How can we touch grief and not be consumed? How can we tend to our hearts and still be in the world? This 4 week workshop series invites us to explore grief in community with resonant words and movement.

suggested donation: $8-$25

Come dance! This one hour class begins with a thorough warm up that includes stretching, strength-building and balance exercises, set to contemporary music, folk, rock, jazz, and blues music. We then work extensively a dance phrase (conducive to at-home dancing), with ample repetition to master the phrase and enjoy dancing. Suggested donation: $10-$15, but most important, just come dance. Please email connect@sashasoreffdance.com to get the link!

How can we touch grief and not be consumed? How can we tend to our hearts and still be in the world? This workshop series invites us to explore grief in community with resonant words and movement.

suggested donation: $8-$25

Over 4 weeks, Mourning, Moving and Accompaniment provides a space for honoring grief in community. When we are accompanied in our grief, we can become more present to ourselves and others. Resonant empathy, rooted in the principles of Non-Violent Communication an coupled with creative movement, invites us to compassionately connect with our experiences. The result is a way to meet ourselves with warmth and curiosity, tapping into expression that is authentic, unfiltered, heart-centered. This kind of loosely structured, creative movement can bring us from our heads into our bodies, and toward a deeper level of self-connection and healing.

The workshop takes place on 4 Sundays - April 3, April 10, April 24, May 2 (no gathering on April 17), @ 12 noon Eastern. Over the workshop series, we’ll explore mourning related to (and not limited to): the loss of loved ones, the loss of dreams, transgenerational grief, and acknowledging systemic harm. Attendance at all 4 is encouraged.

Note: All movement can be done seated, and all movement invitations are optional; all forms of creative expression and embodiment, including stillness, is welcome.

About Sasha Soreff

Sasha Soreff is a New York City-based choreographer, transformational coach, and resonant movement facilitator. In workshops, Sasha weaves relational neuroscience, somatic movement, and transformational principles together, to support participants to discover deep self-connection and soulful expression—resulting in powerful, life-enhancing insights. As Artistic Director of Sasha Soreff Dance Theater, she has been sharing multigenerational, participatory work for two decades. She is passionate about the power of the arts and empathy to build community and create an anti-racist, care-centered world.

Who are you becoming? What if your answer doesn’t feel like a choice? With movement and empathic conversation, we'll explore how to become more the people we most want to be.

A space to welcome the new year with movement, meditation, and resonant conversation, culminating in a dance party. Email connect@sashasoreffdance.com to register for this free (donations welcome) event.

Being in community and moving are so vital to our well-being and sense of possibility – now more than ever. This class offers both: we’ll do a thorough warm up drawing on modern dance, Simonson technique, and kinesthetic anatomy principles. The class includes stretching and a range of fluid and rhythmical movement. Movers of all dance backgrounds welcome.

This class meets every other Monday.

suggested donation: $0-$15

email connect@sashasoreffdance.com for zoom link!

Forgiveness is often talked about as something we “should” do – especially forgiving ourselves. But what does it actually mean, and how does it live in the body?

This is a 2-session workshop that will focus on forgiveness in multiple dimensions - asking forgiveness, being asked to forgive, self-forgiveness, how forgiveness lives in a world in which there is much complicity in collective harm. Through resonant movement and warmhearted conversation, this experiential workshop unpacks forgiveness and the many feelings and sensations that may swirl around this potentially complicated experience.

All movement invitations are optional. Whatever range of motion and mode of expression-including meditation/stillness - feels authentic and comfortable for you is welcome.

You are welcome to attend either or both workshops:

Session 1 - 11.6 - Forgiveness toward and from others, in Words and Movement Session 2 - 11.7 - Self-forgiveness, in Words and Movement

Please reach out to connect@sashasoreffdance.com if your attendance is best supported with a full scholarship.

Forgiveness is often talked about as something we “should” do – forgive ourselves, forgive others, ask forgiveness. But what does it actually mean, and how does it live in the body?

This is a 2-session workshop that will focus on forgiveness in multiple dimensions - asking forgiveness, being asked to forgive, self-forgiveness, how forgiveness lives in a world in which there is much complicity in collective harm. Through resonant movement and warmhearted conversation, this experiential workshop unpacks forgiveness and the many feelings and sensations that may swirl around this potentially complicated experience.

All movement invitations are optional. Whatever range of motion and mode of expression-including meditation/stillness - feels authentic and comfortable for you is welcome.

You are welcome to attend either or both workshops.

Session 1 - 11.6 - Forgiveness toward and from others, in Words and Movement Session 2 - 11.7 - Self-forgiveness, in Words and Movement

Please reach out to connect@sashasoreffdance.com if your attendance is best supported with a full scholarship.

How can we touch our grief and not be consumed?

This workshop invites us to explore and express the grief that is held in our bodies. When we are accompanied in our grief, we can become more present to ourselves and others. Self-empathy, rooted in the principles of Non-Violent Communication, coupled with creative movement, invites us to compassionately connect with our experiences - reducing anxiety, and allowing more flow and ease. In this space of empathic listening and embodied self-expression, we can find comfort, understanding, acceptance, and ultimately, healing.

Choreographer and Transformational Facilitator Sasha Soreff, offers a gentle warm up, discussion and guided (optional) movement exploration. Whatever range of motion and mode of expression feels authentic and comfortable for you is welcome.

