Podcast appearances and mentions of alia thabit

Join a dynamic and diverse panel from different backgrounds for a roundtable discussion on what it means to heal trauma through dance. Dance is a powerful medium for healing trauma. Regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, or age, people can find community and strength through dance. They discuss the power of dance in healing from traumatic experiences and how to bring about more peace and resilience. Stefan Freedman, Author of the book 'Dance Wise,' is passionate about the role of integrative arts in transforming society. His research focuses on healing trauma through conscious movement. He has facilitated dance in mental health settings for 15 years in Ipswich, UK, and continues a weekly therapeutic movement class where many participants attend with their carers. Stefan's dance training includes dances from many cultures and styles. He sees dance as an integration of body, mind, emotions, and spirituality is drawn to exploring inwardly and outwardly, and has studied Voice Dialogue, Psychosynthesis, Co-Counselling, NLP, and NVC. Stefan coordinates a free online hub where facilitators share insights and practical tools. The aim is to create a global group of dancers and practitioners sharing resources contributing to a more compassionate and sustainable world. www.dancewise.net Marylee Hardenbergh studied under Irmgard Bartenieff and Penny Bernstein and is a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist. She served on the Board of Directors for the American Dance Therapy Association, and led numerous Movement Choirs for the openings and closings at the conferences; she was honored to be a keynote speaker at their 2015 conference. Hardenbergh loves to travel and work with communities to create site-specific performances that combine community art with therapeutic intentions, creating performances in sites worldwide. She was an Artist-In-Residence at the Center for Global Environmental Education at Hamline University in Minnesota and the original Artistic Director of Global Water Dances. She directs Global Site Performance and has received numerous awards for choreography. Globalsiteperformance.org Rebecca Faro's dance journey started at ten while attending Bush Davies & Elmhurst Ballet School. At seventeen, she auditioned for the London School of Contemporary dance. Overjoyed to be one of four accepted from eighty people, they found she had a back problem at that audition, meaning she couldn't continue with her dance career. Although this was earth-shattering news, it changed her direction. She began to explore movement as a healing path for herself & others, training in Creative movement through the Anna Halprin method. She continued her exploration by attending Authentic Movement, Contact improvisation, Rebirthing, Trance Dance, 5rhythms, BioDanza, and Grief Counselling courses. She has recently completed a ten-month online personal development training with Jamie Catto. dancinginsideout.com Alia Thabit is an Arab-American Oriental (belly) dance artist and a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. She is also a writing instructor, Dancemeditation and Spiritual Bellydance instructor, and creativity coach. Alia champions self-expression, resilience, and trust in the body. Her dance classes help participants reclaim their joyful spirit and deep wells of creativity. She weaves Somatic Experiencing techniques into her classes and coaching to help seekers transcend limiting beliefs and connect to their true self. Alia is the author of "Midnight at the Crossroads: Has belly dance sold its soul?" which challenges cultural stereotypes, discusses its evolution, and shows how to access the dance's inherent spirit and joy.

How well do you know your music? Alia joins us today to talk about mapping our music. When it works, what it helps with, and how to use it to create art with our performances. From helping improv be a little bit less scary to telling entire stories with our dance, music mapping is a tool that you can use to help your dance become what you envision. Finding the confidence when you're dancing can be hard, and finding that confidence in improv? Even harder for some of us. Have a listen to this episode and see what tips & tricks Alia has for YOU to get to know your music, and your dance, a bit better.   Shownotes: www.thebellydancebundle.com/72

Inmy most experiential episode yet, I enjoy an enlightening conversation with Alia Thabit, belly dancer and coach, about being in the body through both dance and Somatic Experiencing. Alia is gracious enough to dance with me so that I can experience her magic, and share it with you. While the YouTube video shows our dancing, the audio episode is edited to exclude the portion where we are simply dancing to some music. Alia Thabit, is an Arab-American dancer, writer, artist, and guide. Her teaching, coaching, and performances celebrate belly dance's cultural ideals of feeling, playfulness, and joy. She became a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner to better help people connect to their creativity, body, and soul, with pleasure and ease. An international and online instructor with decades of experience, Alia is the author of Midnight at the Crossroads, a book about the heart and soul of belly dance Find Alia at www.aliathabit.com facebook.com/alia.thabit.belly.dance instagram.com/bellydancesoul

