SLOW, SAUCY & SACRED

+ COMMUNIYUM

Portland, OR

An Evening of Exploring Intimacy and Presence through
Deeply Attuned Fusion Dance

LOCATION

Awakenings Wellness Center
Portland, OR

DATE & TIMES

Sunday, Aug 9th
4-7:30PM

Register Here!

WORKSHOP THEMES

Internal and External Frameworks for Somatic Conversation
Microcosmic Majesty – Getting Subtle through Facia Connection, Pausing and the Breath
Cultivating Pleasure and Directing it into the Heart
Shaping Space with Awareness and Physics
Softening into Surrender – The Dance of Taking and Allowing

My key take aways from Cocréa are the power of listening, invitation (consent tools), conversational dance, and EMBODIED dance.

Ashé Jordan

Pro Zouk Dancer and workshop participant

My experience at Wren’s Dance Your Medicine retreat was a total initiation.

The energy that Cocrea brings is one of really landing in the intimacy of the dance.

What stands out as one of my biggest takeaways is being able to more deeply feel the awe and wonder of my dance partner.

Harry Bo

Ecstatic Dance Philidelphia

You are a wizard! You make incredible magic happen between people (individuals and groups). You have x-ray vision right into the heart of what’s needed and then you offer the exact medicine for whatever that thing is and the medicine you share is playful, juicy and sweet, so it’s a joy to receive.

Linsday Bee

Lead Songstress at Brightside Blue

Dance Your Way into the Heart of Presence

A Two-Part Fusion Dance Workshop with Wren LaFeet

Join us for a unique two-part journey into presence, connection, and embodied partner dance.

Part I: Slow, Saucy & Sacred

This practice is all about presence! Technique focuses into a close(r) embrace, a relaxed frame in which the polarity of lead & follow gets to flex yet stays lit, and expansion of our listening to the music and our partner to hear subtlety and nuance. This technique allows us to keep the dance moving and about the pleasure of the dance happening now, rather than agenda, fantasy or control. It’s not about the moves, it’s about the Feeling.

Experience how you can notice and move with awareness of your energy as it arises within a dance, and how to hold these energies as a team in their highest possible light. We move in the realm of honoring the sacred in everyone with our dance, and with our touch, by celebrating and owning our pleasure and turn-on for ourselves and moving it into co-creative delight.

***Cacao: Before the second half of our journey, we’ll settle to share ceremonial cacao together as an opportunity to slow down, open our hearts, and transition into deeper connection. As we gather during the Lion’s Gate season, a time many associate with reflection, intention, and opening to possibility. We’ll take a moment to honor the power of circling together in community before stepping onto the dance floor once again.

Part II: CommuniYum

CommuniYum is a guided partner dance experience that invites us beyond technique and into authentic connection.

Through thoughtfully facilitated movement explorations, partner rotations, and group experiences, we’ll practice listening, responding, and creating together in real time.

Rather than performing or trying to get it “right,” we’ll explore what becomes possible when we bring awareness, openness, curiosity, and play into our dancing and our relationships.

Inspired by the arc of the I Ching and informed by the wisdom of the Gene Keys, this experience cultivates greater presence, authentic expression, and a deeper sense of belonging within community.

Whether you’re looking to deepen your fusion practice, strengthen your partner dance connection, or simply experience a profoundly connected afternoon of movement, this workshop offers an opportunity to grow, play, and discover together.

EXCHANGE: $40-65 (notafloff)
Venmo: @cocreadance
PayPal: connect (at) dancecocrea (dot) com

OR PAY WITH CARD BELOW

No partner required. All experience levels are welcome.

Wren LaFeet

Facilitator • Cocréa Director and Co-Founder

Wren is an embodiment guide committed to practices that encourage living in right-relationship. A trained dancer, theater worker, mindfulness facilitator and former recovery counselor, Wren shares body-based practices synthesized from social partner dance, mindfulness, Taoism, the Gene Keys, waterways and relating with other humans that support interpersonal connection and positive change.

In 2013, Wren founded Cocréa with co-founder Antje Schaefer, as a vehicle for transformation through exploring mindful, consent based partnered movement as a relational practice. Channeling what he has come to acknowledge as an intelligence that wants the highest possible outcome for humanity, he creates brave spaces for humans seeking a deeper sense of belonging to come home to themselves and the earth through the body.

Wren is a TEDx speaker, featured author in “ReInhabiting the Village”, certified Attunement Therapy practitioner and HeartMath certified trauma sensitive educator. He holds a BA in Drama and Dance and began dancing in 1998 at the height of the swing dance revival. He immediately began fusing dance styles, particularly swing, hip hop and contemporary movement. He began performing in front of audiences at the age of 6 and as a neurospicy human, thrives when channeling his boundless energy, curious mind and empathetic capacity into service to others.

A devotee of the Gene Keys since 2013, he now incorporates them into his coaching work as a Guide.