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 6-month professional training that certifies leaders, coaches, and ritual artists in trauma-informed group facilitation, expands your leadership capacity, and equips you to facilitate Dance Meets Tantra and your own life-changing offerings.
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.
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.
Rooted in the Dance Meets Tantra methodology 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.
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.
By the end of the training, you will have developed the capacity to:
Read and work with a living group field — sensing shifts in energy, coherence, resistance, readiness, and momentum, and adapting your facilitation in real time.
Design transformational experiences that actually move people — using sequencing, ritual, dance, relational practice, intensity, spaciousness, and integration to create powerful arcs.
Stay present when the room gets charged — with emotion, attraction, conflict, projection, uncertainty, erotic energy, resistance, or the unexpected.
Lead from embodied authority — trusting your body, your voice, and your perception enough to intervene when needed, get out of the way when needed, and stop relying on a script to tell you what to do.
Work skillfully and responsibly with Eros — including desire, attraction, touch, polarity, power, consent, boundaries, and relational responsibility.
Navigate difficult group moments with greater skill — including activation, rupture, shadow, interpersonal tension, and repair.
Create from your own transmission — taking the principles and craft you’ve learned and applying them to the workshops, retreats, rituals, communities, and bodies of work that are uniquely yours.
Recognize deeper patterns shaping a group — including projection, attachment dynamics, personality patterns, and survival strategies so you can respond to what is truly happening underneath the surface.
The goal is not simply to give you more tools. It is to make you a more perceptive, embodied, trustworthy, creative, and powerful facilitator.
Hear from Participants of Embodied Eros
“This training helped me finally cross the threshold of creating soul-aligned offerings in the world. I ran my first Sacred Edge workshop after Module 1 and have since run three more. I’m landing a real capacity to lead embodied dance journeys and rituals, and I feel the impact through the results happening in my life’s work. I loved this program, it was one of the best I’ve attended, and I’ve been to many dozens of retreats and programs.”
-Edmond Lau
“This training changed how I understand facilitation. I moved from a doing-oriented approach toward trusting who I am being in the room, my embodiment, presence, and attunement. I have more trust in my body’s wisdom, more capacity to hold discomfort without fixing it, and more confidence that when the unexpected arises, I can stay present and know what to do. I launched new offers, enrolled new clients, raised my rates, and stepped into facilitating larger groups with a groundedness I didn’t have before.”
-Steph Shinabery
“Before the training, I was the girl standing against the wall when the music started, terrified of being seen and terrified of doing it wrong. Now I have much more capacity to let myself be moved, express myself, and command a room. I trust that people will follow me, that I deserve to facilitate these spaces, and that this isn’t just a fantasy. I’ve also built an incredible capacity to feel deeply without collapsing or losing myself.”
-Kristen Davis
“I leave this training feeling more in my center than I ever have. I feel in direct relationship with my power, ready to take a stand for what I believe in and create from that place. My relationship with charge has completely shifted, I can work with it instead of collapsing under it. The training isn’t separate from my life anymore; it has seeped into every area of it. I feel my spine strongly and feel like I’m fully standing in who I am.”
-Soraya Masi
“I’ve had more practice facilitatingI have a huge amount of trust in my ability to pull something off. Any moment that I got to lead was impactful and an update to my known capacity.
It was an incredible program. I loved that it was five months long rather than, say, a week-long container. The integration meant it wasn’t just transforming within a temple, but truly making room for the expansion to exist in the real world.”
-Dan Jedynak
“I feel more at home in my core than I ever have and much more capable of rising into leadership. I’ve developed the ability to flow with facilitation rather than getting stuck in my mind or needing external validation. There was a moment while I was facilitating when the energy was really moving and someone called for Spencer. Spencer checked whether I needed him, and I answered ‘No’ from a place of deep trust. I now trust my ability to hold a container from a grounded, present place.”
-Danny Presencia
Curriculum Overview
Please see the details below of each level of the program
Part 1: Embodied Eros Intensive
In-person training takes place January 13–18, 2027 | Boulder, Colorado
The Embodied Eros Intensive is a six-day transformational deep dive into embodiment, relationship, erotic integrity, and the deepest truths of who you are.
