Upcoming Workshops
Stay tuned for new workshops and specialty classes!
Recent Workshops:
Spring Full Moon Dance and Drum
Performance Workshop Studio to Stage: Modern/Improv and Beyond
Intro to Female Empowerment Through Movement
Female Empowerment Through Movement: Four week series
New To Dance Workshop
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Questions?
Contact Michelle Ava @
301-704-2935
AVAdance1@aol.com
AVAdance Workshops
Below you will find descriptions of the various workshops that are offered through AVAdance. Designed and facilitated by Michelle Ava, these workshops address a range of topics and utilize several movement paradigms to offer students multiple creative, healing, and rejuvenating dance experiences.
Click here to REGISTER for all workshops
(click on "Workshops" tab)
"I wanted to thank you for your awesome workshop tonight! It was perfect for me at this moment. It is so rare to find an environment filled with fun, freedom, play and empowerment specifically for women. I loved practicing 'listening' to my body and it was great to interact and share with the other participants and form a community, even for just 1.5 hours. I'm really looking forward to the workshop series I registered for tonight! "
-Michelle's Female Empowerment Workshop participant 2010
Click here to REGISTER for all workshops
(click on "Workshops" tab)
"I wanted to thank you for your awesome workshop tonight! It was perfect for me at this moment. It is so rare to find an environment filled with fun, freedom, play and empowerment specifically for women. I loved practicing 'listening' to my body and it was great to interact and share with the other participants and form a community, even for just 1.5 hours. I'm really looking forward to the workshop series I registered for tonight! "
-Michelle's Female Empowerment Workshop participant 2010
Spirit in Motion™
a Movement Awareness and Improvisation Workshop
This workshop will explore movement as a pathway to one's creative and expressive self. Experience movement spontaneously, intuitively with Authentic Vibrant Awareness. Participants will work solo and as part of the group dynamics. Inspirational music (live and recorded) will be used. This workshop includes the elements of contact improvisation, theatrical dance, the development of movement stories, the use of props and simply how to listen deep within, let-go into the dance go with the flow and feel your Spirit move. Open to all level of movers. Bring a percussive instrument and object of significance.
YogaMotion™
Relax...Rejuvenate...Restore your body with YogaMotion. YM combines Yoga-based stretch and postures with free-flowing movement. Begin in silence, then focus on breath, flexibility and letting go into the moment of movement...releasing the tension of the body. Explore the Authentic, Vibrant, Awareness of becoming one with your body. Being at home in the Body is as simple as ABC, *Aligning*Balancing*Centering. Each session concludes with Meditation.
You Can Dance!!! ™
Run, hop, skip, jump, pulse, reach, fly and feel your spirit-in-motion breaking through the barriers that inhibit freedom and flow in energy. If you always wanted to "Dance" freely and did not know how or where to begin — now is the opportunity to breakthrough "dance-phobia" with Authentic Vibrant Awareness (AVA Technique). A yoga stretch warm-up will be followed by instruction and coaching in movement/dance basics that encourage personal self-confidence and individual style.
Benefits:
Benefits:
- Discover your inner dancer
- Connect deeper within self and with others
- Practice "listening" to your own body, not just "doing"
- Expand vocabulary and language of movement
- Move with greater self-confidence
- Breakdown of the barriers that block you from open expression
An Introduction to AVA Technique
Discovering your Inner Dancer
No prior experience necessary! Join us in a safe, supportive environment for exploring and discovery. Breathe into your body as we move from the inside out moving with greater ease, flow. Deep within each of us is a fluid mover, your "dancer". Connect with your own personal style and creative expression. An opportunity to unfold the dancer deep within. Each of us has a special and unique way of being true movement. Unlock Authenticity, Vibrancy, Awareness. Remove the blocks that inhibit you from moving freely, loosely.
From Moment to Movement
A Playshop with Michelle Ava
Contacting your Authentic, Vibrant, Awareness
Life is a dance, Live it NOW!!