In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Heather co-creates with Interdisciplinary Artist and Environmental Visionary Stewart Hoyt. Stewart shares about powerful connections we can make in ourselves, our communities and our own back yard to create healthy ways of living interdependently. Stewart offers insight into his experience of Authentic and Ecstatic Movement and we talk about how being in touch with our bodies also helps us be in greater connection to nature, the land, and others around us. His vision for how we can optimize the ways we live embraces not only how to work with the impacts of (and hopefully offset) climate change but how cities and communities can optimize and align themselves to ensure great economic and environmental benefit. Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to this work. There is much wisdom shared here and we hope this podcast inspires you to deepen your own experience or calls to action. Mentioned in this episode: Visit Stewart's website: https://www.stewarthoyt.com/ Follow Stewart on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stewart_hoyt/ Ecstatic movement on Stewart's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsIiOyjMzjiWQjTTydZNsWA/videos Learn about embodiment and more with Shakti Smith: http://premasoma.com/ For more on movement visit Alia Thabit's website: https://aliathabit.com/ Connect with the Plants: Plant and Tree Spirit Short Reads: https://journeythroughyoga.com/ebooks/ and you can follow her author page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Heather-Sanderson/e/B0829HZNQZ for future eBook offerings More with Heather: For classes, workshops, and other offerings: https://journeythroughyoga.com/ Sign up for Heather's newsletter: https://journeythroughyoga.com/enewsletter/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heather.sanderson/ Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/majesticwisdom/support --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/majesticwisdom/support

Alia Thabit is such an emotive and expressive dancer, I can't get enough of her. She reaches into you and really brings the soul back to the dance.⁠ ⁠ Today we talk about one of the cornerstones of middle-eastern music, the Taqsim. She shares how dancing to a taqsim takes us beyond the technique and the remembered steps and the percussive beat and puts us in tune with the music in a way that's so important to our dance practice.⁠ ⁠ We're here to bring joy with our dance, and that starts with us finding the joy ourselves.⁠ ⁠ This talk is so full of amazing takeaways around improvisation, emotion, feeling the music and more, and if you want an UNdrill to go with it, make sure to check out today's Instagram challenge, linked on the shownotes page: www.TheBellydanceBundle.com/35

I learned SO much about improv from this interview, and I can’t wait for you to dive in. It’s given me a whole new view of not only improv’s place in this dance, but also HOW MANY things in our lives are improvised. Sometimes you just have to put things in that context to make something way less scary. Today's guest Alia has spent her whole career in this dance improvising, and she has so much knowledge to share. You’ll learn why improv is embedded into the hear of this dance, why you should be more curious than anything else, and how leaving behind your expectations is the best thing you can do. Though I’d argue that that last one is often great advice in both dance and life in general.

Belly Dance Geek Clubhouse Episode #47: Opening Yourself Up to the Audience with Alia Thabit. Monday, February 27th at 8pm Eastern Time. Sign up now to join us live, or to be notified when the recording is ready. The post Geek Out with Alia Thabit – Again! appeared first on Belly Dance Geek.

Alia Thabit first started dancing when she was sixteen, when she attended a belly dance class just down her street in Brooklyn NY. These classes sparked a passion that would inspire her for the next for decades. Alia has danced on three continents, six countries, and fifteen states, and presented seminars with international stars. In 2007 she discovered Sufi Master Dunya McPherson, who taught meditation through dance which brought a whole new level of spiritual connection to her dance. She teaches dancers to listen to their body, and promote healing through the power of breath, Oriental dance, and intuitive movement.

  Midnight at the Crossroads: Has belly dance sold its soul?   Episode 19 of the Belly Dance Geek Clubhouse: My guest, Alia Thabit will give us a preview of her upcoming book, Midnight at the Crossroads: Has belly dance sold its soul?     Get the recording   This will be a frank and […] The post Geek Out with Alia Thabit – again! appeared first on Belly Dance Geek.

  This post is part of my special interview series with my fellow instructors at the 2014 Las Vegas Belly Dance Intensive. For more information, or to register, visit BellyDanceIntensive.com. And don’t wait! Space is limited, and prices go up on June 1st. Register now.     Get the Recording:     About Alia: An […] The post Alia Thabit: Creating Kick-Ass Choreographies appeared first on Belly Dance Geek.

  3 Things You Can Put in a Dance – Besides Steps Episode 12 of the Belly Dance Geek Clubhouse: My guest, Alia Thabit will talk about elements of dance other than the moves and steps.     Get the recording   You’ll learn: How to free yourself from just the moves What “emotional timbres” […] The post Geek Out with Alia Thabit appeared first on Belly Dance Geek.