Infant Developmental Movement Education

The Infant Developmental Movement Educator program is a child-centered and relationship-centered approach to observing and facilitating infants, and educating parents and caregivers about touch, movement and handling in the first year of life.
This program is designed to train people to evaluate and facilitate normal development in infants using an embracing, child-centered approach.

Touching Fat: Sensual Somatics for Fat People

Facilitated by Jules Pashall and Scarlet Tunkl, this retreat will explore and celebrate the magic of being present and embodied with fatness in community with other fat folx. We will use touch, movement, noise making and creative play to experience the sensuality inherent in our fat tissue. This retreat will uplift fatness as more than just a descriptor of bodies, but as an energy and access point to sensual presence. Each activity will pull inspiration from the formal qualities of fat: soft, lush, velvety, deep, full, whole. This retreat will have a special focus on touch so that we can learn new things about how we like to be loved, touched and tended.

Vocal Tapestry: Spring Class Series 2025

Connect to your creative spirit at Vocal Tapestry – a safe and fun space to weave together the principles of spontaneous composition, such as rhythm, melody, and dynamics. Each week, we will play games and learn practices that focus on a specific element of vocal improvisation to develop your awareness, skills, and confidence.

Deep Listening Series

Join Deep Listening® facilitators, Katie Down and Jane Rigler for this immersive, inclusive and fun 8-week series that offers specific Deep Listening® methods and practices cultivated by their mentor and friend, Pauline Oliveros.

Authentic Movement Spring 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.

Prenatal Yoga and Strength

Join Neva Cockrell for a nourishing hour of opening, strengthening, and moving your body. This will also be a time for you to focus on yourself and the baby, and meet other pregnant people.

Research Training in Somatic Communication within Ensemble Practices

The ISSC seeks to develop Relational Intelligence and other transferable skills of Somatic Communication in dancers, affiliate researchers, and everyday humans. This Training Workshop is meant to instill skills for research within Somatic Communication and Improvisational Ensemble Practice, in the method established by the ISSC. Outcomes will include a deeper understanding of the potentials for Co-Creative Practices where new knowledge and data might emerge, as well as access to establishing CoLab research groups under the resource umbrella of the ISSC.

Somatic Communication: Relational Intelligence in Contact Improvisation

This is a 3.5 day Workshop for Intermediate and Advanced dancers in Contact Improvisation, for movers who are interested in exploring physical communication within tactile relations on spatial and flesh-based levels. The fabric of touch is key to our relational practices in the movement of Contact Improvisation – and for many of us, in the living of life itself. Steeped in somatic communication, this adventure into our movement life begins within ourselves, but moves outwardly, to where selfhood refuses to be stable, set and limiting. Working from a baseline of care, we will explore the almost magical potentials of moving together within time practices that coordinate our unspoken agreements. These alignments can happen faster than conscious decision making. We will learn to hold ourselves “lightly”, move readily, fly and support one another by becoming more than a singular being. Always more than one, we will play within highly creative physical forms that require our fullest being of presence. Expect to gain an experiential vocabulary that informs many states of your embodied relations.

Vocal Tapestry Retreat

At the VOCAL TAPESTRY RETREAT, you’ll get to share the music that lives in you, and weave in vocal improvisation practices to add to your treasure trove of self-discovery and creative fulfillment. This is for heart-centered humans like you – who are ready to unplug from your routine, plug into presence and inspiration, and re-ignite your creative spirit.
I’ll share techniques that I have synthesized from my studies with Bobby McFerrin, Rhiannon, Meredith Monk, Música do Círculo, theater improv, folk music, sound healing, archetypes, chakras, somatic and mindfulness practices.
At the VOCAL TAPESTRY RETREAT, immerse yourself in the frequency of your most expansive self, through your voice. 

Embodying the Organs in Voice and Contact Improvisation

This Body-Mind Centering® retreat will offer an introduction to the organs through the practices of vocalization and contact improvisation. We will explore the principles and qualities of the organs, celebrate the deep visceral knowledge in our bodies, and unwind any holding or tension in our organs.