If you let it, this is an embodiment training experience that you don’t come back from. Not the “you” that existed before. Your sense of self, your sense of what is possible, and your capacity to express, connect, and relate as the deepest truth of who you are.
The Intensive is the most profound personal immersion currently offered within the Dance Meets Tantra ecosystem, and the foundation on which the Embodied Eros Facilitator Training is built.
This is an invitation to step outside the pace, identities, and strategies of ordinary life and enter a sustained field of embodied inquiry alongside people who are equally committed to meeting themselves honestly.
Through a potent blend of dance, ritual, relational practice, nervous-system awareness, attachment exploration, inner-child work, emotional truth, desire, expression, shadow, and the living intelligence of Eros, you will explore:
your capacity for embodied freedom and aliveness
the patterns shaping your relationships and intimacy
your relationship with desire, power, boundaries, and authentic expression
the places where your history still organizes your present
the deeper purpose and transmission seeking to move through your life
We believe the foundation of all trustworthy leadership and facilitation is embodiment. Before we can guide others into deeper truth, freedom, and transformation, we must become more capable of inhabiting those places ourselves.
Although we refer to this as Level One, it is not beginner-level work.
The Intensive attracts experienced practitioners, leaders, facilitators, creatives, and devoted students of emdbodiment and transformation who sense they are on the verge of a more integrated expression of their purpose, power, and aliveness.
You do not need to want to become a facilitator to attend.
This experience is complete in itself. You may choose to stop here and leave with a powerful set of tools for life, love, purpose, community, and personal growth.
It is also a pre-requisite for anyone desiring to train with us as embodied eros leaders and facilitators.
Intensive Details:
In-person training dates are January 13-18, 2027 in Boulder, CO
Jan 13 and 18 are full training days, plan to travel on January 12 and 19
Includes a group online preparation call one week before
Includes a 45-minute 1-1 Online Integration Session following the training
Themes we’ll explore:
Relational intelligence and connection
Attachment dynamics and core childhood material
Presence, authenticity, and self-expression
Emotional intelligence and self-regulation
Consent, boundaries, and trust
Intimacy and depth-oriented relating
Sacred sexuality and embodied eros
Polarity, attraction, and energetic awareness
Ritual as a gateway to shamanic states
The relational field as a path of transformation
Dance as a portal to individual, relational and collective awakening
Part 2: Embodied Eros Facilitator Training
Part 2 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.
The Embodied Eros Intensive is a pre-requisite for Part 2.
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 Two: March 15–20, 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 Three: May 10–15, 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
PART THREE: Embodied Eros Practicum & Certification
A three-month supervised pathway toward certification taking place Fall 2027
For graduates who want to take their training into the world, Level Three is where learning becomes real-world practice.
It is a powerful opportunity to truly integrate what you’ve learned. After six months of training, the cohort has built trust, shared language, creative momentum, and a powerful group field. Rather than just ending, the Practicum gives you three months to stay connected deeply connected to the field, keep practicing, receive support, and continue to bring what you’ve learned into your actual life and work.
Over three months you will:
Design and facilitate a real-world offering that reflects the work you want to bring forward
Receive group and 1:1 mentorship, supervision, and feedback
Stay connected to the peer field as you take creative and professional risks together
Refine your facilitation through actual practice
Submit written reflection and video documentation for assessment
Demonstrate competency in embodied, relational, and transformational facilitation
The Practicum is not about reproducing Embodied Eros exercises. It is about translating what you have learned into work that is authentically yours.
Certification is earned through demonstrated competency, embodiment, ethical integrity, leadership, and real-world application, not simply through attendance or completion.
Successful candidates receive the designation Certified Embodied Eros Facilitator, representing our professional endorsement that we have witnessed your facilitation and are willing to stand behind your foundational capacity to bring this work into the world.
THE LEARNING CONTAINER
In-Person Retreats
The program is built around three six-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 Intensive - Deep Dive Personal Embodiment & Transformational Journey
Retreat 2: Embodied Leadership & Transformational Design
Retreat 3: Embodied Facilitation, Transmission, & Field Alchemy
1-1 Mentorship
Personalized guidance, feedback, supervision, and support throughout your journey. Each participant receives a dedicated mentor for four private sessions. These 45-minute calls support your personal development, clarify your facilitation strengths, and offer tailored feedback and guidance.
