Dancemeditation is a unique, integrated movement-meditative practice for healing & self-discovery. It approaches dance as a meditation and meditation as a dance. Both are an entwined opportunity to explore the relationships between self-&-other, self-&-cosmos, self-with-Self and self-to-the Divine Eternal. By encouraging receptivity, creativity and present-ness, Dancemeditation cultivates our inherent ability to heal and self-regulate.
Dancemeditation utilizes a wide variety of movement techniques within a primarily non-verbal study environment to drop participants out of an over-active, distracted mind into intuitive embodiment.
Sensual Alchemy (Spiritual Bellydance)
Bellydance is practiced and performed with many intentions. Sensual Alchemy is an opportunity to explore this versatile, ancient, evolving, nature-connected dance as meditation and self-restoration. Experience the beauty and mysticism inherent in dance traditions originating in the Middle East by pursuing somatic root motions, subtle isolations and the ruby spine technique.
This dance practice encompasses a combination of Middle Eastern dance vocabulary and Sufi-healing contemplative hand & arm dances, sensuous & exciting vibration and liquid undulation.
Objectives
This dance therapy awakens, cultivates and sustains the following qualities and skills:
- starting exactly from where you are
- being and moving in present-ness
- infinite, fluid motion
- movement coming from the center of your center
- movement that opens the subtlety beneath the apparent
- self-sustaining access to vitality
- refined, embodied concentration
- a quiet mind, an awake heart
General Benefits
The many benefits and developments include:
• an expanded internal flow of movement
• stress reduction
• increased immune system function
• a swifter recovery from injury
• awareness of tension source points
• bodymind integration
• an increased sensation of space and energy flow
• a deepening embodiment
• a sense of Belonging
Originator and Principal Teacher of Dancemeditation, Dunya (Dianne McPherson), synthesizes western dance with eastern mystical movement traditions. She received her BFA from Juilliard, MA from Lesley University, was an Artist Scholar at Columbia University and has trained extensively in yoga with Dharma Mittra and in the shattari method of sufi movement meditation with Adnan Sarhan, Sufi Foundation of America.
Dance Meditation & Sensual Alchemy Practices
Michelle is currently undergoing training with Dunya for Sensual Alchemy (Spiritual Bellydance) and Dance Meditation. Michelle organizes dance circles where people come together to dance and is open to anyone.
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