Body Lore:
Bones & Belonging
A course for connecting deeply with body, land and ancestors through movement and land art.
Body Lore: Bones & Belonging is a six month online course devoted to transforming intergenerational grief and trauma into agency and resilience through movement and creative practice.
Together, we will engage in a process of sifting through our personal ontologies (ways of being) and epistemologies (ways of knowing), gently weaving together a more holistic understanding of ourselves.
The course follows a process of metamorphosis inspired by epigenetics, inviting us to reconnect with the ancestral wisdom and resilience held within our tissues. Through movement practices that attend to specific mystical anatomies we will explore new possibilities for how our innate intelligence may express itself both in life and art.
Hosted by Morgan Kulas
- Session One November 2026
- Session Two December 2026
- Session Three January 2027
- Session Four February 2027
- Session Five March 2027
- Session Six April 2027
Exact dates and times to be confirmed. All sessions are recorded if you cannot attend live.
This work emerges from and expands upon the MFA Thesis Praxis of Morgan Kulas at University of New Mexico. Each course session begins with philosophical inquiry, transitions into movement practice, and concludes with artistic prompts. No dance or somatics experience is necessary and artists of all mediums are encouraged to participate.
The Six Sessions
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November
The River of Life
In Session One we will establish our understanding of presence as a flow state vs a static state through practices that tonify the lymph. -
December
The Blood Stream
In Session Two we will reflect on helpful and unhelpful ancestral myths that have shaped our life path and how we relate to ourselves, others and environment through practices that tonify the blood. -
January
The Muscles & Nerves
In Session Three we will break down our protective mechanisms and regulation patterns through practices that tonify the muscles & nerves. -
February
The Bone Memory
In Session Four we will tune into the mysticism of our cellular intelligence and how it expresses itself through our genetic code through practices that tonify the bones. -
March
The Skin & Fat
In Session Five we will look kindly and deeply at nurturance, autonomy and boundaries through practices that tonify the skin & fat tissues. -
April
Your Spirit As Breath
In Session Six we will write a new story of belonging for ourselves by understanding our maturation as a process of moving from dependence to interdependence through practices that tonify the breath.
Morgan Kulas is a dance artist, writer, and teacher whose work explores the poetry, potential and phenomena of embodiment.
‘In my socially engaged work, I foster integrative embodied resilience for trauma through movement education, community building & performance work. My personal experimental practice and research forms the foundation that enables me to work publicly and socially in this way, a commitment I have sustained in various ways since 2004. This work exists at the intersection of art, healing, and social transformation.’
Her creative and community led research contributes to the web of inquiry taking place at the intersection of decoloniality, ecology and performance studies. Ensuing in contemplative artworks that perform embodied acts of resilience. Morgan earned a BFA in Acting and Dance Performance from Chicago College of Performing Arts and an MFA in Art & Regenerative Culture from University of New Mexico.
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