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. Last year's theme ~ P O R T A L S ~ is back! Portals is an invitation for 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 seventh 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 a full day, 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 activity 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 the day 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?

Then, 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?

Finally, we take weave it all together with an Ecstatic Dance, practicing what we’ve discovered on the dance floor. We close 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 events 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

Venue:

To Be Announced

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.

• Saturday, November 7th

  • Arrival: Doors Open at 9:30am. Doors close and container starts at 10:00am.**

  • Workshop time: 10:00am-7:00pm 

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

Meals:

Saturday - We will have a 1-hour 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.

Space:

Limited to the first 60 sign-ups

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.

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

Testimonials for Dance Meets Tantra x Austin: 

"DMT mirrors what you want from it, and what you bring to it. It could be scary, and it will be liberating. The thing I most appreciate about DMT is that it meets me wherever I am in my animal-body. This time, I thought I wanted harder-hitting and overpowering energy. What my animal-body wanted was softness and to be deliberate. I slowed down and stopped trying to force things in a particular direction. Once I got clear, my fellow participants showed up in thoughtful and deliberate ways throughout the remaining time, and I finished in a very peaceful place."

~ ATX Portals Participant

"I went into DMT expecting a weekend of fun and was blown away by how DEEP and profound it was as well. Playful, silly, sexy, relaxing, connected, expansive, emptying. It was nutrient dense and play-rich. At the end of the weekend I noticed feeling more restored, energized and filled up than I would have felt doing anything else this week. So much life force flowing and it is staring my new week off fully charged!!"

~ Claire

"I love Dance Meets Tantra. This is truly a space where I feel safe to be my most vulnerable, messy, shadow-y self... and I don't mean the Instagram version of "shadow work" - I mean the parts of me that don't know if they are going to be accepted or held. I have never ever in my life felt safer to be myself, and I have never felt as energized, grounded, and clear after so much dance, inner work, and interpersonal dynamics!"

~ Olivia

Thank you! We can't wait to connect.

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