Somatic Embodiment of Salsa Music

This workshop is an invitation to enter salsa music through the body—to listen, feel, and move from within.

We begin by arriving: softening attention inward, grounding, and awakening sensory awareness. From there, we explore the living textures of salsa music—clave, conga, bass, piano, and horns—not as counts or structures, but as energies, conversations, and emotional landscapes that travel through the body.

Through guided somatic practices, imagery, breath, and improvisation, participants are encouraged to allow movement to emerge organically from sound. Dancing alone and with others, we explore weight, rhythm, timing, connection, and space, cultivating presence rather than performance.

The workshop honours salsa as an Afro-Latin cultural expression where music and dance are inseparable—where the body remembers before the mind explains. By releasing habitual patterns and learned steps, dancers are supported to access intuition, musical sensitivity, and authentic expression.

This is a space for listening deeply, moving honestly, and reconnecting with the joy, complexity, and humanity of dancing salsa—from the inside out.

Led by Irene Miguel