INTENSIVE WORKSHOP IBIZA, SPAIN

Sacred Dance Intensive 4 Day Workshop - Ibiza, Spain 

This Sacred Dance Intensive 4 Day Workshop is a teacher training for all those who wish to learn the different forms of sacred dance and bring it into their dance, yoga and meditation practice or business. It is also an intensive for those who wish to give themselves the gift of joy and self-expression. Whether you are a professional in Ibiza or purely a beginner dancer, this intensive is for you. You will get a certificate of completion at the end of the program and be affiliated with Sacred Dance Ibiza.

When I first began temple dancing, I learned deep technique and choreography and yet deep in my heart I knew that there was a spirit moving through me that was deeper than than the performance. The journey of dance took me into the ancient mysteries. I began to teach the sacredness of dance, the joy my body felt when music touched her and the ecstasy. Now, I want to teach all women this fluid, joyous expression.

I believe all women can dance. Inside each of you there is a Universal Dancer. I have seen many women and young girls transform and blossom through this dance. Let me unlock you. Let me help you find that dark, gorgeous, wild, magical Goddess you have been hiding.

This desire has led me into choreographing the movements of Sacred Dance Ibiza.

WHEN: Tentative dates October 6 - 9
WHERE: IBIZA, SPAIN Venue TBD
* This is not a retreat so please be responsible for providing your own accommodation if you are traveling to Ibiza.


We will hold the Scared Dance Intensive Workshop after the next Ibiza Spirit Festival which will be on
Sunday October 4, 2015 @ Atzaro. I will be teaching Shakti Flow at the festival. Please come join us for a FREE taster session!


DAY 1 | SHAKTI FLOW
In Shakti Flow, you will learn how to create an inner foundation for sacred space, flow and movement. You will learn how to channel dance and allow the Goddess to flow through you.


Shakti Flow is an innovative new fusion of sacred dance in a watery flow of music. We connect to the ancient healing rhythms of Indian and Oriental temple traditions. We will awaken our spiritual power and kundalini through spontaneous dance, connect to our inner self and have fun. Expect to feel radiant, revitalized and energized.

You’ll be transformed through through music, song, yoga, dance, and sensual smell.

Beginners welcome.


What the day looks like:

MORNING DANCING
You arrive. We meditate and enter into sacred space. We do 1 hour of Shakti Flow.
Then we move into breaking the movement down.

MORNING TEACHING
You’ll learn how to express the vibrant styles of Indian and Oriental dance - Kathak, Odissi, Mohinyattam, Persian and Sufi. And while each style is different from one another, they all bring the body into wholeness. energized.

No previous experience necessary!



DAY 2 | DANCE OF THE KAMA SUTRA
In Dance of the Kama Sutra, you will learn how to dance like sensual watery mermaid. And you will learn how to be an erotic storyteller through classical facial expressions and tantric touch.


Experience the dance of the Kama Sutra to feel your sensuality and create a deep connection with your sacred energies. There is a goddess at the core of your being waiting to come alive and be liberated to love. Find the freedom and fullness of expression that come from embracing yourself and your body through expressive movements, sensual gestures and erotic touch. Dance, love and open into self- discovery. Let the dancer and the romantic unite in you.

Beginners welcome.

FOR ALL CLASSES • Both beginners and advanced welcome
• Clothing should be comfortable workout wear or skirts. • We will be dancing without shoes. • Bring water • Bring belly dance belts, veils & jewelry.


What the day looks like:

MORNING DANCING
You arrive. We meditate and enter into sacred space. We do 1 hour of Dance of the Kama Sutra spontaneously together.

Then we move into breaking the movement down.

MORNING TEACHING
You’ll learn how to be a storyteller through dance. We will storytell Radha and Krishna, river Goddesses taking nourishment from the river and you’ll learn the the Dance of Enticement.
You will partner with another dancer to practice these gestures, positions and eye movement.



DAY 3 | RITUAL TEMPLE DANCE
In Ritual Temple Dance, you will learn how to create an inner foundation to create ritual and invoke the Goddess into your life. You will learn the famous Dance of Salome and Her 7 Veils.

The Ritual Temple Dance Workshop is a journey into women’s ceremonial dance. Inspired from the temples of Egypt, secret gardens of Persia, and the temples of India. This special gathering will encompass the magic of the High Priestess, the devotion of the Deva Dasi, the transcendence of the Dakini and the celestial realms of the Apsara.

The workshop is a creative mix of Goddess exploration from various traditions through sacred movement, connecting us with long lineages of women who have channeled mystical energies through dance.

FOR ALL CLASSES • Both beginners and advanced welcome
• Clothing should be comfortable workout wear or skirts. • We will be dancing without shoes. • Bring water • Bring belly dance belts, veils & jewelry.


