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June Newsletter 2009: Summertime vibes
All of a sudden it's summer again, do you know where your tent is? Festivals, dance camps, workshops and retreats are lining up the calendar, filling every available weekend and more. And do you have your summer reading sorted out? A subscription to Conscious Dancer will make sure the new issue is in your mailbox in time to pack. And if you are a facilitator, workshop leader, or venue owner, make sure you have plenty of copies to share with your community by listing yourself on our moving arts directory and becoming a valued member of our organic distribution network. The workshops issue is out now, and we want to announce a few things on the horizon as we get to work on the fall health and fashion issue. First, we're going to start printing letters to the editor. So bring on all your feedback, suggestions, constructive criticism, and inspirations – we'll run the best in the space we have available. Second, we're organizing a summer salon and photo shoot, with a trunk show from local designers, interactive demos, and a super-duper raffle. Get in touch with us soon if you want to take part. And last but not least, we're all going to take The Breema Clinic in Oakland up on their offer for $10 sessions before the offer expires on June 21, it's time for some post-deadline bodily nourishment! Thanks to all of you who make putting this together so worthwhile, and especially the advertisers, subscribers, and supporters who make this materially possible. If it takes a village to raise a child, then it must take an entire society to nurture "movement for a better world!" In Movement, Staff Favorite: Bliss Mix by Transition Nutrition 
This is an office favorite for afternoon lulls, when Geneva will let us have a bite! It's our number one pick-me-up snack to pack for workshops, summer music festivals, and to share with fellow movers at our community dance. Real, whole food is always the best choice when you need something to sustain your energy. Try a handfull sprinkled on your favorite cereal, or jazz up a bowl of Rice Dream or Coconut Bliss for a refreshing summer dessert. Raw and all organic, this superfood mix satisfies with pistachios, Himalayan raisins, mulberries, gojiberries, Hawaiian macadamia nuts, cashews, and cacao nibs. www.transitionnutrition.com
Harmony Festival June 12-14, Santa Rosa, CA Seeds Festival June 14-28, Plainfield, MA Mystic Garden Party Jul. 23-26, Ashland, OR Ascend Dance Jul. 31-Aug. 2, Mendocino, CA Beloved Festival Aug. 13-17, Tidewater Falls, OR Bhakti Fest Sep. 11-13, Joshua Tree, CA Symbiosis Gathering Sep. 17-21, Yosemite, CA Earthdance Sep. 25-27, Global Conscious Dancer directory Member of the Month: Hoopdancer extraordinaire Christabel Zamor, the founder of HoopGirl, has brought the hoop fitness sensation to the masses since 2001. Check out the article "Hoops are Happening" that she co-wrote with fellow HoopGirl instructor Candice Schutter in the new issue of Conscious Dancer. She offers classes and workshops, a busy schedule of show-stopping performances at events around the world, a certified HoopGirl® Workout teacher training program, instructional hoop fitness DVDs, and is the author of a new book called Hooping: A Revolutionary Fitness Program . Learn more about HoopGirl on the Moving Arts Network, Conscious Dancer's global directory of movement and see how she uses our directory to promote her practice. Find out how you can benefit with a listing and become a distribution point for Conscious Dancer magazine. Email deborah@consciousdancer.com
31st Annual Harmony Festival Where: Santa Rosa, CA., Sonoma County Fairgrounds  Conscious Dancer magazine Warm up with 5 rhythms master facilitator Heather Christensen at 9:30am High energy free-form journey of movement with one of the favorite DJs from the Divine Rhythm Society and the East Bay Ecstatic Dance. Harmony Festival celebrates 31 years of "Harmony From the Roots Up", focusing on progressive ideals, community activism, and uplifting music—a taste of this year's HARMONY FESTIVAL includes performances by Michael Franti & Spearhead, India.Arie, Matisyahu, Cake, Kitaro, K'Naan, Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars, and The Duhks. For more info: www.harmonyfestival.com JourneyDance in NYC w/Trinity Where: New York, NY., DanceTheater Workshop Studio 219 West 19th Street (bet 7th & 8th Ave) 
Journey Dance is a transformational, improvisational and celebratory dance experience that guides you on a journey through your chakras. By playing music and giving movement suggestions that correlate with each chakra it helps you to balance and align your body, mind and soul. Dancers are inspired by passionate world music and improvisational dance suggestions. Trinity's contagious enthusiasm will support you in uninhibitedly dancing your full-out passion, power, love, sensuality, and bliss. Beautiful connections between participants are often formed. Dancers report leaving class feeling lighter, freer and more alive! No dance experience is necessary. You must register at the meetup site below to get the advanced rate- www.meetup.com/The-Dancing-Path-Dance-and-Manifestation-Workshops/ For more info- www.thedancingpath.com or email trinitydances@gmail.com Summer Solstice Circle and World Dance Jam classes Where: Brooklyn, New York 
