Retreats
Weeklong, or long-weekend immersive experiences, including food, housing, and a community of dedicated practitioners.
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Recent Retreats
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Somatic Movement Education Program – Nervous System Module
Wildheart 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, United StatesExperience first occurs on the cellular level. The nervous system is the recording system of the body. It records our experiences and organizes them into patterns. It can then recall the experience and modify it by integrating it with patterns of other systems and previous experiences. The nervous system is the last to know, but, once knowing, it becomes a major control center of psychophysical processes. It can initiate the learning of new experience through creativity and play. The nervous system underlies alertness, thought, and precision of coordination and establishes the perceptual base from which we view and interact with our internal and external worlds.
3/8 - 3/16/25 (days off 3/11 & 3/12)
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Somatic Movement Education Program – Endocrine System Module
Wildheart 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, United StatesThe 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.
3/19 - 3/24/25 (days off 3/21)
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Somatic Communication: Relational Intelligence in Contact Improvisation
This is a 3.5 day Workshop for Intermediate and Advanced dancers in Contact Improvisation, for movers who are interested in exploring physical communication within tactile relations on spatial and flesh-based levels. The fabric of touch is key to our relational practices in the movement of Contact Improvisation – and for many of us, in the living of life itself. Steeped in somatic communication, this adventure into our movement life begins within ourselves, but moves outwardly, to where selfhood refuses to be stable, set and limiting. Working from a baseline of care, we will explore the almost magical potentials of moving together within time practices that coordinate our unspoken agreements. These alignments can happen faster than conscious decision making. We will learn to hold ourselves “lightly”, move readily, fly and support one another by becoming more than a singular being. Always more than one, we will play within highly creative physical forms that require our fullest being of presence. Expect to gain an experiential vocabulary that informs many states of your embodied relations.
$210 – $999
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Unboundaried Voice – from Laughter to Lament
Wildheart 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, United StatesWe’ll gather to sing, sound, laugh, adventure, dream, research, play, lament and celebrate the Human Voice in all its colors surrounded by woods, lake, earth and sky.
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Be the Change: Improvising Towards Justice
This is a space to practice liberation not just as an idea, but as a felt experience—starting in the body, moving through community, and rippling outward into change.
Step into a sanctuary of embodied practice where justice begins in the body. Rooted in the concept of innervism—inner work as a foundation for outer change—we’ll explore how movement can nourish our spirits, deepen connection, and seed the future we long for.
Through contact improvisation, authentic movement, and nature-based practices, we’ll resource our hearts, cultivate resilience, and vision new possibilities. Together, we’ll practice liberation as a living, breathing act—starting from within. -
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Somatic Movement Education Program – Muscles Module
Wildheart 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY, United StatesThe 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.
10/10 - 10/20/25 (days off 10/13 & 10/17)
