Workshops & Retreats
Sweet Surrender MINI RETREAT-Turn of the Year 2024>2025
Come PAUSE, REST, REFLECT, and OPEN to 2025. This mini retreat will use meditation, Open Floor movement, art, and journaling to honor the change of the year.
Pre-Registration: $97/Required online by Thursday, 12/26/24/max 12 participants.
PAUSE: An All-Inclusive Midwinter Movement Retreat
This thoughtfully curated, all-inclusive retreat is anchored in the teachings of the resource-based, mindful movement practices of Open Floor International. From writing to dance parties, guided movement to time in nature, spacious time alone to co-resting opportunities, there’s a little something for everyone and every part of your being. Music supports our practice.
Retreat with us! The Christine Center and Certified Open Floor International (OFI) Teachers, Teresa Reid + Cori Hildebrandt, invite you to gather with other like-minded souls during the depths of midwinter- a time of potent pause – to take a break from your everyday routine- to listen to your body- to sense your inner knowing- to tap into currents of inspiration- to resource yourself.
Open Floor SOUL MOVES Moving Meditation
Feeling disconnected? Overwhelmed? Unsupported? Want to access connection, meaning, and soul? Come move and include all that is stirring in and around you. We’ll dance in the present moment with uncertainty and seeking true self. Each session will be different.
Pre-Registration: $30/session or FREE to IA Unlimited Members.
Open Floor SOUL MOVES Moving Meditation
Feeling disconnected? Overwhelmed? Unsupported? Want to access connection, meaning, and soul? Come move and include all that is stirring in and around you. We’ll dance in the present moment with uncertainty and seeking true self. Each session will be different.
Pre-Registration: $30/session or FREE to IA Unlimited Members.
Sweet Surrender MINI RETREAT-Turn of the Year 2023>2024
Come PAUSE, REST, REFLECT, and OPEN to 2024. This mini retreat will use meditation, Open Floor movement, art, and journaling to honor the change of the year.
Pre-Registration: $97/Required online by Friday, 12/29/23/max 12 participants.
Open Floor SOUL MOVES Moving Meditation
Feeling disconnected? Overwhelmed? Unsupported? Want to access connection, meaning, and soul? Come move and include all that is stirring in and around you. We’ll dance in the present moment with uncertainty and seeking true self. Each session will be different.
Pre-Registration: $30/session or FREE to IA Unlimited Members.
Open Floor Conscious Dance 101/3-Part EMBODIED MIND Series
This 3-week series is designed as an introduction to the mindful movement, conscious dance practice of Open Floor International. We are constantly shaping our minds and being shaped by our minds. This series will focus on Embodied Mind and Belonging. When we are embodied in our mind, we are aware of how our relational patterns, behaviors, habits, and choices are impacted by our thoughts.
· 10/8/23: Week 1: THINKING MIND/VECTOR: Making sense, feelings vs. facts, clarity, and direction.
· 10/15/23: Week 2: PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL MIND/RELEASE: Seek stability, let go of old beliefs that no longer serve you, be fluid and flexible.
· 10/22/23: Week 3: CREATIVE MIND/EXPAND & CONTRACT: Play with imagination, expand into new possibilities.
Moving Meditation to Release Stress
Using the mindful movement, conscious dance practice of Open Floor International, we will do meditation and movement exercises to release stress and regulate your nervous system. You will spend time sitting, standing, dancing, talking, breathing, lying, and modifying as needed. You will learn skills to use for self-practice at home. Music supports our practice. Open Floor is for everyBODY.
Release 2022, Hello 2023 Mini Retreat!
Come RETREAT, RECHARGE, and WELCOME in 2023 with intention! This mini retreat will use meditation, Open Floor movement, journaling, and art to release 2022 and welcome in 2023.
Pre-Registration: $97/Required online by Wednesday, 12/28/22/max 12 participants.
Open Floor Dance 101 & Moving Meditation/3-Part Series
This 3-week series is designed as an introduction to the mindful movement, conscious dance practice of Open Floor International. The benefits of an Open Floor practice include building strength/coordination/mobility, lifting mood, reducing anxiety/stress, regulating the nervous system, encouraging connection to self/others/spirit, increasing self-awareness, and building resiliency. People who have a regular embodiment practice approach life with more ease, creativity, and flexibility.
• 11/6/22: Week 1: CENTER: Feel steady, balanced, at home in your body.
• 11/13/22: Week 2: ACTIVATE & SETTLE: Calm and regulate your emotions.
