Salsa & Bachata Social Dance
Immersion for LGBTQIA+ Adults
Discover Joy, Confidence, Authentic Connection & Community Through Social Latin Dance
Salsa & Bachata
Social Dance Immersion for LGBTQIA+ Adults
Discover Joy, Confidence, Authentic Connection & Community Through Social Latin Dance
Programme Details
Purpose
Discover joy, meaningful connection, personal growth, and community through Social Latin Dance, guided by siblings Fernando and Lux. Drawing on their backgrounds in psychology, relationships, coaching, and human development, each session is intentionally designed to cultivate confidence, authentic self-expression, emotional wellbeing, relationship awareness, and personal growth through movement, music, and community.
Created especially for LGBTQIA+ adults, the immersion offers an inclusive and affirming environment where participants can learn Salsa and Bachata, connect with others, and express themselves without being confined by traditional gender expectations within partner dance.
Front Building, 3rd Floor
Habito Mall, Sukhumvit 77
Bangkok
Upcoming Immersion Dates
[Insert date]
Hosted by Fernando & Lux
Fernando is a psychotherapist and Lux is a relationship specialist. Together, they combine their understanding of human development, relationships, embodiment, and psychologically informed learning with professional Latin dance training.
Alongside their professional work, they have performed on international stages and founded Latin Dance Muscat, where they established and cultivated a vibrant Latin dance community. Their shared intention is not simply to teach people how to dance, but to create an environment where people can grow, connect, and express themselves authentically while learning to dance.
Hosted by Fernando & Lux
Fernando is a psychotherapist and Lux is a relationship specialist. Together, they combine their understanding of human development, relationships, embodiment, and psychologically informed learning with professional Latin dance training.
Alongside their professional work, they have performed on international stages and founded Latin Dance Muscat, where they established and cultivated a vibrant Latin dance community. Their shared intention is not simply to teach people how to dance, but to create an environment where people can grow, connect, and express themselves authentically while learning to dance.
What Is the Salsa & Bachata Social Dance Immersion for LGBTQIA+ Adults?
More than learning Salsa and Bachata, this six-month immersion is a psychologically informed learning and community experience designed to cultivate confidence, authentic self-expression, social connection, personal growth, and the ability to dance comfortably in social settings.
Created especially for LGBTQIA+ adults, the programme offers an opportunity to learn partner dancing within an environment that respects diverse identities, expressions, bodies, relationships, and ways of connecting.
Designed by a psychotherapist and a relationship specialist, the programme combines progressive Latin dance instruction with embodied learning, reflective practices, group sharing, and community experiences.
Traditional partner dance is often taught through fixed assumptions about gender, with men expected to lead and women expected to follow. Within this immersion, leading and following are treated as dance skills rather than gender roles.
Participants may explore leading, following, or both, according to their interest, comfort, and learning goals.
Whether you would like to become more confident in your body, meet like-minded people, expand your community, reconnect with joy, or explore a more authentic way of expressing yourself through movement, you are warmly welcome.
No partner or previous dance experience is required.
Who Is This Immersion For?
This immersion is suitable for LGBTQIA+ adults aged 18 and above who would like to:
- Learn Salsa and Bachata from the beginning
- Become confident social dancers
- Develop greater personal and social confidence
- Express themselves more authentically through movement
- Feel more comfortable and present in their bodies
- Explore leading, following, or both without gender expectations
- Meet like-minded LGBTQIA+ adults
- Expand their social circle
- Improve communication and relationship skills
- Develop greater awareness of consent and interpersonal boundaries
- Experience personal growth through movement
- Reconnect with joy, playfulness, and creativity
- Become part of a welcoming and affirming dance community
- Create meaningful friendships and social connections
- Feel more comfortable attending dance and social gatherings
You may join individually, with a friend, or with a partner.
People of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions, relationship structures, and lived experiences are welcome.
No previous dance experience is required. You are warmly welcome, even if you have two left feet.
A Different Way to Learn
Most dance classes focus primarily on steps and technique. Our intention reaches further.
Every aspect of this immersion has been thoughtfully designed to create an inclusive, welcoming, and supportive environment where participants develop not only as dancers, but also as individuals and relational human beings.
Through Salsa and Bachata, you will explore confidence, communication, trust, emotional expression, body awareness, consent, boundaries, relationships, and authentic human connection.
Partner roles are not assigned according to gender. Leading and following are taught as complementary skills that participants can experience according to their preferences and comfort.
There is no expectation to dress, move, partner, lead, follow, or express yourself according to traditional gender conventions.
By the end of the six-month immersion, you will have developed the practical skills to enjoy Salsa and Bachata socially, alongside greater confidence in yourself, your body, and your ability to connect with others.
More Than Learning to Dance
Social dance creates opportunities to notice how we move, communicate, respond, connect, lead, follow, trust, express ourselves, and share space with another person.
For LGBTQIA+ people, movement and social spaces can sometimes carry additional layers of self-consciousness, visibility, identity, belonging, or concern about how others may respond.
This immersion offers an opportunity to explore dance within a setting where diversity is respected and where participants are encouraged to connect without hiding important parts of themselves.
Each session combines dance instruction with carefully guided experiences that encourage embodied awareness, reflection, interpersonal learning, and personal development.
This is not group therapy, nor is it simply a traditional dance class. It is a psychologically informed educational experience where social dance becomes a practical pathway to confidence, authentic expression, connection, and growth.
What You Can Expect to Develop
Confidence: Become more comfortable expressing yourself, taking initiative, trying new experiences, and moving beyond familiar limitations.
Social Confidence: Feel increasingly at ease meeting new people, joining social gatherings, inviting someone to dance, and dancing with different partners.
