Wren is an embodiment guide intent on living in right-relationship as a 21st century human. Wren shares body-based practices synthesized from social partner dance, mindfulness, Taoism, the Gene Keys, watersheds, neuroscience and psychology that support interpersonal connection and positive change. After initiating his own partner dance facilitation practice in 2011, Nomad Dance, Wren began the cultivation of partner dance as a vehicle for transformation through exploring mindful, consent based relational practice with Antje Schäfer. Cocréa was born in the fall of 2013.

Drawing from 2 decades in the theater being driven by the exploration of conflict, Wren wonders at the idea of all human problems being relational problems. Based on feedback from students and clients over the years, he hypothesizes that, if approached with honesty, vulnerability and courage, a dance encounter with another human can have as much healing capacity as talk therapy within a fraction of the time. The healing potential of the encounter seems dependent chiefly on the possession of three qualities in the practitioners: intention, integrity and presence. Thus informed, Wren creates brave spaces for humans struggling with disconnection and longing for a deeper sense of belonging to come home to themselves through the body. 

Wren’s own many years of seeking have led him through theater and filmmaking, circus, nomadism, psychedelic-informed music culture, yoga, consent culture, decolonization work, permaculture, addiction recovery counseling and most presently breathwork.

Along his path, nature, community, relationship, humor, eros, movement and a sense of belonging to something far larger and more unknowable than this seemingly separate self are the consistent threads with which Wren braids meaning and purpose into life. He is a TEDx speaker, featured author in “ReInhabiting the Village”, certified Attunement Therapy practitioner, HeartMath certified trauma sensitive educator and is in training to be an official Gene Keys Guide.

Wren currently splits his time between the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver), and the still yet federally unrecognized Nisenan Nation (Nevada County, California). He has been dancing since 1998 and has been presenting to groups since he was 6 years old.