Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2024-05-05 16:00 - 18:30, 2024-04-21 16:00 - 18:30, 2024-04-07 16:00 - 18:30, 2024-03-17 16:00 - 18:30, 2024-03-03 16:00 - 18:30, 2024-02-18 16:00 - 18:30, 2024-02-04 16:00 - 18:30, 2024-01-21 16:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) and 2 more dates
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

Rejuvenate - a creative women's retreat to refresh body, mind, and spirit
2024-05-02 11:00 - 2024-05-05 15:00 | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States
A women’s weekend of journal making, meditation, movement, connection, and creativity. Over the course of the retreat, we will make our own paper and create hand-bound journals in which to write and paint, incorporating natural objects found in the forest! This reflective process will be supported by guided meditation, movement sessions, delicious food, good community, and plenty of time to follow your own inspiration.

Facilitated by: Stephanie Sharp, Jude LaFollette, & Neva Cockrell

Sacred Vessel Workshop with Sound Healing
2024-03-23 10:00 - 16:00
Facilitated by Cari Skier

At WildHeart: Center for Performance and Embodiment Practice

10am-4pm, Saturday March 23, 2024

The Sacred Vessel Workshop is a full-day retreat of integrating the art-making process with a live, immersive, healing soundscape to help you release the things that no longer serve you.

This workshop explores the Japanese art of Kintsugi and the philosophy of Wabi Sabi as a means of self-acceptance and healing.

The vessel represents us as an individual, we are vessels that hold many things. But sometimes we break and need to be put back together. Our brokenness changes us, makes us who we are. And so we will break and then repair our bowls by painting, collaging and writing and highlighting our beautiful cracks with gold. Expressing through images and words, all the hidden components that make us, us. This is a deeply personal process that will challenge you to embrace your imperfections with self-compassion and love.No artistic skills necessary,All materials provided.

$75 per person

*Please reach out if money is a barrier

Register to Join Us!

Frequently asked questions

Who is it for? Anyone interested in exploring art-making as a process for healing. No prior skills needed.

Do I need to bring anything? Just a bag lunch! All workshop materials are provided.

Do I need to be an artist to participate in this workshop? No, no art skills are necessary. Anyone can do this activity.

What is Sound Healing? Sound Healing, or sound bath is a meditative experience where those in attendance are “bathed” in sound waves. These waves are produced by various sources, including healing instruments such as gongs, crystal singing bowls, percussion, chimes, rattles, tuning forks, and even the human voice itself.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

About the Facilitator:

Cari Skier is a Therapeutic Art Specialist & Certified Sound Healing Practitioner. She specializes in supporting people to heal symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression through the healing modalities of art and sound. Cari holds a BFA, a Masters degree in Education and a degree in occupational therapy. Working for years with people struggling with emotional health matters, Cari believes that use of art and sound compliment each other well to heal past wounds, ease emotional symptoms, manage pain and strengthen resilience. ​Cari offers warm-hearted and individually tailored programs that will support you to accept, express, make sense of and transform your emotions for powerful healing.

REGISTER HERE

Loom Ensemble March Devising Intensive
2024-03-14 18:00 - 2024-03-17 19:00
We are beginning the development process for Loom Ensemble’s next show, and are welcoming new collaborators into the creative process!

This fall, winter and spring, we’ll gather about once a month for either a long weekend or full week intensives, at WildHeart: a performance incubation / retreat space in the Hudson Valley.In these creative workperiods, we welcome performers (dancers, actors, musicians), writers, composers, designers, dramaturgs — we’ll be approaching the material from all angles.

This is a body positive, queer, anti-racist space. The work is explicitly political, leaning into raw conversations, but centering wellbeing and respect for the artist throughout.

lush & whole: welcoming our fat as an embodied resource
2024-03-07 14:00 - 2024-03-10 14:00 | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States
Your fat is pulsating with more energy density than any other tissue in your body but most of us haven’t been invited to connect with it. What becomes possible when you have more of your body to feel and move with? In “Lush & Whole: Welcoming our Fat as an Embodied Resource” you will spend 3 nights exploring your fat somatically and creatively, to discover what emerges when you let your fat be felt and known.

