About
Lauren is a movement artist and writer with a heart for community, healing, and transformation. She founded a community home for artists in Charlottesville, VA and served as community director from 2015-2022 (The Farm House) and has danced and trained with companies and collectives from coast to coast.
She has trained and danced with modern dance company, Inlet Dance Theatre, in Cleveland, OH studying the Erik Hawkins Modern Release Technique, Improvisation [Liz Lerman] and Non-Traditional Partnering. The grounding and storytelling nature of modern dance influences her work and teaching. She launched The Freedom Project Co, land-based, site specific dance research, creating collaborative works founded in research with color, light, sound, and frequency to promote freedom and healing. She has worked alongside dance therapists, inner healing prayer counselors, and trauma therapists and survivors as a resource to release healing through dance.
She has created a faith-based and trauma informed Movement as Prayer workshop, a unique embodied practice that focuses on 7 different types of embodied prayer and moving with intention for healing and connection.
Having experienced her own levels of healing and freedom through dance, she hopes to share that with others through teaching, workshops, writing, and resources.
Over the last year, she has traveled researching and recovering land-based memory through dance, music, and storytelling. Creating faith-based, trauma informed movement workshops and experiences, facilitating safe spaces for individuals to connect and explore healing through movement.
To move into this next phase of ministry work and development, I am needing support!
I am prayerfully launching a specific personal fundraising campaign – below – for the final month of 2025. Please read and reach out with any questions about partnership! I would be so grateful to have you partner with this work and help it expand and grow in the ways I am prayerfully leaning in to give. All donations are tax deductible.
Ministry Focus
Since October 2024, I have been intentionally traveling and researching embodied healing movement work with a land-based focus (the land of our bodies, and our belonging and sense of place). This work has expanded into a wider range of healing work, through one on one ministry, courses, and teaching. I prayerfully lean into it being my full time work.
All of the goals I have set out to do in the last year, I am honored to be able to say have come to pass… and the work continues! God has laid it on my heart to ask for the community to surround me in a new way to see this work come to full fruition. I know that these next phases, I cannot do this work alone, nor believe we were designed to.
AT A GLANCE 2024-2025:
+ Photos + More in Depth on my projects (photos, videos, etc)
+ Developed and Presented Movement as Prayer Workshop first presented in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; As part of The Breath and The Clay creative conference; 45 students. and Philadelphia, PA; New York; Lynchburg, Virginia; online students from Europe, Australia, United States.March 2024, March 2025.
Exploring sacred movement as embodied prayer, moving with intention; connecting deeper to self, to God, and to each other. This workshop gives you tools to connect deeper with yourself, with God, and with community. Open to all movers.
+ From that workshop, created a 6-week class series, expanding on the trauma-informed and embodied work, Movement as Prayer, with 17 students, in-person and virtual (Lynchburg, VA, April-May 2024; November 2024)
+ Created a collaborative choreographic piece, Elephant Wells, creating original music with Songs of Water (Stephen Roach of Makers and Mystics) featuring William Johnson, Corey Frey, Luke Skaggs, and others; at The Breath and the Clay conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, March 2024, where I participated both as a performer and workshop leader.
+ Designed Embodied Prayer reflective prompt cards as a resource for communities, individuals, and therapists to connect with embody prayer.
+ Traveled and presented workshops with communities in Philadelphia, PA; Princeton, NJ; Winston-Salem, NC, ministering in different regions and cities across the US, including churches, artistic communities, and individuals with movement therapy work, inner healing, and deliverance.
+ Began Embodied Movement Coaching, in November 2025.
+ Moved to Princeton, NJ (October 2025) for extended research and artist in residence to write, research, develop, and release new resources and ministry tools.
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Updates
Artist in Residence: Princeton, NJ
In October 2025, I moved to Princeton, NJ to live on grounds as part of an artist in residence with a local organization, where I am deepening and expanding my research, writing, teaching, and ministry. This will cover basic expenses, resources for research, and research travel. I would be honored to have you as a partner, a part of this journey with me. To be able to say yes to this next level and work, I need to raise $5,000 by end of December, with a goal of $1,500 by December 5th.