DATES & LOCATION
SEPT. 19-22, 2025
The BARN in WEST SEBASTOPOL, CA
Location featured in video is from last year’s campout
in Lake County.
This year, we will be in on a lovely, rustic farm
in West Sebastopol.
Disconnect to Reconnect
PULSE Partner Dance and Cocréa Mindful Partner Dance are thrilled to expand on last year’s campout. Once again, we offer you a sanctuary where movement is medicine, connection becomes communion, and mindful partner dance stokes the fire of your most authentic self.
Join us for three delightful & transformative days in the rolling hills of Sonoma County for a heart opening, stress melting, community weaving, booty shaking good time. This isn’t just another dance weekend—it’s an invitation to slow your grind and realign to your heart in resonance with others.
What others say about their Pulse & Cocréa experience:
I appreciated so much of Wren’s teaching style, the wide spectrum of knowledge/wisdom, the somatic modeling and the poetic/playful articulation. Similarly felt with Rebecca, Elliot and Eric. Y’all made an amazing team!!
This campout was a really delightful way to drop in and connect person-to-person. The campout was facilitated beautifully, with classes and workshops and lots of time to just play and connect. I feel more integrated into the Pulse community now, and I’m really grateful for that.
Before this retreat I was feeling depleted, under nourished of touch, and seriously needing some fun. During the retreat I felt delightful connection, deep laughter, curiosity to learn, and safely held touch. I went home with a new touch point of what non-grasping, no longer over efforting really feels like in my body.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Dancers with Foundation: You have some partner dance experience under your belt, and realize that building dance techniques is a pathway to deepening embodied connection and authentic relating in a non-verbal context.
Connection Seekers: You recognize or already practice dancing with others as a vehicle for deeper intimacy, presence, and aliveness—both with others and within yourself.
Village Builders: You see the more beautiful world you know is possible when people gather with shared intention for healing and wholeness. You want to participate in cultivating a culture where somatic awareness feeds that vision.
Heart-Centered Humans: You value authenticity, creativity, and the sacred space that emerges when we show up fully for each other and ourselves.
WHAT TO EXPECT
2.5 Days filled with: Movement workshops, partner dance instruction, somatic practices, creative expression sessions, and luscious, unstructured pauses for organic connection
Evenings featuring: DJ’d dance journeys, live music sets, delicious cacao for that wholesome heart lift, cute tea parties to inspire somatic contemplation and the magic that only happens when dedicated movers + curious beings commit to learning + playing together.
Throughout: Opportunities for authentic relating, mindful communication, and the kind of heart-opening experiences that remind you why you started dancing in the first place
Organic, healthy, delicious food:* Transformation starts on the cellular level. We believe in nourishing our minds and bodies with high quality fuels. We feast well.
*see additional meal ticket options at checkout
• Schedule subject to change but we’re feeling pretty solid on this one.
Special Community Tickets
Though we feel confident taking your whole weekend to be with us is the absolute best choice you could make, we understand that isn’t always feasible for everyone.
We’ve therefore created a DANCE ONLY pass for you to join us for the evenings, as well as a SUNDAY ONLY ticket.
Sunday will be magnificent. Honey of the Heart (Grass Valley, CA) will close out our event with their “ambrosial” sounds known to melt hearts and nourish souls.
Our amazing chef, Allysum, will be preparing a wonderful dinner before hand for those who would like to join weekend participants in grounding the work we put in.
Visit our registration section to see each individual price, including separate meal ticket for Sunday with meat add on available.
MUSIC VIBES
As we practice Presence,
We also gonna get way down.
Our team has been throwing dance parties for a collective 50+ years. That’s a lot of experimentation with what makes a great vibe that echoes in your memory.
And we recognize the importance of sound quality and music curation.
Here you’ll find our featured live musicians and some of the sets our DJs for this year have curated for our past dances and events.
