Body + Soul Sundays
JourneyDance + Burlesque to Dance Your Heart Open
Move your body and dance your heart open!
Body + Soul Sundays are a sweet opportunity to connect with our community in-person and explore both types of dance offerings.
Choose the class that calls you most, or make it a mini-workshop and move with us all morning!
We begin with JourneyDance, a free-form guided movement meditation designed to release shame and anxiety, calm your nervous system, expand your capacity to be with your emotions, and build Self Love.
JourneyDance is the dance that brought me home to myself after 10 years of performing on Burlesque stages and a lifetime of dance training, and is a wonderful way to get into your body and move just for the fun and feeling of it.
This isn't about steps or how you look to anyone else, this is about connecting with how you feel and accepting that all of it is OK!
Following a short break, we move into a BodyMagick Burlesque class to explore delicious, sensual movement and strut into our most glittering manifestations -- shining our light for all, but most importantly for ourselves.
Classes are taught by High Priestess of Tease Eva D'Luscious, local and travelling guest instructors.
Sunday, October 8 is a focus on Stocking Peels with award-winning Burlesque pro Kisa von Teasa! Bring a garter belt and thigh high stockings to play with teasing and removing these tantalizing costume pieces.
All skill levels, backgrounds and gender identities are welcome in our classes to celebrate their sensuality, power and joy!
Adjustments and modifications can be given for mobility and experience levels. Please contact us if you have any questions or desire modifications and we'll do our best to work with you!
This is your protected space for all parts of yourself to be heard and welcomed. Moving Limiting Beliefs out of your body, tuning into messages that it's time to rest, set boundaries or celebrate wildly, exploring new movement and expression to live in power, pleasure, joy and resilience -- Let's Dance!
Details
1 Sunday per month
SomaSpace: 4050 NE Broadway, Portland, OR
Studio is ADA accessible and offers water and yoga props.
Please bring your own water vessel and dress so that you can move comfortably without restriction. Grippy socks are suggested for colder days.
For JourneyDance. you may want a journal to record anything that comes up while dancing, and a dance veil/scard.
For Burlesque, you may dance barefoot or bring dance shoes. If you have props for special classes, bring those too!
Registration
Advance Registration $25 for single class, $40 for both
JourneyDance 11am-12:30pm ~ Doors open at 10:45 for an on-time start
BodyMagick Burlesque 1-2:30pm
A limited number of lower rate Community Registrations are available on site.
Please come at the beginning of arrival time if you'll pay on site with an app or cash, exact $ appreciated.
Your Instructors
Eva D'Luscious
High Priestess
I'm a champagne glass half full broad who also loves to please.
I've been a Certified JourneyDance Guide since 2020, and added Facilitator Level in 2023. I'm honored to hold space for you to tune into your body and build trust with your own wisdom and power.
My Portland, OR, home is surrounded by a garden, and filled with my husband, teenage sons, an absurd amount of costumes and outdoor gear, and absolutely no patriarchal BS.
Kisa von Teasa
Slayer of Stocking Peels
I majored in theatre in college and bring those skills to the stage.
In 2009 I started the nationally recognized, award-winning Salome Burlesque Academy.
I have taught at festivals here and abroad, Burlycon, and at University in my hometown of Knoxville, TN.
My downtime hobbies include the color Purple, science fiction, Unicorns, and stealing the love of your pets.
*** Reminder that material taught in class and course notes are the creative property of the instructors and may not be shared publicly without their prior written consent. Thank you for respecting Artists!
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