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Movement Menu eZine - March 2010
March is the month of the Equinox, time to balance the energy of the seasons and plan for the long days ahead. For many of us, summer is the season to travel, whether to familiar places we know quite well or on new adventures we've long dreamed about. And your favorite adventures are the stuff that our upcoming Summer Travel Special Issue is made of! We invite you to please take a few minutes to complete our "where have you been, and where are you going" survey – your opinions count! The 'Yoga-Dance Convergence' is the theme of the current issue in subscribers mailboxes now (and if you pick up complimentary copies somewhere please consider giving a gift subscription to a far-off friend or relative). We invited eight leaders to tell the story of how yoga and dance are converging; published the final interview with Biodanza founder Rolando Toro; covered the hip-hop sensation MC Yogi; discovered amazing grazing on snacks and learned about the Gyrotonics fitness system. Learn how AXIS Dance Company is blazing the trail for physically integrated dancers on campus, check out the best in dance friendly baby carriers, and discover events worth traveling for in the Movement Menu.We're wishing you well as the seasons turn, a big welcome to sunshine and the summer to come!
Sneak Preview of Issue #10! Go to our home page for a peek inside issue #10, out now in subscribers mailboxes and selected conscious hot spot distribution points. Thanks for reading Conscious Dancer! Announcements 
Contribute to the "Summer Travel" special issue! We're bringing you our first ever global dance travel guide. Please take a few minutes for our easy 7 question Summer Travel Survey and help us put together the most wide-ranging planner possible by sending us your info on workshops, retreats, dance camps, festivals, tours, family-friendly events, and any other gathering that our readers should know about. Deadline for "Summer Travel" is April 15th, please send events or ideas to info@consciousdancer.com 
We keep reaching for this favorite after our fun snack tasting party that informed the Amazing Grazing article in the Spring edition. This reinvented potato chip is not fried and not baked, but popped! Low-fat and less calories usually makes for a humdrum taste, but not with Pop Chips. Sinfully delicious without actually sinning: no trans fat, no cholesterol, no preservatives, and no greasy fingers. Grab a bag and enjoy guilt-free snacking at its best. With 6 yummy flavors to choose from, snackers all over have nothing to want for.
In Memoriam of Rolando Toro Araneda, Creator of Biodanza Readers Write! 
Our readers are a talented bunch! Here's the latest from directory member Margit Galanter. This article offers a way to enrich your vitality as you transition from winter into spring, from the traditional Chinese Five Elements perspective. Learn how to nourish your vitality as we enter into the creative energy of spring. Enriching ourselves from winter into spring: The five elements perspective. If you take stock in your vitality these days, could you use some help to prepare for the vibrant energy of spring? What if just a few small actions in your daily life could nurture your creative movement? Read on to learn how you can align with the seasons and move through the transition from winter to spring, five elements style! Conscious Dancer Directory Member of the Month: Toni Bergins' JourneyDance is a deep, personal exploration through improvisational movement, guided sequences, visualization, vocalization, and ritual. Offering classes, workshops, and teacher trainings nationally and abroad, JourneyDance will have you feeling funky and divine with every move you make on your path from body to soul to wholeness. Learn more about Toni Bergins of JourneyDance on the Moving Arts Network, Conscious Dancer's global directory of movement and see how she uses our directory to promote her business. Find out how you can benefit with a listing and become a distribution point for Conscious Dancer magazine. Email info@consciousdancer.com. Post events for FREE on our directory here!