In this supportive and sacred space, we will be with silence. Using a variety of approaches, we'll tap into our vital source energy, guiding us to be the Inner Dancer.
Life is a dance, Live it NOW!!
In this supportive and sacred space, we will be with silence. Using a variety of approaches, we'll tap into our vital source energy, guiding us to be the Inner Dancer.
- Be and Become the mindful Motion
- Move without judgment and self-criticism
- Expand self-expression and the language of dance/movement
YogaLITE
Based on the core principle of of AVA technique...Yoga is about unifying the mind, body and spirit... to come into wholeness, feel relaxed, at ease and centered.
No need be concerned with difficult postures (asanas) and strenuous exercises... YogaLITE is an easeful, flowing fun and calming exercise/wellness class that will leave you feeling rejuvenated stretched, toned and "at home in your body."
LITE means simply moving and breathing effortlessly while joyously having fun in the process.
No prior experience necessary.
Wear loose comfortable clothing so you can move freely!
No need be concerned with difficult postures (asanas) and strenuous exercises... YogaLITE is an easeful, flowing fun and calming exercise/wellness class that will leave you feeling rejuvenated stretched, toned and "at home in your body."
LITE means simply moving and breathing effortlessly while joyously having fun in the process.
No prior experience necessary.
Wear loose comfortable clothing so you can move freely!
TantraDance
~ feel your senses come ALIVE ~
Discovering and Enhancing personal empowerment and expanded awareness through movement and the senses.
TantraDance: a journey into the senses and feeling at home in our bodies. Together we engage in expressive dance, meditation, improvisation and creative arts processes as a source to increases joy, community connection, passion and moving from the heart. We focus on specific themes that will enliven, liberate, and expand our mind body heart and soul. A merging of Yoga and Dance, this workshop series include exploring the Chakras T, balancing our male and female energies, sensual dance & music, and the applicationantraDance in our daily practice.
Arrive ready to play, unfold, liberate and live life more fully and joyfully!
No previous experience necessary.
Discovering and Enhancing personal empowerment and expanded awareness through movement and the senses.
TantraDance: a journey into the senses and feeling at home in our bodies. Together we engage in expressive dance, meditation, improvisation and creative arts processes as a source to increases joy, community connection, passion and moving from the heart. We focus on specific themes that will enliven, liberate, and expand our mind body heart and soul. A merging of Yoga and Dance, this workshop series include exploring the Chakras T, balancing our male and female energies, sensual dance & music, and the applicationantraDance in our daily practice.
Arrive ready to play, unfold, liberate and live life more fully and joyfully!
No previous experience necessary.
Female Empowerment through Movement
BE more
DO better
HAVE it all!
A recent personal life changing trauma served to reinforce Michelle's already deeply rooted understanding that dance and movement is an essential portal to ones higher self, allowing core energy to assist in living our lives powerfully with integrity and totally engaged.
Utilizing Improvisation exercises along with AVAtechnique principles of Authentic Vibrant Awareness along with charka energy processes,
we will tap into the "E-Motion Reservoir" and discover how personal empowerment through movement can assist us with life choices, being completely present, survival and recovery from crises, and thriving in life every "step along the way".
No previous experience in dance or related movement arts necessary.
This workshop is open to all females, teens through seniors.
DO better
HAVE it all!
A recent personal life changing trauma served to reinforce Michelle's already deeply rooted understanding that dance and movement is an essential portal to ones higher self, allowing core energy to assist in living our lives powerfully with integrity and totally engaged.
Utilizing Improvisation exercises along with AVAtechnique principles of Authentic Vibrant Awareness along with charka energy processes,
we will tap into the "E-Motion Reservoir" and discover how personal empowerment through movement can assist us with life choices, being completely present, survival and recovery from crises, and thriving in life every "step along the way".
No previous experience in dance or related movement arts necessary.
This workshop is open to all females, teens through seniors.
