Soul Movement Retreat is a seven day exploration of your deeper self through dance, movement, spacious somatic practices, creative self-inquiry, meditation and sound healing.
Held by three highly-experienced, compassionate facilitators and in community with an intimate group of like-minded movers, practitioners and seekers, this experience is built intentionally for your nourishment and renewal and is set in a lush and restorative environment.
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Tracee Kafer, the creator of Finding Your Freestyle®, has a near-lifetime of experience in
the world of dance, and 15 years focus on the art of pole. She’s journeyed through the landscapes of a student, performer, nationally-ranked competitor, world-traveling teacher, NY-based choreographer, and in the last decade shifted purposefully to the realms of the explorer.
Practicing and facilitating her own ever-evolving freestyle movement methods in the energetics of groups, she aims to continuously untether from genre, style, convention, and apparatus in order to gather in the communal love of moving from an authentic voice. She believes that if you can move (and feel), you can dance, and in honoring that process as a life practice, you can live in a world of presence, connection, and freedom.
Tracee has in recent years begun integrating movement with other modalities that center on the somatic experience and deeper practices of self-exploration, including Family & Systemic Constellations, the Tarot, parts work, guided imagery, and meditation for embodiment.
Jess Linick, PhD, SEP, is a clinical psychologist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner®, and lifelong dancer. Since beginning dance classes at the age of 5, Jess has immersed herself a variety of styles (e.g., ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, salsa, modern, contemporary), all the while aware of the basic undercurrent in them all – the ability of the body to express through movement what words cannot.
Since 2011, Jess has taken her love of movement to the pole, and after taking her first FYF class in 2012, immediately felt at home, relishing in the opportunity to move as she wanted to move, free from the binds of traditional dance classes. To Jess, freestyle movement is more than just “dancing”– it is a way of being in the world, of interacting with space and time; a way of living. Unencumbered, open, and vulnerable, we are invited to harness intuition, follow our inner compass, and express ourselves in ways that ring true for us most clearly.
In 2014, Jess and Tracee co-created Pole Speak, an improvisational-based pole dance company, and in 2017, she joined the Finding Your Freestyle team. Jess brings her training as a clinical psychologist directly into this work, combining her knowledge of mind-body integration with the FYF movement practices.
Sessions utilize meditation, breathwork, and other somatic practices to assist participants in fostering a better connection with their bodies, unlocking any “stuck” patterns, and moving through anything that may be holding them back. With a long-time meditation and mindfulness practice, Jess is also a Reiki practitioner, registered yoga teacher, and sound practitioner.
Jess currently resides in New York City, where she specializes in body-oriented psychotherapy, meditation, and mindfulness practices. She received her PhD from Columbia University, and currently focuses on the provision of trauma-informed psychotherapy within the juvenile justice system.