Biodanza-Sistema Rolando Toro, USA: "Blossoms of Springtime" with Michelle in NYC Where: NYC, NY. Dance Forum, 20 E. 17th Street 
"In like a lion, out like a lamb"....the cycles of life are upon us both literally and figuratively. As we usher out this harsh northeastern winter wonderland we've enjoyed, we welcome into our lives all that is new and blossoming. Join us for the ultimate celebration of life as we honor the memory of Rolando Toro Araneda, founder of Biodanza worldwide, and featured in the Spring issue of Conscious Dancer magazine. We'll honor his vision of Biodanza to dance the world, we'll dance the abundance of life he inspired us to create and to share with others, and the budding of our beautiful beings as we move into this new and vibrant season, Spring. Let it bloom! "When you have courage to be faithful to your soul, you are in touch with your interior luminosity and know where to take your next steps in life." - Rolando Toro Araneda Info: www.biodanza-usa.com, biodanzaeastcoast@gmail.com, www.movingartsnetwork.com InterPlay® for Therapists and Healers with CathyAnn Beaty Where: Oakland, CA. InterPlayce 
"Where playing with" issues may be more effective than "working on" them." A guided tour of InterPlay's body wisdom principles and practices with one of InterPlay's most experienced leaders. CathyAnn Beaty brings decades of InterPlay experience in the US and India to playing with trauma, depression, transition, and illness. In addition to introducing the uses of InterPlay in therapeutic practice, CathyAnn affirms the courage required to play in order to create healing, and share ways to shape on the spot rituals to help mark the healing journey. InterPlay's gentle, clear invitations shift from fixing problems to being active creators in life. These events explore:
Come for a one day or for an in-depth weekend experience. Both of these courses meet the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Get more info on both of these events at http://www.interplay.org/events.asp?region=1 The YUM Sessions - 2 Ecstatic Dances to LIVE Music - celebrating the Spring Equinox! Where: Oakland, CA. Sweet's Ballroom, 1933 Broadway 
A collaboration of Improvisational Musicians from the band Hamsa Lila and Ryan Herr from San Luis Obispo. Inspired by the teachings in Soul Motion, 5 Rhythms, Contact Improvisation and experienced by thousands of participants during west coast regional tours, these movement sessions, facilitated by Philip Novotny, use LIVE music as the bridge between deep trusting and spontaneous connection. Explore soulful body awareness through breath, through beat, through dance, through movement! Continuous, improvised musical elements blend East, West and World grooves with ambient sound landscapes, moving you through an energetic wave into a blissful stillness at journey's end. $15 drop in, Ecstatic Dance pass, or $20 for both. Tickets available at the Door. For more info: ecstaticdance.org A SPLENDID MOMENT with Ruth Zaporah Where: Port Townsend, WA. Madrona MindBody Institute 
Ruth Zaporah is bringing her creation, Action Theater: The Improvisation of Presence, to the Madrona Mindbody Insitute for a four-day intensive. Fully immerse yourself in being here, unveiling yourself to yourself, one moment at a time, one moment leading to the next. Ruth's movement exercises, physical, vocal and verbal, invite the participant into unknown yet uncannily familiar territories, territories of the embodied imagination. Participants experience fresh views of themselves, who they are, how they perceive and respond to the ordinary, and how vast is their potential. Open to the novice as well as the experienced, all those who relish living in a human body and like to move.www.madronamindbody.com JourneyDance™ California Tour: Where: see below for locations 
JourneyDance™ will move you through deep, personal exploration into a loving, intimate relationship with body, mind, and source energy. Toni Bergins' sensual and exhilarating union of dance, visualization, voice, and ritual calls us to get funky and divine! In celebration of this seasonal rebirth, Toni brings her beloved friend and medicine woman, Sanjivani Marie Amma, to hold us in sacred healing ritual. Join Toni and Sanjivani for the ultimate synergy of sacred fire and healing water, holding safe space for transformation and rejuvenation through shamanic journeying in liberating dance and healing ceremonies. We will dance with the elements, and invoke archetypal energies and our power animals. JourneyDance for nourishment, energy, presence, and prayer. Come travel this sacred and epic journey to live the life you desire and experience your fully embodied and empowered divine presence. www.journeydance.com, www.marieamma.com. Esalen Institute Pacific Cultural Center, Room - PH Yoga Tree Castro Dancemeditation, Sufi, and Spiritual Belly Dance with Dunya Where: Ashville, NC 