Faciliated by Jules Pashall & Laura McCunniff Reid

The Winter Artist with Hanna Satterlee
2024-02-02 15:00 - 2024-02-04 16:00 | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States
Amongst still snow, vast skies, and quiet earth, this three day journey of activity, rest, connection and play will include an arrangement of modalities to help you connect to your inner creative fire. A retreat of contemplative, creative and community practices with interdisciplinary rituals of making, moving, sharing, and discovering. “The Winter Artist” retreat invites your full artistry to awaken and create within a structured group cohort. Treat yourself with ease, and see what arises!

with co-facilitation from Neva and Raffles

Cuddle Party
2024-01-02 17:30 - 21:00
Facilitated by Facilitator-in-Training Tommy “Captain Cuddles” Seda

At WildHeart: Center for Performance and Embodiment Practice

Third Saturdays, 5:30-9:00pm

For ages 17 and over

$30 per person

*Please reach out if money is a barrier

Register to Join Us!

Welcome to Cuddle Party!

A workshop on Consent and Communication, cleverly disguised as a Pajama Party.

Have recent events left you feeling deprived of opportunities for touch? Do you feel stressed, overwhelmed, isolated, or alone? Have you ever said yes when you really wanted to say no? Do you struggle to ask for what you really want?

If any of this sounds like you or you are just curious then you are invited to pack your PJs, your favorite pillow, and a snack to share and give yourself the gift of a Cuddle Party.

What Happens at a Cuddle Party?

First, A Welcome Circle & Mini-Workshop

After you arrive at the event location, sign in, and change into pajamas in the private changing area, the Cuddle Party starts with an hour-long Welcome Circle, led by Tommy Seda

This Welcome Circle is where we create the structure and safe space for the socializing to follow. It is also where we break the ice and get a group of strangers to feel not so strange to one another. This is where you and other Cuddle Party participants can…

Introduce yourselves,

Learn about the Cuddle Party philosophy,

Get oriented to the Cuddle Party rules,

Practice the Cuddle Party communication skills

Be led through a few ice-breaker exercises

As the Welcome Circle concludes, most participants find themselves feeling surprised by how comfortable they feel.

Then, Two Hours of Self-Directed Connection

Now it is time for you to ask for what you want, say yes and no to requests and invitations, cuddle according to your desires and comfort (or just talk if you prefer), connect with fascinating people, “cuddle mingle,” and, ultimately, relax into the flow of an unusually playful and respectful social environment.

Some participants cuddle in groups, others one-on-one, while some like to talk and not cuddle for a time, or not at all. Cuddling can mean feet against feet, full-body hugs, head-rubs, spooning — it is, indeed, up to you. And, configurations and positions shift significantly throughout the event, thanks in part to Rule 6 Change your mind & keep yourself happy.

Also throughout the event, the Cuddle Party Facilitators participate with you so that you can feel relaxed and supported and have a great time with your experiences.

The socializing and cuddling, like the Welcome Circle, all take place in our cozy environment, enhanced by an eclectic and charming mix of music played at a volume that allows easily for conversation. There are cookies, fruit, munchies, juice and no intoxicants (other than the oxytocin, that is).

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

About the Facilitator:

Tommy “Captain Cuddles” Seda has always followed the philosophy he learned as a teen of “learn one, do one, teach one”. With that motto driving him, he has been teaching and facilitating programs that range from one hour workshops to summer long camps. He has held certifications as instructor with several private and government organizations. Currently his passion for teaching is focused on cuddle parties where he is a facilitator in training enrolled in the Cuddle Party Inc training program.

“What Else Do I Need To Know?”

This event is non sexual, drug and alcohol free, and limited to participants who are 17+

Please bring a blanket, pillow, and healthy snack to share!

Also a reusable water bottle so we can save on plastic use 🙂

Doors will be locked at 6:15 as no one may join after the opening circle has started.

This event is non sexual, drug and alcohol free, and limited to participants who are 17+

COVID PROTOCOL: Please present a negative rapid test.

If you test positive or are not feeling well, please stay home. Your ticket will be refunded in full if you must cancel due to illness or exposure. Masks will not be required but anyone’s choice to wear one will be honored without question.

REGISTER HERE

Cuddle Party CANCELLEEDDDD :(
2023-10-14 17:30 - 21:00
OCTOBER CUDDLE PARTY CANCELLLLLEDDDD

We are so sorry, hope to see you in November!

Facilitated by Facilitator-in-Training Tommy “Captain Cuddles” Seda

At WildHeart: Center for Performance and Embodiment Practice

Third Saturdays, 5:30-8:00pm

For ages 17 and over

$30 per person

*Please reach out if money is a barrier

Register to Join Us!

Welcome to Cuddle Party!

A workshop on Consent and Communication, cleverly disguised as a Pajama Party.

Have recent events left you feeling deprived of opportunities for touch? Do you feel stressed, overwhelmed, isolated, or alone? Have you ever said yes when you really wanted to say no? Do you struggle to ask for what you really want?

