Embodied Groove

10/19/2026

It’s happening!!

Earlier this year, I shared a vision for something I was calling Groove Medicine.

Right now this is a participatory arts initiative, with the hope of growing into a recognized field of study, exploring what becomes possible when music, movement, and community are used intentionally for health and healing.

With significant support from a respected arts agency, a series of six Groove Medicine experiences throughout the Bay Area is becoming a reality over the next year, beginning with our first pilot later this year!

I can’t share the details behind the support quite yet, but more on that soon!

We already have a small advisory group in place, and now we're beginning to build the team. We're looking for connections to two paid/stipended internship opportunities:

Research + Evaluation Intern: A student or emerging researcher interested in the intersection of music, movement/dance, wellbeing, psychology, public health, mind-body medicine, or related fields. This person will work with me to help develop the impact and evaluation structure for the Groove Medicine events and begin documenting what we’re learning.

Social Media + Communications Intern: A student studying communications, marketing, media, PR, or a related field who also genuinely loves live music culture and the health benefits moving to music in community can provide. This person will help us document and tell the story of Groove Medicine as it grows over the next year.

Both positions will include a stipend. We're especially interested in finding curious, creative people who are excited about getting involved at the beginning and helping shape what this becomes.

If you teach at a college or university, know a student or emerging professional who might be a great fit, or know of a Bay Area department, program, or internship office I should connect with, please send them my way or tag them below.

There is so much more to share soon.

For now, I’m just really excited to finally say:
We’re building Groove Medicine. 🙌

10/10/2026

Thank you beautiful people of the Deep End for bringing it to Embodied Groove!

It’s nothing without your participation.

And the musicians there to take us on our sonic journey of improvised music.

Big thanks to Nat Keefe, Jen Rund, Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz, Lucas Carlton, Brendan Liu, and Chris Hoog for understanding the mission and taking us there! 🎶💗

The main stage at Camp Navarro surrounded by those trees and your smiling faces is my favorite place to be. 💖

Connection. Release. Joy. Tears. Freedom. Creative expression.

I love it ALL.

Thank you. 🙏🏼 💞

📷 credit to Gabriel Barkin (marked) and Patrick Ball (unmarked)

10/08/2026

This is one of my favorite things to watch in an Embodied Groove experience. 💗

The reciprocity of the give and take.

Musicians creating in the moment, responding to the movement in front of them.

Bodies responding to the music.

People turning toward each other. Connecting, laughing, grooving.

Then bringing that energy back into the whole. 💞

No one is simply receiving.

We’re creating the experience together.

This isn’t unique to Embodied Groove.

This reciprocity is central to so much of the live music I love - the musicians responding to the audience, the audience responding to the music, and all of us affecting what happens next.

Embodied Groove intentionally plays with that relationship.

And it’s one of the things I’m most interested in exploring through Groove Medicine.

Music moves us.

We move each other.

And what we give changes the music right back. 💃🏻🎶🕺✨

🎥: Glenn Mah

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09/11/2026

Super excited to announce this year’s Embodied Groove lineup for Camp Deep End Music Festival Camp Navarro, CA, 9/25-9/27.

Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz, Nat Keefe, Jen Rund, Lucas Carlton, Chris Hoogewerff, and Brendan Bliu will be creating the live groove for our movement flow! 💃🏻🎶🕺

Each experience is unique, created in the moment, inspired by the movement and setting, and guided by the Embodied Groove flow. ✨

Saturday, main stage, 11am - 11:45am.

A few tickets remain. Link in comments.

See you on the dance floor! 🙌🏼💞

08/30/2026

Wtf do you mean? As a group of women looked up.

This is the question - “Are you here by yourself?” - we got more than anything at the very first Ladies Retreat to Phish at Dick’s in 2017.

As if we needed a guy to not be alone.

The ironic thing is, all but one of us had been seeing Phish for well over a decade.

But it is true this was the first time for many without a male companion at the shows.

What happened?

