywork in this workshop. Designed to teach you complex and unique Thai bodywork moves and transitions, this session will make your practice stand out.
You will be guided through a comprehensive floor sequence, learning how to properly assess when and where your skills are most needed, ensuring the safety and well-being of your partner during bodywork.
Prerequisite: This workshop is not recommended for beginners; some experience in Thai bodywork is required.

Note: This workshop is not suitable for individuals with injuries in their ankles, knees, or wrists.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Bassam Kubba

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
“Drstadharmasukhavihari," means to live happily in the present moment. Bassam has lived in five different countries and has worn several professional hats: software engineer, professional climber, yoga teacher, and acrobatic performer. He has finally settled down in Manhattan as... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

9:00am EST

Saucy Footwork for Brazilian Zouk 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
A saucy dance is built from the ground up. In this workshop, you'll delve into the art of creating a movement conversation between you, the floor and your partner, boosting your ability to respond to movements while serving your unique style. We’ll delve into crucial techniques that enhance both precision and freedom in your dance, including tips on maintaining balance, optimizing foot placement, and playing with rhythm. Discover how to blend control with creativity, allowing for a more expressive Brazilian Zouk social dance.
🌶️  Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
Artist
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Devon Near-Hill

Brazilian Zouk Program
Devon Near- Hill is a teaching and performing artist, currently serving as Co-Director/Co-Founder along with Rachel Farley at Denver School of Social Dance. Her diverse movement repertoire spans belly dance, ballet, salsa, modern dance, capoeira, lambada Brazilian zouk, kizomba, urban... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio F (Salon IV)

9:00am EST

Affinity Group: People with Disabilities Gathering Circle 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
How does your identity influence how you show up in your day-to-day life and at Interfusion Festival? The goal of the Disability Gathering Circle is for participants to share their experiences and their ancestral knowledge, access tools for self-care and heart-to-heart communication, and engage in collective healing. This group is open to individuals who identify as Disabled (Perceptively or Imperceptibly) and are seeking a decolonized therapeutic space.

🌶️  Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Antonietta Alfano

Care & Consent Program
With love and passion for dance and connection, Antonietta Alfano (She/They) from Rochester, NY has been a professional dancer within her own company, “BallerinaGoddess Entertainment” for over 20 years with a niche in ballet, interpretive dance, rope and aerial arts. To add to... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio E (Salon III)

9:00am EST

Butoh, Sensuality, and the Nervous System III/III 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
 Drawing from her own background as a burlesque/vaudeville and butoh dancer, Vangeline teaches a workshop that explores the link between sensuality and Butoh, as well as receptivity and its impact on the nervous system. This workshop will also draw from the techniques of Noguchi Taiso. No dance experience is necessary, this is an all-level class and beginners are welcome. Some experience with mindfulness or somatic practice can be helpful. This workshop is trauma-informed.*Participants will have free access to Vangeline’s online lecture on the topic as a companion to the workshop.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Vangeline Helene Gand

Conscious Dance Program
Vangeline is a teacher, dancer, and choreographer specializing in Japanese butoh. She is the artistic director of the Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute (New York), a dance company firmly rooted in the tradition of Japanese butoh while carrying it into the twenty-first century.With her all-female dance company, Vangeline’s socially conscious performances... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio C2 (Salon F/G/H)

9:00am EST

Fusion Bellydance Adventure 🌶️🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Step into the enchanting and mesmerizing realm of raqs sharqi inspired fusion. This session promises a captivating journey through the art of isolations, undulations, and shimmies. Whether you're a seasoned dancer or a curious beginner, everyone is welcome to join this exhilarating adventure. Expect a high-energy environment filled with fun mind-body challenges. You’ll learn a routine that you can tailor to your own preference and skill level.


🌶️🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

Artist
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Ebony Qualls

Expressive Arts Program
Ebony Qualls has been teaching belly dance since 2003. She is based in Washington, DC and is a regular headlining teacher and performer at dance and wellness festivals throughout Asia, Canada, South America, Europe and the US. She has led workshops at multiple Wanderlust, Lululemon... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio G (Salon V)

9:00am EST

Qi Gong Movement and Meditation 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Qi Gong (also spelled Chi Kung or Qigong) is a traditional Chinese practice that involves physical movements, breathing techniques, and meditation to cultivate and balance the body's vital energy, known as "Qi" or "Chi." It is part of traditional Chinese medicine and is considered a holistic approach to health and well-being. 
Qi Gong is based on the belief that the body's vital energy flows through energy channels or meridians and that practicing Qi Gong can improve the flow of Qi, promoting health and healing. The practice typically involves slow, gentle movements synchronized with deep breathing and a meditative focus.


🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

Artist
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Dante Baker

Healing Arts Program
I was first exposed to sound healing at a Homa Organic Farm in 2010. The owner used crystal bowls and chanting to support the health of his plants and to facilitate group meditations. I facilitate sound meditation events all over the east coast in yoga studios, holistic wellness facilities... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

9:00am EST

Primal Play Shop: Embody The Inner Animal 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Discover the untamed power of your primal essence in our transformative Primal Play Workshop. Unleash your authentic inner animal and embrace your sensual instincts as we guide you through a journey of self-discovery and liberation. Dive deep into ancient tantric practices and explore the raw, primal energy that lies within you, igniting a profound connection to your body, soul, and intimate relationships. Let go of inhibitions and surrender to the wild, passionate force that resides in your core. Are you ready to awaken the primal lover within? 

 Join Major Tom for an unforgettable experiential session of sensual awakening and personal awareness.

🌶️ 🌶️  Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Thomas Daily II

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Thomas Daily II, hailing from Bloomington, Minnesota, where I entered this world amidst chaos and parents burdened by trauma. As a young adolescent, I began delving into the profound impact of trauma. Along my journey of unlearning and acceptance, I embarked on backpacking adventures... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio D (Salon I/II)

9:00am EST

Discover the Power of Control: A Jiu Jitsu Journey 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
This workshop invites you to explore the empowering world of Jiu Jitsu, where the focus is on understanding and applying the use of force with responsibility and compassion. Whether you’re curious about self-defense or interested in personal growth, this session will guide you through essential techniques to control and neutralize threats effectively.

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to achieve and maintain dominant positions to subdue an opponent, as well as practical escapes and defenses from disadvantaged situations. Partnered drills will help you practice in a supportive and controlled environment, making this experience both safe and enriching.

