Yoga for Bellydancers:

Form, Flexibility & Floating with Yoga Christy

TWO WORKSHOPS!! SAT. 8/2, 9am-10:30am

+ SUN. 8/3, 9am-10:30am $25 ea. pre-reg; $30 door

At BellyPalooza, a wonderful weekend of workshops, a fabulous show, and fantastic shopping at the Mattin Center on Johns Hopkins Main Campus in Charles Village, Baltimore.

FULL WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

Yoga for Bellydancers: Form, Flexibility, and Floating - all levels.

In this workshop, you'll learn great Yoga stretches and exercises to target your chest and shoulders, spine, hips and legs -- and how to breathe deeply for greater stretching success. Connect your breath with your balance, your mind, your emotions, and your movement and discover a greater sense of energy and grace. Get feedback on your body-mechanics and how to improve them for dance and life!

This course has been developed from my many years of personal Yoga and Bellydance practice, as well as being the personal trainer to two lovely Professional dancers, Dori Witt, Director of the Egyptian Sun Bellydance Troupe, and Baltimore's amazing tribal fusion dancer Naimah, shown here demonstrating her amazing sidebend with a sword.

I have designed "Yoga for Bellydancers" to address common flexibility issues Bellydancers face as well as cultivating a solid sense of form, balance, and body awareness which will help with grace, stillness, and fluidity in all movements. Practicing mindfulness and emotional presence will also help you develop a greater sense of charisma and connection with your audience.

The course will cover a variety of stretches for dancer's target areas: chest and shoulders, spine, hips and legs. We will practice with deep attention to our body awareness, bringing all parts of the body, breath, and mind into alignment with our stretches for maximum benefit. Christy will give advice and demonstrations on establishing an ideal body-mechanic and easy sense of balance in the legs, pelvis, spine, shoulders, and head. We will practice these in various poses with individualized feedback.

You will also learn how to practice deep breathing or pranayama, which is a powerful tool for managing performance anxiety, increasing your energy and stamina, and breaking up tension in the muscles of the abdomen, ribcage, and back. You will learn how to connect this deep breath to your stretching practice for greater effectiveness, and how to connect it to your movement for greater fluidity.

This is an all-levels class for those with or without Yoga experience. It will be helpful even to those with little or no dance experience, since all the topics covered relate to our general sense of grace and ease as women and people as much as they do to our dance training and performance. Yoga is a daily-life practice which can help you to care for, integrate, and understand your physical body, your emotions, your thoughts, your energy, and your bliss. Please join us, Namaste.

REGISTER NOW ON THE BELLYPALOOZA WEBSITE
or Call Yoga Christy with any Questions: 443-322-6525 JAI!!