To hold paradox is to acknowledge the many feelings, needs, and thoughts we can be experiencing simultaneously. Embracing this multiplicity, with movement and empathy, can be a step toward wholeness.

In this space of creative expression, and empathic listening, rooted in the principles of Non-Violent Communication, we welcome the many layers and complexities of our beings. This space of movement and accompaniment supports integration, understanding, and ease.

Choreographer and Transformational Facilitator Sasha Soreff, offers a gentle warm up, discussion and guided (optional) movement exploration. Whatever range of motion and mode of expression feels authentic and comfortable for you is welcome.

Being in community and moving are so vital to our well-being and sense of possibility – now more than ever. This class offers both: we’ll do a thorough warm up drawing on modern dance, Simonson technique, and kinesthetic anatomy principles. The class includes stretching and a range of fluid and rhythmical movement. There will be an invitation to generate and contribute movement of your own (as you feel comfortable!). All movement can be done seated or standing. Movers of all dance backgrounds welcome.

suggested donation: $0-$10

email: connect@sashasoreffdance.com for zoom link!

In times of stress, a sense of playfulness can be quick to disappear and slow to return without intentional cultivation. For some of us, acting playfully was subtly (or not) discouraged, and can be hard to come by organically.

In this space of creative expression, and empathic listening, rooted in the principles of Non-Violent Communication, we can reconnect with the playful parts of ourselves.

Choreographer and Transformational Facilitator Sasha Soreff, offers a gentle warm up, discussion and guided (optional) movement exploration. Whatever range of motion and mode of expression feels authentic and comfortable for you is welcome.

How can we touch our grief and not be consumed? This series invites us to explore grief in community with words and movement.

Session 4: Acknowledging systemic pain and yearning for change

Attendance at all 4 workshops is encouraged, not required. Each workshop has a unique focus and different rhythm so participants may experience and move through a range of emotions. Whatever range of motion and mode of expression feels authentic and comfortable for you is welcome.

12 noon -1:30 pm EDT

How can we touch our grief and not be consumed? This workshop series invites us to explore grief in community with words and movement.

Session 3: Accompaniment for lost dreams and unfulfilled longing

Attendance at all 4 workshops is encouraged, not required. Each workshop has a unique focus and different rhythm so participants may experience and move through a range of emotions. Whatever range of motion and mode of expression feels authentic and comfortable for you is welcome.

12 noon -1:30 pm EDT

How can we touch our grief and not be consumed? This workshop series invites us to explore grief in community with words and movement.

Session 2: Accompaniment for lost loved ones/a broken heart

Attendance at all 4 workshops is encouraged, not required. Each workshop has a unique focus and different rhythm so participants may experience and move through a range of emotions. Whatever range of motion and mode of expression feels authentic and comfortable for you is welcome.

12 noon -1:30 pm EDT

How can we touch our grief and not be consumed? This workshop series invites us to explore grief in community with words and movement.

Session 1: Isolation and Connection

Attendance at all 4 workshops is encouraged, not required. Each workshop has a unique focus and different rhythm so participants may experience and move through a range of emotions. Whatever range of motion and mode of expression feels authentic and comfortable for you is welcome.

12 noon -1:30 pm EDT

How can we touch our grief and not be consumed? This workshop series invites us to explore grief in community with words and movement.

This 4 session series invites us to explore and express the grief that is held in our bodies. When we are accompanied in our grief, we can become more present to ourselves and others. Self-empathy, rooted in the principles of Non-Violent Communication, coupled with creative movement, invites us to compassionately connect with our experiences - reducing anxiety, and allowing more flow and ease. In this space of empathic listening and embodied self-expression, we can find comfort, understanding, acceptance, and ultimately, healing.

Choreographer and Transformational Facilitator Sasha Soreff, offers a gentle warm up, discussion and guided (optional) movement exploration. Whatever range of motion and mode of expression feels authentic and comfortable for you is welcome.

Attendance at all 4 is encouraged, not required. Each workshop has a unique focus and different rhythm so participants may experience and move through a range of emotions:

Each workshop is Sunday, 12 pm -1:30 pm EDT/9 am - 10:30 am PDT.

April 11 - Session 1: Isolation and Connection

April 18 - Session 2: Accompaniment for lost loved ones/a broken heart

April 25 - Session 3: Accompaniment for lost dreams and unfulfilled longing

May 2 - Session 4: Acknowledging systemic pain and yearning for change

If you'd like to register for all 4 at once, please email connect@sashasoreffdance.com. Otherwise, please click on the date below to sign up for specific sessions.

Where do you find a sense of flow in your life? What inhibits that flow? Self-empathy, rooted in the principles of Non-Violent Communication, coupled with creative movement, invites us to compassionately connect with our experiences, reduce anxiety, and find more flow and ease. Choreographer and Transformational Facilitator Sasha Soreff offers a gentle warm up, followed by discussion and movement exploration. All movement invitations are non obligatory. Everything can be done seated, and can be enacted in any way that feels good to the participant.

This experiential workshop is an invitation to give voice and movement to that which your heart carries. There is much to mourn, and it can be hard to get in touch with our grief – and our joy – alone. In this space of empathic listening and embodied self-expression, we can find comfort, understanding, new insights, and ultimately, healing. After a gentle warm-up, we’ll learn basic movement generation tools, and explore that which we celebrate and mourn, individually and collectively. All movement invitations are optional. Whatever range of motion and mode of expression feels authentic and comfortable for you is welcome.