Who we are
Dance Meets Tantra began in Boulder, Colorado and has since blossomed into a nationwide (and now international) movement. Our sold-out immersions weave together dance, relational intimacy, somatic attunement, ritual & ceremony, and conscious kink & shadow work into a living, breathing art form.
We create spaces that are trauma-informed yet wildly alive, where you can safely explore your edges, express your full self, and step into the mystery of your own power. This work is both a personal journey and a collective experience, igniting authenticity, attunement, and aliveness while embracing the wholeness of who we are - both light and shadow. Together, we cultivate a shared field of magic that is greater than the sum of its parts.
When embodied movers gather with full permission to be alive, to connect, and to share their magic… something extraordinary happens.
This is Dance Meets Tantra:
Awaken your body’s wisdom through movement, dance, and play
Unleash your full expression, build confidence, and come home to yourself
Release old patterns, be witnessed, and step into your power
Connect and co-create with a community of open-hearted humans
Our Commitments
Freedom & Authenticity
Dance and movement as tools for authentic expression and healing
Everyone is invited to move in their own rhythm, no performance, no pressure
Radical Consent & Boundaries
Clear communication and respect create safety
Every touch, every invitation is optional and intentional
Presence & Attunement
Real connection begins with feeling, yourself and others
We support people in accessing their emotional truth through the body
Intimacy & Integrity
Relationships are a space for growth, clarity, and erotic aliveness
Explore polarity, connection, and repair with awareness
Cultural Healing Through Connection
Our events model new cultural norms rooted in safety, vulnerability, and celebration
We aim to ripple this change beyond the dance floor into communities and systems
Diversity & Community Support
We celebrate and welcome people of all identities, backgrounds, and bodies
BIPOC folx are welcome at reduced price rates and scholarships are available for other diverse backgrounds to make our events more accessible.
Re-membering
We are here to remember our connection to land, nature, and the natural world
We honor the lands and indigenous peoples on the lands we share our work
Turning Towards
Our containers are a laboratory for being with reality and embracing it as it arises
We embrace paradox
We celebrate polarity, grief and laughter, prayer and play, dark and light
Our Team
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Spencer Jacobson
CO-FOUNDER & LEAD FACILITATOR
Spencer is a facilitator, DJ, and creative entrepreneur with a passion for the art of gathering humans to play, love, and heal. He is forever a student of the embodiment healing arts - having extensively studied dance, sacred sexuality, somatic experiencing, cranial sacral therapy, and yoga. Spencer is committed to bringing presence, play and possibility to every moment, while walking into the unknown. www.spencerjacobson.com
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Briana Cribeyer
LEAD FACILITATOR
Briana is a sacred sexuality practitioner, who is enlivened by creating unique spaces for connection and self-awareness. She has extensively studied emotional intelligence, trauma-informed care, and leadership development. A facilitator with numerous organizations worldwide, including The International School of Temple Arts, she brings empathy and deep listening, as well as tough, playful love. An intimacy + relationship guide for couples and individuals, Briana is passionate about supporting people to find equanimity in all relationship styles. To stay connected, www.brianacribeyer.com
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Atilla Cidam
CO-FOUNDER & LEAD FACILITATOR
Atilla is a transformational leader with a mission to empower you to embody your most vibrant, authentic self without excuses or limits. With his training in tantra, conscious kink, Erotic Blueprints, sacred medicine, dance, and shadow-work, Atilla helps reprogram nervous systems to allow and embody the full range of ecstatic pleasure in all aspects of life. He has a background in psychological research with a PhD in social psychology, and has spent the last decade designing large scale social programs that empower millions to lead fully aligned lives. Atilla plays in the deep contrast of polarities. Dancing with full expressions of the masculine & the feminine, primal fierceness & tenderness, pleasure & pain, work & play, science & intuition, he helps his clients fully manifest & integrate the opposites. Atilla is here to show up for the fullest expression of who you really are.
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Gemma Wilcox
CO-FACILITATOR
Gemma is a creatrix, facilitator, and passionate student of life. Her hunger to live a fully-embodied and courageous life has inspired over 20 years of training in somatic and tantric arts. She is a massage therapist, Certified Tantric Educator™, a student of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and an apprentice of the Sweet Medicine SunDance path. She is also a critically acclaimed, multiple award-winning theater playwright/performer/producer. She has studied with many masterful teachers in the realms of sacred sexuality, shamanism, movement and creative arts. She delights in facilitating spaces for Eros, creativity and coherence to flourish.
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LaVina Iyana
APPRENTICE FACULTY
LaVina Iyana is a trauma-informed Somatic Therapist, Sexual Shamanic Practitioner, and Intimacy + Relationship Coach. Her work focuses on supporting individuals in experiencing deeper pleasure, aliveness, and freedom through self-discovery, intimacy, somatic exploration, and authentic expression according to her Instagram profile. She emphasizes the importance of safety in the body as a pathway to awakening the human soul and fostering harmony on Earth.
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MariaSole Ingravallo
GUEST TEACHER - 5Rhythms
MariaSole Ingravallo is a 5Rhythms dance teacher who has been teaching since 2020. She integrates her background in Tantra and Psychology into her 5Rhythms practice, focusing on movement as a path to personal transformation, sensuality, and inner wisdom. Her work emphasizes presence, vulnerability, and creating spaces for pleasure and connection. MariaSole offers workshops, classes, and retreats that guide participants to connect with their bodies, emotions, and authentic selves through dance and awareness practices, according to 5Rhythms.
