The ERA Method
A transformational practice of embodiment, ritual, and art
What Is ERA?
ERA — Embodied Ritual Art is a transformational practice that turns your life experiences into embodied rituals for healing, empowerment, and liberation.
This is not therapy. This is not performance. It is a non-dual art space where you are given full permission to bring your whole self — the parts you celebrate, and the parts you’ve hidden away.
Through symbolic materials, movement, and ritual, ERA invites you to:
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Reclaim exiled parts of yourself — the unfelt, unprocessed, and avoided pieces of your story.
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Integrate oppositional energies — the places inside you that seem at odds, until they reveal their deeper wholeness.
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Transform pain into purpose — letting your wounds become gateways to strength and wisdom.
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Reconnect with your body’s vitality, pleasure, and intelligence — moving beyond numbness or control into aliveness.
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Awaken creativity — discovering art as a vehicle for healing and liberation.
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Live mythically — where every story, every gesture, every ritual becomes a path to freedom.
This is the space where the intelligence of what you’ve carried can finally move through you, reshape you, and guide you back to your true form.
The Ingredients
Humility
Transformation begins with humility. By bowing to life as teacher, we soften the ego and open to what is greater than ourselves. Humility is the ground of the ERA method.
Trance
Freedom requires letting go of control. In ERA we practice entering the unknown, trusting mystery, and allowing life to move through us.
Meaning Making
Every story and every gesture carries symbolic significance. ERA teaches you to see your life mythically, to work with archetypes, and to give meaning to experience through ritual and art.
Alchemy
What you avoid holds the key to your freedom. By meeting your pain with compassion, and working with symbolic materials, you transform suffering into compassion and power.
Core Elements
Story Work
Story Work in ERA is the practice of uncovering the deeper arc of your life, the hero’s journey hidden within your struggles, transformations, and becoming. By naming how your experiences have shaped you, story work reveals meaning where there once was only pain.
Material
In ERA, materials like paint, fabric, bricks, or sand become mirrors of your inner world. They give shape to what words can’t hold—grief, memory, desire—and allow you to work with them tangibly. By moving, marking, and transforming these objects, you transform the story they carry, turning what once felt heavy into symbols of release, meaning, and renewal.
Improv
Improv in ERA is the art of surrendering to the unknown. Instead of rehearsed movements or fixed scripts, you follow impulse, gesture, sound, and breath as they arise. This spontaneity bypasses perfectionism and awakens play, honesty, and presence.
Analysis
Analysis is the practice of witnessing and reflecting on what unfolded in ritual. After expression, we step back to name the symbols, gestures, and emotions that arose, connecting them to your life story. This process grounds the work, turning raw experience into insight, integration, and lasting transformation.
Composition
Composition in ERA is the art of shaping improvisation into a song you can live inside. The raw gestures and images that surface spontaneously are gathered, repeated, and ordered into a structure that carries clarity and weight. Like architecture for ritual, composition transforms fleeting expression into a vessel strong enough to hold meaning.
Performance
Performance in ERA is not about entertainment but about being witnessed in truth. When your story is offered through the body, it becomes a gift, an act of connection that reveals our shared humanity. To be seen in this way amplifies the ritual’s power, turning personal transformation into a collective mirror where deeper truths can be felt and known.
How ERA Works
ERA is built on what research across psychology, neuroscience, and somatics show us:
Healing happens in the body, through ritual, and in connection with others.
- The body stores unprocessed experience and can only release it through movement and sensation.
- Repetition of embodied practices rewires the brain, anchoring new patterns of freedom and creativity.
- Movement, sound, and ritual calm the nervous system and restore a sense of safety.
- Revisiting old stories in a safe, symbolic way changes how they live in you.
- Being seen in vulnerability amplifies integration and healing
- Symbols and story give meaning to what feels fragmented, turning pain into power.
Why ERA Matters Today
We live in a world of burnout, disconnection, and surface-level healing.
ERA restores what’s missing , embodiment, ritual, and meaning, offering a path to transform not just symptoms, but the soul.
ERA helps us:
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Release the weight of the past carried in the body
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Reclaim joy, pleasure, and vitality as natural states
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Transform pain into creativity, compassion, and strength
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Group space for community, reflection, and witnessing
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Mark life thresholds with ritual and sacredness
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Live authentically, with freedom, presence, and devotion
In a culture that values speed and productivity, ERA reminds us how to live mythically, with depth, awe, and devotion.
Roots & Influences
The ERA Method was born from my search for deeper meaning. At Juilliard, dance was polished to perfection, yet I craved something beyond aestheticshealing, ritual, and art as transformation. I realized performance was always meant to be a sacred act, a way of touching the mystery of being alive.
That insight carried me beyond the stage into ritual and spirituality, Wiccan and shamanic traditions, Vajrayana practices, and years of choreography. Over time, these threads wove together into ERA: where performance becomes ritual, and ritual becomes a path to liberation.
ERA is not a single tradition but a convergence, shaped by contemporary choreographers like Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan, the psychology of Jung, and the radical art of Abramović, Bausch, and Jodorowsky. It is a synthesis of art, ritual, and embodiment, born of my own longing, discovery, and devotion.
Professional ERA Projects
ORIGINS
ORIGINS is a somatic art film weaving ancient Egyptian mythology with my the story of my father’s death. Through the body, symbol, and story, ORIGINS invokes the intelligence of myth to carry us across thresholds of loss, ancestry, and transformation.
THE CONFESSIONAL
The Confessional is a somatic art film combining poetry and dance to explore radical self-honesty and forgiveness. By facing what has been hidden and naming it with courage, The Confessional reveals how honesty can be liberation, and how forgiveness opens the door to moving forward without repeating the past.
CHILD OF THE SCREEN
Child of the Screen is my tribute to early silent film, playing with the idea of a human being parented and puppet-mastered by a giant hand. Enchanting and eerie, the piece asks a simple but unsettling question: do we control our screens, or do they control us?
The ways to ERA
Workshops— The ERA Workshops blend somatics, improvisational movement, and ritual practice.
ERA Foundational Training — a 12-week mystery school to learn and live the method
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