VODOU MOVEMENT ………The magic is in you
vodou movement is
a potion of yoga, dance and meditation.
Its effects will take
you deep into your body to discover authentic movement, and feel your heart beating along with the drums… let go and feel your magic.
Dress
for yoga. Bring water and a towel.
$10 per class 6:00-7:30pm- Monday
nights-
Sunset Bay Marina 2 A Street in Hull (private room 2nd floor, the Bay view)
For details email- annablash@gmail.com
You don’t have to be a dancer or know anything about yoga, just come
play!
Thats the flyer for
the dance class I will be teaching on Monday nights Sunset Bay Marina.
Last
night the golden rays of sunset flooded across the dance floor. I basked in the
light, looking the bay and feeling the ancient rhythms of Africa awakening my
spirit (from the stero). 6:15 no one showed up. Thank god I thought as I
stumbled through the choreography I practiced for the first time. After a few
sequences of planned movement and strict dedication to the ways in which these
movements and stretches were taught from my teachers, I let go and just moved,
danced and made strange sounds.
I turned off the African music and yoga chants
and turned up Madonna, Nina Simone, did the Macarena dance, rocked out to this
group I know from dancing in Miami night clubs, Timothy Brownie. Hours flew by,
my tank-top and tights soaked were soaked, my body electrified, the mind
sharp and deep in observing the breath; the ongoing 'to do' list left replay in
my head and the guilty feelings of eating too much all weekend vanished. Now
dark outside, I sat overlooking the lights of Boston in the far-away horizon. I
thought of the west african dance classes I am taking in Cambridge, the
hundreds of classes I've taken in Miami and the years of yoga I have practiced
and taught.
In the silence, alone with my still heart beating out of my
chest, I finally felt the liberation, the silent 'its okay, go ahead' to
teach and dance in my own language, blending and combining all that I've
learned into movement authentic to my body. Authenticity that inspires others
to step deep within themselves. Funny, exactly what I wrote on the flyer.
I
asked myself why did I even want to teach a class, why not just go into this
beautiful space, let go and dance? The answer came before I could finish the
thought, my mind was flooded with the same golden light: community, a circle
of women, a safe space to heal, cleanse, release, and a dance, dance, dance...
a party is so much more fun with friends!
The other whys came later,
actually was I write... I want to share with others the journey of my own
discovery of dance, my adventure to following it to Haiti, and how dancing has
healed me from my own demons: eating disorders, emotional meltdowns, anxiety
attacks, drugs, drinking, the whole caravan of self sabotage... you
know,
normal crap we all pretend we don't have.
Next Monday, I hope to
see you ladies for some dancing. Sorry guys, you aren't invited. I will teach a
yoga class soon which is open to whomever wants to stretch.
