Z (aka Zahava Griss, they/them) is the founder of Embody More Love, a spiritual kinky dance community for personal and cultural liberation. Z facilitates Play with Power & Gender through Dance in Sebastopol, CA, a 3 month immersion for gender expansive folx on a sacred sexuality path. Z is also a Love Coach for individuals and couples interested in secure attachment, polyamory, gender beyond the binary, conscious dominance and submission.

Z has been dancing since 1982, training in ballet, modern, West African, Middle Eastern, Sufi dancemeditation, burlesque and contact improv. Z has had the honor of dancing with the Joffrey Ballet, Katherine Dunham, Urban Bush Women, Tania Isaac, Wanjiru Kamuyu, and Mana Hashimoto. Z trained at the Juilliard School, Tisch (NYU), NCSA, Alvin Ailey School, Princeton Ballet, Sarah Lawrence College, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Oh!ni Sowa (Ghana), and Marie Basse Wiles (Senegal.) Z is certified in Yoga for Birth, Esalen Massage, Deep Bodywork, Urban Tantra, Pilates, Health Coaching, and Femme. Z is a coach and trainer with the Academy for Coaching Excellence. Z was a founding organizer and core teacher for the international festival Touch&Play as well as a touring performance artist and author. Z directed Spiritual Nourishment for Conscious Activism in collaboration with Deepak Chopra and has been listening to, speaking in, and facilitating spaces to acknowledge and transform white privilege since 1999, including work with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, the Re-Evaluating Counseling community, the national White Privilege Conference, and co-organizing the White Privilege Symposium. Z co-founded White Folks Soul, By Any Dance Necessary, a dance company exploring the incompatibility of wholeness and the race construct for white people.