Embodied Eros Facilitator Training by Dance Meets Tantra
Master the art of holding transformational space and become a walking transmission of your purpose through dance, eros, and embodied relating.
A professional training that certifies leaders, coaches, and ritual artists in trauma-informed group facilitation, deepens your impact, and equips you to facilitate Dance Meets Tantra and your own life-changing offerings.
Spring 2026 Cohort is Full
Applications now OPEN for the November 2026 - July 2027 Cohort
The Embodied Eros Facilitator Training by Dance Meets Tantra is for the leaders, catalysts and prayer-holders.
The revolutionaries who feel the music in their bones and know the dance floor is the most important temple.
You’re already a permissionary, the one who makes it okay for others to feel more, to express more, to live more. The one who opens the door to aliveness, connection, and eros in your community.
This is the training you don’t come back from. An initiation into becoming a living, breathing transmission, someone who can weave dance, connection, and sacred ritual into containers that open hearts, awaken bodies, and awaken souls.
Rooted in the Dance Meets Tantra lineage and enriched by trauma-informed facilitation, relational intelligence, shadow work, group dynamics, ritual arts, embodiment practices, and field awareness, this training invites you to step fully into the role of transmitter and space-holder, grounded in your unique voice and natural expression. If you choose, you can also walk the path of becoming a Certified Embodied Eros Facilitator.
Dance Meets Tantra is putting out the call to a select few revolutionaries: come deeper into the work. Step into your power. And carry this flame into the world.
Through a potent mix of in-person retreats, bi-weekly online transmissions, 1-1 mentorship, deep peer support and practice, and a supervised practicum, you will gain the tools, support, and experience needed to guide others through life-changing journeys of self-discovery and embodiment. The training provides a structure for integration, feedback, and growth while honoring your unique voice and path.
Design and lead transformational journeys that blend dance, ritual, and relational practices into a powerful arc.
Hold a trauma-informed field of trust, play, and depth where participants feel free to express and safe to explore.
Work masterfully with eros, honoring sexual energy as intelligent life force while navigating it with clarity and consent.
Navigate group dynamics and shadow with grounded presence, empathy, and skill.
Refine your facilitator presence so your leadership is magnetic, attuned, and unforgettable.
By the end of the Dance Meets Tantra Facilitator Training, you will be able to:
Curriculum Overview
Please see the details below of each level of the program.
LEVEL ONE
We believe the foundation of all leadership and facilitation is embodiment.
Level One is devoted to your own embodied freedom, erotic integrity and aliveness, personal transformation, and soul purpose alignment.
This may be called Level One but this is by far the deepest work available in the Dance Meets Tantra ecosystem. This is not a beginner's space. This training attracts high level leaders, and embodied, skillful practitioners who are on the cusp of their most integrated expression of purpose and aliveness in the world.
Through a unique blend of ritual, dance, relational intelligence, somatic exploration, eros, and shadow work, you will explore the depths of yourself, your purpose, your relationships, and come out with a greater sense of clarity, empowerment, and authenticity.
This level is complete in itself. It is also a pre-requisite for anyone wanting to move on to Level 2 and train as embodied eros leaders and facilitators.
You may choose to stop here and leave with a powerful set of tools for life, love, purpose, community, and personal growth.
Or, you may continue onward into the facilitator pathway.
Module One: December 2–6, 2026
Embodied Foundations - Relational Arts & Expression
Explore:
Relational intelligence and connection
Presence, authenticity, and self-expression
Emotional intelligence and self-regulation
Consent, boundaries, and trust
Intimacy and authentic relating
Sacred sexuality and embodied eros
Polarity, attraction, and energetic awareness
The relational field as a path of transformation
Module Two: January 13–17, 2027
Embodied Freedom - Ritual, Dance, & Aliveness
Explore:
Dance as prayer, ritual, and transformation
Embodiment as a way of life
Somatic awareness and nervous system literacy
Eros as life force
The body as a source of wisdom
Movement as medicine
The dance floor as a laboratory for life
Aliveness as a spiritual practice
LEVEL TWO
Level Two of the Embodied Eros training focuses specifically on leadership and facilitation mastery, including group dynamics, field alchemy, curriculum development, nervous-system awareness, space-holding, and the practical realities of leading erotically alive and transformational experiences.
Admission into Level Two is by application and/or successful completion of Level One.
You will learn how to guide individuals and groups through transformational experiences while maintaining ethical integrity, attunement, nervous system awareness, and relational responsibility.
Beyond learning the arts of group facilitation, Level Two is an initiation into your leadership, your power, and the gifts you’re here to bring to the world.
