We’re currently collecting important feedback from our community on our proposed membership model. If you haven’t had the opportunity yet to give us your feedback please click on the link below and fill out the form by the deadline of APRIL 5th. We hope that this membership program will facilitate engagement, and also help us to gather insights on the needs of the Earthdance community and how to meet them. Thank-you!

In honor and celebration of February’s Black History Month, Earthdance annually offers two free week-long residencies to two selected black dance-based artists. This annual program is part of our commitment to equity & access and one of the ways we are using our unique resources to further the careers and artistic development of black dance-based artists.

Applications for 2025 are open until March 31st. Please click here for more info and to apply.

On Wednesday, March 12th, our community lost a brilliant musician, poet, father, and one of the kindest, most generous souls you could meet. Chris Haynes brought much joy to our hilltowns, accompanying Penny’s community choirs over the years on piano, or playing his accordion during services at the nearby West Cummington Church. We share one of his poems with you below in his memory – the last one he posted on his Facebook page:

New buds in spring are tender, full of potential yet vulnerable, to the elements and to the weight of their own unfolding. They emerge from the stillness of winter, delicate yet determined, stretching toward warmth.

This workshop delves into the therapeutic potential of Contact Improvisation (CI), Authentic Movement (AM), and Restorative Contact (RC), as well as other somatic practices, demonstrating how their principles can enhance somatic intelligence, attunement, and co-regulation.

IGNITE! Mind/Body Detox™ transformative process that allows the Total Being to shine through. It encourages one to re-awaken their inner Spirit by active and passive meditation techniques that tap into the inner fire and encourage self-awareness.. This experience helps break down habitual patterns, release emotional and physical blocks and bring back the essence of letting go into a space of celebration.

“Skimming the Surface” Movement Healing Retreat will support adults that may be overcoming diverse forms of stress and trauma through somatic based expressive movement exercises. These workshops will help participants release blocked and repressed energy causing stress or discomfort in one’s life by integrating movement, feelings, and emotions.

Our movement investigations will bring us through varied terrain of inquiry: bridging instinctive, intuitive, and intellectual ways of being with. How can we orient towards intimacy and interconnectivity for the long-game of our moving lives? With information from the Axis Syllabus© – such as principles of the Tri-Axial body, Spiral and Fractal patterns, and Dynamic Alignment – we’ll call in clear choice-making, physical readiness, and enlivened awareness.

In this immersive workshop we ask the question- what happens when we consider this relationship as a dance? How do we dance a landscape? How are we danced by a landscape? How do we practice moving with and through the world with elements we might search for in any partner dance- listening, sensing, responding, give and take, composing, witnessing and being witnessed?  And most importantly, what arises from that kind of attention?

Rage Club is a space to come alive. Most of us have spent our lives being told that it’s not ok to feel Anger—that it’s aggressive, dangerous, destructive, etc. This is an outdated relationship to feeling that keeps you numb and cuts you off from a powerful source of energy and information for your life.

The long-time tradition of weekly Sunday CI Jams has returned! Come for a class beforehand, or just for the jam. Stay for the sauna and potluck dinner! Registration not required. 

Class: 5:00 – 6:30pm (rotating teachers)

Potluck: 6:30 – 7:30pm

Jam: 7:30 – 10:00pm

Those who have been staying in the Gratitude Lodge lately have noticed its slow but steady makeover progress.  The WeX team has been pouring a lot of love into the space over the past several months, and guests and long time residents agree that it’s feeling fresh and inviting.  Come have a cup of tea in the living room and bask in the late morning sun with us!

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia.