Dance Meets Tantra x Austin: Portals

Every moment can be a threshold.

At Dance Meets Tantra, we explore the edges of these thresholds and how to cross over them into what lies beyond. This year’s theme ~ P O R T A L S ~ invites us to notice them — in dance, in breath, in connection. Each step becomes a gateway. Each interaction, an opening. Together we step into the unknown, where shadow itself becomes a passage into freedom.

What you find will be uniquely your own, and yet woven with the collective body of us all. Portals remind us that transformation is always near, as close as presence itself.

Dance Meets Tantra returns to Austin for the fourth time. What we have experienced is that this is not just an event — it is a shift in the way that attendees move in other areas of their life, both on and off the dance floor. For three days, we gather to remember what it means to be fully, unapologetically alive.

There are transformations we can’t reach by ourselves. Alone, dance frees us. Together, dance opens portals — into intimacy, presence, and collective current. Tantra deepens this journey, inviting us to meet shadow and eros, body and spirit, not as concepts but as lived truth.

What to Expect

Each day builds on the last through movement, intimacy practices, ritual, and integration. There’s no pre-set script — the facilitation responds to the room, the people, and the moment.

We begin Friday evening by noticing how we have arrived — what’s alive in us right now, and what is ready to be worked with. The focus is authenticity and expression: Who am I in this moment? How can I be even more true?

On Saturday, we expand. Having touched into who we are, we step into the field of relationship. How do I meet others from this place of authenticity? How does my expression shape connection? What becomes possible when I show up fully?

On Sunday, we take it all onto the dance floor at Austin Ecstatic Dance, weaving what we’ve discovered into the wider community. We close the afternoon together in ritual, integrating the journey and sealing what has been opened.

What You'll Take With You

🌀 Authenticity, aliveness, and presence in your dance

🌀 Practices that expand intimacy with yourself and others

🌀 Boundaries that create more freedom

🌀 A deeper sense of connection and belonging

About Dance Meets Tantra

Born in Boulder, CO, Dance Meets Tantra has grown into a movement uniting conscious dance with intimacy practices, ritual, and shadow play. Our immersions are potent, playful, and trauma-informed — crafted to welcome both vulnerability and eros, light and shadow, in ways that are alive and human.

Dance Meets Tantra is a Space of:

~ Vulnerability — feeling and owning the full range of emotion.

~ Permission — expressing the full spectrum of self, including eros.

~ Safety — rooted in boundaries, consent, and responsibility

Our Approach to Tantra

For us, Tantra is the art of being fully alive. We encompass the entirety of humanness, including our sexual energy, but not entirely focused on this, as some may perceive — eros, when it arises, is honored as sacred. We draw from both classical and neo-tantric lineages, blending ancient wisdom with contemporary practice. In dance, this becomes visceral: the body as doorway, erotic energy as life-force, boundaries as portals into freedom.

This Immersion is for You if:

• You’re a dancer ready to go deeper

• You’re curious about tantra and want to explore in an embodied, grounded way

• You’re a practitioner or facilitator longing to receive

• You’ve never done anything like this, and feel the spark of curiosity

If you're feeling the call, join us. Space is limited.

❔Questions? Visit our FAQ (https://www.dancemeetstantra.com/faq)

You can also reach reach out directly to our organizer, Kayla:

📱 Text Kayla: +1 (512) 766-8667

📩 Email: Kayla.unraveled@gmail.com

Scholarships

We honor diversity and accessibility. Partial scholarships (30–50%) are available for participants from underrepresented backgrounds. Tickets are non-refundable but transferable.

Apply here: https://forms.gle/XHfyYLyjiB49ydnNA

Logistics and FAQ

Address:

Austin Ecstatic Dance Center

10203 Old Manchaca Rd, Austin, TX 78748

Workshop Time:

To maintain the safety, connection and intimacy of our container we ask that participants plan to attend for the entire duration of the immersion.

• Friday, November 21st

  • Arrival: Doors Open at 6:00pm. Doors close and container starts at 6:30pm.**

  • Workshop time: 6:30pm-10:00pm

• Saturday, November 22nd

  • Arrival: Doors Open at 10:30am. Doors close and container starts at 11:00am.**

  • Workshop time: 11:00am-5:30pm 

• Sunday, November 23rd

  • Optional Ecstatic Dance: Doors Open at 12:45pm (45-min Warm-Up). Opening Circle at 1:30pm (1-hour Main Wave).

  • Arrival: Doors Open at 4:00pm. Doors close and container starts at 4:30pm.**

  • Workshop time: 4:30pm-7:30pm 

**No one will be admitted after doors close time. There will be no exceptions.

Meals:

Friday - Please arrive having nourished yourself on Friday evening.

Saturday - We will have a 30-min break mid-workshop to nourish yourself. We will finish in time for dinner. Please arrive to the workshop nourished and bring your own lunch/snack for our break.

Sunday - As this is a shorter session, please plan to eat before and/or after session.

Space:

Limited to the first 60 sign-ups

COVID/Health Protocol:

Please be self-responsible and caring for the group by monitoring your health and exposure leading into our journey.

Refund & Transfer Policy:

There are no refunds. Tickets are transferrable to another participant in advance of the event and we ask that you be responsible for finding the buyer. 

Your Dance Meets Tantra Guides:

Briana Cribeyer

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

Drew

Drew is a facilitator and space-holder 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 neo-tantric 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.