Featured Live Musicians
HONEY OF THE HEART
“I heard the two harmonic voices and instruments one night amidst candles and stars …it was completely transformational! Don’t miss a beautiful musical journey with Honey of the Heart!” -Susan Shriver, KVMR DJ, Nevada City, CA
Justin Ancheta and Maren Metke have musical nectar flowing through their veins. Honey of the Heart is an ambrosial mix of musical interpretations influenced by folk, soul, roots and world/flamenco styles. Honey of the Heart weaves soaring harmonies and hypnotic polyrhythms into an alchemical semblance of groove intended for dancing, rejoicing and blissful recalibration.
Internationally acclaimed touring musician Justin Ancheta is a guitarist, vocalist, multi instrumentalist, joined forces with Maren Metke, who is a vocalist, songwriter and instrumentalist performing across the US and India.
Inspired by the gift of presence and connecting to the sweet moments in life, Justin and Maren formed the group Honey of the Heart to inspire and connect people with their voices, melodies and rhythms from around the world. Their live shows emote a sweet nectar of sounds that can bring people to personal revelation, community awareness, and uplift the power of joy in our hearts.
Featured Livetronica Set
JESSE KLEIN
Jesse Klein is a Northern California-based DJ, producer, and live instrumentalist who turns the dance floor into a sacred playground of rhythm and connection. With roots in partner dance, fusion, contact improv, swing, and a myriad of movement styles, Jesse channels his deep love for dance into every set, creating a flow that invites you to unleash your authentic self.
Jesse’s artistry is a fusion of soul-stirring soundscapes and live instrumentation, blending funky grooves, sultry bass, world fusion beats, cutting-edge electronica, and heart-centered folk tunes. Each track is a thread in the tapestry of a sonic journey designed to unleash your spirit. His care and musician’s intuition guides the crowd through waves of energy, from grounding depths to ecstatic peaks, leaving no genre untouched if it fuels the vibe and keeps the room alive with motion.
Beyond the beats, Jesse holds a sacred intention: to create a space for transformation, playfulness, and connection through dance. Whether you’re seeking an ecstatic release, deeper expression, or simply the joy of movement, Jesse’s events are an invitation to open into your truest nature.
Featured Fusion DJ
DJ BAE BAY
Bringing beats from the bay and beyond, DJ Bae Bay is a vibrant creative force with a passion for rhythm and an ear for eclectic sounds. She crafts musical journeys, blending slow and sensual grooves with upbeat, bass-driven beats.
From soulful blues and infectious hip hop to folk melodies and global sounds, each set allows a diversity of styles to explore on the dance floor. Melt into the magic and get ready for a journey.
Based in the heart of Oakland, DJ Bae Bay is all about connection and celebration, bringing together dancers of all backgrounds. Get ready to experience the perfect soundtrack for your moves, where every beat invites you to express yourself and connect to yourself, your partner and the room. Let’s GO!
Fusion & Cocréa Dance DJ
WREN LAFEET
Wren LaFeet has been instigating dance parties since 2008. Always working with an awareness of the room he’s in, Wren crafts dance sets that are sonic journeys facilitating deeper embodiment, connection and presence. Having danced his own way towards freedom since 1998 with his roots in swing, salsa, hip-hop and contemporary styles, he holds a deep connection to the power of dance to liberate, and the importance of the music fueling the journey.
As a deep inner somatic practicioner himself, Wren innately understands his role as an “ecstatic technician” when behind the wheel of the spaceship: to open the pathway and invite dancers to go where few have gone before. He also throws down booty bouncing bass sets that open up your sacral chakra and unwind your spine, as well as deep downtempo sets that drop you into the far reaches of the subtle currents of consciousness.
His broad musical tastes and hyper-attuned facilitation skills offer a container for the numinous experience of spinaesthesia to emerge: seeing sound as movement and becoming the music. Wren welcomes you home to yourself, to let go of what is not serving, and better still, integrate that shift and be danced into the divine.
