Jahree Èlan Vital
James Busby, also known as Jahree Élan Vital, is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, writer, researcher, Art Psychotherapist, and movement practitioner whose work explores the meeting place of ancestry, creativity, and embodied expression. His family roots lie in rural New South Wales — Narrabri and Wee Waa.
Jahree honors the First Nations peoples of Australia, especially the Kamilaroi and Gamilaraay whose lands shaped his family’s life, and recognizes, as in North America, that Indigenous sovereignty was never ceded. He holds in his heart the generations to come, committed to continuing the work of truth-telling, listening, and nurturing futures where Indigenous voices, lands, and laws are honored as living foundations of our shared humanity.
Jahree is Professor at MuseFlow Academy, Founder and CEO of MuseFlow Academy and MuseField. He teaches the Therapeutic art of Creativity, Expression and works across movement, sound, writing, visual arts, physical theater, and storytelling. He blends improvisation, ritual, and community collaboration. His performances and workshops invite people to inhabit creative states where connection, imagination, anatomical longevity, and improvisation can find new expression, where narratives can transform into living pathways of inspiration and resilience. He draws from music, somatic movement, contact improvisation, theater, painting, and narrative arts to create immersive experiences that foster belonging, curiosity, wellness, and collective creativity.
Rooted in humility and respect, Jahree’s vision is to build artistic spaces where people can listen deeply — to one another, to the land, and to the unseen currents that shape us — and in doing so, contribute to a future in which creativity acts as a bridge between cultures, generations, and possibility.
1. Children's Books
1. Children's Books
Rabbit’s dreamtime adventure is about a young
Rabbit trying to find where and how they belong in the Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime.
Coming soon!
Message with enquires regarding how to get involved
2 - Contact Improvisation
Facilitator
1. Somatic & Awareness-Based Practices
For sensitivity, listening, and fine motor integration.
Body-Mind Centering (BMC) – cellular, organ, and fluid movement sources.
Alexander Technique – postural efficiency, release of unnecessary tension.
Continuum Movement – wave and spiral patterns for fluidity.
Authentic Movement – cultivating internal impulse and witness consciousness.
Ideokinesis – mental imagery to refine skeletal alignment.
Axis Syllabus - Longevity of movement patterns + Acrobatics
Feldenkrais - Gentle, neurological re-patterning through movement awareness.
Transpersonal Art Psychotherapist - Relational unity Hive mind
Score-based improvisation – working within structured prompts or constraints.
Site-specific CI – performing in non-studio spaces (forests, rooftops, public squares).
Physical storytelling – integrating narrative or archetypal imagery into CI.
Hybrid dance forms – blending CI with contemporary dance, butoh, or acrobatics.
Trained with
Peter Bingham Vancouver (EDAM, UBC)
CI directing founder of EDAM. RIP 2026.
Olivia Shaffer Vancouver (EDAM, UBC)
CI teacher, Feldenkrais® practitioner
Selena La Brooy Salt Spring Island -
Somatic & CI teacher with diverse trainings
Helen Walkley Vancouver
Laban-certified CI educator
Manuel Rochette Salt Spring Island
CI festival host
Anne Cooper Vancouver
CI teacher in Underscore lineage
Francesca Frewer Vancouver
CI teacher with Feldenkrais and technical precision focus
Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood BC (national)
CI pioneer and master teacher globally
Chris Aiken – US
Master contact improvisation and contemporary dance teacher
Angie Hauser US
Veteran contact improviser and postmodern dancer
Delia Brett Vancouver
Renowned contact improvisation teacher and dancer; co-founder of the Contact Quarterly magazine.
Sebastian Grubb – Award-winning dancer, Axis Syllabus teacher, and movement coach who integrates biomechanics, functional fitness, and contact improvisation.
Chrystabel Butler New York‑based
Movement educator who integrates Contact Improvisation with the Axis Syllabus
Tony Yap Melbourne
Butoh, physho-physical training methods and Asian shamanistic trance dance.
Yumi Umiumare Melbourne
Butoh
Facilitator
Need a contact improvisation facilitator?
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Emergence
Sensitivity
to the Physics of Motion
At the heart of every movement lies a hidden intelligence — the way bodies respond to weight, momentum, and the subtle pressures of relationship. Emergence is an inquiry into this intelligence. It is not just about how we move, but about how motion itself gives rise to new ways of perceiving, connecting, and creating.
This project is both research and practice. It draws from somatics, improvisation, physics, and philosophy, weaving them into a living atlas of how motion shapes consciousness. To study emergence is to step into the unknown with curiosity, to let the laws of physics become felt guides toward trust, creativity, and new forms of collective intelligence.
Deep dive into learning about … Well everything
4. The Archive
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
Cultural ideas and belief systems can spread across the world – or fail to – much like genes or viruses. This chapter lays the conceptual groundwork for understanding such diffusion through the lens of memetics, the study of how ideas replicate and evolve. This material is designed for those standing at the frontier of emerging intelligence: quantum computing, machine learning, cognitive modeling, and the search for general artificial intelligence. The content speaks to the emerging intelligences from a culturally sensitive stand point and aims to spark conversations around our general consciousness being the next ecological landscape to protect.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.