Project Commotion invites you to join us for a Community Move workshop: Moving from the Inside Out. This 60-minute, interactive workshop will offer ideas and exercises for how to create your own self-care movement practice.

For whom: Educators, and anyone else who is seeking to add gentle movement into their daily life, especially those who are new to intentional somatic practices.

PC's Community Move workshops are targeted towards early childhood and youth educators, parents, and anyone in our community. Workshop is provided for a sliding-scale fee. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.

Presenters: Annie Aguilar, Carol Acevedo, Nika Sourakov

Annie Aguilar (she/her): Curricula Coordinator and Lead Movement Instructor

Annie is a dancer and educator from Grass Valley, California who brings her 18 years of dance and movement training to her nature-inspired child, youth, and adult classes. Annie holds a B.A. in Neuroscience from Middlebury College in Vermont and has trained in anti-bias/anti-racist public health with the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and various birth doula programs in the Bay Area and Argentina. Additionally, Annie is a free-lance dancer for various companies and collectives on the west coast. She strongly believes that joyful movement and loving body awareness support community health.

Cárol Acevedo(she/her): Schools on the Move Coordinator and Lead Movement Instructor

Cárol is a dancer and movement educator from Bogota, Colombia. She has been teaching children, youth, and adults for over 15 years in Colombia, Argentina, Germany, and California. She received her BFA in Contemporary and Modern Dance from the Academy of Arts (Bogota, Colombia) and completed an Advanced Dance Degree with the National c University of Arts (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Additionally, Cárol is trained in traditional Colombian dance, is a certified pilates instructor, and has trained in gymnastics. She believes that many of the principles of dance technique directly translate into life.

Nika Sourakov (she/her): Arts in Medicine graduate student, University of Florida

Nika Sourakov has been dancing since she was five years old with primary concentrations in ballet and contemporary dance. She is originally from Gainesville, FL and received her BFA in dance and minor in psychology from Florida State University. She has worked with various arts organizations in New York such as Dances For A Variable Population, and she currently works at The Watermill Center, an arts and humanities laboratory. Nika is pursuing an Arts in Medicine graduate degree at the University of Florida and is fulfilling her practicum experience with Project Commotion this spring. Nika believes that when we see ourselves as creative canvases, we can gain agency and ownership over our bodies, thoughts, and emotions.