Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Online Series: Body Mapping ~ with Natan Daskal

Online Series: Body Mapping ~ with Natan Daskal
March 3, 2022 @ 10:00 am - March 31, 2022 @ 11:30 am PST
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$65
4 Thursdays: Mar 3, Mar 10, Mar 17, Mar 31 | 10-11:30am PST | $65/series

Each part of our bodies is unique: each has developed specific functions, moves in particular ways, and has its own stories to tell and dances to dance. In this 4-part series, we focus on a new area of the body each week. For each body #part, we study anatomy and body mechanics, we explore its movement somatically

#Online #Daskal #bodies #developed #dances #mechanics

Online Workshop: Dancing Breath ~ with Natan Daskal

Online Workshop: Dancing Breath ~ with Natan Daskal
March 20, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
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$35
“Dance is the breath made visible.” — Anna Halprin.
Breath is foundational to all of our movement; to life itself. How can our breath find creative expression through dance? How can our dances be in harmony with our natural rhythms of breathing? This workshop explores the breath as a gateway between embodied presence and creative expression, inviting us to find more ease, depth, and awareness in our dances and in our lives.

#Online #Dance #breath #movement #awareness #rhythms

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Dance First Member Insight from Leslie Merrill Schmidt & Tamalpa!

This week’s Dance First Member Insight is from Leslie Merrill Schmidt, a student of Tamalpa!

A Year of Life and Art in the Tamalpa Level 1 Online Training Program

Whenever my daughter and I play hide and seek, I know I need to hide quickly because I’ll only have until the count of 3 before the seeking begins. In a random parenting article on toddlers, I read that even though some can “count” upwards of ten through rote memorization, their tangible mathematical understanding of these numbers typically doesn’t extend beyond three. So we’re playing hide and seek, and I frantically dart behind the nearest piece of furniture, nervously awaiting the moment that I will be discovered… “1, 2, 3. Ready or not, here I come!”

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Monday Love to your New Year

“ Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.”

~ Goran Persson

Say hello to ’22, may it bring good times to you,

Say farewell to ’21, it’s been fun, but now we’re done.

A little lyric to lift your heart,

Just a tease, only a start.

The secret sauce to the year ahead?

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Saturday, December 25, 2021

Sacred Dance Path

Sacred Dance Path
January 4, 2022 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am HST
|Recurring Event (See all) |$20

Women’s weekly online dance drop in. Sacred Dance rooted in Polynesian dance expressed through hula and Tahitian, reggae hula, prayer, and story dance. Experience multilevel embodiment, all-bodies wellness – MENTAL, PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, BREATH, ENERGY, SPIRIT & SOUL. Low impact, no experience needed, deep dance tune up for all women.

#Women #Sacred #Polynesian #prayer #Experience #BREATH

Thursday, December 23, 2021

Slow Dancing with Chaos

April 15, 2022 - April 18, 2022

Slow Dancing With Chaos
In these funky, frenetic times, we need our feet on the ground, our instincts intact and our intuition in full force. Being true to the signs and signals that come from within is our survival art, not to mention a way to move with integrity in a world in flux. Hidden in chaos, like the eye of the hurricane, is the moving center, your power center, a place deep in your belly that holds your equilibrium and harmony. The way to this center is a deep medicine journey, a journey of blood, bones and sweat — nothing less than an intimate affair with yourself.

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Cycles

March 30, 2022 - April 3, 2022

Cycles With Jonathan Horan

Please bring a journal, some family photos, and an object of deep meaning to you.

In this workshop, rooted in Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms movement practice, we use our dance like archeologists to dig beneath the surface, to seek buried treasures and pearls of wisdom gleaned from our own life experience. The 5Rhythms offer us both a map to understanding and a way to deeply embody the patterns, waves, and vibrations that organically move us from birth to death.

