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Tasha is a celebrated international DJ, educator, co-founder of PhDJ and founder of BODY LVNGUAGE known for liberating hips in the world’s most legendary clubs (Cielo, Output, Verboten, House of YES) and wildest festivals (Envision, Lightning in a Bottle, Burning Man, Wanderlust, Beloved) as well as museums, churches, helipads, boats, roving desert ships, forests and mountaintops everywhere. 

With a background in somatics, trauma healing, comparative religious and consciousness studies, she is obsessed with catalyzing movements that reconnect and transform. She’s here to welcome you home into your mastery and call your embodied leadership into its highest form.

Born in France to a displaced Czech father and music-loving British mother, Alexa lives in Bristol, England. She's worked in marketing and production for a disabled-led circus company and social justice-centred arts projects, performed as a clown and drag king, and is known as LEXX behind the decks. As a DJ, she creates sexy spaces where gender gets bent and all being are held in love. She serves radical open-mindedness, embodied mentorship, and vibes that bring us back to our body magic. Listen to her mixes on soundcloud here.

Power re-generator, permission ignitor and GPS to your primal self, Michael’s love for dance music is decades old. Diving into PhDJ turned his love affair with the dance floor into a full blown sexy open marriage. V’s musical vibe is deep and guttural - anything that will activate primal instincts. His 25 years of coaching experience is going to translate into some fun, rapid, fear-friending transformation for up and coming PhDJ s. Find him on IG @michaelvadacchino. Look for his "Primal Disco" party and his "Love & Muscles" fitness experience at michaelvdj.com. Listen on soundcloud.

It took a global pandemic + PhDj to bring Shoshana back to her first love of dance music after three decades telling stories in SF, NYC and LA. As a dancer, actor, director, producer and sound designer, her hips were awakened in 90s nightclubs and have been buzzing ever since. She’s the founder of non-profit performing arts school, Young Actors Project, and now sparks up systems for transformation as a DJ. She is a Helper Priestess specializing in tool sharpening, heart holding, sharing smiles & meeting you where you’re at. Turn-ons: enthusiasm, courage, & equality in education. Groove to her music here.

Yuri comes from Chinese decent, was born in Peru, raised in Canada and now travels the world as a digital nomad. A former CPA (Chartered Professional Accountant), PhDJ magically entered her life once she acknowledged music had always been her first love. Now she serves entrepreneurs as an Online Business Manager where she turns chaos into organization, inefficiencies into kick ass systems, and loves to bring visions to life. As a PhDJ graduate and PhDJ’s BTS whiz, Yuri mixes her supercomputer genius with her deep love of music to support all the magic, medicine, and transformation created. You can catch her travel and music adventures on IG @yurichusu.

Ashley Berry (aka Xuxa Bluet), is an artist and facilitator of transformational experiences for individuals and groups. She blends her background as a dominatrix, coach, teacher, performer, ritualist, and informal clown to take people on journeys to collect parts of themselves and embody their wholeness, integrating an abundance of permission, laughter, and expression of creative energy and eros.

As a DJ, Xuxa Bluet mixes sounds of organic house, world, and experimental electronic beats with familiar pop, hip hop, soul and dance music to create sexy soundscapes that root bodies down into the earth and leave them feeling lifted. Listen to her mixes on SoundCloud here.

Backpack Jesus is here to resurrect the wild animal your parents, pastors & bosses thought they killed off years ago. Don’t try to guess what music he’s going to play. It might be two hours of shamanic drumming and Pachamama hymnals. It might be the greasiest, sexiest, booty melting bass a sinner's ever heard.

Every track is chosen to take your ego on an action packed hero’s journey to the Sun until you are ready to be tenderly, lovingly brought back to Earth more open, confident, and free.

Permission to be messy and facilitation of belonging are the trademarks of his events. Listen to his mixes on SoundCloud here.

Jess Here has been dancing and singing throughout the entire length of her memory. She grew up on three continents then moved from Kampala to NYC to study dance at The Ailey School. She has released original music, worked in nightlife, is a by-hand illustrator, and licensed Gyrokinesis trainer. All of these paths have led her to the decks. Jess designs ecospheres to hold us while we embrace ourselves, traverse our somatic and brain-tal crevices, rodeo in the undercurrent, or just float around in the juice, together. Listen to her mixes on SoundCloud here.

Having never danced or listened to non-classical music before 2020, Justine would have been voted “least likely to become a DJ.” Pandemic virtual dances changed everything. Justine firmly believes the dance has saved her life and she is committed to awakening others to the power of ecstatic dance. She is a psychiatrist, and she is now bringing the potent somatic work of therapeutic dance to those struggling with severe anxiety and trauma. She is not afraid to go deep and dark, challenging dancers to face their multifaceted natures. Her musical journeys have been described as hypnotic, intense, melodic, cathartic, and transformative. Listen to her on SoundCloud here.

