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I am happy to announce that I am resuming my Friday evening SFD the Charkas here at out centre on

Friday the 8th of October commencing at 7.30pm this will run for 8 weeks.

Sensing our way through the Chakras, we acknowledge our deep & potentially transforming Feelings

Feeling where that takes us now today through Movement & Dance

Dancing the expression of what we feel & Sense

Sensing our truth in the Feeling

Feeling the need to Dance

Dancing

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SensingFeelingDancing the Chakras is an ongoing Dance Movement ritual that is run in eight-week cycles. It began in 2004 and was originally called Raqs Chakra. Each week one Chakra is featured begging at the Base Charka and dancing through each of the seven bodily energy centres till we reach the crown, culminating at the eighth Chakra – the Soul Centre above the head.

What Yvonne had to say

“Thank you, Maria, for providing an exquisite space in which our inner feelings, our inner life really, can be explored and expressed through dance. I’m finding this experience tremendously purifying and healing. Each week, as another Chakra becomes enlivened and strengthened, the process has assisting me in my journey from fragmentation to wholeness.”

These dance journeys are a Dance Movement process for people who love to move, physically, spiritually, emotionally & mentally.
There is no right or wrong way, just your way.
The space is held for you to explore your inner dancer.
Come & journey the many aspects of each Chakra either over an 8-week cycle, or one day or a three-hour workshop.

I work with guided meditation, Imagery and music. as a vehicle to align to each of the 7 Chakras, the central channel and the Left and the Right channels. Bringing into focus aspects that my draw out your personal inner dance that can then be explored through your outer dance. Using Somatization, Movement, Dance, Sounding, Drawing, Writing & Authentic Movement as a vehicle for you exploration.

It is your choice how deeply you journey; whatever that choice is I will support you in this journey

Yalla Ghawazi Neo Shaabi workshop @ The Kismet Bazaar

Sunday 19th September, 12 pm

Yalla Ghawazi Medley

This choreography is danced to a medley of tracks on Yalla CD. It combines earthy Shaabi (folk moves), a neat drum solo and a Saaidi style ending. It also uses zills and is performed as a group dance (can be solo). The dance incorporates moves such as Kenya, Egyptian walk, travelling undulations, shimmy, hip accents, upper-body accents, saaidi steps and double and single steps and some Baladi impro.  Please bring zills if you already know how to play. Notes provided. All Levels.

Contact Toula to book and for a program of the whole event – zagareet1@optusnet.com.au

Betwanis Beek
Veil Choreography
Sat 16th October
10 am to 12.30 pm
$30

This is a beautiful veil dance that is very strong and sensual. It can be danced as a solo or group dance. We will work both ways in this workshop. Please bring a floaty veil, silk is the best if you have one.  ( Try Darn Cheap Fabrics in Heidelberg and Caulfield, for silk at $10 per metre)

Follow the links to book and make payment. Please write your name and “BB choreo” in the bank details.

Embodied Bellydance™ Summer Intensive

26th to 30th January 2011

10 am to 4 pm

Join Maria in the idyllic surrounds of her urban retreat this Summer for a five day introduction to Embodied Bellydance™. Soak up the sun by the pool and sauna and treat yourself to some Heart Centred Massage. Bed and breakfast is available – enquire on registration.
Date: 26-30th January 2011 (day enrolments welcome, conditions apply)
Venue: Inner Movement Centre, 32 Lower Heidelberg Rd, Ivanhoe

Cost: $450  – 5 Days  – Early Bird, before Dec 1st 2010, $500  – 5 days after 1st Dec 2010, $110 per day.

More information on content coming soon

People who have explored Embodied Bellydance™ say…
“Techniques like the Shimmy and the Egyptian walk have been the hardest for me to teach to my students, but since doing your workshop, I have utilised the way you break movements down, and my students and I are doing the best shimmies ever!”
Melissa Cristina, Oriental Dancer, Melbourne

“Maria’s style of teaching is unique, powerful and deep with major focus on body awareness, finding your centre and being in the moment when you dance.  She has an intuitive understanding of the music and guides dancers to explore and interpret it in an authentic manner.”
Madonna Teitzel, Tribal Dancer, Toowoomba

“Maria’s Embodiment work has opened up a whole new way of looking at Bellydance for me. Anatomy, body awareness and the embodiment of the dance takes it to a whole new level, beyond just the physical. I have learnt to be connected to myself fully and authentically. This creates such a freedom within the dance that you rarely find anywhere else.”
Cindy Hyde, Tribal Fusion Dancer, Melbourne

Tammar Henna Choreography Workshop

Saturday 14th August

10 am to 12.30 pm

$30

Inspired by Naima Akif one of my favorite Egyptian dancers of the past.
This Choreography  is a feminine, fun, sharp and  lively dance. It will have you up on the balls of your feet . Tammar Henna means dates and henna. Naima played the part of a gypsy dancer in the film of the same name. I was struck by her poise and centredness and her sharp hips and sharp stops in the dance. It is evident by the way that she moves that she was a fine Baladi dancer as is seen in other films that she dances in.  Please bring Zills if you are a competent player.

This is the clip with Naima Akif of which my choreography has take inspiration from.

Trisnasari & Maria in Alice Springs  8th & 9th August -

Workshops & Performance

Neo Burlesque: This choreography is an example of Trisnasari’s unique style. It draws on burlesque, contemporary dance, martial arts, Balinese dance, belly dance and Tribal Fusion belly dance.

Saiidi Cane Dance: Taught by Trisnasari, the Saiidi cane dance of Upper Egypt is at once earthy and sprightly, elegant and coy. The choreography is set to traditional music and incorporates movements typical to Saiidi dance and modern Egyptian dance steps.

Baladi Chakra: Taught by Maria, this workshop explores the fluid, feminine, spiraling, weaving patterns and the sharp grounded masculine movements of Egyptian Baladi, underpinned and aligned to the energetic support of the 7 main Chakras.

Egyptian Choreography: Taught by Maria. Inspired by Naima Akif one of my favorite Egyptian dancers of the past.
This Choreography  is a feminine, fun, sharp and  lively dance. It will have you up on the balls of your feet . Tammar Henna means dates and henna. Naima played the part of a gypsy dancer in the film of the same name. I was struck by her poise and centredness and her sharp hips and sharp stops in the dance. It is evident by the way that she moves that she was a fine Baladi dancer as is seen in other films that she dances in.  Please bring Zills if you are a competent player.

$50 per workshop
$90 for two workshops
$170 for four workshopsPayment and registration
Register for the workshops by emailing Trinsa;  fraser.trisna@gmail.com or Maria with the following details:
Name, Email, Phone, Which workshop(s) you are attending

Payment can be made by Direct Deposit
Account name: T C Fraser BSB: 083457 Account number: 519913519

or by cheque/money order payable to Dancing Isis Dance
Post to: Maria Sangiorgi
32 Lower Heidelberg Rd
Ivanhoe 3079

Term 4 Classes in Embodied Bellydance™

Begin on Tuesday 5th October – 10 weeks

Recreational Egyptian Dance Level 1 - Tuesday evening 6.30 – 8 pm    Cost $200 / $170 con / $170 with another class

Payment Options

Full $200.00 Concession $170.00 with another class $170.00

Performance Class Tuesday evening 7.45  – 9.30 pm Cost $170 if attending a class now, $200 if have previously attending my classes

Payment Options

Option 1 $170.00 Option 2 $200.00 Option 3 $0.00

Neo Traditional Egyptian Dance Level 2+ – Thursday evening 7 – 9  pm      Cost $230 / $200 con

Payment Options

Full $230.00 Concession $200.00 with another class $200.00

Egyptian dance promotes, Strength, vitality, sensuality and grace.

Embodied Bellydance is a unique approach to teaching & learning this  wonderfully feminine & enchanting dance form.
Incorporating Anatomy, body awareness, creative visualisation & somatisisation. Working with the breath to facilitate a deeper connection to the inner and our movement of the body -
Improves posture, joint & bone movement, muscle tone & also helps with pain management. Promotes self esteem & celebrates womanhood.

Cassandra Longley -
Your classes had given me the foundation and grounding to be able to learn from other people. You style of teaching is like no one else

Since I began my teaching journey nearly 20 years ago I was always draw to the inner world of movement.
Embodied Bellydance brings together the knowledge drawn primarily from my innate deeply felt relationship that I have with the essence of Egyptian Dance. This dance and all genres of Bellydance/Raqs Sharqi draw from the connections to the primordial connection to the eternal spirals and circles of all of life and the movement of the Universe it self.

We begin in the womb connected to our mother from our navel via the Umbilical cord where we are fed nurtured. We form as a curve around this life force as our spine and skull form curl around this our life force. As we grow and out organs form the curve grows expanding and lengthening. When it is time we move through the birth canal and arrive in the world we take out first breath and the cord is cut.
As a well newborn baby we emanate a perfect lengthening expanding and deepening from the navel, when we breathe in we expand in all directions like a stat fish and when we breathe out we reconnect to the primordial curve. As we expand and compress bones muscles move in a spiralling manner.

Lauren Butler  -
I went along to another class this Saturday  for a little extra practice, & while it was a good class, it definitely gave me an appreciation of how great & unique our class is, & what a great teacher you are.

Though the aid of Anatomy, Visualizing, Imagining, Somatasizing and most importantly Breath Embodied Bellydance honours the connection to this primordial movement and bring it to life in exercises and movements that then inform and enhance the Dance. All is connected.
Embodied bellydance is just that, embodied.
If you are looking to deepening you experience in Bellydance or dance and movement in general then you will find Embodied bellydance very beneficial to you.
What I have just described is the foundation of Embodied Bellydance. As we embody the physical relationship to the dance we also embody the joy, feeling and expression of the dance. In the control of origin of all bellydance style dance is a part of a way of life it is not separate. Many of the moves come form day to day way of being.

Yoka Jones
You teach us in such a way that’s like magic  . . . the next thing I know I am in my body & dancing
The music played informs that type of dance/movement that will be explored.
In my Recreation Egyptian dance I use mostly modern Egyptian pop music (Modern Shaabi). In my Traditional Egyptian dance class I use is some time very ancient using very simple instruments to the more sophisticated urban folk that is called Baladi for the turn of the 20th century to the early 20th century, (Traditional Shaabi or Traditional Baladi)

Melissa Christina  -
I also especially love the way you really focus on the belly being our dance centre. I think for me this is what inspired me the most. It brought me back to my body and my feeling centre. I can quite easily lose my centre; a lot of stress from every day running of a business can be overwhelming