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THEN & NOW
CELEBRATING 10 YEARS
OF THE FYF INTENSIVE
with Tracee Kafer & Jess Linick, PhD
Fri, May 1st - Sun, May 3rd, 2026
Hosted at IV Pole Studio
New Windsor, New York
The Hudson Valley
Honoring What Was. Welcoming What’s Emerging.
The 10th Anniversary Finding Your Freestyle Intensive, “Then & Now” is our 13-hour freestyle and movement exploration intensive designed, held, and guided as a weekend reunion with the versions of you (and us) that danced us here.
Whether you carry memories from an FYF intensive between 2016 and now, or you’re stepping into this space for the very first time, you belong here. All are welcome.
What happens when you revisit what shaped your movement a decade ago — and meet them with the person you are today?
This special 10-year anniversary FYF Intensive invites you into a playful, reflective, deeply embodied weekend exploring the lineage of Finding Your Freestyle:
- the exercises that started it all
- the newer frameworks that have evolved through the years
- and the spaces between past and present where your artistry emerged
Across three days, we’ll dance between guided exploration, freestyle dance, group-based self-inquiry and constellations, and the kind of shared community energy that only FYF brings.
Whether you’ve been freestyling for years, coming back from a break, or you’re arriving fresh, this intensive is a time capsule and a launch point — a remembering and a renewal.
We can’t wait.
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Save $124 (25% off) if you enroll by 11/29.
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ONLY $425 REG. $499
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Save $75 (15% off) if you enroll between 11/30 - 12/5.
For any spots remaining after 12/5:
REGULAR ENROLLMENT: $499
Payment Plan Option:
3 Payments of $175
ONLY 16 SPOTS AVAILABLE
Your Facilitators
About FYF Creator, Tracee Kafer
Tracee Kafer, the creator of Finding Your Freestyle®, has a near-lifetime of experience in the world of dance, and 18 years focus on the art of pole. She’s journeyed through the landscapes of a student, performer, nationally-ranked competitor, world-traveling teacher, NY-based choreographer, and in the last decade shifted purposefully to the realms of the explorer.
Practicing and facilitating her own ever-evolving freestyle movement methods in the energetics of groups, she aims to continuously untether from genre, style, convention, and apparatus in order to gather in the communal love of moving from an authentic voice. She believes that if you can move (and feel), you can dance, and in honoring that process as a life practice, you can live in a world of presence, connection, and freedom.
Tracee has in recent years begun integrating movement with other modalities that center on the somatic experience and deeper practices of self-exploration, including Family & Systemic Constellations, the Tarot, parts work, guided imagery, and embodied meditation.
About Jess Linick, PhD
Jess, PhD, SEP, is a clinical psychologist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner®, and lifelong dancer. Trained in a variety of styles (e.g., ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, salsa, modern, contemporary), Jess took her love of movement to the pole in 2011 while living in Los Angeles. After taking her first FYF class in 2012, she immediately felt at home. In 2014, Jess and Tracee co-created Pole Speak, an improvisational-based pole dance company, and in 2017, she joined the Finding Your Freestyle team. Since then we’ve hosted many retreats, weekend immersions, and workshops together.
Jess brings her training as a clinical psychologist directly into this work, combining her knowledge of mind-body integration with FYF movement practices. To Jess, freestyle movement is more than just “dancing”– it is a way of being in the world, of interacting with space and time; a way of living. Unencumbered, open, and vulnerable, we are invited to harness intuition, follow our inner compass, locate embodied joy, and express ourselves in ways that ring true for us most clearly.
The Space
Location:
Innovated Vibe Pole Studio
2424 NY 32 Suite 103
New Windsor, NY 12553
The studio is very close to grocery, gas, and food, and also to Storm King Arts Center and beautiful nature spots along the Hudson River.
What You Bring is Welcome
Returning & becoming
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Returning & becoming 〰️
Our experience this year explores the conversation between who you were and who you’re becoming.
Every mover carries two forces: the familiar patterns that once held you, and the emerging expressions calling you forward.
“Then & Now” invites you to honor both — to revisit old practices with compassion, to discover what still fits, and to let the rest evolve into something that feels fully, unmistakably now.
It’s a weekend of returning, integrating, and creating from a place of honest presence.
The Tools We’ll Use
Freestyle Expression and Movement Exploration
Discussion & Group Circle
Somatic Experiencing
Self-inquiry/Contemplation
Working in the Mind’s Eye (Visualization)
Systemic Constellations & Parts Work
Partner Movement
Tarot/Oracle Cards
Noting (See, Hear, Feel)
Neutrality & Holding Space
The Schedule
Total: 13 hours of immersive exploration
FRIDAY, MAY 1ST
4:00–8:00 PM – Opening, grounding, and first waves of Then & Now practices
SATURDAY, MAY 2ND
12:00–3:00 PM – Midday session
5:00–8:00 PM – Evening session & deep-dive explorations
SUNDAY, MAY 3RD
11:00 AM–2:00 PM – Integration, culminating creations, closing circle
We’ll arrange all details and any updates with the group via a private WhatsApp thread.
Expectations & Levels
Current lovers of (or those curious) about using pole dance and freestyle for self-exploration and self-expression, who love to explore themselves through movement, embodiment and self-inquiry practices are encouraged to attend.
Intensives can have an amplifying affect, and over the course of this intensive you may move though feeling challenged, nourished, resistant, and/or inspired. It is recommended that you have ample resources for an experience like this — people, places, and things that support your regulation, self-connection, and grounding. It is also important if possible to have some space before/during/after the experience for rest, digestion, and integration.
We don't work at a particular technical or skill level, we work with the forms, ability, and access your body has at present. Same goes for any non-moving practices we use. You can be new, a hobbyist, professional, semi-retired, or all the way to mastery, all is welcome.
Getting Here & Where To Stay
Our host studio is located in New Windsor, NY virtually right on the Hudson River and connected to AirBnB-friendly towns like Newburgh (5-10 min) and Beacon (20 min across the Hudson).
We recommend finding shared housing with fellow participants (we’ll connect all enrolled students in a shared WhatsApp thread).
New Windsor is close to the Stewart Newburgh International Airport, 90 minutes from Newark Airport or to NYC on the Metro North to the Salisbury Mills/Cornwall Train Station.
As needed, we can do our best to arrange carpools and pickups.
SUGGESTIONS (THIS HOUSE IS BEAUTIFUL!)
NEW WINDSOR OPTION 1 • NEW WINDSOR OPTION 2 • NEW WINDSOR OPTION 3
NEW WINDSOR OPTION 4 • NEWBURGH OPTION 1
“💬 Breakthroughs are happening and I can’t wait to dig deeper.
💬 Challenges and joy merging together.
💬 Brought a huge mental shift for me.”
LIMITED SPACE
Event is nonrefundable, but transferable. 3-month payment plan available.