This workshop is perfect for beginners eager to dip their toes into martial arts and self-defense, as well as for intermediate practitioners looking to refine their skills. Advanced students will also find value in reconnecting with the foundational aspects of Jiu Jitsu. Join us on this journey to discover the power of control and the importance of using it wisely.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Jamal Pender

Martial Arts Program
Born and raised in New York City, Jamal Pender found his love for Martial arts and movement as a kid in the 1980’s when he began Learning Karate and jiujitsu in Harlem, NY. As a lifelong martial artist Jamal shares his passion for building confidence and community with everyone... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio B2 (Salon J/K)

9:00am EST

Ayurvedic Hacks For Longevity 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
In today’s modern world, it’s odd that the average life expectancy has gone up, but the number of people suffering from chronic conditions are on the rise. While all of us have learned to look younger, but we’re feeling older. Our bodies are going through rapid combustion with modern lifestyle, productivity, foods that we eat, and more. 

The truth is that we’ve misunderstood ageing. Ageing at its normal pace is preservation with the appreciation for the depreciation that happens with time. This unique masterclass is all about some life-changing practices from Ayurvedic texts to support this preservation so we can all age, but gracefully and not prematurely. 

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position
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Nidhi Pandya

Wisdom & Science Program
Nidhi is an Ayurvedic Doctor based in NYC and the creator of the Inner Climate Method (TM). This groundbreaking approach, which merges timeless wisdom with modern science, represents the essence of her 15 years of dedicated practice and deep understanding of Ayurvedic principles.Raised... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Studio A (Skyview)

9:00am EST

The Serenity Lounge
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - Monday January 13, 2025 3:00am EST
The Serenity Lounge is tucked away on the 2nd floor intentionally, as it's an oasis of quietude, plush pillows and soft landings. Slip off your shoes and slip into some stillness and rest. Bring your whisper voice, a book, a friend, or your favorite chilltime activity.

Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00am - Monday January 13, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio I (Alexandria)

11:00am EST

Eclipse of Balance: Beyond the Handstand Horizon 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Join Jay for an immersive exploration into advanced hand balancing techniques in this dynamic workshop. Designed for enthusiasts seeking to refine their art, Jay's meticulous warm-ups and cutting-edge drills promise to unlock your full potential. With a focus on fluidity and precision, Jay's teaching style empowers participants of all levels to embrace the elegance of hand balancing. Experience personalized guidance and tailored spotting techniques that foster growth and mastery. Prepare to transcend limits and discover the artistry of defying gravity with finesse and grace!
🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

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Jay Mpelezos

Acroyoga Program
Jay began practicing Acro in 2015. His path began with yoga asana and when he found Acroyoga and partner acrobatics, it was love at first sight. Jay began teaching in a year later in 2016 and held classes for Build A Machine Fitness, Sol Rise, and East Meets West Yoga. He has performed... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio B2 (Salon J/K)

11:00am EST

Brazilian Zouk Newcomer Bootcamp III/III 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
This progressive workshop series will give you the tools you need to start your journey in Brazilian Zouk. Learn the fundamentals, understand a bit of our history and etiquette, and be prepared to step into a brand new world of limitless possibilities in shared, expressive dance.   

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Jessica Lamdon

Brazilian Zouk Program
Jessica Lamdon, also known as "Unicorn", (the nickname she was crowned by her mentor and partner Ry'el) Internationally renowned artist, instructor, performer, actor, MC, professional hugger, has been dancing since she was 8 years old. She began with competitive international 10-dance... Read More →
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Vinícius de Souza | DJ Viscious

Brazilian Zouk Program
Hailing from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil- Vinny began dancing with Salsa in 2012. Originally, dance was more of a side passion, until 2014 when he fell into the rabbit hole that is Brazilian Zouk. Training extensively under Henri Velandia and Jessica Lamdon of ZenZouk, in addition to other... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio F (Salon IV)

11:00am EST

Designing the Relationships We Desire 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
In our relationships, we often end up subscribing to existing socially acceptable containers of relationship without fully considering whether they really work for us. For example, in many cultures, the standard life partnership is to meet someone, fall in love, date, move in, get engaged and married, have kids, and live happily ever after. But this one size fits all approach may not actually work for many people's deeper needs and desires – and this provides an opportunity to design a relationship that does fit.

“Relationship by design” is a process for two people in any kind of long-term relationship to intentionally create a style of relationship uniquely designed to support their respective needs, desires, boundaries, and preferences. It consists of three stages: first, making the already-existing implicit nature of the relationship explicit; second, identifying and expressing desires, needs, and wishes for the relationship going forward; and third, constructing an agreement that includes overlapping desires while seeking to maximize the fulfillment of each person within the relationship.

In this 90 minute session, ART International Co-Founder and Senior Course Leader Ryel Kestano guides relationship partners through this powerful transformational process that culminates in deeper connection, greater empathy, more understanding of each other, and a relationship that can thrive and evolve over time.
*This workshop is for partners / pairs of two people who consider themselves in an “intimate” relationship—defined as a close relationship that includes emotional, mental, spiritual, and/or physical or sexual intimacy. Such relationships may include romantic partners, close friends, or family relationships alike. Please come to this workshop with your partner.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nud
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Ryel Kestano

Conscious Communications Program
Ryel Kestano is the Co-Founder, CEO, and Senior Course Leader at ART International. Ryel is primarily responsible for the development of ART’s courses and programs, and leads the company as it expands to reach more people with the transformational practice of authentic relating... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio C2 (Salon F/G/H)

11:00am EST

The Ground of Self: Contact Improvisation Series III/III 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Join us for three sessions where we'll explore, learn, and grow together in Contact Improvisation. Whether you're new to this dance form or looking to deepen your skills, these sessions will provide a supportive space for discovery and development.

We'll focus on enhancing our understanding of Contact Improvisation*, aiming to foster a greater sense of openness and ease in our movements, paying attention to the improvisational and relational skills involved in the practice, for authentic and in-depth exploratory processes.

We'll explore the biomechanics underlying Contact Improvisation dancing, through somatic explorations, enhancing our technical proficiency. Furthermore, we'll explore expanding our presence and refining our sensory listening and attention skills. This will establish a spacious canvas of shared awareness, serving as the foundation of our being together, that facilitates new ways of relating, expressing and collaborating safely in a non-verbal way. Before doing and wanting we want to emphasize our ability to be and to participate, connecting and nourishing a common ground, from which the emergence of our creative embodiments and synergy of voices can happen.

We foster a welcoming space, devoid of judgment and expectation, a secure container that embraces diverse expressions and embodiments, enabling agency and consensual interactions, towards presence, creative discovery, and dancing.

Day 1: We will explore the possibility of anchoring our movements in clear yet dynamic “roots”, which allows for the emergence of definition and stability while liberating a wide range of possibilities and effortless motion when improvising with a partner in contact.

