Somatic Movement Education Program - Endocrine System Module
2025-03-18 16:00 - 2025-03-25 11:00 (America/New_York) | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States
ENDOCRINE SYSTEM 3/19 – 3/24/25 (days off 3/21)Arrivals, orientation and welcome dinner 3/18 – morning Departures 3/25/25

The endocrine glands are the major chemical governing system of the body and are closely aligned with the nervous system. Their secretions pass directly into the blood stream and their balance or imbalance influences all of the cells in the body. The glands are the keystone between the organs and the nervous system and between the nervous system and the fluids. They create crystalline psychophysical states through which we are able to experience and understand the universal aspect of self. This is the system of internal stillness, surges or explosions of chaos/balance and the crystallization of energy into archetypal experiences. The endocrine glands underlie intuition and the perceiving and understanding of the Universal Mind.

Vocal Tapestry: Spring Class Series
2025-03-31 18:00 - 19:30

Rise & Shine with Niki
2025-04-01 08:30 - 09:30
Rise & Shine with Niki (in-person or online)8.30-9.30am Tuesday mornings (50 mins)Rise & Shine – Kickstart your day with this class by working with your body & breath. A physical practice that focuses on strength, flexibility, breath and balance through static or linked poses, mandala flows, and challenging ‘peak pose’ flows to bring you into your bodies and onto your mats, leaving you blissfully energized and ready for your day. We will use Hatha & Vinyasa yoga to help improve internal and external stability. While some knowledge of basic yoga asanas can be helpful, it doesn’t matter where you are on your yoga journey, by attending regularly you will benefit from advancing your yoga practice and challenging yourself daily. Join in-person or online. A link to the online class will be sent once you register.$15-25 (BIPOC – pay what you can)

Yin-Restore with Niki
2025-04-02 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-04-30 18:00 - 19:30
Yin-Restore with Niki (in-person or online)

6-7.30pm Tuesday evenings starting November 5th (90 mins)

A Yin/ Restorative practice that uses props & longer holding poses to stimulate the ‘relaxation response’. I aim to hold space for folks and guide them to play with their edge, release control and let gravity do the work. Join in-person or online. A link to the online class will be sent once you register.

$15-25 (BIPOC – pay what you can)

Deep Listening Series
2025-04-03 18:00 - 19:30

Canceled - Prenatal Yoga and Strength
2025-04-07 10:30 - 11:30
Perhaps most importantly, this hour-long class is a time for you to be with your body and your baby during your pregnancy – which can be a busy and full time!

Class will begin and end with quiet, guided time to connect to yourself and the baby. We’ll take time to gently warm up and cool down as this is essential during pregnancy to help prevent injury and create a sense of wellbeing in the body. We’ll do many postures that encourage the body to softly open and relax, easing aches and postural pains. In the middle of class we will make our way through a series of movements from Yoga Asana practice, Ballet Barre, and classic Strength Training to help to strengthen and stabilize the body. Pregnant bodies tend toward looseness as they prepare for birth, so adding strength and stability into the mix is highly beneficial. During this portion, Neva will always offer options to increase or decrease the workload. While exercising during pregnancy (when cleared by a midwife or doctor to do so) can be an important piece of maintaining a healthy body and mind, overexercising can take away precious energy. Neva will encourage each person to work at their own pace, approach their body with kindness and care, and tailor each session to their unique needs. There will also be a time during each class specifically focused on the pelvis and the pelvic floor. This intimate work is vitally important during pregnancy, birth, and post-partum. Having familiarity and comfort working with the pelvis in a supportive way can truly change a birther’s experience of the whole process of bringing new life into the world.

Class will include a variety of props to help offer a well supported practice. Ideally, each session will leave participants feeling calmer, stronger, and more connected to themselves and their baby.

Neva has over 15 years of teaching experience with a combination of ballet barre, yoga, meditation, contemporary dance, acrobatics, and somatics. She has many years of teaching pre- and post-natal embodiment, including training new instructors how to do so. She is the mother of a 3-year-old named Dion and during this series will be in the second trimester with baby #2.

Sonic Immersion
2025-04-13 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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Somatic Communication: Relational Intelligence in Contact Improvisation
2025-04-16 16:00 - 2025-04-20 16:00

Cancelled - Yin-Restore with Niki
2025-04-16 18:00 - 19:30

Research Training in Somatic Communication within Ensemble Practices
2025-04-21 09:00 - 2025-04-24 17:00

Canceled: Yin-Restore with Niki
2025-04-23 18:00 - 19:30

One is Not Enough Performance with Nita Little
2025-04-27 14:00 - 15:00 | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States
All intelligence is collective intelligence.

