Shake Your Soul

"Shake Your Soul" is one of the beloved daily dance classes (everyday at noon) featured at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in MA for decades. Created by Dan Leven, it is truly a mind-body experience informed by somatic therapeutic practices, mindful movement practices like Qigong, and many dance styles including Latin, African, Modern, Jazz, and others.

In this somatic dance workshop, we will explore moving to music in ways that feel organic and natural in our bodies. Shake Your Soul is a guided dance practice that energizes your body, relaxes your nervous system, and awakens your soul through a dance repertoire set to world music. Fun, funky, freeing, meditative, graceful, and sweaty, Shake Your Soul invites you to dance from within and with others in community.

This workshop welcomes all movers and music lovers, and absolutely no dance experience is needed to enjoy this mind-body connection.

About Katy Baytosh: Katy's enthusiasm for expressive dance began just over 25 years years ago when she wandered into a Nia class in Boulder, Colorado, rediscovering her childhood love of dance. Over the years, in addition to Shake Your Soul, she's taught Nia and Zumba and currently trains new Shake Your Soul teachers through the Leven Institute for Expressive Movement.