What the day looks like:

MORNING DANCING

You arrive. We meditate and enter into sacred space. We do 1 hour of Ritual Temple Dance.
Then we move into breaking the movement down.

MORNING TEACHING
You’ll learn how to create a dance altar and dance in prayer or “prayerformance”.
You will learn mudras and positions from prayer dance and temple dancing.
We will dance the dance of Salome and Her 7 Veils and meet our inner dancer in the Temple of Tanit.

About The Dance of Salome and the 7 Veils

The foundation of this dance is the ‘descent of Inanna/Ishtar’, through the seven gates, and is one of the greatest myths to be revealed to us from the ancient world. The goddess Inanna is unfamiliar with the Mysteries of death and rebirth; she possesses only the virtues of life and fertility. And so she seeks entry to the Mysteries.

At each of the seven gates of the underworld she pauses, asking permission to enter. She is challenged there to remove her jewellery, girdles, and royal regalia that bind her spirit to the material world. Only thus, ‘naked’ may we gain entry to the halls of eternity.

Then as now we approach the underworld to battle and learn through facing ‘death,’ the other self, the balance of light and dark within, here only do we learn the true cycle of life and discover our worthiness to receive deity.

It is also noteworthy to remember too how Neith, the oldest and wisest of Egyptian goddesses; though originally a war goddess of Sais, was also a universal goddess maintaining links with the dead. Her symbol of crossed arrows represents the strife between opposites, the paradox of life and death, of destiny and fate and light and dark. She was the personification of the eternal feminine and the mysteries. These roles were later usurped by the rising cult of Isis and her followers awarded the new and popular goddess many of Neith’s epithets, including …….’the lifting of the veil..’., the rhythm of eternity.

Wisdom by Descent of Inanana



DAY 4 | CLOSING CIRCLE & OCEAN RITUAL
We dance with our Sacred Mother, wild Ibiza and Goddess Tanit. We enter into a magical circle and transform ourselves through light and sea.


MAGICAL OCEAN DANCE
We end our magical week together with a meditation and sacred circle on the beach with offerings to the Goddess. We enter into Mother Ocean with our hearts full of magic, feminine flow and surrender.


What the day looks like:

LATE LUNCH
We eat together at Atzaro

AFTERNOON MAGICAL OCEAN DANCE & RITUAL
We go to XX beach and set up our sacred circle. We open the circle we intentions and gratitude, we chant together and dance wildly, open heartedly by the sea.

We come back to the circle and release or gifts to the ocean. We close the circle with love and wish our sacred shakti sisters blessings on their new journeys.


SACRED DANCE HISTORY:

The origins of Sacred Dance date back to the beginning of time. Most tribal cultures still maintain some type of Sacred Dance. It may be performed by shamans or tribal members depending on the intention behind the dance. Tribal cultures still maintain the connection to the earth. Whether it is conscious or unintentional, it still exists. Research has been done confirming the healing properties of this type of dance.

The movements used are very basic. What remains of this type of dance is very similar to modern day Middle Eastern or Belly Dancing. As with most esoteric knowledge, being shrouded in a playful or entertaining way has preserved it. What differs is that the Universal Dancer is danced for expression rather than performance. The similarities are on mainly the external or visible level. Although most Belly Dancers are not aware of the esoteric side of the dance, the engaging of this sexual energy can be quite obvious.

On the energetic level, the movements allow us to move the energy from the earth through our bodies and discharge it back to the earth. At this level, the energy loop is created between the woman and the earth. This is the first transmutation and it occurs in many ways. We are able to take the actual rhythm or pulsations emanating from the earth, the sine waves if you like, and amplify them through our bodies.

This is the same process used by musicians in playing or composing music. The musician is merely tapping into the earth rhythm and amplifying that wave on his instrument. In the case of Sacred Dance, the instrument is our body. Just as different waves may be played on different instruments, different waves resonate in different parts of our bodies. In time, we can play an entire piece of music (or mirror of the earth rhythm) on our bodies, allowing the different instruments to resonate in different parts of our bodies. This is a beautiful and wonderful experience, one that incorporates the dimension of sound into the experience as well. We can use the music as the guide on our journey. But the journey can also be traveled in silence. It is not necessary to dance to external music. And like “intoning” the approaching but not releasing of sound may actually intensify the experience. We simply dance to whatever rhythm is emanating from the earth. To do this takes a great deal of sensitivity, a sensitivity that can be acquired or developed. It is much simpler to just take a piece of music, which is already amplifying the rhythm, and dance to that. The process of “intoning” the dance has other lessons to teach us.

Wisdom by Sacred Dance Esoteric Online


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Until we meet in the magical white island of Ibiza...

love & Goddess blessings,
Zinnia