SkyFire Academy Video

Countless scientific studies have now affirmed our ability to attain optimal states of health & wellness through techniques first developed in ancient cultures. While myriad, these systems all increase our capacity to use the Mind-Body Connection​ AKA “The Power Within”. The SkyFire Academy program teaches practices such as Breath~work, Visualization, Meditation & Flow Arts to increase energy, cultivate focus & achieve harmony. Between the practices, the content features perspectives based on the correlations between wisdom traditions & modern science, giving students the opportunity to lead a life filled with gratitude & grace. Essentially, our Academy teaches practitioners how to access the infinite creative energy of life itself by connecting with our inner sense of inspiration, imagination & truth.

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Teacher Bio

Michael Ravenwood was born in Tokyo, Japan and began studying Martial Arts & Meditation over 35 years ago. More than 25 years ago, he acquired an honors degree in Psychology while taking courses in Quantum Physics, Mind-Body Medicine & wisdom traditions from around the world. Over 15 years ago, Michael discovered his true passion by blending Storytelling, Martial Training & a Passion for Dance through Fire Performance.

Since then, he has become an International Cirque Performer, Event Producer, Business Owner, Speaker & Personal Empowerment Facilitator. As CEO & Creative Director of his performing arts company SkyFire Arts, Michael handles business & writes poetic pieces that convey life affirming inspiration with pointed humor. As one of its Performers, he wears a high voltage protective suit to wield 10 foot arcs of electricity from a massive Tesla coil.

He has been teaching the Art of Personal Empowerment & Fire Dance at Festivals, Cirque Schools, Dance Studios, and Privately for over 15 years. Michael became a certified Firewalking Instructor in 2017 and, in 2019, he offered an hour-long Talks at Google presentation at their LA HQ. His lifelong commitment is to empower people to realize their highest potential through the play of flow arts & sciences.

Teaching Experience

• Lightning Wielding Immersion- Infinite Energy Workshop- San Diego, CA- 2023

• The Power Within Double Staff- Infinite Energy Workshop- San Diego, CA- 2023

• Flow Arts: Embody The Power Within- Trilogy Sanctuary- La Jolla, CA- 2023

• The Power Within- SkyFire Academy Workshops- Encinitas, CA- 2023

• Staff, Sword & Art of Flow Workshops- Lucidity Festival Presentation - Santa Barbara, CA - 2022

• Art of Flow- SkyFire Academy Workshops- Encinitas, CA- 2022

• Freedom of Forgiveness - EleMENtal Balance - Virtual Event - 2021

• Art of Flow: Rituals of Excellence- Fire Garden Private Event- San Diego, CA- 2021

• Art of Flow: Foundations- So Cal Flow Fest’s “Visualize”- Virtual Event- 2020

• Light Born of Shadow - EdenWorld ReImagine Presentation - Virtual Event - 2020

• Art of Flow - Virtually Lucid Live Festival Experience Workshop - Virtual Event - 2020

• SkyFire Arts Academy Phase 1 - Orpheus Park Workshop- Encinitas, CA - 2020

• SkyFire Arts Academy Phase 1 - Station Colab Learning Institute Workshop Series - Carlsbad, CA - 2019

• SkyFire Arts: Science Meets Magic - Talks at Google Presentation - Google’s LA HQ - Venice, CA - 2019

• SkyFire Sword Performance - Lucidity Festival Workshop - Santa Barbara, CA - 2019

• Science of the Sublime - Community Speaker Series Presentation - Encinitas, CA - 2018

• SkyFire Arts Academy Art of Flow - EVE Encinitas Workshop Series - Encinitas, CA - 2018

• SkyFire Arts Academy Intro - EVE Encinitas Workshop - Encinitas, CA - 2018

• SkyFire Arts Academy Intro - Station Colab Learning Institute Workshop - Carlsbad, CA - 2018

• SkyFire Arts Academy Intro - Veteran’s Memorial Park Workshop - Los Angeles, CA - 2018

• Alchemy of Flow -Lucidity Festival Workshop - Santa Barbara, CA - 2018

• SkyFire Sword Performance - Lucidity Festival Workshop - Santa Barbara, CA - 2018

