Express & Release Therapeutic Dance

10/07/2025

🌱Next Saturday, October 18! We will be hosting a movement lead healing circle open to all 😊This time, it will center around the emotion of HOPE

Join us as we discuss, dance and heal together. Food and childcare will be provided! 🦋

Use the QR to register, or DM us with any questions!

Join us in a judgement-free, community-led space where we will talk, heal, dance and support each other. Through movement, we will explore what brings us hope when times feel dreary and hard. Únete a nosotros en un espacio comunitario libre de juicios, donde hablaremos, sanaremos, bailaremos y nos ...

10/02/2025

🦋 This in-person workshop offers a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive space designed to assist with identifying, expressing, and releasing emotions in healthy ways.
✨ Caregivers will gain practical techniques for creating safe emotional spaces at home and sustaining their own wellness. This unique training builds confidence, reduces burnout, and promotes lasting emotional wellness.

TO REGISTER: Please email imanij@exchangefamilycenter.org
➡️ Note: These workshops are available to foster parents licensed by Durham County Department of Social Services only.

🗓️ DATE: Saturday, October 4, 2025
🕙 TIME: 10 am - 12 pm
📍 LOCATION: Exchange Family Center: 3400 Croasdaile Drive, Suite 208, Durham, NC 27705

09/15/2025

We get this question often. What makes this dance space therapeutic? Express & Release is a dance space that operates off emotions rather than dance styles. 💫

Through our movement practices, we destigmatize the emotions that so often make us feel ashamed or overwhelmed when we talk about and engage with them. 🦋

📲 Follow us to hear about upcoming workshops, healing circles, classes and trainings!

09/08/2025

💫A position has opened! 💫 We’re looking for a PART-TIME ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER to help us stay organized and connected.

If you’re:
🦋 Passionate about supporting communities through dance and movement
✨ Organized and detail oriented
💬 A strong communicator
🌱 Self-motivated and dependable
💻 Tech savvy

We want you on our team! Apply Now! 📥Send your resume to info@expressnrelease.com to get started

09/06/2025

This weekend, we are excited to hold space for foster parents to learn emotional regulation tools and techniques. 🛠️🤍 We will be offering a TRAUMA-INFORMED, CULTURALLY SENSITIVE space designed to help foster youth and their caregivers to IDENTIFY, EXPRESS, and RELEASE EMOTIONS in safe, healthy ways.

🦋 Through engaging, movement-based activities, participants will explore how emotions show up in the body and how to communicate them effectively. 🦋

08/30/2025

The results are in!

After our 2nd year of Afterschool Programming at schools across the Triangle area, Parents have reported that 95% of the kids love being in our Afterschool Enrichment Program, as we create a fun and accessible way for kids to learn how to recognize and release emotions in their bodies through movement.

We are currently enrolling schools for the Winter Schedule.

Email info@expressnrelease.com to join our upcoming school roster.

08/27/2025

Anger. Anxiety. Fear. These are just a few emotions that the Latina population is experiencing here in the Durham area.

But last week, through our Healing Circles initiative sponsored by the City of Durham, we were able to talk about the things causing us anger, express these anger triggers through movement, so that we can release some of our anger and experience more joy.

Find us next month in the City of Durham, as we will continue to provide movement spaces to help heal the wounds that are impacting our vulnerable communities.

08/22/2025

Join Express & Release! 🦋 The fall school season has started, and we’re looking for new energy on the team! If you enjoy kids, movement, and helping others heal and regulate, EnR is the place for you.
We’re looking for dedicated, compassionate, dependable individuals. Reach out to us with any questions 📲 You can also send your resume to info@expressnrelease.com

06/17/2025

Come heal with us! 🦋🌱 E&R founder Gabby Rivero will be leading 2 hour community movement workshops to help you navigate through different emotions and reconnect with your body. 🌟

No one is turned away for lack of funds! Come join us 🤗 All ages, bodies, abilities and experience levels welcome.

Our goal is to create a safe space in which you can express yourself, break free from emotions stuck in your body, and heal in a supportive environment.

Scan the QR code or tap the link in bio to sign up 🤍

06/04/2025

The Express & Release team is brimming with talent and creativity. On our team we have writers, photographers, painters, designers, and, of course, dancers. We’re especially fond of this photo of our own Laura Dutor (assistant Lead Movement Instructor and Marking) who was painting faces at the Mental Health Wellness Day hosted by Alliance Health and Durham Systems of Care this past weekend! 🤩

06/02/2025

This past Saturday, Express & Release Therapeutic Dance teamed up with Alliance Health and Durham Systems of Care to help host a Mental Health Wellness Day on May 31st at Carolina Ale House in Durham, NC, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Founder, Gabrielle Rivero, and several team members participated in this free event, which aimed to provide a holistic wellness experience filled with resources, food, fun, dancing, and community engagement. Recognizing the significance of mental health, the event emphasized its role as a cornerstone for growth, understanding, and self-love across all communities throughout the RTP area.

05/26/2025

May’s Healing Circle! ✨🌱 This time around we explored the emotion of ANXIETY. We held space for each other in conversation, and expressed through movement!

There was lots of laughter and we enjoyed a meal together. Thank you to every single one of you that took part 😊

¡El círculo sanador de Mayo! ✨🌱 Durante este círculo, exploramos la emoción de ANSIEDAD. Brindamos espacio para nuestra comunidad, y tuvimos conversaciones sobre lo que nos trae ansiedad. También expresamos a través del movimiento 🦋

Hubo muchas risas 🤭 y comimos juntxs. ¡Muchas gracias a cada uno de vosotrxs por compartir con Express & Release!