Co-director of the school Fragments Libres since 2009, Éric Taillefer in trained in Qi Gong and in shiatsu, taoist and kashmiri massage. He leads authentic relating circles (“circling”) as well as vipassana-inspired meditation groups on a weekly basis.

He has been practicing orgasmic meditation (OM) since April 2015. Initially trained in private coaching by Emmanuelle Duchesne, he went on to complete his training by participating in several workshops in the USA. He has co-organized five OM-related workshops in Montreal.

Caro has been working in the field on mental health for several years as a therapist and social facilitator. She actively seeks to create spaces in which the expression of people’s desires and boundaries finds support in the community. She believes that authentic connection to ourselves and to other individuals allows us to move towards a deeper awareness and acceptance of our emotional and fantasmatic inner worlds.

Cachou is a gender-fluid and experimental individual. In addition to being a masseuse and activist, their work on communal modes of living and conscious intimacy. They are currently particularly interested in all means of physical re-appropriation, which they consider essential to facilitating our individual and collective processes of emancipation from oppressive systems that contaminate our existence.

Swan is a queer and anarchist performer, writer, and activist. They trained in physical theatre and humanist psychotherapy (NVC), and also studied philosophy and religion. Their work deals with the body as a prime site of individual and spiritual reconditioning. Though the tantra, drama, and somatic workshops they organize, they strive to rewild our everyday life and to recover our shared human animality.

Caro, Cahou, and Swan co-founded the LIIC, a queer, feminist, and self-managed laboratory of intimacy and sex-positivity in Montreal. It seeks to deconstruct habitual patterns of behaviour and psychosomatic mechanisms that prevent us from relating more authentically to both ourselves and other people. One of its ultimate aims is to bring together sexual and social emancipation.

Neva Cockrell is a dancer, director, and movement teacher. She tours internationally with Pilobolus and directs new dance-theater works in the US, Dubai, and Europe with her company Loom Ensemble. When she isn’t directing or performing, she is teaching her own movement technique, Catalyst Training, which she developed in 2016. She currently serves as a co-director of Art Monastery Vermont, a land-based artist collect exploring the overlap of contemplative practice and creativity. She has been practicing meditation for the past 12 years, and is fully enliven by her daily somatic practice. Her life path is deeply ground in communal living, body-based activities, art-making, being outside, and contemplative practice.

Neva has taught dance, embodiment, somatic work, and fitness all over the world for over a decade. Her classes seek to unravel body shame, and shake loose the default culture’s twisted definitions of “beauty” or “strength”. Through the embodied practice of voice and movement, she believes we can unwind conventional gender roles, the body-shame industrial complex, and extractive / dominator attitudes towards the earth. From this place we can begin to build relationships and communities to heal ourselves and our world.