Day 2: Our focus will be on aerial alignments that support our body's structure, facilitating weight sharing and enabling graceful suspensions and gentle flights.

Day 3: We will play developing creative dances emphasizing the dynamic interplay between kinaesthetic elements and individual creative expression. Intuitively meeting the others, synchronizing and creatively co-creating embodied dialogues.

To get the full benefit of Irene’s facilitation and support the possibility of an in-depth development of the process we suggest you attend all three sessions.  

* In CONTACT IMPROVISATION we move with one or more partners, relating and understanding each other through sensory listening without adhering to fixed sequences and roles. We learn to physically relate and communicate through fine-tuning and touch, dynamically traveling together through space, and combining our bodies closely, exploring all levels from standing to the floor. This practice encompasses solo, partnering, and group dancing, fostering creative skills through embodied and sensorial connections.

🌶️ 🌶️  Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Irene Sposetti

Conscious Dance Program
Irene Sposetti, a versatile performing artist, facilitator, and dancemaker originally from Italy, has cultivated a rich artistic journey over more than two decades as an independent freelancer across Europe, Asia, and North America. Her work is deeply shaped by her extensive travels... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio E (Salon III)

11:00am EST

Rhythmic Seduction: The Art of Sensual Chair Dance 🌶️🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Indulge your senses and embrace your inner allure in the captivating world of "Rhythmic Seduction: The Art of Sensual Chair Dance." This class is designed to empower and awaken your confidence while exploring the art of dance uniquely and sensually.

In this engaging and supportive class, you will learn the fundamentals of chair dance as a form of self-expression and empowerment. Whether you're a seasoned dancer or stepping onto the dance floor for the first time, our experienced instructors will guide you through a journey of movement, rhythm, and sensuality.

This class is open to individuals of all dance levels and backgrounds who are eager to explore the fusion of dance, sensuality, and empowerment. Whether you're looking to build confidence, enhance your self-expression, or simply have fun while dancing, this class is the perfect fit.

Note: This class proposal is intended for an adult audience and promotes a safe and respectful environment for exploring sensual movement.)

🌶️🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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GiGi Holliday

Expressive Arts Program
GiGi Holliday is Washington D.C.’s resurgence of glitz, glamor, and allure. Armed with eyelashes and an arsenal of glitter she has enticed audiences with her clever blend of sass and wit. Lady GiGi Holliday had her start after studying the art of burlesque in Trixie Little’s Burlesque... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio G (Salon V)

11:00am EST

Laughter Yoga: Adult Recess! 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Laughter is the #1 place to tap back into child-like playfulness and joy! Do you remember what it was like to hit the playground as a kid? The freedom, the creativity, the place where anything is possible…
In this workshop you will get to fully immerse yourself in being a kid again, remembering the wonderful past and rewriting new empowering experiences. This is a cathartic and fully experiential workshop. 
“Whatever you do, do as confidently as a kid wearing a batman shirt”


🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Sarah Lawson

Healing Arts Program
Laughter Yoga found Sarah Lawson in 2015 and has lit up her world ever since. As an intuitive healer, she offers a unique laughter yoga experience, creating with you a magical joyful journey to lightness. Along with a Laughter Yoga Leader certification, she is a certified biodynamic... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

11:00am EST

Conscious Sexuality: Understanding Energetic Connection 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Our sensuality is a manifestation and expression of our vital sexual life-force and creative energy. It can play, move, and be shared and enjoyed in many ways. Join us for sacred exploration of this force in a fun environment! Awakening and getting in touch with our own energetic capacities and nature. Expand your definition of “sex” Learn how we can all penetrate and be penetrated by a partner, a tree, the universe, or life itself. Expand your energetic capacity and intention and manifestation powers through, movement, breath, touch, sound, and energy.
🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ Spicy: The workshop invites participants to bring up, focus on, act from, or interact with others using their sexuality or sexual energy; OR welcomes nudity.
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avatar for Monique Darling

Monique Darling

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Workshop facilitator extraordinaire, Monique Darling, has led over 3000 workshops in the past 13 years. She is the founder of Everyday Tantra an organization dedicated to empowering people who are questioning the assumptions of how their life should be and to offering tools for self-expression... Read More →
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Lawrence Lanoff

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Emerging from the energy of 80s New York, Lawrence is a transformative force in the realm of personal power and self-perception. Pioneering a unique approach to spirituality, sexuality, and self-liberation, he propels individuals to access their untapped potential. Now, through dynamic... Read More →
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Reid Mihalko

Intimacy and Sexuality Program
ABOUT REID MIHALKO: As seen on NETFLIX' "Chelsea Does..." alongside Chelsea Handler and HBO’s “Sex Diaries,” Reid Mihalko (he/him) of ReidAboutSex.com is an internationally known sex and relationship educator who helps adults create more self-esteem, self-confidence, and greater... Read More →
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Peter Petersen

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Peter Petersen's three main passions in life are movement, music, and meditation. He has been teaching qigong for over 22 years and has been a certified Sheng Zhen Qigong teacher for the last 20. He has taught in health clubs, hospitals, retirement villas, and several different wellness/spa... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio D (Salon I/II)

11:00am EST

Exploring Connection: Partner Games and Concepts 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
“A partnering practice is centered around building a relationship with reality”
-Tom Weklser 
In this experience, we explore working with another. Whether we look at our partner as a human being, the space, the floor, an apparatus, the music, or a blank canvas, there is a clear response you receive when working with something outside of yourself—a response that is true and informative. We utilize a practice that draws from many others with the goal of finding common themes and principles across movement disciplines to explore connection, attunement, and discovery through a lens of serious play. Join us for an hour and a half full of partner games, exercises, and explorations that are certain to level up your ability to move within another in your favorite disciplines.

Your guides will be Dr. Harnoor Singh (@movementwithnoor), a doctor of physical therapy, and Logan DiTillo (@logamotion), a nomadic movement teacher and acrobat. They are well-educated and extremely welcoming teachers of this art, and their goal is to guide you through a playful, eye-opening, and liberating hour and a half of Partner-based Movement.


🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

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Logan Ditillo

Martial Arts Program
Logan Ditillo is a born mover as well as a teacher who captivates audiences. His passion for creating profound somatic experiences, playful interactions, and existential epiphanies is immediately evident. Logan's vibrant personality is supported by extensive knowledge from top movement... Read More →
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Harnoor Singh

Martial Arts Program
Dr. Harnoor Singh stands at the intersection of passion and expertise, weaving together his love for movement, holistic well-being, and education in physical therapy. His journey began as a yoga teacher, where he uncovered the transformative power of movement on both physical and... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

11:00am EST

Intimate Relationships from the Inside Out: Intimacy, Trauma, and Attachment through an IFS Lens 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Notes: Both couples and individuals are welcome! It is recommended, though not required, to attend the Authentic Self-Relating workshop on Friday to set the foundation for this one.

