Rising Stars: Meet April Axé Charmaine

Today we’d like to introduce you to April Axé Charmaine.  

Hi April, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstories with our readers?
Everything I have ever birthed through SOL VIDA has been because I have received a spirit message to create it. Through my personal healing work, I have learned to tune into spirit messages, trust my intuition and be present to receive guidance. In my past, this has led me to manifest a youth training program, The Denver Dance Project, a brick-and-mortar studio, an ecstatic dance ritual in San Francisco, dance and wellness tutorials filmed abroad to the present where the Universe has me co-creating virtual and destination dance camps and building a practitioner training program. 

I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle-free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
Everything that has been meant to be has felt inflow and had a lot of support. There are things that I have forced along the way and those have led me to what I call obstacles to growth. 

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I am well known for founding and leading SOL VIDA, a global healing dance movement that is dedicated to radical personal freedom, authentic expression, and collective liberation. We lead customizable immersive experiences in the form of virtual, hybrid, and in-person experiences for individuals, communities, and organizations. We center on Black, Brown, and The Rainbow Spectrum of identities and cultures on this planet. We use dance and healing arts as tools for transformation and a catalyst for social change. I am proud to have developed our own style of movement and methodology at this point and looking forward to sharing these tools to break down systems of oppression, help more people get free in their bodies, and use dance as a form of body medicine. Nowadays, people are also recognizing me as a co-founder of virtual and destination dance camps dedicated to intuitive sensuality and decolonizing the body through dance, connection, and nature. 

Are there any apps, books, podcasts, blogs, or other resources you think our readers should check out?
You must listen to the Intersectional Fertility Podcast with Josie Rodriguez-Bouchier; The Change Podcast by Dr. Caitlin O’Connor (which is coming out soon and all about peri-menopause); We Should All Be Millionaires by Rachel Rodgers is my favorite book currently. Nature devotion, daily movement practices, a consistent morning ritual, and prioritizing the people I care about are my ultimate grounding and guiding forces. 

Contact Info:

• Email: iamsolvida@gmail.com
• Website: www.solvidaworldwide.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/solvidaworldwide
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/forloversofdance
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/iamsolvida
• SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/ax-ah-shay