Dance First Member Spotlight on Ilona Glinarsky & Living Tango!

 

This week’s Dance First Insight is from Ilona Glinarsky and Living Tango!

I wanted to share with you that I have resumed my tango-inspired events and classes after having to completely shut down for almost two years. So relieved to see that things are picking up and people are more eager to dance and connect than ever.

Just recently, I revived my annual LA Summer Tango Marathon and it was a huge success! Whew! Also, being that I am originally from Kyiv, Ukraine and still have family there, the subject of war in Ukraine has been deeply affecting me. I have struggled with seeing what is happening with my homeland and its people. So, I’ve created a couple of Tango fundraisers and managed to raise almost 7K for humanitarian aid for Ukrainian citizens who’ve lost their homes and their loved ones.

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Monday Love to your Proper Perspective

 

“ The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

 ~ Carl Sagan

Is it just me, or is the Full Moon energy really powerful this time around? More often than not when there’s a big full moon in the sky I find myself sleeping less, waking up in the middle of the night, and generally navigating what seems like all kinds of crazy energy in my world.

Apparently, the Full Moon coming up this Wednesday is a SuperMoon, (meaning that it’s full while it’s at or near the closest point to Earth in its orbit). It’s the largest one of the year, and third out of four in a row, we’ve got one more coming up in August.

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In-Person • Dance Facilitator Training 2022

 

✤ Combine your unique skill set with our potent movement facilitation tools designed to build community and get dancers into their bodies ✤

→ Have you ever attended an Ecstatic Dance and wondered how the cohesive and potent feeling of community is created?

 

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Dance First Member Spotlight on Emma Dance & 5Rhythms!

 

This week’s Dance First Insight is from Emma Dance and 5Rhythms!

The 5Rhythms Movement and dance meditation is my life’s work.

I feel privileged to have been able to bring it to diverse communities. It has given me witness to the most profound depth and beauty in the artistic movement enquiry of human experience, both dark and light.

I have been dancing the 5Rhythms movement meditation practice for over 30 years and after diving into the practice for my own self healing from trauma for 10 years, I took the path as a teacher of the practice and trained with Gabrielle Roth the founder, to teach in 2001. Since then, I have travelled to different parts of the Globe and London’s suburbs taking the dance to a wide audience of disadvantaged communities, prison, addiction recovery and youth at risk and children living in the slums in Kolkata India. This disparate range of communities has become invaluable in expanding my teaching skills and insight into all walks of life, keeping me plugged into a reality of human survival where this dance can be of real service.

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Monday Love to your Interdependencies

 

“ The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground..”

 ~ Rumi

Do you ever think about compost? I know, I know, not the first thing that comes to mind on Independence Day morning. But then again, perhaps it’s a useful analogy.

First there’s a flower, then there is a fruit. Picture it, a peach, radiant in its ripeness. Bursting with flavor, delectable, just asking to be eaten or made into a scrumptious dessert.

Seemingly independent in and of itself, a ripe peach is an apt symbol of perfection. And yet, think of the interdependencies that come to play to create that delectable morsel of fruit.

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Heart Matters ~ Essential Compassion

 

In Heartbeat we explore our emotions as energy, as power, as part of being human. Old feelings that have been locked in our limbs or caged in our chest begin to shake loose. We get comfortable with feelings, neither hanging onto them nor pushing them away.

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Ecstatic Dance Rainbow River weekend

 

September 9 @ 10:00 pm - September 12 @ 2:00 am

Let’s float, flow, commune, explore the elements, rainbows, dance and community.

Join us for a rejevuenating weekend in nature, rustic cabins, hiking, floating down the Rainbow River ( fresh water spring with 75 degree crystal clear water) and dancing….connecting… creating with community.

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