Our Team
MIKKA MINX ◆ FOUNDER
MG BRILLS ◆ PRODUCER
ZACH BEACH, MA
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Zach Beach is committed to building a world based on unconditional love and connection. He does that as a teacher, yoga and acroyoga facilitator, poet and writer, and as the founder of The Heart Center love school.
Author of The Seven Lessons of Love and the poetry collection Drinking Roses on Sunday, Zach regularly leads Power of Love retreats, workshops, and transformational teacher trainings, and is a popular speaker from conferences to college campuses.
Zach is a certified Yoga Teacher, Meditation Teacher, Thai Massage Bodyworker, and Sex Educator, and he has an MA in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and an BS from Northwestern University.
Learn more at www.zachbeach.com
Marina Sans
LIQUID COSMOS* Aquatic Somatic Education* DanceinWater* WaterBodyWork
Was born pisces, named Marina... & lived most part of her life next to the mediterranean sea immersing herself daily in it's waters as her own personal ritual... So: she is a quite an aquatic being. She founded LIQUID COSMOS, where nowadays the disciplines that compose her path meet, transform & crosspolinate in her own work and investigation in water. LIQUID COSMOS proposes somatic fundamentals for dance, movement, treatments and self-knowledge & transformation in water. To develope a tuned, detailed, subtle & deep awareness of the body in the Water-scape. Investigates the diferent anatomic systems in connection with water and to other bodies also there. As well as it seeks into movement patterns associated with being in water.
LIQUID COSMOS is young under this name an on in an ongoing development.
The path that lead her to create LiquidCosmos was very intuitive: Explorer of body-mind movement posibilities & states of being, by instinctive curiosity, she pulled herself towards diferent improvisation forms of dance & Somatic work, like:
Contact Improvisation, Body Mind, Butoh, RitualDance & Dance in nature, AquaticDance, Watsu, Aguahara
Lael Marie
Lael Marie is passionate about exploring the art of dance as a form healing and embodiment of the divine. She creates inspirational dance performances that bring the mystery, beauty and passion of ritual dance to the stage. She has poured her heart into modern dance technique for over 10 years and teaches modern dance technique once a week. Lael believes in the power of dance to heal the mind, body and spirit and has been studying dance as a healing art with Anandha Ray for the past 3 years. She received her certification in Shamanic Fusion Dance ® in 2017. She regularly hosts Dance as Medicine workshops that take participants on a journey to discover the fullness and joy of movement, taking risks, and the art of performance. This guided practice releases physical and mental blocks, which allows for deep emotional healing and unleashes your full creative potential.
Sydney Charisse
Sydney Charisse is a classically trained Brazilian Zouk and Fusion dance instructor based in Chicago. Following a career as a modern dancer/choreographer in NYC and an MFA in Dance at the University of Michigan, she toured throughout North America, Europe, and Brazil for a year to teach, study, and discover.
Jeni
Jeni loves all things movement, her passion for movement and seeing the positive influence it had on her life led her into teaching so that she could help others to also experience this. Jeni's passion for making a positive impact on others through movement has led her into the broader health and wellness community, presenting at emotional intelligence seminars and facilitating her own womens wellness events. Jeni is a certified fitness and yoga instructor and is currently teaching from The Movement Collective in Newcastle, Australia. Jeni enjoys teaching yoga, hand/arm balancing, gymnastics, stretch and flow (locomotion). Expect to get to know your body really well, explore corners and spaces that you didn't know existed and get curious and play with what you find.
DAMIANA RAHSHELLE
Damiana is a Love Guide, also known as a “Love Guru” & Intuitive Holistic Healer. She specializes in Self Love, Relationship & Empowerment Coaching & guides people to experience & integrate True Love, Pleasure & Purpose into their daily lives.
She is a Ritual Prayerformance Artist & Sound Healer with a focus on Wombyn’s EmpowHerment & awakening the Divine Feminine energy within our Masculine world. Her mission is to INbody unconditional LOVE & reconnect HumanKind to their heart, intuition & sensual energy through reawakening the senses & their inherent Magik.
