A free 5-day virtual summit
The Serious Business of Pleasure and Play
Find your power, passion, and joy to ignite your life and livelihood through creative and embodied practices
Join 18 visionary women teachers, healers, artists, and embodiment experts for a 5-day virtual summit exploring how pleasure, play, movement, creativity, and embodied wisdom can transform your life.
Event Date: July 13th - 17th, 2026
What You'll Learn
Why pleasure and play are essential for healing, vitality, and wellbeing
Many Paths to Embodiment
Discover the common threads woven through embodied practices and find the path that resonates with you.
Turn Inward, Listen Deeper
Learn to trust your body's wisdom and reconnect with your own inner guidance.
Heal Through Movement & Expression
Explore how movement, voice, creativity, and presence can support healing and transformation.
Reclaim Joy as a Practice
Pleasure and play aren't luxuries they're essential ingredients for vitality, resilience, and wellbeing.
Awaken Your Authentic Power
Release limiting patterns and cultivate greater confidence, self-trust, and self-expression.
Live More Fully Alive
Discover practical tools to create more connection, creativity, purpose, and aliveness in everyday life.
Why Pleasure, Play and Embodiment Matter >>
You’ll hear, in each of these interviews, a deep belief in each of these experts that pleasure, play, and embodiment are not frivolous pursuits, but essential to our well-being, vitality, and full-on living as a human. We increase our capacity to be with our entire experience- the inevitable struggles and pain, as well as the deep pleasure and joy inherent in this human experience with embodied practices.
Healing takes place on all levels, physical, emotional, mental, and nervous system, when we land in our bodies and listen to the deep wisdom that resides there. We are wired for play and connection! As mammals, play and connection are primary pursuits we are wired to seek. When we acknowledge this and allow ourselves to be curious and explore, we bring ourselves home to our authenticity and wholeness.
About the Summit
Join leading women teachers, healers, artists, and changemakers for five days of embodiment, creativity, healing, pleasure, and play.
I'm Aria, and it is my joy and honor to shine a light on women who have something powerful to offer the world. I’m excited to offer you this opportunity to be inspired by and learn from these established and powerful teachers, artists, healers, coaches, who are passionately alive, think outside the box, and are in touch with the wild, creative, deeply embodied, sacred feminine that the world needs now more than ever!
The Serious Business of Pleasure and Play is a 5-day virtual summit featuring leading teachers, coaches, artists, healers, movers, shakers, and entrepreneurs who are passionately working in the realm of embodied practices and healing arts.
Join us to learn straight from these amazing women who are passionately serving the world with their embodied practices. They deeply care about this work and the education and empowerment of women through these practices. You will walk away from each of these interviews with a transmission of their expertise, wisdom and knowledge. You will also receive a free gift for everyone who attends the summit from each speaker so you can dive deeper into their work!
These times we are all living through are scary, chaotic, and disconnecting. There are so many things separating us from ourselves and others. Now more than ever, we need embodied practices in order to come back home to our inner power, truth, and sense of self-authority. We need practices that help us awaken our creativity, joy, and aliveness within a sense of community, if we are to heed our inner callings, show up, follow our unique paths, and create the change we all need. I'm excited to shine a light on women who are leading these powerful practices we need so desperately right now!
Meet the Speakers
Allison Pagano
Through the Embodied Dance® Teacher Certification, Allison trains facilitators, leaders, and visionaries to create transformational spaces that reconnect people to their bodies, emotional truth, intuition, and deepest potential. Her work integrates neuroscience, somatic psychology, body language intelligence, spirituality, and embodied transformation to support people in accessing the body as a pathway to healing, truth, creativity, and self-leadership.
She served as a university professor of dance at NY colleges while earning an MFA in Dance, and her training spans the U.S., Europe, and Australia, alongside studies in cultural anthropology, movement, and consciousness-based practices.
Liz Koch
Liz is a conceptual artist exploring the deep sensory system and the wild wisdom and bio-intelligence of our primal core. An international educator, author, mother, crone, and creator of CoreAwareness™, she focuses on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening creativity. Published both nationally and internationally, her works include Core Awareness and Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence. She values kinesthetic intelligence and somatic awareness as a means for developing human potential. Stalking Wild Psoas is her passion and Changing the Language of Body is her mission.
