Sacred Source Dance Studio
 Melrose, MA

Sacred Source Belly Dance is a consortium of dancers dedicated to reconnecting women to their power, strength and beauty using the movement vocabulary of belly dance.
Belly dance, in its oldest and purest form brings women together in shared community to exchange knowledge about birthing, self love, self adornment and sisterhood. The dance's deepest intention is to liberate the pelvis, free the belly and open the heart.

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Sacred Source Studio
72 Stone Place, Melrose, Ma

To register and for information and directions,
call: Lorraine, (781) 306-1333,
email lareinal@earthlink.net

Send payment to: Lorraine Lafata
14 Kilsyth Road, 1st Floor,
Medford, MA 02155

Visionary Belly Dance
Presents
Lorraine Lafata
Teaching
Belly Dance As Healing Dance: Working with Trauma
At

August 14th 2010, Delilah’s Seattle Studio
10:00am – 4:30pm,
Cost: $75 with 5 day Advance or $89 at the door

This is a workshop for the experienced dancer who wants to learn to use the vocabulary of belly dance as means of re-empowerment for trauma survivors. Traumatic experiences can leave behind mistrustful messages about the nature of life, being and connection. These messages eat away at our capacity to have faith and hope in the future. They crystallize into fear-based body patterns that inhibit our ability to fully occupy our own strong selves.

In this workshop, we will learn to use belly dance to introduce a new, affirmative set of experiences and beliefs into a closed body system. We will explore the strength and stability of the hip circle, and it’s capacity to bring us fully back into the birthright of living rooted in our pelvic floor. We’ll use the crescent moon movement to rock and hold us. And through that movement, we will learn to integrate the oldest and most soothing of mother messages, that we are loved and lovable just for our own selves. Through shimmies, we will come to understand that pushing and over-extending ourselves is not the way to strength . Instead we’ll come to know, that the surest path to power comes from relaxing into the flow and momentum of an experience. And as we immerse ourselves in undulation, we will re-connect to the reliability of ongoing rhythm of life, and learn to trust that no matter how far out to sea life’s challenges toss us, there is always a life current pulling us safely back to shore.

Delilah has co facilitated and hosted 2 week long retreats in California entitled “Inanna, Solome and the 7 Part Cabaret Belly Dance Routine” (97-98) and another 10 day program at Delilah’s Visionary Belly Dance Retreats in Hawaii called “Embracing Aphrodite” (2001) An hour long very moving documentary of this event is featured on the the DVD, Delilah and Sirocco: Live and Wild. On sale at VDP.

VDP has hosted her in Seattle every other year. So don’t miss this opportunity! One of our staff Christine Hamby, goes yearly to do intern study with Lorraine. It is with great enthusiasm and praise we bring you a workshop of this kind !