Golden Bridge

10/12/2026

Congruency
With Melissa Michaels, EdD
Location: Dojo 9180 (Session 1: 1:45–3:00 PM)
Grounded body. Warm heart. Clear mind.
Moving our minds through our feet and our hearts in the beat, our innate intelligence naturally comes online.
During our short time together, we will explore simple and universal ways of dancing with rhythm and sound to support liberated movement, emotional fluidity, and expansive thinking.
The vast landscape of our body will be the sacred ground where we can both meet our selves and become ourselves.

REGISTER - https://www.naropa.edu/community-practice-day/ .

10/10/2026

Leah Maille will be presenting with Melissa at the ICMTA Teachers’ Gathering this Sunday, October 11th, from 1-4pm MT!

Leah was born in the paradise of Mandeville, Jamaica to a strong and wise Tanzanian father, and a sweet and eternally loving Jamaican mother. Together, her parents instilled the truth of manifestation, the power of voice, and an unfathomable love.

Leah began her movement career at the age of 10, and in 2009, she widened her exploration of embodiment practices through the teaching and guidance of Dr. Melissa Michaels. Leah has since been a student of Melissa, with whom she’s presented at the ISMETA and ICMTA Somatic Educators conferences, is a leader in the Golden Girls Global initiative, and is now a SomaSource Practitioner.

Leah understands the revolutionary reality of community and has dedicated much of her life to cultivating and existing within. Leah has founded grassroots organizations, facilitated safe and healing spaces for women and youth, and has held arts affinity spaces for young black girls. Leah is also a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher, Holistic Life Coach, and lifelong student of Herbal magic, and uses these modalities to foster an energy of love.

Most recently, Leah heeded the call to become a midwife. She dove into birthwork in 2018 and is working to complete her Masters in Nursing at Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University. Leah has embedded herself into the Atlanta birthwork community and is blessed to be in deep connections with birth workers and traditional black Grand Midwives. She is committed to the liberation of black bodies, hearts, and souls.

Join them - the registration link is in our bio!

10/07/2026

10/04/2026

🌍 I'm honored to be part of this year's ICMTA Teachers' Gathering.

WHOLENESS IN ACTION
From Integrity to Impact
Live online
9-11 October 2026

Friends, join this special group of teachers for this online weekend event. October 9-11. I cherish so many of these brilliant colleagues.

I (with Leah Maille) will be reviewing The STOP (Somatic Transforming Oppression) process as developed within our Golden Bridge community, along with offering a full moving journey through the life cycles into renewed alignment with one’s most current destiny call. The process will inspire each of us as we continue to refine and upshift how we meet these times as artists, teachers, healers, and activists.

Together with teachers and school founders, we'll explore embodied ethics, our shadow as teachers, inner ecology, ageing with integrity… and how to carry conscious movement out into a world that needs it with ever greater relevancy and thus, impact.

This gathering is open to teachers and teachers-in-training of the ICMTA recognised trainings, members and non-members alike.

If you are a part of this community of teachers and leaders, we would love to see you there.

👉 Register: https://www.icmta.com/teachers-Gathering-2026

The International Conscious Movement Teachers Association, is a global community of teachers walking dance as a path to freedom, connection and wholeness. It brings together teachers of 5Rhythms®, Azul Embodied Awakening, BISO - Body in Soul, Dance The Medicine, Devon School of Soul Motion, freedomDANCE, Middle Earth Medicine Ways, Movement Medicine®, Open Floor and SomaSource.

This year we gather online to lift the financial barriers and ecological costs of travelling. So teachers from all over the plant can meet in the same -virtual- room. A way to bring integrity and impact in motion.

Regardless of where you will be next weekend, let's keep on moving!

10/02/2026

Let’s keep lifting each other up.

Two dances tonight:

BIPOC StarLight with Axé and Ramon

Belonging with Melissa

Registration at the link in our bio.

Photo by Shawn Phillips

09/30/2026

SomaSource in the world.

We celebrate the beautiful work of Rajaveni in Auroville, S. India.

Mohanam Village Action Project.

Along with Balu Ponnusamy and their gifted team.

