Dance
On this page you'll find Contact Improv, Dance & Cuddle and Yoga Dance. Please scroll down for event details.
Dance & Cuddle
6:00-9 pm on Friday February 20th @ Holistic Alignment Healing Center, Somersworth, NH
Freeform Dancing is an invitation to let your life force energy move freely—awakening the body into joy, aliveness, and heart-centered presence. As we move beyond habitual patterns and into embodied awareness, many experience this space as an altered state of consciousness: more spacious, more connected, more alive than everyday waking life.
When held with clear boundaries and enthusiastic consent, physical connection can be deeply nourishing. This container is designed to support safety, authenticity, and the possibility of genuine connection—within yourself and with others—without expectation or pressure.
The flow of the evening:
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at [email protected]
Please register by February 19th by venmoing me @Jodi-Thomas-51.
Love exchange request - sliding scale $41-$77
When held with clear boundaries and enthusiastic consent, physical connection can be deeply nourishing. This container is designed to support safety, authenticity, and the possibility of genuine connection—within yourself and with others—without expectation or pressure.
The flow of the evening:
- Opening circle to ground together and clearly explore boundaries, consent, and what this container is and is not
- Somatic, consent-based practices to build trust and community coherence
- ~70 minutes of freeform dancing guided by a wave-based playlist, inviting organic movement and expression with self or others
- ~70 minutes of cuddle time, with consent always at the center
- Closing circle with spaciousness to reflect and share your experience (optional)
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at [email protected]
Please register by February 19th by venmoing me @Jodi-Thomas-51.
Love exchange request - sliding scale $41-$77
Contact Improv 101
6:30-8 pm
Contact Improvisation is a playful, intuitive dance form rooted in trust, presence, and embodied connection—with yourself, others, and gravity itself. It’s a formless form that continues to open my heart and move my life in surprising and transformative ways.
Yet for many of us, the idea of spontaneous movement—or coming into physical contact with others—can bring up hesitation. That’s completely natural.
This class will invite you to become more present in your body, create a conscious connection with the earth and gravity, the art of weight sharing and engaging with others from a place of curiosity.
No experience is necessary. Curiosity, openness, and willingness to explore are enough.
Come as you are—Contact Improvisation welcomes exactly what’s alive in you, right now.
♥ Accepting love offerings on a sliding scale between $25-$35.
Please register through venmo @Jodi-Thomas-51 by January 15th.
Please arrive at the Holistic Alignment Healing Center - 22 Interstate Drive, Somersworth, NH between 6:10-6:20 on January 16th to settle into the space and be ready to begin at 6:30.
Bring a water bottle, knee pads if you have them & comfy clothes.
Yoga DanceThe truest form of yoga relates to bringing full presence into the body in order to feel the union between body and spirit. Yoga Dance allows spirit~inspiration~cellular consciousness~body wisdom to move us - an embodiment of freedom. Join us for a short somatic warm up, fun and inspiring playlists and a deeply relaxing closing. Embrace your inner child and play with others, discover your inner rhythm and invite unpatterned movements to flow through you. |
Yoga Dance Details1st Saturday of the month at Holistic Alignment Healing Center, Somersworth. is our next movement gathering!
This month I'll offer a Contact Improvisation Warm up for those who are new to that form and offer several playful invitations throughout the fun playlist to engage with others in your dance. Please arrive a few minutes before 10 to settle so we can be ready to begin at 10 am. Bring a water bottle and comfy clothes for movement. ♥ To sign up for Yoga Dance at the Holistic Alignment Healing Center (Address: 22 Interstate Drive, Somersworth, NH 03878), please venmo me @Jodi-Thomas-51 by June 6th. |
Contact Improvisation Dance
Contact Improv has been one of my most potent physical, spiritual, social, sexual, mystical and intimacy teachers. It has the capacity to bring to consciousness to and repattern deeply ingrained paradigms through its non-systematic invitation to meet the moment, listen and allow cellular consciousness in relationship with the cellular consciousness of others and the entire room to move you.