The extent to which our childhoods impact every facet of our adult romantic relationships is often shocking to discover. In this workshop, we’ll explore intimate relationships through the lens of Internal Family systems (IFS), which is a wonderful
approach to help us get in touch with our true selves, see the big picture, and get to know our minds in a deeper way. We’ll go beyond attachment styles and take a deep look at how the many parts of our minds play major roles in our behaviors, tendencies, and patterns within intimate relationships.

Understanding what drives these repetitive behaviors – in both ourselves and our partner(s) – enables compassion for both self and other, and also provides a roadmap to healing the underlying causes from the bottom-up. As we do this, we will notice significant changes in our relationship dynamics.

We’ll also do some experiential exercises – both at the group level, and in rotating pairs – to get a deeper feel for how this approach can help. We’ll encourage some brief shares by those who are willing to do so, followed by Q&A as time permits.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position
Artist
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Terry Baranski

Wisdom & Science Program
I’m a trauma-informed mental health practitioner who focuses on root causes rather than symptoms. I go underneath behaviors, thought patterns, and diagnoses to address what is actually causing a client's problems. I use a compassionate, non-judgmental, and non-pathologizing approach... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio H (Rosslyn)

11:00am EST

Understanding Trauma: Polyvagal Theory and Somatic Therapy Workshop 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Join Eleanor, the founder of BodyWise Somatic Trauma Institute  to explore the fundamentals of trauma, the nervous system, and Polyvagal Theory. Together we will take a dive into the transformative power of Somatic Therapies for healing and cultivating resilience. You will leave empowered with practical body based tools that will make a difference in your life.

🌶️ Mild:
 The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open positio
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Eleanor Bramwell

Wisdom & Science Program
Eleanor Bramwell is a radical visionary dedicated to serving folks waking up and thriving. As the founder of BodyWise Trauma Institute, she worked alongside faculty members to develop professional continuing education trainings for nurses, social workers, massage therapists, and yoga... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

1:30pm EST

Raising the Barre: An Acro Lifts Workshop with a Twist! 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Join us for "Raising the Barre: An Acro Lifts Workshop with a Twist!" where you'll explore the art of dynamic acro dance lifts and spins. Learn to balance delicacy and dynamism, execute fluid and intentional transitions, and master overhead lifts, standing transitions, and twirly-spinning movements. Prerequisite skills include comfort with spinning while holding a partner. No ballet experience required—just a passion for acro lifts and the desire to take your dance skills to new heights!

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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avatar for Sarah Sofia Wilde

Sarah Sofia Wilde

Acroyoga Program
Sarah is a sensual and embodied movement artist and teacher specializing in partner acrobatics, pole dance, and somatic movement. Growing up, she dabbled in many different pastimes, but could rarely commit to one hobby over another. Her voracious appetite for variety, along with her... Read More →
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Jay Mpelezos

Acroyoga Program
Jay began practicing Acro in 2015. His path began with yoga asana and when he found Acroyoga and partner acrobatics, it was love at first sight. Jay began teaching in a year later in 2016 and held classes for Build A Machine Fitness, Sol Rise, and East Meets West Yoga. He has performed... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

1:30pm EST

Brazilian Zouk Intensive (Add-On)
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
The Brazilian Zouk & Flow Intensive (BZFI) brings to you the essence of this unique dance facilitated by world-known international instructors. It is designed to deepen the understanding of Brazilian Zouk's unique fluidity and movement with the more experienced dancer. Rather than working on combinations and patterns, we will study concepts and from those build movements that are full of fluidity.

Registration for this add-on requires meeting prerequisites and completing an application process. In order to participate, it is necessary to have a full pass for the Festival. After submitting your application and responding to the check-out questions in full, your request will be assessed by the Interfusion Zouk Team. If additional information is required, such as a video of your dance, it will be communicated to you by email. If you do not meet the qualifications for the intensive this year, you will receive a full refund of the intensive ticket.
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio H (Rosslyn)

1:30pm EST

Brazilian Zouk: Movement Meditation 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
A body conditioning class connected with the power of the imagination where we will use elements of nature to explore your natural, organic flow with your own movements. Create movements from within, to achieve greater expressions for Brazilian Zouk. How you feel is how you move.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
Artist
avatar for Evelyn Lopez

Evelyn Lopez

Brazilian Zouk Program
Evelyn is one of the most sought-after Brazilian Zouk artist, dance instructor, and choreographer in the world. She was born in Transylvania (Romania) and grew up in the Netherlands.In 2006 she was confronted with her destiny "Brazilian Zouk", where she fell in love with the dance... Read More →
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Evelyn Lopez

Brazilian Zouk Program
Derrick was born in Hawaii. In the early ’90s, Derrick moved to California where he first got into breakdancing.He learned about power moves, which is a form of West Coast B-Boy gymnastics – break dancing.This way of dancing focused on spinning (windmills, air-flairs, halos... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio F (Salon IV)

1:30pm EST

Decolonizing Sex: Navigating Power Dynamics in the Bedroom and Beyond 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Based on the core insights of liberation philosophy and sex-positivity, this workshop introduces a  basic framework for viewing sexual, intimate, and social interactions through a power-informed lens. It covers the ever-shifting and context-based nature of power, the way power can impact consent, and the responsibilities of being in both up-power and down-power roles.
Through scenario analysis, real-world examples, and dyad exercises, students learn the core skills for navigating power dynamics in sexual scenarios: noticing and naming where power lies, somatically sensing when power has been conferred on them or they’ve projected power onto others, and using pauses, invitations, and simple phrases to mitigate possible harm. Students walk away with a fresh new lens for understanding and engaging in intimacy!

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Mischa Byruck

Care & Consent Program
Mischa Byruck (He/him) is a men’s sexual integrity coach. He has supported over 100 clients to take accountability for harm and return to their lives transformed. He is the consent education partner of Bonobo Network, the Bay Area’s premiere sex-positive community organization... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

1:30pm EST

Human Connection: The Transformational Practice of Authentic Relating 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Do you want deeper, richer, more intimate connections with the people in your life? Do you want to be seen, known, and heard for who you really are, and create a space for others to be seen, known, and heard as well?

