teaching movement arts.

teaching movement arts & introspective practices.

Kresge’s practice and teaching experience in the movement arts are grounded in being an interdisciplinary artist/dancer/choreographer, and her past roles as a senior Mysore Ashtanga instructor at Ashtanga Yoga Richmond, a Mindfulness Instructor at Richmond’s Institute of Contemporary Art, and a Thai Bodywork and Ayurvedic Massage practitioner. In addition to teaching in studios, Kresge taught yoga, self-care, movement exploration, and introspective practices as an Adjunct Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. She offers private sessions as a Wellness Consultant and uses her training as a death doula to bring death into a more holistic conversation about living.

Kresge began dance training at four and, as an adult, has maintained a twenty-four-year yoga/movement practice. She's taught for the past eighteen years, including thirteen years at the university level. Kresge has participated in six, five and ten-day silent meditation retreats and has gone on six multiple-month trips to India to immerse herself in Ayurvedic and yogic study. She has organized and led retreats in Samara, Costa Rica, and Taos, NM, and has taught classes, workshops, and teacher trainings in Boston, MA; Floyd, VA; Richmond, VA; Wilmington, NC; and Osaka, Japan.

Kresge currently resides in Wilmington, NC—writing, teaching, surfing, contact improving, and making art. She continues to study directly under her meditation teacher, Pat Buxton.

For more information about upcoming classes, workshops, and retreats, visit: events & offerings.

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Brinson Leigh is currently working in Wilmington, NC and via Zoom.

Privates:

60min $85

75min $105

90min $120

75 min group rates:

2 people: $130 ($65 each)
3 people: $135 ($45 each)
4 people: $136 ($35 each)

> Semi-privates require group accountability; rates are determined by the number of people who show up.

> 15% needs-based discount available in non-rented spaces.

offerings & book online.

Training, Experience, and Certification:

Professional Dancer & Choreographer, 2006 - 2025

Alban Elved Dance Co., with founder, Karola Lüttringhaus, Wilmington, NC - 2024 - 2026
- Co-teach Flow & Drift Contact Improv Jams -- ongoing
- "Alula," Wilmington Dance Festival April 2025 at UNCW Kenan Auditorium
Co-director of Sarus Festival for Site-specific and Experimental Art, Wilmington, NC, August 2025
- "COIL - Sound Bodies" CFCC Black Box
- Creative Ecologies Symposium and Performance at Jengo's Playhouse
- Flow & Drift Contact Improvisation Performance at Hope Recovery
- "Alula and Keel" Thalasso Beach Performance
Independent/Collaborations/Movement Research, Richmond, VA – 2013 -2020
Independent/Collaborative Projects, Osaka, Japan, 2008 - 2011
Amaranth Company, Scott Putman, Richmond, VA, 2006 - 2008
Lost WaxDance Productions, Jamie Jewett, Boston, MA, 2007 – 2008

Dance, Contact Improvisation, & Authentic Movement, 2004 – 2025

Contact Jams & Authentic Movement with Alban Elved Dance Company, Wilmington, NC – 2024 - current
Contact Improv Advanced Lab at Dreamingstone (4 days) with Toni Craige & CJ O’Reilly, NC – October 2025
Contact Jams through the Living Arts Collective, Durham, NC – 2023 - current
East Coast Contact Improv Jam (5 days), WV – May 2025
CI Fundamentals at Dreamingstone (4 days) with Toni Craige & CJ O’Reilly, NC – September 2024
Kyoto Dance Festival (6 days), Kyoto, Japan – March 2009
Real Contact Workshop: Element of BUDO for Dance with Kazuko Hino, Osaka, Japan – April 2009
Modern Classes at Osaka Dance Studio, Osaka, Japan – 2008 - 2009
East Coast Contact Improv Jam (3 days), WV – October 2013
Janice Garrett Dance Intensive (5 days), San Francisco, CA – July 2006
BA in Dance & Choreography, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA – 2000 - 2006
East Coast Contact Improv Jam (5 days), WV – October 2005
Various Contact Jams, Richmond, VA – 2005-2007 & 2012-2014
Contact Improv Intensive (2 weeks) with Cheryl Pallant – Summer 2004
Richmond Ballet, Richmond, VA – 1983 - 1998
Boston Ballet Summer Intensive (3 weeks), Boston, MA – Summer 1993
Suzanne Farrell Intensive (1 week), Washington, DC– Summer 1992 & 1994

Yoga & Introspective Practices

Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) and Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP) - 2019
Ashtanga, Pranayama, Yoga Philosophy, Mantra Training, India - 2009 - 2018
- Authorized to teach Ashtanga Yoga by Rolf Naujokat, 2013
- Rolf and Marci Naujokat, Goa, India - 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2018
- Sharath Jois, Mysore, India, 2010 and 2016
- Lino Miele, Kerala, India, 2009
Various Yoga Workshops and Intensives in the US and Japan – 2007 - 2019
Yoga Teacher Training, Boston, MA - 2006 - 2007
200-hour YTT Certification through O2 Yoga, under Mimi Loureiro

Ayurveda, Bodywork, and Other Modalities

End-of-Life Death Doula Training, Atlanta, Georgia - 2018
- Certified End-of-Life Death Doula through International End of Life Doula Association – INELDA
Advanced Yoga and Ayurveda - 2010-2014; Ayurvedic Healing Course - 2014-2015
- Certified Ayurveda Wellness Counselor through the American Institute of Vedic Studies under David Frawley
Thai Yoga Bodywork Training - 2014 & 2010
- Level 1 Certified 2010; Level 2 Certified 2014; Herbal Compress 2015. Certified through Woven Body Healing Arts under Damion Bond
Ayurveda Training, Goa, India - 2013 with Dr. Alakananda Puri (Gangotri)
Ayurvedic Massage, Goa, India - 2011
- Certified Ayurvedic Masseuse, Seed Massage School, under Sw. Anand Subuddha (Alan Butler) and Ma Antar Sangeeta (Merav Ben Abraham)

Brinson Leigh Kresge