Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart

Facilitator: Golden Moeras

 

First and Third Sundays

4:00-6:30pm (2nd and 4th Sundays in Kingston!)

BYO dinner for a studio-floor picnic afterward

CI Lab 4-5pm (with rotating teachers)

Open Jam 5-6:30pm

Register in advance

Class Description:

This Contact Improvisation class invites dancers into a mindful, relational approach to movement where body awareness, emotional attunement, and mindsight come together in dynamic physical dialogue. Through guided explorations, participants will develop sensitivity to internal sensations, emotional states, and the subtle cues of their partners, using awareness as the foundation for safe, expressive weight sharing. Class practices emphasize awareness, helping dancers track both their own experience, and the experience of others in real time. We will explore how emotions live in the body and how to express, hold, transform and communicate emotions through movement. Partner work will progressively introduce weight, sharing counter, balance, and lifts, with an emphasis on listening, consent, and attunement rather than validation seeking, performance, desire and energy consumption. Dancers will learn how presence, alignment, and clarity of intention create ease and trust, allowing lifts and shared momentum to emerge organically. Open to all levels, this class offers a supportive environment to deepen connection, expand interpersonal safety and experience Contact Improvisation as a practice of embodied empathy, awareness, and coregulation. 

Facilitator Bio:

Golden Moeras is a Humboldt State University graduate in dance studies, with an emphasis in somatic therapy. She also holds a degree in developmental psychology and studied nutrition at hypocrites health institute.

Golden brings a multidisciplinary approach to movement, healing, and education. Golden is a yoga alliance certified instructor, certified Reiki practitioner, and a certified personal trainer, through the national Academy of sports medicine. 

Passionate about the mind–body connection, Golden specializes in teaching body awareness, proprioception, and intentional movement as powerful tools for therapeutic growth and self-regulation. Her work integrates somatic principles with evidence-based practices to support holistic well-being, resilience, and embodied learning.

Or if you prefer to pay cash at the door, send us an email to let us know you’re coming, so we can help you find your way to the studio.

Overnight guests welcome (with advance notice). Let us know if you want to make a longer visit to WildHeart… email contact@wildheartcenter.art

Weeks that we’re not Jamming @ WildHeart, Hudson Valley Contact Improv continues in Kingston. Email Hudsonvalleycontactimprov@gmail.com for more on the Kingston Jam

Location- This workshop will take place in the Barn. If you’re coming to WildHeart for the first time, please visit our Directions page for arrival info.

Refund policy

• No refunds, no transfers