I am a certified Nia, yoga and trance dance facilitator with 20 years experience in the expressive arts teaching and facilitating groups. My specialty is designing thematic movement programs for special events, workshops, conferences and seminars. Whatever the focus of your gathering is, I can get participants moving creatively and exploratively, taking your focus from theoretical to experiential and embodied/integrated.

Workshops can be anywhere from 45-minutes to multi-day in the form of keynotes, breakouts, or stand alone seminars . I would love to creatively contribute to your event. Please contact me with your details and I will provide you with a proposal outline and estimate for my services.

For a list and description of my workshops and seminars see below. Keep in mind however that I will happily custom design a program for your specific needs.

Joy of Movement

Remember your body as a temple for self discovery and a canvas for creative change. Learn how to play and be comfortable in your body in ways motivated by pleasure, that feel good and inspire greater capacity for health and happiness.

Moving with the Elements

Discover the different rhythms of your being related to your connection with the elements, earth, water, air and fire and how your unique embodiment of each is a portal into a richer connection to body, self and soul.

Energy Center/Chakra Dancing

Let the personality of each of your energy centers be danced and express its own unique voice. Peel away the layers of disconnection to core wisdom through energy body movement practice, evocative choreography and freedance.

Trance-Ritual Dance Initiation

Through the use of Shamanic Trance Dance ceremony, we can discover and heal deep levels of unresolved issues, honor rights of passage and experience a profound connection with the mystery. In a safe and sacred container, together we invite spirit to dance through us.

Radiant Heart Groove Community Celebration

Gathering together to dance can actually change the world! Dance the gentle, tumultuous and exciting opening of your heart. Be swept away by community celebration and transform separation into union as you awaken the celebration of our one heart, the heart of the community of all creation.

Vividance; Connecting to Nature

Dance and energy modalities combine in this practice designed to condition, awaken and connect us to the body of nature.

Sensual Woman; Body, Self and Soul

Awaken the innocence of sensuality from within. Unleash held energy and the creative essence of your sensual nature as you weave your emerging succulent nature with the community of your sisters.

Dancing Through Transition

In this workshop we Identify the elements/stages inherent in all periods of life transition, endings, the fallow zone and new beginnings. Then we embodying and express the wisdom inherent in each stage, somatically palpating the levels of consciousness available at each layer of experience. Our goal is to dance transition as a rite of passage, access its healing and transformative significance, and enhance the depth that we integrate its lessons and inform our lives with its learning.

Dance of Grieving

We dance the heart of our grieving and discover the capacity to transform grieving into celebration as a necessary and effective dimension of our healing, letting go, and moving on.

Making Love to Life

Discover how an embodied existence can amplify and encourage a coming to life. Depression, fear, doubt and chronic self judgment and self criticism are addressed, creatively and lovingly challenged, forgiven and allowed to dissolve.

Waking Into Divine Love

Discover creative and explorative dance as spiritual practice. Using the wisdom of mystics like Rumi, Hafiz, and Lalla among others, we dive into the devotional textures of movement and the deeply enriching practice of prayerful dancing in community.

Transforming Body Image

In this workshop we use creative & explorative processes to uncover undermining ways of relating to our body and then transform that relating from critical to caring and from negative to accepting.

Finding Home Within

What is home. How do we cultivate a sincere and sensual sense off home within ourselves. This is a fun and thought provoking inquiry into our relationship to our place in the world and a deepening level of intimacy with self.

Creative Team Building

Often we limit ourselves in relationship and team building because of our disembodied way of being in the world. In this workshop we use creative movement processes designed to elicit the spirit of team connection and productivity.

Passionate Leadership

Moving authentically and creatively can be a powerful dimension of effective leadership. In passionate leadership our goal is to bridge the gap between the conceptual and the realized.

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