Recent Talks, Workshops, Events, and Trainings (Selected)
How to Garden: See What Grows Multimodal Materials and Methods for Movement. In this workshop, we expand and seep between dancing, writing, drawing, stoking the imaginarium, and being together as an ephemeral society. We will work from dreams, memories and imagination to dance with our wildness: ancestral, fungal, social. Moving from image-based shape and improvisation, we will explore the weight, tone and texture of the positions we put ourselves in. Breath, gravity, and sensation shape the tendrils of curiosity. Campus (Porto, PT) December, 2023
What We Do with The Dead Our bodies are felt as temporary autonomous zones of intersectional, inherited imperatives, immigrations, survival strategies, genocides, along with gendered, racialized, classed chronologies and cartographies. These morning classes will explore choreographic writing, tracing, and drawing practices that will emerge from our technical exploration of shape, breath, and movement. We will work with the senses, memory and materiality to hold presence and psychic cohesion in the always vulnerable body. Campus (Porto, PT) April, 2023
Winter Retreat This five hour workshop functioned as a mini-retreat with dynamic movement practice, herbal elixirs and unguents, breath work, and winter-centric folk traditions at The Studio (NYC) December, 2022
The Embodied Mind: Kabbalistic Traditions We were once one, then we broke down, and our bodies are the locus of all the drama. What do Kabbalistic traditions have to teach us about the sometimes mystical, often mortifying, always mortal nature of a human incarnation? This course will explore some of the esoteric renderings of creation narratives focused on fruits, faces, light bodies, gender, and the five senses. One-month course at Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies (Stockholm, Sweden) November, 2022
Garden Pub(l)ics Following the ending of their Advanced Master of Research year at Sint Lucas Antwerp, seven participants were invited to a residency at Frans Masereel Centrum. We presented the residency’s outcomes as part of SLARG Research week at Morpho (Antwerp, Belgium) October, 2022
Instruments of Resonance A 10hr sound, breath, and movement workshop with Odeya Nini and Nevine Michaan. We consider the voice as an invisible limb: like a third hand, a third eye, a third foot- an implicit, vibratory node of resonance, an invisible other with whom to enter active relation. The body is a visible, ephemeral ingathering of tissues and organs that resonate in relationship. We are the shape that holds a voice, a kind of sonic organ of connection, with ourselves and our surroundings. Katonah Yoga Center (online) July, 2022
the body is a breath that accretes over time Judith Butler has shown us the ways that repetitions reinscribed and reproduced from the experience of gender, so too with our myriad hybrid identities. As people, we are already full of so many others, each one of us a simultaneous garden and graveyard. How do we live with the others who are here? installation, reading, video, and breath workshop based as part of Sint Lucas Antwerpen’s ADMA at Morpho (Antwerp, Belgium) June, 2022
to perceive a body collaborative workshops with Yingda Dong, integrating live drawing, somatic experimentation, and public dialogue at Morpho (Antwerp, Belgium) June, 2022
Breath of Life: a Workshop on Kabbalistic and Hasidic Breath Practices In this workshop, we explored Kabbalistic and Hasidic breath practices as well as their Biblical origins. With breath work, as in all learning, the means are the ends. There is nowhere to rush to, as we come to the end of our breath, we arrive at the end of our life. Living is a breathing process. Our mystics, prophets, and simple human holy ancestors have theologized techniques for infusing this magical mundane act that can enrich our thinking, feeling, and being. Taught at Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies (Stockholm, Sweden) June, 2022
Is my arm the firearm? A workshop programmed as part of the Embodiment research strand of the fourth biennial research conference on Violence. This breathwork and embodiment workshop centered on the body’s experience of anxiety in the context of climate collapse. The workshop is based on a long-term choreographic investigation of trauma held in the body and expressed by it. Participants were invited to consider their bodies as weather-vanes for the impending violent transformation of society. At PARSE Violence Conference (Gothenburg, Sweden) March, 2022
Dancing and Writing in the Expanded Field(s), Online panel discussion with Lisa Samuels, Paul Hughes, Nathan Yaffe, Janaina Moraes, Maryam Bagheri Nesami, and val smith, as part of pavle heidler and Alys Longley book release and exhibition (Melbourne, Australia) Nov. 2021
Becoming Well Adjusted, Two-day workshop assisted by Victoire Kalamarides and Lisa Fraipont at La Glacière (Brussels, Belgium), Nov. 2021
Alchemical Conception Nine-month initiative featuring original writings, embodied practice, and artist talks with guests including Res, Amelie Gaulier, Rita Diamond Casais, and Alexis Steeves (Stockholm, Sweden), Oct. 2021-June, 2022
We are the Rain Workshop at IDOCDE symposium at Impulstanz Festival (Vienna, Austria) July 2021
Subtle Body Cartographies Workshop assisted by Birgit Pelzmann and Michael Freissmuth Hosted by Sweet Spot (Graz, Austria) July 2021
