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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 December Winter Solstice Slumber Party Embracing Aphrodite: Empowered Sexuality Through Belly Dance Saturday, December 19th,5:30-9pm, Cost: $42 paid in advance, $52 day of workshop “Like the petals of a rose, my feet bloom when they touch the earth, I ride and am ridden by waves of love that center at the folds between my legs, Drawn by the scent of the newly mown grass, I am Aphrodite’s daughter in the noontime.”* Using visualization and the movement vocabulary of belly dance, we will reclaim our right to embodied, empowered sexual expression. Working in safe space, we learn to trust the power of our flesh, embrace our individual beauty and become fully loving and present in our bodies. *From Aphrodite’s Song by Lorraine Lafata Embracing Aphrodite: Passion and Pleasure Reclaimed Sunday, December 20th,11:30am-3pm Cost: $42 paid in advance, $52 day of workshop In the “Charge of the Goddess,” Doreen Valentine writes, “All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals”. By reclaiming our right to take part in loving and pleasurable acts, we fly in the face of our driven and deadening culture. We have so many prohibitions against pleasure, and yet, we yearn to make space for it in our lives. In workshop, we explore and expand our relationship to food, fun, sensuality and all other creative forms of self-love. (If registering in advance for both workshops, Cost: $74) Student Show Rehearsal /Studio Class Weds, January 6-March 10, 2010 , 7:00-8:30 pm $ 185.00 ( 10 classes) For students taking part in the annual Student Show, an opportunity to co-create and rehearse group choreography and get feedback on individual performance plans. Power Belly Conditioning Class Sundays January 17, March 28 2010, 3-4 pm, (No class February 28) $100.00 (10 classes) ($13 drop in cost) Based on the Innovative Concept by Delilah Flynn of Seattle A one hour workout with a toning and strengthening focus, designed to engage the entire body. Using the all rhythms of belly dance, we will sweat our way to a more empowered and engaged body awareness. Equipment for class: To get full benefit of class we strongly recommend use of Delilah's’ Bell Dance Weight Belts. Get complete info about weight belts at visionarydance.com Belly Dance As Healing Dance: Working With Trauma Survivors Sunday, January,17, 31, February 14, March 7th; 1- 3pm, $100, (4 sessions) 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. This is a class for the experienced dancer who want to learn to use the vocabulary of belly dance as means of re-empowerment for trauma survivors. Traumatic experiences can leave behind powerfully mistrustful messages about the nature of life, that can eat away at our capacity to have faith and hope in the future. These messages can then crystallize into fear-based body patterns that inhibits our ability to fully breathe into and occupy own own strong selves. In this class, we will learn to use belly dance to introduce a new and affirmative set of experiences and beliefs into closed and rigidly held body systems. We will come to understand how to teach and process through the powerful and direct information that is inherent in belly dance. 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 though that movement learn to integrate the oldest and most soothing of mother messages, that we are loved and lovable just for our own selves. Through shimmies will come to understand that pushing and over extending ourselves is not the way to strength , but rather that the surest path to power is 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. Belly As Healing Dance II Adv. Beginners/ Intermediate Level Sunday, January 17,- March 28,2010. 4-5:30 pm 2010, $ 185.00 (10 classes) (No class February 28) For students comfortable with basic belly dance vocabulary. Class explores refinement and strengthening of technique, self expression, layering & rhythms. We work on understanding the dance; its deeper meanings and potential for greater transformation in our lives. |
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***To register for any event call: Lorraine Can’t come to us? We can come to you! If you would like to share any of our workshop experiences with your colleagues or friends, the Sacred Source will conduct any of our workshops out of the studio in your choice of setting. Just pick from our list of previous workshops and give us a call.
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