Heart’s Alchemy: Journey into Embodied Devotion at – Lincoln, CA

Get your tickets to see Heart’s Alchemy: Journey into Embodied Devotion in Lincoln, CA. Happening on Saturday, March 22, 2025 at . Doors open at 11:00 AM.

Heart’s Alchemy: Journey into Embodied Devotion
Step into a space of connection, presence, and transformation as we explore the alchemy of the heart through mindful movement and partner dance. This immersive 7-10 hour experience invites you to deepen your relationship with yourself, others, and the universal energy of devotion.

Rooted in the principles of Cocréa, we’ll weave the art of conscious, co-creative dance with the wisdom of Gene Key 25—a portal to universal love using the transformational tool of acceptance. Together, we’ll explore how vulnerability and presence can open the door to profound connection, and how movement can be a pathway to overcoming constriction in the heart, and embodying devotion in every step.

The day will include:

Guided practices to cultivate presence, openness, and connection
Explorations of the Gene Key 25 themes: innocence, grace, and universal love
Partner dance exercises to develop trust, deep listening, and embodied communication
A curated dance journey with live DJs to integrate and celebrate

We are honored to feature Wren LaFeet, Brother Jag, and Heather Christie and Vir McCoy as your DJs and sonic guides for our evening experience.
No prior dance experience or knowledge of the Gene Keys is needed—just a willingness to show up as you are and move from the heart. Whether you come alone or with a partner, you’ll leave feeling more connected, grounded, and inspired.
Join us in Grass Valley, CA, and let the alchemy of the heart transform your dance and your life.
YOUR FACILITATORS
WREN LAFEET

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 exploring mindful, consent based relational practice with Antje Schäfer, and Cocréa was born in fall of 2013.

Drawing from 2 decades in the theater being driven by the exploration of conflict, Wren wonders at 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. 

In addition to the theater, Wren’s own many years of seeking led him through filmmaking, circus, nomadism, psychedelic-informed music and festival culture, yoga and indigenous wisdom teachings, consent culture, decolonization work, permaculture, addiction recovery counseling and breathwork practice. Along his path, nature, community, relationship, humor, 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.

Wren is a TEDx speaker, featured author in “ReInhabiting the Village”, certified Attunement Therapy practitioner and HeartMath certified trauma sensitive educator. He holds a BA in Drama and Dance and began dancing in 1998 at the height of the swing dance revival, immediately starting to fuse dance styles, particularly swing, hip hop and contemporary movement in a compositional capacity. He began performing on stage when he was 6 years old.
 
Wren recently completed working with Embodied Recovery as a substance use disorder counselor in Los Gatos, CA and is at home once again in the mystery of finding home.

BRENÉE ROUSSEL

Brenée is a birth doula, trained CPM (Certified Professional Midwife), and is a developing preconception coach assisting people in intentionally conceiving babies. She has studied how to hold this sacred container of ushering in new expansions of the human experience since 2013. Learning the wisdom of being a gatekeeper of life has created a nuance on “midwifing” people within their personal processes from birth and beyond, knowing it is all interconnected.  
Dance always came naturally to Brenee, even as a child. As a young teen she attended dance classes to deepen her connection to movement, but found herself uninspired by choreography, or a dance regime. In time, she began exploring her “Yes!” through authentic movement on whatever dance floor she could. Eventually majoring in concert dance floor sessions, as well as fire dance performance, she outgrew her roots in Maine. Drawn to travel the states, she eventually landed on the west coast. 
She first journeyed with 5 Rhythms in 2012, and that catapulted her into the world of the human genius within ecstatic dance, dancing freedom, contact dance and then into the world of transformational festivals. Her teachers became those whom she danced with, knowing every person had their own story and gem to be offered within that shared moment of movement. She learned to deeply listen to what someone’s body was saying in the smallest of nuances by deeply attuning to their flow, allowing a transmission of invitation, permissioning and surrender. She gained insight into how to move like water with most people at any level of dance, informing how she grew as a dance partner. 
She discovered Cocréa at Beloved 2018 finding a home within its practice that was innate in her personal practice. She began her training to become a Cocréa Mindful Partner Dance instructor in the fall of 2019. After the long pause COVID inflicted on the training, Brenée is excited to be sharing this body wisdom once again as the first graduate of Cocréa‘s facilitator training.

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