Previous Sets from our Fusion DJs
PULSE x COCRÉA TEAM – FACILITATION & RESIDENT DJ CREW
WREN LAFEET
Facilitator + Instructor + DJ + Co-Producer
Wren is an embodiment guide dedicated to right-relationship in the 21st century. As a neurospicy dancer, trained actor and transformational movement facilitator, he weaves social dance, neuroscience, the Gene Keys, counseling skills, Taoist philosophy and more into his containers to foster connection, authentic presence and self mastery.
He is a TEDx speaker, featured author in “ReInhabiting the Village”, certified Attunement Therapy practitioner, HeartMath certified trauma sensitive educator and has taught Cocréa on 3 continents and 8 countries. He is currently studying to be a Gene Keys Guide.
Wren LaFeet has been instigating dance parties since 2008. Always working with an awareness of the room he’s in, Wren crafts dance sets that are sonic journeys facilitating deeper embodiment, connection and presence. His broad musical tastes and hyper-attuned facilitation skills offer a container for the numinous experience of spinaesthesia to emerge: seeing sound as movement and becoming the music.
ERIC SPIEGEL
Producer + DJ + Song Facilitator
Eric Spiegel (he/him) is dedicated to improvisation and collaboration. To foster more of these practices, Eric offers his energy as a community connector and event organizer for Pulse Partner Dance and Sebastopol Contact Improv, and facilitates Collaborate Vocal Improv singing. As “DJ Spiegel”, Eric endeavors to gather a diversity of genres, tempos, textures, cultures of music and emotional evocations in order to bring us into connection with each other and the moment – and to remind us human animals that we exist today because our ancestors consistently made music and danced together, and with all of life.
REBECCA BERMAN
Facilitator + Instructor + DJ + Co-Producer
Rebecca Berman is a lifelong mover, musician at heart, and passionate facilitator of embodied partner dance. Teaching and organizing since 2007, she draws from a rich background in Lindy Hop and swing, and remains a devoted student of many movement forms—including Bellydance, Contact Improvisation, Bachata Sensual, and beyond.
Through playful improvisation and rhythmic exploration, she offers a space for dancers to listen—not only to the music, but to each other, to their own bodies, and to the unspoken language of presence. She believes movement is a gateway to joy, connection, and communion with the world around us—an invitation to move with both intention and ease.
Rebecca (aka Becs) is a co-founder of the Pulse Partner Dance Collective and Sebastopol Zouk, two organizations that reflect her love for community-rooted dance. She’s currently savoring a new chapter: Optical Engineer by day, Brazilian Zouk dancer by night, bringing the essence of her sweetly woven Sebastopol roots to the South Bay.
ELLIOT KATZ
Producer + DJ + Experience Facilitator
As a co-creator of PULSE Partner Dance, Elliot Katz (aka DJ SyStemic) has a natural passion for curating evocative soundscapes for dynamic partner dance experiences. He strives to weave the melodic with the syncopated, the acoustic with the electronic, with playful and sensual connection at its core. As a facilitator, Elliot brings passion and authenticity to create containers of safety and exploration. He views the dance floor experience as a mirror for our inner lives, offering awareness and attunement to the human dynamics of power, consent and desire that play out in all our relations.
Special Guest Facilitator
João Paulo Pereira
Warm Down Movement
& Morning Mindfulness Yoga
João has been facilitating embodiment practices internationally for 25 years. As a forever student of body-mind and movement enthusiast, João’s wealth of knowledge spans from the subtle energetics of Yoga to the vibrancy of Partner Acrobatics; From the nourishment of Thai Bodywork and Ayurveda to the somatic awareness of Contact Improvisation and Aquatic Dance, among others. They are honored and thrilled to share some of these gifts with their beloved root community of Fusion Dance, Pulse.
THE EXPERIENCE
Sanctuary of an Attuned Dance Floor
Experience the rare gift of an impeccably held space—a sacred cypher in which a community of devoted dancers aspires to meet you where you are, and invites you courageously into the unknown spaces of curiosity, surprise and delight you’ve been dreaming of.
