Jamie facilitates sacred sound healing workshops, conducts individual vibrational healing sessions and teaches hoopdance. She is very passionate about the healing affects of sound and movement and loves to share this passion with everyone she meets.

Jamie is trained in a variety of healing modalities including sound therapy, energy healing, and bodywork. She has studied privately with many powerful teachers and has learned through her own healing practice. She is always continuing her education and is dedicated to spreading the healing affects of sound.

In 2004 she discovered hoopdance and has been hooping ever since. She is a certified Hoopnotica TM  Hoopdance instructor and teaches all levels of hooping. Her classes are fun, light and a fantastic workout!

Ricardo Romo (aka Stuntman) began dancing Jan. 1993. Starting as a hobby it developed into a career in the making. In the summer of 95 he was introduced to the word BBoy (the correct terminology for “break dancer”) and the knowledge of the dance. For the next couple of years he practiced hard and began to “pay dues.” He developed his own individual style, daring to do what others didn’t, earning him the nickname “Stuntman.”

Through the late 90’s he traveled all over the U.S. competing, performing, judging, and making guest appearances. In May of 2000 “Stunts” joined an internationally recognized crew known as “Style Elements Crew.” He has also been picked to be on the USA all star teams competing both in Paris and London. As well as performing in Mexico, Canada, Sweden, Holland and Switzerland. In 2004 he began to do various classes in Phoenix Az. Through a local group called Furious Styles Crew. The same summer he became a staff member of “Let’s Dance” dance camp at Arizona State University. He also

Since then he has been hired at an after school non-profit program called After School All-Stars, where he teaches and tutors middle school youth.

Other credits include: Articles and prints in the magazines Source, Dancers Delight (Japan), Show and prove, SP, Vibe Magazine, and his own Bboy trading cards; Videos with Maxwell, Brandy & Mace, and Insane Clown Posse; Not to mention the Wade Robson Project pilot.

Currently he’s the California President of Furious Styles Crew and the Co-director of  “One Step Ahead” Dance Company.

Nathan started his journey in movement education at four years old when he was enrolled in Martial arts classes, and hasn't looked back. He now has extensive training in a number of areas including 9 years of Tae Kwon Do and 2 years of Jiu-Jitsu and Shaolin Kung Fu. He also has 5 years of skill toy and fire performance training and experience with his list of skills including Poi, Crystal Stix, Staff, Meteor, Torches, Hula Hoop, Fire Eating, Fire Breathing, and Contact Fire. His Dance back ground includes 7 years of classical dance training in Modern, Ballet, Jazz, and Hip hop. He has also dabbled in Tai Chi, stilt walking, aerial arts, and other circus and exotic skills. For two years he taught kick boxing classes in Phoenix while going to school.

His performance venues include Knott's Berry Farms, corporate events, private events, concerts and music festivals, The Ivar in Hollywood, as well as a number of theaters including The Kennedy Center, Scottsdale Performing Arts Center, and the Herberger Theatre. He's performed with a number of companies including CONDER/dance, Instinct Dance Corps., Lucent Dossier, and Unifier. Nathan now owns and oporates his own production company, Firelight Industries, and is excited about what the future holds!

Freya is a Los Angeles Native. Intrigued as a child by bellydancers seen in old James Bond movies, Freya revisited this beautiful dance form and has committed the past decade to learning, teaching and sharing her love for belly dance.

Over the past 2 years, Freya has focused on encouraging women to be communal with one another and has strived to create atmospheres where women can genuinely communicate with one another, dance freely and beautifully, and share information.

Freya's "Eclecticbelly" is her personal interpretation of belly dance influenced by home-spun American Cabaret, classic Egyptian, earthy Lebanese, and mystical North African Guedra. Not afraid to fuse a cued Tribal move with an Egyptian dance combination spliced from 50s movie footage, Freya is sure to keep the audience on their toes. And whether it's performing a Kabuki-styled Three Faces of the Moon, conjuring images of Egyptian goddesses as Troupe Bast, or playfully storytelling the Tale of the Mischievous Veil, creativity, passion and sensuality are the common ingredients of this flavorful style.   

Savor a moment with Freya.  

Thea is an international performer and instructor of Egyptian style bellydance. She is also a founding member of Zillouette bellydance ensemble. Thea performed for four years as a member of the Jewels of the Dance and has studied under such greats as Mesmera, Princess Farhana, Kristen, Kamala, Tempest and others. Known for her strong hip movements, flowing veil work, zills and sword, Thea has pleased many audiences with her natural fluidity and creativity in dance. Some of her appearances include Moun of Tunis, Dar Maghreb, El Cid Show Restaurant, Gitana, Simon's Cafe, The Sphinx Cafe, Paraty 33 and Onile in Brazil, Anabelle's Chocolate Lounge, and bellydance conventions as well as many other events and private parties.

Thea’s classes and workshops are in high demand throughout California and have developed a strong following of loyal students. Students love the clarity of instruction, knowledge of the music and individual attention that Thea offers through her classes. Also trained in Salsa, Brazilian Samba, Swing, and even some Ballet, Jazz and Hip Hop, Thea presents a well rounded dance style with energy and grace.

Thea holds a Masters degree in Afro-Latin music and is a professional musician and music instructor.