Welcome to the transformational practice of Authentic Relating, a set of powerful tools and skills designed to cultivate greater depths of vulnerability and intimacy between people in all social contexts. ART International’s acclaimed Authentic Relating workshops guide participants into conscious relationship with themselves and each other on a rich and often life-changing journey of deep human connection.

Join Ryel Kestano, ART International Co-Founder and Senior Course Leader, for a practical, engaging, and fun introduction to Authentic Relating. You'll walk away with skills and tools that can be used right away to cultivate deeper connection and a sense of trust, empathy, and care with intimate partners, family members, colleagues, friends, and strangers alike.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Ryel Kestano

Conscious Communications Program
Ryel Kestano is the Co-Founder, CEO, and Senior Course Leader at ART International. Ryel is primarily responsible for the development of ART’s courses and programs, and leads the company as it expands to reach more people with the transformational practice of authentic relating... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio C2 (Salon F/G/H)

1:30pm EST

Urbankiz: Conversations & Connection 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Join me for a dynamic and immersive experience where participants will have the opportunity to explore the beautiful world of Urbankiz. It is a rhythmic partner dance that originally derived from Kizomba and Semba. Now, it's known for its intricate footwork, smooth body movements, and deep connection between partners.

This workshop is designed for dancers of all levels – from beginners who are just starting their dance journey to experienced dancers looking to refine their skills. Throughout the workshop, participants will learn fundamental Urbankiz steps, techniques for leading and following, partner connection exercises, musicality, and styling.

I will guide you through a series of fun and engaging exercises that focus on developing your ability to connect with your partner through movement and music. We will create a supportive and inclusive environment where you can feel comfortable exploring new steps, building confidence in your dance abilities, and connecting with fellow participants who share a passion for Urbankiz.

Whether you are looking to improve your dance technique, connect with others through movement, or simply have a great time learning something new, this workshop is the perfect opportunity to dive into the world of Urbankiz and elevate your dance skills to the next level.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Pamela Hernandez

Expressive Arts Program
Hailing from Texas, she grew up immersed in Latin dances and Country Swing until discovering Kizomba, which captivated her immediately. Acquiring proficiency in Kizomba and Tarraxinha in San Antonio, she swiftly transitioned to mastering the “French Style” of the dance prior to... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio G (Salon V)

1:30pm EST

The Soul Massage: Gong Resonance Meditation 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Come join David for a very special immersive sound experience coined the Soul Massage. Participants will be bathed by the sound and vibrations of a massive 54 inch bronze Chau gong accompanied by a 40 inch Nepalese singing bowl gong, a 38 inch Paiste Sedna Planetary gong and a 24 inch Paiste Synodic Moon Planetary gong; very grounding and profound. There will be a short breath work practice before the sound bath to prepare ourselves for meditation. Then everyone will lay down and get as comfy and cozy as possible. Warmth is essential for optimal comfort so be sure to bring plenty of blankets and clothing to ensure this. The heart rate and body temperature drops during this meditation which naturally can cause the hands and feet to get cold easily. Once everyone is comfortable, the sound journey will begin and run for a duration of 60 minutes before coming back out renewed. Come vibrate with us! 


🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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David Martin

Healing Arts Program
David combines his skill set as a Yogi, Reiki Master and Neuro-Acoustic Sound Practitioner, to create an immersive experience in Naad Yoga (the Yoga of Sound) and Sound Meditation. Not only is the gong a sonic experience, it also facilitates a deep ultrasonic massage-like experience... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

1:30pm EST

5 Elements Massage 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
No massage experience is necessary!
This class is great for people who wish they knew massage -and- those who do know it but would like an easy way to incorporate it into their sensual lives.
We will start the workshop with guided communication games so everyone gets to know each other and there are no strangers in the room.
This will be followed by teachings and practices around weaving together movement, breath, sound, and intention to be “more in your body” and present and share conscious touch.

🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ Spicy: The workshop invites participants to bring up, focus on, act from, or interact with others using their sexuality or sexual energy; OR welcomes nudity.
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Nikki Lunderg

Intimacy and Sexuality Program
Sex Coach Nikki has 15 years of experience professionally working in the erotic arts.Wearing many different hats, she has helped thousands of people experience morepleasure through private sessions and classes. While her experience in the field isprodigious, she has the education... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio D (Salon I/II)

1:30pm EST

Jungshin: Long Sword Flow 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Martial arts meets fitness in this sword-focused mind-body workout. We believe everyone has a warrior within, which we can release through the power of moving meditation. Using custom weighted wooden swords and combining 8 simple stances and 8 strikes, Jungshin brings together ancient Eastern philosophies and modern exercise science. This workshop has extremely limited capacity due to a limited number of swords. 

🌶️  Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

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avatar for Dr. Timaree Schmit

Dr. Timaree Schmit

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Sexologist Dr. Timaree Schmit is a professor, writer and consultant in human sexuality and believes that sexual freedom is the foundation of social justice. She is the co-host of the long-running Philly favorite sex education/comedy show DTF: Darryl & Timaree Fun Hour, long-time LGBT... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Studio B2 (Salon J/K)

3:00pm EST

Zouk Day Party
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Brazilian Zouk daytime social dance party.

Sunday January 12, 2025 3:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Studio H (Rosslyn)

3:30pm EST

Thai Massage: Recover and Release 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Come and recover the muscles that you have made sore on the dance floor – feet, legs, hips, and shoulders. We will teach a Thai massage sequence that releases the knots. Students will embody the roles of giver and receiver. Bring a partner or come solo and find a new friend to work with.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
Artist
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Elise Foster

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
In 2011, Elise "flew" for the first time and immediately fell in love with AcroYoga and it’s lineage of yoga, acrobatics and Thai yoga massage. Like nothing else she has experienced, AcroYoga has the ability to transform lives. As an AcroYoga and Thai yoga massage teacher, Elise... Read More →
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Dean Hively

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
Dean is a teacher of AcroYoga. His classes emphasize safety, form, and the energetics of partnership. He has a laid back and positive approach to life and teaching, with a goal to promote joy, amazement, and comfort in community.AcroYoga frees us from the assumed barriers we put on... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio B2 (Salon J/K)

3:30pm EST

Audience of One: Expression and Appreciation in Partner Dance 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
This workshop will introduce principles from stage performance that can be harnessed to create more honesty, appreciation, and purposeful expression on the dance floor.
Class will begin with a brief session of storytelling and discussion to establish context and understanding for how to approach the exercises. Expect to engage your mind as much as your body in this class.
The content of this workshop has overlap with conscious communication and embodied movement though the focus will be on application to social partner dance. No performance experience necessary.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Jeremy Hale

Brazilian Zouk Program
Jeremy Hale is a professional dancer, movement analyst, and teacher. Originally from Los Angeles, USA, he grew up in a performing arts family and began professional dance training in Contemporary Modern and Contact Improv in 2001 and graduated with a degree in dance from UCLA in 2006... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio F (Salon IV)

3:30pm EST

Conscious Communication: Let's Talk about Sex! 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
You are summoned to a dynamic workshop led by Major Tom, a conscious kink and intimacy coach. In this safe and inclusive space, we'll explore the realms of sexual identity and communication, empowering you to openly discuss and embrace your unique journey.