Somatic Creativity & Expression
Through Cocréa’s embodied approach, discover new dimensions of personal expression while building your toolkit of technique, awareness, and somatic wizardry.
Drop Down, Back & In
Here, we practice the art of slowing down—in our dancing, our connecting, and our being. Feel what emerges when you give yourself permission to move from presence rather than performance.
Attunement & Musicality
Sync up with your dance partners through the pulse of the music, the rhythm of the group, and the deeper currents of aliveness that flow through us all.
Sacred Eroticism & Boundaries
Explore healthy, pleasure-centric connection grounded in presence, self-responsibility, and clear container agreements. Discover how eros can be expressed safely within a container of trust and mutual respect.
THE SETTING
Just 90 minutes north of San Francisco, yet worlds away from the concrete grind.
Nestled in a lush valley of a West Sebastopol, this weekend offers the perfect setting for deep work and joyful play. The beautiful, natural surroundings hold the space to truly unplug and reconnect.
You’ll find yourself held by the presence of both community and landscape. Indoor accommodations and relaxed camping spaces are available to host folx coming from out of town.
VENUE & ACCOMMODATIONS
REST WELL
There are four options for sleeping on location at our beautiful venue – please select one at checkout.
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Farmhouse twin bed onsite, limited availability – $50
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Farmhouse queen bed onsite, limited availability – $100
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Camping at adjacent property, 15 min walk or 1 min drive to venue – $By donation to camp host
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Staying locally offsite – $Free (obviously ;P)
Queen Bed in Private Room
Queen & Twin Beds in Shared Room
Twin Beds in Shared Room
*Address given after registration to ticket holders only.
MEALS
Full weekend Meal Ticket = $77
- Five meals provided: Dinners on Friday-Sunday and Brunches on Saturday-Sunday
Dinner Meat Ticket Add-on +$13
- Purchasing an additional ticket for meat gives the option to add ~1/3lb of Organic meat to all three dinners.
(meals not included in weekend ticket)
If you require additional nourishment, please make sure and pack extra snacks! We will provide a limited amount of for our afternoon breaks.
All are encouraged to bring something to share that you love!
Caterer
Alyssum Revallo
Using the best of the season’s ingredients, Alyssum Revallo is a Sonoma County based chef who has been offering flavorful and deeply satisfying meals for the last 20 years. Find her most Tuesday and Wednesdays at The Casino, a cozy family friendly hometown bar and grill located in Bodega, CA, at The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, or Catering local events. Alyssum believes in the connection between healthy food, healthy individuals and a healthy planet.
Every meal will be vegan based with the option to add animal products such as eggs and cheese. Specific dietary needs and restrictions will be taken into consideration for accommodating, but we can’t guarantee to make all meals be able to cover all needs, so reach out (or we may reach out) regarding your specific dietary needs.
We would love for our meals to be shared together as this is the most easeful arrangement for the container overall, and will allow us all to connect through shared meals and free up energy to learn and relax.
ADDITIONAL PARTICIPATION
Everyone attending is asked to contribute a minimum of 1-2 hours of time during the course of this weekend to help the container itself flow well. This can include the recognizable, common and very needed community-supporting tasks, such as space setting/cleaning, meal prep, doing dishes, etc.
BRINGING YOUR LITTLE LOVED ONES
While we have hopes that this event could be family friendly, that adds an order of complexity that we don’t feel able to take on in this year’s event, thus we are not able to accommodate folx under 18 years old. If you want to have a conversation about this, please reach for Elliot via email: elliotkatz6 [at] gmail.
NO PETS PLEASE.
Ready to Activate your Embodied Presence?
WAIT!
WHAT IS COCRÉA?!
Wow so glad you asked!
Cocréa is basically Fusion partner dance with an a strong streak of intentionality. It’s as much a path of personal development as it is an invitation and training ground to become a better dancer.
