SESSIONS
“What’s so powerful about Tika’s work is that she teaches us to connect with our bodies not just in dance but in our day to day life as well…” Stephanie W.
My Perspective
One-on-One Sessions | In-Person & Virtual
One-on-one sessions provide an individualized experience tailored entirely to your current needs. Whether we are breaking down complex choreography, tuning your musicality, or anchoring a new way of carrying yourself, this work bridges the physical and the psychological.
Dance is not merely about movement; it is about how we move through life. It is a discipline of the mind. Many clients combine virtual dialogue sessions with in-person physical integration. Ultimately, my role is to support you in finding your way home to yourself.
Expression Sessions | Private Groups
Designed for two or more participants, Expression Sessions dive into the nuances of partnering, performance anxiety, or advanced choreography. The breakthroughs we achieve in these sessions serve as tangible keys you can carry forward directly into your personal dance practice.
Curated private group sessions are available by appointment.
Virtual Dance | Coaching
Virtual sessions offer dedicated alignment for where you are now and where you want to go. Together, we illuminate what needs to be cleared, integrated, or let go of to support your health and vitality. Whether your focus is dialogue, choreography, or physical conditioning, the principle remains the same:
What we transform internally alters how we move through the world, both on and off the dance floor.
“DANCE IS LIFE” Strength Training
Working with weight resistance does not need to be punishing—only consistent, intentional, and integrative. True strength training enhances our vitality and fundamentally changes how we express our movement on the dance floor.
My approach to iron and resistance is entirely somatic; it trains you to move with deep attention to form, alignment, and internal feeling. Weight resistance is a powerful tool for reclaiming personal power. We approach this work through a non-goal-oriented lens, treating it not as a chore, but as an essential enhancement to everyday life.
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I began working one-on-one with clients in 2011, and it remains one of my deepest passions. I specialize in guiding women through potent moments of life transition—including career shifts, identity evolution, and relationship changes.
Having lived globally and spent 25 years developing my craft, I bring an international perspective to every session I facilitate. My background spans dance, theater, music, and meditation. This artistic lineage, combined with running my own business since 2005, allows me to offer a nuanced, diverse framework for how we navigate our lives and move through the world.
I am deeply committed to a somatic approach to dance, fitness, and mental well-being. As a performer, choreographer, and movement facilitator, I help individuals unlock their unique self-expression, release stored stress, claim their physical strength, and step into a new sense of somatic freedom.
Whether you want to advance your journey as an adult dancer, embark on a conscious strength practice, prepare for public speaking, or find your way back to your center—our work together is entirely tailored to you now.
It begins with a conversation.
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TESTIMONIALS
“Every time I work one on one with Tika it’s different! The work that we do in sessions, workshops and retreats not only addresses my physicality, but also my emotional and spiritual well-being at the same time. Our work encompasses not only my reach in dance, but also affects my daily life. Tika’s work has given me an awareness of how I move through the world and opened me up to new experiences, a deeper sense of presence and joy!” P Defechereux Scientist / HIV researcher
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TRUE BEAUTY SESSIONS
Monika Dancing in Morning Light. November 2025
As we move rapidly toward an AI-driven world, I notice a global trend: women trying to look like identical avatars. Across every culture, size, and age, there is a push toward conformity.
But what about your unique, unrepeatable beauty?
I see the raw elegance in you when we dance, and I witness the profound transformations that occur when you step into your power. When I capture these moments on film, the results leave me speechless.
True Beauty Sessions lend my creative eye, photographic background, and movement direction to a new format designed to archive your essence through photography, video, or both.
Phase 1: Creative Visioning | We collaborate to map out your concept, intention, and aesthetic.
Phase 2: Creative Direction | We curate your styling, color palette, location concepts, and movement for the camera.
Phase 3: The Session | A dedicated, 2-hour on-location photography and movement session.
The Portfolio | A curated collection of your finest images, beautifully edited, formatted, and delivered.
We bring this vision to life together.
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“There is something so powerful about being seen for who you really are.
Tika creates space to see and embrace my true self, revel in my light, and dance with my shadows.”
- Mónica Itzel Henestroza
“Through Tika’s work, I have deepened my connection and intimacy with myself and discovered more of who I am and how I move through the world, both on and off the dance floor. I have strengthened my capacity to move more intentionally. Through developing myself as a dancer, I have also deepened my understanding of how to support my own psychotherapy clients in a similar process of self-discovery and empowerment. Learning with Tika has truly been a great gift in my life!”
Tamara R, Somatic Psychotherapist
Through her lifetime of study Tika has gained a deep understanding of the body and has helped me to understand, love and appreciate my body. I feel stronger and more aligned on all levels through the work we have done together. I couldn’t have done this work with anyone else. Her wisdom and deep knowledge of the body / mind connection and her dedication to awakening this in others is a rare gift Marguerite C.
The Hoffman Institute
“Tika has been an amazing teacher to help me navigate transitions in my life. What we do on the dance floor and in our private sessions or in the retreats, is not just about dance…. It’s been really powerful to work with Tika to remember and to rediscover how to operate from a place of confidence in transitions in my life. Those are lessons that sit within my inner core that I can carry through my professional life, into my relationships, into being a mother. She has been an amazing teacher about so many things, not just what’s on the dance floor.”
Sunita M
“Tika encouraged me to not be afraid of the gym and to use it as a tool to improve my dancing. I worked with Tika one on one to develop a program to incorporate exercises that are specific to dance. It has improved my technique exponentially. Over all the strength aspect has not only improved my dancing but my life as well. Working with Tika is like learning how to move all over again in a new way. With more embodiment more consciousness. Now when I move around the world on the dance floor, off the dance floor, I do feel more grounded, more aware ”Polina L
“What she sees in you when you dance and what she sees that you need is usually what you need outside of dance… Rediscovering dance through Tika has really helped me reconnect with my body.” Radha W.
“What’s so powerful about Tika’s work is that she teaches us to connect with our bodies not just in dance but in our day to day life as well. For me that’s changed how I walk, my posture, how I hold myself. Even how I care about my body. As we get older we generally feel like our health declines but yet I feel like this is one of the healthiest times in my life just because of this new sense of awareness. Stephanie W.
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