Ceremonial Somatics
Enlivening creativity through dance, bodywork, energy healing, plant medicine, performance and therapeutic arts
Embodiment ritual to regulate our essential rhythms…
We have an inherent ability to harmonize, build resilience, share resources, and adapt within the presence of a supportive ecosystem. My mission focuses on forming spaces that align with the forces of nature that allow us to thrive. Through various healing modalities and creative mediums, I relish in the many ways we can initiate this miraculous process of returning to balance.
Yo, Violet here!
Greeting each moment with gratitude for the opportunity to share the gifts of embodiment. My life’s work focuses to enliven creative potency and healing capacity within our world through developing intimacy with the forces of nature. The spaces I facilitate range with qualities of serenity, ecstasy, catharsis, hilarity, sensuality, visionary, transformation, and ancient remembrance.
Our bodies have restorative capabilities that only our movement, stillness, collaboration and presence can evoke. We have built in systems to correct repetitive stress response mechanisms and balance our natural rhythms, it just requires us to feel held in a relaxing, supportive environment. My role holds a strong container for each individual to feel empowered to follow their intuitive guidance through the process of restoration, providing a grounded, connective space to resource helpful tools and inspiration.
My practice has shaped through many diverse healing situations and studies navigating the nuanced process of unwinding restrictive patterns. As someone who has moved through great triumph in my own wellness journey, it feels miraculous to experience the way vitality can return after moving through chronic illness and severe trauma when we learn to truly follow our inner voice. Surrendering with faith in the primal instinct of the body, allows me to drop into a flow state, moving to free up wherever I feel stuck energy within and around me. As this happens, I sense greater fluency and potency wherever I decide to direct my energy. It lights me up to offer this transmission as an ally for others through their revival and activation of their gifts. I devote myself to the path of vibrance through holistic life practice, intuitive movement, and meaningful purpose.
Dance
Teachings
Performance Art
Dance has taken me on a profound healing journey of body, mind, emotion, and spirit. I believe movement expresses a universal language that opens communication with all of creation and activates the elements within us to bring our true vibrance to life. In an enchanting exploration of the mystery of flow state, I facilitate a path of self-discovery and unity with the essence of existence through dance.
Nature offers the greatest muse for my movement development. Guided by principles of yoga, ceremonial practice, body/energywork, earth tending and internal martial arts, I share these practices as nourishment to feed the hunger that heals, to celebrate creative liberty and align us with our most vital expression.
As a "fusion" dancer, I embrace an array of styles, integrating various forms of belly dance, studio hip hop, modern, jazz, ballet, acrobatics, flow arts, and continuing to grow with new inspiration from around the world. With over 20 years of technical training, and endless dedication to refining my gifts, I have studied, facilitated, collaborated and performed with numerous groups within the realms of dance, ritual theater, burlesque, acrobatics, fire spinning, and have persevered through intensive commitments of ceremonial movement practice both locally and globally.
Whether facilitating, performing, developing choreography, improvising, or simply conditioning, I believe our motion holds the power to unwind trauma, process emotions, channel prayer, manifest our reality, and ignite our intuition to bring greater harmony to our lives.
Heal
Bodywork
Energetics
Sharing serenity, deep presence, and allowing another to fully relax into my care feels profoundly purposeful in our world today. I intend to provide restorative space and a myriad of modalities to dissolve restrictive trauma responses and recalibrate the bio rhythms for the body to return to its optimal flow state. The art of healing remains a lifelong study, however I’ve spent the past 14 years refining my professional practice through developing in techniques such as Craniosacral, Myofacial Release,Thai Yoga Bodywork, Reflexology, Deep Tissue, Trigger Point, Swedish Massage, ACE Cupping, Visceral Manipulation, Aromatherapy, Sound Healing, Breathwork, Reiki, Chi Gong, Dance Therapeutics, Yoga and Meditation. Merging therapeutic based embodiment practices, with intuitive energetic principles, I curate an integrative experience that empowers vibrance within the whole self. Sessions are custom crafted to promote revival, relaxation, and a deeper sense of healing awareness.
A life of ceremony….
Ceremony provides the framework within all of my creative offerings. This involves deep listening to our inner and outer landscape, allowing our focus to direct towards what feels most optimal. Through forming a circle to connect to the essence of creation, hold clear intent, honor reciprocity, move with the cycles of life, align with helping forces, and revere the diversity within existence, we build charge within this focus. I believe this formula brings greater understanding of resonance, right relationship and trains the felt sense of our YES and NO. It teaches us the language of nature, guiding us to live in harmony. I hold the utmost importance in supporting others through the journey of developing trust in this communication with life itself.
Ceremonial practice anchored into my life 20 years ago, it helped me come back to wholeness through honoring the parts of myself that felt fragmented. I felt the power of prayer and kindness continue to sprinkle miracles along the way as I persevered through chronic illness, family distress, deep despair, and extensive trauma. Through these difficult times, I discovered my will to live, the pain pushed me to profound levels of determination to do whatever I could to feel better. I began to explore the healing interplay between the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual realms. This path took me through years of studying with ceremonialists and healers from around the world.
Learning many diverse backgrounds, I feel the importance of honoring lineage and preserving the sanctity of the ancient ways while also staying current with the influence of what is present in the moment. As I continue to integrate wisdom from those who came before, I center within the mystery school of my inner authority, that will ultimately align with the most potent devotional practice I can offer in the moment.
While I’ve gleaned important reflections from the unique customs of many traditions I’ve studied with, I feel most inspired to share the common threads cross culturally that feel foundational to the creation of sacred space. Implementing these unifying pieces into my personal rituals continues to strengthen my intuition, foster healthy boundaries, and offer more potency in my path as a healing artist. When I reflect on what truly turned my life around, it wasn’t any specific ritual or medicine that changed things, it was my way of being in a conscious, loving relationship with my creative energy through the act of forming devotional practice.