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From Mindful to Ecstatic:
A three-day movement workshop

Led by Megan Bridge

October 19-21, 2026

3pm-8:30pm

$200 three-day course,
$40 per individual class

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Afternoons: Somatics 3-5:30pm

Somatics classes start with a light anatomy lesson, focusing on a different body structure and system each day. This is followed by a guided meditation, attending to the breath, stillness, and movement that quietly grows. Partnered and solo bodywork exercises and games will be introduced, using touch, weight sharing, massage, and meditative stretching to awaken the body-mind connection.

Monday: Deep Abdominals & Nervous System
Tuesday: Pelvis & Fascia
Wednesday: Shoulder Girdle & the Gaze

Evenings: Group Motion Workshop 6:30-8:30pm

The Group Motion Workshop is a guided movement experience with live music. Beginning with meditation and waking the body through movement and stretching, participants are then guided seamlessly through movement structures aimed at shifting bodily and conscious attention. Each night the class opens with introductions, intention-setting, and a community conversation about safety and consent. From this ritual grounding, we build our capacity for human connection, together in a shared space of exploration, expression, and communication.

Monday: Live music with Andy Thierauf
Tuesday: Live music with Julius Masri
Wednesday: Live music with Peter Price and Tristan Price

 

About the Instructor

Megan Bridge’s teaching draws on tools picked up in her own decades-long practice of improvisation in performance, as well as studies in meditation, anatomy, the nervous system, and several forms of bodywork and somatics. Her primary teaching influences are Brigitta Herrmann, Manfred Fischbeck, Deborah Hay, Merian Soto, Steve Paxton, and Lisa Nelson.

 

Pricing + Registrations

Three day pass (Monday, October 19 – Wednesday, October 21, 2026 – 3:00pm-8:30pm): $200
All three afternoons: $110
All three evenings: $110
Single Session: $ 40 per class

To request financial aid for this course, please reach out to Programming@FringeArts.com

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About the Artist

Megan Bridge is an internationally touring performer, choreographer, and teacher based in Philadelphia. She has performed at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, FringeArts, and many other venues in Philadelphia, throughout the United States and abroad in France, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Georgia, Colombia, and South Africa. She holds a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase, and an MFA in dance from Temple University, where she currently serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the dance program. Megan has published more than 30 articles for thINKingdance.net, as well as articles for the Dance Chronicle, Dance Magazine, Pointe Magazine, and Philly Artblog. She has taught annual intensive movement for healing workshops at FringeArts and Studio 34 in Philadelphia for the last several years, and she is a certified Group Motion Workshop facilitator. Her research centers around presence and consciousness in the living body. Megan loves bringing philosophical inquiry into the studio, and her ideas are influenced by Tantra, affect theory, and phenomenology. Her most important teachers have been Manfred Fischbeck, Neil Greenberg, Deborah Hay, Rennie Harris, Brigitta Herrmann, Erin Manning, Layla Martin, Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton and Merian Soto.

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