Dancing the Sensual Soul with Zahava at Skyelight Healing Arts in Nyack

Dancing the Sensual Soul with Zahava Fridays 5 ÂÂ- 6:30 pm free intro on nov 13 nov 20, dec 4, 11, 18 This community based work combines roots from Ballet, West African Dance, Yoga, Pilates, Middle Eastern Dance, Sufi Dance Meditation, the Chakra System and Sexual Shamanic Cultivation to open trust and innovation in the body. We work with powerful elements from Ballet including open linear spacious alignment, strong articulate feet, grace, sculptural structure, balance, and fearless weight shifting. We incorporate the sensual, firey, percussive, polyrhythmic, relaxed raw posture, soul expression and community orientation from West African Dance. We slow down to deepen our inner experience, our breath, our subtle actions, our stillness, our purification through strength and flexibility from the knowledge of Yoga. We track our experience as a body, a mind, a soul, as a devotion to the truth present in our being. We nourish ourselves with the vibrations, shimmeys, and undulations from Middle Eastern dance. This movement vocabulary cultivates a balance between doing with muscles and intentions, and flowing with receptivity and dynamic presence. These dances originate from the birthing process and literally move consciousness between the sex center, the heart, and the divine. The Sufi Dance Meditation nurtures our nervous system while moving energy and information through us, riding the waves of expansion and contraction that naturally occur during transformational growth, sexual response, and cultural revolution. Sessions include a combination of: ~ relaxing into the earth through a supple spine and breath ~ fluid yoga to open the joints and chakras ~ rocking, spiraling, and vocal toning to nourish and rejuvenate ~ deep efficient core strength and focus on our current life intention ~ standing vibrations and rhythms in the basin of the pelvis ~ freedom on balance, freedom off balance: standing, falling, leaping ~ choreographed combination ~ movement meditation: giving ourselves over to an improvised dance ~ deep stillness and heart centered integration ~ closing circle Depth and pace of class is best suited for women and men with a regular movement and meditation practice. Please wear comfortable sensual clothes that you enjoy moving in. www.skyelighthealingarts.com