Sacred Circle Ritual Dance on June 22: Celebrating Summer Solstice!

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Greetings,Summer Solstice Circle Dance Celebration in NYC!I hope you join us in this most wonderful sustainable practice ofsacred community building  through circle dances. I believe it is ever

so important in our current times to join together in synchrony, inharmony, in joy, and in grief as a way of healing our relationship tothe 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 havedeep abiding wisdom and the container of the circle holds us as aliving mandala.  I invite you to join us in building our sacred dance

village.Warm wishes, NadaSacred Circle Ritual DanceSummer Solstice Celebration

Body Chant, Sacred Geometry, Moving Mandala DancesFriday, June 227:00 to 9:30pm$30-Early Bird Registration

Please Register at: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/252112$40-At the Door

$25-Students/SeniorsLocation: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 honorthe 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 theseconnections. 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 thedances on multiple levels to indulge in these connections. The expressiveand improvisational aspects of Dance/Movement Therapy will support further

exploration such as sensations, images, feelings, and stories in order todeepen 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 fullexpansion of light in us and all around us. Our dances will reconnectus into an ancient way of honoring the earth's rhythms. We will seek

not only guidance from the dances but from those who created thesedances, the ancestors of the dances. The wisdom of the ancient onesare 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 andLicensed Creative Arts Therapist. Nada has worked in the human

services field for the last 17 years in a variety of settingsincluding mental health clinics, nursing homes, day treatment centers,homeless shelters, and school/community based programs. Presently,

Nada works as a Supervisor of Psychiatric Rehabilitation andDance/Movement Therapist on an acute adult inpatient psychiatric unitin the North Bronx. Nada has danced with the Duncan Dance Collective,

Rina Rinkewich/Return of the Sun, PURE, and the Thais Mazur DanceCompany. Recently, Nada has trained with in a 2 yearWomen's Ritual Dance intensive program and received a certification.

Nada is of Croatian-Czech descent and has experienced many gifts ofhomecoming through these dances. She hopes to honor the wisdom andpotency of these dances and to pass this on to

others.Testimonials- " Nada Khodlova is a gifted and nurturing teacher. She makes herstudents feel welcome, supported, and valued while sharing her

expertise and her passion for these dances. Nada is doing the criticaland cutting-edge work of creating community and re-introducing thedivine 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 isespecially 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 hergentle and generous manner of teaching and in her passionate

enthusiasm 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 ofourconnection with each other and with the Earth, our mother. We

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