Contact Improv with live Didgeridoo & Percussion
Join Surrender In Motion, Didge Therapy and Todd Glacy for a unique exploration of movement and sound - where improvisational dance and live music merge to unlock the most intuitive, creative, and embodied parts of ourselves.
This is an invitation to step out of thought and into sensation, letting rhythm and resonance guide you into pure presence. The deep, grounding vibrations of didgeridoo, the pulse of hand percussion, and the fluid expression of improvised dance weave together, creating a space where movement becomes music and music becomes motion.
Improvisation is the art of deep listening - a surrender to the moment, where authenticity unfolds and the body moves from an inner knowing beyond words. Whether you're new to movement or an experienced dancer, this experience welcomes you to explore, release, and flow.
Accepting $40-55 sliding scale love offerings via venmo @Jodi-Thomas-51. Please pay what you can...we are hoping to make this event accessible to all and invite generosity to support further events like this. Please sign up by venmoing Jodi by April 10th. Please contact me directly [email protected] if you do not have venmo and would like an alternative method.
Please arrive at the Holistic Alignment Healing Center - 22 Interstate Drive, Somersworth, NH by 2:45 on the 13th to settle into the space and be ready to begin at 3. Bring a water bottle, knee pads if you have them & comfy clothes.
Primal Dance
Primal Dance is an invitation to awaken and connect to your inner intuitive knowing and move from your cellular consciousness…
-We will co-create a receptive container and then I will guide a 20-30 minute somatic exploration to drop into the body.
-Then, free-form movement to a themed playlist & moments of quiet (dance to the rhythm of the cosmos)
-Finally we'll gather in a closing circle for integration and support.
-The only thing you need to bring is a water bottle and layered clothes.I'll guide a somatic warm up that will include Contact Improvisation explorations with partners, followed by freeform movement to a shorter playlist and and we will end dancing to the music of the sea and the cosmos. Then those who wish will immerse in the sea together.
-If you know anyone who wants to develop a spiritual practice fully connected to the inner cosmos of their body, please share this page.
Notes:
-If you've never explored this kind of movement before...welcome. There is no skill set required...only curiosity about your body.
-We will co-create a receptive container and then I will guide a 20-30 minute somatic exploration to drop into the body.
-Then, free-form movement to a themed playlist & moments of quiet (dance to the rhythm of the cosmos)
-Finally we'll gather in a closing circle for integration and support.
-The only thing you need to bring is a water bottle and layered clothes.I'll guide a somatic warm up that will include Contact Improvisation explorations with partners, followed by freeform movement to a shorter playlist and and we will end dancing to the music of the sea and the cosmos. Then those who wish will immerse in the sea together.
-If you know anyone who wants to develop a spiritual practice fully connected to the inner cosmos of their body, please share this page.
Notes:
-If you've never explored this kind of movement before...welcome. There is no skill set required...only curiosity about your body.
Primal Dance Details
Days & Times: I'll be doing pop-up dances in nature throughout the summer...check back for days an times.
The next is July 18th at Seapoint Beach in Kittery...
This requires a direct confirmation with me that you will be attending...in order to coordinate rides and parking (we'll meet at 6:15 in the parking lot to walk down together and begin at 6:30). Please see details at surrenderinmotion.com/events and message me or email me {[email protected]} by Wednesday July 17th by 9pm to confirm attendance.
Cost - $20 {cash or venmo before we're actually on the beach - there's no signal}.
The next is July 18th at Seapoint Beach in Kittery...
This requires a direct confirmation with me that you will be attending...in order to coordinate rides and parking (we'll meet at 6:15 in the parking lot to walk down together and begin at 6:30). Please see details at surrenderinmotion.com/events and message me or email me {[email protected]} by Wednesday July 17th by 9pm to confirm attendance.
Cost - $20 {cash or venmo before we're actually on the beach - there's no signal}.
