Catharsis & Creation
Monday Night 5-week Dance Workshop Series
MONDAYS, April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 18
6-7:30pm
$125/series
North Star Community Hall, Upstairs Ballroom
20 Crowley St, Burlington, VT 05401
Each workshop will include guided imagery for cathartic free movement, group compositional challenges, improvisation games and scores, and ways to express your unique life experience via the physical form. Different content every week! No technical skill required.
Open to any mover interested in the research and depth of:
- celebrating an inner-mindset while amidst collective dancing (what can we find?)
- trusting in impermanent and spontaneous making (what more can we find?)
- open and graceful collaborating (what MORE can we find?!)
Writing from & Dancing with Nature
Outdoor Workshop at Horsford Gardens
Tuesday June 16th, 2026
(Rain date June 23rd. You will be notified by email on Monday June 15th at 7pm of any changes)
Horsford Nursery & Gardens,
2111 Greenbush Road in Charlotte, Vermont
6-8pm
$30
Being outside, especially on the land of Horsford is so stimulating for a creator. Come enjoy the shifting evening light, amidst the beauty of the flowers' colors, shapes and smells, and the calming energy of the land. This workshop will take an interdisciplinary approach to self-study (writing), collective dancing (improvisation), and site-specific compositions (creating with the atmosphere, flowers and land), all within the guidance of Hanna's prompts, instructions and scores. Great for movers who like to write, and writers who like to move.
Improvisation as Composition
Thursday June 18th, 2026
6-730pm
$25
New Suns Community Center, Auditorium
5470 US 5 North
Thetford, VT 05054
Using Hanna’s devised dance scores and tactics for community movement rituals, we will combine our energetic fields and brilliant choreographic minds to sculpt a new reality, using just the immediate moment.
Open to any mover interested in the research and depth of:
- celebrating an inner-mindset while amidst collective dancing (what can we find?)
- trusting in impermanent and spontaneous making (what more can we find?)
- open and graceful collaborating (what MORE can we find?!)
Come with a journal and pen, clear mind and willing body.
Smooth Fitness
@ Greater Burlington YMCA
Wednesdays and Fridays
12-12:45PM
A unique blend of yoga, pilates, strength training and body-weight exercises for a low-impact full-body workout.
*This class is physically vigorous but sensory friendly with low lights and low music*
Must pre-register through the YMCA website, link below!
Virtual Library
Unlimited access to a virtual library of 75+ classes featuring: Body Blast, Barre Fusion, Fitness Challenges and various types of Yoga. All are differing in length so you can fit some guided body love into your schedule.
$50/month
Sign up anytime: [email protected]
Private Sessions
Book your private session, or purchase a gift certificate!
Let's work together to tailor the perfect combination of movement and mindfulness for your goals and intentions. See description of offerings in "Group Classes" below. All private sessions are designed based on the client's request.
$75 for an hour, $90 for 90 mins.
Please contact to set up a session.
Group Classes
Available for healing retreats, weddings and celebrations, corporate or private events, ongoing or series-based group classes & specialized workshops.
DANCE: Contemporary Technique, Choreography for site, stage or film, Improvisation/Composition, Body Awareness, Somatic Inquiry, Sensory Exploration, Authentic Movement, and Performance-oriented classes and trainings.
CONDITIONING: Body Blast, Barre Fusion, Pilates, Floor Barre, Strength Training.
YOGA: Yin Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga and Restorative Yoga. Hanna has a 200-hour Vinyasa certification (2007) from San Francisco's former Laughing Lotus Yoga Center (now Body & Soul Yoga Collective), Yin Yoga certification (2017) from Vermont's Laughing River Yoga, and Trauma-Informed Restorative Yoga certification (2019) from Maryland-based BodyWise Institute.
*Please see Archive below for additional ideas, or inquire with your unique desire!
Registration Info
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Payments can be made by check, PayPal or Venmo. Please contact for more details.
Archive
Meet the Muse: Workshop
Join Hanna Satterlee in this half-day workshop of engaging in multiple creative practices as an invitation to meet your muse! As weather permits, we will spend time both outdoors and inside the beautiful sanctuary, and will fluctuate from working on our own to engaging and sharing with the group.
No previous start to a project needed; this workshop is an embodied invitation to dive inward to your own creative well and see what is ready to be expressed!
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Image left from "Liberate" by Andreas John
Body Church: Workshop
In this workshop we will honor our physical form, treating our body as the sanctuary, the temple, the place of devotion and adoration. Through guided gentle stretching, self-massage, somatic improvisation, creative/contemplative writing and joyful dancing, we will arrive in the home of our physicality with gratitude and care. No experience necessary. Please bring a journal and pen.
