Information about previous Bali training Shamanic Earth Dance Facilitator Training Moving
Ventures School Training Module I Instructors:
Parashakti Bat-Haim and Ellen Watson Parashakti has developed Shamanic Earth Dance to reconnect us to our soul's Journey and help us discover the purpose of this lifetime. She will guide us in Vision Quests, traditional chants, and breathwork, show us how to clarify our intentions, and, ultimately, teach us how to conduct shamanic journeys. Together we will create a sacred space, taking every opportunity to explore the deepest parts of our selves. By awakening the natural movements of our own heavenly bodies, we will find ways to let go of the physical blockages that keep us from flowing through life with the easiest possible rhythm. Ellen will lead us in her ecstatic dance practice, SpiritDance and will guide us through the 7 doorways that lead to the enchanted, spinning world of the Whirling Dervishes Rumi and Hafiz. These seven doorways can transform a non-dancer into a dervish by teaching, step by step, how to move beyond dizziness, nausea, and the fear of losing control, to self-confident abandonment into the art of movement. Dancing with Rumi is the name Ellen has given to the aspect of SpiritDance that spends focused time on spinning. If you are interested in knowing more about Dancing with Rumi, you may read the article that follows. When we first met, Ellen and I fell in love immediately with each other's Spirits. With great enthusiasm we are offering this training in ancient and new Shamanic Healing rituals, the art of spinning, and the "laying on of hands." To register: ellen@movingventures.com General Information Location:
Ananda Bungalow
Hotel, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. Ubud is the cultural center of Bali.
The Ananda is directly across from the Indus Restaurant, nestled in
the rice fields, and is a 15 minute walk to the Ubud Market and the Travel: You may contact our Bali specialist, Linda County at baligo@linex.com | 415.585.2047 for travel arrangements. If you want to use miles, please call NOW, as mileage seats go quickly. Upon registration MV will arrange for your transportation from and to the airport. You will need your passport, valid at least 6 months from date of entry, and a visa if you plan to stay in Bali for longer than 30 days. Those holding a US passport may purchase a 30 day visa on arrival at the airport. Please contact the Indonesian Embassy nearest you to obtain the proper visa for your situation. Price: 1,300.00 USD. This price includes tuition, lovely double occupancy bedroom with ceiling fan, delicious food for both omnivores and vegetarians, even vegan at the Ananda, Casa Luna, and Indus, (not included: 3 meals away from class at delicious and affordable places), transportation around Ubud, training manual and other goodies, live music with Balinese friends, and our own Leonid Soboleff, now living in Bali. Single rooms, air conditioned rooms, villas or suites can be reserved at additional cost. Speak with Regine upon registration. A small number of partial work exchange positions are available; to apply, write to Ellen. For
further information or to register, please contact us: The Shamanic Earth Dance Ritual/Dancing with Rumi - Facilitator Training Program is a 10-day experiential training retreat designed to bring the participant deeper into their own voice and spiritual self as a medium for teaching and sharing both of these practices. The program is designed to explore the multi-dimensional aspects of trance states; to study the significance of trance as a healing tool, to offer the 7 gateways of SpiritDance, to enter the world of Sufi spinning in Dancing with Rumi, and to learn how to conduct a Shamanic Earth Dance Ritual Program. What Participants say about this training...
