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Dunya/Dancemeditation Enews, Summer 2006 Seminars, Announcements, Practices & Pleasures ================= In this Issue --->Quote of the Month --->Check Out the New Site! --->Summer Practice: 20 Ways to Celebrate your Hips --->Course: Monday Night Spiritual Bellydance, NYC --->Retreat: Harder Mansion Retreat * 10/7-9 --->Upcoming Fall Events--->Music recommendation --->Testimonial of the Month ======================= Quote of the Month “Dance shines the body’s light into the shadowed self.” --Dunya Dianne McPherson ======================= Check Out the New Site! New features: - reading list - music recommendations - media & resources - teacher contact - expanded Offerings - plus beautiful new rotating images Coming: - DSA membership zone - Guestbook sign-up - Film & Performance offerings - Door for a Dervish book info Please let us know what you think and what else you’d like to see. ======================= Summer Practice There are a thousand ways to “…kneel and kiss the ground…” at least, and there are more than twenty ways to celebrate your hips, but here is one summer twenty. 20 Ways to Celebrate Your Hips Close your eyes. Be aware of you hip sockets as you move your hips. Close your eyes. Feel the bottoms of your feet on the floor as you move your hips. Close your eyes and move your hips to the rhythm of the music. Close your eyes and move your hips with the melody of the music. Close your eyes and move your hips from your gonads. Close your eyes and move your hips feeling your sacrum. Close your eyes and move your hips from the outside surfaces. Close your eyes and, using your hips as a paintbrush, draw imaginary lines in space. Close your eyes and with your hips draw your name in space. Close your eyes and move through space leading with your hips. Close your eyes and vibrate your hips. Close your eyes and, as you move your hips, feel how it feels to move them. Close your eyes and move the hips in circular motion. Close your eyes and move the hips in linear motions. Close your eyes and move your hips but keep the neck and shoulders loose. Close your eyes and do the smallest possible movement with your hips. Close you eyes and do very gentle movement with the hips. Close your eyes and do strong movement with the hips. Close your eyes and be aware of your hips as you let them do any movement they wish. Close your eyes let your hips dream.... ================================== Course: Monday Night Spiritual Bellydance NYC 9/11 – 12/11 * 6:30 – 8pm Sufi Mudra, Veil, Ruby Spine, Dervish Whirling, Vibration & Resonance ================================== Retreat: Harder Mansion Retreat October 7-9 (Columbus Day Weekend) Philmont, NY (Hudson River Valley) Don’t Miss two days of delicious Dancemeditation at the exquisite Victorian Harder Mansion in the Hudson River Valley. Step out of time. Move into your body. A weekend in this historic mansion is worth the price of admission alone. Space limited. Register now. ================================== Upcoming Events: Seminar: Clear Delirium October 22, Boston Dance Complex, Cambridge, M Seminar: Dervish Dancemeditation November 4 & 5, Austin Ki-Aikido Dojo, Austin, TX Seminar: NYC Fall Intensive November 11 & 12, Moving Body Resources, NY NY ================================== Music Recommendation King of the Oud by Farid El Atrache For more recommendations: Dunya's Music List ================================== Testimonial of the Month About Sensual Alchemy: Spiritual Bellydance at Kripalu “This Program couldn’t have been any better. It all flowed freely for me. Dunya is an incredibly spiritual, shamanic, loving teacher. Every single class left me with a significant impression. The whirling was amazing, the veil work intense and soothing. I always love authentic movement, circles and individual practice. The warm-ups, the resting, the spine, the pelvis, the circles – it will continue to impact my dance and movement life.” -- Ruth Pine, Expressive Arts Therapist, New Paltz, NY And that is the end of our newsletter. Thank you very much!
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