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Satori is the original Shamanic Cheerleader, artistic director, and captain of the squad. Her passion for dancing and her commitment to the healing arts have been the foundation of her creative career. Satori trained in ballet and jazz for 15 years in New Mexico and in college went on to expand her repertoire to include Modern, Flamenco and Ballroom dancing. She performed Tango with Top Hat Productions in Santa Fe and got her first taste for inspiring large crowds as "Lucy Lobo" winning "Best Female Mascot" in1996 in the WAC. Satori's performance experience includes ongoing gigs in stilt walking/stilt dancing, choreography, face painting and interactive character work for companies such as Earth Circus, Skyana, and Gregangelo. She toured with the jam band, The String Cheese Incident™ as the coordinator and choreographer for onstage dance acts from 1998 – 2001. In recent years she has been sharing her talents not only on stage but also as a dance teacher and dance therapist, having graduated from the Tamalpa Institute in movement based expressive arts.
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Crescendo, a founding member of the Shamanic Cheerleaders, is the energy ball of the group. She is aptly known as Crescendo, bringing waves of it wherever she goes! With jumping beans in her booty shorts and hips that have a mind of their own, she creates impromptu choreography on the spot. Philly-born and bred, her swirls around the dance floor raise the vibration and inspire the desire in all of us to let go and be free.
Tumbling performances and competitive gymnastics occupied Crescendo's youth, while theatre and dance of all varieties filled her teen and collegiate years. She has studied West African, Brazilian & classical Indian dance, modern, belly dance, salsa and swing, and performed with the east coast hip-hop group, Absolute N.R.G.
When not dancing, Wendy is still moving. She is a Vinyasa yoga teacher at Yoga Tree (Castro), Mission Yoga and the Sports Club/LA in San Francisco. She also loves working one-on-one during private yoga sessions and is currently exploring the healing path of Yoga Therapy. With the remaining energy she has left, Wendy teaches a spin class (indoor cycling) twice a week. Ever the explorer, Wendy has dabbled in fire poi, hooping and stilt walking and is about to embark upon vocals and aerial arts if she can sit still long enough.
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Afterchakra, has been bringing a vibration of elation and a spirit of play to the Shamanic Cheerleaders since early 2007. A native Los Angelino, she brings a strong hip-hop & pop influence to her craft of word-smithing poignant innuendos and witty cheers.
Afterchakra's highly charismatic stage presence is inspired by the many dynamic dance and movement styles she has studied and or taught including hip-hop, West African dance, acro-yoga, lindy hop/swing, ball room dance, drag can-can and samba. She moved to the bay area in 2005 with the intention to find a performance group that was as eclectic as she was!
Off stage Afterchakra has had an ongoing connection to the healing arts, and has studied traditional healing methods from India, China, Tibet, Africa Europe and the Americas and with Peruvian and Columbian shamans. Her commitment to inspiring wellness in the lives of those around her led her to open a private naturopathic medical practice that she has been running successfully for 10 years.
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Divine is one of the founding members of the Shamanic Cheerleaders and has been performing with them since their current incarnation began in early 2006. Brimming with creative prowess, she designed and sewed the original costumes for the Cheerleaders and has birthed several of their cheers from late-night verbal inspirations. Divine embodies the infinite source that is greater than the individual self. Her practice is to transcend the ego and its attachments and to express the divine flow that feeds all of creation.
By day, Divine is known as Dana Ingersoll and works as a Psychotherapist with adults and foster youth. She is trained as a yoga teacher in the Anusara tradition and has maintained a daily yoga practice since 1997. She has also had a daily meditation practice since 2000 in the Buddhist Vipassana tradition, with extensive silent retreat experience.
Divine has been wiggling and dancing since birth, performing dance, hula hoop, and expressive acrobatic antics at festivals and events in the San Francisco Bay area since 2003. Her divine energy has catalyzed innumerable dance floors into revelry through uninhibited rambunctiousness.
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Rapture is one of the newest members of the Shamanic Cheerleaders and having recently moved to the Bay area from Sydney, Australia . Rapture brings with her from down under a vast and colorful background in dance, martial arts and acrobatics.
She was launched into her professional dancing career at age 14 when she won the Guido Hertz scholarship to train full time at the Geneva Dance Center in Switzerland . It was soon there after that Rapture began her 8 year training and performing for 8 subsequent years with Kung Fu Master Wei Tam Tai at the CCK academy.
Rapture was as an Aerial dancer for 'Legs on the wall' in Sydney for over 5 years. She performed with LOTW in 'Eora Crossing" which was presented at the 2004 Sydney festival as well as in a number of large-scale corporate shows. Most recently was the 2007 'Esprit vertical catwalk' in which she danced on the outside wall of a building 110 metres tall, using a vertical counterweighted system. During that time she co-created 'Martial Percussion', an exciting fusion of percussive instruments, martial arts and dance. As Rapture, she will capture your attention with her explosive and exciting style.
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Shakti-KHAN was born and raised in Vancouver, BC . As a child she was a dancer and competitive gymnast with her first professional training being at the Main Dance Intensive Professional Training Program in Vancouver . Since then, Shakti-KhAN has been lighting up the international stage with dance, voice, acrobatics, stilts, in-line skates, fire and aerials.
Since 2000 she has worked as an aerialist with many companies including Mortal Coil, Flyaway Productions, Project Bandaloop and Aeriosa dance. Her expertise includes apparatus such as - hoop, rope and harness, trapeze, tissue and other custom designed props.
currently she is recording her original songs and works independently as a choreographer and teacher. She is new to the Shamanic Cheerleaders and is so excited to be part of this fantastic troupe of women who spread light, fun and positive energy through dance, cheers and musicality.
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Flow, resident of San Francisco since 1999, joined the Shamanic Cheerleaders in early 2008. Bringing to the troupe her infectious cheekiness and graceful poise, her colorful presence on stage reflects her eclectic background and her ongoing passion for physical wellness and expression.
After college, Flow made the quantum leap from business studies into the fitness industry where she worked for several years as a certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor.
Flow has danced and explored movement arts since the age of four, and in early 2007 foundedHooliehoop, a wellness company designed to educate instructors and students in the movement art of hoopdance.
Flow performs and teaches regularly throughout California , sharing her hooping, stilt-walking, face-painting, acting, and singing skills as a means to elicit joy and passion in the lives of others.
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