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10:30am EDT

Meant To Move

Saturday August 1, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am EDT

Meant to Move is a guided movement experience blending mindfulness, breath, somatics, and free-flow dance to help you reconnect with your body and release what you’ve been holding. No choreography. No experience needed. Just simple prompts, familiar music, and space to move in a way that feels true to you. Come as you are — leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more alive.

Facilitators

Kat Harmon

Instructor

Kat Harmon is a movement guide, yoga teacher, and embodiment facilitator with nearly 40 years of dance experience and over two decades of teaching. Blending mindful movement, nervous system support, Reiki, and joyful expression, she creates accessible spaces where people can reconnect... Read More →

Saturday August 1, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
The Garden Tent

Dance, Meant To Move

11:00am EDT

West African Dance

Saturday August 1, 2026 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT

The Big Barn

With LIVE drumming! Beginning/open level, led by Tara Murphy. This dance will get your blood pumping and your heart soaring....feel the rhythms and shake what you got! The uplifting dances and rhythms of Africa relieve stress and help people connect with their inner joy. Participants will learn the basic vocabulary of African dance as well as a traditional dance from Mali, Guinea or Senegal, West Africa. The class emphasizes community, self-expression and the joy of movement. Attire: Comfortable clothes, people may wear cloth around their waist. Please bring water.

Facilitators

Chris Keniley

Lead Drummer

Chris has studied and performed West African drumming for 20 years with drum masters Issa Coulibaly, Joh Camara, Sory Diabate of Mali and Mohamed Kalifa Kamara of Guinea. He plays for numerous events throughout New England and performs widely with Ammaya Dance & Drum. Partnering with... Read More →

Tara Murphy

Instructor

"Community African DanceOriginally from Washington, D.C., Tara earned her B.A. in theater and religious studies at Yale University, where she also began studying African dance. At this time Tara began exploring her heritage through African studies at Yale, and was awarded a fellowship... Read More →

Saturday August 1, 2026 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
The Big Barn

Dance, African Dance