Let Your Body Move

A new year begins not with a resolution, but with a breath—and then, if you’re lucky, a dance.

The First Dance is a New Year weekend retreat built around the simple, radical act of moving freely—with music, breath, voice, and stillness as your guides. Your body already knows the way. All you have to do is show up and let it move.

No choreography. No performance. No experience necessary. Just you, your body, and a room full of people doing the same brave, beautiful thing. Whether you flow, shuffle, sway, or simply sit and breathe, there is a place for you here. You are welcome exactly as you are.

In this retreat, you will experience:

• Expressive movement and dance: Freely guided sessions set to music chosen to open the heart and lift the spirit
• Communal chanting: Simple, accessible chants that need no prior experience, just a voice and a willingness to let sound move through you
• Guided meditation: Grounding practices to help you arrive and step into the new year with intention
• Restorative relaxation: Time to rest deeply, integrate, and simply be, because renewal isn't just about movement; it's about stillness, too
• Community and connection: Shared experience with a warm, welcoming group of open-hearted people

You'll begin the new year with something that's hard to name but easy to feel—a quiet aliveness, a loosening of whatever you carried in, and a sense that the year ahead has more room in it than you thought.