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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
