Awakening your Indigenous Hearts
Heartdance is a great opportunity to gather and dance our prayers on the sweet Earth. Through embodying the elements, new pathways begin to open to us facilitating a deeper connection to the source of life. Inner-reflection is invited and that gives us the clarity needed to remember who we truly are. Each class is completed with a dance meditation allowing space for integration of the work we do within the class.
What is  ?
Heart Dance is a welcoming dance space for people to authentically and safely express themselves. A dance space with clear intention to connect deeply to the elemental forces that support our daily lives. It is a space free of judgment and with little instruction on how to dance. It is a place to feel, move and heal, so that we can manifest our true selves. Understanding that it takes alot of courage to open ourselves up and particularly in the presence of others. A grounded space is created for every class to allow the dancers a supportive environment which is alcohol, drug and judgement free.
Who can do it?
Heartdance is for all races, cultures and genders for the disabled and able bodied a unique opportunity to dance your spirit fully into being. Heartdance is for anyone who is interested in learning more about themselves, others and the world, for anyone that wants to experience life more fully. To experience dance for those that may never have considered dance an option.
Ritual
In a class you may find any of the following, Sweat, Tears, Prayers, Laughter, Candles, Life Force, Renewal, and Deep Peace,
Warm Up, Shrine/ Altar, Smudge, Live Drumming, World Music, Dance Music and Live Didgeridoo.
In any class there will always be a time to dance and to freely express all of your wildness, reconnecting to the element's.
A place to honour and celebrate many of life's transitions, pregnancy, birth (days), marriage, death and various rites of passage.
Each class is completed at the end with a dance meditation to guide you into the river of life.
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Testimonials
"Shanah has the ability to create a space where I'm completely free (from what I don't know) I just feel so accepted and true in the dance space. Shanah manifests an energy that is infectious. It makes you feel like there are no boundaries, no limits to your self expression through dance or any art form. After every class I walk away more empowered and inspired."
Shanah's classes are are combination of structured dance moves and self expression. Her wonderful calm and joyful presence helps melt away the stresses of the day. I looked forward to our weekly classes and miss the sense of peace and reconnecting that is felt during each class.
It is fantastic to me that I can dance so freely & with such vitality (in my sixties) with out any sore muscles afterwards (what makes that happen?) I think it is because I relax totally under Shanah's loving wild woman influence and I am so busy expressing my feelings & having fun I forget to be stiff. I love it.
"I love Shanah's classes and how it makes me feel afterwards, it is like cleansing your body inside out with movement, rhythm and sacred space. It is a time for fun, relaxation and friendship, which develops in her environment. " I highly recommend the experience.
Shanah has a strong sense of the energetics of dance and movement. Her classes can be at times moving and profound but most of all her classes are full of joy!
Heather Millar - Wu Tao Teacher Australia
Shanah creates a sacred space where all is welcome, all emotions,all ages,all seasons, all of ones authentic self, and there is no right or wrong way to do something. This safe space enabled me to travel deeply into the unknown in my processes and also enjoy the fun and laughter of the community gathering, and feeling the warm welcome of returning home.
Rani Thomas
I met Shanah in Adelaide, South Australia. Shanah is an outstanding dance teacher and is professional in her preparation and presentation but never taking herself too seriously - she is moved by the intent of the dance rather than the perfect execution of the dance-steps. She is a dancer in the river of life, not a ballet-mistress, and her classes are such fun. Shanah shares her knowledge so willingly and lives her life according to her own philosophy. She is inspirational.
In dance meditation with Shanah I have travelled through the great rivers of the Himalayas; I have floated down the Murray River and the Nile; I have become rain and fallen back down into the river; I have swum with otters and weaved beneath the webbed feet of swimming ducks. I have never achieved this freedom and exhilaration in any other form of meditation.
Maggie Mars |
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Creating sacred space for the heart of the community
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