She is here to empower & give tools to those who are ready to optimize their life & INbody their most authentic self; anchoring *Heaven on Earth.*
She shares her offerings through One on One & Group Deprograms, Sensual Awakening Immersive Experiences, Content Creation & giving her Musical Medicine to the World.
Colleen Marie
Colleen Marie has been aerial obsessed since 2012. Her career began in Philadelphia and has been moving her around the globe ever since. She currently resides in Ireland, where she teaches and performs with Aerial Cirque.
"The same, but different", is the style of aerial Colleen is known for teaching. Influenced by her experience working in different communities, she’s no stranger to the moves students like to showcase. What she does through her instruction is put an unexpected twist to all those tricks and transitions we know and love.
This style of teaching is applicable for any level of expertise.
Jenna Lynn
Jenna Lynn has been pole dancing since 2006. She has been instructing pole technique, exotic pole, and strength based classes for 10 years. She loves spreading the love through teaching, and watching her students grow physically but more importantly emotionally.
She performs and competes in exotic style pole. In addition, Jenna is owner and operator of Rockstar Pole fitness in Denver, CO. She also works as a Physical Therapists Assistant.
Her goal is to show that anyone regardless of size, age, or fitness experience can come to pole class, her hope is that it will have the same positive life-changing experience it did for her!
Julia Zasyatkina
Julia's love of Thai Massage was first born from the AcroYoga community, who introduced her to this magical form of taking care of one another and sharing sacred touch. She mixes her backgrounds in Yoga, Acro and Meditation in her style of Thai Massage to create a unique energetic dance for both giver and receiver.
VAZA
With my expertise in yoga and OT, nutrition and holistic approach to the human body, I made it my mission to guide you through your own personal transformations to restore your health, rebuild self-confidence, culture positive body image and have a mindful awareness of the strengths we all have inside.
After all, there's a Wonder Woman in each of us, and the only thing holding us back is our own limiting beliefs. By connecting the mind, body & soul through conscious awareness, I provide changes that will last a lifetime with the perfect blend of physical activity, spiritual healing, and nutritional support to address the rising needs and concerns of working moms today.
VAZA's dynamic approach guides students through a physically and spiritually expansive journey.
Her teaching is unique in that her vigorous style is coupled with a strong focus on proper
alignment and total body awareness.The use of personalized instruction helps students of any level harness
the power that comes from an understanding of the relationship between breath and movement, body and mind.
VAZA infuses her Vinyasa based and multifaceted knowledge of Yoga with personal passion to inspire students to truly listen to their bodies, leave their egos at the door, and - most importantly -reconnect with yourself!
sandra
Sandra shares her deep connection with the water as a vehicle to connect to our essence. After she finished her studies in Occupational Therapy and Health in Madrid, Sandra started a journey that brought her to discover and explore different bodywork techniques, massage, healing practices, dance and yoga. She always had a special relationship with water, but when she discovered Aguahara in 2012 a new universe of aquaticness open up to her and since then she follows the path of the water. She is in a deep exploration of this new ways to communicate with the water, our bodies and our authentic beings. For the past years she has intensively been teaching and facilitating courses, treatments and aquatic experiences in different Waters of the world. Now her main focus is the water dance exploration, authentic being research and creating spaces for sharing this water experiences.
WILLOUGHBY
Willoughby uses integrative bodywork as an invitation for the body to be coaxed toward a more optimal state of existence.
Myofascial release and nerve and artery mobilization techniques release patterns of tension within our bodies. These techniques focus on fascia, the connective tissue matrix that envelops all the structures of the body, including muscles, ligaments, tendons, nerves, and arteries; opening neurological connections between the brain, the spinal cord, and the musculoskeletal system.
Using firm, gentle, and receptive pressure, his focus is less on individual muscles than on liberating the space between them, as well as between our muscles and the other structures within us. Such an emphasis improves the functioning of connective tissue, which at its best works in a fluid, gliding manner, allowing all parts of our body to work in concert with one another.
Chris Taylor
Chris is a techie, world traveler, YogaSlackers Teacher, and Acro Revolution Teacher.
"I love to laugh and learn. I'm a storyteller and a friend."