• Science of the Sublime - Lucidity Festival Presentation - Santa Barbara, CA - 2108

• SkyFire Sword Performance - IgNight Flow Arts Conference Workshop - Joshua Tree, CA - 2018

• SkyFire Double Sword Performance - IgNight Flow Arts Conference Workshop - Joshua Tree, CA - 2018

• The Eternal Champion - IgNight Flow Arts Conference Presentation - Joshua Tree, CA - 2018

• Science of the Sublime - YOUtopia Festival Presentation - Pauma Valley, CA - 2017

• Ecstatic Flow Arts - YOUtopia Festival Workshop - Pauma Valley, CA - 2017

• Science of the Sublime - Pyrotrainia Empowerment Retreat Presentation - Vista, CA - 2017

• SkyFire Arts Sword Performance - Pyrotrainia Empowerment Retreat Workshop - Vista, CA - 2017

• Embodiment of a Modern Mystic - Community Speaker Series Presentation - Encinitas, CA - 2017

• Ecstatic Flow Arts - Lucid University 3 day Workshop Immersion - Santa Barbara, CA - 2017

• Jedi Training - Ignight Flow Arts Conference Workshop - Joshua Tree, CA - 2017

• SkyFire Arts Sword Performance - Ignight Flow Arts Conference Workshop - Joshua Tree, CA - 2017

• Jedi Training - Lucidity Festival Workshop - Santa Barbara, CA - 2017

• SkyFire Arts Sword Performance - Lucidity Festival Workshop - Santa Barbara, CA - 2017

• SkyFire Arts Sword Performance - Pyrotrainia Empowerment Retreat Workshop - Vista, CA - 2016

• SkyFire Arts Staff Meditation - Aerial Revolution Cirque Academy Workshop Series - San Diego, CA - 2015

• SkyFire Arts Staff Meditation - Emerald Village Flow Dojo Workshop Series - Vista, CA - 2015

• SkyFire Arts Staff Meditation - Yoga Journal Conference Workshop - San Diego, CA - 2015

• Jedi Training - Ignight Flow Conference Workshop - Joshua Tree, CA - 2015

• SkyFire Arts Sword Performance - Ignight Flow Conference Workshop - Joshua Tree, CA - 2015

• Jedi Training - Lucidity Festival Workshop - Santa Barbara, CA - 2015

• SkyFire Arts Sword Performance - Lucidity Festival Workshop - Santa Barbara, CA - 2015

• SkyFire Arts Poi, Sword & Staff Meditation - SkyFire Arts Dojo Workshop Series - Los Angeles, CA - 2013-15

• SkyFire Arts: Ecological Cirque Theatre - MindshareLA Junto Presentation - Los Angeles, CA - 2014

• Poi, Sword & Staff Meditation - Spirits Fire Gatherings Workshop Series - Dockweiler Beach, CA - 2008-13

• Jedi Training - Ignight Flow Arts Conference Workshop - Joshua Tree, CA - 2013

• SkyFire Arts Sword Performance - Ignight Flow Arts Conference Workshop - Joshua Tree, CA - 2013

• SkyFire Arts: Ecological Cirque Theatre - Lightning in a Bottle Festival Presentation - Temecula, CA - 2013

• SkyFire Arts Staff Meditation - Lightning in a Bottle Festival Workshop - Temecula, CA - 2013

• Jedi Training - Lucidity Festival Workshop - Santa Barbara, CA - 2013

• SkyFire Arts Sword Performance - Lucidity Festival Workshop - Santa Barbara, CA - 2013

• Jedi Training - Ignight Flow Arts Conference Workshop - Joshua Tree, CA - 2012

• SkyFire Arts Sword Performance - Ignight Flow Arts Conference Workshop - Joshua Tree, CA - 2012

• Jedi Training - Lucidity Festival Workshop - Santa Barbara, CA - 2012

• SkyFire Arts Sword Performance - Lucidity Festival Workshop - Santa Barbara, CA - 2012

