Ritual Embodiment Classes
Align with flow state and re-wild
the spirit through dance!
I offer ritual based embodiment teachings to connect our movement with intention. Each experience allows for integration with the elemental and archetypcal realms to bring a greater sense of wholeness.
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Essential Fusion Dance Combo’s
Wednesday's 5:30-6:30PM
In person atInspire Studio
13 Long St. Asheville NC 28804
Cultivate flow state through focus on the geometric and elemental qualities that connect all movement forms. Short combinations build as we apply a variety of prompts, and dynamic bassy world rhythms to celebrate the numerous ways to interpret the shared sequences. Explore the intersection of a variety of dance styles while revealing the nuance that makes each technique unique. A practice to rhythmically connect with community, diversify our movement vocabulary, refine healthy body mechanics, imbue our motion with intention, and intuitively align it with sound.
Together, we'll explore techniques to:
- Expand movement vocabulary
- Open energy pathways
- Cultivate community
-Balance and repattern our bodies
-Unify our movement to amplify healingStudent success information:
Please bring:
- yoga mat
- layers of comfortable movement attire
- water bottle
- altar itemLocation: Inspire Studio 13 Long Street Asheville NC 28804
Welcome to Inspire Studio! This space cultivates communal connection through healing embodiment of the arts. Nestled just north of downtown, this space allows us to settle into an intentionally curated atmosphere for creative collaboration and therapeutic expression. Parking in the overflow lot of Asheville Pizza and Brewing CompanyFees:
Series Preregistration Fee: $90
Series Door Fee: $120
Payment Options:
Venmo: @VioletLHays
CashApp:$ClearHays
PayPal:Violetgomovement@gmail.comPlease e-mail violethealingworks@gmail.com for questions and/or to explore alternative payment options, other necessary accommodations or have accessibility requirements for the event.
Scholarships available, e-mail violethealingworks@gmail.com sharing a bit about how a scholarship could support you in your life currently and I will follow up with availability.
11 person capacity, grab your spot today!
Group Dance Offerings
(Group of 5 or more)
Drop In
1 hour: $20
1.5 hour: $30
2 hour: $40
Packages
4 Weeks
1 hour: $60
1.5 hour: $80
2 hour: $120
6 Weeks
1 hour: $90
1.5 hour: $120
2 hour: $180
Private Dance Mentorship
(split with up to 4 people)
Drop In
1 hour: $90
1.5 hour: $120
2 hour: $160
Packages
4 Sessions
1 hour: $320
1.5 hour: $440
2 hour $600
6 Sessions
1 hour: $480
1.5 hour: $660
2 hour: $900
Embodied Cycles Mentorship
In Person or Online
Receive intimate guidance through ceremonial healing practices, foundational movement techniques, prompted intuitive exercises, and somatic journey work. Explore the motion, ritual, and play within our natural rhythms. Establish, and move from a felt sense of personal truth.
Mentorship prices above
Essential Fusion
Dance Offerings
Essential fusion aligns dance with the forces of nature to muse creative healing within the body, mind, emotions and spirit.
Every dance holds the power to enliven where we focus our energy. We open with a moment of stillness, allowing space to listen to our inner and outer landscape. Gratitude is offered to the energies that bring us to life, and all the loving support in the journey. Unified movement prompts are shared, encouraging everyone in the space to creatively sync up, while also giving individuals a chance to tune into how their body wants to uniquely move and warm up. Depending on the specifics of each session, we will explore different formulas of technical, archetypal, and meditative dance to activate the intentions held within the space. Then follows a cooldown section, where we stretch, slow, our breath, and integrate with a moment of rest. We close with gratitude expressed for the space, and all who continue to support the dance of life.
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Open Level
Explore the movement, interplay, geometry and archetypal qualities that animate the basic elements of existence. We will develop momentum with simple movement patterns to build upon in a workout format. Integration of intuitive and coordinated exercises give space to honor our personal and collective experience through dance. Emphasis on healthy body mechanics and moving with focused intention provides a stable foundation for us to surrender more fully into the moment. This practice invokes our most potent expression of flow state to emerge, and playfully promotes healing for the whole self.
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Levels 1-3
Cultivate flow state through focus on the geometric and elemental qualities that connect all movement forms. Every session, a new combination builds as we apply a variety of prompts, and dynamic bassy world rhythms to celebrate the numerous ways to interpret the shared movement. Explore the intersection of a variety of dance styles while revealing the nuance that makes each technique unique. A practice to rhythmically connect with community, diversify our movement vocabulary, refine healthy body mechanics, imbue our motion with intention, and intuitively align it with sound.
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Open Level
Grow as earth, flow as water, glow as fire, and spin as wind; move through the birth, life, death and mystery of our cycles. Within a focused container, we explore various ritual based practices of somatic communication, internal journey work, personal reflection, and discover the medicinal mechanics of movement for the body, mind, emotions and spirit. Together we explore the mystery school of motion which reveals itself through nature’s rhythms. A space to honor the source of creation, align our intentions with our truest expression, refine our body language, unwind trauma patterns, move our prayers and embrace wholeness through dance.
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Open Level
Learn to articulate the messages of the body, mind, emotions, and spirit through the language of dance. We begin by unifying with fundamental movement patterns welcoming intuitive expression to come through. Each session has a common focus that evokes meaning within our journey. Students are directed to bring awareness into how different parts of themselves respond to the focused energy through various somatic exercises. This information fuels our creativity to apply tools provided within the space to formulate dynamic movement experiences that hold depth and allow all parts of ourselves to share their wisdom. Whether you wish to cultivate more potency within choreography or simply desire collective support to dance your healing to life, this container encourages all to build intimacy with the muse.
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Open Level
A space for each individual to input whatever movement their body craves into a group drill practice. Everyone has a chance to share their present experience through dance. Common patterns and themes direct the journey through refining technique, inspiring improvisation, and illuminating new healing ways to move. We will draw inspiration from an eclectic background of stylization with emphasis on therapeutic practice. Offering a dose of movement for each to receive something uniquely supportive.
Modalities, styles, lineage, inspiration and history…
I feel blessed by the teachers and techniques that have offered a framework to articulate through my body language. Nature has been my ultimate guide through the mysteries of embodiment, however, I celebrate the variety of movement modalities that have contributed to what I call “Essential Fusion”. Guided by principles of yoga, ceremonial practice, body/energywork, internal martial arts, and earth tending, I approach movement as nourishment to feed the hunger that heals. As a "fusion" dancer, there are many different forms that have influenced my style, such as various types of belly dance, studio hip hop, modern, jazz, ballet, acrobatics, flow arts, and I continue to integrate inspiration from around the world. With over 25 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 developing choreography, improvising, or simply conditioning, I believe our motion holds the power to unwind restrictive patterns, process emotions, manifest our reality, and ignite our intuition to bring greater harmony to our lives.