Authentic Self-Expression: Explore movement as a way of expressing yourself more freely, without feeling required to conform to traditional expectations of gender or identity.
Connection: Develop the presence, openness, curiosity, and interpersonal awareness needed to create meaningful human connection.
Communication: Strengthen verbal and non-verbal communication through listening, leading, following, responding, expressing preferences, and shared movement.
Relationships: Explore trust, respect, boundaries, reciprocity, cooperation, and mutual awareness in ways that can enrich friendships, partnerships, and relationships beyond the dance floor.
Consent & Boundaries: Practise asking, listening, responding, and recognising comfort within partner interaction.
Develop greater confidence in communicating preferences and respecting the boundaries of others.
Presence: Cultivate the ability to remain grounded and engaged with yourself, your dance partner, the music, and the present moment.
Body Awareness: Develop greater awareness of posture, balance, breathing, coordination, movement, physical expression, and how your body communicates.
Body Confidence: Become more comfortable inhabiting your body, being seen, taking up space, and moving with greater ease and self-acceptance.
Emotional Expression: Discover greater freedom and authenticity in expressing yourself through movement, music, and interaction.
Leading & Following: Explore leading and following as relational and dance skills rather than fixed gender roles.
Learn how to give direction, receive information, respond, adapt, and create movement collaboratively.
Trust & Surrender: Practise leading, following, giving, receiving, adapting, and releasing excessive control within a respectful environment.
Inhibitions & Freedom: Gently move beyond self-consciousness and become more comfortable being visible, participating, connecting, and expressing yourself.
Sensuality & Embodiment: Explore sensuality as grounded body awareness, presence, confidence, authenticity, and respectful connection rather than performance or expectation.
Identity & Belonging: Experience being part of a community where diverse identities and expressions are recognised and respected.
Develop a stronger sense of belonging through shared learning, music, movement, and human connection.
Community: Become part of a welcoming LGBTQIA+ community where friendships, social connections, and mutual support can develop naturally.
What Participants Will Learn
Across the six-month immersion, you will progressively learn:
- Salsa foundations
- Bachata foundations
- Rhythm and timing
- Balance and coordination
- Individual and partner movement
- Leading and following
- Exploring both partner roles
- Partner connection
- Turns and combinations
- Musicality and interpretation
- Improvisation
- Social dance etiquette
- Respectful partner invitations
- Consent and boundaries within social dance
- Dancing confidently with different partners
- Participating comfortably in Latin dance social gatherings
The programme is designed to take you from your first steps toward becoming a comfortable and confident social dancer.
What Happens During the Sessions?
Each session thoughtfully integrates:
- Progressive Salsa and Bachata instruction
- Individual movement exercises
- Partner exercises
- Guided social dance practice
- Opportunities to dance with different participants
- Confidence-building experiences
- Coordination and body awareness practices
- Reflective learning moments
- Small-group conversations
- Communication and cooperation exercises
- Age-appropriate discussions about respect and boundaries
- Opportunities to connect learning with school, friendships, and everyday life
- Natural opportunities for friendships and community to develop
Dance remains at the heart of the immersion, while reflection and group learning help participants understand and integrate the personal and social development emerging through the experience.
Partner rotation will be guided respectfully. Participants will be encouraged to communicate their comfort and may request support or an alternative arrangement when needed.
Dance Roles Beyond Gender
In many traditional dance settings, leading is associated with men and following with women.
We take a different approach.
Leading and following are complementary communication skills. Neither role is more important, powerful, masculine, feminine, active, or passive than the other.
The leader proposes direction, timing, and movement. The follower listens, responds, interprets, and contributes to the dance. Both partners remain present, attentive, and responsible for the connection they create together.
Participants may choose to:
- Learn primarily to lead
- Learn primarily to follow
- Explore both roles
- Change roles according to the partner or dance
- Develop greater versatility as a social dancer
This approach allows participants to discover the role or combination of roles that feels most enjoyable and authentic to them.
An Affirming Community Experience
The immersion is intended to be a space where participants do not have to explain, minimise, or conceal their identities in order to participate comfortably.
Respectful use of names and pronouns is expected.
Discrimination, harassment, sexual pressure, unwanted physical contact, or disrespectful behaviour will not be accepted within the programme or community gatherings.
Participants are invited to approach one another with curiosity, respect, and care.
No participant is expected to disclose personal information about their identity, relationships, body, experiences, or history unless they genuinely wish to do so.
The intention is to create a community shaped by dignity, inclusion, consent, joy, and shared learning.
Complimentary Monthly Ignite Latin Dance Peña
Participants will receive complimentary invitations to our monthly Ignite Latin Dance Peña, a welcoming community gathering where people come together through music, dance, conversation, and connection.
The Peña offers an opportunity to:
- Practise your dancing in a relaxed environment
- Build confidence through real social dancing
- Meet people from the wider Ignite community
- Connect with LGBTQIA+ participants and allies
- Explore leading and following beyond traditional gender roles
- Develop friendships and a sense of belonging
- Continue learning beyond the weekly sessions
- Become more comfortable attending dance and social gatherings
- Enjoy music, movement, and community together
For many participants, the friendships, confidence, freedom of expression, and sense of belonging developed through these gatherings become as meaningful as learning to dance.
Register for the First Complimentary Session
Learn Salsa and Bachata while developing greater confidence, authentic self-expression, body awareness, relationship skills, and social ease within an inclusive and supportive community.
Whether you would like to reconnect with joy, meet like-minded people, expand your community, explore dance roles beyond gender expectations, or simply enjoy moving to music, you are warmly invited to experience the first session.
Complete the form below and a member of our team will contact you with programme details, upcoming dates, and enrolment information.