• Staff Meditation - Flow Temple Workshop Series @ International Dance Academy - Hollywood, CA - 2010-11

• Jedi Training - Elevate Films NYE Jedi Retreat Workshop - Ojai, CA - 2010

• SkyFire Arts Sword Performance - Fire Drums Flow Arts Conference Workshop - Santa Cruz, CA - 2009

• Kapalabhati Pranayama Breathwork - Workshop @ Lightning in a Bottle Festival - Santa Barbara, CA - 2009

• Kapalabhati Pranayama Breathwork - Workshop @ Palais de Tokyo - Paris, France - 2007
  

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SkyFire Arts Featured Innovators

Tim Ferriss

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ others) and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. The Observer and other media have called Tim “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which is the first business/interview podcast to exceed 100 million downloads. It has now exceeded 700 million downloads. Tim is leading an effort to support the medicinal use of Psilocybin for treatment of PTSD and depression with Johns Hopkins University and SkyFire Arts, Tony Robbins and many others see the importance of supporting this effort further through Tim's Crowdrise Fundraiser which you can learn more about here. SkyFire Arts feels this research inspires unity/ecological consciousness which brings many people into more healthy overall alignment. Tim has featured some of the greatest thinkers and performers of our time with authenticity and humor on his Apple Podcast, YouTube Channel and Blog, and we encourage you to look at his work further. You can start by checking out his tim.blog here

Thic Nhat Hanh

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was a global spiritual leader, poet, & peace activist, revered throughout the world for his powerful teachings & writings on mindfulness & peace. His key teaching was that, through mindfulness, we can learn to live happily in the present moment. This, he taught, is the only way to truly develop peace, both in one’s self & in the world. In honor of his peaceful transition on January 22, 2022, we want to draw attention to his work & encourage our readers to explore further on the website of his monastery here...

Gabor Mate

To find fulfillment of our creative potential and to access our full potential and use all the energy we have available to us, we need to be free of the influence our traumas can have on our creative expression. One person who has done a tremendous amount of work helping people process their traumas and reach their highest expression is Gabor Mate. Check out his last podcast with Tim Ferris above. 

Vishen Lakhiani

Vishen Lakhiani in his own words:

"I am most well known as The Founder of Mindvalley, an award-winning education movement with over millions of students worldwide and growing fast. The New York Times Bestselling Author of The Code of the Extraordinary Mind, now translated into 25+ languages. The Founder of A-Fest and Mindvalley University two major event experiences in the field of personal transformation.The Creator of Mindvalley Quests a new kind of online learning platform that produces 800% better completion rates than the industry average. A Speaker and Activist working to evolve the core systems that shape our lives - including education, work culture, politics, and wellbeing (you might have seen my exposé on Nestle, shared over 20M times).

I believe the human species is capable of extraordinary things. More than any other known species, we have a breathtaking ability to grow, create, explore, love, and solve challenges. The key to awakening this potential is UNITY. We need to come together - which is in fact our natural state. Yet instead of uniting us, many of the systems, institutions, and beliefs governing the world today are dividing us.I’m a father of two, and I want my kids to grow up in a better world. I want them to inherit a borderless and awakened world. A world where divisive politics, corporate greed, and damaging Brules (Bullshit Rules) have finally disappeared in the face of humanity’s limitless potential for growth and co-creation.I believe the solution to that world lies in raising human consciousness. Which means evolving the way people learn, grow, work, and co-create. Inspired by Mandela’s quote, “If you want to change the world, change education” I set out to start a new type of education company, one focused on unifying the world and teaching transformational education - the things that truly matter for the human race.Mindvalley was born.And today we’re a team of some 300 people from 54 countries working to build a new type of global education system that defies all the traditional rules of ‘education’." 

Gary Sinise

In acknowledgment of Mental Health Awareness Month, the SkyFire Art Featured Innovator for May is Gary Sinise.

