Ten minutes of joy on the hour, every hour! We lead hourly dance breaks from
9:00am - 6:00pm on Instagram Live (@dontyoufeelittoo). Our final dance break celebration at 7:00pm will be on Zoom.
Come learn what brain science says about dancing, with NYU neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki. Go deep with corpse pose–savasana–with Founder of POC Yoga Sangha (Albuquerque) Farah Nousheen. More guests to be announced. Drop-in anytime or stay two hours. Bring friends! Offered via Zoom. This event is free, but your donations are appreciated.
This gathering for BIPOC only will support your rest, recovery, and connection. It will help you down from a long week and ease you into the night. Inspired by the works of Pleasure Activist adrienne maree brown, and UK based yogic healer and writer Caroline Shola Arewa, our experience will integrate deep, responsive listening, guided sitting meditation, soul vocalization exercises, and body-positive luscious movement. Together, sound, movement, and pleasure are important resources for embodied mindfulness grounded in Afrofeminist and people of color spiritual methodologies.
Let's find peace together within a time of grief and overwhelm. Let’s move together to find our vital self again.
Don’t You Feel It Too?, Black Market, and Clouds in Water Zen Center invite you to a "BIPOC Gathering: Mindfulness and Motion." This will be an embodied and online experience with sitting and movement meditation. All BIPOC are welcome.
Can you use some stillness within a world of distraction and overwhelm, and some movement to find yourself again?
Don’t You Feel It Too? and Clouds in Water Zen Center welcome you to a workshop "Sitting, Dancing, Changing: Mindfulness in Motion." This will be an embodied and online experience with sitting and movement meditation. The workshop is a side-by-side exploration of two mindfulness practices, sitting and dancing/moving. We will touch upon how our embodied mindfulness work meets our current personal and social challenges. Co-led by Marcus Young 楊墨 and Clouds' Guiding Teacher Sosan Flynn
Celebrate the half-way point of DYFIT's fall campaign, COMMITMENTS, and help us meet our goal of raising $10,000 to sustain our expanded community programming. Join us for soup and s’mores over a fire, a programming update from Artistic Director, Marcus Young, and (optional) dance sessions at 4:30 and 5:30pm.
Join us for an all-day Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) gathering centering mindfulness and community. We will eat together, practice together, and dialogue about what we have, what we want and need as creative, spiritual BIPOC community members working for social change and personal transformation. Part of the day, we will use Open Space Technology which allows the agenda to emerge from and be shaped by those in attendance. All BIPOC are welcome.
Join us for a series of Daily DanceBreaks. Each session will be facilitated by a DYFIT Cohort member. We are excited to highlight their ongoing research and exploration of the DYFIT practice!
8/26: Moving into the Sunset: Honoring the People’s Movement Center
8/27: Commitments: Embodied Healing
8/28: Being an Ancestor that Makes Mistakes
8/29: Moving Through Fear & Anxiety
Founding practitioner of DYFIT, Aki Shibata, leads a weekly practice at the Rondo Community Library, each Tuesday through October. This practice will help us stretch to transform our internal self and experience the beauty of the Rondo neighborhood.
Will you dance the Urgent Planet Dance or the Great Impeachment Boogie? “What Will You Dance For?” invites you to practice your wild and embodied resilience and resistance.
Try our hybrid form of mind-body training, exuberant art, and street protest. Feel a strange freedom and flow, your brave and loving self. Overcome your fear of making movement in public space. Bring your pocket music, earbuds are provided, and join for one song or more!
What Will You Dance For? is presented as part of Northern Spark 2019, produced by Northern Lights.mn.
What we know from the dancefloor - at parties and clubs, in the studio and on stage, or in ritual spaces - can be incredibly useful to work we do struggling for social justice. What happens when we take 'the choreography of social movements' seriously, and work to develop it as a way of getting concrete things done?
A two day workshop with Brooklyn-based cultural worker Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky.
Experience street action that is vibrant healing, and a workshop with somatic therapist Thea Lee. Good Friday and Solidarity Day mark an annual face-off between Pro-Life Ministries and Planned Parenthood supporters. Join Don't You Feel It Too? in our third year of exploring beyond-duality dance action!
This is a special retreat (sesshin) exploring the relationship between the peace and action of two mindfulness practices—dancing and sitting meditation. We will connect deep silence to love of music, indoor sanctuary to public space, and self-care to social change.
A two-day retreat with Sosan Flynn and Marcus Young 楊墨
Come hear adrienne maree brown—social justice facilitator, healer, doula, and author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the forthcoming Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good.
Public talk, with book signing to follow. This FREE event is open to all and centers Indigenous Peoples and People of Color.
Come for the outdoor FIRE and the LAST DAY of Don't You Feel It Too?'s Founding Supporter Campaign. Celebrate our great success at the home of dancer and choreographer Sally Rousse. Enjoy snacks and drinks, and participate in (optional) mini dance sessions.
Experience the healing combination of meditation, dance, and deep reflection on this year in DYFIT. Learn what we’ve learned from the last 9 months of study, 100+ sessions of public dance, and 12 community care workshops. All are welcome.
Support your local participatory dance practicing liberation in public space! Come dance and be one of our 100 Founding Supporters. Help kick-off Don’t You Feel It Too?’s first-ever donor campaign at the home of longtime DYFIT supporter Sonja Kuftinec. This year DYFIT offers more than 100 sessions and 12 community care workshops. All FREE.