Fits and Fluency: Advanced Practices Three week workshop with Nevine Michaan and Tony Lupinacci for Katonah Yoga Center (New York, USA) May 2019
Performance, Process and Dramaturgy Four part discussion series with Faye Driscoll and UNC dramaturgs for “Audience Advocates” at Carolina Performing Arts, UNC (Chapel Hill, NC), March, 2021
Tree of Life: An Introduction Online lecture for Ariana Reines’ Invisible College (Hudson, NY) Feb. 2021
Five Elements, Alchemical Landscapes: Tantric and Kabbalistic Embodiment Maps Five part online series. Assisted by Aly Sparkling Beveridge and Marie Le Troadec (Stockholm, Sweden), Jan. 2021
Dialogue with Reality: A Breath Intensive Four part online workshop for The Studio (New York, USA) Jan. 2021
Yoga is Invisible Five day workshop curated by Clemence Cocquet with Scapa Fest (Glasgow, Scotland), Dec. 2020
Ad plures ire, to go to the many, and the impossible/struggling community Two day workshop as part of “Collective Remaking of Time” with Dr. Natasha Marie Llorens at the Royal Art Academy (Stockholm, Sweden), Nov. 2020
How to Be Alone with Yourself Four day online program at La Maison du Tigre (Paris, France), May 2020
Covid Meditations Free online classes in daily breath work, March-June, 2020
Recipes for Joy Three month online program of embodied practice, meditation, and pedagogy. Designed by Emile Sorger for White Pine Institute (Philadelphia, USA), March, 2020
Longevity Practices, Recipes for Joy, and The Lo Shu’s Magic Square Three day workshop for The Yoga Games (Malmo, Sweden), Oct. 2019
Subtle Body Cartographies Four day workshop assisted by Birgit Pelzmann. Hosted by Sweet Spot (Vienna, Austria), Aug. 2019
Le Yoga: De La Responsabilité Individuelle Au Collectif Part of public workshop initiative with Marine Parmentier for Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France), April, 2019
Adjustments for Embodiment one day workshop at Eden Studios (Berlin, Germany), Jan. 2019; Stretch (London, UK), May 2019
Contact and Crisis Workshop as part of L’intrus Curatorial Intensive with Lotte Arndt and Natasha Marie Llorens at Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture (Donostia, Spain), Dec. 2018
Radical Acts of Embodiment Reading, book release, and discussion moderated by Seth Wulsin at McNally Jackson (New York, USA), Nov. 2018
The Magic Square: Personal Use of Time One day workshop hosted by Mirz Yoga (Paris, France), Jan. 2018
Recipes for Joy workshop hosted by The Studio (New York, USA), 2017
Unhold Into Artist talk with Helene Kazan, mod. Natasha Marie Llorens as part of the Exhibition “City and City” Parsons/The New School (New York, USA), Sept. 2016
On Performance Clay Artist talk and workshop with Erin Cairns Cella at Temple University (Philadelphia, USA), Sept 2015
Gender in Performance Artist talk and panel with Company Sogono at Colgate University (New York, USA), Oct. 2015
Foundations of the Flesh Artist talk at Newington-Cropsey Foundation, May, 2014
Foundations of the Flesh Masters Thesis panel discussion at New York University, May 2014
INTENSIVES AND TEACHER TRAININGS
2018-present KATONAH YOGA CENTER 30-200 hour teacher training and mentorship New York, USA
2022-2023 YOGASHAKTI 30 hour intensive, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 SWEET SPOT 20 hour intensive, Graz, Austria
2020 LA MAISON DU TIGRE 200 hour teacher training, Paris, France
2017-2020 SACRED FIG 200 hour teacher training, Bali, Indonesia
2018-2019 SACRED FIG 75 hour advanced intensives, Pantelleria, Italy
2019 LUMINES YOGA 30 hour intensive (March and November), Kronberg, Germany
2019 THE LOOKING GLASS 30 hour intensive, Basel, Switzerland
2019 MY YOGA BODY 30 hour intensive, Dublin, Ireland
2019 SWEET SPOT 30 hour intensive, Vienna, Austria
2019 PRANAMA KALLIO 30 hour intensive, Helsinki, Finland
2019 LA MAISON DU TIGRE 30 hour intensive, Paris, France
2018 ICI SELF CARE 30 hour intensive, Paris France
2018 STUDIO YOGISI hosted by Reni Bickel and Aylin Karadayi Zurich, Switzerland
2018 EDEN STUDIOS hosted by Reni Bickel and Aylin Karadayi Berlin, Germany
2018 30 hour intensive at LOVE Yoga Space, Los Angeles, USA
2018 30 hour intensive at TURF, Vancouver, Canada
2017-2018 SKY TING 30-50 hour intensives, New York, USA
2016-2018 THE STUDIO 30 and 50 hour intensives, New York, USA
2016-2018 SKY TING 200 hour teacher training, New York, USA
2016 KAT VILLAIN 200 hour teacher training, Vancouver, Canada
RETREATS
2023-2024 Seasonal Urban retreats with Kristen Watson (Looking Glass Basel) Basel, Switzerland
2023 with Tony Lupinacci Sicily, Italy
2022 with Kristen Watson (Looking Glass Basel) Odemira, Portugal
2021 Solo teacher (Katonah Yoga Center) Odemira, Portugal
2021 with Sian Fujikawa (LOVE Yoga Space) Kythnos, Greece
2018 with Brian Nygard (assisted by Vinny Bonanno) Veraguas, Panama
2017 with Chloe Kernaghan (Sky Ting) Marrakesh, Morocco
2016 with Anton Brandt (Sacred Fig) Ithaca, Greece
2015 with Abbie Galvin (The Studio) Cabarete, Dominican Republic
2007-2009 with Maria Grey and other teachers (The Garden) New York, USA
2007-2009 with Paul Manza and other teachers (Heartland) New York, USA
2007 with Paul Manza (Greenhouse) Cabarete, Dominican Republic
2004-2006 with Zohar Wilson (Alok Holistic Health) Santa Theresa, Nosara, and Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt and Wadi Rum, Jordan