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🐉 The beautiful love-child of conscious dance and relational intimacy ❤‍🔥
👇2027 Embodied Eros Facilitator Training applications open!👇

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What is Dance Meets Tantra?

It’s a practice.
A way of being.
A body of work that infuses dance with more freedom, aliveness, connection, ritual, depth, and presence.

This work includes and transcends dance.
How we show up to the dance floor is how we show up to Life.
The invitation at the core of our immersions is to come fully alive through the dance - and for that to ripple into every aspect of your life.

We don’t just dance at Dance Meets Tantra.
We weave potent rituals and exercises that explore relationship, shadow, love, self-expression, and eros.

Yes, we dare to work with eros.
To come fully alive requires the whole channel to open - head, heart, and base.

We permission and welcome eros, not only for the sake of accessing greater freedom and connection,
But also as an alchemical tool to excavate, unwind, and express dense emotions.

This is part of what makes Dance Meets Tantra so unique -
we deliberately dance with grief, fear, shame, and rage -
not as opposites to joy and celebration, but as necessary conduits to wholeness and liberation.

Working with eros is edgy.
To do this work, we build a foundation of solidarity, attunement, and consent.
This is how Dance Meets Tantra creates a container for erotic energy to emerge consciously, and to serve the group field.

And you know what, it’s not always sexy.
This work will bring you to your knees.
But we go there together.

This is how we re-write old scripts.
This is how we feel ourselves like never before.
This is Dance Meets Tantra.

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THEY CAN SMELL YOU
(Numb Leaders, Leaky Leaders)

As a leader, your body is always transmitting something.

Before you even open your mouth, before you even enter the room, people have a sense of the vibration of you. Even if they can't articulate it, they can smell some of what you are made of.

Are you a leader who is trying to hide something? Who is overriding their own body to even be in the room right now? Or subconsciously trying to satisfy their need to be seen, adored, pedestalized?

Or do you really live your truth? All the way down into your bones, with full aliveness?

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Eros in leadership is the ability to vibrate your truth through your whole being. It moves through two bodies -

1) Through your emotional body. People feel you, your passion and what you care about.

2) Through your physical etheric body. People feel your truth in your blood and bones. You are here, a force to be reckoned with. Your cells are communicating with their cells, and they get you at an animal level.

The world does not need more convincing leaders. The world needs leaders who can embody their truth, all the way in, all the way down.

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And Eros is powerful. It magnetizes, vibrates, and casts spells. If we don't bring conscious awareness to it and learn how to work with it, it leaks ALL over the place.

If you do not understand how your Eros works and weaves as a leader, you are an unconscious magician. You don't know what spells you are casting, and you won't know what to do with the projections that come back your way.

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Come talk about it with Rachel, Spencer and me.

EROS IN LEADERSHIP, an intimate fireside chat. Thursday 8 October, 6:30pm Mountain (8:30pm Eastern), in person in Lyons, Colorado or online on Zoom. We'll close with an open conversation about the Embodied Eros Facilitator Training.

Bring your questions. Bring your body.

Register via the link in DMT bio.
Full piece on my Substack.

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I might have the right look, gender, age, or appearance that matches the picture you might date or hook up with.

But chances are that romance or sex could be the least interesting or valuable exchange that could take place between us.

We can only find out if we slow down enough to unwind the conditioned patterns embedded in our nervous systems.

If you are feeling attraction to me, will you slow down enough to feel into “WHY?”

What is the truth of the eros flowing between us?

Can we breathe, listen, and spiral down through the layers?

Maybe instead of romance or sex there is something we’re meant to create, or there is a friendship or a projection that if we can integrate, could make a huge difference in one of our lives?

Maybe what starts as a sense of romantic attraction will result in tears flowing or a tender platonic embrace?

We’ll only actually know if we can move at a pace that invites subtlety and awareness.

Eros is so intelligent.

Sometimes it’s guiding us towards a romantic love.

Sometimes eros just wants evolution or awakening that can take many different shapes.

Rachel and I will be guiding an incredible group through these explorations a whole lot more at Embody Intimacy by @dancemeetstantra - October 1-4 in Northern California at one of my favorite retreat spaces of all time.

