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Dunya/Dancemeditation Enews, October November, 2004 Seminars, Announcements, Practices & Pleasures http://www.dancemeditation.org =================== In this Issue --->Quote of the Month
--->Course: SENSUAL ALCHEMY * Cape Cod, MA
--->Weekeknd: WHILRING DANCE MEDITATION * Wakefield, RI * 10/23-24
--->Workshop: SPIRITUAL BELLYDANCE * New York City * 11/7
--->Workshop: OPENING: SPIRITUAL BELLYDANCE * Cambridge, MA * 11/13
--->Retreat: WINTER MOVEMENT MONASTERY * TX * 12/29, 04 - 1/7, 05
--->Practice of the Month
--->Music Recommendation
--->Testimonial of the Month
=================== Quote of the Month "The journey goes down, not up. It's as if the mountain is pointed toward the center of the earth instead of reaching into the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward the turbulence and doubt. We jump into it. We slide into it. We tiptoe into it. We explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, we let it be as it is. At our own pace, without speed or aggression, we move down and down and down. At the bottom we discover… the love that will not die."
---Pema Chodrun, When Things Fall Apart =================== Course: SENSUAL ALCHEMY
Workshop Series
9/25, 11/20 & 12/18, 2004
11am - 2pm
Mary French Studio, Rte. 28A & County Rd
. CAPE COD, MA Fluid Yoga Dancemeditation Sufi Healing Bring: yoga mat, veil, scarf or belt to accentuate your hips. Make sure you have layers to be completely warm during resting periods. REGISTRATION
Series of three: $60 by 9/20
Single session: $25 by previous Friday; $30 after
LOCATION: Mary French Studio, Rte. 28A & County Rd., Cataumet, MA
By Credit Card: through website http://www.dancemeditation.org
By Check: made to: ‘Dervish Society of America’
& mail to: Jayne Bissonnette, PO Box 3006, Waquoit, MA 02536 INFO: Jayne, 508 540 6974 =================== Weekend Workshop:
WHILRING DANCE MEDITATION with DUNYA
WAKEFIELD, RI
Sat: Oct 23 - Sun: 24 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
All That Matters, 15 Main Street, Wakefield, RI
(Just 35 minutes from Providence and Mystic, CT) Our solar system, the galaxies in the cosmos and the particles in an atom all whirl. The Sufis have long used whirling as a doorway to inner connection, healing and transformation. In this workshop Master Sufi Teacher Dunya will lead participants in preparatory trance movement processes from sufic lineage sources. Here trance state is not concerned with escape but rather as access to deep attunement. As we move, stretch, rest and dance, connecting to breath throughout, we'll be able to hear the whisper of our Self. This alignment of the spiritual/somatic self with macrocosmic forces allows healing, awareness and deeper access to, and capacity for, creativity. Out of this the whirling emerges. No experience needed. TO REGISTER:
$195 Fri/Sat/Sun
< All That Matters 401-782-2126
www.allthatmatters.com
=================== Workshop:
SENSUAL ALCHEMY: SPIRITUAL BELLYDANCE with DUNYA
NEW YORK CITY
Sunday November 7th 4-7pm
Dharma Yoga Center
297 3rd Ave. @ 3rd Ave., NYC Elegant Embodiment & Development in the Sufi Subtle. We'll begin the workshop with a period of Fluid Yoga to open and relax our bodies, then progress into the beauty and mysticism inherent in dance traditions originating in the Middle East by pursuing a somatic interior root of the form’s intricate isolations and trance-y rhythmic substrata. We'll look inward, feel the sensation in our bones & tissues, gravitate towards absorption in interior spaces beyond our minds. Middle Eastern dance - ornamental mudras, vibration, undulation - is specifically suited to this self-amplification. Through the emerging internal openings, Sufi lineage energetic materials are manifest. The heart center flowers, mediating our voyaging in the Subtle. All periods of action are intertwined with deep resting. Relaxation, Rejuvenation, Peace. Please bring towel to sit on and a hip scarf. REGISTRATION
$25 by 11/1; $35 at door
By Credit Card: through website http://www.dancemeditation.org
