Posted to sfbarefootboogie yahoo group by: "bluesky_openroad" bluesky_openroad@hotmail.com bluesky_openroad
Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:22 pm (PDT)

As a Boogie dancer of many years, I thought telling all you of a small event
which happened to me last Thursday night. I was coming home through
Golden Gate Park at 5:30 PM on my motorcycle – no passing and a
beautiful view, at 25 miles per hour or under and all single lane
driving. How safe can it get on these roads! At one of the
intersections I stopped for a stop sign, leaning forward over my tank

Ellen Watson, world-renown movement teacher and global change catalyst, developed the Movement Arts Program at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where she teaches a range of ecstatic dance, massage, yoga and moving meditation practice. Now though her nonprofit MovingVentures School (MVS), Ellen offers training and retreats at inspiring locations around the world, with a focus on community service.

"Special Dances Need Special Music" -
The Conscious Dance Deejays Group and Database

Dear Dance Organizer, Leader, or Deejay,

I'm host of the Conscious_Dance_Deejays group on Yahoo.com, and I'm an organizer, host, and deejay for Soul Sanctuary Dance, a weekly community-oriented freestyle dance in Berkeley, CA (http://www.soulsanctuarydance.com).

Special dances need special music. Those of us providing the music put a lot of effort and care into finding songs that go beyond the beat. Songs that don't promote prejudice, violence, substance abuse, hatred, or stereotypes.