At Your Back

Open Floor Dance Workshop

This workshop is about the back body - a place of resource that can offer immense support, dignity, creativity and rest. 

Most of us rarely see our backs or are even sense them because we live in a very front-body culture. Open Floor movement practice invites us to feel what has been behind us all along, bringing greater balance, awareness and choice to the way we orient ourselves in the world.

We all need something at our backs - a steady hand, our ancestors, mystery, a tree. Together we’ll explore what it means to be supported from behind in physical, emotional, mental and soulful ways. We’ll investigate where that support already exists, where we long for more of it, and how we can practice cultivating it. Something essential is waiting for you and it might have been at your back all along.

Times: Fri. 6:30-9pm

Sat. 10:30am-5:30pm

Sun. 1pm-5:30pm

Cost: $295 if by September 13, $335 thereafter

Contact Info: info@jennymacke.com

Location: The Rome Grange, Bellingham, Wa

Register for "at your back" here

Weekly Open Floor Classes

with Jenny Macke

Open Floor Community Dance: 
Drop-in Sundays 10:30am-noon

We gather on Sunday mornings to practice Open Floor, a conscious dance practice, which offers tools for authentic connection to self, other, community and spirit.  We dance. We release stresses from our week and create space for ourselves and others.   A wide variety of music is played to move different kinds of energy through our bodies, minds, hearts and souls.   We do it alone and together.   No prior experience is necessary.   Just a body willing to move and mind open to let go of things that might be fixed, in order to find more fluidity in our dances and life.   This is a well held space but without a lot of instruction.   For more teaching of the Open Floor practice we recommend a workshop, Ongoing Group or An Open Floor Groundfloor Lab!  

Current Details for in person dancing:

  • Drop-in welcome: Regular location for now (unless otherwise notified)- Bellingham Fitness 1730 N State St, Bellingham, WA 98225

  • Payment: Class Cards are $85.00 for a 5 dance card. $20 per individual class with no card.

  • The general format is warming up for 30 minutes, having a community moment of connection and consent agreements, and then dancing for another hour...

  • Please tend community well and do not attend if you have any COVID signs or symptoms or if you have been exposed to someone with COVID

  • This is a space for 15 and up. There is a family dance at presence studio once a month on a Saturday.

If you come to class, you are in agreement with all these terms!

Classes continue regularly throughout the year.  Holiday schedules:  For 17years we have danced on the morning of Thursday, Thanksgiving (BUT NOT THIS YEAR 2025) hopefully we will have a more permanent home in 2026 and usually only take a break between Christmas and New Years if Thursday falls on Christmas Day. Please subscribe to Jenny’s email for regular updates.

Contact info@jennymacke.com for more info.