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Dance · Movement · Medicine

Dance that heals the
body & soul
and sets you free.

Embodied Alchemy is an invitation back into your body — soulful movement with Becca at festivals, gatherings and retreats. Come exactly as you are.

Our mission

Movement is medicine — and the floor is for everyone

Embodied Alchemy exists to return you to your body. Through guided and free-form movement we release what's held, soften the nervous system, and remember the simple joy of being alive in a body. When people move together, something ancient settles — grief loosens, courage rises, tenderness comes home. No experience needed, no choreography to learn.

We gather where the world feels most alive — in deserts and forests, at festivals and quiet retreats, close to rivers and open sky. You come exactly as you are, and you leave a little more free.

Earth · Water · Air · Fire

We move with the elements

The same forces that shape the land move through the body. We dance with all four.

Becca reclining among driftwood roots on the forest floor
Earth

Rooting down through the feet and spine — grounding, steadiness, and the safety of belonging to the ground.

Clear green river water flowing over smooth rocks
Water

Flow and release — fluid spines and soft joints let emotion move through and wash the nervous system clean.

Becca spinning with sheer fabric in a haze of golden sun-flare
Air

Breath and lightness — expansive, spinning movement that fills the lungs and lifts the spirit skyward.

Becca outdoors in warm golden sunlight against a rustic fence
Fire

Passion and vitality — the warm Leo spark that turns effort into ecstatic aliveness and creative power.

The offerings

Find your river stone

Each practice is its own little world — its own colour, its own rhythm. Hover or tap a stone to read it.

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Come exactly as you are — every body is welcome here

Come for the quiet focus of the studio or the wild freedom of the dance floor — every session meets you exactly where you are. Classes run as workshops, series, and immersive experiences inside festivals, gatherings and retreats.

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Movement is medicine

Why dance heals the body

The instinct to move when we feel is older than language — and modern science is catching up to what the body always knew. Here is a little of what happens when we dance.

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Move in wild places and the nervous system exhales.

Rhythmic, expressive movement is one of the body's most direct routes to calm. It tones the vagus nerve and shifts us out of fight-or-flight into rest-and-digest, while learning new movement builds fresh neural pathways — neuroplasticity in real time. Trauma researchers describe how stress is held in the tissues; conscious movement gives it a way out. And because we so often dance together, we're bathed in oxytocin, the chemistry of belonging.

↓ cortisol Rhythmic movement lowers the stress hormone — shown in studies of dance & music therapy.
+ vagal tone Breath-led movement calms the vagus nerve, easing the body into safety and rest.
balance + Dance sharpens proprioception & balance — seen in studies of aging and Parkinson's.
↓ 26% Lower risk of dementia linked with regular dancing in long-term cohort research.
Read the science

The journals, studies and stories behind movement as medicine.

In their words

What the floor gives back

A few notes from people who've moved with Becca.

I walked into Becca's circle carrying a hard year, and somewhere in the music I danced my way back to myself. I haven't stopped moving since.
Maya R.

Ecstatic Dance

I'd never once called myself a dancer. Becca made the floor feel safe, and somehow I found a grace I didn't know I had in me.
Daniel K.

Adult Ballet

Her 1:1 touch therapy gently undid tension I'd been holding for years. I left the session lighter, softer, and more at home in my own body.
Priya S.

1:1 Touch Therapy

Rates

Simple, honest ways to begin

Private sessions & 1:1 Touch Therapy begin at $55 / hour.

Group workshops, retreats and festival events are custom-tailored — reach out and we'll shape something together.

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Contact & booking

Let's find your spot on the floor

Ready to move, or dreaming up a retreat or festival together? Reach out and Becca will help you find the right session. Spaces are intentionally small and warm.

Book a call · Check availability

Becca will share her live booking calendar here soon — for now, send a note and she'll set up a time.

hello@embodiedalchemy.dance

Serving festivals, gatherings & retreats · travel by arrangement

Becca mid-leap, arched back against a white wall — black-and-white artistic portrait
Meet Becca

A radiant Leo, sharing her gift

Becca is a movement teacher, dancer, aerial artist and performer — a warm, radiant Leo who shares her gift the way the sun shares light: generously, and with everyone in the room. She has spent her life following one question — how does the body heal? — and the answer keeps returning the same: through movement, and through nature.

Her work grows from years of study across ballet, jazz and modern technique, ecstatic and ritual dance, somatic practice, and the science of the nervous system — woven together with the oldest medicine of all: the forest, the river, the open sky. She has learned how rhythm steadies us, how breath unwinds held grief, and how the earth meets something ancient in us when we move within it.

Whether she's holding an ecstatic-dance circle at a festival, guiding deep stretch on a retreat, supporting veterans through gentle movement, or offering 1:1 touch therapy, the invitation is always the same — soften, move, and let your body lead.

Dancer Aerial artist Performer Movement teacher
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The floor is waiting

Come home to your body

Bring your whole self — your tired, your tender, your joyful. Whether it's your first time or your thousandth, there is room for you here. Movement will meet you.

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