From the Gary Sinise Foundation website, Letter From Gary, he states:

“After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, I began devoting much of my time supporting the men and women who were deploying in response to those attacks - the brave service members who, each day, protect our cities and defend our great country. Having veterans in my own family, and having been involved with supporting our military veterans going back to the 80's and 90's, it was after that terrible day I decided to become much more active in devoting my time and resources to serving our defenders however and wherever I could.”

and…

“I believe we can never do enough to express our gratitude and give support to the men and women who willingly go into harm’s way to keep us safe and free, but we can always do a little more.”

In an article by Forbes dated 2/16/2021, Gary Sinise Launches the Gary Sinise Foundation Avalon Network. This new nationwide network will provide care to veterans and first responders suffering from PTSD and TBI.

If you would like to learn more about how The Gary Sinise Foundation and the Avalon Network are supporting our nation’s men and women, you can visit the website here.

Tony Robbins

GLOBAL ENTREPRENEUR, INVESTOR, NY TIMES #1 BEST SELLING AUTHOR, PHILANTHROPIST, AND THE WORLD’S #1 LIFE AND BUSINESS STRATEGIST

Tony Robbins is a successful American businessman, an accomplished author, and a renowned philanthropist. Focusing on a range of personal development topics, he has produced a number of best-selling books and forged a reputation as a leader in his field. Widely known for his infomercials and self-help books, he has been advising other business leaders for close to 40 years.

Mr. Robbins is a leader called upon by leaders. He has worked with four U.S. presidents, top entertainers – from Aerosmith to Green Day, Usher and Pitbull, and athletes and sports teams including tennis great Serena Williams, UFC champion Conor McGregor and the NBA’s Golden State Warriors. Business leaders and financial moguls from Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff to Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates have tapped him for personal coaching.

Through his various training programs, Robbins has made a tremendous impact worldwide, with a presence in over 100 countries. Credited with developing one of the best personal and professional development programs available, his seminars have been delivered to millions of people over the years.

The New York Times describes Tony Robbins as the “high priest of human potential.” And this very well may just be true as he has managed to acquire for himself quite the following among who includes very important figures across the world such as Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Mother Teresa and three U.S. presidents, and CEOs and Olympic athletes. Millions of individuals from all over the world regularly consult with him for his guidance.

Tony Robbins is absolutely doing more than his part to keep this world a place of global unity and love. He is leading the charge of the next phase of human evolution and creating a connected world for future generations on Earth and on Threa. He would certainly be among the Guardians of Threa. 

Simon Sinek

Simon is a spark that ignites passion and ideas. He envisions a world in which the vast majority of people wake up every single morning inspired, feel safe wherever they are, and end the day fulfilled by the work they do.
As an unshakeable optimist, he believes in our ability to build this world together. A trained ethnographer, Simon is fascinated by the people and organizations that make the greatest and longest lasting impact. Over the years, he has discovered some remarkable patterns about how they think, act, and communicate, and also the environments in which people operate at their natural best. Simon may be best known for his TED Talk on the concept of WHY, which has been viewed over 60 million times, and his video on millennials in the workplace—which reached 80 million views in its first week and has gone on to be seen hundreds of millions of times.
He continues to share inspiration through his bestselling books, including global bestseller Start with WHY and New York Times bestsellers Leaders Eat Last and The Infinite Game, as well as his podcast, A Bit of Optimism.
In addition, Simon is the founder of The Optimism Company, a leadership learning and development company, and he publishes other inspiring thinkers and doers through his publishing partnership with Penguin Random House called Optimism Press. His unconventional and innovative views on business and leadership have attracted international attention, and he has met with a broad array of leaders and organizations in nearly every industry.
He frequently works with different branches of the US Armed Forces and agencies of the US government, and is an adjunct state member with the RAND Corporation—one of the most highly regarded think tanks in the world. Simon is also active in the arts and with not-for-profit work, or what he likes to call the for-impact sector. In 2021, he founded The Curve: a diverse group of forward-thinking chiefs and sherifs committed to reform modern policing from the inside-out.Their purpose is to build a profession dedicated to protecting the vulnerable from harm while advancing a vision of a world in which all people feel justice is administered with dignity, equity, and fairness.
He is truly an inspired and passionate man doing his part to change the world and the leaders in it. We at SkyFire believe he is absolutely among the guardians of Threa.