WildHeart

Vocal Prism
2026-02-12 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Vocal Prism is a six week class series focusing on vocal improvisation; the practice and tools to develop it.

Weekly Community Sit (Online)
2026-02-12 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-02-05 10:30 - 11:00
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 WildHeart community members in meditation, either in the Barn or—weather permitting—outside on the land.

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

No registration required / no experience necessary / all are welcome 💜

Cost: Free

Queer Body Jam
2026-02-11 18:00 - 19:30
Queer Body Jam is an improvisation based, dance class for Queer bodies. This is an all-levels movement class made for every body. We will move through 60 minutes of open-format continuous movement, guided by vocal and movement cues. No previous dance experience necessary – willingness to sweat and stay open minded welcome!

Authentic Movement Winter Series
2026-02-10 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-02-03 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-01-27 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-01-20 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.

Cancelled: Sonic Immersion
2026-02-08 18:00 - 19:00
This is event is cancelled this week (Feb 8th)

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.

Group Shake
2026-02-08 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

Wellness at WildHeart
2026-02-08 10:00 - 2026-02-09 16:00, 2026-02-07 10:00 - 19:00

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2026-02-01 16:00 - 18:30
Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart

Facilitator: Leighann Kowalsky

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

Class Description:

This All-Levels class will dive into principles and skills for a relational approach to Contact Improvisation. While meeting the abilities in the room, we may address the various types of contact points, skills for scaling body tone, drawing and sending your partner, and orientation of the pelvis as a tool for moving through space.

Bio:

Leighann Kowalsky (she/her) is a Hudson-Valley based dance artist, travelling globally to perform, choreograph & teach. Kowalsky has been a practitioner of Contact Improvisation since 2012, and has been a collaborator with early CI pioneer Nita Little since 2021. In 2022, Kowalsky joined the Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication as the Global Coordinator, and has been developing and adapting Nita Little’s Advanced/Intermediate body of work, for beginners. Leighann lives and breathes art, and appreciates being enmeshed in community, communication and movement in a variety of forms.

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

Practice Weekend
2026-01-22 13:00 - 2026-01-25 16:00

Contact Improv CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW
2026-01-18 16:00 - 18:30
THIS SUNDAY JAN 18 CANCELLED DUE TO DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS FORECASTED

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart

Facilitator: Lauren Mark

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

Class Description:

This all-levels friends class will focus on exploring weight sharing through different layers of depth, from the skin to the bones. We’ll work with a range of weight-bearing levels to develop broader palettes of negotiation and give ourselves multiple entry points for sustainable dancing across the lifespan and always evolving physical conditions.

Facilitator Bio:

Lauren Mark (she/her) is a Hudson-Valley based communication and culture scholar and dancer. She has been a practitioner of Contact Improvisation for 2 decades and has taught CI as a relational tool to facilitate conscious intergenerational and intercultural relationship building in the U.S., Taiwan, and France. Lauren frequently thinks about how embodied rhythms permeate our social lives across cultures and contexts, and how we can awaken a deeper awareness of our social environments from our embodied awareness as dancers.

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

Sonic Immersion
2026-01-11 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-14 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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Shake with Niki
2026-01-11 16:30 - 17:30, 2025-12-14 16:30 - 17:30

Authentic Movement Immersion
2026-01-10 10:00 - 2026-01-11 16:00
This Authentic Movement Immersion offers space to explore the Self and relational connection, awaken the multidimensional layers of the psyche, and cultivate conscious awareness through embodiment. Together we will practice seeing and being seen, moving and witnessing, speaking and holding silence.

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
2026-01-04 16:00 - 18:30
Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart

Facilitator: Connor Bond

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

Class Description:

Connor’s contact improv workshop will utilize short open scenes to explore the relationship between physical abstraction that we know and love in CI and naturalistic acting. Explore what contact improv can do for the performer in you!

Facilitator Bio:

Connor Bond currently teaches improv, clowning, and contact improv in the Hudson Valley. He holds an MFA in Acting from UC Irvine and has appeared on Netflix, HBO, CBS, Amazon Prime, Comedy Central, and in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the park. His upcoming classes will start at the end of January with a new innovative local theatre lab called Fable & Sow. Check out fableandsow.com to learn more!

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
2025-12-21 16:00 - 18:30, 2025-12-07 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

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

Queer Body Jam/Improv
2025-12-13 11:00 - 12:30
Queer Body Jam/Improv is a monthly dance/flow class for Queer Bodies! This is an all-levels movement class made for every body. We will move through 75 minutes of open-format continuous movement, guided by vocal and movement cues. No previous dance experience necessary – willingness to sweat and stay open minded welcome! The goal of this class is to create a safe space for Queer folks to practice an embodied mind+body connection through joy, effort, texture, stamina, and release.

Facilitated by Jessy Dae Crist. Register and learn more here!

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

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

Authentic Movement Fall Series
2025-11-25 18:00 - 19:30