Stephanie Soma

Stephanie is a somatic practitioner, facilitator, DJ, and ceremonialist devoted to guiding the return home to embodied aliveness. Since beginning her embodiment studies in 2009, she has immersed herself in dance, somatic experiencing, yoga therapy, and conscious relating. She lives as an embodied invitation—welcoming your fullest expression, from the fierce to the gentle. With a tender heart attuned to the innocence within your naturalness, Stephanie creates spaces where curiosity, warmth, and a touch of the ethereal invite you home to yourself.

Learn more: www.stephaniesoma.com

Yana Rumi

A seasoned team leader/collaborator with a demonstrated history of facilitation in community-oriented environments. Their skill sets shine when engaging in the Sacred/ Ritual Space, Group and Relationship Dynamics, Corporate and Nonprofit Organizations, Mindfulness, Sacred Sexuality, and Sustainability. 

Yana’s career has spanned many iterations, from solo entrepreneur to leadership roles in academia, government agencies, and the private sector. A newly published author, his book Simple Magick can be found here: https://a.co/d/8Kvgmru

Yana has been privileged to participate in thousands of hours of deep ritual and ceremony in the “Red Road” tradition of the Oglala Sioux Lakota of North America, the indigenous ways of the Andean / Amazonian peoples of South America, and the esoteric practices of the Trans-Himalayan tradition. Their name, in Runa simi (aka Quechua) of the Andean peoples, literally means “black stone”. The medicine of black stone is one that activates and amplifies the other medicines around it. This is the foundational offering and purpose of their life, to activate and amplify your medicine for the good of All.   

Testimonials for Dance Meets Tantra: 

"DMT is a beautifully, well-oiled offering. The container is created with an immense amount of care, intention, and trauma-informed awareness. Atilla, Spencer, Gemma, and all of the assistants cultivated a space of permission, of grace, of courage, of trust, of exploration, of depth, of joy, of love, and of acceptance. Whether you are brand new to the worlds of tantra and dance, or a devotee of these ways of life, DMT has something to offer everyone. Thank you for an incredible experience that re-sparked inspiration in my entire being!" ~ Brooke Alexander

"Having taught Tantra for 30 years, I know when a container is pristinely created and held and was impressed with how Spencer and Atilla build and held it. Before contact in the dances, they led us through 3 "Puja" stations that integrated the wisdom shared earlier of connecting first in our energy bodies with breath and, only with presence, going to touch. These experiences prepared this experienced dance community to move into contact from outside the auric field first, so settling to the nervous system of us empaths. I felt the contact more deeply for this Tantric approach to it that I left supremely satisfied." ~Evalena Rose

"DMT empowered me to be in greater contact with my "yes's" and "no's." This container gave me permission to participate in the exact ways that I was ready for, and not push myself beyond my comfort zone in a way that was unsustainable. By the end, I had such a fun time liberating my weird/ wild/ kinky/ primal self on the dance floor and relate with others in a way that is rare to find in common dance spaces. I am forever grateful for this space and what Danny, Atilla, and Spencer are creating. Also, their facilitation is ON POINT. Raw, real, potent, and just as human as the rest of us. Give yourself the gift of DMT. :)" - Erica Shapiro

"The instructional embodied ease of the facilitation was amazing! Their ability to create a safe container to go deeper or be wildly playful as a participant was amazing and appreciated! Their ability to speak directly and precisely with clear energy and boundaries, combined with inner wisdom and strength, supported me in being more open and trusting!" ~Candy James

"It's rare that I go to something that is truly life-changing & empowering, and our Dance Meets Tantra day together was exactly that. It was one of the greatest days of personal growth, fun, and sensual exploration I've ever had." ~ Jason Lamb

"It’s truly hard to put into words the profundity of what took place at the dance meets tantra retreat. There was an undeniable intelligence moving through each day that organized the field in the exact ways it needed. Moving through layers of shadow and alchemizing them into wholeness. Each person brought a piece to the puzzle that was incredibly important and the collective healing that unfolded was beyond anything I have ever been a part of. This container allowed it all to be there - tenderness, pleasure, joy, grief, beauty, pain, ecstasy, heartbreak, heart opening. I felt deeply safe in the space (and it takes a lot for me to feel safe) and a huge reason for that is the high quality presence and care each of the facilitators brought. It really was such a special experience that I will forever hold in my heart with deep gratitude and reverence." ~Anaia Sundara

"Dance Meets Tantra was exactly what I was calling in, everything I didn’t know I needed, and beyond all my expectations all at the same time. I firmly believe that vulnerability and deep transformation in group contexts becomes possible when the container is IMPECCABLY held, where safety and invitation and expert facilitation are held in paramount importance…and not every event has that. DMT does. This team brings such a thoughtful, attentive approach towards the day and held the group with perfection, which allowed me to LET GO on a profound level. I felt the safety and space to connect with my body and with tender edges of my sexuality and expression, with the knowledge that I was deeply loved and celebrated in all of my rawness. I left DMT with a deeper understanding and embrace of my own desires, and with transformation in my relationship with my partner. My partner and I faced edges alone and together, and within DMT had the structure to lean into those and emerge in deeper love." ~Megan Beatty

Feel free to check out our website for many many more testimonials. ❤

Thank you! We can't wait to connect.

~ Briana, Drew, Stephanie, Yana, & the rest of the Dance Meets Tantra Team