Reminder: Summer Solstice Circle Dance is Friday June 22nd at 7pm

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Greetings,

Summer Solstice Circle Dance Celebration in NYC!

I hope you join us in this most wonderful sustainable practice of

sacred community building through circle dances. I believe it is ever

so important in our current times to join together in synchrony, in

harmony, in joy, and in grief as a way of healing our relationship to

the web of life. The dances immediately plug us back in as we catch

the wave of the web. The sacred text of these ancient dance forms have

deep abiding wisdom and the container of the circle holds us as a

living mandala. I invite you to join us in building our sacred dance

village.

Warm wishes, Nada

Sacred Circle Ritual Dance

Summer Solstice Celebration

Body Chant, Sacred Geometry, Moving Mandala Dances

Friday, June 22

7:00 to 9:30pm

$30-Early Bird Registration

Please Register at: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/252112

$40-At the Door

$25-Students/Seniors

Location:

Bridge For Dance, 2726 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10025(Between

104 & 105th St.)

You are invited to dance in community- traditional Balkan, Greek, Rom,

Armenian, Near Eastern and modern 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 be celebrating the Summer Solstice. This is the time of

greatest light, the longest day. We will be celebrating the full

expansion of light in us and all around us. Our dances will reconnect

us into an 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 human

services 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 is of Croatian-Czech descent and 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 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 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 is

especially rewarding and helped me to feel connected to centuries of

women 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 passionate

enthusiasm 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

ourconnection with each other and with the Earth, our mother. We

sense our sacredness in our movement as one. " -a

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visit me at www.nadakhodlova.com

" Thru dance our Vision for the Earth becomes alive... The spirit calls it

and the body manifests it, opening mysteries thru the heart and showing the

way... " -Crow Tewa (Ushéen)