WILD EDGE: a Dance Meets Tantra retreat exploring polarity, devotion, and harmony through conflict

This is your invitation to dance the wild edges of polarity, devotion, and harmony through conflict.

We are living in polarized times. The culture invites us to pick a side, lash out, or shut down. 

But what if the challenge and polarity of these times is not a problem to be solved, but a doorway?
An invitation to hold the tension of differences that may seem irreconcilable?

Can you let your body, heart, and soul become a crucible that births beauty out of opposites?
Can you let yourself become an embodied altar of friction, union, grief and eros?

We’ll work with the tensions of masculine and feminine, self and other, yes and no, grief and eros.
We'll explore the tender edges inside us vs them and dominance and submission.
This retreat is not about collapsing or bypassing into sameness, but to integrate difference & reclaim the full spectrum of who we are.

We'll use the power and wisdom of our body to guide the way.
We’ll slow down, and let the ‘soft animal of our body love what it loves.
We’ll move in ritual, in stillness, in silences, and in rapturous aliveness.

Grief rituals for sharing and releasing our masculine and feminine wounding.
Surrendering and leading on the dance floor. Shadow work, and celebration of beauty.
And a hell of a lot of being with truth.

This is not about fixing polarity.
This is about learning to dance with it, devotionally, ecstatically,
and in service to something larger than personal comfort.

Let's ride the wild edge together. Join us if you're called. 

✨ What to Expect:

🌀Movement & Embodiment Practices

🌀Ritual & Temple Arts

🌀Contact Improvisation

🌀Ecstatic Dance

🌀Land journeys and reverence for nature

🌀Conscious Kink

🌀Boundaries on and off the dance floor

🌀Tantric & Energetic Polarity Play

🌀Grief Ritual

🌀Slowing down

🌀Shadow Work

🌀Healthy sexual expression

🌀Delicious meals from a local chef

🌀Embodied purpose

✨ WHO THIS IS FOR:

This retreat is for those who are done collapsing into comfort, righteousness, or one-sided identities.

It’s for you if you're ready to:

• Integrate the polarities of your being

• Stand for unity without bypassing the tension

• Turn conflict into intimacy

• Release the wounds of the masculine and feminine and transmute them into awe and celebration

• Embody power without domination

• Embody surrender without collapse

• Take a real stand for something deeper than sides

This is for leaders, lovers, edge-walkers, and world-bridgers.

✨ LODGING:

We’ll gather on 145 acres of pristine private forest land, just 45 minutes southwest of Denver at a secluded, sacred private venue to shed the noise of the world and drop in deep.

The retreat center is modern, spacious, and tastefully designed. Bathrooms are stylish and functional, with elegant wood and gold accents. There are two showers per bathroom with two total bathrooms. All beds feature new, high-quality mattresses and linens.

Lodging Options Include:

• Camping (Included in ticket price)

• Bunk Rooms

• Double Twin XL Rooms

• Full Rooms

• Queen Rooms

• Rustic cabins within walking distance of outdoor restrooms or the retreat center, some with electricity some completely off grid.

✨ A NOTE ON TANTRA:

For us, Tantra is the practice and art of being fully alive. There is nothing sexual in nature in the activities we share. Sometimes sexual energy arises, and it is only permitted within the context of consent, agreements, and the container that is set.

Our intention with Dance Meets Tantra is to support individuals in deepening their love, respect, and relationship with themselves, others, and the earth. We believe that dance, eros, and Tantra are fundamental aspects of living a vibrant, empowered, and creative life. Through various explorations, we aim to liberate creativity and life force, inviting you to step into your fullest expression.

We hold deep honor and respect for classical Tantra and the lineages from which it originates. While classical Tantra profoundly influences us, we do not present ourselves as representatives of classical Tantra.

For more details on sexual energy and our approach, please visit our FAQ.

✨ Limited Spots Available:

Space is extremely limited to ensure an intimate, powerful container. 

