Welcome
About.
Your body houses your connection to life, it is the place to truly encounter who you are and how you relate to the world around you.
A lifetime of movement.
I was dancing on a stage before I turned three years old. I’ve journeyed through the realms of the student, the masked performer, the authentic artist, the nationally-ranked competitor, the NY-based choreographer, the world-renowned teacher, the curious explorer, the intuitive mover, the wounded healer, the constellator, and in the last 12 years creator of evolving movement methods that serve as a vessel for all that I’ve learned and am still learning.
In the span of four decades and countless hours studying and practicing movement, I’ve discovered my gifts, my purpose, and my aliveness.
I’ve found countless ways to express myself in motion and that has evolved from a focus on what this could get me (to experience in this life), to how this life truly wants to move through me no matter what comes.
I’ve learned how to create, to impress, to hide, to reemerge.
I’ve had to find my way back from injuries, learn to honor conflicting needs to be still and to push my own boundaries, to remember my why even when I felt totally lost. Through movement I’ve formed meaningful connections with people that were real blessings, and I’ve also failed in relationships where tensions grew untenable.
As my body and awareness has matured, I’ve learned to let go, reaching rich inner spaces and grieving what was over.
I’ve felt the depth of my emotions and pain, allowing them to transform me in their flowing, innate intelligence.
I’ve created so much throughout my life by prioritizing the journey happening within my body.
I can say that life, movement, and change share the same core essence and energy.
I’ve entered my dance with them through moving my body. Whether inside the walls of a studio, on a stage, outside, in sacred circle, completely still or completely alone… movement has been my north star, my permission slip, and the wisdom keeper for my deepest knowings and true nature.
Movement is the tangible expression of being alive.
After all this time exploring the many faces and facets of movement, I've come to know on a very deep level that if we can find the movement that wants to happen, seen or unseen, we can build a greater capacity for inhabiting our life and our body while we navigate chaotic spirals of growth, change, and loss.
These movements in and through the body can help us hold the things that are difficult and uncomfortable, help us to feel, to heal, and to find deeper meaning.
When our movement feels blocked, we are tasked with turning towards the hidden thing that is asking for our attention. What “holds us back” and “keeps us stuck” needs to be seen, felt, heard.
That is a movement towards ourselves.
All of us know that moment when our sense of forward motion stops. It can be sudden or sneaky, short-lived or long-lasting, and has many names; blocks, dead ends, walls, resistance. It’s an experience we can expect over and over again over the course of our life (even over the course of our day). I have found that these stalled and stuttering intersections, while deeply uncomfortable and the place where we can get lost and lose our energy, are the biggest potential opportunities for sparking new personal awareness and ultimately creating surprising and necessary change.
These states (happening both in our body and in our life) need to be met with relentless curiosity, surrender, and warmth. And as hard as it is to ask for sometimes, we need real support in these spots, particularly from those who’ve met these places in themselves and have the capacity to hold them with you.
As your facilitator, guide or helper, I’m holding a strong intention for you to find what needs to move, even when a lot of stillness (and even silliness) may be needed. I have cultivated unending curiosity and compassion over the years for these processes, and have dimensional skill for attuning to the body.
What do you mean by movement?
When I speak about movement, I mean the tangible as much as I do the intangible.
Our bodies move. Our breath moves. Our emotions move. Our relationships move. Our creativity moves. Our perceptions move. Our pain moves. Our awareness moves. Our soul moves
We are meant to move, and be moved.
Change requires movement, because that’s what movement is… change.
- Illan Riviére
“Tracee Kafer, I am beyond grateful for you and your life-long effort to hold space for others, so we can still have our ‘corrective maintenance’ sessions through movement when we need them the most.”
— Alisa
Tools & Practices
Movement Exploration,
Somatic & Body-Centered Practices,
Systemic & Family Constellation,
Parts Work, Self-Inquiry,
Meditation & Working in the Mind’s Eye,
Sound Healing, Neutrality, Holding Space & Energy Work,
Tarot & Oracle Reading / Working w/ Decks,
Group Circles & Ritual Practice
Some of My Teachers
Human Systems Institute Jane Peterson, PhD
Bill Mannle, LMFT
Convivium Constellations, Leslie Nipps
Shavasti
London School of Systemic & Family Constellations (and HypnoConstellation®), Illi Adato
Holding Space & Esoteric Anatomy Life Energy Institute, Gary Strauss
Mediumship & Ancient Practices, Betsy Bergstrom
Reiki I & II, Lyndsey Harrington
2004 B.A. in Advertising and 20+ years experience in Graphic Design, Marketing, & Video Editing
My Other Endeavors
Creator & CEO (Established 2012): Finding Your Freestyle® ("FYF") offers guidance on the art, skill, and mindset of freestyle through immersive and experiential practices both in-person and online. FYF believes we all have the right to define our own way of enjoying movement, and we should be celebrated for our unique expressions. FYF also encourages a niche community of curious explorers, embodiment seekers, and dancers of all forms to gather, share space, collaborate, and grow.
Creative Director (Established 2010): Body & Pole began as a small home-run pole practice and went on to become the largest pole and aerial dance studio in NYC. Running 180 classes a week in a sprawling 10,000 square foot space, B&P brings together some of the most talented pole dancers and aerialists in the world and attracts a thriving community that loves the art and sport of pole & aerial dance.
Co-Director (Established 2013): A company of artists utilizing pole and dance to integrating storytelling and vulnerability with movement. We strive to explore the human condition. Currently producing our 5th production in 2024 on the 10th Anniversary of our first show, BREAK THROUGH.
Let’s chat.
Book a call with me to inquire about working together.