Cocréa Mindful Partner Dance

What Cocréa Mindful Partner Dance does

Cocréa Mindful Partner Dance is a privately held, service-based somatic movement education company founded in 2013 in Grass Valley, California by Wren LaFeet and Antje Schaefer. The company teaches a proprietary methodology, also called Cocréa, that fuses social partner dance traditions (Swing, Blues, Salsa, European Ballroom, contact improvisation, ecstatic dance, hip-hop) with mindfulness, consent-based relating, and somatic embodiment work, framed around six registered trademarks and the 'Six Realms of Connection' framework derived from the I Ching and Gene Keys. Its product portfolio spans 2.5-day in-person Foundations Trainings priced $175–$500, single-session to multi-part workshops with sliding-scale $40–$65 pricing under a NOTAFLOF policy, multi-day residential Dance Your Medicine retreats in Costa Rica, a self-paced Udemy online course for couples and groups, and a year-long Facilitator Training program with three certification levels.

The company operates on a community-led, event-driven go-to-market motion across six US cities (Grass Valley, Nevada City, Portland, Asheville, Boulder, Santa Cruz) plus Costa Rica and Europe, supported by festival appearances (Unbound Fusion, Oregon Country Fair, Medicina Campout, Revival Gatherings), organic social on Facebook and Instagram, and email newsletter marketing. Customers are predominantly individual consumers seeking personal growth, couples seeking relational deepening, aspiring facilitators seeking certification, and a small set of organizations requesting custom workshops. Founder Wren LaFeet serves as primary owner, lead facilitator, and brand figure, supported by a roster of roughly nine named facilitators and operations staff. The company is bootstrapped with no disclosed funding, no parent company, and no enterprise anchors, and operates with 11–50 employees.

Name

Cocréa Mindful Partner Dance

Legal name

Cocréa Mindful Partner Dance

Website

https://dancecocrea.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cocréa Mindful Partner Dance delivers somatic movement workshops, residential retreats, a year-long certification program, and an online course that blend partner dance with mindfulness and consent-based relating, serving individuals, couples, and aspiring facilitators across six US cities and Costa Rica.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Dance education and somatic wellness

NAICS

Professional and Management Development Training (61143), Educational Support Services (61171), Dance Companies (711120)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Dance & Movement (Ballroom, Contemporary, Social Dance) (EDAAAGAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Training Delivery Services (Onsite/Virtual Instruction, Workshops, Coaching) (BPAEANAN)

Keywords

• Mindful partner dance
• Somatic movement workshops
• Embodied wellness retreats
• Dance facilitator training
• Relational movement practice

Headquarters

HQ city

Santa Cruz

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. In-Person Trainings: Weekend Foundations Training programs held in various cities (Nevada City, CA; Asheville, NC; Boulder, CO) with pricing from $175-500 per participant.
2. Retreats: Multi-day residential retreats including Dance Your Medicine retreats in Costa Rica, featuring accommodation, meals, and comprehensive programming.
3. Online Courses: Online course for couples, friends and groups to explore connection through movement, sold through Udemy platform.
4. Workshops: Single-session and multi-part workshops like Slow, Saucy & Sacred with sliding scale pricing from $40-65.
5. Facilitator Training Program: Year-long mentorship in somatic facilitation, mindful partner dance, and embodied leadership with three levels and small cohorts.
6. Summer Festival Programming: Participation in summer festivals including Unbound Fusion, Oregon Country Fair, Medicina Campout, and Revival Gatherings.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Cocréa sells a somatic relational movement methodology that blends mindful partner dance techniques with embodiment, mindfulness, and consent-based practices. The company delivers its offering through multi-day in-person Foundations Trainings held in cities such as Nevada City, Asheville, and Boulder, multi-day residential Dance Your Medicine retreats in Costa Rica, themed single-session and multi-part workshops, a year-long Facilitator Training mentorship program, and a self-paced online course distributed on Udemy. Customers are individuals, couples, and aspiring facilitators who use the practice for personal transformation, relationship deepening, and embodied leadership development.

