Experiential Wellness Through Creative Movement + Sensory Art
Wicked Rae’s is the first experiential‑wellness studio built on creative movement, sensory immersion, expressive arts, and heat‑supported emotional release. We help humans process stress, reconnect with their bodies, and rediscover joy - without needing words.
Art + Movement
Expressive arts, movement, and sensory-based modalities create pathways for processing experience beyond conversation; particularly when people struggle to find the words.
Movement engages the body. Creative expression gives experience somewhere to go. Sensory immersion shifts attention into the present moment. Play creates permission.
Heat adds another physiological layer, while rhythm, music, light, color and movement can deepen absorption and presence.
What We Do
We create full-body, sensory-rich art experiences that blend movement, color, heat, sound, light, play, and creative expression.
The Spaces We Create Include
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Creative Movement
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Sensory Immersion
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Heat Integration
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Light + Sound Shifts
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Expressive Arts
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Non-verbal Processing
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Group Cohesion + Shared Release
What this means: Heat, rhythmic movement, sensory stimulation, music and immersive environmental cues can influence arousal, attention and subjective experience—creating conditions in which people may experience heightened absorption, flow, emotional openness or a sense of altered perception.
The Experience
People leave feeling lighter, connected, energized, and more present.
Who We Work With
Wicked Rae's designs environments for human beings to experience themselves (and each other) differently.
Experiential Wellness for First Responders
First responders are exposed to extraordinary levels of stress, responsibility, grief, and emotional intensity. Yet many of the cultures surrounding these professions reward composure, not expression.
We're changing that narrative by partnering with departments and wellness leaders to create non-clinical, experiential approaches to stress, connection, resilience, and decompression.
What First Responders Carry
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Chronic stress & burnout
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Repeated exposure to trauma
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Emotional fatigue
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The pressure to remain composed
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Limited opportunities for non-verbal expression
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The need to reconnect outside of work
Experiences We Offer
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Decompression Experiences
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Creative Movement + Expressive Art
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Team Resilience Experiences
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Critical-Period Wellness Programming
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Department Wellness Events
Why Our Spaces Work
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Non-verbal expression
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Movement-based experiential wellness
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Sensory-rich environments
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Heat integration
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Group cohesion + trust building
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Playful, stigma-reducing environment
"Movement therapy and expressive arts give firefighters and police an outlet when they struggle to put their emotions into words."
[Bring Us to Your Department] [First Responder Research Packet (coming soon)]
Somatic + Creative Movement for Retreat Leaders
Rather than asking participants to sit in a circle and talk about what they've experienced, we give them an opportunity to move it, make it, play with it, express it and experience one another differently.
We create non-clinical experiential environments that can complement professionally facilitated therapeutic, transformational, leadership, and integration work.
What Retreat Leaders Are Looking For
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Ways to help participants access embodied experience
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New modalities beyond conversation
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Safe, experiential approaches to integration
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Opportunities for deeper connection and presence
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Creative ways to move insight into action
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Experiences that participants remember long after the retreat ends
Experiences We Create
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Women's Retreats
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Leadership & Executive Retreats
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Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Programs
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Facilitator Retreats
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Spiritual and Contemplative Retreats
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Community & Connection Retreats
Why Our Spaces Work
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Movement engages embodied experience
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Sensory immersion deepens presence
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Heat can contribute to shifts in physiological arousal
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Creative expression gives participants another language for experience
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Experiences can complement preparation, integration, or transformational work
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Play creates a lower-stigma pathway into participation
We collaborate with facilitators who seek somatic, movement-based, expressive modalities to complement psychedelic-adjacent, transformational, and integration work.
[Bring Us to Your Retreat] [Retreat Facilitator Packet (coming soon)]
A Living Lab for Experiential Wellness + Creative Movement
We research what helps humans remember how to be human and then we build environments where those things can be experienced.
We're interested in what happens when multiple elements of human experience are intentionally brought together:
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Experiential wellness
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Creative movement
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Flow
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Group cohesion
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Embodied cognition
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Sensory environments
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Creativity
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Stress regulation
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Awe
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Play
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Memory
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Presence
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Nostalgia
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Human-centered interaction
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Immersive environments
We've created a place where variables can be intentionally explored and adjusted to better understand human experience - and potentially inform new approaches to connection, creativity, wellbeing, and community.
Variables That Can Be Adjusted
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Movement & Play
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Temperature
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Music & Sound
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Light Exposure
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Sensory Stimulation
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Social Interaction
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Creative Production
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Shared Attention
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Environmental Immersion
Why Wicked Rae's Is a Research Partner
Our environments allow researchers to explore the intersection of:
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Movement
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Sensory immersion
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Expressive arts
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Heat
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Non‑verbal expression
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Social connection Creative production
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Environmental design
[Partner With Us] [Research Collaboration Packet (coming soon)]
The Difference Between Digital Immersion and Human Immersion
VR can create extraordinary experiences of presence. Research has shown that immersive virtual environments can influence social presence and interpersonal experience, and a growing body of work is exploring social interaction inside VR.
But there is a fundamental distinction:
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Digital immersion changes what you perceive.
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Physical immersion changes what you perceive - and what your body is actually doing.
In the environments created by Wicked Rae's, participants don't simply see or hear an experience.
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Thy feel the paint
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They handle physical tools and materials
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They feel the people beside them
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They experience music through their entire body
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They experience temperature
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They smell the environment
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They move through physical space
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They sweat
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They create physical objects that continue to exist after the experience ends as a reminder of what they lived.
Which is why AR/VR creators work with Wicked Rae's - to understand:
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What VR reproduces successfully?
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What it fundamentally changes?
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What sensory information is lost when an experience becomes digital?
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What happens when a digital experience is paired with a physical one?
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Can physical sensory experiences make virtual experiences more powerful?
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Which elements of presence require another human being actually occupying the same physical space?
Why Wicked Rae’s Matters to AR/VR Creators
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Provides a physical comparison point for digital immersion
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Offers opportunities to explore embodied experience
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Supports hybrid immersive design
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Enables exploration of environmental and sensory variables
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Helps creators investigate real-world sensory triggers
Creators partnering with Wicked Rae's are investigating what technology cannot yet fully reproduce:
the full-body, multisensory, social reality of being physically present with other humans in a shared environment in a natural setting outside a controlled envirnoment, like a laboratory.
[Partner With Us] [Immersive Research Collaboration Packet (coming soon)]
We Build Experiences That Help People Feel Human Again
Wicked Rae’s is a mother-daughter-founded experiential wellness studio exploring what happens when movement, creativity, sensory immersion, play, and human connection come together.
We research what helps humans remember how to be human - then we build environments where those things can actually be experienced.
Not another conversation about connection.
An opportunity to move. Make. Feel. Play. Create. Connect.
Our work sits at the intersection of experiential wellness, creative movement, expressive arts, sensory design, psychology, neuroscience, and human-centered experience.
We work with retreat leaders, first responder organizations, researchers, wellness professionals, teams, and immersive technology creators who are looking for new ways to help people connect with themselves, with one another, and with the world around them.
Because sometimes the thing people need isn't another thing to think about.
Sometimes they need somewhere to put it.
A place to move what they've been carrying.
A place to make something that didn't exist before.
A place to laugh without performing.
A place to be curious again.
A place to experience another human being without a screen between them.
A place to remember what it feels like to be fully here.
That's what we're building.
Come Experience It
Whether you're looking to bring Wicked Rae's to your retreat, department, research project, organization, or immersive technology program, we'd love to explore what we can create together.