THE FACILITATORS

Shakaya McFarland is a passionate mover, dancer, therapist, facilitator,dj and healer who considers movement to be her greatest medicine. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, her career in movement began at Washington, DC’s Dance Place where she specialized in West African, Salsa, Modern, Hip-Hop, Caribbean Folklore, and Breaking. During her time in the Mid-Atlantic, Shakaya discovered original House Music and its rich cultural heritage in queer and urban Black American communities, which led her to create House~Ology, an active community forum and informational repository for original House Music lovers.  Shakaya graduated from the conscious movement program, Open Floor International, and is a certified teacher in the practice. Currently, she resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she DJs, teaches, and performs.

From Shakaya: I am really excited and honored to be stepping into the ring of collaboration and leading with Jaye. To bring together and blend our unique lineages of teaching, movement,  training, and leadership feels like a powerful meeting of wisdom, lived experience and truth. I believe that when we come together in this way, we illuminate something greater than what either of us could create alone- and open pathways for deeper healing, connection and truth to move through the world.

Jaye Marolla is a Somatic educator and martial artist, founder of YinWarriorship, YinDojo and the Soma Collective. She weaves applied Daoism and conscious Eros through vitality based teachings within a framework of experiential collaborative leadership and somatic activism. (More info here)

From Jaye: This collaboration has been in the works through many conversations, many dance floors and the sweat of shared training. Shakaya is an absolute inspiration in my life and someone I am beyond enthralled to get to share a teaching space with, I don't know exactly where the emergence of our shared fire will go, but I know this offering will be a soulful deliverance of our hearts.