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Contemplative Creation: Workshop
Among flowers, trees and reawakening earth, come find space within to ground, seed and blossom. These workshops will begin with a guided arrangement of contemplative practices (seated or walking mediation, writing, individual free movement and verbal connection) before moving into a personal creative session to join your own internal inspiration through any medium.
Please bring a journal and pen, your own seat if you wish to be above ground, good walking shoes, and your favorite art making materials. Workshops will be held outside within the garden and nursery grounds.
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Image left: Video capture from "Forget Me Not" by Andreas John
Creative Cohort
Been wanting to fit creative practice into your week? Ready to make and meet some goals? Excited to join a supportive creative cohort?
THIS IS FOR YOU!
Commit to a dedicated creative work session once weekly for four weeks and see what arises! We will spend time both bringing ourselves into internal reflective practices, as well as creating and sharing with new collaborators across the group.
Each week will feature an accessible group movement warm-up, generative writing exercises, and compositional prompts. We will share our interdisciplinary creations with the group in the final session. Open to artists of all disciplines.
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Pleasure Island: Workshop
Retreat to your Internal Creative Paradise
Invite your full artistry to awaken and create within a structured group setting. Commit to a two hour dedicated session once weekly for three weeks and see what arises! We will spend time both bringing ourselves into internal creative practices, as well as creating and sharing with new collaborators across the group. Artists will be guided in accessible group movement warm-ups, creative and reflective writing exercises, and compositional prompts. Artists of all genres are encouraged to create through their own medium; collage, dance, poetry, music, drawing, crafting, etc. Bring any materials you may need. Please be prepared to travel to Oakledge Park if weather permits, and to wear masks indoors.
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Garden of Delights: Workshop
Hosted by Horsford Garden & Nursery, in Charlotte, VT
Join Hanna for a weekend-long workshop on creating site-specific works. Open to musicians, performers, dancers, poets and curious thinkers. The workshop will take an interdisciplinary format, utilizing all of our senses, and working with the environment as an active collaborator in our musings.
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Movement, Meditation & Journaling
Part of the All Souls Annual Membership Retreat
Organized by All Souls Interfaith Gathering
With the body and breath as our guides, we will spend time individually and collectively to process, share, and witness our current state of being. Open to all bodies, no movement experience necessary. Please bring your own journal and pen, and a meditation pillow and/or yoga mat if you'd like one.
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Body Blast
Let's rev it up! Body toning, cardio, strengthening and stretching exercises from the comfort of your own space. Commit to the 4 week series to bring your body into a new level of YES!
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Yoga: Class
Vinyasa: Expressive, flowing sequences designed to enhance your individual practice. Some yoga experience recommended.
Sweet Surrender: Restorative yoga and guided meditation for deep rest.
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Barre Fusion: Class
Quick and fun barre based workout to jump start your day. Classes will include movements for light cardio + toning + using our dance muscles! Dance terms will be used but no need for any former dance training. Strength without impact, feel good through movement!
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Creative Cohort
Been wanting to fit creative practice into your week? Ready to make and meet some goals? Excited to join a supportive creative cohort?
THIS IS FOR YOU!
Commit to a dedicated creative work session once weekly for eight weeks and see what arises! We will spend time both bringing ourselves into internal reflective practices, as well as creating on our own and sharing with colleagues across the group.
The Creative Cohort intensive offers guidance, accountability, structure, direction and space for those who are ready to develop a creative project that is asking to be born.
Are you ready to:
Finally write that script?
Develop a new monologue for performance?
Create or restructure choreography?
Design plans for costumes, set or lighting ideas?
Experiment with improvisation?
Finish composing your song for performance?
Throughout the course we will engage with a weekly accessible group movement warm-up, generative compositional exercises and prompts, and solo work time, with occasional sessions that include workshopping and sharing material with one another. Multiple spaces will be used around the Flynn to enhance productive solo rehearsal/work time. For those who are interested, you will be invited to share your solo creations with the public in an informal FlynnSpace showcase proceeding the final session.
Open to artists of all disciplines with an interest in movement.
Ages 18+
Reach out to [email protected] with any questions or to inquire about a scholarship.
The Language of Dancing
October 22 Workshop with Hanna Satterlee
As Part of the "Dance Nights" Series at The Flynn
Dance Nights is an 8-week workshop series curated by ANIMAL Dance, Hosted by the Flynn and Supported by the Vermont Arts Council.
"The Language of Dancing" Workshop description:
The body speaks through gestures, posture, pace and shape. Movement is a form of expression. This workshop is a study on how movement can help us to better get to know ourselves, understand each other and connect to the world around us. Through thoughtful tactics and structured scores, we will play with spontaneous & impermanent dance creations, with the body as our tool and improvisation as our mechanism. We will practice embodying imagined and real-life images, physically telling abstract stories, and “trying on” the personality of each another’s moving form. Please bring a journal and pen, and an extra shirt layer that can be shared with other participants in the group.
