CI + SOTAI Ancestral Body Registration
Hello. This is our second CI+SOTAI retreat at WildHeart.
I am deeply honored to hold space for contradicting the world’s normalization of disembodiment and distress through remembering, embodying and resting our SOTAI (human and non-human ancestral body).
As a Japanese person, I will emphasize on taking time and being spacious. Let the time have their turn to speak. Let the space have their turn to speak. Touch is powerful. Touch is a portal. Sometimes I don’t want to be touched because it’s so nostalgic. Can I cry with you?
I am so blessed to be alive with you all.
Contact Improv + SOTAI Ancestral Body
Hello. This is our second CI+SOTAI retreat at WildHeart.
I am deeply honored to hold space for contradicting the world’s normalization of disembodiment and distress through remembering, embodying and resting our SOTAI (human and non-human ancestral body).
As a Japanese person, I will emphasize on taking time and being spacious. Let the time have their turn to speak. Let the space have their turn to speak. Touch is powerful. Touch is a portal. Sometimes I don’t want to be touched because it’s so nostalgic. Can I cry with you?
I am so blessed to be alive with you all.
Rivers through, Oceans in Registration
Rivers though, Oceans in Registration with Maya Schwartz and Jessy Crist March 21, 10am-3pm
Rivers through, Oceans in
Rivers through, Oceans in is a collaborative and somatic movement workshop taught by Maya Schwartz and Jessy Crist. In this workshop we will explore the body’s natural tides of movement and connection to internal waters through creative practice, contemporary dance, somatic practice, and contact improvisation.
Moving Through Freeze Registration
Moving Through Freeze: A Somatic Attunement Retreat with Mandy Hackman & Amie Anderson March 14 & 15, 2026
Moving Through Freeze: A Somatic Attunement Retreat
Join body mechanics and mobility coach Mandy Hackman and psychotherapist and educator Amie Anderson for a weekend of emerging from the deep freeze of winter. We will create space within ourselves to thaw out, applying wisdom from Somatic Experiencing and movement-based somatic exploration that honor the nervous system’s mechanisms for safety and interconnection. Together, we will reignite agency for those who are feeling stuck, indecisive, or frozen as we welcome the coming spring. We will offer a space to become curious about freeze, reconnect with our bodies, and expand into resilience with movement, art, and conceptual exploration. As nature cycles through freeze and thaw, we will honor the wisdom in our bodies and invite new possibilities.
Freedom within Form
This workshop aims to provide a container where mutual flow and deep play allows the emergence of a consensual dance. Participants may also choose to bring this exploration into performance during WildHeart’s Shared Stage event on the evening of March 7.
A human’s guide for coming back to yourself
As humans, we have to make a conscious choice to change the direction of the startle response and come back to ourselves. The path back is through the body. To find the body again, we begin with space. Space holds the body.
In this Alexander Technique based workshop, together we explore how to meet our responsiveness to life in a new way. How we come back to ourselves matters, it’s where growth is.
“Space holds the body. Space holds the information”. – Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Vocal Prism
Vocal Prism is a six week class series focusing on vocal improvisation; the practice and tools to develop it.
Queer Body Jam
Queer Body Jam is an improvisation based, dance class for Queer bodies. This is an all-levels movement class made for every body. We will move through 60 minutes of open-format continuous movement, guided by vocal and movement cues. No previous dance experience necessary – willingness to sweat and stay open minded welcome!