THE RENOUNED TALLER DE TRANSFORMACION - TRANSFORMATION WORKSHOP-CONCEIVED AND TAUGHT BY BELEN MAYA AND LAST TAUGHT IN SEVILLA - IS FINALLY COMING TO SAN ANTONIO.
APRIL 4-7 2024 9-6pm, four full days in the beautiful countryside of Boerne, Texas, hosted by the one and only Dondi Persyn of OCHO and ROSEWOOD.
You DO NOT have to be a dancer to take this workshop. Among professional dancers, past students have included therapists, doctors, authors, students, artists, and mystics.
If you ARE a dancer, this workshop is at once challenging, daunting, invigorating, and revitalizing.
Regardless of where you come from, this workshop can help you deepen your understanding of your own approach as it relates to your life path and the role you play in this realm.
TUITION: There are nine levels of tuition available for this four full-day workshop. Please select the level that best suits your budget and situation.
LODGING: The beautiful TAPATIO SPRINGS hill country resort. Book through Dondi Persyn to get the workshop rate. https://www.tapatiosprings.com
FOOD: While tuition for workshop does not include food, there are many options for lunch and dinner. More information to come.
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BELEN MAYA:
I have been a Flamenco dancer, choreographer and teacher for more than thirty years. During that time Flamenco has pulled me out of depression, financial crisis, the loss of both parents and a life-wrecking divorce.
This powerful, wise, complex and extremely rich form of art can be a profession, a mere hobby or something you can do at your cousin’s wedding. But few people know it can also heal deep emotional wounds, transforming our energy and our life.
But I don't know how to dance… What can Flamenco do for me?
Flamenco awakens the energy inside of you, which grows and expands in the surrounding space when dancing.
This has actual effects :
- It allows you to feel and release deep-rooted emotions.
- It makes you conscious about parts of your body we don't pay attention to in our daily life.
- It empowers and grounds us, connecting us to the earth, creating a safe space to experiment power, strength, courage, joy, sensuality, openness, play…
Ok, I am dancing. Now what?
How Flamenco can transform your life?
All this grounding, connection and empowerment occurs when we dance but it can also be part of our life. In our daily life, we sometimes experiment high levels of energy, emotional release and body consciousness; but we rarely pay attention to them. In this workshop we will learn to:
- Increase awareness of our energy levels, emotional states and mood changes.
- Feel our body, receive its messages and interpret them.
- DANCE OUR LIFE AND LIVE OUR DANCE, transforming this self-received information into real changes.
- Recognize our repetitive habits, which can build into obstacles between us and our authentic self. We will throw light on them, question them and observe what information they have for us.
How??... Therapies and Techniques.
First, the body.
Second, movement.
And with these two essential elements we will use:
- TCM or basic principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine. We will relate our body and its organs and systems with nature and the elements, learning by practice how this elements form our body, shape our movement and nourish our life, bringing balance and regeneration.
- Creative writing, visualization .
- Tapping and energetic medicine.
- Do-in
- Buddhism, meditation and mantras.
- Osho: laughter exercise, crying exercise.
- Shamanism: recapitulation exercise.
- Improvisation and composition choreographic movement techniques.
- Flamenco: basic technique principles, history, structure of different styles.
Is this for me?. This is your workshop if you :
- Like dancing and enjoy group experiences.
- Are a professional or student dancer.
- Seek a higher level of energy, physical consciousness, self-coherence, vitality and awareness.
- Miss something in your life and feel movement and dance may be good ways to find it.
- Are interested in spiritual and/or energy related techniques and their relation to the body.
- Want to know more about yourself, gain self-esteem and be more comfortable in your body.
I have spent the last 33 years trying to reconcile my dancing career and my spiritual search because since the very beginning I realized they were one: transformation and healing happened invariably like a domino effect, slowly dissolving the gaps between stage and life, dancer and person, making me whole as a human being.
In this workshop I want to share how Flamenco and movement have become my everyday transformation tools, and how they have brought me joy, vitality and peace, courage, self esteem and a stronger spiritual center.
In my spiritual experience :
. India Babaji Ashram, New York Amma Ashram, Osho.
. Shamanism, Carmen Vicente Camino Rojo Vision Quest, Emilio Fiel.
. Titled rebirther.
. Assistant in Women Circles, Carmen Enguita, Spain.
In my dancing career experience :
. “Flamenco” film, Carlos Saura.
. First all women Flamenco Company “La Diosa en Nosotras”. Compañía Belén Maya: Sidney Opera House, Teatre de la Ville Paris, Tokyo Bunkamura, Teatro Real Madrid, Teatro de la Maestranza Sevilla, Teatro Grec Barcelona, Piccolo Teatro Milan, Symphony Space New York.
. Guest artist with Israel Galván, Rocio Molina, Mayte Martín…
. Critics Award Best Female Dancer 2006 and 2014, Festival de Jerez Best Show 2014.
. Guest lecturer in Duke University, Clark University, Drexel University, Berklee School of Music.
TUITION: There are nine levels of tuition available for this four day workshop. Please select the one you can afford.
LODGING: Group rates will be made available for local lodging. More information to come.
FOOD: While tuition for workshop does not include food, there are many options for lunch and dinner. More information to come.