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Celebration Of Love
The Embodiment of Yin and Yang
Liz Ganz
Liz Ganz is a visionary artist, teacher, dancer and a recognized, beloved leader in the conscious movement community. A certified Nia Black Belt teacher, Nia 5 Stages Instructor, Creative Director of beingLoved creative soul work, a graduate of The Mama Gena School for Womanly Arts and one of only sixteen White Belt Educational Trainers world wide, Liz has delivered several NiaTrainings with Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas, was a student of Deborah Hay, and taught Soul Motion under Vinn Marti for 6 years. |
Saffire Bouchelion
Saffire Bouchelion is a Black Belt Nia instructor who has passionately practiced Nia for over 15 years, a professional performer and musician, touring Amsterdam, Paris, Australia, Bali and New Zealand in 2010. Co-founder of two experimental dance companies and founder of SHAMANTRA a deep sacred play designed to help us remember the natural, joyous rhythms of our collective hearts and voices. Drumming, sounding and ecstatic dance highlight his unique brand of somatic healing work.
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About The Work
beingLoved is a healing movement practice where we use art, writing, and dance to open our self-awareness and renew our relationship to the creative source of our being. Using sound, gesture, and spontaneous improvisational movement, you will learn to listen and respond to the body as it reveals its true calling to you.
The work of beingLoved takes the disparate concepts of past, present, and future and focuses them into one, expansive, all-inclusive NOW, which we may move through with ease, grace and confidence.
beingLoved is a living art form which nourishes body, mind, emotion and spirit with sacred intent. Tapping into the massive wisdom of our cellular consciousness, it invites us to celebrate who we are by infusing every molecule of our bodies with healing energy. In this way, we give vision and voice to our innermost callings and expression.
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SHAMANTRA is deep sacred play, designed to help us remember the natural, joyous rhythms of our collective hearts and voices. Through this creative, percussive journey the entire being is explored and enriched physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually through sounding, movement, music, and dance. The result is a more authentic sense
of self.
SHAMANTRA uncovers the heart beat of community. True community happens when everyone moves to the same pulse. Each may have a different relationship to that pulse, but the single pulse is what holds the center of community. As long as we are in relationship to this pulse we will be in relationship to each other. Communicating with each other in this way with sound and silence, call and response, transmitting and receiving, a singular pulse is created, making possible music, healing, and community.
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Nia
“Watch out - this can change your life!"
—Carlos Rosas, Nia co-founder
Nia is a path to condition, heal and express your self through movement and sensation. A dynamic blend of dance arts, martial arts and healing arts, Nia revolutionized the face of fitness in 1983, and has since changed millions of lives and bodies across the globe. Balancing technical precision with free-form expression, Nia brings the body, mind, emotions and spirit to optimum health through music, movement and self-expression, guided by the sensation of Pleasure.
Nia is designed for any body. It is ageless and limitless, transformational and effective for every person everywhere. With the philosophy, Through Movement We Find Health, Nia addresses the whole person through music and movement integrated from nine traditional movement forms:
- Martial Arts: T’ai Chi, Tae Kwon Do, Aikido
- Dance Arts: Jazz Dance, Modern Dance, Duncan Dance
- Healing Arts: Yoga, Alexander Technique, The Teachings of Moshe Feldenkrais®
Through Nia practice, you learn to foster awareness of your life through physical sensation, allowing the Voice of The Body to direct your actions and choices, leading to a general state of what Nia calls Dynamic Ease.
Most of all, Nia is exhilarating and fun! |
Ecstatic Dance
Everyone is dying to live ecstatically in a community where spirits and people are equal.
-- Arnold Mindell, The Shaman's Body
Across time and culture, dance has long been revered for its power to heal body, mind, and soul, strengthen the bonds of community, and to commune with spirit and nature allowing us to discover deeper aspects of who we are as human beings. Dance is also used as a form of worship, celebration, story-telling and myth-making, and to commemorate important rites of passage. We can glean some of the significance dance held in ancient tribal life. Next to hunting, it is the second most common activity shown in cave paintings.
Cut off from its healing and esoteric roots, western culture has reduced dance to a form of entertainment, a way to socialize, or to attract a mate. It’s generally not thought of as a way to pray, meditate, evoke visionary experience, or commune with spirit and nature. Yet in the past decade or so, it seems that the ancient understandings of dance as a healing and spiritual modality are impressing themselves upon the modern mind, as if welling up from old, vibrant memories of the tribal soul within.
The idea of dance as a symbolic language of the psyche that can initiate healing, visionary, and ecstatic experience through rhythm and movement is being widely explored. Increasing numbers of people are searching for new levels of health, wholeness, and spiritual connection through the medium of dance.
Ecstatic experience is the oldest form of healing and spiritual practice known with evidence of it dating back over 30,000 years to ancient traditions of shamanism. It is believed that shamans were the first to discover and codify the use and power of rhythm through drumming, dancing, and chanting to carry them on their journeys into a world beyond the ordinary.
by Karen Berggren |
Nia 5 Stages
Nia 5 Stages is an integrative movement practice based on the five stages of human development: Embryonic, Creeping, Crawling, Standing and Walking. Practiced with awareness, these stages have the power to facilitate optimal alignment, improved function and comfort in the body. Whether practiced at length or for as little as five minutes a day, this system provides a tool for reclaiming and sustaining mobility, flexibility, strength, agility and stability.
The Nia 5 Stages Practice is medicine that heals because it is what the body does naturally as it develops and first learns to walk. Revisiting the stages in an adult body facilitates improved alignment and functioning, which is why we call it The Body’s Way Self-Healing practice. A daily dose of five simple moves, spending as little as one minute in each stage, will deliver the “feeling better” feeling we call healing. It is the one movement pill you can take that will naturally realign your now body into the healed future body.
Purpose refers to the “reason” behind doing what you do. In the case of the 5 Stages, the purpose is to activate the process of healing. |
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