Schedule for
​Ecstatically Queer:
​A Dance Community Immersion
​​April 3–5, 2026

Below is the schedule for Ecstatically Queer, April 3–5, 2026. Session descriptions appear below the schedule.
We will have the entire Breitenbush property as our private  sanctuary, allowing our community to drop in deeply without outside distractions.
This schedule is offered as a guide, with a spacious rhythm designed to foster both connection and personal renewal. 
Please note that this schedule is subject to change at any time.

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Friday, April 3rd
3pm: Check-in (get settled, relax, and soak)
6:00pm: Dinner
7:15–8:45pm: Opening Orientation & Container Setting** with PJ and AD
9:00–10:30pm: Playful Ecstatic Dance with Shallin
​​​9:30pm: snack time!
10:45–11:15pm: Symphonic Gong Meditation with PJ

Saturday, April 4th
8am: Breakfast
8am: First-timers roundtable
9:15am–10:00: Connection and Sharing
10:15am–11:15: Overview of the Erotic Blueprints™️with Avery Deane
11:30am–1:00pm: Dancing the Erotic Blueprints ​with Avery Deane
1pm: Lunch
3:15–4:15pm: Contact Improv Exploration with Paul Deering
4:30–6:00pm: Body Temple Dance with Sarah Rayne
6:00pm: Dinner
7:45–9:00pm: Ecstatic Dance with DJ Dusty Walker
9:15–11:15pm: Amoeba Dance with Bonbon Spirit
​​​9:45pm: snack time!

​Sunday, April 5th
7:15–8am: Singing Bowls Sound Bath with Arya Brown
8am: Breakfast
9:30–11:00am: Ecstatic Dance with Bonbon Spirit
11:00am–12:00pm: Integration & Closing Ceremony with PJ and AD
1pm: Lunch
3pm: Departure deadline (Note: Must be out of cabins, yurts, and rooms by 1pm)

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Our Sessions (listed alphabetically):
Amoeba Dance: This is a practice of group Contact Improvisation, exploring what it means to dance as one. The dance score is: slow, grounded, gentle, and all-connected. We start with an opening circle to establish an attuned and safer container, move into extended facilitation to get the connection going, and then luxuriate in a long session of Amoeba Dance.
Body Temple Dance: This is a somatic, spiritual, and energetic movement practice rooted in Tantra, trauma healing, and somatic education. It is a free-form, emotional dance intended to help people reconnect with their bodies, process feelings like grief and rage, and transmute them into aliveness. The practice combines therapeutic movement and mystical teachings to help individuals inhabit their body's authentic pleasure and heal emotionally and physiologically.​
Contact Improv Exploration:
Drop into the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation through a playful exploration of touch and momentum. We will practice navigating various ways the surfaces of our bodies can meet—in presence, creativity, and ease. This session offers a space to cultivate deep physical listening—learning to stay fluidly connected to a partner while maintaining a safe personal boundary. Come explore the art of shared weight and the joy of spontaneous connection! This session is without music.
Dancing the Erotic Blueprints™️: Each of the 5 Erotic Blueprint Types (Energetic, Sensual, Sexual, Kinky, Shapeshifter) show up in our bodies and in many areas of our lives, most especially in dance! This guided embodiment exploration will be set to music and offer the opportunity to explore each of these 5 frequencies on the dance floor.
Ecstatic Dance: Our root practice! It's movement meditation to global bass music and EDM. Drop out of your thinking mind and into your body and emotions. It's an invitation to open to whatever arises, be it catharsis, release, or connection with self and others.
Movement Warm-up: Breath, bones, shared pathways ~ sourcing creativity and connection through interplays of movement and stillness. Informed by the practices of Qi Gong, Tai Chi, and Contact Improvisation, this session invites participants to ground together and collaborate as we welcome the day.
Name Necklace Crafting: Time for a little arts & crafts! Stop by and make a name necklace for the weekend. It's a creative way to help everyone get to know one another and make our community feel more familiar from the start.
Opening Orientation: This is the session when we introduce everyone, go over healthy boundaries & consent, and begin building camaraderie as a cohort. Everybody is expected to be there.
Overview of the Erotic Blueprints™️: Energetic, Sensual, Sexual, Kinky, Shapeshifter. These energies show up in many parts of our lives, including the bedroom. This introduction will help you understand these frequencies, find which pathways resonate for you, and begin to recognize them in others.
Singing Bowls Sound Bath:  This session uses the meditative sounds of crystal singing bowls to guide you into a state of deep relaxation. Simply rest comfortably as the waves of sound calm your nervous system and clear your mind.
Symphonic Gong Meditation: The vibrational energy of the gong is an ancient and powerful tool used to help still the mind and deeply relax the body. In the right hands, the Gong generates otherworldly tones which catalyze a state of floating, timeless bliss. No meditation experience required, simply let the beautiful and unique sounds wash over you. Please expect to silently lie down or sit still for 30 minutes.