Medicine Dance provides the opportunity for you to explore deeply intimate connections with both yourself and spirit through movement. Melissa Grogan provides light somatic facilitation while Jason Traweek provides the sounds and drumming to guide your experience. This is open to everyone of all abilities: no prior movement experience is needed.

Through movement and response to internal and external stimuli we arrive in the present moment. This practice is wonderful to support depth therapy, connection to the inner self and creativity, and safe expression in community.

Space is limited to 10 participants. Pre-registration is required. The address and instructions will be sent to you once you have registered.

Location: Private dance studio in the Travis Heights neighborhood, Austin, TX

$37 registration to guarantee your spot – no refunds on purchases

*Note* – This is NOT an ecstatic dance experience. Rather, this is a contemplative movement practice where the focus is inward. Eye contact, touch, and spectating are discouraged in this setting. We are together but on our own journeys.

Melissa Grogan, LPC-Associate (supervised by Sarah Osmer, LPC-S). has over 25 years experience teaching and leading workshops that are based in voice, movement, and therapeutic practice. Recently graduating with her second masters degree (this time in Mindfulness Based Transpersonal Counseling) she became provisionally licensed as a licensed professional counselor – associate in June of 2024 (supervised by Sarah Osmer, LPC-S). Melissa’s skills of over two decades combine to allow her to be an effective guide and space holder for people who wish to utilize depth therapy tools to facilitate a more intimate relationship with their inner and outer life. She was key faculty at Texas State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance, has worked at University of Texas at Austin as a lecturer, is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, has studied Knight-Thompson Speechwork, Presence with Patsy Rodenburg, and Body-Mind Centering at the Body-Mind Centering Institute and with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen.

Jason Traweek, CHP is a certified Hakomi Practitioner (somatic therapy), forester, arborist, and professional musician of over 35 years. He facilitates groups and individuals in coming into deeper connection with the present moment and themselves. He specializes in shamanic practice, men’s work, and improvisational music with movement.

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