"Shaatranga: Women Weaving Worlds" is a world premiere work about global women who share their stories of pain, joy, and adventure, working to create positive force in their communities. Choreographer Ananya Chatterjea explores relationships among global south communities linked by Indian Ocean trade routes that pre-existed colonization and slavery. Marcus Young 楊墨 is Collaborating Stage Director working on his seventh show with ADT.
Join longtime DYFIT practitioner Aki Shibata in her “Stretch to Transform.” Aki will lead DYFIT practice co-hosted with Frogtown Farm and Rondo Outreach Community Library, two vital organizations contributing to healthy neighborhoods. This practice will help us stretch to transform our internal self and experience the beauty of the Rondo and Frogtown neighborhoods.
"Inside/Outside: Joining, Carrying, Floating By," a free 5-hour Don't You Feel It Too? workshop with dancer-choreographer Kristin Van Loon, explores how the DYFIT practice can join with dance improvisation/somatic practices. In the dance studio we will move inspired by deep listening inside the body/imagination and reaching out to the environment, asking how all the senses can be played like music to inspire our movement. Kristin is half of HIJACK─a choreographic collaboration with Arwen Wilder. Kristin has been awarded a McKnight Fellowship for Dance and a Sage Award for Performance.
Join us for a Front Yard Dance Party and a fundraiser for DYFIT! De-stress, feel joy, liberate yourself, and have a freakin' good time dance-bombing in a Minneapolis neighborhood!
Come hear Marcus Young talk about what we've learned this year from a neuroscientist, a somatic therapist, and Zen priest about dancing in public. Then share in a DYFIT mini-session.
Dance for safety and belonging! Don't You Feel It Too? is grateful to be a part of the AYEEYO MURAL, MOVEMENT, AND STORYTELLING PROJECT on East Lake Street!
This project is to create a child-centered experience of belonging and safety on Lake Street around Ayeeyo Childcare Center and the surrounding blocks. We are saying YES to love and belonging and NO to racism and Islamophobia. We are working together with storytellers, visual artists, puppet theater performers, and others to increase the internal and external experience of safety.
Clouds in Water Zen Center, Common Ground Meditation Center, and Don’t You Feel It Too? together invite you to engage in the deep and powerful silence of sitting and walking in meditation with Rev. angel, and receiving her dharma talks. The sesshin will also include embodied practice of DYFIT.
Rev. angel Kyodo williams is a maverick spiritual teacher bridging the worlds of personal transformation and social justice, and the second of only four black women recognized as teachers in the Japanese Zen lineage.
Looking for PRIDE options? “Belonging Queer and What is Pride?” is a mind-body-dance workshop and field study for anyone exploring queerness within and outside the context of the Pride festival. Remembering the roots of Pride in the Stonewall riots, we use our radically expressive bodies to examine and gently interrupt mainstream-ness at Pride to create a deeper connection to our resistance and liberation. And it’s a lot of fun!
JOIN OUR GROUP TO CREATE DEFIANT JOY and RANDOM ACTS OF DANCE KINDNESS! Do something daring. De-stress. Get some exercise. And change the patterns of the world toward more freedom and joy!
HOW TO DO DANCEBREAK 2018: From May 14 - 18, take three dance breaks a day, and/or join a daily group session. You can do it wherever you are, whenever you have a few minutes. Grab headphones, play your pocket music, and dance in the streets! To see the original event page click here
Why do we feel so good when we move? What happens in our brains and bodies when we exercise and dance? Dr. Suzuki shares with us her work on how aerobic exercise can improve learning, memory, and higher cognitive abilities. Dr. Wendy A. Suzuki is Professor of Neural Science and Psychology in the Center for Neural Science at New York University, and author of Healthy Brain, Happy Life. She is also an IntenSati exercise instructor.
"I will be leading this workshop from bed. This is where most of my life is now lived. Exploring ways to stay connected, engaged, and active from this position feels like my current spiritual assignment. I know the fear of facing a life like this is great, but let's do it anyway! I am a visual artist, former kindergarten teacher, lifelong lesbian feminist, a parent, a person with growing cognitive and mobility losses, and I have practiced three decades of Vipassana meditation. I have been a DYFIT Cohort member since 2016. This Cohort is my first personal experience with a group which sincerely wishes to learn from the experience of difference and loss arising from ten years of life with chronic illness.”
National Water Dance is an artist-driven collective of dancers and educators confronting critical water issues facing the United States. Stretching from New York to Hawaii and from Alaska to Puerto Rico, created and directed by Dale Andre, National Water Dance believes that our environment is the most pressing issue of this generation and as dancers we are using our bodies to create a community that reaches out for action.
Every year on Good Friday, thousands protest Planned Parenthood; in response, Planned Parenthood holds a counter-protest called Solidarity Day. Don’t You Feel It Too? creates a liberatory, non-dual practice in this highly charged space. Join us for a DYFIT dance-action, and experience our unique form of art-healing-activism at this conflict zone.
As the words suggest, activism and (social/political/cultural change) movements involve physical movements, being active, and taking actions, all of which engage our individual and collective bodies. Also, we are "moved" to take actions when we feel strongly and clearly about something such as the upcoming dance-action at Planned Parenthood. Thea Lee is a somatic therapist and long-time friend of DYFIT. She is an immigrant woman of color whose mixed Korean-Japanese heritage is a direct result of Japanese colonization of Korea and the source of her life-long interest in the intersection of healing and justice.
