Wellness at WildHeart
Three skilled practitioners will be offering a variety of sessions for you to choose from throughout the weekend. Browse each practitioner below and select the session that resonates with you. You’re welcome to book with one practitioner or multiple practitioners.
Authentic Movement Fall Series
This Authentic Movement Immersion offers space to explore the Self and relational connection, awaken the multidimensional layers of the psyche, and cultivate conscious awareness through embodiment. Together we will practice seeing and being seen, moving and witnessing, speaking and holding silence.
Vertical Dance Workshop with Steep Horizon Dance
An open level workshop for movers who are interested in the challenging and rewarding mode of harness-based vertical dance. Participants will get the chance to fly, skim, glide, swing, and tumble. No prior experience required. Minimum of 4 participants needed to hold the workshop, max of 6 participants allowed. Please register early!
Contemporary Dance (Mixed Level)
Vija’s two-hour contemporary class begins with a full-body Simonson Technique warmup, balancing stretching, strengthening, and dance technique. Dancers then move through progressions across the floor before learning a longer combination and closing with improvisation. Her classes emphasize musicality, fluidity, and emotion.
Authentic Movement Fall Series
Authentic Movement is a contemplative dance practice where a mover explores the unconscious mind through self-directed, expressive movement while being witnessed with compassion and non-judgment. This relational practice of “seeing and being seen” fosters trust, self-awareness, and a deeper connection to one’s inner experience.
Logic of Support & Waiting for the Weight
The Logic of Support
This workshop will look at Gait Mechanics and human fascial anatomy as a resource for exploring the fundamentals of human locomotion and dance. We will work with Contact Improvisation and The Axis Syllabus© as resources for finding support.
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Waiting for the Weight
We are disassembling and reassembling all the time into different shapes. The “success” of motion comes from a balance of tension and release. Together we will explore our ability to “fall and catch” ourselves and others using the Axis Syllabus© and Contact Improvisation.
Vertical Dance Workshop with Steep Horizon Dance
An open level workshop for movers who are interested in the challenging and rewarding mode of harness-based vertical dance. Participants will get the chance to fly, skim, glide, swing, and tumble. No prior experience required. Minimum of 4 participants needed to hold the workshop, max of 6 participants allowed. Please register early!
The Body as Threshold: A Practice of Return and Departure
In this movement workshop, Butoh artist and choreographer Meshi Chavez guides participants in exploring the body as a threshold—where what is known meets what is waiting to emerge. Through guided improvisation, structure, and presence, we explore how form and constraint can unlock freedom and creative discovery. Featuring live music by composer Lisa DeGrace, this practice supports deep presence, personal exploration, and choreographic inquiry. No experience required—just a willingness to begin.
Film Screening and Album Release of ‘Tell Me How You Breathe.’
Please join Loom Ensemble on December 12, 7pm for the Film Screening and Album Release of ‘Tell Me How You Breathe.’ This musical theater work on climate crisis toured over ten cities throughout Vermont, Massachusetts and New York and is finally available for your eyes and ears.
Suggested contribution $5-$20
Be the Change: Improvising Towards Justice
This is a space to practice liberation not just as an idea, but as a felt experience—starting in the body, moving through community, and rippling outward into change.
Step into a sanctuary of embodied practice where justice begins in the body. Rooted in the concept of innervism—inner work as a foundation for outer change—we’ll explore how movement can nourish our spirits, deepen connection, and seed the future we long for.
Through contact improvisation, authentic movement, and nature-based practices, we’ll resource our hearts, cultivate resilience, and vision new possibilities. Together, we’ll practice liberation as a living, breathing act—starting from within.