Sacred Circle Ritual Dance in NYC: Friday, February 10th

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Greetings!

I am happy to be facilitating Ritual dance workshops in NYC again!  I hope you come out and experience this sacred form of moving together. Please feel free to contact me for any questions.  Also, please check out my new website www.nadakhodlova.com and let me know what you think! Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested. Thanks!

Warmly,Nada

Sacred Circle Ritual DanceAncient Forms, Modern Times

February 10th, Friday7:30 to 10:00pm

at the Center for Remembering and Sharing123 Fourth Ave, 2nd FL between 12th & 13th streets

NY, NY 10003http://www.crsny.org/

You are invited to dance in community- traditional Balkan, Greek, Romanian, Armenian, and Near Eastern sacred circle dances. Throughout all ages and cultures, traditional circle dances were used to honor the divine, to heal, to affirm connection to the earth and each other, to build community and celebrate rites of passages and life transitions. The danced patterns illuminate the web of these connections. It is where personal and universal healing can occur.

We will use the traditional dances as a platform for heightening awareness of body/self, self to community and self to cosmos. We will examine the dances on multiple levels to indulge in these connections.  The expressive and improvisational aspects of Dance/Movement Therapy will support further exploration such as sensations, images, feelings,and stories in order to deepen and expand our experience. We will also have the opportunity to honor the Winter and the returning light in guided expressive dance as well.

We will be honoring the nourishing introspective Winter days upon us and celebrate the continued return of the light. Our dances will reconnect us into this ancient way of honoring the earth's rhythms. We will seek not only guidance from the dances but from those who created these dances, the ancestors of the dances. The wisdom of the ancient ones are held within the dances. As we attentively dance and plug into this wisdom we reweave ourselves into the time honored web of life.

The dances are joyful, meditative, mournful, full of beauty, longing,life and celebration!

Space is limited!Advance Registration is recommended!Adv rate- $35Day of - $45Students-$25To get the adv rate pre-payment is req by 11:45pm

the night before the event. Students email me and pay the day of event.

To Register Go To:

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/222283

About Nada:Nada Khodlova MA BC-DMT LCAT is a Board Certified Dance Movement Therapist and

Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. Nada has worked in the humanservices field for the last 17 years in a variety of settings

including mental health clinics, nursing homes, day treatment centers,homeless shelters, and school/community based programs. Presently,

Nada works as a supervisor of psychiatric rehabilitation and Dance/Movement Therapist on an acute adult inpatient psychiatric unit in the

North Bronx. Nada has danced with the Duncan Dance Collective, RinaRinkewich/Return of the Sun, PURE, and the Thais Mazur Dance Company.

Recently, Nada has trained with in a 2 year Women'sRitual Dance intensive program and received a certification. Nada has

experienced many gifts of homecoming through these dances. She hopesto honor the wisdom and potency of these dances and to pass this on to

others.Testimonials- " Nada's ritual dance workshop was one of the most self-nurturing,inspiring, and significant dance experiences I've had in my whole

life. Her thoughtful introduction of each traditional dance isespecially rewarding and helped me to feel connected to centuries ofwomen who have danced these dances before. " Goldsmith-Dance/Movement Therapist

" Nada Khodlova is a gifted and nurturing teacher.  She makes her students 

feel welcome , supported, and valued while sharing her expertise 

and her passion for these dances. Nada is doing the critical and 

cutting-edge work of creating community and re-introducing the divine feminine " .

~Rina Rinkewich (Artistic Director, Return of the Sun)

" Nada's invitational spirit is seen in her warm eyes and smile, in hergentle and generous manner of teaching and in her passionateenthusiasm for dance. The musical offerings traveled us round the

globe and in this way, she honored our collective ancestral spirits.The dances provided pathways for us to come home within ourselves.Moriah Vecchia " Nada leads us through our dance together into a deep sense of our

connection with each other and with the Earth, our mother. We senseour sacredness in our movement as one. " a