Our world is changing faster than our bodies can keep up with.

Our minds can't comprehend the scale of crises we face.

Our cultural stories forecast nothing but doom.

It's terrifying.

But what if these times aren't just about what is breaking?

What if they are also about what is being born?

Never before have humans been so ripe for an evolutionary leap.

Yet that leap requires that we choose it.

It requires that we refuse the vision of a dystopian future.

Most of us know what we are in resistance to.

But do we also know what we are living for?

Whose vision of the future are you feeding?

In chaotic times, the means matter as much as the ends...

The how matters just as much as the what.

Which is why these times are a call for us to:

create what we long for, even amidst collapse
expand our tactics beyond logic, facts and intellect
be ok with not having the answers or getting it all "right"

Most importantly, it relies on remembering that:

our true power lies within our hidden depths
humans are so much more than what we've been told
flawed as we may be, we are enough to meet this moment

Deep down, you remember.

And deep down, you've been waiting for this.

Me too.

So let's play, ok?

For anyone who is aching to...

FEEL GOOD / have fun / not feel terrible

move your body

meet quality people / invest in your community

restore your FAITH IN HUMANITY

deconstruct patriarchal / supremacist / capitalist / christian norms

discover new music

stop your dystopian doom-spiraling

heal some trauma / expand your nervous system capacity

find MEANING + BELONGING

metabolize spiritual + societal paradoxes

AND / OR

bring joy to your LIBERATION / RESISTANCE / ACTIVISM work

The Temple Sessions are for YOU.

gatherings

UPCOMINg

tickets

4/9/26 ∞ 7:00 - 9:00 pm Virtual House Party (Online)

4/16/26 ∞ 7:00 - 9:00 pm Virtual House Party (Online)

4/23/26 ∞ 7:00 - 9:00 pm Virtual House Party (Online)

4/30/26 ∞ 7:00 - 9:00 pm Virtual House Party (Online)

5/4/26 ∞ 5:30 - 8:30 pm The CAT (Liggett Studio, Tulsa)

the Temple Sessions are:

... an ever-evolving series of ceremonial dance parties

… featuring themed, multi-genre, BPM-bending playlists

… which invite us to listen to and follow our body's wisdom

… as a means of releasing our ancestral and cultural trauma

… using pleasure, play, curiosity and connection as our guides

... in a playlab created for lifelong and 'non-dancers' of all ability

... who believe a more just, joyful and generative world is emerging

... from the critical mass of us who are embodying it within ourselves!

This is OUR SPACE TO unwind, unmask, unearth.

This is where we EMBRACE our human mess and our holiness.

This is THE POWER OF US rewriting the stories we live by.

It's like a combo of

Folk dances, in that they are participatory social events

Church, where we tussle with spiritual and social paradox

Ecstatic dance, where we move to feel good, not to look good

Music festivals, where we dress to express (rather than to exercise)

Somatic therapy, where we listen to and follow the wisdom of our bodies

Nightclubs, where we dance with each other rather that facing towards a DJ

Wedding receptions, where humans of all ages, ability and agility move together

without the restricting norms of

Dance recitals, where dancing is about performing with perfection and precision

Concerts, where being barefoot and/or on the floor would be cause for alarm

Frat parties, where dancing without inhibition attracts sexual attention

Zumba class, where mirrors and instructors guide your movements

DJ sets, where musical genre and tempo don’t vary much

Dance battles, where spectating is part of the vibe

Ecstatic dance, where sobriety is held sacred

The impact

“I felt joy for the first time in my life.” –Maureen D.

“Some powerful things moved through me in ways that haven’t been accessible from anything else I’ve done. I feel like ME again.” –Justine R.

“I am constantly amazed at the ease with which your words tackle complex and divisive topics with so much grace and clarity.” –Melody M.

The Temple Sessions are literally changing my DNA in ways I can’t even articulate. This is how church is should feel.” –Melanie P.

“That dance changed my life. It inspired me to spend the entire next year traveling the world to dance." –Peter K.

“Dancing with you is saving my life! Literally. I am so grateful for what you’re creating!” –Maren W.

the who and her why

As a kid, I longed for a beauty, sacredness and belonging that I couldn't find in the human world around me (and that no one else in my life seemed to miss). Everything from strip malls and Sunday School to power lines and holidays felt hollow. Only in nature could I find the patterns of beauty I craved.

Acned and anxious, I escaped into the natural sciences. A decade later, in grad school and on track to study geology in Antarctica, those very same patterns of beauty shattered my known reality –turning their attention on me, by orchestrating a series of miracles that science simply could not explain.

Awed and adrift, I left science behind and let the cosmos lead. I spiraled from wilderness therapy and addiction intervention, to spirituality and ceremony, to graphic and interior design, to conscious business building and community care. Eventually, a pattern emerged... and with it, my hope for humankind.

The Temple Sessions my love-letter to humanity –a call to reawaken to the beauty, sacredness and belonging we've lost. They are the synthesis of everything I've learned (and unlearned) as a scientist-turned-ceremonialist, about evoking harmony in a culture that's hell-bent on causing harm.

xo, emme

Pronounced like the letter 'M'

ready to play?

(before you do, please review...)

THE TEMPLE SESSIONS

RULES OF PLAY

is this for me?

The Temple Sessions are derived from Hannah Kinderlerher's Awaken The Dance practice, which makes welcome the chronic illness, trauma and shame that keep so many of us dissociated from our bodies –and by extension, our wisdom and truth.

No amount of being injured, out of shape, "bad at dancing", pregnant, low-mobility, tired, menstruating, cranky or ________ is reason to stay away. People have spent entire dances laying on a yoga mat, hidden under a blanket, or seated on a stool.

This space is a sweet spot for people who are:

able to hold for the world being born even as the old ways fail
tired of processing our rapidly-changing world in isolation
actively questioning their conditioning and assumptions
directing their radical rage towards systems, not individuals
open to the existence of the more-than-material world