I hope you’ll join us. Info linked in bio

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You are no stranger to the dance floor.
You know how to drop into your body and let the music pulse through you.
You can smoothly make your way into a sweet contact flow.
You may even be comfortable in spaces with erotic energy.
And yet, there is still a depth of connection and aliveness that you know is possible but have not quite experienced.
The best dances, the sweetest contact, and the hottest connections still do not touch that deeper longing.
There are layers of your being ready to unfurl.
Ready to be felt.
Expressed.
Seen.
You can only go as deeply with others as you have gone in yourself.
When we really slow down to feel those deeper layers, that is where Dance Meets Tantra.
Slow and Deep takes place October 9 to 11, 2026 at Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center in Colorado.

Registration is open through the link in bio.

#slowanddeep #dancemeetstantra #boulderevents #embodieddance #relationalpractice

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Surprise, FLORIDA 🌴

This December, I’m bringing my boyfriend home for the holidays. 🥹❤️

Spencer and I are heading to South Florida to spend time with my family, and while we’re there we’ve teamed up with the wonderful Kim, a local community leader, to bring Dance Meets Tantra to Florida for the very first time.

On December 19 in Fort Lauderdale, we’ll be offering an Ecstatic Evening. A one-night immersion and a chance to taste the DMT field without needing to commit to an entire weekend.

There is already so much excitement coming from the local community about finally bringing this work to South Florida, and I have a feeling this one may fill quickly.

If you’re down, I’d grab a ticket early. 🔗 Check out the link in my bio for tickets or reach out to @radianthearthealer 💗

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Oh hey, America. I’m going on my first Dance Meets Tantra Tour ❤️‍🔥

From the Wild Edge to Slow & Deep…

From a four-day retreat, to an immersive weekend to one ecstatic evening…

From Massachusetts to Northern California, Colorado, and now *surprise* FLORIDA.

There is truly something for everyone here.

Each of these events offers a different doorway into the Dance Meets Tantra field. These are carefully curated spaces where movement becomes a language, the dance floor becomes a temple, and we get to explore what becomes possible when embodiment, intimacy, ER0S, and relational practice are allowed to meet.

I’m especially excited to secretly announce this one before it has even officially launched… I’m bringing my boyfriend home for the holidays! 🥹❤️

This December, Spencer and I will be offering the first-ever Dance Meets Tantra event in Florida 😎 an Ecstatic Evening in Fort Lauderdale on December 19.

My worlds are colliding, and I’m very here for it.

Whether you want to meet your wildness, slow everything down, spend an evening tasting the field, or give yourself several days to fully enter it- there is a place for you somewhere on this tour.

These events are also a beautiful way to meet me, Spencer, and the Dance Meets Tantra field if you have been feeling curious about (or seriously considering) the Embodied Eros Intensive & Facilitator Training beginning in Boulder in January 2027.

Come find the doorway that calls you.

🔥 WILD EDGE
September 24–27 | Earthdance, Massachusetts

❤️ EMBODY INTIMACY
October 1–4 | Sky Temple, Northern California

🌊 SLOW & DEEP
October 9–11 | Boulder, Colorado

🌴 ECSTATIC EVENING
December 19 | Fort Lauderdale, Florida

All event details through the link in my bio or at dancemeetstantra(.)com/events.

If you are planning on joining me at one of these events comment below and let me know 💋 Where will we see you on the dance floor?

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Last year I got really intimate with my own Wild Edge as @yosef__hayim and I were considering leaving the east coast..

We assisted a Dance Meets Tantra retreat that, in some ways, brought me to my knees.

I contacted some of my innermost fears, vulnerabilities, and insecurities in regard to my attachment system..
but I got to touch those places in a way that actually felt nourishing and sustainable.

There is a level of care, intentionality, and skill that is woven into the fabric of every single DMT container.. the way these spaces are held is rare — and it allows for real contact with the places & parts of self that need it most, and often don’t get the chance to truly be met.

