WildHeart

Somatic Movement Education Program - Muscles Module
2025-10-09 16:00 - 2025-10-21 11:00 (America/New_York) | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States
MUSCLES 10/09 – 10/21/25 (days off 10/13 & 10/17)Arrivals, orientation and welcome dinner 10/09 – Morning Departures 10/21/25 (day off if you’re staying for Professional Issues and SME Competency)

The muscles establish a tensile three-dimensional grid for the balanced support and movement of the skeletal structure by providing the elastic forces that move the bones through space. They provide the dynamic contents of the outer envelope of flesh encompassing the skeletal structure. Through this system we embody our vitality, express our power, and engage in the dialogue of resistance and resolution.

Shake with Niki
2025-10-12 16:30 - 17:30, 2025-11-09 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
2025-10-12 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-11-09 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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Authentic Movement Fall Series
2025-10-14 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-10-21 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-10-28 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-11-04 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-11-11 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-11-18 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-11-25 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.

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2025-10-19 16:00 - 18:30 | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States
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

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

Somatic Movement Education Program - Professional Issues & SME Competency
2025-10-22 16:00 - 2025-10-26 11:00 | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States
Professional Issues & SME Competency, 10/22 – 10/24/26 Arrivals and welcome dinner 10/22, Morning Departures 10/26

Completion of other SME courses is a prerequisite for Professional Issues. Time is spent considering what it means to be a professional and how do you transition into this role? This course will cover some of the important issues facing professionals in the somatic field.SME Competency is for those ready to graduate.

Community Contemplative Practice
2025-10-23 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-10-30 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-11-06 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-11-13 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-11-20 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-11-27 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-12-04 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-12-11 10:30 - 11:00
10.30am to 11am 🙂 FREE Community Contemplate Practice (online)-

A weekly 30-minute silent unguided space. Feel free to bring your own practice (sitting/ moving/ meditation/ writing/ journaling/ drawing etc.) along with any props to make yourself comfortable. We will start and end in silence.

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

No need to register, just show up.

Logic of Support: how to find and create support
2025-11-01 13:00 - 17:00
The Logic of Support

This workshop will look at Gait Mechanics and human fascial anatomy as a resource for exploring the fundamentals of human locomotion and dance. We will work with Contact Improvisation and The Axis Syllabus© as resources for finding support.

Waiting for the Weight: sequencing tension and release while dancing
2025-11-02 13:00 - 17:00
Waiting for the Weight

We are disassembling and reassembling all the time into different shapes. The “success” of motion comes from a balance of tension and release. Together we will explore our ability to “fall and catch” ourselves and others using the Axis Syllabus© and Contact Improvisation.

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2025-11-02 16:00 - 18:30 | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States
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

This CI class will overlap with the workshop Waiting for the Weight facilitated by Nuria Bowart. From 4–5pm, the CI class will join the final hour of the workshop, followed by a CI jam from 5–6:30pm. If you’d like to take part in the full workshop with Nuria, you can learn more and register here!

Logic of Support & Waiting for the Weight – WildHeart

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

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2025-11-16 16:00 - 18:30, 2025-12-07 16:00 - 18:30

Contemporary Dance (Mixed Level)
2025-12-06 10:00 - 12:00
Vija’s two-hour contemporary class starts with a careful, full body warmup influenced by her decades-long practice of Simonson Technique. The emphasis is on anatomical awareness with a healthy balance of stretching, strengthening, and dance technique. After center warmup and floor stretches, Vija leads the class in progressions—short combinations traveling across the studio. The class culminates in a longer dance combination, followed by a short period of student improvisation. Vija loves music and uses a variety of genres. Her contemporary movement incorporates attention to musicality, percussive/lyrical contrast, fluidity, and emotion

Wellness at WildHeart
2025-12-06 10:00 - 2025-12-07 17:30

Film Screening and Album Release of ‘Tell Me How You Breathe.’
2025-12-12 19:00 - 21:30
Please join Loom Ensemble on December 12, 7pm for the Film Screening and Album Release of ‘Tell Me How You Breathe.’ This musical theater work on climate crisis toured over ten cities throughout Vermont, Massachusetts and New York and is finally available for your eyes and ears.

Suggested contribution $5-$20