Module Three: March 17–21, 2027
Embodied Leadership & Transformational Design
Explore:
Foundations of facilitation
Leadership as embodied practice
Designing transformational journeys
Voice, presence, and communication
Working with activation and resistance
Circle facilitation and process work
Ethical leadership and responsibility
Creating experiences that inspire lasting change
Module Four: May 12–16, 2027
Embodied Facilitation, Transmission, & Field Alchemy
Explore:
Trauma-informed facilitation
Group dynamics and developmental stages
Reading and responding to the field
Working with projection, conflict, and shadow
Power, authority, and facilitator ethics
Emergence and collective intelligence
Ritual design and transformational architecture
Holding complexity with skill and compassion
REVEL Apprenticeship Immersion
July 1–5, 2027
The culmination of Level Two is participation in REVEL, Dance Meets Tantra's annual convergence.
This is where training becomes reality.
You will step into apprentice and support roles (and possibly facilitation where appropriate) within a large-scale transformational event environment, gaining direct experience in leadership, production, group culture, participant care, and behind-the-scenes facilitation.
REVEL is the living laboratory where everything you have learned is put into practice.
Following the convergence, the cohort gathers for a dedicated Harvest and Integration Day to reflect, learn, celebrate, and prepare for the next stage of development.
LEVEL THREE
Certification Practicum
September 2027 - March 2028
A seven-month supervised pathway toward certification.
For those called to professional facilitation, Level Three offers a supervised practicum leading toward certification as an Embodied Eros Facilitator.
Certification is not awarded based on attendance.
It is earned through demonstrated competency, embodiment, ethical integrity, leadership, and real-world application.
Over seven months you will:
Design and facilitate your own offerings
Receive mentorship and supervision
Participate in assessments and feedback processes
Refine your facilitation style
Deepen your leadership capacity
Demonstrate competency in embodied eros facilitation
Successful graduates will receive certification as an Embodied Eros Facilitator and join a growing network of practitioners dedicated to bringing more embodiment, intimacy, freedom, connection, and aliveness into the world.
Key Themes & Practice Areas
Throughout the training, we explore foundational themes that are central to this body of work:
Leadership rooted in embodied presence
Power and polarity dynamics in facilitation
Emotional and energetic attunement
Shadow and projection awareness
Consent, clarity, and boundaries
Creative ritual design and delivery
Attachment and autonomy in group spaces
Personal sovereignty and relational integrity
Trauma-awareness in facilitation
Facilitator Training Outcomes
Graduation from the Embodied Eros Facilitator Training is a celebration of your dedication, transformation, and skill. It means you have:
Completed all training modules and practicum requirements
Demonstrated competence in facilitation, space-holding, and group leadership
Shown mastery in working with dance, touch, boundaries, and erotic presence
Received and integrated feedback from peers and lead facilitators
Embodied the values of Dance Meets Tantra both inside and outside the training space
Graduation is not a formality, it is earned. It is a recognition of the journey you’ve taken: the risks you’ve embraced, the edges you’ve leaned into, and the growth you’ve chosen again and again. When you graduate, you join a growing network of facilitators around the world who are dedicated to bringing more freedom, connection, and aliveness into the world.
Certification: all participants who successfully complete Level One and Level Two will have the opportunity to pursue the Certification via a Supervised Leadership Practicum (SLP). Becoming an Embodied Eros Certified Facilitator means that you have demonstrated the capacity to facilitate empowering, embodied, ethical and erotically alive spaces with integrity.
The certification pathway is a seven-month Supervised Leadership & Facilitation Practicum. During the practicum, you will create, refine, launch, and facilitate a real-world offering while receiving monthly supervision, mentorship, coaching, and honest developmental feedback. Existing workshops, groups, retreats, classes, or professional offerings may also serve as the focus of your practicum when appropriate.
Invitation to Apprentice with Dance Meets Tantra: all participants who successfully complete Level One and Level Two and are accepted to the Supervised Leadership Practicum, will be eligible for an invitation to Apprentice with Dance Meets Tantra. This means that you have demonstrated the skills, abilities, and mindset to be invited into the Dance Meets Tantra organization as Apprentices or Co-facilitators. This is by invitation only and is based on demonstrated merit, not just attendance. We are looking for those who embody the DMT values, hold impeccable boundaries, lead from the heart, and have the ability to create powerful group fields. Apprentices will have the opportunity to develop their facilitation at official DMT events, deepen their skills through direct mentorship, and be on the path toward becoming a Facilitator.
THE LEARNING CONTAINER
In-Person Retreats
The program is built around five multi-day, in-person retreats. These immersive gatherings create space for embodied practice, ritual, live facilitation, and energetic integration. Surrounded by supportive peers and faculty, you will develop confidence, deepen your presence, and refine your craft.
