Shar Aslaksen has a passion for movement, spiritual practice and its application in daily life and has felt a calling to ministry since she was in high school. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and Dance from Holy Names University, several Yoga certifications, and a few certification in Spiritual Direction. Shar began dancing as a child of the sixties with go go dancing. Eventually her dance path led to the Modern Dance world of the 1980 and 90’s. She danced professionally in the San Francisco Bay area. Dance took her to yoga, yoga dance and dance as meditation. Sha works at St. Francis in The Foothill as a youth and elder wrangler a.k.a Programs Coordinator prior she worked for Arizona Children’s Association with youth aging out of foster care, supervised the Prescott Valley Boys and Girls Club, and was the Youth Coordinator at St. Francis from 2010 to 2017. 

While loving the ocean, Shar keeps getting called to the desert. She loves road trips, playing in the water, and exploring archetypes, especially through Tarot and semantics. Married to the love of her life, Andy, who keeps her laughing, Shar is also mother to Skye, who keeps her on her toes and is her inspiration. Shar and Andy live with their four-legged friend, Molly Mayhem in the Southwest.

Felice Espinoza is the founder and director of the Center for Conscious Movement. She specializes in dance and movement as a form of transformation, healing, and meditation. She has a gift for facilitating an experience with movement that leads to a profound change in the body, mind, and Spirit. Her primary pedagogy,  “Dance To Heal”, focuses on connecting with intuition, self trust and inner awareness to tap into the wisdom of the body’s own Consciousness.  A Cecchetti trained Ballerina for 35 years and a Modern dancer, dance company director, choreographer and teacher for 25,  Felice moves fluidly from one style to another. She is a certified Taoist Kouk Sun Do Yoga and Martial Arts Instructor and a Master meditation teacher  who specializes in multiple modalities including movement and ritual. Felice believes all forms of movement and inner exploration  inform one another, revealing sacred secrets of the body and soul. 

Felice is deeply devoted to the Divine Feminine. She has worked with living Masters of Interfaith, Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu traditions in India and the United States.  Felice is initiated into the Bhodhisattva Path through the Dalai Llama, the tantric Sri Vidya Goddess tradition and lineage and the Taoist Kouk Sun Do.  Felice invites everyone to explore their creative potential and power as a way to experience their own Beauty. She provides a sacred and safe setting for experimentation and play. Felice is dedicated to helping all Beings recognize their birthright to joy and inherent divinity.

Felice has trained and danced with companies all over the world, including The Martha Graham Dance Company,  Ballet West, Southwest Regional Ballet, Mark Morris, David  Parsons, George Zoritch (Royal Ballet/Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo/”DIAGHILEV PRIZE AWARD” winner), Richard Holden, and Zuzi Dance Company School and Theater.