Embodied Eros Bi-Weekly Live Online 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.
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.
What We Actually Train:
Great facilitation is more than knowing good exercises. It is the capacity to meet what is actually happening, work intelligently with the energy in the room, and create the conditions for a group to become more alive, connected, and coherent
Throughout Embodied Eros, we train seven interconnected territories:
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Learn to experience a group as a living system. Track shifts in energy, relationship, momentum, contraction, and coherence — and learn how your choices as a facilitator can cultivate a field that becomes palpably more than the sum of its parts.Description text goes here
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Learn to use dance and movement as more than an activity or warm-up. Explore dance shamanism and the dance floor as a living laboratory for embodiment, relationship, leadership, patterning, Eros, and transformation. Work with music, rhythm, improvisation, and embodied expression to shift state, reveal what is alive, build connection, and move a group field. Develop greater confidence creating and facilitating dance-based experiences that are purposeful, responsive, ritualized, and alive.
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Tension. Attraction. Pleasure. Conflict. Fear. Intensity. The unknown. Learn to stay present with more aliveness without rushing to control, collapse, perform, fix, or prematurely resolve it. A group field cannot go somewhere your nervous system cannot go.
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Develop the self-trust to take up space, make clear decisions, hold authority responsibly, communicate cleanly, and lead from your body rather than from performance or persona.
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Explore erotic energy as life force while developing greater skill with desire, attraction, polarity, projection, touch, boundaries, consent, agency, and relational responsibility.
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Learn the craft behind building and guiding experiences that alter states, shift consciousness, and build coherence. We dive into sequencing, pacing, openings, transitions, ritual design, circle, emotional arcs, integration, and completion.
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Dive deeply into Reichian Character Structures as maps of survival, embodiment, relationship, and consciousness. Learn to recognize how these patterns shape posture, behavior, intimacy, leadership, projection, and the way people participate in a group field. Explore how different structures interact, what happens when they become activated, and how greater awareness of these patterns can help you facilitate with more precision, compassion, and choice.
Become more capable of recognizing the patterns moving beneath the surface of a group and staying relational when things get complicated.
Work with projection, attachment dynamics, rupture, resistance, activation, and repair.
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Facilitation is also an initiation of the facilitator. Discover what happens when you stop trying to become somebody else’s version of a leader and allow your own gifts, purpose, creativity, and transmission to become more fully visible.
Meet the Faculty
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Spencer Jacobson
Co-Founder of Dance Meets Tantra & Attachment Alchemy, Program Director & Lead Faculty of Embodied Eros
Spencer Jacobson is a facilitator, leadership consultant, coach, and visionary creator with more than 13 years of experience guiding groups, supporting purpose-driven leaders, and developing brands that shift the culture.
People often find Spencer at moments of soul initiation: times when an old identity, path, or way of living is no longer enough, and something deeper is asking to be listened to. Much of his work is devoted to guiding people through these initiatory thresholds, especially as they step more fully into their power, trust the innate intelligence of their bodies, and bring forward the work, leadership, and life that feel most authentically theirs.
He is the co-founder of Dance Meets Tantra, a body of work bridging conscious dance, relational intimacy, Eros, ritual, and transformational facilitation, and Attachment Alchemy, a school dedicated to community-based somatic attachment repair and secure relating. He also co-founded Emergence Brotherhood and previously founded Guided, which supported thousands of business leaders around the world through coaching and leadership development.
Spencer’s work draws from ontological coaching, Internal Family Systems, developmental psychology, craniosacral therapy, conscious dance, functional movement, sacred sexuality, men’s work, meditation, contact improvisation, and other somatic and embodiment practices.
Within Embodied Eros Facilitator Training, he teaches embodied leadership, field facilitation, dance shamanism, transformational experience design, group process, ritual and practice design, and working skillfully with relational and erotic charge.
