Ladies Night In and Bachelorette Parties
Grace loves to bring belly dance to everyone; she's given lessons at bachelorette parties and other women's gatherings. She'll provide a 55-minute low impact dance lesson; introducing everyone to the fun that is inherent to belly dance. This family-friendly event can be at your location or at The Dancespot of DuPage. Please feel free to contact her at 630-988-4443 or email [email protected].
Belly Dance Specific Workshops.
Grace has over 30 years experience in movement including being an ACE certified group fitness instructor and personal trainer, Stott-Pilates certified instructor and over 300 hours in yoga workshops and trainings as well as over 500 hours in FCBD®style training. She has been a FCBD®-style Sister Studio since 2014.
Deep Dive: Improve your posture, improve your dance
The power of our dance starts in the middle: the spine. Access the muscles surrounding the spine to level up your dance technique.
Using yoga and Pilates techniques you’ll discover the upper back, mid-back and core muscles used to attain/maintain proper dance posture while belly dancing but specifically FCBD®-style.
From a proper dance posture you can safely perform deep body waves and lay backs. From a proper dance posture sidewinders and chest lifts/circles are easier to access.
This will be an interactive workshop including adjustments (if requested) by Grace. You’ll also leave with a few simple drills and exercises to help keep strengthening the muscles along your spine.
Foundations of Your Dance: Small Muscles = Big Movement
Improve the quality of your dance movements by using the right muscles. Too many times dancers are happy with executing a move that's good enough. We can get better than "good enough" by using the correct muscles to execute body waves, hip circles shimmies, chest circles, arm undulations.etc
Foundations of Your Dance: Aware = Aligned and Centered
First finding and and then knowing your body and its alignment in relation to your dance center is integral to quality movements. We'll explore body awareness, the first step to becoming a great dancer. Using drills and visualization techniques every participant will get a clear understanding of their personal body awareness. From there you'll get "exercises" on improving this awareness. Using yoga and Pilates techniques we'll define just what it means to be dance aligned and centered. You'll see an instant change in the quality
Dancing in the Flow®
Flow is dancing in the divine subconscious.
All Dance and No Talk! Perfect for all students who just need "empty brain time" to dance and get the steps into muscle memory. No verbal instruction, no partners or formations, just follow along and bliss out. Twenty minute intervals with 5 minute water breaks between.
During first 20 minutes the struggle to just let go is real. The next 20 minutes brings you closer physically and mentally closer as your muscles warm up and your brain starts to let go. The final 20 minutes is you dancing in your full bliss, oblivious to everything else.
A basic knowledge of FCBD-style® vocabulary is helpful but not necessary as Flow is in a follow the leader style with plenty of repetition.
The power of our dance starts in the middle: the spine. Access the muscles surrounding the spine to level up your dance technique.
Using yoga and Pilates techniques you’ll discover the upper back, mid-back and core muscles used to attain/maintain proper dance posture while belly dancing but specifically FCBD®-style.
From a proper dance posture you can safely perform deep body waves and lay backs. From a proper dance posture sidewinders and chest lifts/circles are easier to access.
This will be an interactive workshop including adjustments (if requested) by Grace. You’ll also leave with a few simple drills and exercises to help keep strengthening the muscles along your spine.
Foundations of Your Dance: Small Muscles = Big Movement
Improve the quality of your dance movements by using the right muscles. Too many times dancers are happy with executing a move that's good enough. We can get better than "good enough" by using the correct muscles to execute body waves, hip circles shimmies, chest circles, arm undulations.etc
Foundations of Your Dance: Aware = Aligned and Centered
First finding and and then knowing your body and its alignment in relation to your dance center is integral to quality movements. We'll explore body awareness, the first step to becoming a great dancer. Using drills and visualization techniques every participant will get a clear understanding of their personal body awareness. From there you'll get "exercises" on improving this awareness. Using yoga and Pilates techniques we'll define just what it means to be dance aligned and centered. You'll see an instant change in the quality
Dancing in the Flow®
Flow is dancing in the divine subconscious.
All Dance and No Talk! Perfect for all students who just need "empty brain time" to dance and get the steps into muscle memory. No verbal instruction, no partners or formations, just follow along and bliss out. Twenty minute intervals with 5 minute water breaks between.
During first 20 minutes the struggle to just let go is real. The next 20 minutes brings you closer physically and mentally closer as your muscles warm up and your brain starts to let go. The final 20 minutes is you dancing in your full bliss, oblivious to everything else.
A basic knowledge of FCBD-style® vocabulary is helpful but not necessary as Flow is in a follow the leader style with plenty of repetition.