Cancelled: Sonic Immersion
2026-02-08 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
This is event is cancelled this week (Feb 8th)

Come experience a multi-instrumental Sound Bath with composer-performer Sasha Bogdanowitsch. This full body listening experience will draw from Sasha’s extensive instrument collection of original and global winds, strings and percussion and his background of intensive musical studies of the world’s musics from countries such as India, Indonesia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. Sasha will couple this with his unique vocals and electronics to create an ever evolving sonic tapestry that will immerse the listener in resonance and overtones; aiding all in their own sonic journey, relaxation, stress reduction and/ or meditation.

Participants will be free to recline (savasana pose), sit or stand as needed. Some yoga mats and blankets will be available but please bring whatever materials you need to feel warm and relaxed.

The event will last 60 minutes.

Come just for the Sonic Immersion or come early for Shake with Niki, and stay for both.

Authentic Movement Winter Series
2026-02-10 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-02-17 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-02-24 18:00 - 19:30
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.

Queer Body Jam
2026-02-11 18:00 - 19:30
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!

Weekly Community Sit (Online)
2026-02-12 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-02-19 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-02-26 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-05 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-12 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-19 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-04-02 10:30 - 11:00
A weekly 30-minute silent unguided meditation, open and free to attend.Feel free to bring your own meditation practice along with any props to make yourself comfortable. We will begin and end in silence.

What to expect on Zoom – You’ll be joining Niki and/or other WildHeart community members in meditation, either in the Barn or—weather permitting—outside on the land.

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No registration required / no experience necessary / all are welcome 💜

Cost: Free

Vocal Prism
2026-02-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-02-19 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-02-26 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-03-05 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-03-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-03-19 19:00 - 20:00
Vocal Prism is a six week class series focusing on vocal improvisation; the practice and tools to develop it.

Cuddle Retreat
2026-02-13 15:00 - 2026-02-16 12:00
HUG MEDICINE. CONSCIOUS CUDDLES.A Cuddle Party™ is a drug and alcohol-free space and NONSEXUAL environment.It is a place to feel safe, practice consent, and share human connection.Please feel free to go to cuddleparty.com for more information!

A human’s guide for coming back to yourself
2026-02-21 10:00 - 12:00
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

Contemporary Dance (Mixed Levels)
2026-03-01 12:00 - 14:00

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2026-03-01 16:00 - 18:30
Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart

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

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

Facilitator: TBD

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

Freedom within Form
2026-03-07 12:00 - 2026-03-08 15:00
This workshop aims to provide a container where mutual flow and deep play allows the emergence of a consensual dance. Using sensations and images, we (re)visit techniques to ignite and expand our understanding of physical possibilities while engaged in the act of improvising. We look at our own expectations and tendencies. We make room and invite empty space, ushering more unknown. We show up, more fully present and experience freedom within form.

This workshop includes the option to participate in WildHeart’s Shared Stage event on the evening of March 7. During the workshop, participants will receive prompts that will be used as a devised, improvised score for the performance.

Shared Stage is a curated evening featuring 4–6 solo or ensemble artists from a range of disciplines, each presenting 10–20 minutes of performance work at any stage of development. If you are interested in performing as part of Olivier’s piece, artist call-time is 4:30pm, and the performance begins at 7:30pm.

Shared Stage Performance
2026-03-07 19:30 - 21:00
Join us for a delightful evening of short performances! This special evening features 3-6 performances, each 10-20 minutes long from artists of different disciplines. This is a chance for artists to share work, or excerpts of their work, alongside other artists. Audiences will be given the option to write a note for each artist, sharing their experience of the work. This is a wonderful opportunity for artists to receive feedback about the impact of their work, and for audiences to feel into the impact of each piece. The mixture of pieces – from dance, to music, to theater, to visual art, to experimental art – makes for a fun, inspiring, and diverse evening.

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In March we are thrilled to present a variety of experimental theater, improvisation, dance, and music created and performed by local artists ⎯ Dagen the Pagan, Anri Nakano, Gathering Wild, Olivier Besson, Tiffany Wilson and Carlos Feitoza.

Out There, In There

Performed by: Dagan the Pagan

Description:

Tonight’s show will be a few small solo acts, each unique with their own flavor and message, as well as a complex, environmental performance event involving many audience volunteers.

Artist Bio:

The career span of my life goes from music teacher to children’s entertainer to clown to performance artist. In my active 70’s, I seek to combine my greatest interests – children, the arts, nature, community, and spirituality – into a unified whole as a stage persona that lives in the land of the absurd. I am thrilled to be at a point in my life where I have mastered many forms of creative expression and can just simply allow myself to blossom into a full blown stage presence with a mission to help the world.

Unbroken

Performed by: Anri Nakano

Music by: Les Souvenirs et les Émotions by Ludovico Einaudi, I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free by Nina Simone, Rose Bay by Ludovico Einaudi

Description:

Life has an interesting way of surprising you. Several years ago, I was betrayed and experienced heartache and despair unlike any other time in my life. My heart was shattered, my spirit was weary, and it almost broke me. I kept walking through that dark tunnel for a long time. Now I am on the other side, feeling the light on my skin, soaking up the warmth, breathing in fresh air, and reaching my hands up to the sky.