Chris grew up in Hawaii on a foundation of the Aloha Spirit. The understanding that we must work together and support each other in a positive way. Chris first stepped on a slackline in 2009 while traveling in Portugal. After seeing a transformation in himself Chris understood the power of calming the mind through active meditation and playfulness. He has a keen ability to teach in a fun and simple way that people of all ages can enjoy. Besides Slackline practice Chris enjoys Partner Arobatics, Acro Therapuetics and surfing. Chris loves to be silly and feels a deep sense of gratitude to be able to share the foundational techniques of slacklining and enjoying life which he learned from great teachers.
What is Slackline?
Slacklining and more specifically Slackline Yoga is a practice where we learn to control our balance and our minds while in unsteady circumstances. It is a a powerful tool to practice finding our center and also our playfulness.
A slackline is a piece of webbing supported on either end that can move from side to side. Similar to a tightrope in that it is a small surface to find balance on but different in that it is not taut and fixed. This encourages our bodies to find a centered engagement and balance.
We will learn multiple ways of connecting and playing on the line including sitting, standing, kneeling and arm balances. No experience is necessary as the teaching style is fun and approachable for everyone.
For those with experience we will help you find the beginner's mindset and bring you back to a challenging practice with variations and added levels of control.
Join the fun and find trust in yourself. Push your boundaries in a safe way for maximum growth.
Camellia Nieh
Camellia Nieh is a globetrotting multimedia artist based at the Lookout Arts Quarry in Bellingham, WA, USA, where she conducts movement research and creates performance and workshops with her acrobatic dance partnership, WonderbloB. She is passionate about CI as a laboratory to explore our connection to the body, to Self and Other, creativity, trust, nonverbal communication, touch, expression, openness, presence, listening, healing, and co-created flow state. Having worked to bridge cultures for two decades as a translator and interpreter, she is now excited to leverage movement and artistic practices to transcend linguistic barriers on a deeper level. She is also fascinated by the alchemy of blending principles of CI with other forms of expression, including acro yoga, aquatic dance, musical improvisation, and physical theater. She teaches, trains, and performs worldwide, and is actively involved in movement and creative projects in Japan, Israel, Europe, Mexico, and the US.
João Paulo Pereira
João has been teaching yoga, movement and meditation since 2001, and he believes that intense disciplined practice is best balanced with play. His unique fusion of breath, awareness, strength, and alignment (BASA) offers his students a dynamic experience to connect to the living tradition and energetics of yoga.
Rod cooper
Rod is Playful and passionate about sharing the gift of movement with the world. He is an international movement teacher who also is the owner of the Movement Collective in Newcastle Australia, a movement space created to enable everyone to reach their full potential, Mind, body and spirit. TMC cultivates your highest energy building confidence, awareness, strength, mobility and human connection with our tribe. Teaching the tools to show up with power to contribute and support the people around you. Rod’s playful approach to life spills over into his teaching style, expect some fun movement games, partner and group activities to get the blood pumping and smiling. Inspiration for classes is taken from Gymnastics, martial arts, circus arts and Calisthenics.
Tara quinn
Tara currently leads Yoga and Thai Massage Workshops as well as offering personalized one on one healing sessions in NYC. She draws her understanding of the mind and body from many sources and experiences. These include more then 20 years as an athlete, yogi, gymnast, healer and circus entertainer. She has previously competed as an NCAA gymnast, graced the stage of many cruise ships as an aerial and contortion specialty act, and even performed as an acrobat with the San Francisco Opera as well as many other international entertainment companies.
Throughout her career she has overcome many injures including a sprained neck, broken ankle and 3 Knee ACL reconstruction surgeries. Recovering from these injuries has helped to deepen her understanding of how the body best recovers and the psychological process that goes along with regaining function. As an instructor she specializes in helping people to improve or regain their range of motion, learn to stack and engage their body properly and have fun while improving their kinesthetic awareness of where their body is in space.
Every being she greets is another chance to use the whole of her life experiences and personal presence to both challenge the body and allow for growth and healing. Discovering the movement potential and the deep inner workings of the human body is her life long path. She aims to infuse her students with the joy of remembering their wholeness.
Lots more teachers are confirmed and will be added here soon!
Collaborate with us on the 2019 retreat! We are still seeking embodied movement instructors for our event this year, so please read the informational document attached, and contact us to apply!