working and dancing in Nelson, BC
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Cottonwood Lake is a breathtaking nature pearl, 5 minutes out of Nelson BC. The Lake is surrounded by private properties that were bought for their logs and are slated for clear-cut March 1st, 2019. We, a group of nature lovers and Cottonwood Lake lovers gathered in order to buy the land and save it.
Why? we are saving it for the grizzly bears, it’s important habitat, for the watershed, the trees protect the water, for the lake itself, to ski, hike, skate and ice-fishing, the Lake freeze in winter time, and for its beauty.
If the Lake won’t be protected, since resides on a mountainside, we will see avalanche, mudslides and soil erosion.
Any help will be appreciated from donating to volunteering. Another great help is writing a letter, the core problem is that there’s no logging regulation on private lands. Please read here more and write a letter to BC Government, It will take a minute and will make a huge impact!
Belly dancing became a healing tool for me in recent years. Many years ago, this dance used as a way women connected with each other, in a way words can’t. Women gathered together to celebrate moon cycles, birth, and womb prosperity and expressed through dance their feelings that had no exit, katharsis in their masculine ruled environment.
Through the years, since the 19th-century, belly dance has developed to be a one dancer show, professionalized in moving all body parts, mastering body separations through complex choreographies. The “I do it for me” attitude had replaced with “I do it for the audience” one, and from “how my body feels and want to be express now” to “how does it look, how to innovate for the audience”. Instead of gathering and celebrating life to dance in front of a mirror and judge your own performance.
I have started dancing when I was 22 years old. I loved it from the first minute. The teacher was in her fifties but was the sexiest thing I ever saw. Two years later I was asked to perform at weddings and parties. I liked the adrenaline rush and the outfits and the powers it supplied, but it came with a lot of self-conscience and “I’m not good enough”thoughts. I didn’t know much about mindfulness that time, it could have helped so much! I was dancing and performing for about 10 years, had various teachers such as Yael Bekker, Tamar Bar Gil, Revital Leishman. At 2012 I met my husband, had a kid and dancing had stopped. I have changed, I became a mom, I didn’t need the adrenaline anymore, I wanted the dance to hold me and support me to reconnect with my feelings and body.
Eventually, I realized that I need to start teaching and developing the healing belly dance myself.
As women, our true and deep femininity is suppressed most of the time by the culture, by fear of others, by our own fears of our powers. Some forgot how it feels to be a relaxed woman in her own body, how to simply enjoy,dance for yourself, how amazing it to appreciate your curves, be yourself without judgment, accept yourself as you are, accept all those body parts that are culturally considered to be too big, too fat or needed to be hidden.
If there’s a voice in you, in your heart or your hips that want to be expressed, wants to be recognized, want to let go of the culture handcuffs… listen to yourself. You have deep wisdom in you, your inner voice knows. If that voice calls you to move your hips to unleash the feminine energy, to deepen your connection to your body, and be more you… I’d like to introduce you to my Healing belly dance approach.
My goal is to dance for yourself, to learn how to express yourself, to explore belly dance movement, to explore movement, to soften from within and from the outside when you’re ready, to love your curves, love your sweat, your tears, your fats. come to be you!
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