By Check: made to: ‘Dervish Society of America’
& mail to Dunya, 250 Elizabeth St. #7, NY NY 10012
INFO: 212 226 2114 =================== Workshop:
OPENING: SPIRITUAL BELLYDANCE with DUNYA
CAMBRIDGE, MA
Saturday, November 13TH, 1:30-4:30pm
Boston Dance Complex
536 Mass. Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Elegant Embodiment & Development in the Sufi Subtle. Pursuing the theme of opening, we'll explore both the space around our bodies as well as our interior space as an oscillation of openings and closings. As always we will begin the workshop with breath and stretching that invites deepening sensation and relaxation. Looking inward, we'll feel the sensation in our bones & tissues, gravitate towards absorption in interior spaces beyond our minds. Middle Eastern dance - ornamental mudras, vibration, undulation - is specifically suited to this self-amplification. Through the emerging internal openings, Sufi lineage energetic materials are manifest. The heart center flowers, mediating our voyaging in the Subtle. All periods of action are intertwined with deep resting. Relaxation, Rejuvenation, Peace. Please bring cushiony mat to sit on and a hip scarf. REGISTRATION: $35
Send check to:
Lisa Tiemann, 60 Orris Street, Melrose, MA 02176.
INFORMATION: Lisa Tiemann at 781/662-5700 or
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Further information on Dunya is at www.dancemeditation.org =================== Retreat:
WINTER MOVEMENT MONASTERY
CHAPPELL HILL, TX
DECEMBER 29TH, 2004 - JANUARY 7TH,2005
Ten days: 10am - 9pm This extended study periods encompass a variety of body-centered spiritual explorations and terrains. Fluid Yoga Dancemeditation Spiritual Bellydance
Sufi Healing Writing from the body REGISTRATION: Full Retreat; 12/29-1/7; by 12/1, $1000; after, $1200
Five days: 12/29-1/2; by 12/1,$500; after, $625
Wknd only 12/31-1/2; by 12/1, $300; after, $350
Single day, thru 1/1; $125 Non-refundable fees: 25% by 12/15; 50% thereafter. By Credit Card: through website http://www.dancemeditation.org
By Check: made to: ‘Dervish Society of America’
& mail to Dunya, 250 Elizabeth St. #7, NY NY 10012
Please include your name, address, phone and email. Early registration is by December 1st! =================== Practice of the Month Opening Start in the legs. Bring your attention to your legs. With your interior gaze, regard the movement of your legs as a series of mouths opening and closing. For instance, the back of the knee opens as you straighten your leg, and the front of the knee closes. Then, as you bend your leg, the front of the knee opens and the back of the knee closes. Practice, with eyes closed, this opening and closing of your joints. Take your time. Wait for the perception to come clear, for the feeling of the opening and closing to resonate inside your joints. You can progress to other joints. After a while lie down to rest. =================== Music Recommendation 'Chill Out Bombay' =================== Testimonial of the Month "I realized, as a boarded Delta 1437, that if I just knew how, I could sense everyone's states and feelings on the plane through the vehicle of their exhaled body-generated chemicals dissolving on my lung tissue. I used to think telepathy would work by detecting electromagnetic fields generated by neurons & nerves. That was when I was more of a physicist. And it was just an idea. I never really felt it. It was about brains and thoughts and nerves, not bloodstream chemicals. Now that I am a body person I have sensed a different way. I didn't just imagine it, I actually sensed from the air that it is possible…
Living in this body. I feel I am finally starting to understand what this is all about. I love living in the moment of a new understanding. The moments come fast and furious with Dancemeditation." Celeste Roth,
Engineer, Dancemeditation Teacher Trainee
Oklahoma City, OK =================== And that is the end of our newsletter. Thank you very much!
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