Weekly Community Sit (Online)
2026-03-12 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-19 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-26 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-04-02 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-04-09 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-04-16 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-04-23 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-04-30 10:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
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.

Join Zoom Meeting https://us05web.zoom.us/j/86265272473?pwd=[REDACTED] ID: 862 6527 2473Passcode: [REDACTED]

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

Cost: Free

Vocal Prism
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.

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

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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

Cuddle Party
2026-03-29 16:00 - 19:30

DANCING THE MESS OF RELATIONSHIP: An Art-Monastic Experiment in Relational Meditation
2026-04-03 15:00 - 2026-04-15 15:00
Our intention for this 9-day program is to practice meditation on the relational field. Where a traditional meditation retreat might have practitioners focusing on their breath, or sensations throughout their body, this meditation practice will have us focusing on what is coming up between us in relationship moment-to-moment, the ever-unfolding dance between self and other. Unlike other retreats which focus on relational practices (such as Circling or Group Relations) this program will oscillate between verbal relational processes, most often Circling, and nonverbal relational processes, most centrally Contact Improv and Meditation.

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2026-04-05 16:00 - 18:30, 2026-04-19 16:00 - 18:30, 2026-05-03 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

Song Circle
2026-04-09 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-16 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-23 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-30 08:00 - 17:00

Vertical Dance Workshop with Steep Horizon Dance
2026-04-11 13:00 - 2026-04-12 16:00

Gamelan Kingston
2026-04-11 19:00 - 21:00
Gamelan Kingston will provide an evening concert of original and arranged works and is a group of composers and performers exploring the musical possibilities of gamelan (a multi-timbral melodic percussion orchestra from Indonesia) in contemporary and traditional styles. Their diverse backgrounds combine to create new music as well as new collaborative possibilities with both artists and audiences. www.gamelankingston.org

Co-directors: Jody Diamond & Sasha BogdanowitschJody Diamond is a composer, performer, writer, publisher, editor and educator renowned for her specialization in traditional and contemporary gamelan music. In 1981 she founded and continues to direct the American Gamelan Institute and edits its journal, Balungan. www.gamelan.org

Sasha Bogdanowitsch is a composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and educator, whose work includes original songs, music for theater, dance and film, inter- disciplinary performance, concert music and sound baths, often influenced by his studies of world, folk and contemporary musics. He currently performs solo as Timbre Tree and as a member of Lyraccord, LoomSong, Gamelan Kingston and the Hogfiddle Consort. www.timbretree.com

Along with Katie Down, Dean Jones, Mike Jones, Henry Lowengard, Gavin Ryan and Peter Wetzler

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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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Covid Policy

Masking is optional but not required. Please do not attend events if you are feeling sick of any kind, or showing any COVID or flu like symptoms.

Refund Policy

In advance of 2 weeks – full refund (less processing fee)

Within 2 weeks – no refund(This policy stands even in case of sickness so we encourage participants to plan accordingly)

BIPOC spots

We are offering 2 free spots for BIPOC folx. Please select BIPOC Spot from the Pricing drop down to use one.

Shake with Niki
2026-04-12 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

Infant Developmental Movement Classes
2026-04-15 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-22 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-29 08:00 - 17:00

Somatics and Art for Culture Shift
2026-04-18 10:00 - 13:00

CI + SOTAI (Ancestral Body) Retreat
2026-04-23 10:00 - 2026-04-26 19:00
