Come back to your body.
Come back to life.
Trauma-informed somatic breathwork, ecstatic movement, and guided inner journeys, an invitation to leave the mind and enter the living landscape of the body.
There are worlds inside of us, beneath the thinking mind.
Something older. Something wilder. Something that still remembers how to move, to breathe, to tremble, to open, to feel.
This work is an invitation to enter that place. Not to fix. Not to perform. Only to return to what has always been there beneath the noise.
Three doorways into the body.
1:1 Breathwork
A private hour where breath meets story, sessions shaped for your nervous system, your grief, your bliss.
Group Journeys
Guided by breath and sound. A collective descent into breath, feeling, and the field we create together.
1:1 Breath+Movement
Ecstatic movement threaded with breathwork, shaking, spinning, softening, until the body remembers.
A sand dollar does not survive the ocean by resisting it.
Its intricate body is designed to let the water move through.
The currents pass through its delicate structure, carrying life around and through it without sweeping it away. It does not fight the ocean. It learns how to move with it.
We are not so different. Our bodies, too, are designed for flow. Somatic breathwork and movement offer a way back, to soften the places that have learned to brace, to become permeable, to bend without breaking.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BECOME STRONGER BY BECOMING HARDER.
MEET AVE
A guide, a dancer, a poet, a lover of life.
Ave is a trauma-informed breathwork and ecstatic movement facilitator. For over a decade she has explored the body as a doorway, a way out of the mind, a way back into being alive.
Her work is an invitation to follow breath, sensation, and the impulse to move, into the strange and beautiful mystery of being here.
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What moves through others.
Ave holds space like the ocean holds a shell. I left feeling more myself than I have in years.
Maya R.
Something ancient moved through me. Her guidance is deeply safe and wildly alive at once.
Christopher W.
The most beautiful, honest breathwork I have ever encountered. It felt like coming home.
Sofia L.
SAND DOLLAR SOMATICS
A sanctuary for coming home to the body. Trauma-informed breathwork, ecstatic movement, and guided inner journeys with Ave Sandstrom.
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