Wednesday, October 22
Open Level 5:45pm
Advanced 7:15pm
The Collaborative Project Retreat at Wildheart
Located at Wildheart Center for Performance & Embodiment Practice, Wallkill NY
“The Collaborative Project” retreat fosters dedicated artists looking to expand, share, and meld their ideas within a collaboratively led creative process. We will spend time both creating solo pieces, as well as working together with new collaborators across the group. Each day will feature an accessible group warm-up, solo and group creative work time, delicious meals, and revitalizing activities among the beautiful land of Wildheart. The retreat will culminate in an informal performance for friends and fans on the final day. We are joining together to experiment with collaboration, working together, and inspiring one another. This retreat honors inclusivity, cooperation and a dedication to joy. Open to practicing artists of all disciplines with an interest in performance.
The Winter Artist: Weekend Retreat
At the WildHeart Center for Performance and Embodiment Practice in Wallkill, New York (Hudson River Valley)
An artist retreat of contemplative, creative and community practices. Interdisciplinary rituals of making, moving, sharing, and discovering. Room and meals provided.
Image: Winter Dance Poem by Joe Shelley
Body Awareness
Designed to awaken an awareness of one's body through gentle movement, body care practices, somatic meditation, energy flow, dance, massage techniques, sensory sharing and self reflective writing. Class sessions will encourage a deeper understanding of the body, mind and soul in the natural and social world. In-class and (optional) take-home experiences will be designed to awaken an awareness of one's body through movement, breath, sensorial study and relationship to space, place and environment. We will invite curiosity in discovering how the body can feel, touch, taste, smell and see through creative embodied assignments. Emphasis is on the importance of proper alignment, energy flow, flexibility and strength, body/breath coordinations, tension relief exercises, and simple body-care techniques for optimal health and harmony.
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Spring Dance Class Series
Weekly Dance Class!
Suited for the active dancer, class will include training in contemporary technique, strength and flexibility exercises, guided movement structures, playful prompts, and dynamic, full-bodied phrase work. Emphasis on big, juicy, joyful movement that eats up space. Dance experience recommended.
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Contemporary Dance Class
Suited for the active dancer, class will include training in contemporary technique, strength and flexibility exercises, guided movement structures, playful prompts, and dynamic, full-bodied phrase work. Emphasis on big, juicy, joyful movement that eats up space.
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Contemplative Dance Practice
Open Level Workshop
River Arts, Morrsiville VT
Wednesday August 20th, 2-3:30pm
$30
Drawing on the form of Contemplative Dance Practice, founded by Barbara Dilley, these workshops will help us to integrate inner and outer experiences, alone and together. We will spend time individually and collectively to experience, witness, process and share our current state of being using the body and breath as our guides.
Guided by dance artist Hanna Satterlee, the map of practices in each session will include: silent meditation, personal awareness movement practice, and a shared movement practice called Open Space. After a timed set in each of these three practices, we will have the opportunity to journal to reflect on our own experience, and conclude with discussion and sharing observations with one another.
Open Level. Must Pre-Register
Open to all bodies ages 18+, no movement experience necessary. Familiarity with silent meditation or introspective practices will be helpful. Please bring your own journal and pen, and a meditation pillow and/or yoga mat if you'd like one.
Dance Improvisation: Practicing Presence and Performance
Intermediate/Advanced Workshop
River Arts, Morrsiville VT
Wed August 20, 4-5:30pm
$30
Come explore moving and dancing from an unplanned body. With thoughtful tactics and structured scores we will workshop multiple ways and styles of performing presence and cultivating connection beyond our own somatic experience.
We will play with spontaneous & impermanent dance creations, with the body as our tool and improvisation as our mechanism. Dance improvisation gives us practice in both being awake to making choices in the moment, as well as practice in learning to recognize the structure of the whole while simultaneously listening to our own loud inner experience.
With Hanna as the guide, we will experiment with such concepts on our own, collaborate playfully with one another, and spend time observing each others’ in-the-moment creations.
If the only thing constant is change, let us practice being awake and ready to participate.
Intermediate/Advanced. Must Pre-register.
Ages 16+, experience recommended (this does not have to be formal dance training, but each participant should have a developed awareness of your body in space, and a mature understanding of the etiquette of collective dancing.)
Movement and Creation
Open Level Workshops
Phantom Theater, Warren VT
Tuesday August 5th, 12-2pm
and
Thursday August 7th, 6-8pm
$20/class
Join Hanna Satterlee, Director of ANIMAL Dance, for this workshop to explore multiple ways and styles of moving, plus tactics and scores for dance creation. No formal dance training needed, just the desire to groove, experiment, create, collaborate and celebrate your body in motion. Drop-in friendly or attend both!