Summer Solstice marks the longest day of the year, and while the sun is at its peak in the northern hemisphere we will celebrate with ritual, music, dancing, singing, guided meditation, and time for quiet reflection and group sharing. Hosted by Lauren Tepper, founder of Breathtaking Yoga, Dance & Personal Training in a beautiful outdoor location in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Lauren also teaches World Dance Jam classes in Brooklyn, on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. This is a high-spirited dance celebration to upbeat world music including Latin, African, and Brazilian. You’ll learn basic steps of dances from around the world, while getting a superb cardio-vascular workout and enjoying a creative community vibe. Class will include gentle warmup and cool-down stretches. Anyone at any level of fitness and experience is welcome. Contact Lauren to sign up and for exact meeting location, or for more info about classes. 917-902-4649 or laurentepper@hotmail.com. Learn more about Breathtaking Yoga, Dance & Personal Training on the Moving Arts Network. Body Prayer: A Soul Motion™ Experience with Zuza Engler Where: Port Townsend, WA., Madrona MindBody Institute 
Body Prayer , facilitated by Zuza Engler, is a wild and luminous offering of the body in motion to this sacred Presence that is continually breathing us into Being. This 3-day dance retreat is not so much an invitation to dance, as it is an enticement to enter into a spirited engagement with Life. No previous experience is needed. Risk a stretch, sing a body prayer, dance your way home to your soul. Zuza is a long-term student and practitioner of Buddhism, SoulMotion and Gestalt Awareness Practice - inspiring her work with Transformative Dance . She is faculty to the SoulMotion Teacher Training Program and teaches regularly Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA as well internationally - this is her only offering in the Pacific Northwest. Please join the Madrona community on a journey across the ever changing landscapes of body and soul through the movement practice of SoulMotion. www.MadronaMindBody.com - your sanctuary for conscious dance. Learn more about the Madrona Mind Body Institute on the Moving Arts Network. Breema Summer Intensive, July 11-19 Where: Oakland, CA 
The aim of Breema is to bring us to a tangible experience of presence that becomes our foundation for a new dimension of health, consciousness, and self-understanding. Breema is a unique and simple approach to experience body-mind connection. It offers a profound understanding of the underlying unity of all life that is expressed in a dynamic and practical philosophy — the Nine Principles of Harmony. The practice of Self-Breema exercises and Breema bodywork is a living expression of the philosophy ofBreema through touch and movement. The nonjudgmental atmosphere created by our use of the Principles is deeply nourishing and enables us to let go of conditioned patterns, and connect to more natural ways of moving, thinking and feeling. Breema's principles can be integrated and applied in any profession and in all activities of daily life, helping us bring greater harmony to all our relationships. Ongoing: Weekly Breema classes at The Breema Center Email: center@breema.com Learn more about Breema on the Moving Arts Network. Ecstatic Kirtan Gathering at Harbin Hot Springs Where: Middletown, CA 
Hosted by Harmony Ananda & Lyn Hunstad. Come and be part of the first kirtan festival on the west coast. Join us for an ecstatic weekend of chanting, dance and healing hot spring waters. The theme of the weekend is "Surrendering to Ecstasy". We'll be creating a sacred space on the Harbin Hot Springs land that will support manifesting a deep connection to the Divine. The 3-day program includes focused spiritual activities for deep relaxation, meditation and transformation--yoga, chanting, pranayama, water purification & nature--all which assist in deep letting go, allowing our natural ecstatic state to emerge. The cumulative effect keeps building! The tentative line-up of chant bands so far includes: Suzanne Sterling, Shantala (Benjy & Heather Wertheimer), Fanna Fi Allah Qawwali, Prema Mayi, Kathy Zavada, Arpita, Nina Lakshmi, The Harbin Kirtan Band, and more are being added! Late night chanting, and several daily yoga classes will be offered including flows with Harmony Ananda that include live music. All are welcome. For registration and information call 707-987-8341or go to www.EcstaticKirtan.com Autism Movement Therapy® Workshop Where: Van Nuys, CA., R & R Arts Center, 15359 Cohasset St. 