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Warrior in Light

March 25, 2022 - March 27, 2022

WARRIOR IN LIGHT

“If you wish to be a warrior prepare to get broken. If you wish to be an Explorer, prepare to get lost, and if you wish to be a lover prepare to be both.” – Daniel Saint
In Warrior in Light, we move from the cultural shadow of the “warrior” to the light filled place of dancing into the world with courage, discipline and love. We ask our inner explorer “what action can I take” in my quest for a better life, a better world, better relationships? Our inner Warrior in Light gifts us with the discipline and courage to speak our truth and stay on our committed path. Together, the Explorer and Warrior release the lover in each of us as we put down our shield and welcome love and belonging into our lives.

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Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Dance First Member Insight from Kumu Karyne Daniels and Sacred Dance Path!

This week’s Dance First Member Insight is from Kumu Karyne Daniels and Sacred Dance Path!

Dance Drop

Many of us throughout the world have dropped into our “dance body” in our living rooms. It has been an uncommon season, which in turn, has bred uncommon fruit. I won’t downplay the severity and seriousness of this pandemic but rather speak to you artistically from a creative viewpoint. This particular dance season has not been negative.

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Monday Love to your Soulful Solstice

“Aloha aku no, Aloha mai no”

~ I give my love to you, you give your love to me

Mele Kalikimaka and a Happy Solstice to you!

May this turn of the sun bring you happiness, meaning, fulfillment, and joy.

Keeping it brief this week and sending you love from the islands…

Mahalo!

M+

Mark Metz
Director of the Dance First Association
Publisher of Conscious Dancer Magazine

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Thursday, December 16, 2021

Rumi’s Wedding Night Celebration

December 18 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

| $40

December 18th at 5pm
Location: House Concert in West LA, CA

An intimate out-doors gathering of inspiring sacred music, dance from the heart, stories and poetry in celebration of Rumi’s anniversary of death that he called his Wedding Night.

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Rumi’s Wedding Night Celebration

December 17 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

| $40

December 17th at 6pm
Location: House Concert in Studio City, CA

An intimate out-doors gathering of inspiring sacred music, dance from the heart, stories and poetry in celebration of Rumi’s anniversary of death that he called his Wedding Night.

Yuval Ron – Oud & Musical Director
Banafsheh Sayyad – Whirling
Misaq Eshaghi – Kamanche, Tombak
Jamie Papish – Daf, Dhol

Welcoming the NEW!

January 2, 2022 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm PST

| Free

Sunday, January 2, 2022 @10:30am – 12pm PT | 6:30- 8pm UTC

This Session is a balance between guided movement, free-style dance, mystical poetry and inspiring music with a focus on grounding in peace and centering in love and joy so we can start the year from an empowered state, ready to put love into action on behalf of the Earth and all of the Earth community.

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Dance First Member Spotlight on Caroline Kleindienst & Somatic Healing Arts, Maui!

This week’s Dance First Member Spotlight is from Caroline Kleindienst & Somatic Healing Arts Maui!

Caroline Kleindienst, MA, RSMT, is a registered somatic movement therapist, expressive arts therapy practitioner, and artist living in Maui, Hawaii.

She has been engaged in the healing arts for 20 years and runs a private practice as a somatic movement therapist, specializing in trauma, depression and anxiety, grief and loss, relationship issues, chronic illness, eating disorders, recovery from addiction, and life transitions.

Monday Love to your Cultural Connections

“ Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”

~ Thomas Wolfe

Just how far apart are we, anyway? Is there really such a vast divide between people, especially here in the USA? What if there was more focus on what we have in common rather than what makes us different?

Yesterday I had a great conversation with Toni Bergins, founder of JourneyDance. It had been quite a while since we caught up, so we had considerable ground to cover. I was glad to learn that she’s coming back out to the West Coast early next year for a workshop at Esalen!

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Dance First Member Spotlight on Studio Sadie!

This week’s Dance First Member Spotlight is from Studio Sadie!

Discover the possibilities and opportunities waiting for you, starting right where you are, as you are.

Studio Sadie, founded by Luscious Life Artist Sarah Sadie, is an audacious experiment, an ever-changing (r)evolution, and an online studio for a variegated community that spans the continent and then some, glorious in color and costume.