Astaria
Astaria is a vocal empowerment guide, sound healer, musician, and creator of Voice Temple and the Voice of Light Mystery School. Through the transformative power of the voice, she helps women reclaim their authentic expression, awaken their creativity, and reconnect with the wisdom, power, and aliveness that exists within them. Drawing from over a decade of experience in sound healing, vocal facilitation, embodiment practices, and transformational work, Astaria creates spaces where women can move beyond self-doubt, fear, and suppression to discover the freedom, confidence, and joy of fully expressing themselves.
Becky Jones
I help women over 30 rebel against diet culture, the rules, the restriction, the guilt and finally build a relationship with food and your body that doesn't cost you everything.
Laura Bushnell
Laura Bushnell is a multidimensional woman, mother, and grandmother. She channels A Council of Mothers, a group of ascended masters who want to guide us all to the importance of celebration and living from a place of joy.
She empowers female leaders by activating the Divine Feminine and carries holy relics of the feminine saints for prayer and veneration. Her focus is leadership through fun to ignite the instinctual nature that is so natural for women.
Her work as a transformational guide and clairvoyant has taken her around the world to spend time with many notable thought leaders such as Ram Dass, Steven Levine, Elizabeth Kubler Ross, and others. Her 45+ years of devoted work has helped shape titans of industries, mega celebrities and professional athletes as well as thousands of private clients. Laura is the creator of Life Magick, a 108-day transformational program designed to propel users into manifesting their purpose. Laura is the author of Tarot and a Course in Miracles, You Are a Rose, The Gift and her recent memoir, Out of the Mud Came a Lotus.
Tanja Diamond
Tanja Diamond is an autistic polymath, Tantra Lineage Holder, and a highly sought after Business and Life Strategist. With 45 years of unparalleled worldwide education and expertise across thousands of subjects, coupled with certifications in hundreds of modalities, Tanja has become the ultimate problem-solver for those seeking rapid, effective solutions.
Her visionary work in healing and optimizing the nervous system boasts a 99% success rate in transforming trauma and unwanted behaviors and has impacted over 100K people and 22K animals in 60 countries.
Dr. Hazel-Grace Yates
Dr. Hazel-Grace Yates, PhD (they/them) is a relationship educator, conflict resolution specialist, and creator of The Art of REPAIR™, a six-step framework that helps people navigate conflict in ways that rebuild trust, deepen connection, and strengthen relationships. Drawing from over 15 years of experience in intimacy, communication, and personal transformation, Hazel-Grace has supported thousands of individuals, couples, communities, and organizations in turning rupture into opportunity.
Hazel-Grace holds a PhD in Human Sexuality and brings together expertise in somatics, nervous system regulation, authentic relating, restorative practices, and relational skill-building. Known for their warmth, humor, and practical approach, they believe that conflict is inevitable, but repair is learnable.
Camilla Steen Larsen
Camilla Steen Larsen is the creator of The Embodied Permission Method™ and founder of The ASAP Project. For more than 35 years she has guided people through movement, embodied presence, and somatic self-leadership, helping them reconnect with the wisdom of the body and the aliveness that lives beneath habit, pressure, and performance.
Her work weaves together conscious movement, nervous system awareness, storytelling, and deep body practices to support sustainable ways of living, loving, and leading.
Camilla believes that leadership begins in the body, that pleasure is a source of intelligence, and that play is one of our most natural pathways back to creativity, connection, and wholeness. Based in Copenhagen, she teaches internationally through workshops, trainings, retreats, and speaking engagements.
Dr. Julie TwoMoon
Dr. Julie has spent decades in medicine, and her core belief is that the body is not broken, and it never was. Healing is remembering what is deep within. The truth is that we are all perfection at our root. Her work lives at the intersection of Alchemical Chinese medicine, Classic Naturopathy, emotional and somatic presence, and the divine language of the body. Her work is an invitation back to yourself.
April Fox
April Fox spent years training professionally in ballet, modern, and contemporary dance before finding in yoga something she didn't expect: a path back to her body on her own terms. She's been teaching since 2014 and today has a devoted community built around Doom Metal Yoga — yes, that's a real thing, yes, it's yoga with doom metal music, and yes, people are obsessed.