Dancemeditation™ explores the relationships between self and other, self and cosmos, self-with-Self and self-to-the-Divine-Eternal. By encouraging receptivity, creativity, and present-ness, Dancemeditation cultivates our inherent ability to heal and self-regulate using a wide variety of movement techniques (including Fluid Yoga, Breath Dances, Deep State Motion, and Gesture) within a primarily nonverbal study environment. Practitioners drop out of an over-active, distracted mind into intuitive embodiment. Inner and outer witnessing are balanced. Sufism: We'll work with the beautiful, transformational Sufi breath-based movement & sound practices to open inner states. These open the body and spirit to deep growth. Dunya's Spiritual Bellydance approaches belly dance as an inward facing art that can reach and dissolve the blocks in your body, illuminate your pelvis, spine, and flesh, and ignite your spiritual heart. Come delight in this versatile, ancient, evolving, dance as meditation, celebration, and self-restoration. Joyful Connections: A Yoga and Expressive Arts Retreat Where: Costa Rica, Pura Vida Spa and Resort 
Revitalize your connection to your body and soul in exotic Costa Rica at the luscious Pura Vida Spa and Resort. Tracy Carruth (Yoga Balance) and Silky Hart (Expressive Hart) combine yoga and creative expression to give you a retreat experience filled with opportunities to joyfully connect with your magnificent self, your creativity, nature, and new friends. This retreat offers opportunities for chilling out, engaging your creative spirit, honoring the wisdom of your body, pampering yourself with divine spa treatments and healthy cuisine, and going on adventurous eco excursions. Yoga Teachers: 22 CEUs are available through Yoga Alliance! No previous background is necessary. Just bring your desire to play and have fun! A wide variety of accommodation choices are available. For more information, visit www.expressivehart.com or www.yogabalancestudio.com. Loving Release - Cleansing Retreat Where: Middletown, CA. Harbin Hot Springs 
Raw food, liquid fast, and yoga. The retreat's weekend options includes raw food demos with Alaya, prepared raw meals, optimal nutrition talks, yoga purifications with Rainah (to support the colon, liver, and spleen), sitting and movement meditation, journaling and emotional support, and Harbin's wonderful amenities (hot and cold springs, sauna, steam room and the great outdoors). The week-long journey expands to include a three-day liquid fast, quantum light breath (re-balancing through breath and sound), dance, guided massage, and more yoga. Available in addition: colonics, private nutritional counseling, Chi Ni Tsang, and emotional counseling. Come FEEL a difference! Early registration by April 1st: weekend $365/week-long $686. After April 1st: weekend $425/week-long journey $756. For info: (707) 987-4812, ahlea@earthlink.net. Movement Play Micro-Festival Where: Willits, CAWhen: June 25-27 
The third annual Movement Play brings together music, art, community, and movement of all types in a summer paradise setting. Beats by Random Rab, Alxndr, Dragonfly, Neptune, and BombGoddess. Workshops include Contact Improv, Modern Dance, Tribal Belly Dance, Hip Hop, Breakdance, Nia, Yoga, Partner Yoga, Thai Massage, Hooping, Poi, Staff, Contact Juggling, Slackline, Improvisational Storytelling, Breathwork, Meditation, Stretching, interactive craftiness, and more! Camping, swimming, and hot tubs powered by solar energy! All-organic food provided by Table Nectar, and included in ticket price. Three hours north of San Francisco, this intimate event is one of the most nourishing festivals in existence. www.movementplay.com Final Note Our goal is to serve the needs of movement communities where ever they are found, and provide a meaningful vehicle for ideas and information through Conscious Dancer magazine and the related directory website, the Moving Arts Network . Members of the directory form our distribution network, and this is how we make sure the magazine finds the most enthusiastic readership possible. You can easily be part of our organic distribution network and receive complimentary stacks of Conscious Dancer anywhere in the world. |
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