Body Tales® - Movement, Voice, and Personal Storytelling

Body Tales® is a creative and healing practice that integrates movement, voice, and personal storytelling through elements of dance, theater, and expressive arts, while encouraging and supporting an embodied value system in which the well-being of the Earth is central.

Participants explore and share their personal stories through improvised movement, sound, and language, while being witnessed in a supportive community.

Through this process, we celebrate, grieve, remember, and envision together—transforming personal experience into collective wisdom while deepening our relationship with body and Earth. No dance or theatre experience is necessary.

“With humans, stories matter. Stories weave the fabric, sometimes whole, sometimes torn, of every family and culture. When we move and speak our embodied stories, and they are received and valued, we reclaim our humanity.”
~Olivia Corson, Body Tales founder (1950-2025)

In Devi Peri’s work as an embodied awareness coach she’s committed to supporting those who desire connection with the wisdom of their body and are looking to nurture more depth and intimacy in relating to themselves, to others and to the natural world.

She began with Body Tales over 20 years ago, and took the teacher training from the founder in 2018. She has also facilitated various other dance and embodied movement forms, nature connection workshops and sacred breathwork over the last 12 years.

Summer Cooper is a lifelong dancer, movement educator, and certified Body Tales® teacher devoted to helping students access, trust, and express their body’s wisdom. She creates spaces of deep listening and relational presence. Since 2012, she has studied and facilitated groups in Authentic Relating, conscious dance, yoga and earth based practices, yet Body Tales remains the passion closest to her heart.

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