DANCEMEDITATION » Uncategorized http://blog.dancemeditation.org not an oxymoron Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:02:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Warm & cool. 2010 Summer Movement Monastery includes paint-yr-own-poems-&-color-on-veil-&-fan day. Ahhhh, Dancemeditation… http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2010/05/25/warm-cool-2010-summer-movement-monastery-includes-paint-yr-own-poems-color-on-veil-fan-day-ahhhh-dancemeditation/ http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2010/05/25/warm-cool-2010-summer-movement-monastery-includes-paint-yr-own-poems-color-on-veil-fan-day-ahhhh-dancemeditation/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 18:51:44 +0000 Dunya http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2010/05/25/warm-cool-2010-summer-movement-monastery-includes-paint-yr-own-poems-color-on-veil-fan-day-ahhhh-dancemeditation/ So many possibilities here, but the gist of it is making yr own melange of gorgeousness, intrigue, secrets, visions rather than buying someone’s else.It may be messier but its yours.
(Also great practice for entertaining yourself when the internet goes down.)

We’ll have art supplies available for lowest cost at the SMM as well as a list of what you might bring from yr personal world to enhance this experience.
More soon!

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Dancemeditation™ Weekend Workshop with Dunya
May 7-9
Friday 7:00-9:00pm

Saturday 12:30-6:30pm
Sunday, 11-2pm

Maya Whole Health Studio at Southport, Seattle, WA

Come… breathe, stretch, move, rest, dance, bellydance, chant and whirl without words, with beautiful music, with your eyes open or closed. Enjoy innovative approaches to movement, music, body-work techniques as well as magical impromtu performances. You’ll experience the deep relaxation, abundant creativity, improved immune function, healing and inner peace you’ve been looking for. You’ll take home renewed vigor and inspiration. No previous movement or dance experience is required. Welcome!

This is a rare West Coast opportunity to attend a workshop with Dunya, founder and Principal Teacher of the healing movement system, Dancemeditation™, she specializes in techniques that open the wonderment of deep, subtle, peaceful self-perception. She is Spiritual Guide of the Dancemeditation Sufi Order.

 To pre-register go to Maya Whole Health at: http://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?studioid=801&stype=-8&sTG=20&sLoc=2&sTrn=100000098
Or contact:
425.271.0200
Shannon@mayawholehealth.com

**** Weekend Workshop Schedule****

Friday 7:00-9:00 pm – You are welcome to attend just Friday, if you would only like to learn more about Dancemeditation™
Saturday 12:30-6:30pm
Sunday, 11-2pm

Dancemeditation™ explores the relationships between self-&-other, self-&-cosmos, self-with-Self and self-to-the Divine Eternal. By encouraging receptivity, creativity and present-ness, Dancemeditation™ cultivates our inherent ability to heal and self-regulate using a wide variety of movement techniques — including Fluid Yoga, Breath Dances, Deep State Motion, Gesture, among others — within a primarily non-verbal study environment. Practitioners drop out of an over-active, distracted mind into intuitive embodiment. Inner & outer witnessing are balanced.

Friday: 7:00-9:00 pm * $55 (Included in weekend price, $45 before April 1)

Saturday & Sunday, * $160 by April 1; $200 after (Note: ask us about the Maya Whole Health discount for students, teachers & seniors!)

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For those who love dance, this is an amazing piece.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/arts/dance/03dancevote.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes

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and this lovely Lipton Tea elephant   (via @thetearooms)

A friend once remarked that every surface in NYC is patterned, tattooed. Nothing is naked. 
Spring is that way too—trees donning their knickers after winter’s bare bones. 

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This is terrific function of yearly retreat; it not only engages the time spent at the retreat, but the time leading up to it and the time afterwards. All these phases kick in, making a dynamic stretch of intentional action. Taking care of my bodyself. It also inspires deeper questions about choices and directions. 

Come to yourself and you will be safe. 
–Hafiz
Dunya Dianne McPherson
Director, Dervish Society of America 
DSA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the path of evolutionary Sufism providing development and exploratory inquiry into embodied spirituality and community connection through service, performance and practice opportunities. Donations are tax-deductible. 

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