This week's Dance First Insight is from Kristen Mangione and LÎLA - Dance Alchemy for the Soul! Kristen Mangione, the Dance Alchemist, is a visionary dance artist whose career spans over two decades in the arenas of professional dance, the healing arts and metaphysical studies. She has danced for choreographers in New York City including Bill T. [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Jamie McHugh and Tamalpa! Embodying Nature, Becoming Ourselves by Jamie McHugh We are elements of nature: our soma and psyche are reflections of the planet. This relationship between the inner and outer ecosystems is key to any discussion about ecosomatics. Many conversations about ecology, with all of [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Evangelos Diavolitsis and Four Ways To Freedom! Evangelos Diavolitsis means “Angel-Devil.” From a young age, I was baffled by our human existence and struggled to find meaning in a seemingly difficult world. Blessed with a Greek philosophical mind, a polite Canadian upbringing and a longing for the [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Lorca Simons & Live Wire! “I believe in the power of motion, the wisdom of gravity, the emptiness of true love, the fact that there is no way out but through the body, no way up unless we all go together, no way down unless we follow [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Moti Zemelman & Contact Improv! 9th annual Contact Improv Retreat in Costa Rica w/ Moti: Feb 11-18, 2023 @ The Goddess Garden Yoga Resort - Cahuita, Costa Rica. Contact Improvisation has continued to be an anchor for me during these challenging pandemic years. Having a regular practice that is [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Ellen Watson! Ellen Watson is celebrating her 40th year on the staff and faculty at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, where she studies, practices, and teaches various modalities of moving meditation practice. A licensed minister, Ellen believes that the core of all healing begins in the realm of [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Dr. Jamie Marich & Dancing Mindfulness! Dancing Mindfulness: 10th Anniversary Reflections Jamie Marich, Ph.D., LPCC-S, REAT, RYT-500 Dancing Mindfulness is a practice over which I never felt comfortable claiming ownership. Dance and mindfulness are two of the oldest healing practices that are inherent to the first peoples of our [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Melissa Michaels & Golden Bridge! Greetings friends ~ Have you ever been through some kind of an initiatory experience that did not feel complete? That certainly was my experience when I completed surgery and chemotherapy 5 years ago this September. As you may know, those treatments, along [...]
This week's Dance First Spotlight is on Jennifer Joy Jiménez & TranscenDance! Best described as “pure joy in motion”, Jennifer Joy Jiménez is a groundbreaking leader in the fields of personal development, health & wellbeing, and conscious dance. Jennifer has been featured alongside some of the world’s greatest thought leaders including; Marianne Williamson, Bruce H. Lipton Ph.D., Maya Angelou, Byron [...]
This week's Dance First Spotlight is on Phoenix OneSong & Dancing Freedom! The Mythic Body I recently came out of a week-long immersion with one of my teachers, Josh Shrei, who hosts “The Emerald” podcast. After studying with him for 10 months, online, 20 of us welcomed him and his family from the US [...]