Artist Bio:

Anri Nakano was born in Fukuoka, Japan. As a child, she loved hiding in her secret fort, making up songs, and dancing freely. Through her work today, she continues to tap into that frolic energy. As a dance educator, she works with elementary and middle school children, creating student-centered experiences that invite imagination, creativity, and social-emotional learning. As a solo artist, her work has been presented in New York City, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Philadelphia, Sweden, and Japan. She holds a B.F.A. in Dance/Theatre from CUNY Lehman College and a teaching certificate from the Dance Education Laboratory.

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Performed by: Gathering WildDancers: Emma Laufersweiler, Meredith Casimiro, Brianna Dixon, Lauren Mark, Lillian Kemanis, Lara Shmakov Choreographed by: Jerylann Warner

Description:

Building a stock pile of movement ideas for a bigger piece this summer.

Artist Bio:

A newly formed company of Hudson Valley dancers working out of Wild Heart…” Gathering Wild” draws energy from the desire to move together , to not displace or become adrift from the need to be with others doing what we love . Also notable , Gathering Wild began in Atlanta and has resumed a life in the HV under the direction of Jerylann Warner.

A Time Upon Once

Performed by: Olivier Besson

Description:

Improvisation is a direction of effort… never a result. How do we create a dance with space, allowing it to flower in our presence?

Artist Bio:

Olivier Besson is a Boston based movement artist of Japanese and French heritage. He was introduced to the notion of dance and community through his exposure to ecstatic dance, his subsequent training in contact improvisation and his ritual practice of Bugaku (Japanese court dance). He has been involved with the study and inquiry of improvisation ever since. His performances have been presented in France, Taiwan, Russia, Japan, India and the US. He is on faculty at The Boston Conservatory At Berklee where he curates Moment’s Notice, an interdisciplinary improv performance series.

Lyrical and Musical Improvisation

Performed by: Tiffany Wilson and Carlos Feitoza

Description:

This specific musical offering at WildHeart is completely unique from all their previous projects and 100% inspired by the love Tiffany and Carlos share for their daughter, Georgie Lou. It will be a little jazzy, a little lullaby, these two will spontaneously create stories from their real lives as first time parents through song on piano and voice.

Artist Bio:

Tiffany Wilson is a singer-songwriter and goes by the moniker Curt Mercy on Spotify and Apple Music. She has been singing and performing her whole life and most recently has taken time away to build a family with her partner, Carlos. Carlos Feitoza is a musician and sound engineer. He goes under the name Brother Los on Spotify and Apple Music. Tiffany and Carlos have a 5month old baby named, Georgie Lou who has inspired some new musical ideas their excited to share.

Performance Location

WildHeart is located on 46+ beautiful acres in the Hudson Valley at 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY. This event will take place in the Barn, the large building at the end of the driveway. You can park in either of the two parking areas on the right side of the driveway before you get to the Barn. There are also a few spots in front of the Barn. More info about directions and transportation options HERE.

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Shake with Niki
2026-03-08 16:30 - 17:30
Shake with Niki (in-person only)

4:30 – 5:30pm Second Sunday of every month, starting November 10th (60-75 mins)

Group Shake – A somatic movement practice during which we will shake to music or sometimes, silence. Shaking, individually but as part of a group to ground us, can be healing as it is a natural way to relieve tension. You may choose to shake standing, seated, lying down or alternating between those depending on what your body needs in the moment. You can choose your own intensity, when to stop or when to keep going as you listen to your own body. While it is important to keep ourselves open to what, if anything, may arise emotionally, please only engage to the degree that you can still care for yourself. This is not a therapeutic space. The practice will start with a demonstration and it will end in silence. Dress comfortably and stay hydrated!

$10-$25

Sonic Immersion
2026-03-08 18:00 - 19:00
Come experience a multi-instrumental Sound Bath with composer-performer Sasha Bogdanowitsch. This full body listening experience will draw from Sasha’s extensive instrument collection of original and global winds, strings and percussion and his background of intensive musical studies of the world’s musics from countries such as India, Indonesia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. Sasha will couple this with his unique vocals and electronics to create an ever evolving sonic tapestry that will immerse the listener in resonance and overtones; aiding all in their own sonic journey, relaxation, stress reduction and/ or meditation.

Participants will be free to recline (savasana pose), sit or stand as needed. Some yoga mats and blankets will be available but please bring whatever materials you need to feel warm and relaxed.

The event will last 60 minutes.

Come just for the Sonic Immersion or come early for Shake with Niki, and stay for both.

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Moving Through Freeze: A Somatic Attunement Retreat
2026-03-14 09:30 - 2026-03-15 15:00
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.

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2026-03-15 16:00 - 18:30
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

Rivers through, Oceans in
2026-03-21 10:00 - 15:00

CANCELLED - Weekly Community Sit (Online)
2026-03-26 10:30 - 11:00
This week’s event is cancelled! See you next week 🙂

A weekly 30-minute silent unguided meditation, open and free to attend.Feel free to bring your own meditation practice along with any props to make yourself comfortable. We will begin and end in silence.

What to expect on Zoom – You’ll be joining Niki and/or other WildHeart community members in meditation, either in the Barn or—weather permitting—outside on the land.

Cost: Free
