About.
Your body is where life meets you — it is the home of truth, story, and self.
Tracee Kafer: Guide | Facilitator | Movement Artist
Holding space for the complexity—and play—of being.
My work lives at the intersection of embodiment, relational healing, and creative transformation. It includes everything from movement and improvisation to Family & Systemic Constellations and deep spaceholding.
I don’t just fuse modalities—I hold fields.
This is work (play, exploration) that invites you into your own rhythm, your own knowing, your own becoming.
Follow along at Being Space, The Freestyle Collective, and Finding Your Freestyle® for current offerings, circles of practice, movement sessions, and the unexpected magic that happens when we drop in for real practice.
A lifetime of movement.
I was dancing on a stage before I turned three years old, and of course, I had no idea at the time how big of an impact movement would have on the rest of my life.
Now four decades later I’ve lost count on the thousands of hours I’ve spent in these movement realms; student, performer, artist, competitor, choreographer, coach, teacher, explorer, facilitator, constellator. Many of these roles have had me traveling the world (including teaching over 10K students in pole and dance). In the last 13+ years, I’ve been dedicated to developing my own movement and embodiment methods that serve as a vessel for all that I’ve learned and am still learning.
There has been this evolution; from what these pursuits and experiences could get me in terms of achievement in life, to landing in the deep truth of how life itself just wants to move through me no matter what comes. This has changed everything.
Allowing myself to more simply move and be moved by life has transformed my relationship to my self, my body, to all that is around me; to everything that I play a part of, whether through creating or relating.
Life, movement, and change in many ways share the same essence. They breathe us and they move us.
Movement has been my north star, my permission slip, and the wisdom keeper for my deepest knowings and truest nature.
Movement as the tangible expression of aliveness.
After all this time exploring the many faces and facets of movement, I've come to know on a very deep level that if I can find the movement that wants to happen, body and soul, I build a greater capacity for living my life in the present moment through the chaos and unpredictability of growth, change, and loss.
The BIGGEST movement we take … the one
towards ourselves.
All of us know that moment when our sense of forward motion stops. It can be sudden or sneaky, short-lived or long-lasting, and has many labels; block, stuck, resistance. It’s an experience we can expect many times over the course of our lives, and even in our day-to-day.
I have found that these intersections, while deeply uncomfortable at times and the place where we may feel lost and lose energy, are the biggest potential opportunities for sparking new awareness and ultimately creating surprising and necessary change (movement).
These experiences can be met with curiosity, surrender, and warmth. And as hard as it is to ask for sometimes, we need support from others in these spots, particularly from those who’ve met these places in themselves and have the capacity to hold them with you.
As your facilitator, guide or helper, I hold the intention for you to find what needs to move, even when a lot of stillness (and even silliness) may be needed. I have cultivated unwavering curiosity and compassion over the years for this process, and have developed many skills for attuning to it.
What do you mean by movement?
When I speak about movement, I’m referencing what is visible and also the invisible.
Our bodies move. Our breath moves. Our emotions move. Our relationships move. Our creativity moves. Our perceptions move. Our pain moves. Our awareness moves. Our life moves. Our soul moves.
Change requires movement, because that’s what movement is… change.
- Illan Riviére
“Tracee Kafer, I am beyond grateful for you and your life-long effort to hold space for others, so we can still have our ‘corrective maintenance’ sessions through movement when we need them the most.”
— Alisa
Tools & Practices
Movement Exploration,
Somatic & Body-Centered Practices, Pole Dancing
Systemic & Family Constellations,
Parts Work, Self-Inquiry,
Meditation & Working in the Mind’s Eye,
Sound Healing, Neutrality, Holding Space & Energy Work,
Tarot & Oracle Deckwork & Contemplation
Group Circles & Ritual Practice
Some of My Teachers
Human Systems Institute Jane Peterson, PhD
Bill Mannle, LMFT
Convivium Constellations, Leslie Nipps
Shavasti, Language of the Soul
London School of Systemic & Family Constellations (and HypnoConstellation®), Illi Adato
Holding Space & Esoteric Anatomy Life Energy Institute, Gary Strauss
Mediumship & Ancient Practices, Betsy Bergstrom
Reiki I & II, Lyndsey Harrington
NO W B O D Y Movement, Illan Riviére
Floor Flow, Marlo Fisken | Flow Movement
2004 B.A. in Advertising and 20+ years experience in Graphic Design, Marketing, & Video Editing
My Other Endeavors
Creator & CEO (Established 2012): Finding Your Freestyle® ("FYF") offers guidance on the art, skill, and mindset of freestyle through immersive and experiential practices both in-person and online. FYF believes we all have the right to define our own way of enjoying movement, and we should be celebrated for our unique expressions. FYF also encourages a niche community of curious explorers, embodiment seekers, and dancers of all forms to gather, share space, collaborate, and grow.
Creative Director (Established 2010): Body & Pole began as a small home-run pole practice and went on to become the largest pole and aerial dance studio in NYC. Running 180 classes a week in a sprawling 10,000 square foot space, B&P brings together some of the most talented pole dancers and aerialists in the world and attracts a thriving community that loves the art and sport of pole & aerial dance.
Co-Director (Established 2013): A company of artists utilizing pole and dance to integrating storytelling and vulnerability with movement. We strive to explore the human condition. Currently producing our 5th production in 2024 on the 10th Anniversary of our first show, BREAK THROUGH.
Let’s chat.
Book a call with me to inquire about working together.