Business Details
Movement & Dance Workshops in Greenville, SC
Inhabit Studio is dedicated to exploring the intersection of movement, embodiment, and creative expression. Founded by Jennie Wakefield, our studio offers movement-based expressive arts workshops that integrate authentic movement, writing, and visual arts to cultivate self-awareness and creative potential. With over 20 years of experience in somatic education and dance, Jennie has developed a unique approach rooted in the Tamalpa Life/Art Process, emphasizing the body's wisdom as a foundation for learning and innovation. Our programs cater to diverse participants, from academic institutions to community groups, fostering inclusivity and accessibility for all body types and abilities. We prioritize experiential learning, using movement to bridge academic concepts with embodied understanding, as demonstrated through partnerships with Clemson University and arts commissions. Our commitment to quality is reflected in Jennie's certifications as a registered somatic movement educator and her faculty role at Haden Institute, ensuring rigorous, evidence-based practices. We strive to create spaces where movement becomes a transformative tool for personal growth, community connection, and artistic exploration.
Services
Movement Workshops
Expressive Arts
Community Dance
Dance Education
Embodiment Practice
Served areas
- Upstate SC
Highlights and features
- We offer 20+ years of expertise in somatic movement education
- Our workshops integrate evidence-based Tamalpa Life/Art Process techniques
- We provide accessible programs for all ages and body types
- Our founder holds certifications from Haden Institute and Tamalpa Institute
- We combine academic rigor with embodied learning practices
Associations and certifications
- Registered Somatic Movement Educator
Services
Inhabit Studio
The common phrase "the dance of life" hints that life can be artful, that life and art go together, that creativity can be an integral part of everyday life, work, and community. To that end, an embodied arts practice can arouse the spirit, breathe warmth into stuck places, and generate creative possibilities.
Writing, Body, Earth" -- Clemson University Honors College Course
This course is happening in fall 2021 for the Clemson Honors College at Clemson University as one of three seminars in a cluster on the topic of sustainability. Our textbook: Andrea Olsen, Body and Earth. Other readings and influences: Robert Yagelski, Writing as Being: Writing Instruction, Nonduallity, and the Crisis of Sustainability; William Cronon, "The Trouble With Wilderness"; Wendell Berry, "In Distrust of Movements."
Movement Groups
To embody is to integrate or incorporate something, to give tangible form to a quality, feeling, or idea. To fully inhabit this single information system that is the body/mind is to embody a sense of self. You do body work as part of personal growth work to integrate and relate to what you know. Like C.G. Jung's active imagination, it gives external form to what is happening internally, which you may or may not be conscious of. During movement sessions, the most important thing is to be present with what is for you in the moment -- and to work from the heart.
Schedule
Experience the Tamalpa Life/Art Process, a unique approach to integrated movement developed by movement/healing arts pioneers Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin. The process takes you into the sensing, feeling, imagining body. Explore movement as a tool for self-discovery, and personal and collective creativity.
Projects
The Dancing Place is a short art film, conceived and directed by me, made using the Tamalpa Life/Art process. Filmed by Elizabeth Stehling Snell at the rustic northern Greenville County, SC dance hall, River Falls Lodge, this non-narrative film is made from one day of filming the environmental experiences of six performers who range in age from mid-30s to mid-70s.
Questions
What types of workshops do you offer?
We offer small group sessions, large workshops, and one-on-one movement-based expressive arts sessions focusing on embodiment practices.
Are your workshops accessible for all abilities?
Yes, all workshops welcome participants of all body types, ages, and experience levels with adaptable activities.
Do you work with academic institutions?
Yes, we collaborate with Clemson University and offer embodied learning programs for academic content integration.
What is movement-based expressive arts?
It's an embodiment practice using movement, writing, and visual arts to access creative processes and self-awareness.