This retreat is for fat folx who want to deepen their connection with their fat and explore it as an access point to sensual and embodied presence. This is a space for fat folx who have a hunch that exploring touch and fat together might help us all get a little more free. This is a space for fat folx who want to play in FAT/NESS, FAT/NESS being the materiality of fat tissue infinitely multiplied by the sensual & energetic experience of being surrounded by other fat people.

Touching Fat, facilitated by Scarlet Tunkl and Jules Pashall, will use touch, rest, movement, noise making, and creative play to experience ourselves, each other and this painful gorgeous world we are part of. This retreat will focus on fat as more than just a descriptor of bodies, but as an energy! A mood! A taste! A feeling! Fat will be our access point to sensual presence. Each practice will pull inspiration from some of the qualities of fat: soft, lush, fluid, velvety, deep, full, whole. For four days and three nights we will bask in the sweetness of FAT/NESS; nourishing and replenishing our hearts and bodies in a loving fat affinity space.

While touch is often seen as primarily erotic, we hold it as that and so! much! more! Touch connects us to ourselves, our surroundings, our memories and our presence. We all need touch, and most of us need it far more than we receive it. Our fat also deeply needs touch! The more we touch parts of the body that feel numb or ignored, the more we find our way back to sensation. The more sensation we experience the more alive we feel. You deserve to feel all your aliveness! Most sessions will center on self-touch and we will experiment with partnered touch and group touch as is comfortable.

If you are fat and longing for a space to explore more touch, more feeling, more presence, more connection please join us for Touching Fat!