Heartward Myth & Motion Camp

June 22 - 26 and August 17 - 21
9a-4p with an after care option until 5:30p
Ages 8-12, some exceptions may be made for those outside the age range
$395, with some tuition assistance available

Julia and Alexis are excited to launch the first Heartward Sanctuary youth summer camp this year. This programming has been many moons — and even years — in the making, ever since The Flowjo closed and the dynamic youth program with it.

For more context, Alexis and Julia first connected when she was 8 or 9 in summer camps that Julia offered at the Carolina Friends School, where Alexis now works as the Lower School Dance Teacher. It’s a delightfully ‘full circle’ moment and lineage-affirming experience to collaborate on this project.

Youth programming is an integral, though as yet under-actualized, part of Heartward’s vision of building intergenerational community that centers around embodied, animist ritual practice, ones that honor creative expression and the world’s wisdom and spiritual traditions, to support us all through the many thresholds and rites of passage life brings.

This summer, Alexis & Julia will be offering a full-length summer camp that incorporates various flow arts (e.g., hula hoop, poi, acro-balance), expressive movement practices (e.g., ecstatic dance, various kinesthetic techniques, tumbling), dramaturgy, and myth-making from around the world and spiritual diaspora to begin kids’ attunement to how they move through the world — both in a physical body, and as part of a larger network of stories and histories.

Myth and Motion Summer Camps at Heartward Sanctuary