Don't You Feel It Too?

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Don't You Feel It Too?

Don’t You Feel It Too? is the practice of freeing our spirit through dancing our inner lives in publi At all times the individual controls the practice.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
- Bring a portable music player that can fit in your pocket or clip to your clothing, head/earphones, and your most beloved music on a playlist (3-7 songs is good).
- Wear comfortable street-dancing shoes/clothes. Don’t wear sunglasses.
- Don't bring anything you can't put in your pocket so that you can dance freely. Leave stuff in your car or at home.
- More instructions will

be given before we dance.
- Free

HOW THE SESSION WORKS
The first 10-15 minutes is introduction, instructions, and warm-up. The next 30-60 minutes is dancing in public space with cool-down. Afterward, we like to take time to discuss and learn from one another. As in yoga, the practice is the individual’s and what he or she brings to it.

11/20/2025

Give to the Max Day 2025 is here! Will you help DYFIT raise $3,000 to grow our new branch of behavioral art practice, Living As Art? 🎨👯‍♀️💛

Building off of founding artist Marcus Young's prior work living in different art institutions (Walker, Weisman, MIA, St. Olaf, etc.), Living As Art enters a non-art context at New Branches, home to five faith communities and a charter school in the Nokomis neighborhood.

Marcus, in collaboration with community artist Kristin Johnstad and myself, Thea Lauren Pineda, we will host a call for artists to join us in this undertaking and blend the familiar Don't You Feel It Too practice, mindful eating, communal living, ritual, retreat, installation, and performance for a four-day stay at New Branches—bringing voices, practices, and ideas into a shared space where faith, daily life, and art are woven together.

Don't You Feel It Too? has nurtured and supported countless of other artists and creatives over the past 17 years, myself included. While many aspects of our world is in turmoil, DYFIT has been a constant connecting force for us to show resistance, process trauma, and embrace joy. I am excited to support this healing practice that continues to carve out space for us to be our authentic selves in places that were not created with us in mind.

We need to address today's brokenness around individual and societal health. We need new artistic practices to move through this time of heartbreak and upheaval. We need your help to bring this project to life.

Every donation brings Living As Art closer—will you be a part of our movement?

Mano po,

Thea 💛
Artist & Administrator

12/17/2023

Dyfit practice TODAY Sunday December 17th
2pm outside Sister Sludge Coffee

11/11/2022

2023 will be our ✨15th year of practice!!!✨ 🥳🎉🎉🎉
Help support this milestone of public dance and liberation on - link to donate in bio!

12/29/2021

Don’t You Feel It Too is grateful for opportunities we’ve had to partner with North Star Health Collective. Recently several of our facilitators got trained in how to keep each other safer in protest settings. North Star’s medics offer training to the community occasionally, and will do a 20-hour training this spring for people who want to volunteer as street medics. You can also get in touch with them if you're planning a protest, march, or demonstration and want medics present to give consent-based care to people who are resisting state violence.

Image Description: Graphic of a megaphone and the North Star Health Collective logo, which pictures the red medic cross. “Connecting with North Star Street Medics. Organizing a protest, action, demonstration, or march? Want street medics present? Just send us a message at [email protected] with: a contact person, date/time/location, description of event, and how we can help! The more time we have to prepare, the more likely we can meet your needs!”

12/24/2021

“Feel what you feel” is the third instruction in Don’t You Feel It Too. Letting ourselves notice our emotions can be so hard for valid reasons. DYFIT supports this with movement, stillness, community, rituals, and practice.

What helps you feel what you feel?

Reposted with permission from visual artist

Image Description: “It’s ok to feel it all.” Three people gather in a hallway in front of school lockers. Two stand and the third sits in a wheelchair. They are wearing masks. Words for emotions decorate their clothes: mad, delighted, anxious, refreshed, guilty, brave, inspired, annoyed, determined; fed up, excited, joyful, optimistic, powerful, heavy, lost, confident, weepy, happy; focused, bold, grateful, confident, nervous, motivated, shy, uncertain, glad.

12/20/2021

Have you read the Decolonizing for Organizers Manual by ? What do you think of it?

We’ve been using the exercise, “Connecting with Land,” on pages 12-13, to close DYFIT practices by taking three breaths together.
1) Take a first breath and picture your ancestors’ land.
2) Take a second breath and picture the land you call home now. (For us in the Twin Cities, this is land where the Dakhota people come from, and it has also been home to the Anishinaabe people among others for hundreds of years.)
3) Take a third breath and integrate those two places in your life, with gratitude for the earth and the ancestors who have protected it.

Feel free to share what comes up when you try this breathing exercise.

Image Description: A book lies open. The left side is titled, “Connecting to Lands Exercise,” and explains the steps in this activity. The right side is a collage including a felt heart, a sachet of flowers, and ground covered by dry plants.

12/19/2021

One of the many ways we can honor the life and legacy of bell hooks is by returning to the immense loving care and healing within her words. May the following quote from her book, “New Visions: All About Love,” be of support:

“Love knows no shame. To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending. The way we grieve is informed by whether we know love. Since loving lets us let go of so much fear, it also guides our grief. When we lose someone we love, we can grieve without shame. Given that commitment is an important aspect of love, we who love know we must sustain ties in life and death. Our mourning, our letting ourselves grieve over the loss of loved ones is an expression of our commitment, a form of communication and communion. Knowing this and possessing the courage to claim our grief as an expression of love’s passion does not make the process simple in a culture that would deny us the emotional alchemy of grief."

Image Description: “The way we grieve is informed by whether we know love” is written in Black against a fuchsia background.

12/16/2021

Hope you’re all warm and cozy, DYFIT friends! What makes you feel held? Thinking of you with the warmth of this illustration.

Local artist and educator hclou art designed it. For a dose of beauty and revolution, check out her website, https://www.hclouart.com. heather is a person of many talents, and we’re also grateful for the accessibility consulting she did for DYFIT this summer.

Image Description: Two dogs nuzzle, looking sweetly at each other. Hearts say, “Hold space, and each other.”

12/13/2021

Powderhorn Park has been one of our favorite places to practice Don’t You Feel It Too. This beautiful sunset bloomed during the last outdoor practice of 2021 with our SEED group.

Practices will be primarily online this winter, and you can join from inside your home or wherever you like. Join us for the BIPOC Practice, or the White Bodies Practice, which happen at the same time. The next chances to participate are:
Saturday December 18
noon-1:15pm Central Time
Zoom

What’s your favorite place to do ? Comment if you wish to share :)

Image Description: Pink tinges the clouds at sunset. Bare tree branches reach across the sky in Powderhorn Park.

12/07/2021

What kinds of movement are healing for you?

Image Description: Six people dance. “Movement is healing. Heal so we can begin anew. Accept so we can change. Surrender so we can rest. Release so we can receive. Forgive so we can be freed. Rest so we can restore.”

Thanks to Michelle Pow Therapy for permission to repost this image from Michelle Pow's instagram.

12/06/2021

Every time we practice DYFIT, we end with stillness. Sometimes those moments feel most meaningful in the practice. We need rest to integrate our experiences.

In these difficult times, rest is essential. How do you rest? How do you replenish yourself?

Reposted with permission from of the Instagram account of visual artist Rana2.0.

Image description: A person sleeps with a relaxed expression. Their hair and eyebrows are a fantastical purple color, and flowers appear around them. “Rest your head my darling, everything will be right here waiting for you. .0”

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