"When we engage in spiritual dance practices, our bodies become the prayer and we can dialogue with the creator of all things, awakening to the knowledge that is both within and all around us."
Carla has an abundance of professional experience as a performer, choreographer, artistic director, dance educator, and business owner. She has also spent more than half of her life dedicated to the sacred arts and serving in a variety of spiritual leadership positions. Her most cherished role within spiritual communities is that of a priestess wherein she creates and guides others through embodied rituals and movement prayers to honor and connect more deeply with the divine. Time and time again she’s witnessed the transformative and life-giving medicine these rituals hold. They create an intimate and powerful container that allows you to move in sync with the rhythm of Spirit.
Dance is the primary way in which Carla connects and communicates with the world of spirit. The Dancing Oracle combines her love of divination and movement, offering her clients tools and education on how to build a spiritual dance practice, embody the energy of the cosmos, and channel spiritual insight with movement. Carla has spent the past two decades offering Channeled Movement Transmissions and simultaneously developing a practice called Dance Divination to help people interpret those transmissions. She has also gained extensive experience crafting a unique process for using dance as a spiritual and energetic healing modality.
Carla's dance resume is anchored by a degree in dance performance which provided extensive training in a wide variety of dance styles, including ballet, modern, jazz, tap, contemporary, and hip-hop. She also spent two decades as the Artistic Director of Fueled & Aflame Dance Company where she produced numerous staged and spiritually-focused dance works. In 2010, Carla opened a dance studio and retail dance boutique which she managed up until the pandemic. Additionally, she spent two years as a producer for Project Dance bringing an international dance performance project to the city of Detroit. Carla is also a certified JourneyDance facilitator advocating for the use of movement and dance to support mental and emotional well-being. In this role, she offers intuitive movement classes focusing on creative expression to help you release stuck emotions and overcome mental roadblocks.
In 2019, Carla shifted her spiritual focus towards a more earth-based spiritual path and began working with lunar energy. She also immersed herself in intensive studies and educational training on the topics of tarot and astrology. Both of these practices have supported her through personal challenges as well as a major spiritual transition. Carla has since expanded her professional services to include both astrology and tarot/oracle readings as stand-alone offerings to share this type of support with her clients.
Currently, Carla is the producer and host of "The Spiritual Dance Podcast" and author of "Dance Divination: Movement that Unlocks the Mysteries of Spirit" as well as the Artistic Director of - Synergy Dance Collective. She and her partner are also working on an online platform to host self-paced educational courses on elemental dance magick, dance divination, and other spiritual dance modalities. CLICK HERE to sign-up for those programs.
Carla is available for bookings as a dance and movement instructor (both technical and spiritual), choreographer, workshop instructor, spiritual educator and healer.