If any of this sounds like you or you are just curious then you are invited to pack your PJs, your favorite pillow, and a snack to share and give yourself the gift of a Cuddle Party.

What Happens at a Cuddle Party?

First, A Welcome Circle & Mini-Workshop

After you arrive at the event location, sign in, and change into pajamas in the private changing area, the Cuddle Party starts with an hour-long Welcome Circle, led by Tommy Seda

This Welcome Circle is where we create the structure and safe space for the socializing to follow. It is also where we break the ice and get a group of strangers to feel not so strange to one another. This is where you and other Cuddle Party participants can…

Introduce yourselves,

Learn about the Cuddle Party philosophy,

Get oriented to the Cuddle Party rules,

Practice the Cuddle Party communication skills

Be led through a few ice-breaker exercises

As the Welcome Circle concludes, most participants find themselves feeling surprised by how comfortable they feel.

Then, Two Hours of Self-Directed Connection

Now it is time for you to ask for what you want, say yes and no to requests and invitations, cuddle according to your desires and comfort (or just talk if you prefer), connect with fascinating people, “cuddle mingle,” and, ultimately, relax into the flow of an unusually playful and respectful social environment.

Some participants cuddle in groups, others one-on-one, while some like to talk and not cuddle for a time, or not at all. Cuddling can mean feet against feet, full-body hugs, head-rubs, spooning — it is, indeed, up to you. And, configurations and positions shift significantly throughout the event, thanks in part to Rule 6 Change your mind & keep yourself happy.

Also throughout the event, the Cuddle Party Facilitators participate with you so that you can feel relaxed and supported and have a great time with your experiences.

The socializing and cuddling, like the Welcome Circle, all take place in our cozy environment, enhanced by an eclectic and charming mix of music played at a volume that allows easily for conversation. There are cookies, fruit, munchies, juice and no intoxicants (other than the oxytocin, that is).

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

About the Facilitator:

Tommy “Captain Cuddles” Seda has always followed the philosophy he learned as a teen of “learn one, do one, teach one”. With that motto driving him, he has been teaching and facilitating programs that range from one hour workshops to summer long camps. He has held certifications as instructor with several private and government organizations. Currently his passion for teaching is focused on cuddle parties where he is a facilitator in training enrolled in the Cuddle Party Inc training program.

“What Else Do I Need To Know?”

This event is non sexual, drug and alcohol free, and limited to participants who are 17+

Please bring a blanket, pillow, and healthy snack to share!

Also a reusable water bottle so we can save on plastic use 🙂

Doors will be locked at 6:15 as no one may join after the opening circle has started.

This event is non sexual, drug and alcohol free, and limited to participants who are 17+

COVID PROTOCOL: Please present a negative rapid test.

If you test positive or are not feeling well, please stay home. Your ticket will be refunded in full if you must cancel due to illness or exposure. Masks will not be required but anyone’s choice to wear one will be honored without question.

REGISTER HERE

Tree Dancing Retreat
2023-10-06 00:00 - 2023-10-08 23:59 | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States
Climb trees with rope / harnesses & Dance where gravity feels suspended

Facilitated by Nimble Arts & Mark Przekurat

Elements of Contact with Moti and Taina
2023-09-29 16:00 - 2023-10-01 17:00 | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States
Moving with the energies of Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Ether we will cultivate these qualities in ourselves and our Contact Improvisation dances. Join us to deepen, in connection with self, other, and the living environment.

Physical Theater Training
2023-08-31 17:00 - 21:00, 2023-08-30 17:00 - 21:00 | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States

Nita Little: Relational Intelligence in Contact Improvisation
2023-08-31 17:00 - 21:00, 2023-08-30 17:00 - 21:00, 2023-08-30 08:00 - 17:00 | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States

Loom Ensemble: Tell Me How You Breathe at Stone Ridge Orchard
2023-08-19 18:00 - 19:30, 2023-08-18 18:00 - 19:30, 2023-08-13 18:00 - 19:30, 2023-07-08 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-07-07 19:00 - 20:30

Loom Ensemble Summer Residency
2023-06-05 18:00 - 2023-08-21 19:00
Loom Ensemble’s summer rehearsal and performance residency “Tell Me How You Breathe” activates WildHeart’s land and buildings in service of incubating Dance Theater for Collective Liberation!

This is a body positive, queer, anti-racist space. The work is explicitly political, leaning into raw conversations, but centering wellbeing and respect for the artist throughout.

More information coming soon!
