Alyssa DeCaro
Alyssa DeCaro has been exploring various forms of movement arts for 26 years including Yoga, Dance (Tap, Contact Improvisation, African, Hip-Hop, Modern, Ballet), Gymnastics and Martial Arts. She has been drumming since the age of 10 and singing came a bit later in her 20's. Alyssa discovered body music as a way to blend her love of movement and sound. For the last 4 years, she has performed with Gamelan X, a bali-bass groove music ensemble.
Alyssa has had the pleasure of studying with some amazing master teachers including Anna Halprin, Babatunde Olatunji, Ana Forrest, Vinn Marti, Suzanne Sterling, Thomas Fortel and Max Thomas. She is a graduate of the Tamalpa Institute for Movement-Based Expressive Arts Therapy and has completed the Soul Motion Movement Leadership Training. She has also completed the Forrest Yoga Teacher Certification. Alyssa developed her work at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California where she has been teaching classes and workshops since 2002. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Through the journey of teaching and performing, she is constantly amazed at the capacity of creative energy that is within each of us. Alyssa finds deep joy in drawing this out of people who may have temporarily forgotten how to access the source within. It is from her own dedicated practice that Alyssa finds the overflowing abundance of this work.
www.OpeningPresence.com
www.BodyofSound.com
www.GamelanX.com