Sam Lipton, New York
David Markowitz, New York City Program
Outline The program is open to individuals who seek to:
1. Develop their intuitive and creative skills that emerge through
dance and the ritual use of Trance. Curriculum
In this retreat, we will offer experiences in the following areas: Dancing with Rumi, the First Whirling Dervish The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, has become one of the best selling volumes of poetry in the English language today. Imagine that! By what extraordinary means does the poetry of an Islamic mystic, Jelaludin al Rumi, writing in 12th century Persia, come to speak to Americans so powerfully today? Rumi is an ecstatic poet. His voice speaks unmistakably from his heart. He is a passionate celebrant of Creation, of the Creator, of life, food, love, alchemy, music, and dancing. He is a lover of paradox. Through paradox we can challenge what we assume to be true. We can turn away from our customary ways of being, and turn instead to a higher plane. Passion, creativity, dancing, paradox, turning - these constitute both the symbol and the substance of the tradition of the Whirling Dervish. Rumi was the first Whirling Dervish. Several accounts of Rumi‚s first whirling experience have been reported. My favorite tells us that Rumi was standing in the courtyard outside his family home, early one morning. It had been two years since he had last spoken, having fallen into silence after the disappearance and presumed death of his beloved spiritual teacher and friend, Shams of Tabriz. His family and students thought that Rumi had "lost his mind." On this morning he is said to have been holding onto a post, when he heard the hammering of a goldsmith somewhere in the village. He began moving his feet to the cadence of the hammer. Since he was holding onto the post, he began going in circles, eventually letting go and spinning. He spun and spun, and soon started to speak. Those nearby began writing down what he said. The words he spoke early that morning in 123? - and most mornings afterward throughout the remainder of his life - comprise the volumes we now read. This was the inaugural spin, the birth of the Whirling Dervishes, the moving meditation practice of the Sufis,the mystical branch of Islam. I
have loved spinning since I was a child, seizing every opportunity
to twirl and spin and fall down in the grass, watch the world go by,
get up and do it again and again. I re-entered the world of spinning
as an adult in 1987, when I walked into the door of a meeting room
at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA. The leader was in the middle of
the room, spiraling in circles, inviting us to join her. The skirts Do
you ever wonder how the whirling dervishes spin? How the Tibetan monks
spin? Practice, that‚s how. And you, too, can spin again. You
spun as a child, spun until you were dizzy and filled with glee. You
probably fell down in the grass or on the floor, watched the flow
of colors as the world danced by, then got up and spun again, until
your chakras were open and you felt both empty and full, What stopped you from spinning? Fear, most likely. Fear of losing control, fear of falling, crashing and breaking yourself or something your mother treasured. In a Dancing with Rumi class I teach participants how to soften and melt to the floor, how to spin like a top on the floor, how to spot and pivot, how to spin with a partner, how to place your feet and let go of your spine, ribs, and head, enabling you to move through the doorway of dizziness into the land of love and delight. My sweetheart, Christopher Wilkins, a musician and symphony orchestra conductor, was not a spinner when I introduced him to Tibetan Yoga. While he warmed immediately to 4 of the 5 traditional asanas of the Tibetan practice, he resisted entering into the spin. But he was curious about the practice, and not only because it was one that I taught. It also reminded him of the spinning practices of the early American Shakers, an early American religious sect known for their simple furniture, communal living, no-sex policy, and their ritual spinning.. When
I asked Christopher to write of his experience with spinning, here
is what he had to say: "What was it about all that turning and
rotating and spiraling for the Shakers? "So I began - with a totally empty stomach - and started spinning following my lovely leader, Ellen Watson. To most people, the basics of spinning come effortlessly. Speed, duration, and form are, for the most part, beside the point, because you soon realize that the real art is in managing your internal affairs. Feeling sick to the stomach is the body choosing rejection, and it can very well make other choices. But what is being rejected? There is no thing. No threat. No inner or outer agent at all. There is nothing that you can identify without which you would feel better. Except your point of view. So you play with letting that go. This is the first happy realization of a spinning meditation, and it usually marks the beginning of the end to nausea. Then the free flow of feeling can begin. Because we cannot focus on the outside world while turning within it, our inner attention becomes more acute. Many people experience keenly their energy centers and intense energy flow within their bodies. The integration of our minds and bodies during spinning comes only after resting for a considerable period. This is an exquisite time. "William Wordsworth described the creation of poetry as 'emotion recollected in tranquility.' In the same way, the rest that follows spinning allows our internal balance to recalibrate itself. What rushes in is often the fullness of life in a newly minted form, the divine bliss so reliably available to spinning children, and whirling dervishes, and the early American Shakers, who understood its astonishing power to invoke divine bliss. Often Art and Nature, when they move us profoundly, derive their power from defying the usual points of reference that guide our perceptions. The Taj Mahal, Monet‚s waterlilies, Machu Picchu, Mahler‚s symphonies: all open us to their mysteries by leaving us unable to find ourselves within them. We are prevented from seeing ourselves as we have safely done so many times before, and must therefore find ourselves anew. We cast off the familiar compass points and substitute an entirely new orientation, a vision, at peak moments, of ourselves as absolute, non-relative beings. This is the essential meditation of spinning." I have good news for Christopher and for you. In this new Age of Aquarius, as an evolving, enlightened being, you can have it all, spinning to both the left and the right, and trust that spinning will revivify your energy, and enhance our love life. Every
child has known God. The
value of spinning includes: |