Hannah Blake

Hannah is a professional dancer, and founder of The Kaia Method. Her dance journey began at The Debbie Allen Dance Academy where she trained in various forms of dance with masters from around the world. Her life changed when, at 16, she traveled to Oman with Debbie Allen for a peace initiative with the Obama Administration. It was there, as she served as a vessel for cultural bridging through dance, that she learned the power of movement far beyond its life as a performing art. From there, she went on to study World Arts and Cultures at UCLA where she graduated in 3 years, Summa Cum Laude, after immersing herself in the world of arts activism, therapy and cultural bridging, taking multiple trips to Israel-Palestine to explore diplomacy and the cultivation of peace through the arts among the younger generation.  Hannah has committed her inner world to personal inquiry ever since she can remember. She's also had an obsession with science and the relationship and interaction between spirituality, human emotion and the physical body.  In combination with these dispositions and her experiences with dance as a form of cultural bridging, it was a challenge for her to teach and perform simply for the sake of performing. Thus, during her career as a professional dancer and teacher, she began intuitively interweaving her knowledge of prana, cellular biology, meditation and expressive therapy into her personal practice and her classes. As classes became more about improvisation, inner exploration, and connecting community, her students began having enormous personal breakthroughs. And just as technical dance chose her at a young age, this new path of harnessing dance as a form of personal and collective healing began to naturally take its place. So she listened, and The Kaia Method was born.