Melissa Michaels is a doctor of education, a longtime life-transition midwife for communities and individuals, an embodied rite-of-passage and movement facilitator, youth mentor, community activist, and author who has seen hundreds of youth come of age through the programs of her Golden Bridge nonprofit, and has held spaces for numberless communities to move, dance, heal and come whole through the power of dance, ritual, and community. Melissa Michaels as she weighs in on these powerful questions, and speaks to the importance of finding one’s soul path vs. How does one know that they are standing at a threshold whose crossing is a promise that life will never be the same? What gives us the power to move through the toughest, the biggest, or the most influential turning points of our lives? And why are the body and the heart, dance and community our best allies in both personal and collective rites of passage? Listen to our conversation with Dr. Crossing the Threshold: Body, Dance, and village in Rites of Passage, with Melissa Michaels, ED.D.
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