Michael Levin

With a focus on practices of physical attention developed from Contact Improv and explored in the Ensemble Dancing setting, this 35 minute dance driven project engages actions of trance in finding, organizing, and creating new modes of physical attention and communication – defining the human by our relational practices of intelligence.

Lead choreographer Nita Little, in co-creation with Hudson Valley based choreographers- Neva Cockrell, clyde fusei forth, Leighann Kowalsky, Nuria Bowart and more guide local Hudson Valley dancers- Karina Mehta, Cam Moreno, Lauren Mark, Nikita Patel, Glenna Yu, Mandy Hackman, Gabrielle Revlock, Laure Marin, Christine Bornath and Timna Jahoda-Kligler through a score-based premiere.

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Exploring intelligence here, means working on notions of the multiple self to reveal the environmentally entangled human oriented toward being made different by more than human circumstances and the new knowledge that unveils. Actions of investigation and communication between dancers are scored through directed attention acting as a refractive lens that articulates serious states of play. This compositional project is highly dependent upon dancers who have choreographic skills to be able to move away from a dominant visual concern and into other levels of articulation and compositional choice making. Adding exteroception to the definition of the somatic, scores for improvisations organize physical attention across bodies and include set materials that shape the space.

This work is collaborative on every scale of making, in its production and performance. Driving the timeline is an edit of a lecture by James Bridle, Planetary Intelligence. This auditory focus sustains an investigation of the definition of intelligence, as an ability to communicate on the level of communion, not just an ability to speak or send messages. Six to ten dancer/choreographers will each be given sections of this lecture in advance to develop scores in collaboration with dancers of their choosing that nest and weave together, forming the fabric of this performance. The goal is a 35 minute work that embeds the audience in explorations, articulations and evaluations of intelligence, not as a thing, but as a process, not as a single being, but as a collective of beings.

Accessibility: Most of the performance will take place in the Barn, which has a wide and level entrance and is wheelchair accessible. Weather depending, there may be part of the performance that takes place by the lake, which is a 5ish minute walk down a grassy hill, that is somewhat steep and uneven ground. There is an option to drive down to the lake as well. There are no fully ADA accessible bathrooms onsite. If you have further questions about accessibility please reach out Contact@WildHeartCenter.art.

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Online (May 6 only) - Rise & Shine with Niki
2025-05-06 08:30 - 09:30
Rise & Shine with Niki (in-person or online)8.30-9.30am Tuesday mornings (50 mins)Rise & Shine – Kickstart your day with this class by working with your body & breath. A physical practice that focuses on strength, flexibility, breath and balance through static or linked poses, mandala flows, and challenging ‘peak pose’ flows to bring you into your bodies and onto your mats, leaving you blissfully energized and ready for your day. We will use Hatha & Vinyasa yoga to help improve internal and external stability. While some knowledge of basic yoga asanas can be helpful, it doesn’t matter where you are on your yoga journey, by attending regularly you will benefit from advancing your yoga practice and challenging yourself daily. Join in-person or online. A link to the online class will be sent once you register.$15-25 (BIPOC – pay what you can)

Just for today, Tuesday May 6th, this class will be held virtually only (no class in person) please register online or email contact@wildheartcenter.art to receive the link to join the class.

Online (May 7 only) - Yin-Restore with Niki
2025-05-07 18:00 - 19:30
Yin-Restore with Niki (in-person or online)

6-7.30pm Tuesday evenings starting November 5th (90 mins)

A Yin/ Restorative practice that uses props & longer holding poses to stimulate the ‘relaxation response’. I aim to hold space for folks and guide them to play with their edge, release control and let gravity do the work. Join in-person or online. A link to the online class will be sent once you register.

$15-25 (BIPOC – pay what you can)

Just for today, Wednesday May 7th, this class will be held virtually only (no class in person) please register online or email contact@wildheartcenter.art to receive the link to join the class.

Ameri-clecti-cana Performance
2025-05-09 19:30 - 21:00
In this upside-down world, The Downside Up has made it our mission to boost your spirits with our signature Americlecticana sound – a dash of country, a dollop of blues, a splash of jazz, and a spoonful of rootsy rock.

