2018 Boston Spring DNE Weekend Full Day of Classes then Dinner and Dance
Saturday March 18th
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
St. John’s Episcopal Church
74 Pleasant St. • Arlington, MA
To register online click here.
Registration and Opening Circle 10:45-11:00
Classes 11am-7:00pm
(for class descriptions and instructor bios scroll to the bottom of the page)
Class Period 1 11:00-12:00
Parish Hall: Focusing and Movement —Marek
Outdoors/Offsite: Walking Tour of Arlington—Beth Cohen (2 periods)
Class Period 2 12:10-1:10
Parish Hall: A–Coeur–Dance—Cassie
Outdoors/Offsite: Walking Tour of Arlington—Beth Cohen (continues)
Class Period 3 1:20-2:20
Parish Hall: Nia: World music—Alice Heller
Offsite (3 min walk): Women Speak Truth to Power: Staying Embodied in Challenging Times—Opeyemi Parham and Maya Apfelbaum
Class Period 4 2:30-3:30
Parish Hall: The 5 Rhythms & Funky Jazz — Margaux
Memorial Room: Gyrokinesis®—Kathleen Anderson
Offsite (3 min walk): (Not confirmed) Moving Towards the Beloved Community—Maya Apfelbaum
Class Period 5 3:40–4:40
Parish Hall: Belly Dancing for Everyone—Johara
Memorial Room: Conscious Touch Lab — Brynn Bishop
Class Period 6 4:50-5:50
Parish Hall: Heart Fire —Tonya White
Memorial Room: Contemporary Yoga Flow—Que
Class Period 7 6:00-7:00
Parish Hall: Contact Improv Dance Principles — Christopher Ellinger
Memorial Room: Foot Reflexology — Bill Kennedy
Dinner (Including Set up and Take Down) 7:00-8:00
Dance 8-11pm
8-9:30pm Possible Live Performances
9:45-11pm DJ Alkemi
Saturday Class Descriptions
and Instructor Bios
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Description |
Instructor Bio |
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Focusing and Movement
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We will practice getting in touch with our felt sense and accessing the inherent wisdom of the body. Through practicing self-comapssion and deep listening, we can discover what exactly our body needs. |
Marek has been working as a therapist and healer for over 11 years. |
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Walking Tour
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Learn about the history of Arlington. Tour will include visits to local museums and discussion of architecture. |
Beth Cohen |
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A–Couer–Dance
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Life is a spiraling journey of both levity and depth. This Ecstatic dance is fun and it asks for our presence inviting peace of mind as a practice. Stillness as sanctuary. The dance floor is a space to strengthen our bodies and feel the momentum of our lives. When we drop into body, beat and breath we are gifted an opportunity to explore more of who we are through movement. The dance invites curiosity and welcomes all of our expression from contraction to expansion and all the territory in between. Moving between the space of holding on and letting go we find the pause, our center in the storm. How am I moving? How might I turn fear into excitement with a fresh rhythm right around the corner. Collectively we dance to shake out stagnancy, surfacing into our vitality, creativity and our humanity. The head and heart meet here to create a new dialogue with ourselves and others. This is about the dancer within us all regardless of age, gender or body shape. This is a moving meditation to honor your truth, trust and freedom. I and WE create a safe and liberating space of how we feel rather than what it looks like. Our space is created to allow the world of words to drop away and hold reverence for our bodies and spirits. This is a place to honor US while holding openness and respect for one another. Collectively we aim to be conscious of the impact we have while on this journey together. |
Cassandra Brizzi sometimes known as Mama Cass has always been a big believer in a CooperativeBody. She has been immersed in her embodiment practices since in 1992 with her introduction to Iyengar yoga and it’s foundation of structural alignment. Eventually her studies led her to a 500 hour Hatha yoga certification in Boston, MA in 1998 when she began teaching. In the years between, she became certified as a massage therapist and implemented both skills as an intuitive body watcher/worker to assist others in strength, flexibility and physical alignment. In 2005 a migration south to Asheville, NC brought her to her first expresive movement workshop and a whole new passage of body exploration began that changed her deeply from the inside out. Dance Meditation, Open Floor, BDanced and 5Rhythms revealed a passion, creativity and compassion untapped that overflowed into her own offerings of free form conscious movement in 2006. Cassandra began sharing her musical kaleidoscopes with the ecstatic dance community and later held weekly classes and workshops in various areas around the South East. 2014 introduced Bdanced and Golden Bridge, an embodied rites of passage and leadership program for young adults from around the globe. This opened a deeper dance with diversity and how she/we can use the body to bring healing and dance as a platform for peace. Cassie is currently completing her embodied leadership program with SoulMotion and has relocated back to New England where she is offering her dancing wisdom to different communities. |