The workshop is designed for parents, teachers, paraprofessionals, caregivers, dancers, dance therapists and professionals in the field of special education who want to develop skills and strategies for instruction of Autism Movement Therapy®. The workshop will cover how to plan and lead developmentally age appropriate "Time, Space & Energy" movement and music lessons and activities for student’s preschool through 18 years of age with special needs. Enrollment limited; all levels of proficiency welcome; advance enrollment required. (Attendees receive an Autism Movement Therapy® Handbook & an aut-erobics® DVD). 
"Joanne Lara knows that the brain needs the body to move. In this DVD she gives the gift of her artful knowledge to children with autism, helping them to fulfill their wholeness and their potential." For more information call (323)240-0361.To register email joanne@autismmovementtherapy.com or go to www.autismmovementtherapy.com. Workshop: BIODANZA-Sistema Rolando Toro East Coast USA Where: New York, NY 
Biodanza-SRT, is a system of human development that fuses music, movement, and emotions, a unique combination of elements that expands our creativity, vitality and our ability to love. It is about loving life and putting life in the center! With carefully selected music that evokes specific experiences and invites authentic movement, Biodanza participants discover joy, happiness and connection within themselves, others and humanity. With Biodanza movement becomes a free expression of self, and is not choreographed or structured. The magic of Biodanza opens paths for you on your journey in life. Biodanza workshops are paths to discover the pleasure to...
COME DANCE WITH LIFE! SUMMER WEEKEND at ESALEN!! Where: Big Sur, CA 
Open to the joy of life! Embody your temple. Explore your Realms. Connect with your inner dancing shaman, goddess & warrior, and clear the mind's clogging clutter to make space for the abundance of joy available to you. Dance your desires and commune with your heart. Express yourself as soul and ride your pranic energy flow into the prayer, as you open your body and mind to your highest vibration. JourneyDance is for anyone who loves to move, and for those who find their deepest experience of source through dance and music. JourneyDance goes deep, plays lightly, and takes you where you need to go through creative visualization, music, ritual and free movement. To Register call Esalen: 831-667-3005 or visit www.esalen.org Toni Bergins, M.Ed., is "a one woman force of mother earth fire, igniting all those in her presence to dance their fullest expression." Toni leads JourneyDance workshops and teacher trainings across the US and internationally. www.JourneyDance.com Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training Where: Toronto, Canada 
Led by Megha the creator of Let Your Yoga Dance®, this intensive ten day training is yoga and movement at its best. Including user-friendly dance, this training is great for both newcomers to yoga and dance and professionals! It's a yoga-chakra-dance-breath-joyous fusion of energy, power, and grace. Fabulous music, incredible people. You will become far more than a yogadance teacher, you may well transform into the person you always wished to be! Prepare for adventure into the Dance of Yoga, the Yoga of Dance. For questions and registration contact Elayna at joynyoga@hotmail.com or call (905) 770-4767. Recommended CD for the training is Megha's CD MOONTIDES. www.letyouryogadance.com Your Body is a Musical Instrument: A Tune Up Where: Bali, Indonesia 
A Retreat combining Esalen® Massage and Body of Sound With Ellen Watson & Alyssa DeCaro Through movement, sound and touch, we tune our instruments and enliven each cell with vitality. We open our hearts, inviting our spirits to dance our creativity. This inspiration provides the perfect state for practicing the Art of Essential Touch™. During the bodywork sessions, you will be guided through the 7 Elements that are the foundation of Esalen® Massage. The movement sessions will draw from Ecstatic Dance, Contact Improvisation, Vocal Toning, Body Percussion, and Balinese Kecak (Monkey Chant). Ellen Watson and Alyssa DeCaro weave their offerings with roots of the Balinese music and culture, for which they both have a deep respect. The alchemy of their teaching and the jewels of Bali contribute to this extraordinary retreat, held at Mimpi, located within the Bali Barak National Park, a tranquil place for those interested in living in harmony with nature. Join us for the time of your life! Prices include tuition, room, breakfast every morning, 5 lunches and 4 dinners. Courtyard villas are available at additional cost. Prices do not include: airfare, some lunches and some dinners, airport pick-up/return. For more dance and bodywork workshops offered by Ellen Watson and MovingVentures™ visit www.movingventures.org Final Note Our goal is to serve the needs of movement communities where ever they are found, and provide a meaningful vehicle for ideas and information through Conscious Dancer magazine and the related directory website, the Moving Arts Network . Members of the directory form our distribution network, and this is how we make sure the magazine finds the most enthusiastic readership possible. You can easily be part of our organic distribution network and receive complimentary stacks of Conscious Dancer anywhere in the world. |
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