Rooted in the South Indian traditional arts and Soma Source practices and principles. Soul family for 22 years!

Respect!

09/28/2026

Another special one. Join Melissa for this one evening of dancing. A beautiful community is inviting us ~ They are ...

BELONGING at Columbine Spiritual Center in Boulder.

This is a come as you are party. Bring your curiosity, your wild, your tired, your Friday afternoon longing for some weekend spaciousness. Together, we will move with our ever changing bodies in ways that honor the wholeness of who we are, our vulnerability and our potency.

Rhythm, breath, and community connection will be our allies as we dance through what is and open to what can be.

Every body is welcome.

More details and registration at the link below.

https://columbine.breezechms.com/form/FirstFriday10.26

09/24/2026

🌍 I am honored to be part of this year’s ...
ICMTA Teachers’ Gathering
WHOLENESS IN ACTION
From Integrity to Impact
Live and Online
9-11 October 2026

I will be offering the Sunday Keynote. With Leah Maille, we will be reviewing The STOP (Somatic Transforming Oppression) process as developed within Golden Bridge. From there, I will offer a moving journey through the life cycles into renewed alignment with one’s most current destiny call. The process will inspire each of us as we continue to refine and upshift how we meet these times as artists, teachers, healers, and activists.

Together with teachers and school founders, including Tamalpa’s esteemed Daria Halprin (Saturday’s Keynote), we’ll explore embodied ethics, our shadow as teachers, inner ecology, ageing with integrity… and how to carry conscious movement out into a world that needs it.

Check out the truly inspired and relevant topics being addressed! https://www.icmta.com/Programme-Teachers-Gathering-2026
I am so excited to learn from my colleagues.

Would love to see you there 💃🕺
👉 Register: https://www.icmta.com/teachers-Gathering-2026

This gathering is open to teachers and teachers-in-training of the ICMTA recognized trainings (YES SomaSource, that includes you), members and non-members alike.

The International Conscious Movement Teachers Association, is a global community of teachers walking dance as a path to freedom, connection and wholeness. It brings together teachers of 5Rhythms®, Azul Embodied Awakening, BISO - Body in Soul, Dance The Medicine, Devon School of Soul Motion, freedomDANCE, Middle Earth Medicine Ways, Movement Medicine®, Open Floor and SomaSource.

This year we gather online to lift the financial barriers and ecological costs of travelling. So teachers from all over the plant can meet in the same - virtual - room. A way to bring integrity and impact in motion.

Looking forward to dancing with you!

09/17/2026

Intimate play as a way of co-regulating and remembering our sweet humanity. We have ever expanding capacity to tune into the love channel amidst it all.

Warriors of the Creative, Carolina and Abigail, finding joy in simply being together in the dance!

Photo by Shawn Phillips
A Golden Bridge Production.

09/15/2026

Join Axé and Ramon for this special BIPOC event!

Axé [they/she] is an internationally recognized QTBIPOC Artivist, award-winning entrepreneur, and holistic performing arts educator who has impacted over 20,000 souls across a 20+ year career. As the founder of SOL VIDA™, Unwind & Grind™, and The Embodied Revolution™, Axé is a master embodiment guide specializing in a decolonized approach to Embodied Healing Justice.
Their expertise is forged in a rare intersection of spiritual lineage and technical mastery: Axé is a Certified SomaSource Practitioner, a Satya BIPOC Yoga Graduate (YTT 200), and has completed the Silvestre Technique Intensive and the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Training Group. With a creative legacy that includes choreographing over 40 musicals, Axé’s toolkit is a powerhouse of the African Diaspora—including Hip Hop, West African, and the Symbology of the Orixás—blended with Modern (Horton/Dunham/Limon), 5Rhythms, and Ecstatic Dance.

An award-winning artist, Axé’s work has spanned the globe, leading transformative containers in Brazil, Ghana, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, France, Spain, New York, and the SF Bay Area. Dedicated to radical personal freedom, healthy sensuality, and body reclamation, Axé creates safer, inclusive sanctuaries where leaders and visionaries can move from grind to grace, centering collective healing and authentic expression.

Purchase your tickets at https://goldenbridge.org/events/starlight-movement-mass/