Sacred Circle Ritual Dance in the Hudson Valley-Saturday, January 28th-Special New Year Price!

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Happy New Year!I am excited to be offering in 2012 a monthly Ritual Dance series at Mama studios in the Hudson Valley.  We will be meeting every 4th Saturday of the month, close to the new moon. The first of the series is at a special suggested donation of $25.  I hope you come out and experience this sacred form of moving together. Please feel free to contact me for any questions. Look for new and more dance locations/dates  in the Hudson Valley as well as NYC dances starting in February.

Warmly,Nada

Sacred Circle Ritual DanceAncient Forms, Modern Times

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

3:00 to 6:00pmAdvance Registration is recommended!

Special New Year Price-$25

To Register email Nada: nadakhodlova@...Location: Mama~ Marbletown Multi-Arts, 3588 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY 12484

http://www.cometomama.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.

As the brisk winter air guides us to nourish our inner earth, we celebrate in our dances will reconnect us into the 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!

About Nada:Nada Khodlova MA BC-DMT LCAT is a 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, Rina Rinkewich/Return of the Sun, PURE, and the Thais Mazur Dance Company. Recently, Nada has trained with in a 2 year Women's Ritual Dance intensive program and received a certification. Nada has experienced many gifts of homecoming through these dances. She hopes to 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 wholelife. Her thoughtful introduction of each traditional dance is

especially rewarding and helped me to feel connected to centuries ofwomen who have danced these dances before. " Goldsmith-Dance/Movement Therapist " Nada's invitational spirit is seen in her warm eyes and smile, in her

gentle and generous manner of teaching and in her passionateenthusiasm for dance. The musical offerings traveled us round theglobe 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 ourconnection with each other and with the Earth, our mother. We senseour sacredness in our movement as one. " a