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Raising the vibration through The Embodied Revolution™ l Rooted in Denver | Moving Worldwide. Centering BIPOC & 2SLGBTQIA+ liberation. 🏳️🌈🤎 Rooted in Denver | Moving Worldwide.
01/03/2026
You know what’s cool and fun? Researching Afro-Indigenous dance music! 🥁🪘🔊
I’ve been nerding out and going deeper into the roots and frequencies that power my signature methodology for Unwind & Grind.
I don’t just ‘play’ music. I channel the sounds to create a transformative experience—one designed to shift normalcy, reclaim your pure energy, and invoke the spirit of Axé! 🧚🏾💫
Here’s a working list of the genres I incorporate to help you release your mind and get free AF.
I’m curious—what styles of music inevitably make you want to dance like nobody’s watching? Put ‘em in the comments! ✨👇🏾✨
12/29/2025
✨❤️🔥✨ Habari Gani?! Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility)
Stand up, speak up, and share your resources. Make an effort to do your personal work, ask questions, and commit to embodied consciousness in all of your actions.
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Our liberation is a group project! ☮️
This video is a total vibe from the archives—a Berkeley lab a few years back—fusing Dances of the African Diaspora with free-form ritual. It is still my favorite way to feel the Axé across generations and all backgrounds of movers.
I’m responding to the call to build more of this in 2026. ✨🕯️✨
If you’re ready to move and practice embodied liberation with us, grab the Free 7-Day Kwanzaa Ritual Guide on my Substack. Let's do this werk together! 💪🏾
✨❤️🔥✨ Habari Gani?!
Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility)
Stand up, speak up, and share your resources. Make an effort to do your personal work, ask questions, and commit to embodied consciousness in all of your actions.
✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Our liberation is a group project! ☮️
This video is a total vibe from the archives—a Berkeley lab a few years back—fusing Dances of the African Diaspora with free-form ritual. It is still my favorite way to feel the Axé across generations and all backgrounds of movers.
I’m responding to the call to build more of this in 2026. ✨🕯️✨
If you’re ready to move and practice embodied liberation with us, grab the Free 7-Day Kwanzaa Ritual Guide on my Substack.
Let’s do this werk together! 💪🏾
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In devotion to our collective liberation,
💜 Axé
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12/27/2025
Ya’ll, we have done this. 2025 has been a year of pouring our hearts into projects, people, and protest—but the spiritual and physical toll of the "daily grind" is real. It is a set-up designed to soul-suck our energy and distract us from our nature.
It is time to call it. You’ve done enough. You are enough.
Starting today, I’m responding to the burnout by choosing softness over the grind. Join me for 7 Days of Kwanzaa: A Ritual Guide to Embodied Liberation & Energy Reclamation. 🕯️🌿
This is our remedy. This is our bridge back to our truest, most Divine selves. Whether you are part of the African Diaspora or an ally who recognizes that we all need this medicine, this space is for you.
What to expect in your inbox:
✔ Daily practices to help you Unwind from the Grind.
✔ Tools incorporating dance, writing, visioning, and conscious consumerism.
✔ A sacred space for movement seekers and artivists to reclaim rooted, ancestral joy.
Let’s go from tirrrrrred to feeling the Axé!
Let’s decolonize our bodies and move together toward collective freedom.
Living into my essence… movement, river, and community at The Embodied Revolution Crestone Immersion. 🌊✨
Ya’ll, we have done this. We’ve given enough. It’s enough. ❤️🔥
I’m spending my Christmas Eve choosing softness over the grind. My morning ritual—journaling, breakfast, “werking out,” and sun reverence—has me feeling calm, grounded, and unrushed. I want this for all of us.
I truly wish for everyone to practice the principles of Kwanzaa every day. It is the medicine we need to decolonize our bodies and return to our truest, most Divine selves. i swear. 🕯️🌿
I’m holding space for us to do this together. Starting December 26th, I’m sharing 7 Days of Kwanzaa: A Ritual Guide to Embodied Liberation & Energy Reclamation over on the Rainbow Light Warriors Substack. It’s a free gift of dance, writing, and visioning to help you restore and remember who yoj really are.
If you’re ready to unwind from the grind and choose your life, come join us. 🪴✨
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SOL VIDA™ is an energy, community, a style of dance, and a movement of embodied revolutionaries who are ready to change the world through dance, connection and expression.
The beautiful part of SOL VIDA™ is the intersection of form and freedom where you can explore cross-cultural, contemporary, and conscious movement and expression forms under one banner. You get to learn original moves, techniques and skills and make them yours, by doing them in a way that feels good in your body.
SOL VIDA™ is at the helm of #TheEmbodiedRevolution, we are restoring and activating light warriors of the new frontier using the expressive arts to tell stories and change the world by saying something through the release of feelings in the body.
We create spaces for you to remember your essence, be your totality, breathe, and give yourself permission to be anything that you need to be. A place where you can be with soul siblings who activate your highest potential and callings.
Weaving the teachings of the modern dance greats, dances of the Orixas, Latin footwork, Hip Hop flow, Laban energies, Guerilla Theatre, creative prompts, with the conscious engagement of rites of passage embedded Soma Source folded into the core of your authentic expression. #divinebootyshaking
Originally channeled in 1999, by April (Axé) Charmaine, an award-winning educator, entrepreneur, world-renowned choreographer, holistic dance and certified performing arts educator who specializes in helping people release their minds, make sense of the world, have genuine fun, and get free in the body.
SOL VIDA™ leads monthly conscious dance laboratories centering women and q***r, trans, black, indigenous, people of color at Unwind + Grind and Fab Lab Functions in the Greater SF/Bay Area, with seasonal pop ups in Denver, and guest appearances worldwide.