Together, we were magnetic. 🧲

Drawing in other ladies as we gathered for pre-show intention setting.

And even guys who were so inspired by our energy they wanted to help protect the space we’d created around us.

There is a magical synergy that happens when women gather around something they’re passionate about that inspires them and makes them feel alive. 💞

It’s happening already for the retreat to Dick’s this weekend.

Connections formed from joining the retreat that feel cosmically aligned. 💖

We haven’t even made it to the same physical space yet.

But I know when we do it will be even more powerful. ⚡️⭕️

Because there is something that happens when women gather around something they’re genuinely drawn to.

Something that lights them up. 🔥

That lets them move and play and express themselves.

That gives them permission to be their full self.

We don’t have to try to be magnetic.

We are.

And nine years later, I hear that question a little differently.

“Are you here by yourselves?”

Yep.

And look what happens when we are! 💃🏻✨

08/20/2026

And then there were two…

I am very excited to announce that (pictured left) has officially completed the Embodied Groove facilitator training and is now certified to lead Embodied Groove classes and live experiences. 💃🏻🙌🏼⚡️

I cannot wait to see where Embodied Groove pops up next! Stay tuned…

For now, let’s give a big “heck yeah!!” to this bright light bringing even more embodied expression into the world!! 💃🏻🌟🕺

08/20/2026

Calling all Queens of Prussia - this one’s for you! 👑 ⭕️

Imagine this…

Our very own Victorian mansion.

Two blocks from the beach.

Walking distance to Boardwalk Hall.

A built-in crew of incredible women who are real, kind, and love to rock just like you! 💃🏻✨

No logistics.

No figuring out transportation.

No wondering who’s going where.

No trying to manage anything or anyone.

Just there for the music.

The magic.

And deep connection and recharge.

I’ll handle all the details…

Daily movement.

Food and coffee there for you when you wake up.

Sunday spa day.

If this feels like something you might be into, comment AC below and I’ll send you deets!

Spots are limited.

The last one sold out quickly!

Atlantic City for Phish,
Thursday 10/1 - Monday 10/5

We start the night before with a group dinner to connect in and arrive. 👯‍♀️

Comment AC for more. 💖

05/11/2026

This Saturday, 5/16, I’ll be leading Embodied Groove to kick off Divided Sky Foundation’s Music on the Mountain festival day.

This collaboration is deeply meaningful in many ways.

First, this is a sober festival to celebrate and fundraise for Divided Sky, Trey Anastasio’s rehabilitation center in Ludlow, Vermont.

Embodied Groove was birthed from my journey into learning how to dance like everyone is watching without needing substances to soften defenses and give that liquid courage I used to think I needed to move freely and expressively... even as a dancer.

But this kind of dance is not about performance.

It’s about feeling, sensation, and connection.

And that can feel vulnerable, especially as a human who’s been through “stuff” that makes it difficult to move freely and be witnessed authentically by others.

While I am not personally sober, I have traversed my own journey with substances and my relationship with them.

And I am deeply grateful for Trey’s sobriety. 🙏🏼

It was through Phish’s music that I found my embodied groove and learned how to express my unique essence through movement to music as it moves through me.

Now I get to support others in theirs. 💃🏻💞

Embodied Groove starts promptly at 12:15pm and leads right into the Trombone Shorty Foundation band’s second line.

Not sure who’s brilliant idea it was to pair Embodied Groove with a second line (participatory & celebratory crowd involved parade to an incredible brass band) to get the day started, but 👏🏼, it is 👌.

I hope you’ll come celebrate the joy in sobriety and the power of being present with us at Divided Sky’s BIG Weekend.

Tickets are still on sale and are very reasonable. You just need to get yourself there!

05/07/2026

Let’s Groove! 💃🏻✨

Friday, May 8th, is the last Embodied Groove® class Ashkenaz, Berkeley before I get whisked away for early summer travels. Return TBA.

Our theme is Celebration. 🎉

Come celebrate yourself, life, our community, and the power of dance.

All bodies, abilities, and ages welcome.