But if you have been around other people for a minute, you know it's… complicated. The hunger for belonging is so deep, so primal, that we will sometimes pay almost anything for it.
We shrink. We agree. The same pull toward belonging that opens us to each other can make us lose our own ground. The same field that can carry us toward aliveness and connection can also carry us toward conformity, fear, or the suspension of our own discernment.
Let's dance – into true belonging
We are living through a time evoking intense emotions: grief, rage, confusion, tenderness. When we try to process them alone, it turns out our bodies may be too small for what we carry. We need a larger body to move through it, and new rituals of collective expression.
This is what conscious community dance makes possible. Not just connection, but a kind of shared digestion of what is too heavy or too overwhelming to metabolize in private. A place where we can stop protecting, projecting, pretending, and instead allow what's moving in us to move. Together – for a better life, and a better world.
Belonging: You can feel it when the room breathes together and a wave of movement passes through without anyone directing it. Or when you catch someone's eye across the floor and recognize: I am not the only one feeling this.
CAN I MOVE with you without leaving me?
Through moving solo and with others, let's travel the landscapes of intimacy, connection, and community — discovering what it means to truly belong without losing ourselves.
This may be exactly the capacity the world most needs right now: the ability to be genuinely together while staying genuinely ourselves.
You are invited whether you call yourself a mover or a klutz – a lover or a lover of leaving – a true believer or a troublemaker.
Bring your pretty dances and your clumsy ones, your tears and growls and mindless laughter. Give yourself a weekend of creative expression, connection, deep play – effortless belonging.
The floor is open to any body.
Nothing is expected of you.
THIS workshop WITH ZUZA & SCOTT IS AN INVITATION TO STEP OUT OF OUR SOLITARY ENTANGLEMENTS INTO SOMETHING BIGGER: NOT JUST OUR SHARED HUMANITY, BUT THE SOURCE OF IT ALL, THE VAST FIELD OF PRESENCE, AWARENESS, AND MYSTERY.
We need to come together in spaces to heal, not just to consume together or to watch a movie together, but to feel together and to have human emotion in real life, in public, and act from the place of a feeling body – to choose action from a feeling body and not just a reactive or a numb body.
PRENTIS HEMPHILL
Logistics
Odd Fellows Hall
520 Dana Street | San Luis Obispo
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OCTOBER 17–18, 2026
Saturday 11–6 | Sunday 12:30–6
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$250 by October 1 and $295 after
Fee
[+$25 for CE certificate if requested]
Your payment is non-refundable after October 1.
The Fine Print:
For more information please email Matthew Garrity who is producing this event.
Cancellation deadline is October 1. Cancellation fee: $50.
We did not ask for this room or this music; we were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces toward the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death.
We did not ask for this room or this music. But because we are here, let us dance.
–STEPHEN KING [!]