Retreat 1: Embodied Foundations - Relational Arts & Expression
Retreat 2: Embodied Freedom - Ritual, Dance, & Aliveness
Retreat 3: Embodied Leadership & Transformational Design
Retreat 4: Embodied Facilitation, Transmission, & Field Alchemy
Retreat 5: REVEL 2027
Embodied Eros Transmission Sessions
Bi-weekly live online gatherings where the faculty share teachings, respond to emerging themes, deepen the group field, and support integration.
Ongoing Peer Support
Small peer groups that meet bi-weekly to practice skills, deepen relationships, and cultivate accountability and support.
1-1 Mentorship
Personalized guidance, feedback, supervision, and support throughout your journey. Each participant receives a dedicated mentor for four private sessions (Level 1+2). These 45-minute calls support your personal development, clarify your facilitation strengths, and offer tailored feedback and guidance.
LOCATION
Boulder, Colorado
All in-person modules and immersions take place in Boulder, Colorado, one of the world's thriving hubs for embodiment, conscious community, transformational education, and personal growth.
Venue details and accommodation options will be shared upon acceptance.
Meet the Team
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Spencer Jacobson
Co-Founder of Dance Meets Tantra, Embodied Eros Training Director
Spencer is a transformational facilitator, DJ, poet and serial entrepreneur with a passion for the art of gathering humans to experience the deepest truths of ourselves individually and collectively. His facilitation style invites self-expression, connection, and creativity while playfully and safely exploring the edges of our comfort zone. He is forever a student of embodiment and healing arts - having studied 5Rhythms dance, tantra, contact improv, ontological coaching, cranialsacral therapy, and yoga. Through his training and deep personal experiences he is committed to creating safer spaces that hold a trauma-informed perspective while simultaneously supporting individual responsibility and empowerment.
He is co-founder of Dance Meets Tantra and Emergence Brotherhood - and previously founded www.guided.co - an organization that has coached thousands of business leaders around the world. "Your heart knows the way, run in that direction” - Rumi
www.spencerjacobson.com | IG: @spencerjacobson_
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Rachel Rickards
Founder of The Field & Intimacy Camp, Embodied Eros Production Lead
Rachel Rickards is an international facilitator and event producer whose work explores the intersection of embodiment, intimacy, relational intelligence, and group transformation. She co-founded Embodied Intimacy in 2014, helping establish one of the world's leading organizations for experiential learning in intimacy, trauma-informed facilitation, and embodied relating. She is also the creator and host of the podcast In Presence We Trust, where she explores the evolving art and practice of group facilitation.Rachel is the creator of The Field Facilitator Training, an advanced experiential training that pioneers a new paradigm of group facilitation. Rather than teaching fixed methods, her work develops facilitators' capacity to listen deeply to the intelligence of the group field, cultivate collective coherence, and respond with presence, precision, and emergent leadership. Through her teaching, Rachel is helping shape the next generation of facilitators who are committed to creating transformational experiences grounded in attunement, authenticity, and human connection.
www.RachelRickards.com
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Atilla Cidam
Co-Founder of Dance Meets Tantra
Atilla Çıdam is a transformational guide and facilitator devoted to unlocking the ecstatic intelligence of the human spirit.
With a PhD in social psychology, Atilla spent years designing large-scale systems to support human flourishing. His deeper education came through the initiatory path of descent—through sacred medicine, the wild edge of dance, heartbreak, tantra, temple arts, kink, and the fierce love that shatters illusion.
He works with individuals, couples, and communities who are ready to live from the raw, unfiltered center of their being where eros, purpose, and truth converge. His containers rewire the nervous system for intimacy with life itself.
Atilla is a faculty member with ISTA, the International School of Temple Arts, and co-founder of Dance Meets Tantra and Emergence Brotherhood.
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Briana Cribeyer
Dance Meets Tantra 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
Training Timeline
Orientation & Opening Call: November 2, 2026
LEVEL ONE
Module One: Embodied Foundations - Relational Arts & Expression
December 2–6, 2026
Module Two: Embodied Freedom - Ritual, Dance, & Aliveness
January 13–17, 2027
LEVEL TWO
Module Three: Embodied Leadership & Transformational Design
March 17–21, 2027
Module Four: Embodied Facilitation, Transmission, & Field Alchemy
May 12–16, 2027
Module Five: REVEL Apprenticeship Immersion
July 1–5, 2027
*Throughout the training you receive and participate in bi-weekly teachings and transmissions led by the Embodied Eros Faculty
*Throughout the training you will meet bi-weekly with a dedicated small group of peers, led by an apprentice faculty of Dance Meets Tantra
LEVEL THREE
Seven-Month Certification Practicum
September 2027 - March 2028
Tuition
LEVEL ONE (3 months)
Early Bird $4,000
Regular $4,500
LEVEL ONE + LEVEL TWO (9 months)
Early Bird $7,500
Regular $8,500
LEVEL THREE Certification Practicum (7 months)
$3,000
All Three Levels (16 months)
Early Bird $10,000
Regular $11,000
All retreats are held non-residentially at a beautiful venue in Boulder, CO.
