My name is Ave Sandstrom.
I am a trauma-informed breathwork and ecstatic movement facilitator, a dancer, a poet, and a lover of life.
I believe there are worlds inside of us. Beneath the thinking mind. Beneath the stories. Beneath the identities we have gathered and the ways we have learned to hold ourselves together. There is something older. Something wilder.
Something that remembers how to move.

My work is an invitation to enter that place. Through somatic breathwork, intuitive movement, and ecstatic meditation, I guide individuals and groups into immersive journeys through the body, into sensation, rhythm, breath, trance, and feeling. Into the places where words dissolve. Sometimes we breathe. Sometimes we dance. Sometimes the body begins to shake, spin, tremble, open, and move in ways the mind could never have imagined. Sometimes we surrender to the unknown. And in that surrender, something begins to reveal itself.

For over ten years, I have explored the body alongside Ronn Stewart, through an underground intuitive
dance practice he created called MoPeD. Through this practice, I found a doorway. A way out of the mind.
A way back into the body. I learned to let movement move me. To release control. To follow sensation into places I had never been before. I learned to shake. To spin. To tremble. To surrender. To let the body speak in its own ancient language. Through movement, I began to release what I had been carrying, sadness and despair, anger and frustration,
the things I had never found words for. And slowly, something began to emerge from beneath the weight of it all. Joy. Pleasure. Freedom. Bliss. Then breathwork found me. It found me in the darkest season of my life.