12/10/2025
Join us for Sacred Sunday next week with Claire Elizabeth Barratt - "Dancing the Chakras: a series of movement and vocal meditations for each chakra." Register now via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/TXoKmC1hSZy_TF8PNv66kw
From Claire: This year I have been working on a performative meditation project with my performance art/life mentor Linda Mary Montano. For many years her performance work has been deeply rooted in the chakras and together we collaborated on developing a Chakra Dance Meditation this past spring for the Religion & Art conference in London (produced by Goldsmiths University) and performed it again this summer in upstate New York.
Through developing the chakra dances I have discovered a rich source of spiritual creativity that I am excited to share with my fellow Sacred Dance Guild members in the Sacred Sunday session this month.
The Chakras come from an ancient South Asian Indian tradition of energy centers in the body. They have been integrated into Hindu, Buddhist and Yogic practices.
In my explorations into the chakras I discovered ways to personalize these energy centers and what they symbolize so that they feel relevant to me. And it is from this personal aspect that I will approach guiding our Chakra Meditations together.
Participants are welcome to bring scarves of the chakra colors to the workshop:
RED - Root - survival, safety, grounding
ORANGE - Sacral - sensuality, creativity, emotions
YELLOW - Solar Plexus - confidence, strength, assertiveness
GREEN - Heart - love, compassion, forgiveness
BLUE - Throat - communication, expression, articulation
PURPLE - Third Eye - intuition, wisdom, visions
WHITE - Crown - spiritual connection and consciousness
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Claire Elizabeth Barratt (artist moniker CillaVee) is a British interdisciplinary performing artist based in the USA. She is the director of international arts organization Cilla Vee Life Arts, established Bronx NY 2002, and has run The Center for Connection + Collaboration from her home in Asheville, NC since 2020. She has received a number of awards, including project sponsorship from JP Morgan Chase, NYSCA and the NEA. She served an apprenticeship with the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation and holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute for Creative Research with Plymouth University where she developed the Living Art performance pedagogy. She was a Co-Founder and Director for Circle Modern Dance and a Choreographer for the Knoxville Opera Company in Tennessee and performed as a dancer with Asheville Contemporary Dance Theater and for Unto These Hills outdoor drama on the Cherokee Indian reservation in North Carolina. Claire has presented work through organizations such as Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Bronx Council on the Arts, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center and Art Basel Miami, as well as continuing as a member and facilitator with the international Sacred Dance Guild since 1997 – becoming a Legacy Project approved facilitator in 2024.
She has performed and taught throughout the USA and in Canada, Europe, Japan and the Middle East. cillavee.com
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