His deepest intention is not to create facilitators who imitate him or Dance Meets Tantra, but to help people become more fully themselves, listen more deeply to what their lives are asking of them, and bring their own distinct bodies of work into the world.
"Your heart knows the way, run in that direction” - Rumi
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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.
What People Say About Our Faculty
“Having taught Tantra for over 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 (Founder - Alchemy of Love & pioneer of the neo-tantra movement)
"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
“From the very first time I experienced Rachel’s in-person training, I felt drawn to return to her work. She combines warmth, playfulness and deep humanity with an extraordinary ability to sense what is happening in the room. Rachel teaches the importance of working with emergence, and I have witnessed her embody this beautifully in real time, responding intuitively to what is alive while holding the space with clarity and purpose. She doesn’t simply teach techniques; she helps others discover their own authentic way of facilitating the relational field. My experiences with Rachel have been powerful, moving and genuinely transformative.”
~ Lee
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 (Somatica Institute Faculty Instructor)
"Spencer's facilitation is ON POINT. Raw, real, potent, and just as human as the rest of us."
~Erica Shapiro
"From the very first time I experienced Rachel’s in-person training, I felt drawn to return to her work. She combines warmth, playfulness and deep humanity with an extraordinary ability to sense what is happening in the room. Rachel teaches the importance of working with emergence, and I have witnessed her embody this beautifully in real time—responding intuitively to what is alive while holding the space with clarity and purpose. She doesn’t simply teach techniques; she helps others discover their own authentic way of facilitating the relational field. My experiences with Rachel have been powerful, moving and genuinely transformative.”
~Lee James, Facilitator
“I have been working with Rachel for nearly a year now with the Field Facilitation training and also assisting on Intimacy Camps. I can hands down say her work is at the leading edge of understanding our potential for Intimacy and Community as Humans. Her Training and insight are meticulous and her work gives me hope about the future of facilitation. I highly recommend this work for those wanting to uplevel their skills.”
~ Niall Graham, Facilitator and Coach
“Don’t believe the hype. Rachel’s radiance isn’t in the curated pages or impeccable footage of presence in action- it is in her voice, her touch, her eyes, all telling you to run toward the edge where self-led transformation becomes both exquisite and real. I entered her Facilitation Training wanting to embody watertight authority and trustworthiness; instead, I emerged with a tender nervous system… able to distinguish what was truly helpful from what was historical and habitual and from that tenderness, resilience naturally grew. Rachel translates the spirit of homecoming into relevant practical skills and newly attuned nervous systems: sensitive, responsive, learning to trust again, and able to help others recognize what healing feels like. She does not lead from above, but from within the field itself, embodying a fierce, feminine leadership devoted to the clean transmission of supporting others on their paths of transformation. This is what I have experienced, repeatedly, in her care.”
~ Peneleapaí, Indie artist, keynote speaker, and proud graduate
Training Timeline
Orientation & Opening Call: January 6, 2027
PART ONE: Embodied Eros Intensive
Module One: January 13-18, 2027
PART TWO: Embodied Eros Facilitator Training
Module Two: Embodied Leadership & Transformational Design | March 15–20, 2027
Module Three: Embodied Facilitation, Transmission, & Field Alchemy | May 10–15, 2027
Between modules, participants continue their learning through:
Bi-weekly 90-minute live online teachings and transmissions led by the Embodied Eros Faculty (attendance of at least 75% required to be eligible for Certification)
Bi-weekly meetings with a dedicated small group of peers, led by apprentice facilitators of Dance Meets Tantra (attendance of at least 75% required to be eligible for Certification)
PART THREE: Optional Embodied Eros Practicum & Certification Pathway - Fall 2027
For graduates who choose to pursue certification, the three-month Embodied Eros Practicum provides supervised real-world facilitation, mentorship, feedback, integration, and formal assessment toward becoming a Certified Embodied Eros Facilitator.
