Dear Friends,

I believe that healing is a process of rediscovering what the body wants to share through somatic attunement and deep listening. By building relationship to bioenergetic currents, discoveries abound which demonstrate that life is a non-dual, complex, interconnected matrix of experience and therefore an ecological approach might suggest we remain curious and resilient as we traverse the landscapes we inhabit.

Gazing back in time, we see that dance traditions are as sacred to and expressive of communities as methods of craft, building, farming, science, and medicine. Stewards of dance - dancers & often musicians - have always been shamans; fostering individual and community healing through movement.

Across time and place, dance has been a human practice for releasing stress and trauma from the body, reconnecting with nature, and deepening our capacity for intimacy.

Dance is an ancestral skill.

Even ballet, which eventually became steeped in coloniality, originated through communities of street musicians and poets interested in storytelling.

Sift:Somatic Intelligence for Trauma is the emergent articulation of my experience as a dance artist and choreographer working in ecological and healing-centered pedagogy and practice. It is a poetic approach to somatic potential and phenomena that fosters wellbeing and connection through guided improvisation; a catalyst for transformation and resilience. 

Sift invites us into the body’s ancient languages - the preverbal, the trance, the altered - to re-pattern our wounds and awaken the mirrors between us.

It’s dance. It’s ecology. It’s neuroscience.

Sift is devoted to the flowering of your authentic self. It also supports you to embody the biological reality that your authentic self is not separate from the larger web of life.

I teach weekly Sift Dance classes in my hometown. I have an online studio where you can learn with me from home. And I teach the work internationally as a guest artist and educator.

With Love,

Mo Kulas