“Valerie is a master of creating a space where truth is revealed, souls are fully expressed and love flows easily. Thank you for the stillness, presence, motion, and grace of last night’s dance.”
— Marlena De Carion, Coach & Mindfulness Leader & Faculty at CTI (The Coaches Training Institute)
“Thank you Valerie Chafograck for your beautiful offering… It was an experience for this dancer where so much heart and wisdom was present on the dance floor. Your teaching occurs on so many levels; spirit, soma, and social. You are offering movement for our times.”
— Vincent Martinez-Grieco Founder, designer of Soul Motion
“Valerie holds a container for the unfolding of pure presence! What a blessing!! Thank you.”
— Michelle Baity, Massage Therapist
“I am so grateful for Valerie Chafograck and her Soul Motion offerings and how this practice has sustained me in the last months. I am grateful for how Valerie centers racial justice in her teaching, how her somatic guidance is grounded in decolonization, and that she models self care and slowness. This is such a support in this journey.”
— Siri Gunnarson, Guide at School of Lost Borders, Council Carrier and Trainer
“Valerie cares for each individual on her dance floor and creates a gentle and clear guidance that includes everyone, all the time, with much heart! Her guidelines, invocations and invitations have blossomed a shared consciousness of joyful consent with room for boundaries and vulnerabilities for all to be respected and held on a collective dance of Love.”
— Riki Bloom, MFT
“It was such a joy to experience my first Soul Motion dance, and your heartfelt leadership into the wisdom of opening to the diversity right before us. Gratitude for your love and shine.”
— Carrie Smith-Hardee, Wellness Coach at Thrive Wellness
“Valerie Chafograck is an absolute gem in the world of conscious dance! She brings deep embodied wisdom about the Soul Motion® practices and instills in her students an authentic sense of gratitude, self-love, creativity, spontaneity and pure joy. She has an incredible breadth of musical knowledge and repertoire that she plays as if a conductor orchestrating a symphony of exquisite diversity.
I have been part of Valerie’s classes and workshops for five years and I am completely hooked. As a retired professional modern dancer, I have searched for a way to blend my passion for dance and my wish to be free with my body in ways that express my truest self. Valerie provides the perfect playground for all the parts of me. I am forever grateful for her commitment to conscious dance, to her own growth as a spiritual being, and to her community of students.”
— Sarah Crowell, Artistic Director at Destiny Arts Center
“Valerie’s online Soul Motion class is nothing short of miraculous. With grace, creativity, and *amazing* playlists, Valerie generously cultivates a healing collective field.... online! She has the unique ability to remotely curate the energy — simultaneously cultivating inner exploration and sense of belonging. Valerie’s classes have been a critical resource during these challenging times and have provided me with a grounding, invigorating, longitudinal experience that fills me with resilience and connection with loving community.”
— Deborah Cohan, Foundation for Embodied Medicine
“Feeling so deeply nourished by this practice, by the dancers, by Valerie’s beautiful guidance and music played, by the sacredness and playfulness that was created tonight. Thank you!!! I’m in love, again.”
— Donna Carroll, Chief Movement Officer at Ecstatic Dance Oakland