Tuition
Full Embodied Eros Facilitator Training
Includes:
Level One: Embodied Eros Intensive
Level Two: Facilitator Training Modules Two and Three
18 full in-person training days
Biweekly online transmissions throughout the training
Four 45-minute individual mentorship sessions
Ongoing practice, integration, and faculty support
Early-Bird: $7,250
Regular: $8,250
Embodied Eros Intensive Only*
Includes:
The six-day Embodied Eros Intensive
One 45-minute Integration and Pathway Session following the Intensive
Early-Bird: $2,250
Regular: $2,750
The Intensive is a complete transformational experience in itself. You do not need to pursue the Facilitator Training in order to participate.
*Participants who enroll in the Intensive only do not have a guaranteed place in Modules Two and Three. Facilitator Training enrollment is very limited, and the previous cohort sold out approximately two months before the program began.
Residential Costs
All retreats are non-residential and held at a beautiful day-venue in Boulder, CO
Room & board expenses are not included in tuition.
Facilitator Training Outcomes
Graduation
Graduation from the Embodied Eros Facilitator Training is a recognition of your dedication, growth, embodiment, and demonstrated facilitation capacity.
Graduation means you have:
Attended all in-person training modules
Participated fully in the learning process
Demonstrated growing competence in facilitation, space-holding, and group leadership
Received and integrated feedback from peers and lead facilitators
Demonstrated integrity with boundaries, agreements, and relational responsibility
Embodied the values and spirit of Embodied Eros andDance Meets Tantra
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.
Certification
Graduates who meet the participation requirements below will have the opportunity to pursue Embodied Eros Certification through the Embodied Eros Supervised Leadership & Facilitation Practicum.
To be eligible for the certification pathway, participants must:
Attend all three in-person training modules
Attend at least 70% of online classes and transmissions
Maintain consistent participation with their peer pod throughout the training
Successfully graduate from the Facilitator Training
The certification pathway is a three-month supervised practicum in which you will create, refine, launch, and facilitate a real-world offering while receiving 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.
Becoming an Embodied Eros Certified Facilitator means you have demonstrated the capacity to facilitate empowering, embodied, ethical, and erotically alive spaces with consistency and integrity.
Invitation to Apprentice with Dance Meets Tantra
Apprenticeship is by invitation only. Select graduates may be invited to apprentice with Dance Meets Tantra based on demonstrated skill, integrity, maturity, relational responsibility, embodiment, and alignment with the values of the work.
We are looking for people who hold impeccable boundaries, lead from the heart, receive feedback well, work skillfully with group dynamics and charge, and demonstrate the capacity to create powerful and trustworthy group fields.
Apprentices may have opportunities to develop their facilitation at official Dance Meets Tantra events, receive deeper mentorship from DMT faculty, and progress toward becoming a Dance Meets Tantra Facilitator.
Graduation does not guarantee certification, and neither graduation nor certification guarantees an invitation to apprentice with Dance Meets Tantra.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Embodied Eros Facilitator Training is an advanced somatic and embodied facilitation and leadership training for successful coaches, therapists, facilitators, organizational leaders, and transformational practitioners. The training is a deeply powerful personal transformational journey that also develops the capacity to lead powerful group experiences through embodiment, relational practice, group process, field awareness, experience design, and facilitation skills.
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It is primarily for people already successfully working with humans in some capacity, including coaches, therapists, somatic practitioners, facilitators, workshop and retreat leaders, intimacy professionals, community leaders, and CEOs.
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Both. The training is deeply experiential because we believe you need to embody the work before you can skillfully facilitate it. But this is also a professional facilitator training designed to help you build some badass skills.
You will learn and practice concrete skills in embodied leadership, group facilitation, Field Facilitation, sequencing, transformational experience design, working with charge and activation, relational dynamics, boundaries, intervention, ritual, group process, and adapting in real time.
You will also have opportunities to facilitate, receive feedback, and understand the thinking behind what the faculty is doing.
The intention is not simply that you leave transformed.
If you show up for the work, you will leave more capable, skilled and trustworthy as a facilitator and leader.
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Trainees develop skills across a wide range of facilitation disciplines, including:
Somatic and embodied facilitation
Group process and group dynamics
Field Facilitation and Field Alchemy
Transformational experience design
Sequencing and pacing
Ritual architecture
Conscious dance and movement facilitation
Relational practices
Working with Eros and charge
Consent, boundaries, and power
Conflict, rupture, and repair
Reichian Character Structures
Attachment and survival patterns
Reading the room and adapting in real time
Circle facilitation
Intervention
Improvisational leadership
Integration and completion
The emphasis is not on intellectual understanding. It’s on developing greater capacity to use these skills in real situations.
