The Dance of the Yin Yang, Alchemy Spinning Workshop
Event Information
Description
This workshop is canceled.
About Alchemy Spinning™
Alchemy Spinning ™ is a powerful and yet accessible whirling practice at the intersection of mindfulness and movement.
Inspired on Sufi Dervishes and other whirling dances of the world, Alchemy Spinning™ makes the physical, psychological and spiritual benefits of whirling accessible to everybody.
The Dance of the Yin Yang
The Dance of the Yin Yang is an invitation to use the Alchemy Spinning platform to explore a dance between two basic principles of our universe and of our existence, the feminine and the masculine. On this journey we will use circle and spiral movements, the most organic and sacred movements of the universe
Our exploration of feminine movement will follow the water element, which makes up 70% of our bodies. We wiil release all tensions to explore water’s ability to flow and be shapeless.
Our exploration of masculine movement will follow the Earth element, and its ability to contain and give shape to the shapeless.
During the workshop we will work on several exercises that combine dance, yoga, breathing and meditation in order to connect deeply with our own bodies, balance the flow of energy in our chakras along our spines, and root ourselves firmly in the Earth, while charging up our energy and opening our hearts. This is the key to avoid and manage dizziness.
After learning the basic whirling techniques, we will create and hold a safe space for the participants to whirl at will, but each person is encouraged to spin according to their own needs and feelings, entering and exiting the spinning space as they feel compelled to.
We will end up the workshop with an integration in order to connect deeply with our experience, ideas, insights, healing and creativity through art.
Open to everybody. No previous dance experience is necessary.
Date: December 3, 2016 1:15-5:15pm.
Venue: InterPlay, 2273 Telegraph, Oakland, CA, USA.
Cost: $55 Early Bird until November 20. $65 after November 20.
Contact: alchemyspinning@gmail.com
Website: AlchemySpinning.com
Policy cancellation
Cancellation requests made between 7 and 30 days prior to the start of the workshop will be charged a minimum of 50% of the original workshop fee.
No refunds will be available for cancellations within one week of the workshop. Please take this into account when you sign up for a workshop.
Organizer Raquel Santiago
Organizer of The Dance of the Yin Yang, Alchemy Spinning Workshop
Raquel Santiago is an international dancer, dance activist and dance teacher originally from Barcelona, Spain, now she lives in Nevada City, California.
She's trained in a wide variety of dance styles such as Contemporary, Middle Eastern, African, Butoh, Body Weather, Creative Dance, Danza Duende, Noguchi Taiso, Gaga and Persian Dance.
She studied integral yoga and taught for many years in Barcelona. She also studied Psychological Astrology. She practices Shambhala Buddhism.
Her creative process relies on a deep listening to the body in a state of complete presence in the here and now, which allows for the emergence of an expanded consciousness, and for the channeling of creativity and healing.
Her explorations in this space have allowed her to develop Alchemy Spinning™, an accessible, pleasurable, and powerful guided practice, inspired on Sufi Dervishes, that takes your body, your mind, and your spirit through a journey of self discovery, expanded consciousness, and higher potential.
Over three years she worked as a yoga and dance therapist with eating disorder patients at Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona, Spain, one the most recognized psychiatric wards in Europe.
Dubbed by the press as “the New Isadora Duncan of the Environment”, because her projects often have a message of consciousness and transformation. She has worked with UNESCO and other nonprofit organizations, and performed at environmental conferences and transformational gatherings, such as San Francisco Green Festival and the Boom Festival in Portugal, forMidway Film, at TEDxCibeles Events, among others events.
She also love teaching classes and workshops, and thrive at creating a space where all kinds of students can connect with their bodies and their own unique ways to express their joy, passion and consciousness through movement.
She's a Founding Innovator at Kumu, a California-based Innovation Lab for activism, where she can expand and share her fascination with the power of body wisdom to bring about a thriving world where human societies live healthy and happy lives by the values of sustainability and social justice.
