SkyFire Arts Academy

Our Academy classes teach the Art of Flow as it relates to movement arts, like fire dancing, and to our every day lives. Facilitator, Michael Ravenwood, pulls from his many fields of study including meditation, movement, psychology, and quantum physics to explore how discoveries in these fields can inform how we find balance and joy.

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Firewalking: a Journey of Transformation & Self Discovery

I’m ECSTATIC to report that I’ve had the most incredible, transformative experience of my life and am wanting to share some of the highlights with you! I recently graduated from a Firewalking Instructor Training (aka FIT), where I received my official certification from Master Firewalking Instructors Kevin Axtell & Tolly Burkan. Tolly is Kevin’s mentor & the man who taught Firewalking to Tony Robbins himself. They are both so humble, funny & wise… what an honor and a pleasure it was!!!

Throughout my life, I’ve overcome tremendous difficulties in order to become a truly happy person. At 19 years old, I had a sudden awakening which shattered my misery and put me on a journey of self discovery. Since then, I’ve spent years studying a multitude of paths of personal development on the road to this level of personal satisfaction.

My explorations in excellence have included training in Meditation, Kung Fu, Yoga, Ninjitsu, Vipassana, Flow Arts, Mind-Body Medicine, Psychology & even practical applications of Quantum Physics. The amazing thing is that the FIT truly tied it all together for me. It focused on so many concepts which are at the heart of those practices, and the lessons felt totally true to my experience of life.

Not only was I shown the ways to build & tend a fire to safely conduct a Firewalk, but we were taught how to facilitate Glasswalking, a Trust Fall, Arrow, Board & Brick Breaking, Rebar Bending & (drum roll please…) how to Put a 5” needle through your hand… without bleeding or crying ; )

Quite naturally, we had to participate in all of these activities before being certified to teach them, and the course taught me so many lessons truly demonstrating how EVERYTHING holding us back from achieving the life we want for ourselves is really in our minds. My main takeaways include the incredible power of:

• Arriving early for everything

• Paying full & complete attention to the moment

• Staying present to the internal feelings arising when making choices

• How there is time for everything (fast/slow, pleasure/challenge, giving/receiving)

• How to stay emotionally aware no matter what the external environment is like

• Being TOTALLY ok that I’ll never figure it out… because that IS figuring it out

It’s always been my greatest wish to share the wisdom I was taught on my journey and open a path for others to experience the love I have in my heart for this life. This training has given me innumerable tools for sharing my ecstatic joy with others. I’m so excited to empower people to perform these inconceivable exercises, as I believe that it takes the willingness to face fear and darkness to truly find love and walk in the light.

What’s the next step?!? I’m going to include the essence of this fantastic material in my SkyFire Arts Academy classes!!! I’m starting to teach again January 21 with a 3 hour Intro Workshop. Then, starting Feb 5th, I’m teaching Phase One, which is a 6 Week Series every Monday night 7:30-9:30. I’m holding these events at the most amazing holistic health & wellness center I know of… The Station Colab! The ultimate goal is to offer people who are committed to their personal development path the chance to conquer a primal fear… and dance with lightning using Tesla coils!

If you’d like to receive the official announcement & links to more info, please click here and sign up for our newsletter. I hope to see many of you join me at these unique opportunities for fun and personal enrichment … Much Love!!! 

-Michael Ravenwood

SkyFire Arts at Pyrotrainia 2017

SkyFire Arts Director, Michael Ravenwood, in addition to teaching several Flowshops,  shared his inspiring story of a sudden, unexpected awakening experience. In this video he shares the moment of his rebirth and how the perspective its given him would completely transform the modern world. He tells of how, through a remarkable “coincidence”, he came to be among the only people in the world to dance with real, high voltage electricity. Most importantly, he provides scientific reference for a picture of reality which spiritual teachers have been describing for thousands of years, and offers a path for anyone in the audience to discover the ultimate truth of life for themselves. We hope you enjoy the video!

Pyrotrainia is a fire artist empowerment training retreat. This year we celebrated their 10th annual event. Attendees experienced the transformational power of firewalking, fire dancing, board-breaking, juggling, intention setting, group activities, and so much more. It was a profound experience and attendees learned how to cultivate their inner fire while refining their skills in dancing with fire.

SkyFire Arts at YOUtopia 2017

Michael Ravenwood offered a freestyle, ambient fire performance at YOUtopia this year, and you can check out a sample of his show in the video above!

He also facilitated a workshop called Elemental Flow, covering the basics of wielding an instrument for the pleasure of dance and the art of performance. In addition to the fundamental concepts of body movement & object manipulation, it offered participants an introduction to the way performers use eye contact and body language to express an intention and tell their story. He facilitated one part for adults and another for children, as it’s never too early to learn to express oneself creatively through movement!

SkyFire Arts at Lightning in a Bottle Festival 2013

Our Creative Director, Michal Ravenwood, is teaching at LIB this year. Look for our classes in the LIB Festival Program!