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Yes.
Embodied Eros includes opportunities to facilitate individuals, small groups, and larger group experiences, experiment with different structures, receive direct feedback, and learn from watching other participants facilitate.
You need reps. You need to lead. You need to get in there and get messy.
You need things not to go exactly according to plan.
And you need thoughtful feedback from people who can help you see what you may not yet be able to see yourself.
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Dance is one of our primary laboratories for learning facilitation.
We explore conscious dance, movement, improvisation, music, embodied expression, in an overall paradigm that we call “dance shamanism”. This is one of our approaches to shifting state, revealing patterns, exploring Eros, building connection, and working with a group field.
The dance floor becomes a living practice laboratory for embodiment, relationship, leadership, desire, resistance, self-expression, social patterning, and transformation.
Participants also learn to become more intentional about how music, movement, and dance can be woven into transformational group experiences.
No formal dance background is required.
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Yes. Many therapists, coaches, and practitioners develop significant depth working one-to-one but have received far less training in experiential group facilitation.
Leading a group asks for additional capacities: tracking multiple people simultaneously, understanding group dynamics, pacing intensity, designing experiences, managing relational complexity, reading the collective field, and deciding when to intervene and when to allow the group process to unfold.
Embodied Eros specifically develops these capacities.
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Yes.
Embodied Eros is not a business-development program, but many participants use the training to deepen or create their own workshops, retreats, rituals, communities, methodologies, and bodies of work.
We are not interested in producing facilitators who simply reproduce Dance Meets Tantra exercises.
We want you to understand the principles beneath powerful transformational experiences deeply enough that you can translate them into work that is authentically yours.
During the training many participants discover on a deeper level the work they truly want to share with the world.
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No. We are not looking for trainees to perform, appear impressive, conceal their struggles, or demonstrate that they are already skilled facilitators. We are interested in sincerity, authenticity and a willingness to truly engage in the work from a beginner’s mind.
Similarly, participants offered acceptance only to the Intensive are encouraged to engage honestly rather than attempting to prove that they belong in the Facilitator Training.
About the training
Program Structure & Logistics
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Orientation & Opening Call: January 6, 2027
Part One: Embodied Eros Intensive
Module One: January 13–18, 2027Part Two: Facilitator Training & Field Leadership
Module Two: Embodied Leadership & Transformational Design
March 15–20, 2027Module Three: Embodied Facilitation, Transmission & Field Alchemy
May 10–15, 2027Part Three: Optional Practicum & Certification Pathway
Fall 2027We also have bi-weekly online transmissions and bi-weekly small group pod meetings.
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Many participants coming from out of town team up with other cohort members to rent Airbnbs, while others stay with friends or community in the Boulder area. People often share rides, cook meals together, and make the logistics part of the experience. It tends to become another sweet layer of connection and community within the cohort.
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The training continues between the in-person immersions.
Participants receive:
Biweekly 90-minute live online teachings and transmissions led by Embodied Eros Faculty
Biweekly meetings with a dedicated small group of peers
Individual mentorship sessions
Practices, reflection, and integration
Ongoing opportunities to apply the material in real life and in participants’ existing work
The intention is for the training to become something you live over the course of six months rather than something that only happens during three retreats.
Enrollment, Tuition & Policies
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You can absolutely enroll in the Embodied Eros Intensive as a standalone experience and later apply to continue into Modules 2 and Three. If you are accepted and space remains, all tuition you've already paid for the Intensive will be credited toward the Regular $8,250 Facilitator Training tuition.
For example, if you paid the $2,250 early-bird Intensive tuition, you would have $6,000 remaining. If you paid the $2,750 regular Intensive tuition, you would have $5,500 remaining.
Enrollment in the Intensive alone does not reserve or guarantee a place in the Facilitator Training.
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Participants enrolled in the Intensive as a standalone experience receive one 45-minute Integration and Pathway Session within 10 days after the Intensive concludes.
