3-day movement experience
to get out of your head and let your body reconnect you to your instinct.
The full experience, recorded
Start the moment you join
VIVA is what we say when we celebrate, but also in my native language, it means ALIVE.
This is a celebration of life in the way I know best: through dance.
What each day is designed for
All six sessions included
Let the body lead before the mind has worked everything out. We'll stop trying to anticipate every movement and enjoy what our body is craving to say.
Extra session
MELT THE ARMOUR
A short release session after the main class focused on hips, spine and shoulders. The specific goal is to release some of the tension and holding that makes movement feel stiff, awkward or overly controlled.
Grounding, feet, legs, strength, breath. What happens when something becomes difficult, and you don't immediately tense, panic, judge yourself or give up? Breath becomes the thing that lets you stay inside the experience.
Extra session
CREATE MORE SPACE
A slower session focusing on:
feet and calveship flexorsribs and side bodythoracic spine
The specific goal is to create more room in the body after the stronger work. More room to breathe. More room to lengthen. More room to move without feeling compressed.
You'll learn a short choreography, but then it starts shaping around you. Change the arm. Change the timing. Repeat what feels good. Take something out. Add something. Eventually: what if it was fun to create again? Joy becomes a choice.
Extra session
BEFORE THE MIND WAKES UP
You’ll be guided through sensation, breath, music, shapes and instinct. Lymphatic drainage to allow the body to breathe and to let go of what it doesn’t need. After the previous session of creating space, we are now allowing ourselves to listen to our body and create movement that feels natural.
IN THEIR WORDS
What happens when people let the body answer
Messages from dancers who moved with me in the previous rounds.
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This is going to be so exciting. I think it is so important to get lost in the music and the movement, and to let your mind and body tell the story (or not), it needs to tell. Thank you for encouraging me to go out on this limb- and thanks for coming with me.
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I haven't really been able to do dance for quite some time due to life circumstances. It's felt overwhelming to try to do an actual lesson. This was wonderful to help get me moving again. Freely without constraints. I find myself in a crossroads in life. It was wonderful to be able to move again instead of feeling stuck. Thank you.
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This chapter was foundationally freeing - the reminder that we all do and express things slightly differently felt like a good counterbalance to my desire to uphold correct technique, and I think that's the basis of learning how to dance with my own expression, as opposed to strictly copying others.
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What a message to try to internalize. All my life, I have suffered perfectionism- one of those people who have this need to "get it right"- but it's so limiting, it's so frightening because so often I can't even begin something for fear of doing it "wrong". I am looking forward to this journey, because even though I work on letting go of perfectionism (because I can never be, right??), I just can't seem to let it fully go. Answering with my body is maybe a way to let go- I am going to try, and stumble and dare. Perhaps this is just what I need. Head off that beaten path, I will not know where I am going- maybe it will be dark, maybe it will be light, but I am going. Thank you- this is like WOW!
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I usually could not continue exercising consistently, and I often blamed myself for that. But this experience showed me something different: I can continue—I just need to do it in a way that suits me, on my own terms. It felt so refreshing. I was moving alongside Alessia, following the energy of the practice in my own way. I could feel my whole body moving, and it felt genuinely good. Thank you.
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I have a hard time creating. You know the old saying, if "you don't use it you lose it"? This dance helped me to regain some creativity and to freely express myself. Your prompts were what I needed. I felt liberated.
Choose your pass
All three days and the three extra sessions, recorded and waiting for you. Move through them at your own pace, as many times as you like.
Evergreen Pass
$95
✓ 3-Day Experience, fully recorded
✓ VIVA pop-up community
✓ Every session yours to rewatch
✓ Melt the Armour – extra session
✓ Create More Space – extra session
✓ Before the Mind Wakes Up – extra session
Studio Member
Included as Studio perk
✓ Everything in the Evergreen Pass
✓ Recordings inside Studio while membership is active
Is this for you?
Who this is for
You're an adult dancer and realised technique is not everything. You want to learn how to let your body go and express yourself with movement.
You're a movement teacher and you feel that your practices are not "yours" anymore. Constantly pleasing others and rarely yourself. You're looking to create sessions that are unique to you.
You're a disciplined adult dancer who loves rules and structure, but you're now ready to explore what your body wants to express and feel alive in it.
You've been striving for perfection in your adult ballet journey and want a taste of what happens when you let your body break the rules for once.
Why should you join?
A message from Alessia
I have spent way too long perfecting the rules, being the person who does it all right, worrying about what others think, and whether it's right to want to do something that is… out of the box. When my mind takes over, I feel pulled in too many directions, too many what-ifs and should-I-s. Too many questions, too many options make me freeze. I feel stuck.
There is something unique I've learned to do when I feel this way. I move. I let my body take over and tell me exactly the answer I need to hear. Letting my body lead the way has always got me unstuck, made me feel accomplished and alive.
The beautiful thing? All the answers to your questions are right within you. You just need to move and listen to what your body has known all along.
THREE LINES THAT STAYED WITH ME
I feel like I'm at the very beginning of listening to how my body wants to move, instead of simply telling it how I want it to move. And I want to hear more.
I certainly wasn't expecting this. I started dancing, after your first audio message, and it felt weird, first; then, it felt like I was that girl of 19 who thought she was really a swan.
Wow, I'm impressed. I don't comment that often but I feel like I should this time to thank you for this wonderful experience.