Through interactive exercises and thought-provoking discussions, you'll gain valuable insights into understanding and accepting your sexual identity. Learn essential tools for navigating consent with confidence and exploring healthy expressions of your desires.

Whether you're new to the world of sexuality or seeking to deepen your understanding, this workshop will equip you with the knowledge and skills to create fulfilling and authentic connections. Join us as we celebrate the beauty of diverse sexual expressions and embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance. Let's Talk about Sex - together!

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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avatar for Thomas Daily II

Thomas Daily II

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Thomas Daily II, hailing from Bloomington, Minnesota, where I entered this world amidst chaos and parents burdened by trauma. As a young adolescent, I began delving into the profound impact of trauma. Along my journey of unlearning and acceptance, I embarked on backpacking adventures... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio C2 (Salon F/G/H)

3:30pm EST

Bold & Beautiful: Heels Dance for Everyone 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Step into the spotlight and unleash your inner diva. This high-energy session is designed to boost your confidence, enhance your sass, and elevate your dance game to new heights. Whether you're a seasoned dancer or just looking to try something new, you'll be guided through sultry moves and fierce choreography that will make you feel like a star!

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.



Artist
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Rose Turuka

Expressive Arts Program
Originally from Zanzibar in East Africa, Rose Turuka currently resides in Detroit, Michigan. With Afrobeats dance at the core, Rose grew up learning and moving to the various African tunes that have shaped her as a dancer and instructor today. She began her journey in teaching and... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio G (Salon V)

3:30pm EST

Cord-Cutting Ceremony 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Embark on a profound journey of healing and self-discovery at the Cord-Cutting Ceremony, led by Emma Olmedo, at InterFusion Festival X. This transformative workshop is meticulously crafted to guide participants through releasing energetic ties to past relationships, old patterns and reclaiming vibrant, lost aspects of themselves.
The ceremony unfolds with a sacred ritual of setting intentions, laying the foundation for deep inner work. Emma will impart wisdom on energy ties, empowering you with knowledge to understand and dissolve these connections. 
Following this, you'll be guided through a serene visualization accompanied by soft acoustic sounds, identify and releasing energies that no longer serve you. Then, immerse yourself in a reiki-charged sound bath, where the resonance of crystal bowls, gongs, and ocean drum will effortlessly facilitate the release of what no longer serves you. 
Items you may want to bring: Journal and water.
Once the ceremony starts, please keep in mind no participants will not be allowed reentry.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.


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Emma Olmedo

Director of Healing Arts & Wisdom and Science, Healing Arts Program
With over a decade of experience as an intuitive healer, Emma brings a unique blend of Reiki, clairvoyance, and Shamanic training to support her clients' healing journeys. As the founder of KiVibes in Tyson's Corner, VA, Emma has created a warm and inviting community where individuals... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

3:30pm EST

Deeper: Conscious Intimacy Revealed 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Welcome to your consensual sensual playground.  Deeper is a conscious intimacy workshop with emphasis on breath, touch, and presence. It takes you on a journey of deeper connection with yourself.  This touch-based learning will enhance your capacity for energetic and physical understanding of your body's potential for pleasure. Open to all.

🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ Spicy: The workshop invites participants to bring up, focus on, act from, or interact with others using their sexuality or sexual energy; OR welcomes nudity.
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Michael Blackin

Owner, Temple In The Trees | Intimacy and Sexuality Program
Michael Blackin is a Tantric educator who is passionate about supporting couples and individuals on their journey to greater intimacy which in turn leads to stronger communities and, by extension, a better world.  He is dedicated to helping others reach their highest good, creating... Read More →
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Lara Blackin

Owner, Temple In The Trees | Intimacy and Sexuality Program
Lara is a Tantric Educator, Sacred Intimacy Practitioner, and Visual Artist specializing in therapeutic, sensual &  energetic touch bringing aliveness to the art of living + loving.  A creative leader & guide who brings multidimensional vision to her offerings, she facilitates the... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio D (Salon I/II)

3:30pm EST

Ecstatic Kirtan 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
In this groundbreaking workshop, Rubaba blends his deep musical passion with traditional Kirtan to create a transformative genre called Ecstatic Kirtan. The session involves call-and-response Kirtan style of chanting designed to harmonize the heart and throat chakras, invoking the Rajo and Sato Gunas to deepen meditative states. Throughout the ceremony, participants will engage in slow to mid-tempo chanting rooted in Indian Classical fusion with a multi-instrumental electronica sound seamlessly alongside traditional folk instruments such as the Rabab and Oud.
Rubaba offers chants from a wide array of musical traditions including Middle Eastern Makam, Indian classical raga, and Sanskrit (Ohm Namaha Shivayaha, Satchitananda etc.), alongside original creations such as "I am love" which resonate profoundly with audiences tapping into universal human emotions. Rubaba guides participants through the meaning and pronunciation of each chant, incorporating Raags such as Desh, Hansadhwani, Yaman, Bhairo, Kafi, and Bhoopali to enhance the immersive experience. Singing (of all abilities) is welcome, dancing is welcome, meditating is welcome, and silent observation is welcome. Jai Ho.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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Rubaba | Hemant Kapoor

Live Music Collective | Healing Arts Program
Healing the world one note at a time, Rubaba enables all beings to realize their full creative and spiritual potential through a transformative practice that combines Ecstatic Kirtan, Ecstatic Dance, and Naad Yoga to foster unity with the divine.Rubaba is a seasoned multi-instrumentalist... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

3:30pm EST

Acro Intensive: Whip-carian Series III/III (Add On) 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:30pm EST
APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE

Day 1 - Precision Icarian
The first day we will focus on cleaning up Icarian skills to make them precise and tempo-able. Expect to refine skills you have done before - working towards mastery of these skills. We will also incorporate some unique pops and drills you may not have worked on before! This lesson will build towards linking skills together for seamless icarian flows.