✨ BIPOC Community Rate:

At Dance Meets Tantra, we deeply honor and celebrate the richness, wisdom, and resilience of our BIPOC community.

We recognize the impact of systemic inequities that have limited financial access for many, and we are committed to creating more inclusive, empowering spaces for healing, embodiment, and liberation. Diversity is not just welcomed here—it is essential to the transformational journey we co-create.

To support this vision, we are offering a special rate of $550 for individuals who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color and feel called to this experience. We see you. We value you. And we are here to uplift your presence in this sacred space.

If this resonates with your journey, we invite you to join us.

✨ Diverse Backgrounds Partial Scholarships Available:

At Dance Meets Tantra we understand that various forms of privilege can play a role in financial access to our containers. We believe that diversity is an important aspect of building a truly transformational journey and we desire to impact and support all people with our work. We are providing some partial scholarships for people from diverse backgrounds who may not otherwise be able to afford the full ticket price.

Partial scholarships are generally about 25-50% the cost of a regular priced ticket.

Apply here: Diversity Scholarships

✨ Arrival and Departure:

• Arrival: Thursday, September 18 between 1:00 - 4:00 PM. 4:30 PM Orientation and container setting. 

• Departure: Sunday, September 21 @ 3:00 PM

Please note that participants are asked to arrive on time and stay for the full retreat to maintain the safety, connection, and integrity of the container.

✨ More Info:

For FAQs, detailed logistics, and more about our approach to intimacy and sexuality, visit our FAQ on our website: Dance Meets Tantra

Your Dance Meets Tantra Guides

Spencer Jacobson, Co-Founder of Dance Meets Tantra 

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_

Atilla Çıdam, PhD, 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.

Current offerings include:

*1:1 Mentorship for individuals and couples

*Ecstasy & Purpose: a 4-month group journey into power, polarity, and soul-led sexuality

*Dance Meets Tantra workshops weaving movement, eros, kink, and devotional play

*Emergence Brotherhood: a 6-month initiatory path for men

*Sacred medicine journeys with kambo, and other medicines

For more information - www.atilla.life

Nicole Marie Rose - Apprentice Facilitator

Nicole Marie Rose is a facilitator, educator, and guide devoted to the art of human connection and the evolution of consciousness. With over a decade of experience in transformational work, she brings a rare blend of emotional depth, precise presence, and grounded wisdom to every space she enters.

Her path is shaped by years of inner inquiry, relational healing, and a deep study of the Trans-Himalayan teachings—a body of wisdom that informs much of her approach to life, leadership, and transformation. Nicole Marie is especially attuned to the unseen dynamics that shape our inner and outer worlds, and she designs group experiences that help people move beyond surface perception into more coherent, soul-aligned ways of being.

As the founder of Romantic Endeavors, Nicole Marie creates private retreats for couples seeking deeper intimacy and embodiment. In group settings, her facilitation opens portals for collective healing, often working at the intersection of a variety of incarnational tensions: the deep cultural and relational divides we’re all being called to bridge.

Her work is ritual-based, emotionally intelligent, and always oriented toward the deeper thread: the part of us that remembers who we are beyond identity or ideology. Nicole Marie carries an unwavering commitment to truth, beauty, and restoration, and her presence invites both individual and collective transformation in ways that are lasting, accessible, and profoundly real.

www.ofspiritandsoil.com  | IG: @nicole.marie.rose | IG: @romantic.endeavors

Logan Nellis - Producer/Organizer 

Logan Nellis is a dedicated community leader and transformational guide with over five years of experience creating sacred spaces where individuals can explore their edges and embrace their fullest authentic expression. Through his work as an intimacy coach and somatic practitioner, Logan specializes in curating containers that can hold the complete spectrum of human experience…from profound joy, pleasure, and ecstasy to the depths of sadness, grief, and anger.

