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Dance First Member Insight: Alana Shaw and Turning the Wheel!

2020-12-29T00:17:49-05:00December 29th, 2020|Categories: Member Spotlight|

This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from Alana Shaw, founder and Executive Director of Turning the Wheel, a national non-profit arts and education organization dedicated to "making body-based creative expression and play accessible to individuals of all ages, experiences, genders, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds." Dear Dancers, This beautiful conscious dancer community of dancing, singing, moving, evolving beings is [...]

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Monday Love to Your New Year

2020-12-28T23:29:34-05:00December 28th, 2020|Categories: Newsletter|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

“ Ring out the false, ring in the true ”  ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson How do you take stock of the year behind? Are you a believer in New Year's resolutions? What does your crystal ball say about the year ahead? This being the last Monday of 2020 it seems like some taking [...]

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Dance First Member Insight: Cathy Ryan, Ireland-based creative force behind Humans-Being!

2020-12-22T02:19:27-05:00December 22nd, 2020|Categories: Member Spotlight|

This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from Cathy Ryan, creator of Humans-Being, an embodied movement meditation provider and collaborative organization based in Ireland. Dear Dancers, I live on the edge of Ireland in the eye line of a lighthouse. Today is Solstice, Winter and Summer, as the Earth's North Pole tilts furthest away from the Sun and it's South Pole [...]

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Monday Love to your Stillness in the Sun

2020-12-22T01:19:57-05:00December 22nd, 2020|Categories: Newsletter|

“ Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”  ~ Edith Wharton Happy Solstice to you! How does it feel to chalk up another spin around the sun? What is it that's so compelling about this twice-yearly event? Why does every religion, spiritual tradition, or ancient culture make [...]

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Dance First Member Insight: Mana in Motion with Sacred Dance Path’s Kumu Karyne Daniels!

2020-12-15T04:24:38-05:00December 15th, 2020|Categories: Member Spotlight|

This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from Kumu Karyne Daniels, founder of Sacred Dance Path. Dear Dancers, As we move into 2021, let us gather the wisdom we have gleaned from 2020 and convert it into movement that moves. Push past mountains, walls, restrictions, fears, darkness, and all that no longer serves, so we truly can DANCE from our MANA. [...]

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Monday Love to your Roots & Relics

2020-12-15T01:13:05-05:00December 15th, 2020|Categories: Newsletter|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

“ When did this journey begin...? When did this fire begin in my heart...?”  ~ Avijeet Das What are your forgotten passions? Why do some of the things we might have enjoyed early in life go off the radar for so long? How do we know what's worth circling back to? My older [...]

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Dance First Member Insight: One Dance Tribe founders Amara Pagano & Pier Paolo de Angelis

2020-12-08T06:00:40-05:00December 8th, 2020|Categories: Member Spotlight|

This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from Amara Pagano, (founder of Azul) & Pier Paolo de Angelis, leaders of One Dance Tribe. Dear fellow dancers, 2020 has been quite a memorable year for all of us so far. And it is not over yet…. Never before have our lives been affected by a global pandemic. Never before have we [...]

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Monday Love to your Interior Landscape

2020-12-08T04:31:39-05:00December 8th, 2020|Categories: Newsletter|

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”  ~ Mahatma Gandhi How's your internal landscape doing these days? Why does your outer world reflect your inner being? What is it about the 'wallpaper' inside your mind that makes such a difference in your day-to-day life? You've probably [...]

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Dance First Member Insight: Kristen Mangione, founder of LÎLA – Dance Alchemy for the Soul!

2020-12-01T04:07:35-05:00December 1st, 2020|Categories: Member Spotlight|

This week's Dance First Spotlight is from Kristen Mangione, founder of LÎLA – Dance Alchemy for the Soul. Dear Dancers, This year has been anything but business as usual. If I had to choose one word to describe my experience of 2020, it would be transformation. I have come to love this word because it's about radical metamorphosis. It's [...]

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Monday Love to your Intuition and Interests

2020-12-01T02:57:47-05:00December 1st, 2020|Categories: Newsletter|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

“ We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”  ~ Joan Didion What does 'intuitive' mean to you? Why are facts and gut feelings sometimes at odds with each other? How is it that a counterintuitive concept can have so much impact? It's a funny thing about learning, so many things seem straightforward, [...]

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