One February day in 2023, Al, Amy and Evan met in Evan’s living room to learn some tunes and find a common sound.

What we’ve birthed over two years of writing and rehearsing, pop-up shows, potlucks, and parties is deeper and wider than we ever imagined

Sometimes souls operate at cross purposes. Sometimes purposes cross and souls cooperate. Downside Up is a case of the latter.

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Downside Up

Recording engineer, producer, songwriter, bassist and environmentalist Al Hemberger owns and operates The Loft Recording Studios in Bronxville, NY, which has recorded many gold and platinum songs and hosted hundreds of artists, from Rihanna to Rod Stewart to NSync. Google him for more info.

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Beacon songwriter and chanteuse Amy Soucy studied musical theater and more, but found her home and honed her chops in the folk scene. Her first album won her a coveted Emerging Artist spot at Falcon Ridge Folk Fest and 1st place in CT Folk’s Song Competition.

@resonantheart

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Guitarist Evan Schwartz predates YouTube and electronic tuners. He learned to play guitar at “the local blues jam,” where they throw you into the fire and you learn or burn.

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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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Nectar of Silence -- Meditation Retreat with Harshada Wagner
2025-05-15 14:00 - 2025-05-19 14:00

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2025-05-18 16:00 - 18:30
Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart

With Facilitator: Alexandra Bayeva

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

Open Jam 5-6:30pm

Internal States in Contact ImprovisationIn this class, we explore how internal states—such as focus, flow, distraction, and play—shape our movement experience and physical expression. Through guided exploration and simple movement tools, we’ll learn to recognize, navigate, and shift between these states. The aim is to support a more grounded, responsive, and expressive CI practice, deepening both self-awareness and connection with others.

Alexandra Bayeva is a professional dancer and a teaching artist originally from Belarus passionate about bringing art of self-expression through dance and movement to adults and children. Alexandra has been involved in contact improvisation practice for the last 18 years and taught CI at Dance Lab, Dance Beyond, Unifier Festival, Hudson Valley CI Jam, and various venues in NYC. Alexandra is the creator of “Let Your Body Talk”—a class that focuses on connection through dance and movement as well as an organizer of “Hiking and Dancing” events in Hudson Valley.https://alexbayeva.wixsite.com/dance

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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.

Canceled- Yin-Restore with Niki
2025-05-21 18:00 - 19:30
Yin-Restore with Niki (in-person or online)

May 21st & May 28th classes are canceled. See you in the fall 🙂

Touching Fat: Sensual Somatics for Fat People
2025-05-29 13:00 - 2025-06-01 16:00
Facilitated by Jules Pashall and Scarlet Tunkl, this retreat will explore and celebrate the magic of being present and embodied with fatness in community with other fat folx. We will use touch, movement, noise making and creative play to experience the sensuality inherent in our fat tissue. This retreat will uplift fatness as more than just a descriptor of bodies, but as an energy and access point to sensual presence. Each activity will pull inspiration from the formal qualities of fat: soft, lush, velvety, deep, full, whole. This retreat will have a special focus on touch so that we can learn new things about how we like to be loved, touched and tended.

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2025-06-01 16:00 - 18:30
Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart

First and Third Sundays
Facilitator: Lillian Kemanis

4:00-6:30pm (2nd and 4th Sundays in Kingston!)

BYO dinner for a studio-floor picnic afterward

CI Lab 4-5pm

Open Jam 5-6:30pm

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Bio:
Lillian Kemanis is a registered Somatic Movement Educator + Therapist, dancer, yogi, and artist who offers support to individuals seeking a holistic and alternative approach to navigating life’s challenges. With over 10 years of professional experience in the movement healing arts, Lillian supports her community through personalized 1:1 Somatic Therapy sessions, immersive group workshops, and accessible online education. Her sessions prioritize body awareness as the primary pathway to address underlying emotional, mental, and physical needs, following a “bottom-up” therapeutic approach. Her methods facilitate the development of internal self-awareness and mind-body integration, helping clients restore a deep sense of connection to their vitality.

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.

Embodying the Organs in Voice and Contact Improvisation
2025-06-12 14:00 - 2025-06-16 15:00
This Body-Mind Centering® retreat will offer an introduction to the organs through the practices of vocalization and contact improvisation. We will explore the principles and qualities of the organs, celebrate the deep visceral knowledge in our bodies, and unwind any holding or tension in our organs.

