This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from Vashti Blacker, a member of the Dance from the Heart community & Critical Mass Dance Company! Dear dancers, Unprecedented has been a word often used to describe 2020 and the impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic - both individually and collectively. Life over zoom and digital connection has [...]
This week's Dance First Member Insight is from Toni Bergins, creator of JourneyDance! Dear Dancers, Feel the feelings. Find the gifts. Find the blessings….hmmmm. You may have heard this phrase and found it painful. Many of us have been tested and faced losses great and small. We have been challenged to become flexible, resilient, and certainly [...]
This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from Jon Schreiber, Director of The Breema Center! Dear Dancers, We live on the planet of rhythm, in a rhythmic universe. From the Megalocosmos, to Nature, to our body, all the way to the physiologic systems that sustain our life, even down to the movement of our atoms and their electrons and [...]
This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from Lucia Horan, 5Rhythms leading light and First Family member! Dear Dancers, My name is Lucia Horan. I am a movement artist. My medium is emptiness. I work with dancers and movers to teach insight meditation and Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms® dance. Dancing with adversity, challenge, and change has pushed many of us to our edge. [...]
This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from Jennifer Joy Jimenez creator of TranscenDance! Dear Dancers One of my favorite quotes is from Gabriel Roth's book "Maps to Ecstasy": "So the body is where the dancing path to wholeness must begin. So many of us are not in our bodies, really at home and vibrantly present there. Nor are [...]
This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from Maneesha McClure, creator of Dance Alchemy! Hi, Lovers of Dancing! I am new here and am happy to be part of the Dance First community! As the proud creator of Dance Alchemy, I've seen firsthand how dance and movement can impact a person's overall well-being. Dance Alchemy focuses on how dancing can transform - [...]
This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from Sofiah Thom, creator of the Temple Body Arts™ School for Embodied Feminine Leadership. Dear Conscious Dancer tribe, 2020 left so many of us feeling powerless... We watched as the old systems and structures began to crumble and fall. If there is anything that navigating the pandemic and 2020 has taught us, [...]
This week's Dance First Member Spotlight is from Megha Nancy Buttenheim, Founding Director and CJO (Chief JOY Officer) of Let Your Yoga Dance® Dear Dancers, Happy 2021! Despite the sorrow and tragedy 2020 brought to humankind, I have also experienced much Grace and have experienced deep learning. The place of my primary employment for 35 years, Kripalu, closed on March [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
