The Embodied Revolution (The ER): BIPOC Tree Bath

Ready to activate your inner dancer? 

This Immersion is For You:

This immersion is designed for all levels, identities, styles, backgrounds, and body types to explore their movement! No prior dance experience is required.

✨🗓✨Date:  Saturday, August 30

✨🕡✨Time: 9:30 am-12:30 pm

✨🌆✨Location: Central Denver TBD

✨👯✨What to Wear/Bring: Comfortable clothing that makes you feel good, layers are recommended. Full water bottle, journal, blanket/yoga mat, open heart and mind.

We will dance, connect, and grow. 🌱

✨🌳✨ Why Join The Embodied Revolution? 

The ER: PRIDE Dance Crew empowers re/emerging dancers to break systemic oppression through embodied resistance, connection, and authentic expression. Release limitations in a judgment-free space embracing body acceptance, body remembrance, and body positivity, where dancing your heart out becomes a revolutionary act celebrating joy, creativity, and play.

Join us to claim your body, take up space, liberate ourselves, and dance like you mean it.

About SOL VIDA and The Embodied Revolution:

SOL VIDA is a Denver-based dance organization dedicated to embodied healing justice. We center Black, Brown and the Rainbow spectrums of identities and being son this planet in the pursuit of dance freedom and love. We are dedicated to shifting normalcy utilizing dance and healing arts as tools of personal transformation and collective liberation.

The Embodied Revolution is a global dance and wellness movement for social change. The Embodied Revolution asks us, "How do we stay well while shifting normalcy?" The Embodied Revolution is here … co-creating intentional containers that center community care to raise the vibration of artivists, healers, leaders, lightworkers, dancers, educators, and creatives. We're creating a global movement collective connected through regular virtual and in-person experiences for tool-sharing, dance activations, healing arts circles, embodied divination, training artistic leadership, and wellness development.

SOL VIDA MOVEMENT METHODOLOGY: fuses the form and freedom of Afro, Modern, Hip Hop, and Conscious Dance Forms with inspirations from the elements of nature, 5 Rhythms, Symbology of the Orixas, Laban Efforts in addition to Healing Arts Circles, Creative Writing, Choreopoems, Dance Affirmations, Spirit Connection, and Performance Art.

MUSICAL INFLUENCES: Alternative, Afrobeats, Bass, Dub, Hip Hop, Latin Jazz, 80s, Soul, Pop, Drum n Bass, Downtempo, Ambient, Electro Cumbia, and AfroHouse.

✨Meet Your Guides✨

April (Axé) Charmaine [they/them]  is a queer artivist dedicated to embodied healing justice. They lead transformative workshops online and across the globe. Axé is an award-winning holistic performing arts educator, choreographer, director, producer and embodiment guide. They are dedicated to inspiring others to radical personal freedom, pioneering progressive movement communities, and creating safer, inclusive spaces for authentic expression, body reclamation, and collective healing.

Lauren Johnson [she/hers] is a sacred woman, a mystic, an intuitive, a spiritual guide, and an energetic practitioner. She is the sole proprietor of Valley Girl, Ltd. and offers trauma-informed spiritual care and energetic healing modalities based in ancestral wisdom. She is committed to the spiritual, mental, and emotional wellness of BIPOC and queer people and amplifying the voices of the marginalized. Lauren channels her personal experiences of healing to guide others through their life’s valleys and inspire them to return to their divinity by developing a deep self-compassion through spiritual and somatic wellness. 

Lauren is a certified Reiki Master Teacher, certified Sound Healer, 250-hour Conscious Breathwork facilitator, certified Crystal Healer, 200-hour Satya BIPOC Yoga Teacher, licensed Womanist Minister. She is a graduate of Howard University and holds a Master of Divinity from lliff School of Theology.