Workshops & Experiences

This experience begins with a facilitated discussion of somatic awareness and its role in burnout intervention and prevention. We'll discuss all of the ways in which we become disconnected from our embodied experience, resulting in unmet needs and low capacity, and discuss ways to shift expectations and care for ourselves. After the discussion, Aviv facilitates a mindfulness meditation with either the voice or the tones of drums as the object of focus. This experience is great for helpers, healers and activists of all kinds.

Many things can separate us from our voice - trauma, self-doubt, illness, daily pressures of life under capitalism - and reconnecting to the sound and feeling of your singular instrument can be powerful. In these workshops, we tune into the sensations and experiences of our body and practice mindful focus, with the voice as our object. We'll connect specific movements with sounds to awaken our vessels, and engage in vocalizing together, for a luscious soundscape that allows us to notice where sound, texture, temperature, color and more live in the body. No experience needed!

Move mindfully through nature and collect its gifts to create temporal art as a collective! This embodied, tuned-in experience calls us to observe, consider and communicate with the planet and living beings around us, and always creates an inspiring result! We'll wander in a forested or other natural space, and gather materials for a mindful work of art. Altars like these are found in many traditions - mandalas created by monks and other practitioners, Native North American traditional artists, and Morning Altars, an art-making practice founded by an earth-based Jewish practitioner, among them. All of the nature altars you see on this site are my work!

Tune into the rhythms of your vessel, and explore and expand upon them with expressive movement and drumming! No experience necessary, drums and other rhythm-makers are provided! Open-registration community sessions available, as well as private workshops for groups, organizations and retreats.

Trans and queer milestones, including transition, are profound and deserve to be honored with care, reflection and celebration. Whether you've changed your name, 'came out' as your authentic self, or took a medical or social step to live the way you want - let's gather to mark the momentous occasion with ritual, creative exercises, song and/or whatever feels right for you. Aviv designs these beautiful rituals for each person (as well as hosting communal rituals), based on their specifications. 

There are so many milestones that we fly past in our busy daily lives. Slow down, reflect and mark joyful or meaningful occasions with an intentional and beautiful ritual. This could include rites of passage such as menarche, divorce, retirement, births and deaths.

Aviv is a marriage officiant, offering secular or earth-based services for marriages and unions, as well as home-goings and memorial services.