Awareika — Movement, Awareness & Connection

Where mind, feeling and movement meet awareness.

Turn the Light OM!

Awareika is a transformative movement and awareness practice in Dallas, Texas, designed to explore the connection between body, mind, feeling, and movement. It invites you to move beyond the familiar, become more present in your body, and discover how movement can transform the way you feel, think, and connect. Explore Awareika and experience what becomes possible when you move with awareness.

Discover Awareika’s unique approach to movement, awareness, and human connection through our signature “Turn the Light OM!” program. Each session invites you to connect more deeply with your body, bring greater awareness to every movement, and transform the way you connect with others through the practice of mindful connection.

EXPLORE TURN THE LIGHT OM!

Discover the energy and connection of Latin dance. Explore Salsa, Bachata, Merengue and Reggaeton while developing rhythm, musicality, confidence and freedom in movement — from your first steps to social dancing.

EXPLORE LATIN DANCE

Khaldoun Abou Khier

Founder of Awareika

Creator of the Turn the Light OM! Method

Meet the Founder

I spent my life learning how the body moves. Then I discovered that the body can teach us how to live.

My name is Khaldoun Abou Khier, and Awareika was born from a simple but profound question:

What happens when we stop treating the body as something we control—and begin listening to it as something that knows?

My journey has taken me through very different worlds: dentistry and orthodontics, dance and choreography, martial arts, yoga, meditation, and body-oriented approaches to human experience.

At first, these paths seemed separate. Over time, I began to see the connection.

They were all teaching me the same thing:

The human body is not just a physical structure. It is a living language.

From Understanding the Body to Experiencing It

My professional education began in dentistry and orthodontics, where I learned to look at the human body with precision.

Structure. Balance. Function. Pressure. Alignment. Connection.

But outside of medicine, another part of me was developing.

For many years, I immersed myself in dance and choreography, particularly Salsa. I performed, competed, organized festivals, and worked with movement as a way of communicating without words.

I also spent years studying Kung Fu, yoga, meditation, and the relationship between physical sensation and emotional experience.

These disciplines gave me something that no single profession could provide: different ways of seeing the same human being.

The scientist sees structure.

The dancer feels movement.

The martial artist understands presence.

The yogi observes breath.

And the human being experiences all of it at once.

From knowing to feeling

I became fascinated by a simple question:

Why is understanding something not always enough to change it?

We may know we should relax, trust, communicate, or connect—yet the body can respond differently.

This space between what we know and what we feel led me to explore movement, breath, emotion, awareness, and human connection.

From this exploration, Turn the Light OM! began to emerge.

Signature Movement Practice

Turn the Light OM ! is not simply a dance class.

It is not traditional yoga. It is not psychotherapy. And it is not about performing movements correctly.

It is an embodied awareness practice.

The intention is simple:

Turn the attention inward.
Feel what is happening.
Move it.
Understand it.

Connect with yourself — and with another human being.

The body becomes the starting point.
Movement becomes the language.
Breath becomes the bridge.
Awareness becomes the destination.

Each Turn the Light OM! session is a journey through presence, movement, connection, and awareness.

It unfolds through Arrival, Physical Consciousness, Dynamic Meditation Dance, Contact, Heart Speech, Couple Meditative Dance, and Life Awareness— each experience opening a different way to connect with yourself and others.

The goal is not to become a better dancer, but to become more present in your own life.

Why Awareika?

Modern life keeps us in our heads—thinking, planning, judging, performing. Yet the body often expresses what words cannot.

Awareika creates a space to slow down, listen, move, and reconnect— not to become someone else, but to become more fully yourself.

Come as you are

You don't need to be a dancer, flexible, or experienced in meditation. You don't need to know exactly what you're looking for.

All you need is the willingness to be present.

My role is not to tell you how to live, but to create an experience where you can discover something for yourself— through movement, breath, awareness, and connection.