Play Level 2

March 15 - December 13, 2025, in Sebastopol, CA

Go deeper with grads from Play level 1

Intention for 9 month Immersion

1. To embody more love together as we express our devotion to each others’ healing & erotic liberation.

2. To transmute shame as we center our erotic & relational desires in ways that heal us & our lineages, creating a new kind of generational wealth.

3. To tremble open rather than closed as we bravely meet these times with clarity, creativity & focus.

4. To carry forth the legacy of grief ritualist Sobonfu Somé, to expand our capacity for grief, eros & love.

5. To believe in & create the felt sense of village.

6. To reclaim the roles of dance & sacred eros in village ritual.

Arc of 11 sessions over 9 months

1. Welcome. Set Intentions for Play

2. Love making dances: channeling duets for collective love & eros

3. Grief & Eros Ritual on Gender (you may invite loved ones)

4. Authenticity vs Attachment: discovering our strategies with our parents that may still shape our adult relationships

5. Affirming who we are in ways our parents couldn’t: reclaiming our full emotional, energetic, erotic & gender range of authenticity

6. Grief & Eros Ritual on Secure Attachment: Healing attachment as a path to social liberation

7. Love making dances: channeling duets for collective love & eros (you may invite loved ones 5 - 6:30 pm)

8. Grief & Eros Ritual on Race (you may invite loved ones)

9. Kink divination: scenes for personal, collective & ancestral healing

10. Grief & Eros Ritual on Sexuality: group erotic blessing

11. Integration & Gratitude with dancemaking (grad party with loved ones)

PLAY 2 best serves Play grads who

• Feel the value of the basics practice & want to continue deepening your presence skills

• Want to be in a village committed to regularly grieving our hearts open

• Love creating dances as a form of intimacy, self discovery & opening to spirit

• Are dedicated to de-colonizing through healing around race, gender, sex & secure attachment

• Are healers, dancers, or embodied facilitators (or aspire to be)

2025 cohort includes

• 11 monthly group sessions (mostly 3rd Saturdays of the month)

• 10 individual monthly coaching sessions (45 min)

• Daily presence practice (approximately 20 min)

• Access to weekly community basics practice (live online) 

• every other Thursday, 12 - 1 pm

• every other Monday or Tuesday, 6 - 7 pm (we will vote to see what’s best)

• Homework assignments: both solo & small group assignments to deepen connection 

Dates for group sessions

1. March 15 (Sat, 1 - 7 pm)

2. April 26 (Sat, 1 - 7 pm)

3. May 17 (Sat, 1 - 8:30 pm)

4. June 21 (Sat, 1 - 7 pm)

5. July 19 (Sat, 1 - 7 pm)

6. Aug 16 Deep Dive Weekend Sat (1 - 7 pm)

7. Aug 17 Deep Dive Weekend Sun* (11 am - 6:30 pm) We will be at the beach part of the day!

8. Sept 20 (Sat, 1 - 8:30 pm)

9. Oct 18 (Sat, 1 - 7 pm)

10. Nov 15 (Sat, 1 - 8:30 pm)

11. Dec 13 (Sat, 1 - 7 pm)

What’s Coaching with Z?

We meet once a month for 45 min of coaching, for a total of 10 sessions. Watch an example of what coaching with Z looks like here!

You may focus your coaching on:

• integrating what’s arising from our group sessions into your life

• support with your current relationships (poly, kinky, gender magic, power exchange & more with your beloveds)

• playing for a new relationship

• developing a new professional offering (such as creating a workshop or launching a new sensual bodywork practice)

• support with your basics & self care rhythms

• upleveling how you design your time & money (so you have capacity for the relationships you long for)

• connect with your life purpose & identify a goal that connects to your essence

• shifting from pattern to presence with more ease

• creating a dance performance ritual

And anything else that would serve you!

Investment

This is an advanced training & village building experience. Investing is not just about money, it’s about choosing to focus your time and energy to heal, to deepen your sense of embodied village & to embody more love. There are monthly payment plans & 3 tiers for us to collaborate with our community wealth:

1. $550/month (proximal to generational wealth & who want to support diversity scholarships)

2. $450/month (financially resourced folx)

3. $350/month (limited # of partial scholarships for low income folx who are BIPOC, trans, and/or gender non conforming)

Benefits

• Grow erotically mature, spiritual, heart centered community

• More awareness, compassion, & ease in our relationship with our family

• More capacity for presence & intimacy

• Space to be more of who we are in the presence of community

• Increase our ability to be with what IS & what COULD BE

• A sense of possibility that what we long for could happen

• Not feel alone around our most tender hurts

• Live a more grounded open hearted life

• To meet these times deeply resourced & connected to the unseen world

• To actively heal caste together as we decolonize our own conditioning around gender, race, & sexuality

• To open our artistic expression to heal & be truly seen

• To be village together in a time & place that is recovering from individualism

• Experience your eros as a part of a larger collective embodiment of passion & liberation

I want to get a taste to know if this is for me

Join the Play 2 Q & A, Thurs, Dec 26, 6 - 6:45 pm

Facilitation Team

🏳️‍🌈 Z (aka Zahava Griss, lead facilitator, they/them) dancer, love coach, & kink educator for personal & cultural liberation. Z has delighted in guiding erotic community ritual for 25 years. You may read the full bio here.

🏳️‍🌈 Mo Katzman (guest facilitator, they/them) artist, movement facilitator and Queer space maker. 

🏳️‍🌈 E. Lowry (assistant, they/them) trauma informed kink explorer & guide for 10 years.

🏳️‍🌈 Charlie Boyd Brown (assistant, they/them) dancer, bodyworker, teacher, who brings people together for connection, expression, & healing.