Her offerings extend well beyond the doom: Goth Ballet, heading Portland Dance Collective as a community resource, and wildly popular open yoga classes at Portland's major studios, where her eclectic playlists — Bowie, Nick Cave, deep cuts from the 80s and 90s alternative underground — have become a community gathering point in their own right. Her teaching is rooted in serious training with teachers including Theresa May, Audra Carmine, and Jules Febre, and she has no interest in fitting neatly into anyone's idea of what a yoga class (or life) should be. Come for the tunes. Stay for everything else.
Bex Burton
Bex Burton is a coach, teacher, and artist who helps midlife women strengthen their bodies, deepen romantic connection, and express themselves with radiant authenticity. With 20 years of Pilates expertise, 10 years of Relationship Coaching, and a lifetime of creative pursuits, she blends functional movement, relational education, and image consultation to support those feeling lost and invisible in midlife in reclaiming their strength, style and connection, inside and out.
Bex believes that living joyfully is a radical act of rebellion, and she specializes in helping women move through the world with confidence, expressiveness, and deeply rooted self-worth. Join the Joyful Rebellion and rediscover what it feels like to live fully, playfully, and unapologetically yourself.
Laura Victoria Ward
Laura Victoria Ward is a maximalist artist, choreographer, somatic movement educator, Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst, teacher, musician, and painter.
Movement, awareness, equanimity, expression, and radical self-acceptance are foundational elements of Laura’s somatic work. She draws from many systems, including Laban/Bartenieff, Emilie Conrad’s Continuum, multiple forms of breathwork and integration, meditation, hands-on bodywork, and experiential anatomy. Laura’s playful curiosity springs from a sense of the infinite wonder inherent in existing in a human body here on planet Earth.
She has studied with Gil Hedley, Mary Abrams, Michael Taft, Tim van der Vliet, Liz Koch, and many others. Laura trained in the Meisner acting technique with Michael Harney. In 2024, she received a Choreographer’s Initiative Grant through NYS Dance Force and NYSCA with mentor Paul Lazar. Laura teaches movement on YouTube, privately, and in group settings, and offers Movement for Meditators courses on Zoom and at Michael Taft’s nondual retreats. She is the artistic director of Octavia Cup Dance Theatre, plays in the punk rock band Dick Pinchers, and is the choreographer for The Glam Rock Cabaret.
Jennifer Jimenez
Jennifer Joy Jiménez is the visionary founder and director of the Health & Wellbeing Division at the Brave Thinking Institute. Jennifer has dedicated over two decades to empowering individuals across the globe. Her unique approach intertwines transformational coaching with the dynamic energy of TranscenDance™, her world-renowned modality recognized as one of the top ten conscious dance modalities worldwide by the Global Conscious Dance Alliance and LA Yoga magazine.
Jennifer's profound impact on wellness extends far beyond the dance floor. Her innovative programs and products have captured the attention of major media outlets, including Fox Business, NBC News, Oxygen, and Self Magazine, earning her a place among the most influential figures in the wellness industry. But what sets Jennifer apart is her ability to share the stage and resonate with the wisdom of luminaries like Marianne Williamson, and Wayne Dyer, bringing her insights into the collective consciousness of those seeking growth and fulfillment.
Paige Billiot
Paige Lauren Billiot is an advocate, speaker, producer, and founder of the Flawless Affect Foundation. Born with a facial port wine stain birthmark, Paige was born in Seattle, raised in Las Vegas, and now lives in Los Angeles, where she advocates for greater representation in the entertainment and beauty industries.
After studying theatre at the Las Vegas Academy of Performing Arts & International Studies, she moved to Hollywood in 2014 and built a platform celebrating visible differences through storytelling, creativity, and advocacy. Her work has been featured by People, Glamour, Seventeen, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and Women's Health, and she was named one of Glamour's "50 Instagrammers You Need to Follow Right Now." Today, through Flawless Affect and the Flawless Affect Foundation, Paige empowers others to transform what makes them different into their greatest advantage.
Robin Landsong
Robin Aisha Landsong is a Transformational Speaker, Visual Artist, Medicine Singer and Medical/ Health Intuitive. She had multiple Near Death Experiences during the Rhodesian War in 1977 when she was eight years old. When she was called back to life by the Medicine Song of a rural Zimbabwean woman, it opened her role as a Medicine Singer.
Robin's is able to use her intuition to see each person's gifts and strengths. She loves to help people integrate their Near Death Experiences. She has helped thousands of people regain their sense of belonging, creativity, intuition, embodiment, and self-compassion.