Logan's approach integrates multiple modalities including massage therapy, Shibari, and movement practices, all grounded in his extensive academic foundation. He holds degrees in Psychology, Kinesiology, and Applied Psychophysiology, and is certified in Vibrational Healing Massage Therapy. This comprehensive background enables him to work with both mind and body, facilitating deep healing and authentic connection.

Since 2020, Logan has served as founder and steward of the Ministry of Movement Ecstatic Dance, creating weekly gatherings that honor the body's wisdom and the power of movement as medicine. His commitment to serving the community stems from a deep belief that healing happens in relationship, and that everyone deserves access to spaces where they can be fully seen, held, and loved.

Logan's work is characterized by his ability to hold space for transformation with both strength and tenderness, creating environments where individuals can safely explore their edges while being supported in their journey toward wholeness.

Current Offerings: DynamicRhythmsEmbodiment

Testimonials for Dance Meets Tantra:

"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

"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." ~Megan Beatty

Feel free to check out our website for many many more testimonials <3 Dance Meets Tantra

Schedule Outline:

*Note: this is just an estimate for planning purposes. The schedule is subject to change.

Thursday:

• 1pm-4pm Arrive & Settle In

• 4:30pm-6pm Orientation & Opening Container (participants must be there for the beginning of orientation)

• 6pm-7pm Dinner

• 7pm Evening session

Friday:

• 715am-8am Morning Practice

• 8am-9am Breakfast

• 10am - 1pm Morning Session

• 1pm-2pm Lunch

• 2pm-3pm Break

• 3pm - 6pm Afternoon Session

• 6pm-7pm Dinner

• 7pm-8pm Break

• 8pm Evening Session (optional)

Saturday:

• 715am-8am Morning Practice

• 8-9am Breakfast

• 10am - 1pm Morning Session

• 1pm-2pm Lunch

• 2pm-3pm Break

• 3pm - 6pm Afternoon Session

• 6pm-7pm Dinner

• 7pm-8pm Break

• 8pm Evening Session (optional)

Sunday:

• 8-9am Breakfast

• 10am - 1pm Morning Session & Closing

• 1pm-2pm Lunch

• 2pm-3pm Pack up & Depart

💜 Logistical Info 💜

Primary Contact: Logan Nellis: dynamicrhythmsembodiment@gmail.com, +1 (707) 570-7924

📅 DATE & TIME:

Arrival: Thursday, September 18, @ 1pm-4pm

Departure: Sunday, September 21, @ 3pm

🏡 LOCATION:

Gorgeous 145-acre private retreat center 45 minutes from Denver. Address to be shared with participants once registered. 

🚗 RIDE SHARING: Many people will be sharing rides and rental cars! If you would like to share or offer rides, please connect in our whatsapp group to coordinate or connect here to schedule Ride Share to & from Wild Edge Retreat

🍳 FOOD: Registration includes dinner on Thursday, three delicious catered meals per day Friday and Saturday and Breakfast on Sunday along with tea and light snacks. We will be gathering information around food sensitivities in advance of the retreat. Nourishment provided by the amazing High Vibe Chef Nicole Marie Shepard at Radiant Kitchen! 

💥 CANCELLATION POLICY 💥

Please take a moment to review the cancellation policy. All questions are warmly welcomed.

• If you cancel more than 8 weeks out of the event start date, 50% of the full payment will be refunded.

• If you cancel between 4-8 weeks of the event start date, 30% of the full payment will be refunded.

• If you cancel between 2-4 weeks of the event start date, 20% of the full payment will be refunded.

• If you cancel within 2 weeks of the event start date, or if you withdraw from the event after the start of the first day, no part of the payment will be refunded.

📝 TO REGISTER: 🌀 BUY TICKETS TO WILD EDGE NOW!! 🌀

🗣 CONTACT US:

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the event:

Contact info for our Organizer Logan Nellis: dynamicrhythmsembodiment@gmail.com, +1 (707) 570-7924

We can’t wait to move, connect, and play together. 💃🏽🌀✨

With love,

Spencer, Atilla, Nicole Marie, Logan & the Dance Meets Tantra Team