Embodiment & Movement Weekend

FULL SCHEDULE, FACILITATOR BIOS & WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS

Please register in advance to secure your spot as workshops & community events may reach capacity.

In America today, we're more disconnected and disembodied than ever. We spend our days in front of screens, rarely moving, quietly overwhelmed, and holding onto stress and emotion we don't always realize we're carrying. So many of us have grown to fear physical connection, a fundamental human need. In the wake of the pandemic and an epidemic of loneliness, we've become more sharply aware that we are starved for presence, community, and physical connection.

Fortunately, it doesn't have to be that way. We can come back to ourselves, to our hearts, to community, and the parts of us that we have been disconnected from through safe, non-sexual touch, movement, somatics, and shared presence.

Join us for our second annual Embodiment & Movement Weekend, a weekend-long community event designed to create a connective and safe place to explore, learn, and connect through 30 different embodiment and movement modalities and consent work. There will also be opportunities to receive bodywork and energy work from different practitioners in the community.

This is a space to soften what's been hardened, to move what's been stuck, and to remember what it feels like to belong: in your body, and in community.

Cost

• Friday evening: $20–30 sliding scale

• Full weekend pass: $70–$85 sliding scale

• Saturday or Sunday full day: $40–$50 sliding scale

• 1 workshop: $15–$20 sliding scale

• Volunteer minimum 3 hours: Free ticket

  Common Street Spiritual Center is an inclusive, multifaith spiritual community and a hub for social justice, creativity, healing, and the arts. We're honored to support the emergent spiritual community via this partnership with Collective Effervescence.

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Friday

~Opening Party~

7 PM: Reiki Dance & Soundbath with Daniel Montoya, Emily Sclar, Simon Davis, Alice Belle, and Grace Elin • 2 hours

9 PM: Ecstatic Dance live DJ set by Smalankas

Saturday

9 AM: Day Opening + Land Acknowledgement: Come Home to Yourself (30 min) with Becca Phillips and Tiffany Hawco

Workshops Block 1 (90 min)

9:45 AM: Kundalini Yoga for Transformation and Joy with Hari Dass • 90 minutes

9:45 AM: Embodied Prayer Work with Julian Fontaine Fox • 90 minutes

Workshops Block 2 (90 min)

11:30 AM: Thai Partner Massage with Lee Ann Song • 90 minutes

11:30 AM: Safety & Care Planning: Moving Through Conflict and Harm with Carewith Valerie Werder • 90 minutes

11:45 AM: Bollywood Dance Workout with Purnima Thakre • 1 hour

• 1 PM: POTLUCK LUNCH BREAK

2 PM: Warmup: Sonic Shakewith Wren Medina

Workshops Block 3 (90 min)

2:30 PM: Embodied Open Mic for Self-Reclamation with Dani Bentz and Jocelyn Eve • 90 minutes

2:30 PM: Ninja Yoga with Grant Rivzi • 90 minutes

Workshops Block 4 (90 min)

4:15 PM: Sensual Embodiment Dance with Jenna Brooks • 90 minutes

4:15 PM: Body Poem with Gabrielle Fiedor • 90 minutes

• 5:45–7 PM: DINNER BREAK | Kirtan Chant with Michal Orlando, Lisa Leake, and Bruno Giles

~Evening Main Event~

7–10 PM: Soul Dancewith Shün • 3 hours

Other Offerings from CSSC Members

7–9 PM: SpiritDrumwith Dave Curry

~ALL DAY~

• Collaborative Art Station with Katrine Burkitt

Sunday

9:00 AM: Day Opening + Land Acknowledgement: Come Home to Yourself (30 min) with Becca Phillips and Tiffany Hawco

Workshops Block 1

9:30 AM (90 min): Deity Yoga with Jenna Brooks

10:30 AM (1 hour): Open Circle (Embodiment Theme) with Ian Mevorach

Workshops Block 2 (90 min)

11:15 AM: Embodied Vocal Expression with Selah Almquist • 90 minutes

11:15 AM: Interoceptive Body Awareness with Rayjuan Pollard • 90 minutes

12:45 PM: POTLUCK LUNCH and Community Consent Conversation with Jackson Van Raan

Workshops Block 3 (90 min)

1:45 PM: Sufi Turning with Karim and Kerima • 90 minutes

1:45 PM: Holotropic Breathworkwith Eliemar Albuquerque • 90 minutes

Workshops Block 4 (75 min)

3:30 PM: Intimacy with Frequency with Cas Kronenberg • 90 minutes

3:30 PM: Sensing Tango with Anatoliy Kats • 75 minutes

~Closing~

5 PM: Closing Gong Immersion with Dharam Singh

~ALL DAY~

Collaborative Art Station with Katrine Burkitt

From CSSC community, after weekend ends

• 6:00 PM: Sound Healing with Nissa Diantina
• 6:00 PM: Restorative Yoga with Pauline Chin