Together, in a safe and inclusive container, we move our body, our breath, our emotions, and our energy in responsible ways,
and we listen to what arises.
We dance, breathe, vibrate, vocalize, write, and share. We yield to the silence, to the stillness, and again, we listen.
We make space for the wisdom of the body, the heart, the soul, and the Earth, herself, to be felt and known.
We emerge whole and home.
and we listen to what arises.
We dance, breathe, vibrate, vocalize, write, and share. We yield to the silence, to the stillness, and again, we listen.
We make space for the wisdom of the body, the heart, the soul, and the Earth, herself, to be felt and known.
We emerge whole and home.
Ashley KleinAshley Klein (Ed.S) is a dancer, embodiment guide, retreat facilitator, and music business manager based in Sedona, Arizona. She collaborates on and off stage with international touring artist, Poranguí, with the mission of sharing earth-based wisdom through the healing power of music and dance.
Her life-long movement practices and training have led her to a current focus on facilitating Dancing Freedom journeys and continuing to study the polyrhythmic dances of the African diaspora. She is on the international Dancing Freedom training team and facilitates at festivals, retreats, and concerts guiding audiences into a deeper connection to the Earth Mother and the elemental wisdom innate within us all. Her spoken-word guidance is featured on the live album, "Poranguí - Guided Journey", as well as several remix tracks on "Poranguí - Remixes Vol I & Vol II". Additionally, Ashley co-creates retreats based in Sedona and around the world, curating containers for individuals to dive deep and feel held safely to become more of their authentic connected selves. |
Odessa PerezOdessa Avianna Perez, MA, AMFT, facilitates transformative embodiment in group workshops and individual sessions. She is a trauma-informed somatic psychotherapist with a masters in Somatic Psychology from California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS). She is a certified ThetaHealing Practitioner and Instructor and Licensed Massage Therapist. She is the founder of Odyssey Healing, has been part of the facilitator team for HoneyRoot Embodiment Retreats, and co-leads the Inclusion and Belonging directives for SoulPlay festivals.
As a biracial latina cis woman, Odessa is interested in how systemic frameworks of privilege and marginalization impact our embodied experience, relationship with ourselves, and relationship to others. Her work is informed by the simple belief that we are impacted by our environment on both conscious and unconscious levels, and therefore embodiment work holds the key to our true liberation. |
With spiritual lineage in western Sufism and a background in energy and thetahealing, she also invites the mystical perspective, while remaining grounded in the reality of this planet and the structures and power dynamics we find ourselves in.
Odessa has been a devoted practitioner and teacher of Contact Improvisation for the last decade, and views this form as simultaneously an embodiment and spiritual practice.
Odessa has been a devoted practitioner and teacher of Contact Improvisation for the last decade, and views this form as simultaneously an embodiment and spiritual practice.