Contemplative Improvisational Dance Movement - Relational Ecology through Movement and Stillness in Community

Relational Ecology through movement

Welcome to Body Songs, Soul Motion Movement Community

Movement has the power to support us well in times of turbulence, a personal and collective method for steadying our paddle in the rapids. Dance can be a deep companion in life, offering playfulness, community, modulation for nervous system health, and mystical connection to Source. Playful community is a potent way to experience belonging and kindle our sense of belonging as a steady state.

I’m Katriona Ilsedóttir Curry, life-long dance-movement & improvisational arts practitioner. I’m a Certified Soul Motion Contemplative Dance Teacher, Somatic & Arts Psychotherapist, Founder of the Center for Relational Ecology - based in Victoria, BC - and founder of The School of Play - an online training program in creative improvisational group facilitation.

I offer classes, workshops, retreats, and trainings, locally and online.

Creative Improvisation, Relations with Earth and Sky, and curious collaboration are at the center of my practice.

I will not die an unlived life

I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.

I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me,

to make me less afraid, more accessible,

to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.

I choose to risk my significance;

to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom

and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. - Dawna Markova

I will not die an unlived life I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. - Dawna Markova

Classes

  • at the White Eagle Hall in James Bay, Wednesdays 6:45-8:45 pm

    NEWS: Our last class, tonight, June 24 will be held at the Government House gardens - dance infinite with the song of the Earth and Sky

Workshops & Retreats

  • Registration is Open!

    This program is a time of rest and restoration; creative response to the times we are moving with; slowing and expanding time, unfolding what is crumpled, watering what is parched…

  • Vincent Martinez Grieco, founder of Soul Motion, will be holding a 3 day workshop in Victoria, on the theme of Impermance at the White Eagle Hall, Nov 13-15; tickets on sale June 25, 2026

Training

  • Improvisational Creative Group Facilitation Training, September 19-May 1; seven modules online; registration is open more info

what people are saying

  • "Katrina's enthusiasm and joy for fostering community and healing through movement is a gift. She offers gentle guidance to your own unfurling, creating space for you to blossom in your own time and in your own way. Leading by example, she illuminates an approach towards dance that celebrates aliveness, interconnectedness, sacred stillness, and the wild wonderful reaches of the self."

    Julie Dillon, Professional Artist

  • “I entered into the retreat not sure how to be in this violent dangerous world. Not sure what I was called to do in terms of my health, my grief, my aches. My mind was full of negative self talk....The retreat created an experience for me of returning home to myself in such an essential way. I became open to the animal I am, remembering the child who rolled in the grass, remembering the sweetness of being among the trees and the bees. I absolutely adored the movement in the room and how you DJ and how you allowed for people to find their way into the circle. there was so much spaciousness to accept your invitation. I found a pace that felt right for me...My queer body felt safe. My elder body felt safe. My Jewish body felt safe. My woman body felt safe - radical welcome - sweetness goodness all around."

    Body As Earth Song, 2025, Retreat Participant, Stowel Lake Farm

  • “What is the magical blend that makes for a skillful teacher and facilitator of conscious dance? Classes with Katrina have shed some light on the mysterious recipe. First of all, she brings her tenderhearted strength and vulnerability to her teaching. There's an expansive quality to her presence--joyful, earnest, compassionate--that invites a full range of self-expression. She seems to intuit when to step forward to provide structure and support; she also knows when to step back and just witness the glory unfolding on the floor. Her facilitation never feels intrusive and has a quality of respectfully deepening me into my own present moment experience. More than anything, I want an experience on the dance floor (and in my life) of getting out of my own way and, paradoxically, being fully myself--letting the infinite dance/move through me in the particularity of my embodiment. Katrina's presence and holding of space have given me a delicious taste of that experience!”

    - Michael Murphy, psychotherapist

Dance is for every body

When children are given safety and freedom to be as they are, children are movers. They dance and play as they go about their days. Many of us lose our connection with free expressive movement as we get older; through our teen years and adulthood we may become more self conscious or have experiences that spark body-fear or body-disconnection.

Yet, movement is an inherent homeland, an ancient wise practice running through our human lineage. Dance is for all of us. Movement offers homecoming to body, mind, and spirit, to community, belonging, personal healing, and a sense of mystical relationship with Life. We are all welcome in the dance, and we can all find our way back into the creative wellspring through kind movement community.

As a Somatic & Expressive Arts Psychotherapist for the past 27 years, and movement teacher for 26 years, I weave the wisdom of somatic psychology and care for nervous systems into my movement facilitation. I offer Trauma-Wise practice.

I support new and experienced movers to find playful relational ease and inspiration in their dance.

I support folks who feel anxiety about dance and groups, but long to feel free dancing in community, to feel safer to rest into movement together.

My classes are rooted in Kinship and celebration of our biodiversity: biodiversity is health; neurodivergence affirming, Queer & Trans celebrating, dis/ability justice space, anti-racist, actively decolonizing, consent-based space.

Body Songs Soul Motion is Movement Poetry. Replenishing, Supple Magic.

Body Songs, Soul Motion weaves the depth and nuance of somatic inquiry with the vitality of improvisational movement and the playful alchemy of creative relational dance artistry.

Movement improvisation in community is fun!… and also deepens our creativity, supports our capacity to be resourceful, innovative, and participatory in this unpredictable life and in relational dances off the dance floor. This practice is pleasurable, evokes greater suppleness in body mind and spirit, more ease in nervous systems. Outcomes may include a felt sense of presence, relaxation, joy, and increased creativity in partnerships, parenting, friendships….

Playful movement community helps us feel more at home in ourselves, more landed in our bodies, possibilities, and belonging.

would you like to feel more supple, real, and courageous in relationships?

more rooted in your inner strength?

at home in your body?

closer kin with your embodied creativity?

Come move with us and nourish a sense of inner belonging that can travel with you.

I’m so very interested in how we grow our embodied creative relational skill - with ourselves, with one another, with Earth and all our Kin. I have named this inquiry Relational Ecology.

I’m interested in how we care for the whole in a loving way and find our own place of generative contribution.

I’m interested in how we support one another to land into potency and belonging.

I value collaboration and creative practices that shift cultures of harm into cultures of reciprocity, curiosity, and shared listening.

Embodied listening and attunement, playfulness, improvisation, and dynamic clarity… all of these are ingredients in my practice.

Relational Ecology - a pathway to co-create an atmosphere of relaxation and enlivenment within biodiverse gatherings of humans being.

Dance Movement is a pleasure and liberation practice.

Drink the sky and release ripples of breath into instinctive gesture, movement phrase, pulse, rhythm, tempo changes; sense your ancient relation with the reliable support of Earth rising through the bones of your body and create intimacy with the buoyancy of gravity.

I am a feather on the bright sky

I am the blue horse that runs in the plain

I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water

I am an eagle playing with the wind

I am the roaring of the rain

the glitter on the crust of the snow

the long track of the moon in a lake

I am a flame of four colors

I am the whole dream of these things

You see, I am alive, I am alive

I stand in good relation to the earth

I stand in good relation to the gods

I stand in good relation to all that is beautiful

You see, I am alive, I am alive”

— N Scott Momaday

“Movement partners the dynamics of the earth. Momentum, centrifugal force, and gravity inform the way we swing an arm, turn our head, or leap across a stream. In many ways, the moving body is our connection to the family of things. Rather than creating movement, we participate in the inherent movement of the planet….

Neurologist Oliver Sacks…considers kinesthesia (sense of movement), our sixth sense, essential to an understanding of self and the world.…..”

— Andrea Olsen