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Auric Dancing — A Ritual of Movement, Release & Remembering

Sunday · 4:00 PM

Auric Dancing

A Ritual of Movement, Release & Remembering

Your body is not separate from nature,
simply an expression of it.

Auric Dancing is an embodied movement practice that weaves together sacred belly dance, tribal-inspired movement, instinctive animal embodiment, chakra attunement, emotional release, guided visualization, and seasonal and celestial awareness. Each gathering is an invitation to come home to yourself through movement rather than performance.

We begin by orienting ourselves to the living rhythms of Earth, Moon, stars, and season, allowing the sky to become a mirror for our inner landscape. Through spirals, breath, rhythm, shaking, stomping, swaying, and stillness, we gently release what has become stagnant and awaken the wisdom already held within the body.

There are no perfect steps and no experience required. Every body is welcome. This is a space to explore curiosity, courage, play, grief, joy, rage, tenderness, and remembrance in community. Rather than dancing for an audience, we dance in relationship: with ourselves, one another, and the living world.

You may leave feeling more grounded, more alive, more connected, and more deeply rooted in your own natural rhythm.

Each Session May Include

  • Grounding & breath
  • Sacred belly dance
  • Tribal-inspired movement
  • Animal embodiment
  • Chakra cleansing through movement
  • Healthy emotional expression & rage work
  • Celestial & seasonal attunement
  • Guided integration & reflection

Together we awaken forgotten muscles, untangle held emotions, move stagnant energy, and restore relationship with our own life force. We growl, sway, spiral, stomp, soften, breathe, and rest. Allowing every movement to become an act of remembering.

This isn’t choreography.

It isn’t performance.

It isn’t about getting the steps right.

It is about reclaiming the body as a sacred temple, trusting your intuition, and discovering the freedom that emerges when movement becomes prayer.

Every body is welcome.

No dance experience is necessary.

Only a willingness to meet yourself with curiosity.

Dress in clothes that will flow. A skirt is recommended.

Join Us

WhenEvery Sunday, 4:00 PM
WhereThe Nature Cottage- 95 Hwy 143, Patterson, MO
Offering$13 per class
RSVPText Stephanie Bacquet Mathews 909-222-nine683

No dance experience necessary. Every body is welcome.

Seasonal Gatherings & Land-Based Retreats – Rural Missouri

Seasonal Gatherings & Land-Based Retreats

Practice living as sacred embodied human animals in rural Missouri, where the Milky Way is visible and Earth’s rhythms guide the days.

What These Gatherings Are

These aren’t workshops or retreats in the conventional sense. These are opportunities to practice what it means to live as sacred embodied human animals in relationship with Earth’s rhythms, not empire’s demands.

You’ll be on land where the Milky Way is visible most nights, where plants grow that become medicine, where children learn through relationship and discovery, where the seasonal wheel is felt in your body rather than just marked on a calendar.

This is embodied practice, not conceptual learning. You’ll work with your hands, move with your body, eat food grown in relationship with this land, and remember what your animal body already knows.

Seasonal Gatherings

Single-day or weekend gatherings aligned with seasonal transitions: solstices, equinoxes, and cross-quarter days. These mark the turning of the wheel through embodied practice.

What happens:

  • Seasonal ceremony and ritual
  • Plant walks and medicine making
  • Fire tending and shared meals
  • Stellar navigation and cosmology
  • Somatic and embodied practices

Who should come: Those ready to practice Earth-based living beyond intellectual understanding. Small groups to maintain energetic integrity.

Multi-Day Retreats

Immersive 3-5 day experiences for deeper work. Limited to very small groups (6-10 people) for those ready to fully step into embodied animal living.

What happens:

  • Deep nervous system rewilding
  • Wildcrafting and plant relationship
  • Ancestral skills and land practice
  • Embodied cosmology and stellar work
  • Deconstructing empire programming

Who should come: This work requires commitment. If you’re curious but not ready to practice, wait. If you’re ready to remember you’re an animal and act accordingly, come.