This week's Dance First Insight is from Let Your Yoga Dance for Special Populations! Megha’s interest in offering Let Your Yoga Dance® for Special Populations began many years ago while teaching her regular Let Your Yoga Dance® classes. People with Parkinson’s Disease began to come to her classes, so many in fact, that she realized she should offer classes targeting [...]
Bollywood Dance Fusion™ is a healing movement modality with one simple idea; that if you move and groove to music that inspires you, and connect with your body in a joyful meaningful way, you will be well on your way to health and healing, wellness and recovery!
This week's Dance First Insight is from Rhythmwood Retreat! Welcome to Rhythmwood! It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to Rhythmwood, our hand crafted straw bale dance studio. This is a unique and beautiful space that has been created from natural, local materials. The building is coated inside and out with an earthen [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from OneDanceTribe! It is our great pleasure to announce the OneDanceTribe Re-Union, a 6 day live gathering at Sonnenstrahl Centre in Kisslegg, Germany July 1-6, 2022. This is the first time we gather after the pandemic and we are super excited about the chance to re-experience the magic of dancing as ONE. OneDanceTribe is [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Breaking Down Walls! This week’s Dance First insight is from Breaking Down Walls, celebrating our shared humanity through performing arts showcasing dance, music, theatre, poetry, comedy, and animation. This event is raising money for House of Ukraine and is taking place at San Francisco’s Cowell Theater in Fort Mason on [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from La Boutique Fantasque! Attention dancers and ballet lovers of all ages! If you and your family enjoy extraordinary ballet, you don’t want to miss La Boutique Fantasque presented by New Ballet. A 1919 ballet originally choreographed by Leonide Massine, “The Enchanted Toyshop” has been re-imagined with choreography by Dalia [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Ilona Glinarsky & Living Tango! Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, Ilona is no stranger to music and dance. Growing up in the former Soviet Union she was exposed to dance and music from the age of four. A classically trained pianist, Ilona has a deep understanding and appreciation for music and [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Dr. Birgitte Tan! Tell Us a Story About a Patient or Client Suffering From Grief and How Dance Therapy Helped Penelope (name has been changed) had complicated grief from cumulative grief (grief overload) as well as disenfranchise grief (grief downplayed or overlooked by others) for over 40 years. [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Lamara Heartwell! When we push our bodies hard without compassion — using, abusing, exploiting, or unconsciously depleting our inner resources — we are mirroring a larger pattern of a dysfunctional relationship with Mother Earth. This destructive pattern has become so commonplace in Western culture that we think [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Critical Mass Dance Company! Trauma-Informed Principles in Action: Working for CMDC Working for Critical Mass Dance Company (CMDC), I've witnessed and experienced trauma-informed principles for myself in a workplace for the first time in my adult life. This experience in and of itself helps me to continue [...]
