Dance Your Medicine
mission
Odyssey Healing interweaves trauma-informed psychology with dance, embodiment, somatics and social justice frameworks to facilitate whole-body healing and promote agency, belonging and community.
method
Relying on principles of non-violence, resilience-building, and inclusion…
Informed by critical race theory, polyvagal and attachment theory, contact improvisation and modern dance…
we explore how cultural, developmental and intergenerational forces have shaped us…
and how we can recruit our bodies and our relationships to heal, grow, and thrive in our humanness.
About the founder
Odessa Avianna Perez, MA, AMFT, is a trauma-informed somatic psychotherapist, embodiment and social justice educator. She has over 2 decades of movement and dance performance experience, and has been practicing and teaching Contact Improvisation as a form of self inquiry and relationship alchemy for over ten years. She is part of the Healers Collective for the Decolonizing Wealth Project, and co-leads the Inclusion and Belonging directives for SoulPlay festivals. read more…
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