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Nia: World music  |
Nia blends the best of movement forms — consciously guiding in your body’s way through dance, martial arts and healing arts including yoga to provide a full body mind emotion and spiritual experience.(This class is an all level fun movement experience set to great music and can include children over 8 years old …) African influenced movements and music to spice up the workshop |
Alice Heller’s focus for 2018 is on Nia, early movement education and African dance. She has been teaching and sharing her love of dance for over 20 years. Starting with the classic dance genres, she moved into African dance and then martial arts and Nia. Besides African dance and drumming, Alice’s studies moved her to work with children in preschools and private class settings. She has taught jazz, creative movement, hip hop, improvisational dance and gymnastics and more recently internal martial arts and Nia (she is a Brown Belt). Nia classes integrate dance, martial arts and the healing arts including yoga. Alice brings all modalities to her class making them unique and accessible – internally as well as externally. |
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Women Speak |
Using evocative spoken word, authentic movement, and modeling coping skills of NVC (non-violent communication), R.C. (re-evaluation counseling), EFT’s (emotional freedom techniques) and breathwork, the presenters will speak from each of our personal experiences of race/class/religion/ and gender. We will then have a heartshare in circle together with workshop participants, and end with a grounding meditation. |
Opeyemi Parham has been a member of the DNE community since before we had “membership”. She is now calling herself a healing artiista nd an artist, healing. |
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Belly Dance for Everyone  |
Discover this earthy and sensual dance from the Middle East. |
Johara has been a leading performer, instructor, choreographer, and percussionist since 1995. She is certified in Hatha & Vinyasa yoga and has trained in multiple dance styles. As the director of Snake Dance Theater Company she has performed her innovative blend of traditional (Egyptian,Turkish) and fusion belly dance in Turkey, Greece, Brazil and across the US. She’s produced over 15 theatrical shows. Currently, Johara teaches at the New England Movement Arts and the Dance Complex where she has been a faculty member since 1993. |
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Gyrokinesis® |
If you’ve taken Pilates and are looking for something new and a little different, Gyrokinesis(R) may be up your alley! Gyrokinesis(R) whole-body exercises are comprised of spiraling circular movements which flow together seamlessly in a rhythmic pattern. Repetitions are set to the rhythm of your breathing to help you lengthen your spine and focus your body’s energy. Each movement connects with the next, allowing the joints to move freely through a natural range of motion. The carefully crafted sequences create balance and are executed gently without jarring or compressing the joints. This class has been adapted for the mat and chair from the Gyrotonic(R) machine method and is a perfect way to begin your day feeling limber and relaxed. Please bring a yoga mat. |
Kathleen R. Anderson has a master’s in dance movement therapy from Antioch/New England Graduate School in Keene, NH, and a B.A. in dance from SUNY Brockort, NY. She is certified by the Kripalu Yoga Ashram in Lenox, MA, and has also trained in Iyengar Yoga with Patricia Waldren of Cambridge, MA. She has obtained all four levels of the “Yoga Fit” trainings, which also, encompass Prenatal and Senior Fitness, and has taken workshops in restorative yoga with Judith Lassiter. Additionally, Kathleen has studied mat and reformer, cadillac, chair, and barrel Pilates with both Physical Mind of NY and Stott of Toronto. She has accomplished up to Level Two in both Gyrokinesis(R) and Gyrotonic(R) disciplines. A Spiral based movement workout devised by ballet dancer Juliu Hovarth. He believes the muscle spindle is a Spiral and we should be moving with it, hence the name “gyro”. |
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Heart Fire  |
Tonya White, Expressive Arts Therapist, will lead us in meditation, movement, and drawing to explore what ignites a fire in our hearts. Dive in deep to find what you need in this moment and practice gentle sharing and witnessing as we connect to our own hearts and open them up to one another. |
