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 […]
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.
Song Circle is a weekly offering for the month of April. Singing is medicine. All of our ancestors were singers, and so are you. All abilities and disabilities are welcome.
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!
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.
A 4-week somatic investigation into your baby’s first movements. Through touch and play, we explore the foundations of healthy neurological development—from nursing and bonding to rolling and crawling—and why each stage is important. Parents leave with practical tools for everyday ease and connection.
This workshop will begin with a Body-Mind Centering warm up that will heighten participants’ senses and prepare them for rigorous use of their body and voice in Action Theater. We’ll explore our kinesthetic senses, and our auditory, visual, and vocal systems. The second half of the workshop will invite participants to continue on the path from sensation to perception, and further out into the imagination—following this awareness to its wildest, most expressive states.
In this workshop we will explore the overlap of somatic practice and art for culture shift. We will begin by looking at how some aspects of our overculture - hyper-activity, electronic devices, systems of oppression, capitalism - live in and pattern our bodies. And our bodies, in turn, create our collective culture, often through our creations. Therefore both our bodies and our creations are places where we can interrupt patterns of harm and create more freedom.
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.
How do we move?
Each class will open with guided improvisation and movement explorations inspired by Gaga movement language and the circular, spiraling patterns of qigong and contemporary dance. In what follows, we will experiment with creating movement scores that invite others into our unique movement styles. Together, we will explore how invitations—rather than prescriptions—can convey the feeling of movement and spark new discoveries in our own bodies, asking ultimately how we might become more together.
DreamSpinners is a ceremony performance weaving music, dance, and mystical storytelling~ leading audiences into a magical journey. The mesmerizing blend of songs, chants, bone language, storytelling, interpretive dance, singing bowls and percussion invites the audience to experience the emergence of a new timeline. The evening ends with a fire ceremony where new intentions take flame.
With support from award funds from SITI Company itself, “SITI Emeritus Artists Barney” are entering into a period of formal mentorship for Loom Ensemble’s programming at WildHeart, beginning with this open-to-the-public opportunity to engage with Suzuki and Viewpoints training, with two of the world’s most qualified teachers of these methods.