It sits playfully and sincerely at the intersection of Fusion, Contact Improvisation, Ecstatic Dance, relational coherence & authenticity cultivation as a practice for navigating life’s many changes.
Cocréa embraces form and structure that supports the flowering of powerful presence and intimacy with another and community using the architecture of the body and awareness to create space for freedom and play.
With partner dance as our vehicle, we incorporate fundamentals of mindfulness and ever refining practices for connection to awaken in the body. Our container is held by trauma sensitive educators* and consent informed, to support and guide you in a beautiful practice of attuned listening – both with the self and others – and stay in the fullness and truth of your experience.
As Cocréa’s movement roots are in American vernacular dance (Swing, Blues, Charleston and Hip-Hop primarily), the opportunity is ripe for the inclusion and honoring of other dance styles, forms and aesthetics, and the emergence of altogether new ones including the formless to co-create the dance.
Typically in the realms of Sacred Other and Community, practitioners remain standing while within Self, Earth, Music and Whole, there is an invitation to find expressions that explore other levels down to the ground, architecture of the space, configurations of partnering beyond couples and stillness in any form.
There is no fixed aesthetic.
The dance flourishes when there is clarity of invitation, elasticity in the connection, and a vividness of presence detached from outcome or agenda that we commonly refer to as delightful, delicious or “juicy”.
*Wren LaFeet is a HeartMath trained trauma sensitive educator.
What’s the Energy Exchange to play in this deliciousness?
Ticket Pricing
Our aim is to make this event as affordable as possible, while also incurring expenses to put on an incredible, holistic event in California that pays the artists and organizers a fair rate.
The baseline cost per person is $400 and some tickets are set at that price.
We are offering some tickets at a discount to reach our local PULSE community who need the financial assistance in order to attend as well as for marginalized peoples (such as BIPOC & LGBTQIA+) who have systemic barriers to accumulating finances. And, some tickets are set at a price above our the baseline costs in order for those with more financial ease to create access for others.
Tier 1 – $300 – Local Low-Income, limited to 10 (Subscribe to our Pulse Monthly Newsletter to receive the access code to unlock this ticket tier)
Tier 2 – $350 – Low-Income, limited to 10
Tier 3 – $400 – Base Ticket
Tier 4 – $450 – Supporter (supports access for low-income dancers)
Tier 5 – $500 – Regenerator (supports access for low-income dancers + supports local artists & organizers)
Please buy the ticket that reflects your financial context, as each ticket tier is limited in number
(and will sell out).
Ticket price excludes sleeping accommodations and meals (more info below).
Transfer/Refund/Cancelation Policy
TICKET TRANSFER
Transfer of tickets to someone else are preferred to refunds, and can happen at any time.
Please note: they also require a few more steps in order to get the new person integrated into the container!
Ticket transfer process:
1) Original buyer forwards their confirmation email to the new ticket buyer as well as to rebecca.e.berman [at] gmail in order to notify us of the transaction.
2) And then the new ticket buyer will need to go through the registration steps for themselves so that we have all of their necessary info in order to be integrated well.
TICKET CANCELLATION
– 100% refund until 12am on August 15th
– 50% refund until 12am on Sept 5th
– no refund after 12am on September 5th
Why do we have this policy?
Our ticket prices are set to cover our costs, as well as to pay us as organizers for the immense energy output required to hold this event. By having this cancellation policy, we are sharing the financial risk with you in case you can’t come and no one else takes your place (especially since it may be close to the actual event). This policy also empowers you to help this event be successful and wonderful for everyone by helping find someone to replace your participation, and do so seamlessly for the whole container.
It’s our hope that through fostering an understanding of how much goes into creating these spaces for community to connect, learn and play which so many of us have received benefit from, that we can begin to co-create a culture that is more collaborative and regenerative rather than extractive and transactional.
Ticket transfer policy applies to all tickets: full event tickets, accommodations, and meal tickets.
GOT QUESTIONS?
Feel free to reach out to our production team at PulsePartnerDance [at] gmail [dot] com
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