*Tuition does not include room & board for the five in-person modules.
Hear from those who have experienced our work
“Having taught Tantra for 30 years, I know when a container is pristinely created and held and was impressed with how Spencer & Atilla built and held it.” ~Evalena Rose
"Spencer's facilitation manages to create profound emotional depth, sexiness, playfulness, gentleness and permission to go wild, all in a single day. His facilitation is both incredibly skillful and overflowing with devotion for the magic he's bringing to the world." ~Brian Basham
“Briana is truly one of a kind. Her ability to hold you (and the container) with alignment, trust, and depth is unparalleled. The space she creates is both honest and honoring of each unique experience, and allows for a deepening of your own expression and truth to come alive.
Briana has a special magic I haven’t experienced elsewhere. She weaves together words and ideas in a way that evokes something new in you, that moves something more in you, that caters to your highest soul potential.
She has a softness that removes the sharp edges around your growth, and gives you permission to bloom - and she has a strength that makes you feel guided and held in the container.
To be in Briana’s space is to be held, to be loved, to be inspired - and to be deeply, deeply transformed. Don’t miss the opportunity to work with her. It’s been a brilliant journey of self discovery and expression.” ~Olivia Conklin
Atilla is an incredible facilitator, who is clearly comfortable with erotic material to its edges even in the more challenging realms as death. His teachings and guided practices on many aspects of dying, letting go of our limitations to meet the fullness of ourselves and Reality are brilliant. His balance of containment/structure and mostly flow/allowing was heavenly. It was a rare treat that he bested any compulsion/habit/expectation to do the usual things in rote ways (like introducing ourselves), thereby always birthing something alive, true and juicy! Also in a lovely balance, he could allow what was, while simultaneously pulling the group into more depth of experience - sometimes with simple reminders like eliminating chit chat, other times with powerful invitations to really actually touch and meet resistance that keeps us from Wholeness. Incredibly done! Highly recommended deep inner work! Jen G, Sex Therapist, Sonoma Country, CA, USA
“The way Spencer beckons people to step in is quite special, and I felt it really opened the field of possibility. Your pacing as you spoke and facilitated was fantastic--allowed breath, feeling, rest. Some of the best pacing I've seen in facilitation, truly.” ~ Susan Coates
“DMT pulled me in with the trifecta of soul family, dance, and tantra—and it turned out to be one of the best weekends I’ve ever given myself. This container was masterfully held with care, respect, and freedom, helping me untie old knots and sail toward new horizons.
Through powerful exercises, I opened to a deeper love of my body, reclaimed childlike wonder, and stepped into confident, heart-led expression. The space was safe, playful, and profoundly supportive—held by a team skillful enough to meet me exactly where I needed. I left feeling more sensual, alive, and grateful than ever.” ~Elena Kim
"Spencer's facilitation is ON POINT. Raw, real, potent, and just as human as the rest of us." -Erica Shapiro
“Dance Meets Tantra is a powerful and playful dive into desire, emotion, connection, and authentic expression—held in a deeply supportive and consenting container of true integrity. The facilitators skillfully use dance to open the body and heart, creating the foundation for profound tantric practices that are nourishing, healing, sexy, and fun. By the end, we felt like a family—grateful, tearful, and alive—reminded of our true nature: connection, celebration, vulnerability, and embodied joy.” ~Jeremy Colbert
Witnessing Atilla hold space with such grounded presence and unwavering safety was deeply moving for me. The way Atilla embodied the strong, protective masculine — not by taking up space, but by creating it — rippled through the entire group. It shaped the energy of the container in a way that allowed my feminine to soften, to open, and to begin healing in ways I had never experienced before. Even though we didn’t connect directly, just witnessing him be — steady, present, honoring — was profoundly healing. It helped me begin to release some of the fear I had still been carrying… the fear that the masculine is something to guard against, something that takes rather than holds. For the first time, I felt how safe the masculine can be — and that feeling changed something fundamental in me. I’m deeply, deeply grateful. ~Anonymous workshop participant
The Final Invitation
This is your loving call-in.
If you’ve read this far and are feeling excitement, follow that energy.
If you are ready to step into the living transmission of purpose and embodiment that you know you were born to be, we’ve got your back.
We welcome those who are ready to walk this path with humility, devotion, and courage.
We can’t wait to meet you. ❤️