Prereqs: Straight throws in bird and throne

Day 2 - Whip Mastery
We will work towards building whip technique for more dynamic skills. We have specific techniques that we have learned from teachers all over the world as well as developed through our own training that we love to share. This lesson will give you a deeper understanding of these skills and all of the building blocks needed for progressing toward more dynamic whip pops. We will touch on nervous system regulation, dynamic spotting, and how to keep these skills safe.

Prereqs: Comfort in bird, throne, reverse bird, and reverse throne. Some experience attempting whips is helpful.

Day 3 - Jump Start your Whip Pops
Whether you’ve done a handful of whip pops, or you’re still working towards your first one, this class will have content for you. We will have a short recap of the first two lessons leading into dynamic entries in and out of whips. Multiple levels of content will be offered and students can work at their own pace. Our goal is to offer a clear and safe pathway - it is most important to us for our students to learn when they are ready for the next progression, and when they need to continue repping out certain drills.

Prereqs: Comfort with whips, and basic icarian transitions such as bird to throne. Doing the first two workshops covers these prereqs.

APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE - Registration for this add-on requires meeting prerequisites and completing an application process. In order to participate, it is necessary to have a full pass for the Festival. After submitting your application and responding to the check-out questions in full, your request will be assessed by the Interfusion Team. If additional information is required, such as a video of your skills, it will be communicated to you by email. If you do not meet the qualifications for the intensive this year, you will receive a full refund of the intensive ticket. APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Jenae Brianne

Acroyoga and Bodywork Program
Jenae is a teacher and creator who believes that acro is a powerful way to build community. Jenae empowers acro students to build a sustainable, long-term practice through effective communication, strong fundamentals, and pattern recognition. Jenae enjoys all genres of acro but excels... Read More →
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John Thorpe

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
John is an AcroLove teacher, the owner of The MVMT Collective, in Meriden, Connecticut, and is passionate about sharing the benefits of movement. With over a decade of experience as a movement instructor, he began his journey in powerlifting and then diversifying into various disciplines... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 3:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

5:30pm EST

Integration Offering
Sunday January 12, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Guided decompression and integration led by a facilitator. 

Sunday January 12, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

6:30pm EST

Festival Cuddle Party 🌶️ 🌶️
Sunday January 12, 2025 6:30pm - 8:30pm EST
A Cuddle Party is a safe space designed for connection through cuddling and physical touch. It’s a boundaries and communication workshop.

🌶️ 🌶️   Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Monique Darling

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Workshop facilitator extraordinaire, Monique Darling, has led over 3000 workshops in the past 13 years. She is the founder of Everyday Tantra an organization dedicated to empowering people who are questioning the assumptions of how their life should be and to offering tools for self-expression... Read More →
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Reid Mihalko

Intimacy and Sexuality Program
ABOUT REID MIHALKO: As seen on NETFLIX' "Chelsea Does..." alongside Chelsea Handler and HBO’s “Sex Diaries,” Reid Mihalko (he/him) of ReidAboutSex.com is an internationally known sex and relationship educator who helps adults create more self-esteem, self-confidence, and greater... Read More →
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Peter Petersen

Intimacy & Sexuality Program
Peter Petersen's three main passions in life are movement, music, and meditation. He has been teaching qigong for over 22 years and has been a certified Sheng Zhen Qigong teacher for the last 20. He has taught in health clubs, hospitals, retirement villas, and several different wellness/spa... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 6:30pm - 8:30pm EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

9:00pm EST

Contact Improvisation Jam
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00pm - 11:59pm EST
Starting with an opening circle and group activation each night will take its unique course as a group improvisational space to the closing circle. The group activation may touch on technique, partner work, consent or creative improvisation practice. There is opportunity to build on the energy of the previous nights and days.

During the jam there may be periods of silence and periods of live improvised musical accompaniment from invited musicians.  In these moments we invite you to also treat music as a dance partner that touches everyone in conversation.  Participants with musical instruments and interest may have an opportunity to join the conversation with permission of the invited musicians. Kindly you may bring your instruments.

While the primary focus of the space is contact improvisation, solo and partnered improvisational movement of other forms is welcome when it fits in the ground rules.

Ground Rules:
  • Practice Nonverbal & Verbal Consent
  • Activate Deep Listening: Practice attunement to self, partner(s), and others in the space
  • Observation is Welcome
  • Solo Movement is Welcome
  • Keep conversations and other interpersonal interactions to the peripheries
  • Please be mindful of sound especially after 11:30pm as the sound here travels through the entire hotel.


“Contact Improvisation is a dance form based on the communication between two or more moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia.” - Nancy Stark Smith
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Irene Sposetti

Conscious Dance Program
Irene Sposetti, a versatile performing artist, facilitator, and dancemaker originally from Italy, has cultivated a rich artistic journey over more than two decades as an independent freelancer across Europe, Asia, and North America. Her work is deeply shaped by her extensive travels... Read More →
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Umair Ahsan

Conscious Dance Program
Umair is a passionate student of the technology in each of our bodies, in continued research via various somatic practices with a primary focus in Contact Improvisation. He is a lover of life and community.  Umair organizes a biweekly contact improvisation jam and participates in... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00pm - 11:59pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

9:00pm EST

AcroYoga Night Jam
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00pm - Monday January 13, 2025 3:00am EST
Acroyoga Jams are play spaces where we share what we have learned with each other and have fun.  Come to support others and in turn be supported.

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Eric Sipes

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
Eric Sipes found a love of movement arts when he began teaching himself to breakdance via videos from a file sharing program back in early 2000. Hardly able to contain his excitement and passion for movement, he began sharing his practice with any and everyone.After moving to Baltimore... Read More →
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00pm - Monday January 13, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

9:00pm EST

Bachata Party
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00pm - Monday January 13, 2025 3:00am EST
Bachata social dance party
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00pm - Monday January 13, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio G (Salon V)

9:00pm EST

Brazilian Zouk Party
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00pm - Monday January 13, 2025 3:00am EST
Brazilian Zouk social dance party 
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00pm - Monday January 13, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio E (Salon III)

9:00pm EST

Ecstatic Dream
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00pm - Monday January 13, 2025 3:00am EST
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00pm - Monday January 13, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

9:00pm EST

Kizomba Party
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00pm - Monday January 13, 2025 3:00am EST
Kizomba social dance party
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00pm - Monday January 13, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio D (Salon I/II)

9:00pm EST

West Coast Swing Party
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00pm - Monday January 13, 2025 3:00am EST
West Coast Swing social dance party
Sunday January 12, 2025 9:00pm - Monday January 13, 2025 3:00am EST
Studio G2 (Salon VI)
 
