Dance Your Soul into the New Year: with Saffire & Erika

Enter a living landscape of rhythm, breath, and connection.

As we prepare to cross the threshold into the New year, let us journey into the deep wisdom and magic of the body and spirit—where:

• movement becomes meaning
• rhythm becomes medicine
• presence becomes a source of renewal &
• sacred alignment becomes wisdom to guide you

In this immersive workshop, we’ll soften into our natural, true self and rediscover the pulse that lives inside every bone.

Guided by skilled facilitators and supported by nourishing community, we’ll explore how rhythm, breath, energy, and intuitive motion can restore balance, open creativity, and reconnect us with the grounded vitality that lives within.

During this healing and enlivening journey, we will:

• Root Down Deep

Begin with breath, grounding, and gentle somatic warm-ups to awaken sensation, presence, and embodied listening.

• Activate Rhythm

Enter the inner pulse through organic, easeful movement explorations that invite the body to follow its own natural cadence.

• Explore Connection

Attune to self, the energy within, around, and with one another through relational movement, rhythmic dialogue, and expansive presence practices.

• Open Expression

Explore your internal landscape, unlock creativity, authenticity, and the expressive vocabulary of the moving body and magic within.

• Integrate

Settle into restorative stillness, basking in loving reflection, allowing the body to absorb the experience and carry wisdom forward into the New Year.

This workshop is an invitation to move at your own pace, listen deeply, and rediscover the joy and clarity that arise when we reconnect with the body’s innate wisdom.

No prior dance experience is needed—only curiosity and a willingness to explore.

Come as you are. Leave more spacious, more grounded, and more alive in your rhythm.

Space is limited so if you’re feeling the call, jump in!

Pricing:

• Early Bird: $33
• Regular price $44
• Abundant support $55
• Financial support needed $22

Get your ticket via Eventbrite

Bring:

Comfortable layers for movement, a journal or sketchbook, water bottle, and a heart open to discovery, play and magic

Location in Portland:

Lajja Space 10851 SE Main St, Milwaukie, OR 97222

We hope you join us in this potent journey to dance your soul into the New Year!

- Saffire & Erika

Meet your Facilitators:

Saffire Bouchelion is an Embodyologist, a deeply devoted Rhythmatist, and a Music/Movement Alchemist who sources the love, joy and healing of Spirit into all that he does. Be it classes, workshops, or performances, Saffire’s commitments to service is clear and inspiring. As a First Degree Black Belt, he has taught Nia, and his Dance into Being Workshops, in over 17 countries. As a professional percussionist he has performed on over 47 recording projects, had bands open for numerous International acts, and holds weekly Drumming sessions, for both groups and private students. His Children’s book, The Groove Goblin, truly encapsulates Saffire’s life philosophy. Learn more saffirebouchelion.com

Erika Merz of Rise Up with H’ART is a visionary artist, Energy Dancer, facilitator, and activist. With over 25 years in martial arts and ecstatic dance, she facilitates Energy Dance Ceremonies—immersive journeys that blend the wisdom of energy work, intention and visualization together with free-form movement. Participants often experience lasting transformation, reclaiming dance as a tool for transformation - deep healing, awakening spiritual gifts, and clarifying life purpose. Rooted in a vision of a liberatory world, Erika’s work helps us unlearn harmful societal conditioning and remember our true, radiant wholeness. Connect and get inspired: riseupwithhart.com | IG @riseupwithhart