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Dunya/Dancemeditation Enews, December, 2004 Seminars, Announcements, Practices & Pleasures http://www.dancemeditation.org =================== In this Issue --->Quote of the Month
--->Workshop: OPENING:SPIRITUAL BELLYDANCE * Cambridge, MA * 11/13TH
--->Workshop: SPIRITUAL BELLYDANCE * New York City * 12/5 br> --->Workshop: DANCEMEDITATION * Cape Cod, MA
--->Retreat: WINTER MOVEMENT MONASTERY * TX * 12/29, 2004 - 1/7, 2005
--->Practice of the Month
--->Music Recommendation
--->Testimonial of the Month
=================== Quote of the Month "I dance to recognize myself as a gesture of Cosmic Intelligence."
---Dunya Dianne McPherson =================== Workshop: OPENING: SPIRITUAL BELLYDANCE
Saturday, November 13TH, 1:30-4:30pm
Boston Dance Complex
536 Mass. Avenue, Cambridge, MA Elegant Embodiment & Development in the Sufi Subtle. Pursuing the theme of opening, we'll explore both the space around our bodies as well as our interior space as an oscillation of openings and closings. As always we will begin the workshop with breath and stretching that invites deepening sensation and relaxation. Looking inward, we'll feel the sensation in our bones & tissues, gravitate towards absorption in interior spaces beyond our minds. Middle Eastern dance - ornamental mudras, vibration, undulation - is specifically suited to this self-amplification. Through the emerging internal openings, Sufi lineage energetic materials are manifest. The heart center flowers, mediating our voyaging in the Subtle. All periods of action are intertwined with deep resting.
Relaxation, Rejuvenation, Peace. Please bring cushiony mat to sit on and a hip scarf. REGISTRATION:
$35
Send check to:
Lisa Tiemann, 60 Orris Street, Melrose, MA 02176.
INFORMATION: Lisa Tiemann at 781/662-5700 =================== Workshop: DANCEMEDITATION
12/18, 2004
11am - 2pm
Mary French Studio, Rte. 28A & County Rd
. CAPE COD, MA Fluid Yoga Dancemeditation Sufi Healing Bring: yoga mat, veil, scarf or belt to accentuate your hips. Make sure you have layers to be completely warm during resting periods. REGISTRATION
$25 by previous Friday; $30 after
LOCATION: Mary French Studio, Rte. 28A & County Rd., Cataumet, MA
By Credit Card: http://www.dancemeditation.com/senaloncapco.html
By Check: made to: ‘Dervish Society of America’
& mail to: Jayne Bissonnette, PO Box 3006, Waquoit, MA 02536 INFO: Jayne, 508 540 6974 =================== Workshop:
SENSUAL ALCHEMY: SPIRITUAL BELLYDANCE with DUNYA
NEW YORK CITY
Dharma Yoga Center
297 3rd Ave. @ 3rd Ave., NYC Elegant Embodiment & Development in the Sufi Subtle. We'll begin the workshop with a period of Fluid Yoga to open and relax our bodies, then progress into the beauty and mysticism inherent in dance traditions originating in the Middle East by pursuing a somatic interior root of the form’s intricate isolations and trance-y rhythmic substrata. We'll look inward, feel the sensation in our bones & tissues, gravitate towards absorption in interior spaces beyond our minds. Middle Eastern dance - ornamental mudras, vibration, undulation - is specifically suited to this self-amplification. Through the emerging internal openings, Sufi lineage energetic materials are manifest. The heart center flowers, mediating our voyaging in the Subtle. All periods of action are intertwined with deep resting. Relaxation, Rejuvenation, Peace. Please bring towel to sit on and a hip scarf. REGISTRATION
$25 by 11/1; $35 at door
By Credit Card: http://www.dancemeditation.com/senalspirbel.html
By Check: made to: ‘Dervish Society of America’
& mail to Dunya, 250 Elizabeth St. #7, NY NY 10012
INFO: 212 226 2114 =================== Retreat:
WINTER MOVEMENT MONASTERY
CHAPPELL HILL, TX
DECEMBER 29TH, 2004 - JANUARY 7TH,2005
Ten days: 10am - 9pm This extended study period encompasses a variety of body-centered spiritual explorations and terrains. Fluid Yoga * Dancemeditation * Spiritual Bellydance
Sufi Healing * Writing from the body REGISTRATION: Full Retreat; 12/29-1/7; by 12/1, $1000; after, $1200
Five days: 12/29-1/2; by 12/1,$500; after, $625
Wknd only 12/31-1/2; by 12/1, $300; after, $350
Single day, thru 1/1; $125 Non-refundable fees: 25% by 12/15; 50% thereafter. By Credit Card: http://www.dancemeditation.com/summovmon.html
By Check: made to: ‘Dervish Society of America’
& mail to Dunya, 250 Elizabeth St. #7, NY NY 10012
Please include your name, address, phone and email. Early registration is by December 1st! =================== Practice of the Month This month I suggest a period of retreat. Drink clean water, eat lightly and purely, rest. Walk in nature. Spend time with your practice and wait to be moved. If you can be with other retreatants this is an especially powerful time. You share and augment a special journey. If you are by yourself, go where phones can’t reach you for a day or two or seven. For those in the Northern Hemisphere, Winter Solstice is the time of deep dark. Having a period to pull away from the demands of the world and go inside to be with yourself and your inner listening is fully supported by the seasonal forces. For those in the Southern Hemisphere a retreat period is a time to absorb the fullness of light. =================== Music Recommendation "Lagaam" has at least one terrific track called 'Mitwa' by Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Sukhwinder Singh & Srinivas. This celebratory East Asian track will make your heart sing. 'Chalo Chalo' by A.R. Rahman, Srinivas & Chorus is lovely also. =================== Testimonial of the Month "Moving inner muscles on a subtle level was new for me. I loved movement free of definition. It was a new beginning. I will explore that aspect in my teaching. I will explore moving the body from the subtle internal, then outward muscles. [In witness dancing] I loved how sweet it felt to support my partner in her dance. When she felt free, I did also."
-- Margaret Isaac, yoga teacher, Marietta, GA =================== And that is the end of our newsletter. Thank you very much!
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