Monday, January 13
 

11:00am EST

Trigger Point Thai Bodywork for Dancers 🌶️ 🌶️
Monday January 13, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
This workshop combines the techniques of Traditional Thai Massage with the theory of Myofascial Trigger Point therapy. Trigger points are like little knots in muscle fibers that are located in the belly or center of a muscle. The application of pressure and the movement of muscles in Thai Massage is very effective for relieving these knots. You will learn some common trigger point locations in the feet and legs and how to relieve them on another person. This is perfect for anyone who is on their feet dancing all night.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Kimber Brenneman

Acroyoga & Bodywork Program
Kimber Brenneman, PhD is a 500 Hour Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher and an AcroYoga teacher in Columbia, MD. She became a Certified Thai Bodywork Practitioner in 2015 at the Thai Bodywork School and Coaching the Body Institute in Evanston, IL. Her training included Traditional... Read More →
Monday January 13, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio B (Salon A/B)

11:00am EST

BIPOC Fishbowl 🌶️
Monday January 13, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
This fishbowl will be a space where Interfusion participants who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color can share transparently about challenges and growth edges at Interfusion. It will be a space to look at how larger social dynamics of oppression and marginalization show up in our community. This fishbowl will be an opportunity for White participants to listen and think about how to show up as allies for BIPOC communities. We will apply principles of emergent strategy to enable White participants to think of specific ways to manifest solidarity.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.
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David Thurston

Care & Consent Program
David Thurston is an organizer with the Center for a New Culture, as well as a psychotherapist and community organizer in Washington DC. He publishes poetry under the name BYPO PHOENIX at byporevolution.com and has produced seven zines of printed work. David’s creative work engages with themes of collective liberation, amplifying erotic energy, celebrating neurodiversity, and cultivating emotional resilience. David is trained in the principles of emergent strategy and has a long history in work to up... Read More →
Monday January 13, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio B2 (Salon J/K)

11:00am EST

Body Show and Tell (Touch and Smell?) 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
Monday January 13, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
In a society that profits from our self-doubt, it can be difficult to fully embrace and celebrate our bodies. Body Show and Tell is a powerful tool to help heal body shame and foster body positivity. Got a uniquely shaped birthmark, a secret tattoo, or a scar with a story to tell? Stretch marks, belly rolls, body hair, or facial features you have complicated feelings about? A part that doesn’t accurately represent who you are—or perhaps one that newly does? A booty shake that just won’t stop? We want to see it! Whether you want to be tenderly held in your vulnerability or celebrated in something you’re proud of, this session will provide a space to support you in a positive relationship with your body, and a chance to support others in theirs. 

In small groups, each participant will get an opportunity to show and tell about a part of your body. Then you will have the option to invite your groupies to ask questions, make observations, or explore your body part with their other senses. If you prefer to just be witnessed with no feedback or interaction, or ask only for compliments, you can do that, too—whatever feels most healing or celebratory for you. No body parts are off limits—full nudity is welcome in this session, but not required. There will be a section of the room designated for people who want to keep clothes on, and you can choose to be in a group with others who share specific identities that are important to you. Every body is welcome!! 

🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ Spicy: The workshop invites participants to bring up, focus on, act from, or interact with others using their sexuality or sexual energy; OR welcome 
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Fuzzy Shostak

Founder, Educator, Consent Beyond Yes | Care & Consent Program
Fuzzy Shostak (they/any) is an organizer, author, and educator of consent, co-ops, contact improvisation, and alternative economic systems. Chronically ill, disabled, polyamorous, queer, gender transcendent. Founder of six co-ops, including Consent Beyond Yes—a worker co-op doi... Read More →
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Emma Daley

Consent Beyond Yes | Care & Consent Program
Emma Daley (they/she) is a body psychotherapist, consent educator, author, and occasional math tutor who is passionate about helping people live fully and authentically. While completing their Master’s degree in somatic counseling at Naropa University, they co-founded Consent B... Read More →
Monday January 13, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio C2 (Salon F/G/H)

11:00am EST

Embodied Explorations: Inviting All Parts of Self Back Home 🌶️ 🌶️
Monday January 13, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Embodied Explorations incorporates a mixture of contact improv, yoga, ecstatic dance, healing touch, multi-hand group massage, non verbal communication, and intuitive movement. The facilitation is heavily influenced by the energy of the participants, so no session is exactly the same. The focus of this edition is on nervous system regulation, radical honesty, and consent based connection.

The container offers a playful & explorative space with plenty of freedom to process your Interfusion experience. There will be various invitations to connect with self, partners, small groups, and the group as a whole. You are always at choice and encouraged to participate at the level that feels good for you. This workshop is perfect to bring your energy back home after a weekend filled with expansion, connection, and growth. 

 Some benefits of this practice include:

- An increased ability to move emotions/energy
- Accessing your intuition through communication with your body
- Release of stress & tension and increased sensation of happiness and joy
- Connecting with the flow of life
- Tuning into your sacred sauce
- Boost Confidence
- Awaken your life force

🌶️ 🌶️   Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.
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Lindi B Love

Conscious Dance Program
Lindi is a heart opener, nervous system regulator, and mind-body connector. She is currently completing her 800-hour Professional Yoga Therapy certification with hopes of specializing in chronic disease management, pain management, nervous system regulation, and end of life care... Read More →
Monday January 13, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio A (Skyview)

11:00am EST

Yoga Flow & Gong Resonance Meditation 🌶️
Monday January 13, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Join David for his own personal fusion blend of foundational Hatha yoga and Kundalini kriya yoga. Utilizing deep powerful breathing techniques combined with continuous repetitive movements, our aim will be to open up and unlock the spine. Applying long holds in static Hatha postures that will steadily evolve into a mindful vinyasa flow state at times, we will strengthen, invigorate and move our bodies together. David’s thorough and meticulously detailed instruction of how we will move and breathe through this practice allows for all levels of experience to feel welcome. Props like blankets, blocks, belts, bolsters are all highly recommended but not required. At the conclusion of the physical portion of the class, we will take an extended savasana where David will bathe all participants in a powerful sound bath with his array of large gongs. This is sure to be a potent experience to top off your Interfusion 2025!

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

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David Martin

Healing Arts Program
David combines his skill set as a Yogi, Reiki Master and Neuro-Acoustic Sound Practitioner, to create an immersive experience in Naad Yoga (the Yoga of Sound) and Sound Meditation. Not only is the gong a sonic experience, it also facilitates a deep ultrasonic massage-like experience... Read More →
Monday January 13, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)

1:00pm EST

IFX Closing Ceremony
Monday January 13, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Monday January 13, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Studio C (Salon C/D/E)