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Kelsey McWilliams
APPRENTICE FACULTY
Kelsey is ritualist of the earth, who creates spaces and experiences that celebrate, embody, question and root into the entirety of the human experience. Kelsey is most studied in transforming, valuing and beautifying the shit in our lives, having worked in the "poop business" for 10 years. She currently facilitates spaces to invite, explore and deepen with the goddesses of grief, pleasure, and belonging. Kelsey's heart and soul has always lived to dance, and she is passionate about creating more pathways for the prayer of dancing with community to be felt.
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Yana Rumi
APPRENTICE FACULTY
Yana Rumi is a published author and transformative guide with 15 years of leading group adult sexuality practices and a lifetime immersed in ritual traditions. Shaped by thousands of hours in Lakota, Andean/Amazonian, and Trans-Himalayan ceremonies, Yana brings a rare blend of sacred sexuality, mindfulness, and community leadership. Their Quechua name, meaning “black stone,” reflects their gift: amplifying the medicine in others for the good of All. Their book Simple Magick is available here: https://a.co/d/8Kvgmru.
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Bri Anahata
APPRENTICE FACULTY
Bri is a embodiment and integration life coach, yoga teacher, breath work and meditation guide, ceremonialist and artist dedicated to supporting the realization of a more connected, compassionate and conscious world through community building, healing expression and the cultivation of a deeper sense of loving awareness toward self and others. She does this with an array of community events in the healing arts, sacred ceremony facilitation, integrative coaching and her own healing expression. She is passionate about supporting her community to feel empowered as the creators and lovers of their lives.
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Drew Edge
APPRENTICE FACULTY
Drew is a facilitator and spaceholder principally devoted to supporting embodied, intentional, and desire-forward communities in Austin. His work centers deep communication, authenticity, and consent with facilitation committed to surrendered leadership, vulnerability, curiosity and joy. Across the varied spaces he hosts and facilitates participants are guided in ecstatic dance, contact improvisation, authentic relating, consent work, power dynamics & power exchange, breathwork, and neotantric practices. Drew is committed to creating permission fields to demystify desire, lower the stakes, and loosen stories that impede personal exploration and interpersonal connection. His containers emphasize co-creation, embodied consent, personal sovereignty, and joy, inviting honest presence while minimizing performance, self-limiting, or fixed exceptions.
Around town, you can find him hosting breathwork, building & facilitating temple spaces, and dancing his ass off.
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Yosef Hayim
APPRENTICE FACULTY
Yosef dances between the worlds of masculine soul initiation, sacred sexuality, and organizational culture work. His offerings weave together grief, eros, song + dance, circle work, and land connection. The common thread through all of his work is the medicine of intimacy - guiding humans to integrate personality, soul, and spirit in service to love and life.
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Kaviar Dragon
ORGANIZER
Kaviar Dragón is a lover, a dancer, a vessel for transmitting and expanding consciousness, and a creator. Kaviar teaches, guides, and organizes in the realms of embodied movement and dance, sensual connection & inner/outer intimacy, Tantra, Hatha Yoga, heart-centered spirituality, s-positive sacred sexuality, trauma-informed emotional release and processing. Kaviar offers vectors for expansion and healing with heart to the divine.
Find Kaviar on IG: @KaviarDragon and, RitualSacrednessTantra.life
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Kayla Rodriguez
ORGANIZER
Kayla is a facilitator, engineer, and event organizer who creates transformative spaces for people to expand their range and embrace life’s paradoxes—such as structure and freedom, sacredness and profanity, and sovereignty and synergy.
She facilitates Latihan with Move in the Mystery, organizes Dance Meets Tantra in Austin, TX, and manages Casa Mimosa—an event space that hosts everything from relational practices to creative community gatherings to explorations of sexuality.
Her work emphasizes communication, presence, and embodied exploration, weaving the technical with the transformational to support both communities and individuals in experiencing more aliveness, depth, and playfulness.
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Logan Nellis
ORGANIZER
Logan is a transformational guide and sacred space curator who creates containers for radical self-expression and authentic connection. With degrees in Psychology, Kinesiology, and Applied Psychophysiology, plus certifications in massage therapy and somatic practices, he integrates academic knowledge with embodied wisdom. As founder of Ministry of Movement Ecstatic Dance and core team member of Dance Meets Tantra, Logan facilitates trauma-informed spaces that honor the full spectrum of human experience. His personal journey through addiction recovery and exploring relationship structures from monogamy to "wildcrafting" informs his approach to guiding others toward deeper self-love and community connection. Embodying principles of gifting and radical inclusion, Logan holds space with both strength and tenderness, supporting individuals to explore their edges while contributing their unique gifts to collective healing. https://my.linkpod.site/DynamicRhythmsEmbodiment
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Enki Martinez
ORGANIZER
Enki’s life is dedicated to a vision of personal transformation and spiritual growth that embraces the entirety of human experience–from the darkest to the most sublime–with tenderness and play. He holds temple space for groups and individuals where everything from the rawest emotional process to the heights of ecstatic pleasure are welcomed and celebrated as access points to the divine. His work is informed by many lineages: from Zen to the Sufi mystics; Taoism to esoteric Tibetan Buddhism.
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