WildHeart

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2025-06-01 16:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | NY
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

Register in advance

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.

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2025-06-01 16:00 - 18:30, 2025-06-15 16:00 - 18:30, 2025-07-20 16:00 - 18:30, 2025-08-03 16:00 - 18:30, 2025-08-17 16:00 - 18:30 | NY
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

Shake with Niki
2025-06-08 16:30 - 17:30, 2025-07-13 16:30 - 17:30, 2025-08-10 16:30 - 17:30 | NY
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
2025-06-08 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-07-13 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-08-10 18:00 - 19:00 | NY
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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Embodying the Organs in Voice and Contact Improvisation
2025-06-12 14:00 - 2025-06-16 15:00 | NY
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 | NY
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

Register in advance

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 | NY
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 | NY
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

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

Eros in Motion – A Sensory Journey Through Landscape
2025-07-14 08:00 - 2025-08-13 17:00 | NY
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, 2025-07-22 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-07-29 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-08-05 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-08-12 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-08-19 18:00 - 19:30 | NY
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 | NY
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.

Eros in Motion – Afternoon Queer Party
2025-08-09 14:30 - 18:30 | NY
EROS IN MOTION AFTERNOON QUEER PARTYSaturday, August 9, from 2:30–6:30 PMSaturday afternoon we shift into party mode. Expect music, open installations, spontaneous performances, and the joy of moving together. Bring a swimsuit and towel – water is part of the experience! Let’s celebrate eros not as spectacle but as energy: playful, sensual, communal. Come feel it for yourself.

Clown & Voice Retreat
2025-08-14 12:00 - 2025-08-17 18:00 | NY
The Clown and Voice Retreat is a 4 day heart-first, deep dive into serious play! Songs, movement, games, improvisation, creative exploration, and much more will fill our days as we explore the ridiculous and wondrous world of the clown, and our capacity for play and resonance through the voice. Wholesome meals, outdoor nature walks, swimming, collective dinners and singing ‘round the campfire make up this restorative and connected weekend of FUN!

The Moonstone Covenant - a book launch
2025-08-24 15:00 - 19:00 | NY

Pop-Up Contemporary Dance Class
2025-08-27 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-09-03 18:00 - 19:30 | NY
Mid- level intermediate class
Two Wednesdays;
August 27 + September 3
6- 7:15 pm
In depth warm up, musically driven phrases, somatic approach.
Classes lead by Jerylann Warner
Pay what you can. For questions or to register reach out to jerylannwarner16@gmail.com