This year, we are returning to the precious land of earthdance, and I have no doubt in my heart that it’s going to be as potent & magical as ever. 🌱✨

With @rachel.rickards as lead facilitator, trust you’ll be in good hands, and that deep intimacy will be at the heart of all that we explore together.

Not only will you get to be well held by the land, the skillful facilitation, and your soul tribe — but you will also get to drink it the nourishment of the sauna, the fresh cold quarry, the epic dance floor, and the meeting of your own Wild Edge.

We’ve got just a few spaces left, and we want you with us.

Join us for The Wild Edge in just 2 weeks (!)
September 24th-27th in Western Massachusetts at @earthdance_creative .

🔗 in bio. 🍃

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Something I have really appreciated about coming into the Dance Meets Tantra field…

Is working with MOVERS.

My spaces haven’t necessarily been filled with people who already have a relationship to dance or movement. So, coming into DMT has felt like entering the conversation from the opposite end of the pole.

And it has been really fricking cool.

I remember a participant at the last DMT event saying:

“I’ve always wondered what was happening for everyone else on the dance floor. Instead of silently moving through our experiences next to each other, here we actually get to be with all the relational aspects of what’s moving together.”

That touched me, because there is already so much happening between us when we dance.

Entire conversations take place through movement, rhythm, attraction, hesitation, permission, and restraint… even when no words are spoken.

What happens when we don’t only move beside one another, but learn how to meet one another inside what is moving?

My beloved Spencer, one of the co-founders of DMT, calls the dance floor the “original temple.” The way movement, emergence, and body language are woven through the space has awakened something new in me and my facilitation.

You do not already have to consider yourself a “dancer” to come to a DMT event.

But you probably need to want to begin.

Movement becomes contagious.

Our nervous systems learn from one another. Mirror neurons start firing like crazy. We become inspired by what we witness. New possibilities open. Suddenly I find myself moving in ways I didn’t know my body could, or even would, move.

Everyone becomes a better dancer in a field of dancers. Judgment is at an all-time low because we are reminding one another of something our bodies already know.

Dance is natural to us.

And once you experience what it is to move energy… to express it, follow it, amplify it, soften it, and let it communicate through you- it becomes difficult to return to a life in which the body is expected to remain silent.

If your body recognizes this (or wants to), come meet us on the dance floor. I have three events coming up across America. Find the closest one to you through the link in my bio 🔗

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Most of us spend our lives holding it all together. Performing the version of ourselves we think we are supposed to be while something more alive waits for permission.

The Wild Edge is what opens when you stop performing and let yourself be met right there.
Over four days, we will move through dance, stillness, contact, breath, play, vulnerability, boundaries, and permission.
We will grieve what has been waiting for a room big enough to hold it.
Then, we will met it all- sometimes from shadow to radiance in the same hour.

We will establish a ground of consent, attunement, and personal responsibility so that expression does not require self abandonment and connection does not require the loss of boundaries.

This is an invitation into your own becoming and unbecoming.
September 24 to 27, 2026
Earthdance, Massachusetts
Registration is open through the link in bio.
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#thewildedge #dancemeetstantra #consciousdance #relationalintimacy #earthdance

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People are STILL telling me they feel REVEL Convergence in their bones.

These are actual quotes from conversations and feedback forms still coming in:

“I often found myself crying in joy and tenderness at the sheer beauty of life.”

“I cannot think of the last time, or maybe ever, that I found myself in a community feeling so uplifted by the people around me.”

“From the moment I arrived on the land, I felt so at home and welcome.”

“REVEL is a cultural movement, rooted in liberation of love, embodied freedom, wild expression, & true belonging. This is how we change the world.”

“Deep soul-rattling healing work, paired with light, sexy fun.”

“The ritual, the beauty, the facilitators, the land, the vibration of the people around me… whatever is happening here, I want more of it.”

“I got a year’s worth of therapy sessions in growth out of this weekend.”

“The entire gathering feels like a different world of unconditional acceptance and boundless freedom to simply Be.”

We did something great. WE. The production team. The facilitators. The musicians.

And truly, truly, truly not just saying this, THE PARTICIPANTS.