• 11/20/22: Week 3: TOWARDS & AWAY: Understand your preferences and emotional boundaries.
Open Floor 101/3-Part Series w/Cori
This 3-week series is designed as an introduction to the mindful movement, conscious dance practice of Open Floor International. The benefits of an Open Floor practice include building strength/coordination/mobility, lifting mood, reducing anxiety/stress, regulating the nervous system, encouraging connection to self/others/spirit, increasing self-awareness, and building resiliency. People who have a regular embodiment practice approach life with more ease, creativity, and flexibility.
• 9/28/22: Week 1: GROUND
• 10/5/22: Week 2: ACTIVATE & SETTLE
• 10/12/22: Week 3: SPATIAL AWARENESS
OPEN FLOOR 101/3-PART SERIES w/CORI
This 3-week series is designed as an introduction to the mindful movement, conscious dance practice of Open Floor International. The benefits of an Open Floor practice include building strength/coordination/mobility, lifting mood, reducing anxiety/stress, regulating the nervous system, encouraging connection to self/others/spirit, increasing self-awareness, and building resiliency. People who have a regular embodiment practice approach life with more ease, creativity, and flexibility.
• 6/30/22: Week 1: GROUND
• 7/7/22: Week 2: ACTIVATE & SETTLE
• 7/14/22: Week 3: SPATIAL AWARENESS
FREE Moving Meditation: Open Floor Cycle!
Come dip your toe and your hips, literally into a FREE Open Floor class! “Open Floor International inspires people to move. We teach dance and mindful movement for personal healing, professional growth, and community building.”
You will be guided into an exploration of how your body activates and settles through meditation and movement. The more regulated your body, the more present, creative, and engaged you can be in the present moment.
Ecstatic Dance Winter Warmer!
Instructor: Cori Hildebrandt, Psychotherapist, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN is excited to offer a special WINTER WARMER ECSTATIC DANCE SESSION! Come experience the freedom and expression to be found in free-form meditative dance movement.
Release 2021, Hello 2022 Mini Retreat!
Come RETREAT, RECHARGE, and WELCOME in 2022 with intention! This mini retreat will use all five of our senses, meditation, and movement to release 2021 and welcome 2022. Pre-registration required, deadline Monday, December 20th, 2021, $97.
Outside Ecstatic Dance II
Instructor: Cori Hildebrandt, Psychotherapist, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN is excited to offer again Outside Ecstatic Dance! Come experience the freedom and expression to be found in free-form meditative dance movement.
Moving Meditation @ The Garage Bikes + Brews & Santosha Studio
1 hr Moving Mediation + 1 hr Social! $15
COME RELEASE STRESS & TENSION and CLAIM CALM & JOY! We will do various sitting, walking, shaking, and “dancing” practices supported by music. For many, moving meditations are more accessible than sitting, still practices. Following class stay for SOCIAL HOUR and CONNECT while enjoying a COMPLIMENTARY BEVERAGE!
Moving Meditation @ Cracked Barrel Winery
1 hr Moving Mediation + 1 hr Social! $15
COME RELEASE STRESS & TENSION and CLAIM CALM & JOY! We will do various sitting, walking, shaking, and “dancing” practices supported by music. For many, moving meditations are more accessible than sitting, still practices. Following class stay for SOCIAL HOUR and CONNECT while enjoying a COMPLIMENTARY BEVERAGE!
Moving Meditation @ Cracked Barrel Winery
1 hr Moving Mediation + 1 hr Social! $15
COME RELEASE STRESS & TENSION and CLAIM CALM & JOY! We will do various sitting, walking, shaking, and “dancing” practices supported by music. For many, moving meditations are more accessible than sitting, still practices. Following class stay for SOCIAL HOUR and CONNECT while enjoying a COMPLIMENTARY BEVERAGE!
Outside Ecstatic Dance I
Instructor: Cori Hildebrandt, Psychotherapist, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN is excited to offer again Outside Ecstatic Dance! Come experience the freedom and expression to be found in free-form meditative dance movement.
How to Be Steady in an Unsteady World Workshop!
Instructor: Cori Hildebrandt, Psychotherapist, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN is excited to offer this workshop! She believes the steadier we are inside, the less things outside of us, knock us off center.
Let Go, Let Love & Light Workshop!
This workshop will use mediation, movement, and art to let go of the things that weigh you down, opening to love and light.
“Your life is meant to confront everything that holds you captive."
— Rumi