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2025-06-15 16:00 - 18:30
Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart

June 15, 2025
First and Third Sundays
Facilitator: Miranda Busansky

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:
In this class, we will explore attention and the ways in which it travels through our collective and individual bodies. In times of political distress and unknown, how can we continue to move at the speed of our attention, move with our dysregulation, soften impacts, and build support systems in our dances? We will modulate between scores that center our attention through slow weight pouring and then expand outwards into more scattered forms of attention to explore how tracking multiple things at once can loosen and attune our dance. In my teachings I always like to honor these practices as research into how our dances can teach us about the world, and how to care for ourselves and each other in times of crisis and unknown.

Bio:
Miranda Busansky is a wanderer, imperfectionist, and queer multi-disciplinary artist interested in the off-centered experiences of clay, dance, and performance. Their work is sewn in the fields of Wood-Fired Ceramics, Wild Paper Sculpture, Contact Improvisation, and Butoh. Clay, movement, and Miranda, are interested in the facilitation of therapeutic care, arts education, and capitalist intervention through collective practices of dance, ceramics, and improvisation.
Miranda most recently participated in a 6 month community based residency with an organization called Free-Columbia. They inquired into the fertile relationship between dance and ceramics while observing the experience of our bodies as conduit. Miranda taught a weekly movement class called Dancing The Disturbance, facilitated monthly music and dance jams, and concluded this residency with a performance art exhibition at Lightforms Art Center in Hudson NY.

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.

Solstice Workshop: SOMA SOMA SOMA
2025-06-28 13:00 - 17:00
Join us for a Summer solstice workshop celebrating embodiment, community, and creative expression. In this 4-hour workshop, participants will experience the power of somatics, an intentional change process by which we realize transformation, individually and collectively.

This retreat offers space for contemplative movement + joyful play. Held in the nourishing environment of WildHeart, we’ll move, meditate, draw, journal, and practice politicized somatics. Our practice will invite the softening of bodies and breath while staying rooted and engaged with the present moment. Through this work, we will consider and embody new ways of being together in liberation and care.

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2025-07-06 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

Facilitator: Raffles

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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

Eros in Motion – A Sensory Journey Through Landscape
2025-07-14 08:00 - 2025-08-13 17:00
3 Weeks of Devising + 2 Public Showings

From July 14 to August 13, WildHeart artist-in-residence Pascal Buyse will lead a group of participants through a unique process of building performative installations in nature. This residency explores eros as a life force – a queer, sensual energy rooted in desire, connection, and creation. The installations are not static objects but embodied performances of the labor and movement that created them. Participants lift, crawl, stretch, and reach – the act of building becomes choreography. Later, these forms invite the audience to move through them and reawaken those gestures intuitively.

Core Research QuestionCan an installation—built and physically experienced by its creators—invite visitors, without words, to move in specific ways? How can the maker’s intention be felt purely through material, shape, and landscape?Theme: ErosEros here is not about sex, but about the drive to create, connect, and feel. It’s the energy that pulls us toward another body, a tree, a thought. It is soft, curious, powerful – never aggressive. It is what moves us.

Authentic Movement
2025-07-15 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.

Infant Developmental Movement Education
2025-07-22 15:00 - 2025-08-04 11:00 | Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, 05156, United States
with Amy Matthews and Sarah Barnaby

The Infant Developmental Movement Educator program is a child-centered and relationship-centered approach to observing and facilitating infants, and educating parents and caregivers about touch, movement and handling in the first year of life.

This program is designed to train people to evaluate and facilitate normal development in infants using an embracing, child-centered approach.

In this training, participants will learn:

the layering of movement patterns that leads to typical ‘developmental milestones’

how to observe infants and see ‘normal movement pattern’ development

how to hold and handle infants, to support their movement experiences

how to identify ways to support infants who might be having movement difficulties

how to support parents and caregivers in learning new movement patterns with their infants

MORE Info is available at https://www.sondermsma.com/idme

Eros in Motion – Opening Performance
2025-08-08 18:00 - 19:30
OPENING PERFORMANCEFriday, August 8, from 6–7:30 PM (doors at 5)Join us for a multimedia dance performance unfolding through the stunning natural surroundings of WildHeart. Expect an embodied experience shaped by the queer force of eros: creation, connection, and curiosity. Eros here is not about sex, but about the drive to create, connect, and feel. It’s the energy that pulls us toward another body, a tree, a thought. It is soft, curious, powerful – never aggressive. It is what moves us.