Alesha Reyes grew up dancing in front of thousands of people during New Mexico State University basketball games at the tender age of 8 years old.  She remembers enjoying the excitement of the crowd, which sparked an interest in her to continue dancing. 

After her high school dance coach fell ill, Alesha took it upon herself to choreograph dance routines for her dance troupe, of which two of them were used during a state level competition.  After high school, she then danced with New Mexico State University’s Dancers Unlimited dance company. 

Dancing has been a form of expressing emotion, as well as a fun and social way to get fit. Certified in Zumba, which is a form of exercise that fuses many rhythms, she enjoys incorporating dance as a form of fitness.

Amy Lam/Sat Prem Kaur grew up practicing Hatha Yoga under her grandmother's gentle guidance.  She is a certified yoga teacher through IKYTA (International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association). She regularly teaches beginners' yoga series, as well as classes combining yoga and self-development/self-improvement topics, such as creativity, goal setting and self-esteem/self-love.   

She emphasizes compassion, or self love, when she teaches Kundalini Yoga. Kundalini Yoga is a powerful, yet accessible, energy-based practice focused on freeing, directing and improving your awareness of the energy of your mind, body and spirit. Her yoga sets can benefit and be enjoyed by everyone, no matter their experience, body type, flexibility, or age.   

Amy has also experienced the transformational effects of flagging, a workout and rhythmic meditation spun into one!  Flagging is the art of whirling colorful weighted flags to music to create stunning patterns in the air. 

MAriaElena derives her identity from both the specific and the Universal, this allows for her passionate participation in disparate variety of practices and disciplines.

Awareness of the joy and power of music and movement began in her mother’s womb, immersed in the energy and rhythm of her native Havana, Cuba. The family moved to Los Angeles when she was 2, and in this diverse, international city, MAriaElena discovered Middle Eastern Dance at the delicate age of 16; it was her first teenage crush. Her most noted influence is Fahtiem, whom MAriaElena considers her “Dance-Mother.” MAriaElena’s life has also been impacted by the dances of the sacred Orishas – African deities of the Yoruba culture- whose rhythms and steps connect her to the elemental powers of Nature.

MAriaElena is also blessed by a long relationship with Eastern spiritual practices. She began formal meditation practice in 1996 with Bhiksu Kusala at the International Buddhist Meditation Center. The long periods of just sitting have been a perfect preparation for the challenges of Motherhood. In 2004, MAriaElena studied with Krishna Kaur and became a certified teacher of Kundalini Yoga. This spiritual warrior training continues to be a foundational inspiration in her service to the world.

In addition to dance and yoga, MAriaElena is also a licensed psychotherapist with an emphasis on spiritual and holistic healing perspectives. She has post-graduate training in Prenatal and Perinatal psychology through the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, and lastly, as a most relevant credential, she is single mother to handsome, rambunctious Shanti.

It is her pleasure to serve you!

Allen Stecker is a Southern California native, born and raised in San Diego. At the age of ten Allen's began playing tennis, which he played at a competition level through his college years. Sports involving eye-hand coordination came especially easy and contributed to his sense of rhythm and timing. During these same years Allen was involved in a form of roller skating known as Rexing, which is defined as, “organized or competitive roller skating to dance music with very intricate steps, turns, spins and leg-work all done in a backward direction”. Allen also judged the events, and skaters were judged on pattern, posture, timing to the music, and lastly level of difficulty.

In the mid-1990’s a company transfer placed Allen smack in the middle of San Francisco’s exploding dance scene and diverse club culture. It was here that he discovered his love of dance, saw “flagging” for the first time, and once again found himself naturally adept at this then unknown performance art of rhythmic light and self-expression. The above experiences, combined with a technical teaching background, have enabled Allen to observe seemingly complex moves and transitions, break them down into single elements, and then teach them to others. Allen's fun-loving spirit, combined with his gentle encouragements, enable students to feel comfortable and fully explore their self-expression in a safe space.

A self-professed 'walking calamity', when Samantha Smith started college she took a beginning ballet class to become more graceful. Although she enjoyed it, she set dance aside and it was not until her animation degree was nearly complete before she encountered bellydance. Inspired by her friend Safiya's cabaret style dance as well as the work of Rachel Brice, she progressed from using videos at home to studio practice in the cabaret style. As a life-long fan of Bollywood, she was attracted to Heather Shoopman's Bellydance/Bollywood fusion workshop and was hooked. After further instruction in tribal fusion, she joined Heather's troupe at Bliss and has been dancing with them ever since.

To Samantha, bellydance is a perfect extension of her artistic temperament - a way to express her creativity physically, as well as a natural extension of her love for music. She loves every style she has tried, and will be teaching American Tribal Style basics to help others will find the fun and inspiration as she has.

Heidi Thornberg is committed to exploring the therapeutic and expressive properties of movement and dance. Finding the story each body wants to tell and letting it speak through pace, rhythm and space is her passion. She has worked with all age groups and has extensive experience working with children, senior citizens and special-needs clients. She has studied multiple forms of dance from ballet to belly dance and is currently enrolled in the Tamalpa Institute for Expressive Arts Therapy. She is a member of Se7en, a Los Angeles based tribal fusion bellydance troupe. The creative work that she has done has fueled her desire to find ways to help every body say what it needs to say.