OMotion Collective

 Born on November 19, 2019 waning ½ moon in Leo

O M o t i o n
Movement to align with nature’s rhythm’s, honor existence, and refine intentions through embodiment ritual.
 

 

MISSION
We circle together with presence, cultivating creative expression through a living vocabulary of movements, to share healing messages with the world. Offering ceremony, performance art, ritual theater, and education amongst community to inspire artful awareness, intentional movement and harmonic connection with our natural environment.

 

INTENTION

Activate our hopes and dreams through movement and deepen our communication with all beings through the language of our bodies. Inspire the inner voice to speak, and listen with our whole self in order to align with what we truly need. Reveal the messages our bodies share, and develop the gestures of our prayers.  Formulate a vernacular of movements that correspond to various elements, and archetypes that hold resonance with our vital mission. Establish a  meathod that all can utilize as a means to share personal process and manifestation. Open up intentional space for holistic connection and provide opportunities for the wider community to join together in peaceful collaboration

 

PROCESS 

A circle is formed, the O, a vessel to hold potent focus on the health and harmony of our planet and beyond. Awareness is brought to a universal consciousness, the OM, and it is from this approach to motion, the language of all beings is revealed. Within this clearly focused container, we honor the forces of nature through various offerings, we dive into various practices of somatic communication, active listening, guided meditation, personal reflection, creative manifestation and discover the medicinal mechanics of movement for the body, mind, emotions and spirit. Attunment to the archetypes of the world, grants the opportunity to explore each personal expression of those energies within a safe container. This space has proven to allow for deep transformation, transmutation, and the gift of witnessing the humaneness within each of us. We open the portal to a dancing mystery school, where these methods of embodiment have emerged. OMotion has grown into a way of life, and it is through this integration, we activate a conscious communication with our creative life force through the universal language of dance.

 

For booking e-mail:
OMotionCollective@gmail.com 

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INNER CIRCLE MEMBERS

VIOLET HAYS

…birthed OMotion Collective into existence through her passion for dance, nature, community, and creating containers to brew potent healing medicine. She sees dance as an expression of compassion through the recognition of each individual’s movement. Her trust and surrender to the wisdom of the body, allows for miraculous healing transformation to occur through our intuition in motion. 

Violet has been a trained dancer in various techniques for over 20 years and has spent thousands of hours refining her gifts in this way. She has studied, taught, and performed locally, nationally and internationally throughout her years of development. As a “fusion” dancer, she has a refined taste for a bountiful buffet of dance flavors including various forms of belly dance, hip hop, modern, jazz, ballet, acrobatics, flow arts, and continues to weave many fine art forms from around the world into her practice. With a foundation of yogic principles, ceremonial practice, and the influence of internal martial arts; she shares her gifts  as nourishment to feed the hunger that heals, to celebrate creative liberty and connect us to our most authentic, vital expression. Whether developing choreography, improvising in flow state, or simply warming up, she believes our motion holds the power to unwind trauma, digest life, channel prayer, manifest our reality, and ignite our intuition to bring greater alignment in our lives. 

ELISHA LEE

 …has been dancing for as long as she can remember . The love of movement has been a deep practice of quieting her mind for as long as she can remember helpi g her gain skills in dedication, determination, skill building, flexibility, cooperation, unison, and hard work. Dance has always proven to be a place of  refuge, deep Joy and connection  Oftentimes quoted saying “the dance floor is my church” She dives deeply into the spaces where music permeates through the airwaves and directly into her heart.

 She has been trained in jazz, modern and ballet as a young girl. The was a founding member of her high School dance team,The Pantehrettes. Winnie g competitions in Jazz and high kick.  After high School there was a hiatus of organized dance and an exploration of clubs and expressive dance. When she moved to Asheville in 2012 she quickly began dancing with Christine Garvin Dance and helped to form the student dance company, Les Femmes Mystique.  She found incredible joy in every aspect of the company, from the choreography to the costumes to the productions. In 2015 she joined Trillium Dance Company and found that the more intricate choreography and performance opportunities were a huge inspiration to her. She helped to open Tribe Dance and Pole where she taught classes to young girls, Full Spectrum, using movement to make sense and move emotions in pre teen girls. and young children with Super Hero Training, an expressive movement class full of capes and masks and giggles. Using her passion of  space holding for different rights of passage and integrating it with her passion of movement and service, she grew deeply and enjoyed her time there teaching. She now moves with OMotion Dance Collective in a way that she never has before. Each day connecting to the elements and spirits of the land and the ancestral line of intelligence to help her get deeper into her practice of movement. Using dance as a tool to transcend grief and to use her body as a tool for prayer. She looks forward to sharing and dancing and evolving with the women of OMotion and our community far and wide as we share our prayers and medicine with the world at large.

    AMANDA ATKINS

    …was launched into the wonderful world of dance early on. She was able to explore jazz, tap, hip-hop, modern, West African and was classically trained in ballet. In college her explorations took a remarkable turn when a friend revealed hoop dance to her. She fell in love with the sacred circle and quickly expanded to an array of props with the addition of fire. Flow arts became a significant part of her journey as it took her across the states, down to Central America and into a meditative flow-state within. She has recently been exploring the vulnerability of using her body as a conductor so that she can channel Divine healing energ in order to reconnect with herself, earths rhythms and beyond.

    RHIANNON BURK

    Rhiannon is an advocate of well – being, empowerment, and advocacy; and believes in utilizing movement as medicine, as teacher, and as creative and emotive expression. She has a Masters Degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, is pursuing a certificate in Dance Movement Therapy, and is a somatic and trauma informed practitioner. She is a movement artist, who is passionate about co – creation to support transmutation within the individual and community. She believes that there are endless creative avenues to healing, and that what she has found in dance and movement, is a playground of embodiment and mindfulness. Rhiannon has been dancing as long as she can remember. She’s had the opportunity to study dance in more transitional forms: ballet, pointe, jazz, yoga, lyrical, modern, hip hop, West African, swing, salsa, tribal fusion, belly dance, and burlesque. She has studied ecstatic dance methods, 5 rhythms, Authentic Movement, and is a certified Dancing Freedom Facilitator. Rhiannon is honored to be a member of OMotion Collective. Rhiannon is both an instructor and a performer in the Asheville dance and movement community. She is a “Rope Bunny” aka model for Shibari, flow and fire performance artist, and a model. She has performed burlesque as Serenity Calypso and is a founding member of Boulder Burlesque. She has also had the opportunity to create and perform and instruct both locally and nationally. She looks forward to moving with you!