Product overview

Cocréa Mindful Partner Dance is a holistic movement modality and educational system—not a software platform. The core offering is somatic relational movement practice combining partner dance techniques with mindfulness and consent-based relating. The product portfolio includes in-person trainings (Foundations Training in Nevada City, CA and Asheville, NC), multi-day residential retreats (Dance Your Medicine in Costa Rica), an online course on Udemy, and a year-long Facilitator Training program. Additional offerings include workshops like Slow, Saucy & Sacred and CommuniYum, plus summer festival events. The methodology is delivered through in-person facilitation, online content, and trained facilitators—not through software or technology products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Cocréa Method: The somatic relational movement methodology developed by Cocréa for mindful partner dance and embodied connection practices.
• Dance Your Medicine
• Cocréa Foundations Training
• Facilitator Training

Products and services

• Cocréa Foundations Training

Quantifiable outcome

• Participants report deepened connection with body and others
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Momentom CollectivecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on Green Residency program at Punta Mona permaculture farm in Costa Rica. Cocréa serves as community development tool bridging permaculture practices and social theory through embodiment. The partnership focuses on creating transformational movement containers and generating culture based in synarchy.
• Danyasa Eco-RetreatcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHost venue for Dance Your Medicine retreats in Playa Dominical, Costa Rica. Danyasa provides bamboo-enshrined dance floor, eco-luxury accommodations, and additional teachers including founder Sofiah Thom.
• Uphora StudioscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTraining venue partner for Cocréa Foundations Training in Asheville, NC.
• Awakenings Wellness CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWorkshop venue partner for Slow, Saucy & Sacred events in Portland, OR.
• Punta MonacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCosta Rica's largest permaculture farm hosting Green Residency program. Partnership with Momentom Collective and Cocréa for community building and regenerative living programs.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Hakomi Institute: Somatic mindfulness-based therapy training institute. Comparable as a somatic practitioner training organization referenced directly in co-founder Antje Schaefer's credentials.
• Authentic Relating: Community and training organization for relational practices such as Circling. Comparable as a small, founder-led training organization teaching embodiment/relational skills with a cohort-based curriculum.

Direct peers

• Momentom Collective: Active strategic partner running the Green Residency at Punta Mona with Cocréa. Comparable as a consciousness/permaculture community-development organization that bundles movement and embodiment offerings.
• 5Rhythms: Founded by Gabrielle Roth, 5Rhythms is the most established conscious/movement-dance methodology with a global licensed-facilitator network. Most directly comparable to Cocréa in combining somatic dance practice with personal transformation and a facilitator-training distribution model.
• Ecstatic Dance: Global network of facilitated DJ-driven conscious dance events with similar community-led, sliding-scale, consent-based ethos. Comparable as a parallel conscious-dance movement organization targeting overlapping practitioners.
• Open Floor International: Mindful movement practice and teacher-training organization that emerged from 5Rhythms lineage. Comparable to Cocréa in offering structured somatic dance teacher training and a codified methodology.
• Tamalpa Institute: Expressive arts education organization founded by Anna Halprin offering somatic-based movement and embodiment practitioner training. Comparable in blending dance, somatic practice, and consciousness work with a teacher-training pathway; explicitly referenced in team member Jackie Wiegand's background.

Broad incumbents

• Esalen Institute: Iconic US personal-growth and somatic-education retreat center with a long-running workshop catalog. Comparable as an incumbent conscious-movement education venue and a possible distribution channel.
• Omega Institute for Holistic Studies: Established US holistic-education and retreat center with workshops across many modalities including movement and dance. Comparable as a larger, broader platform into which Cocréa-style offerings could be programmed.

Regional players

• Danyasa Eco-Retreat: Costa Rica-based eco-retreat venue hosting Cocréa's Dance Your Medicine retreats. Comparable as a Latin American wellness-retreat operator bundling dance/movement into its programming.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/cocrea.dance.official
• Instagraminstagram.com/cocrea.dance.official

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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