workshops

About Responsive Body Workshops:

2-3 day workshops are crafted for somatic practitioners, movement artists, creatives, caregivers,  leaders, trauma survivors, radical bodies, educators, partners, parents, therapists, social justice workers, athletes, organizers, HR/managers, and/or arts administrators. Together we explore movement, sensation, and social bonding in our own personal ways as a portal into the deep listening that is asked of us so we may once again receive the wisdom of our bodies. The Responsive Body somatic and bodywork practices are self-care tools that can be taken with you as ongoing resources for your health, wellness, and vitality. Responsive Body is a body-based practice and social movement for liberation and disruption.

Daily schedule includes decolonized pedagogy and teaching in Responsive Body movement, bodywork practicum, and group discussions.

No prior experience in dance, somatic healing, or medicine are required. The workshop welcomes all bodies but may not be suitable for young children.

Workshop Descriptions:

Bonding and Belonging: 

Bonding and Belonging offers to bodies: 

  • social nervous system regulation

  • Responsive Body Movement Map explorations

  • Responsive Body linguistics and body languages

  • Body to Body work (body playground)

  • Centers safety, connection, and bonded body belonging

Repair and Recovery: 

Repair and Recovery offers to bodies: 

  • Curious questioning and recognition and naming of and into systems of harm, injustice, and oppression

  • Noticing where and how we participate, contribute, and repeat systems of oppression and suffering

  • Deliberate and intentional reframing of how we operate in and against these systems to bring forth equitable and ecologically reciprocal solutions as a counteraction to the harm these systems perpetuate

  • Building resourcing and practices to repair and recover from dehumanized systems of labor and toxic capitalism

Upcoming Workshops:

Join Us! Save the Dates.

July 15-21: RB Summer Lab: Dancing with Dreamers, Rebels, and Change Makers

October 5, 2024 - June 2026: Level 1 RB Certification Program 

Workshop Descriptions:

Movement for Radical Joy:

1 day mini workshop exploring Responsive Body’s approach to movement, social bonding, sensational pleasure, and radical joy! This introduction to RB is co-facilitated by holly johnston with a small group of Certified Responsive Body Practitioners. We escape away from the rigidity of industrialized time and co-create a space of timelessness within our bodies and with one another. We will be guided through a RB Movement Map to animate our dancing energies. We will have time to be in conversation, to listen and hear body and bodies speak, to be felt-sensed wholly and fully, body-to-body. RB Movement for Radical Joy celebrates our tenacity, resilience, and brilliance as dancing humans.

Love Like Gravity Festival: 

A 3 day festival of Love with Responsive Body workshops and bodywork sessions with Certified RB Practitioners. Evenings will include shared meals and performances of dance, music, poetry, and visual art along with bonfire conversations and camping together outside. Love Like Gravity Festival generates spaces for our inner artist, performer, storyteller, bodyworker, lover, foodie, to feel what holds us together…Love, like gravity.