Kinesonics presents an evening of guided meditation and intentional movement with live musical scoring. Kinesoncis is the partnership of yoga instructor Karissa Wiemer and musician Justin Peters. We believe that movement and music are inextricably tied and that one influences the other. Our goal is to explore this connection and to encourage others to do the same in order to engage more deeply with their bodies, their minds, their senses, their communities, and their environments.

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Justin Peters is a drummer, percussionist, composer, producer, and songwriter based in Chicago. With deep knowledge in a vast array of musical styles, he has become recognized as a remarkably reliable artist and collaborator.

In 2015 Justin received his Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since, he has collaborated with artists such as Eighth Blackbird, Third Coast Percussion, Nico Muhly, and Nadia Sirota. He has appeared at numerous mainstay venues across Chicago, including Lincoln Hall, the Metro, Orchestra Hall, and the Pitchfork Festival. He performs and records regularly with many groups in Chicago and abroad, including Family of Geniuses and Villekulla.

His debut solo album Kinesthetics was released independently in February of 2022.

Karissa Wiemer is a 200-hour certified yoga instructor and body practitioner. With a Ph.D. in embodiment studies and over a decade of yoga practice, Karissa brings to her classes a deep scholarly knowledge of cultural and historical experiences of bodies in motion as well as a deep personal knowledge of the power of intentional movement. An orator by training, Karissa guides students in a collaborative practice focused on self-love, self-reflection, and self-empowerment.

Karissa's class welcomes students of all levels and abilities, offers strength and flexibility training in the pursuit of life-long functional movement, and uses meditation as a tool for ongoing self-discovery.