SOUL DANCE

presenters – Champaka

dates – saturday, january 4th

time – 2:30pm-4:30pm

location – the Bhakti Center / 2W yoga studio

admission – $30

• for any questions, please contact champaka@bhakticenter.org

SOUL DANCE is about healing and spiritual realization through movement. Movement and self-expression provides us an opportunity to tap into our truest essence, heal parts of ourselves that need it, and reach our full potential to love and be loved. Our philosophy is that everyone is a dancer. It does not matter if you have taken a dance class before. Tapping into movement is like tapping into our breath: breath gives life, and so does movement! Dancing helps us get past the accepting and rejecting mind and connect to our intuition, to our heart space, and receive inner guidance from our deepest selves. 

The most important thing for you to know about SOUL DANCE is that it is about your experience. It is not a dance performance. You will have fun in the dance warm up and then in the guided dance meditation you will allow yourself to explore your emotions through movement. 

In this session “Cast our Vision for 2025” after the guided dance warm up, Champakalata will lead you a series of prompts to create your vision for 2025 for the world, for those you love, and for your own life. She will guide you to dance out these various visions, which is an even deeper process than visualization to make it real for you as you bring that vision into your body through movement. You will dance out your goals, dance yourself overcoming your fears and obstacles to achieving your goals, create the vision and dance out the inner reality you want to experience in 2025, and through dance, realize what gifts you have to offer the world. You will leave the session having let go of anxiety about the future, living in the present moment, and trusting your future destiny.

The session will end with a guided yoga nidra meditation in savasana and reflections.

• Improvisational dance meditation journey
• Freedom and self-expression 
• A joyful feeling and lightness
• Realizations about your life and highest self
• Compassionate guidance from an expert teacher
• Guided dance and yoga warm- up 
• No dance experience necessary
• Judgement- free zone and safe space to feel and heal
• If you like ecstatic dance, you will like this!

Champakalata Sakhi started dancing as young as she can remember, and she trained throughout her youth with companies such as Alvin Ailey. Her passion for self-expression inspired her to pursue a professional dance and acting career and she attended Stella Adler Acting Conservatory in NYC. Her spiritual calling brought her to becoming certified as a Jivamukti Yoga teacher in 2011, and to traveling in India for 6 months in 2012. She lived in Bhakti ashrams for 12 years going deep into meditation, spiritual practice, teaching, and serving as a priest. She is now excited to combine her experiences in dance with what she has learned in spiritual life to share with you SOUL DANCE.

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