now dancing!

            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 2^nd 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.