Stacia Aashna
Stacia Aashna is a trauma-informed life coach, clinical hypnotherapist, and somatic practitioner based in Southern California. Her work integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Experiencing, hypnosis, restorative justice practices, expressive arts, and ancestral healing to support people in healing trauma, attachment wounds, anxiety, burnout, and relational patterns from the inside out.
Before becoming a full-time practitioner, Stacia worked in the corporate world in sales and marketing, where she experienced firsthand the impact that chronic stress, overachievement, and nervous system dysregulation can have on both professional success and personal relationships. Her approach bridges deep therapeutic work with practical embodiment tools, helping clients move beyond survival patterns and into more grounded, connected, and authentic ways of living.
Stacia has facilitated workshops, healing circles, and trainings across the United States, including at the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners Conference and the San Diego Yoga Festival. She is Level 2 trained in Internal Family Systems, advanced in Somatic Experiencing training, and has been practicing hypnosis for over a decade. Her work is deeply informed by nervous system science, Indigenous wisdom traditions, mindfulness, and relational healing practices.
In addition to her private practice, Stacia leads peace circles, creates educational content focused on complex trauma and emotional healing, and writes for wellness and mental health publications. Her work emphasizes compassion, embodiment, self-leadership, and creating spaces where people can reconnect with themselves, their communities, and their innate capacity to heal.
Lisa Fitzpatrick
Lisa Fitzpatrick is a female pelvic and sexual health educator, physiotherapist, author, and passionate advocate for women's erotic wellbeing. She believes that pleasure is not a luxury—it is an essential part of the life force.
Drawing on over three decades of experience, alongside her own journey through menopause, heartbreak, and profound personal transformation, Lisa explores the intersection of embodiment, sensuality, intuition, and healing.
As the founder of Sexy Menopause and author of the forthcoming book Sexy Menopause: The Science and Soul of Midlife Desire, Lisa is part of a growing movement helping women reclaim their bodies, their voices, and their capacity for pleasure as a pathway to personal power.
This Summit is for You if…
You sense that there is so much more to life and are ready for the deep and embodied work we as a collective will be presenting.
You are new to the idea of embodiment and are curious about how these practices might help you be more present, joyful, and might help you shift old patterns and limiting beliefs about yourself, your life, and what you can receive and accomplish for yourself.
You want to live a more creative and authentic life.
You feel disconnected from your body and long to feel more whole and happy.
You have heard of some of these embodied practices and are curious and want to step your toe in.
You want to be in a room with powerful, alive women who have amazing healing tools they are passionate about sharing with you!
You’ve always wanted to be creative or feel that there is an artist buried deep inside you, and you need to witness how others learned to trust and let this part of them shine.
Meet Your Host
Aria Skydancer
Aria Skydancer is a Certified Open Floor Teacher and a licensed Nia Teacher with extensive training in Continuum Movement. She is also a graduate of the two-year Hakomi Body-Centered Psychotherapy training. Her work is rooted in loving kindness, playful presence, and the deep healing, joy, and aliveness available through embodied awareness and expression through movement and dance. As a somatic-based coach, she guides people back to the deep intelligence that resides in their bodies, awakening their own power and sense of wholeness to reclaim all of the precious parts of them that have been silenced or frozen by trauma. Aria combines skills learned and developed from years of training and years of teaching and facilitating, along with her own deeply lived journey through trauma and the reclamation of her own sovereignty, power, and aliveness. Having suffered, as many do, from childhood sexual abuse and then narcissistic abuse as an adult, she knows very well how it feels to be frozen and silenced from trauma and shame, and what it takes to compassionately ignite the fire and love needed to heal and integrate these life-altering experiences. She also uses her intuition and channeling abilities along with embodiment practices in unique one-on-one sessions. She leads women’s groups and teaches somatic dance/movement classes. Aria has a deep belief that through connection, play, embodiment, and being with our full human experience, we find our way to a deeper acceptance of ourselves, others, and this messy life, which naturally activates curiosity and allows change and healing to ripple out into our lives and the world.
when you register
You'll receive everything you need to dive in.
Daily recordings of interviews with leading experts, facilitators, healers, artists, and teachers who will inspire you with their passion, presence, and wisdom, and point the way to dipping your toe into embodied practices or try something new to enrich your life, livelihood, and expand your capacity for joy, creativity, and aliveness.
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