Upcoming Sacred Dance, Ritual Dance, Circle Dance Events in the Hudson Valley-12/10 and 12/17

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Greetings!I have 2 wonderful events coming up over the next 2 weekends. First, I am honored to be presenting at COSM-Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors in Wappinger Falls, NY- as part of the Full Moon Celebration on December 10th. For those of you who are unfamiliar with COSM, below is a description from their website. Please go to below link for registration which includes dinner and full moon evening cermony and ecstatic drumming and dancing! Cost is $65. Please register before Wednesday 12/7 to ensure a spot.  The second event is a Winter Solstice Celebration on 12/17-see below for details-I hope to see you at one or both of the events! Please contact me for any questions and forward this on to those who might be interested.

Peace,

Nada

" WHAT IS COSM?The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, CoSM, is a sanctuary for seeing ourselves, the world, and our cosmos as reflections of the Divine. CoSM's mission is to build a temple to preserve and share a collection of visionary art beloved by a global community. Forty acres of beautiful woods and newly renovated buildings invite the contemplation of art and nature, and provide a center for events encouraging the creative spirit. CoSM honors the mystic core of love uniting all wisdom traditions and the transformative power of art to awaken human potential. "

For Further information and to register go to

  https://secure.cosm.org/np/clients/cosm/event.jsp?event=780

Then on Saturday, 12/17 from 3:00 to 6:00pm

Sacred Dance, Circle Dance, Ritual Dance

Dances of Darkness, Dances of Light

A Winter Solstice Celebration

Mama~ Marbletown Multi-Arts, 3588 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY 12484

You are invited to dance in community- traditional Balkan, Greek, Romanian, Armenian, and near Eastern sacred circle dances. Throughout all ages and cultures, traditional circle dances were used to honor the divine, to heal, to affirm connection to the earth and each other, to build community and celebrate rites of passages and life transitions. The danced patterns illuminate the web of these connections. It is where personal and universal healing can occur.

We will use the traditional dances as a platform for heightening awareness of body/self, self to community and self to cosmos. We will examine the dances on multiple levels to indulge in these connections. The expressive and improvisational aspects of Dance/Movement Therapy will support further exploration such as sensations, images, feelings, and stories in order to deepen and expand our experience. 

We will be focusing on dances that explore the darker realm of life as we relate them to our own modern lives.  Then we will delve into dances of lightness and celebration to celebrate the return of the light. Our dances will reconnect us into this ancient way of honoring the earth's rhythms. We will seek not only guidance from the dances but from those who created these dances, the ancestors of the dances. The wisdom of the ancient ones are held within the dances. As we attentively dance and plug into this wisdom we reweave ourselves into the time honored web of life.

The dances are joyful, meditative, mournful, full of beauty, longing,

life and celebration!Space is limited!Advance Registration is recommended!Adv rate- $35Day of - $45Students-$25To get the adv rate pre-payment is req by 11:45pmthe night before the event.

Register at 

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/213519 

About Nada:Nada Khodlova MA BC-DMT LCAT is a Dance Movement Therapist and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. Nada has worked in the humanservices field for the last 17 years in a variety of settings including mental health clinics, nursing homes, day treatment centers, homeless shelters, and school/community based programs. Presently, Nada works as a Supervisor of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Dance/Movement Therapist on an acute adult inpatient psychiatric unit in the North Bronx. Nada has danced with the Duncan Dance Collective, Rina Rinkewich/Return of the Sun, PURE, and the Thais Mazur Dance Company. Recently, Nada has trained with in a 2 year Women's Ritual Dance intensive program and received a certification. Nada has experienced many gifts of homecoming through these dances. She hopes to honor the wisdom and potency of these dances and to pass this on to

others.Testimonials- " Nada's ritual dance workshop was one of the most self-nurturing,inspiring, and significant dance experiences I've had in my wholelife. Her thoughtful introduction of each traditional dance is

especially rewarding and helped me to feel connected to centuries ofwomen who have danced these dances before. " Goldsmith-Dance/Movement Therapist " Nada's invitational spirit is seen in her warm eyes and smile, in her

gentle and generous manner of teaching and in her passionateenthusiasm for dance. The musical offerings traveled us round theglobe and in this way, she honored our collective ancestral spirits.The dances provided pathways for us to come home within ourselves.

Moriah Vecchia " Nada leads us through our dance together into a deep sense of ourconnection with each other and with the Earth, our mother. We senseour sacredness in our movement as one. " a