This participant field was dynamite. Some of the most skillful, loving, playful, deep, sincere humans I have ever been around. And the juiciest crew of dancers I’ve ever shared a dance floor with.

The love field of this experience was enormous.

Personally, I felt like I was on love drugs for four straight days… while simultaneously holding the biggest offering of my life.

We made a new world. Not just a peak experience.

A movement that is still reverberating months later. Creative projects, collaborations, relationships still blossoming from REVEL.

And you betcha: REVEL 2027 is coming back.

JULY 1–4, 2027 @ Sunrise Ranch

SAVE THE DATE, BABES. ❤️‍🔥

Huge shout out on this video and all the photo/video work to our media team leads - @astraljack_ @iamlola.love

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There is something curious happening in my professional life right now.

I am joining someone else’s facilitator training.

That might not sound particularly interesting until you know that I have spent a fairly ridiculous portion of the last decade creating, leading, refining and occasionally dismantling my own.

And I have strong opinions about training facilitators.

There is a pretty big difference between knowing a lot of practices and actually knowing how to facilitate humans.

For me, excellent facilitation has very little to do with having the perfect plan and everything to do with being able to remain deeply present when the plan stops working. And then being damn good at improvising back to coherence from there.

Which is part of why I’m so excited to be joining Embodied Eros.

The more I have gotten to know the work founded by Spencer and Atilla, the more obvious it has become that there is a meeting point between our bodies of work that feels incredibly alive.

Their work has spent years exploring eros, dance, attachment, expression, permission, Temple Arts and the places human beings become more fully alive.

My own work has increasingly moved toward the relational field: attunement, embodied presence, group intelligence, intimacy, relational integrity, responsibility and all the subtle information moving inside and between bodies.

And THAT meeting point interests the hell out of me.

I am interested in training facilitators who can create structure and listen for when it needs to change.

Who can invite people toward their edges without deciding where those edges should be.

Who can feel the individual, the group AND themselves.

Who understand consent as a living relational practice.

Who know how to lead and also how to get out of the way.

The 2027 Embodied Eros journey begins in January with a six day Intensive in Boulder.

That first week stands completely on its own as an advanced personal journey into Embodied Eros.

For those who want to learn how to facilitate others, it becomes the doorway into a deeper training running through June, with practice, mentorship, teaching and feedback.

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HOW I GOT A BODY
(hint - we're launching something really cool)

I'm quite an unlikely advocate for embodiment and eros.

I never danced until I was 35. Like, never. It's really weird, especially if you're from Turkey.
I was in a largely sexless marriage for 8 years.
I got a PhD, which in most cases, and mine, involves spending years hunched over a computer reading articles written by snotty academics, learning to professionally override any healthy somatic signal.

I was an effective transmitter of knowledge - I worked with World Bank, UNICEF, and world governments.

I was, I am certain, an ineffective transmitter of reality - so cut off from my own body, how could I have my whole being vibrate with something that could actually be felt.

I could convince, but I could not transform.

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Then somehow dance found me, 5-rhythms and ecstatic dance, and everything changed from the inside out.

I used to stand at the edge of dance floors, making forever excuses for why I'm not in the center of it.

At some point I took the leap into the courage of messiness and imperfection - and found out that nobody was wanting my perfection in the first place. They wanted my reality, and when I actually gave it, it was quite magnetic.

I am not a dancer. Ohhhh but I am nothing but a dancer.

Dance took me deeper into my body. My body took me deeper into my sexuality and tantra. Tantra keeps bringing me back into dance. All of it just keeps bringing me back to truth.

The world does not need more convincing leaders.
The world needs leaders who can embody their truth, all the way in, all the way down. Bodies that transmit reality.

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Embodied Eros Facilitator Training is special. It's a powerful cauldron of soul emergence through the embodied arts. We challenge you in the deepest and most compassionate ways, through practices and transmissions that I have literally never come across anywhere else.

Watching our first cohort step into their creative power and take a stand in the world has been incredibly touching. This is the kind of work we live for.

I am honored to be co-facilitating the second cohort with @spencerjacobson_ and @rachel.rickards

More info coming on Tuesday.

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