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 embodiment

A 5-month professional training that certifies coaches, leaders, 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

March - July 2026

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The Dance Meets Tantra Facilitator Training is for the leaders, catalysts and the 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 unleash souls.

Rooted in movement, eros, shadow work, and relational intelligence, this training invites you to step fully into the role of transmitter and space-holder, grounded in your unique voice and natural expression.

For the first time, 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 online sessions, in-person retreats, mentorship, and practice, 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.

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  1. Design and lead transformational journeys that blend dance, ritual, and relational practices into a powerful arc.

  2. Hold a trauma-informed field of trust, play, and depth where participants feel free to express and safe to explore.

  3. Work masterfully with eros, honoring sexual energy as intelligent life force while navigating it with clarity and consent.

  4. Navigate group dynamics and shadow with grounded presence, empathy, and skill.

  5. 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:

Program Outline

In-Person Retreats

The program is built around three 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 Freedom (March 25–29, 2026)

  • Retreat 2: Developmental Pedagogy & Temple Arts (May 27–31, 2026)

  • Retreat 3: Embodied Facilitation & Ritual (June 24–28, 2026)

1:1 Mentorship

Each participant receives a dedicated mentor (either Briana, Spencer, or Atilla) for monthly private sessions. These 45-minute calls support your personal development, clarify your facilitation strengths, and offer tailored feedback and guidance.

Online Components

We will supplement the powerful in-person modules with online meetings.

Group Sessions: We meet as a full cohort every other week to share teachings, deepen the group field, and explore facilitation tools and embodiment practices. These sessions are guided by rotating faculty and offer space for learning, reflection, and shared presence.

Pod Meetings: In between the larger group calls, you will participate in smaller pod groups led by assistants. These spaces support vulnerable sharing, self-breakthroughs, skill practice, and peer accountability.

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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

1. Invitation to Apprentice with Dance Meets Tantra

Some participants in the training will demonstrate the skills, abilities, and mindset to be invited into the Dance Meets Tantra organization as Apprentices and 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 co-lead at official DMT events, deepen their skills through direct mentorship, and be on the path toward becoming a lead facilitator.

2. Certification from Dance Meets Tantra

All participants who successfully complete the training will have the opportunity to be certified as Dance Meets Tantra Certified Facilitators. This certification is a mark of quality, a signal that you have demonstrated the skills, embodiment, and ethical grounding to facilitate in the DMT style.

Certification does not grant the right to use the Dance Meets Tantra brand name in your own personal offerings. Instead, it signifies that you have trained in our approach and met the high standards we require for the work.

3. Graduation

Graduation from the Dance Meets Tantra 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.

Meet the Team

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    Briana Cribeyer

    Facilitator Training Lead

    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 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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    Spencer Jacobson

    Co-Founder of Dance Meets Tantra, 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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Hear from those who have experienced our work

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“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

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"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

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“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

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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

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“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

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"Spencer's facilitation is ON POINT. Raw, real, potent, and just as human as the rest of us." -Erica Shapiro

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“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

Curriculum Overview

Module 1: Embodied Freedom

This module focuses on your personal embodiment as a facilitator. You will explore:

  • Movement and dance as transformational practices

  • Emotional expression, nervous system regulation, and presence

  • Erotic intelligence and relational boundaries. Claiming desires

    & healthy expressions of eros.

  • Shadow integration and parts work

  • Ritual as a practice of meaning and transformation

  • Clarity around your values, truth, and vision

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Module 2: Developmental Pedagogy & Temple Arts

This module offers essential psychological and spiritual foundations for working with others in depth. Topics include:

  • Harnessing our shadows, traumas and obstacles as our gift.

  • Facilitation as our own soul initiation

  • Working through our own defense mechanisms, The Five Personality Patterns and their impact on facilitation

  • How to recognize and respond to patterned needs of the participants

  • Emotional alchemy as a way to support integration and growth

  • Being an embodied pillar and space holder for transformational temple arts, eros, and sexuality

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Module 3: Embodied Facilitation & Leadership

This module provides the practical and energetic skills for guiding individuals and groups through transformational experiences. You will explore:

  • Holding space with safety, clarity, and attunement

  • Leading circles, offering feedback, and guiding process work

  • Reading the field and making adjustments. Containing and penetrating the field

    with attunement and skill

  • Voice work, energetic presence, and leadership development

  • Navigating projections, resistance, and emotional activation

  • Designing and leading rituals with integrity

  • Coaching frameworks and experiential learning formats

  • Dance facilitation for solo, dyadic, and group movement

  • Eros facilitation and the dynamics of trust and play

  • Trauma sensitivity, co-regulation, and ethical spaceholding

  • Designing content that reflects your gifts and values

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Other essential skills covered:

  • Event production

  • Team leadership

  • Marketing and messaging

  • Pricing and ethical frameworks

  • Navigating power dynamics and boundaries

  • Music selection and potential DJ’ing.

Training Timeline

March to July 2026

March 2 – Welcome, agreements, and intentions

Mar 9 – Group field weaving

Mar 16 – Preparation for Retreat 1

Mar 25–29 – Retreat 1: Embodied Freedom, Boulder, CO

Apr 6 & 20 – Developmental pedagogy and embodiment work

May 4 & 18 – Facilitation skill development

May 27–31 – Retreat 2: Developmental Pedagogy & Facilitation, Boulder, CO

June 8 – Retreat Integration call

Jun 24–28 – Retreat 3: Embodied Facilitation & Ritual, Boulder, CO

(July 1 - 5 Dance Meets Tantra FESTIVAL in Colorado - not part of the facilitator training but attendance highly encouraged)

July 13 – Retreat integration callJuly 20 – Event backend and business foundations

July 27 – Completion, celebration and closing session

Who is this training for?

This training is designed for facilitators, coaches, space-holders, artists, embodiment practitioners, and anyone drawn to the intersection of movement, eros, and personal transformation. Whether you are stepping into facilitation for the first time or refining an established path, this journey offers meaningful depth, skilled mentorship, and the opportunity to join the Dance Meets Tantra ecosystem

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Training Tuition

Early Bird: $5,900 | sign ups by September 15th

Regular: $6,500

The price does not include room & board for the three in-person modules. Low-cost lodging and food will be available for each of the three in-person modules. 

Have questions?

Feel free to reach out to us at play@dancemeetstantra.com or to Briana, Spencer or Atilla directly if you have a prior relationship.

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. ❤️

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