Born in London and raised in Brooklyn, Oscar Buzz is a DJ, producer, and designer who works in the space between the body, brain, and environment to create experiences which ensnare the mind, and spin the soul. Oscar studied a variety of movement styles and forms while majoring in Dance at Oberlin College which have influenced his style behind the decks. He has been DJing for a decade playing venues which have ranged from Brooklyn basements and sweaty discotheques to the sound stages of Burning Man and beaches in the Bahamas. Listen to his SoundCloud mixes here.

Welcome to the wild world of DJ Mx.Defy, where finding your groove is a revolutionary act! Mx.Defy is a sonic sorcerer hailing from Pittsburgh Pa, with a background in community organizing, radical wellness coaching and somatic movement exploration. With a knack for defying expectations, Mx.Defy curates dance parties from the gut, crafting sonic ’scapes that transcend genres.They unapologetically infuse their performances with a sassy mix of wall-banging bass lines, somatic magic, and pure queer joy. Mx.Defy's sets are rallying cries, empowering audiences to move to the beat of collective liberation. Get on their dance floor, lose your freaking mind & reunite with your body <3 You can listen to their mixes on SoundCloud here.

Artist, Activist, Author and Founder of Theory of Enchantment

After a year as a Bartley Fellow at The Wall Street Journal, Chloé developed the Theory of Enchantment, an innovative framework for compassionate anti-racism that combines social-emotional learning, character development and interpersonal growth as tools for leadership development in the boardroom and beyond.

Her work has been covered in Psychology Today and her writings have appeared in the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. She’s lectured in universities across America, bringing compassion to diversity inclusion spaces with ToE.

Facilitator, strategic advisor and author of The Art of Gathering

Tasha’s personal party hero, Priya helps us rethink and reimagine how we spend our time together and infuse it with creativity and meaning.

A New York Times bestselling author, she brings expert knowledge, breadth of experience and playful humor to challenge audiences, groups and top level operations to dig down to the root of why and how we make connections, create communities, and build organizations.

Author, coach, martial arts guru and afro-buddhist teacher of Zen & the Art of BDSM

Orpheus is a Los Angeles-based somatic visionary who specializes in the application of ancient wisdom in modern day settings. With a helpful practice steeped in spirituality and intimacy, Orpheus is a living bridge between healthy sex and spiritual awareness. Through a balanced integration of Afro-Buddhism, psycho-sensuality, and Taoist teachings popularized by the martial arts, his light-hearted lessons in self, shadow, kink, dominance and submission are sought after internationally.

Actor, writer, producer, master writing coach and three-time world champion spoken word artist

He’s been featured on the BBC, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, ABC Radio National and signed to both Sage Francis’ Strange Famous Records and Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records. In 2004 he won the first Individual World Poetry Slam Finals, then went on to share the stage with nearly every notable performance poet in the world in over 2000 venues internationally from The Great Lawn of Central Park, Zimbabwe’s Shoko Festival and Scotland’s Oran Mor to San Quentin State Penitentiary and House of Blues New Orleans.

Writer, director, actor, speaker, master storyteller, Juliard professor and changemaker.

Her work as a playwright, screenwriter, director, filmmaker, actor, author, documentarian, and TV writer has taken her from the mountains of Appalachia to refugee neighborhoods in Amman; studio lots in Los Angeles to military hospitals in San Antonio; Off-Broadway rehearsal rooms to policymakers’ marble offices. She’s worked with TV producers, NGO founders, movie stars, thought leaders and filmmakers; in the New York theater, in Hollywood, at Juilliard, and in universities across the country.

Actor, innovator and founder of Committed Impulse

Josh has worked in over a hundred and fifty movies and TV shows. including The Dropout, Joker, Motherless Brooklyn, Arbitrage, Please Give, Synecdoche NY, Teeth, Phone Booth, A Beautiful Mind, Ray Donovan, High Maintenance, Mrs. Fletcher, Maniac, Younger, The Good Wife, Law and Order: SVU, The Sopranos, and Sex and the City.

Through Committed Impulse, he teaches the tools that have allowed him to be a steadily working and growing actor for 25 years. These same tools work for anyone who creates: entrepreneurs, artists, writers and yes, DJs.

International Best-selling Author of The Orgasmic Arc, Genevieve is an expert on confidently utilizing sexual energetics to create. She guides high-achievers from stagnancy and burn-out to authentic arousal, spiritual connectivity and embodied aliveness.

Beginning as a Professional Dominatrix in NYC, Genevieve has been studying and perfecting the art of erotic alchemy for over 15 years, and is shifting the cultural narrative around sexuality and bringing hope and solutions to trauma survivors. She lives at the intersection of sexuality, spirituality, quantum physics, and humanity.