This session provides space to:
Integrate what opened during the Intensive
Clarify your next developmental or leadership edge
Explore whether the Facilitator Training may be an aligned next step
Identify other forms of support when continuing into the training is not the right path
There is no expectation that you continue into the Facilitator Training, and participation in this session does not guarantee acceptance.
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Some applicants may be accepted into the Embodied Eros Intensive with conditional acceptance into the Facilitator Training.
Conditional acceptance means that we see meaningful potential and alignment, while also wanting to experience the applicant within the in-person Intensive before confirming their place in Modules Two and Three.
Participants in this category initially enroll in and pay for the Intensive only.
Following the Intensive, the faculty team will consider factors including:
Mutual fit
Readiness for facilitator development
Relational responsibility
Receptivity to feedback
Respect for boundaries and agreements
Alignment with the expectations of the Facilitator Training
A final admissions decision will be communicated within five calendar days after the Intensive concludes.
Participants who receive final acceptance will have five additional calendar days to confirm their enrollment and complete the Facilitator Training agreement.
All Intensive tuition already paid will be credited toward the full-program tuition.
Because the decision to wait was initiated by the admissions team, conditionally accepted participants will retain the full-program tuition rate that was available at the time of their original enrollment rather than being moved to the later regular tuition rate.
For example: If you enrolled in the Intensive at the $2,250 early-bird rate, and you are later fully accepted into the Facilitator Training, that $2,250 will be credited toward the $7,250 early-bird full-program tuition. You would then have $5,000 remaining.
Conditional acceptance does not guarantee admission into Modules Two and Three. The Intensive remains a complete and valuable experience regardless of the final admissions decision.
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Participants enrolled in the full Facilitator Training may use the Embodied Eros Intensive as a final discernment point before continuing into Modules Two and Three.
To withdraw, you must notify the program team in writing within 10 calendar days after the Intensive concludes.
Your enrollment will then convert to Intensive-only enrollment. We will retain the applicable Intensive tuition plus a $500 nonrefundable program reservation deposit, and refund any remaining eligible tuition you have paid.
The reservation deposit reflects the fact that a place in the full Facilitator Training was held for you and that faculty, staffing, mentorship assignments, cohort size, space availability, and program resources are planned based on confirmed enrollment.
For example: If you enrolled in the full program at the $7,250 early-bird rate and decide within the 10-day post-Intensive discernment window not to continue, we would retain the $2,250 early-bird Intensive tuition + $500 reservation deposit = $2,750 total, and refund the remaining $4,500 you paid.
If you enrolled at the $8,250 regular rate, we would retain the $2,750 regular Intensive tuition + $500 reservation deposit = $3,250 total, and refund the remaining $5,000 you paid.
After the 10-calendar-day withdrawal window closes, your place in the Facilitator Training is considered fully confirmed and all remaining tuition becomes nonrefundable, regardless of attendance or later withdrawal.
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Participation in Modules Two and Three remains contingent upon continued alignment with the readiness, relational responsibility, ethical conduct, and participation expectations of the Facilitator Training.
If the faculty team determines after the Intensive that continuing is not appropriate because of fit, readiness, or developmental considerations, your enrollment will be converted to Intensive-only enrollment.
In that circumstance:
If you enrolled in the full program at the early-bird rate, the early-bird Intensive tuition of $2,250 will be retained.
If you enrolled in the full program at the regular rate, the regular Intensive tuition of $2,750 will be retained.
All remaining tuition paid toward Modules Two and Three will be refunded.
No withdrawal fee or nonrefundable program deposit will be retained.
“I’ve been in many, many fields, and never have I felt quite as deeply met, seen, reflected, expanded, empowered, or ALIVE. There is a particular resonance of capital-T Truth that was tapped these past days.
There is such capacity, devotion, willingness, and HEART here. I’ve never felt so supported to show up for what’s fucking real. This is JUST the beginning. I intend to ride this momentum and be intentional with integration.
I feel a genuine connection and appreciation for everyone in this space. It feels rare. And I’ve been in so many containers.”
— LaVina D’Anjolell
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. ❤️