POP IN / POP OUT: PRACTICE with Zaquia Luisa
PRACTICE is a four-hour workshop that folds together breath, yoga asana, guided movement improvisation, meditation, and rest into one continuous inquiry. Each modality informs the next as we return to a few focused questions about the balance of embodied and energetic depth and stability: What does it mean to go deeper without losing ground? How do we stay steady and responsive? Where does curiosity about sensation or intensity serve us, and where does it pull us away from stability, subtlety, and rest?
Expect an unhurried practice: grounding through breath and asana, opening into improvisational exploration, settling into meditation, and ending in deep rest.
Open to all, though prior yoga and dance experience is helpful. While the studio has some mats and props available, please bring your own yoga mat and any props you may have (for yourself or to share) such as blocks, yoga strap or scarf, yoga blankets, bolsters, etc. to ensure maximum possible support! Come dressed in layers.
Schedule
10:00-10:15am: arrival
10:15-11:00am: opening circle + guiding questions for practice
11am-1:00pm: practice (breath, movement, mediation)
1:00-1:15pm: bio break
1:15pm-2pm: integrate, reflect, discuss, close
Zaquia Luisa (she/her)
Zaquia Luisa (MFA, E-RYT) is a dance artist invested in movement as an act of reclamation and world-building. Her work engages diasporic memory, practices for collective liberation, and interdisciplinary form, centering collaboration and response-ability. Originally from San Diego, Zaquia is the founder and Director Emerita of DISCO RIOT. In addition to creating and performing her own work, she serves as a Lecturer in Dance Practice at UC Santa Barbara, Resident Curator at ODC Theater (San Francisco) and RADFest (Kalamazoo), and facilitates creative projects and professional development for artists through her company, Ephemeral Artery. Her 200-hour yoga teacher training program, built specifically for dancers, welcomed its inaugural class in 2026. Learn more at ZaquiaSalinas.com and EphemeralArtery.org.
@dancin_zaq // zaquiasalinas.com