Bio: Tonya White is an Expressive Arts Therapist utilizing many forms of art to guide others to play, explore, and connect. Expressive Arts Therapy involves visual art, movement, acting, writing, music and more. Tonya has a private practice in Northampton, works with various universities, and is on the Board of Directors for DNE. Find her at tonyawhitetherapy.com |
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Contemporary
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Yoga meets Modern Dance expressing beauty in a graceful sequential flow of poses transitioning through soft rolls on floor and gentile “standing” transitions utilizing breath and music to “pace “. |
Enrique (Henry) Oliveras, LMT, is a Buddhist/Taoist with a background in Asian and western Medicine, he holds 5 STAR Ratings with two mobile massage companies, works with the Hyatt hotel and holds his own practice in Arlington, Ma that offers Therapy, dance, stretch in the Chinese and also Indian styles working on a “Yoga Certification” with Daniel Orlansky after years of private practice, martial arts, spiritual counseling, meditation and western fitness in office and off location. |
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Roth 5 Rhythms
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The 5 Rhythms is an ecstatic moving meditation practice. It is a practice that Gabrielle Roth brought forward in the 1960s and because of this practice, a movement revolution began. It’s a practice of being fully in the body and yet be able to soar. It is a practice where we let go of the social chatter and the chatter of our mind and return to the heartbeat of our feet where knowledge of our ancient truths arise. |
Margaux Skalecki Medicine Dancer. BFA in Dance , MA in Performance and Healing Education is one of two teachers who lovingly brought The 5 Rhythms, ecstatic movement practice of Gabrielle Roth’s to MA in the 1990s. Margaux’s medicine bag is filled as a certified shamanic practitioner, as a 500 ERegistered child and adult yoga teacher, as a commissioned healer of the Spiritualist Churches, as a Reiki Master, medium, animal communicator, choreographer and song writer. |
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Conscious |
*Explore 5 Modalities of Touch. |
Brynn Bishop, Founder of Conscious Intimacy™, is an Advanced Certified Tantra Educator and Holistic Intimacy Coach. Her mission is to empower individuals to create authentic, loving, pleasurable relationships with themselves and others. Brynn specializes in helping people rewire their nervous systems towards greater connection, liberation & pleasure. She teaches nationally and works with individuals and couples in her private practice in Arlington, MA, and worldwide via phone and video conference. www.conscious-intimacy.com |
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Contact Improv |
This mini-workshop will explore how to enjoy increased connection, playfulness, and ease in dancing with others, drawing from principles of contact improvisation. All welcome of any ability–no previous experience with contact improv needed. |
Christopher and Anne Ellinger founded, direct and perform with the ?25?-member improvisational Playback Theatre ensemble, True Story Theater. True Story has done hundreds of shows and workshops in the greater Boston area, ?giving voice to stories of many constituencies?? often addressing important social justice themes. Christopher is a teacher in Boston’s Contact Improv community. Their book Getting Along: skills for life-long love, shares lessons from 3?6? years living and working together. |
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Foot Reflexology  |
We’ll create a space for giving, receiving and learning the techniques of foot massage to fellow dancers. Emphasis will be on healing through loving touch. Join us for the pleasure intimacy and joy of learning how to release tension and restore body balance. Beginners especially welcome. |
Bill Kennedy has taught yoga, massage, reflexology, and meditation for many years. Starting off as one of two pioneering teachers in the early days of yoga at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education with Patricia Walden, he then directed and hosted his own national TV series called Success without Stress reaching tens of millions of people including a demonstration of acupuncture. He has held numerous retreats which all started with Partner Reflexology. His regular Reflexology classes in pregnancy yoga at MIT Medical Department and at CCAE were evaluated as the most popular of all his teaching. He has a PhD in Physics and is a former Research Fellow in Mind Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A Reike Master, and trained in Reconnection Healing Energy technique he believes the whole basis of healing is achieved through the loving acceptance of one Soul Friend for another. |
