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Lizard Yoga
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Austin
Shadow Work Twerk: A 3-Hour Gaga-Inspired Movement + Dance Experience
March 7, 2025
18:00
Lizard Yoga
2919 Menchaca Road ## 104, Austin, TX 78704
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Shadow Work Twerk: A 3-Hour Gaga-Inspired Movement + Dance Experience
Join us for a transformative 3-hour Gaga-inspired event designed for all beings seeking embodied fun, trauma-informed ecstatic dance, movement, expression, and intimacy practice.
This night is all about intentional movement, expression, ceremony, and prayer in motion. Together we will dance, manifest, and explore a perfect blend of FUN and deep work. We will honor the sacred power of pleasure, love, and aliveness that flows through each of us as the Goddess (aka Adi Shakti)—regardless of gender, race, sexuality or socioeconomic status.
Throughout this evening, we will work with themes of creativity, connection, the erotic and your souls truth. Through movement, sound, energy healing and prayer in motion, you’ll access new layers of your inner power to create, relate, and live anchored in your inner wholeness, boundaries, choice and expression.
This workshop is an extra special trauma-informed space to move, dance, express, and celebrate in community. It’s a chance to connect to your intuition, embody the next layer of your embodied expression and step more fully into your souls purpose to Love on Earth.
We'll also celebrate the release of Gagas new album MAYHEM plus her old classics, channeling our inner teens and creative fem Shakti expressions. The focus will be on Shadow as Sacred, dancing with our inner darkness to reclaim our light, manifest, and become more centered in who your soul is calling you to become.
Our movement and dance practice will explore themes of FIRE AND HEAT, sensation and emotion, imagination, sacred boundaries and ritual. We’ll dive into what you’re clearing, what you’re calling in, and the wisdom arising to be celebrated for the next phase of your soul’s expansion—both in intimate relationships and in the world at large.
Come to heal, move, werk it & twerk it through this unique blend of Body Temple Dance, Ecstatic Movement, and Somatic Soul Ceremony.
Body Temple Dance is a somatic, spiritual approach that allows you to inhabit your body’s authentic pleasure, love, and aliveness. This movement language embraces both shadow and divinity, while grounding us in trauma-informed practices, nervous system education, embodied sex education, and traditional Tantric healing techniques for self-integration.
Our relationship to ourselves and the world is shaped by our nervous system. Yet, most of us were never taught how to work with it. Body Temple Dance offers a practice of prayer through movement, teaching us how to stay present with discomfort without shutting down, running away, or lashing out. It’s for those who wish to explore the sacred realm of somatics, feminine healing arts, and movement as powerful tools for intimacy healing, trauma integration, and purpose alignment.
If you’re looking for real embodied fun and expression to heal your nervous system, body, and heart, this event is for you. All work is trauma-informed and supportive of all bodies, inclusive of every being—regardless of ability, gender, sex, or personal expression.
THIS DANCE IS ABOUT HOW IT FEELS, NOT HOW IT LOOKS!
** Wear anything GAGA-inspired or whatever makes you feel most comfortable, embodied and expressed as your whole self self.
** Please bring water and something to write with (pen and journal or paper) to support your process during the event!
** THIS IS A SOBER EVENT!
COME AS YOU ARE! WE CAN’T WAIT TO GAGA IT OUT WITH YOU~~~ ❤️🔥🌈🔥🐍🌹🎶
Meet your facilitator:
Annie is the founder of The Beloved Within; she is a passionate devotee on the path of relational transformation, creative expression and living in service to the power of Love as the ultimate liberator. As a psychic reader, somatic practitioner, body temple dance teacher and guide, she supports those walking their own spiritual path of healing trauma, decolonizing consciousness and doing the work to remember their inherent worth and the truth of their fully embodied creative power.
While graduating with a BA in Sociology and Creative Writing, Annie’s intuitive pulse and relational journey lead her into the world of trauma healing, somatic education & creative + fem spiritual practice. Her desire for transformation both within and without was the doorway into her own self discovery and embodied healing. After 6+ years of teacher training, devotional practice & embodied education, Annie now supports others in waking up to themselves outside of the colonial, puritanical, self-disowning paradigm and layers of childhood trauma, to reclaim the power of Love that lives within and the potential for life, relationships and purpose that are liberating for their true selves and their hearts most authentic desires.
Learn more about Annie here: https://www.belovedwithin.com/
EVENT SCHEDULE:
6 PM: Arrive + Opening Ceremony
6:30: GAGA Body Temple Dance
7:15: 10 min break
7:30: MAYHEM Ecstatic Dance
8:30: Closing Ceremony