Morning Workshop: 11a.m.-2p.m. Mindful Movement with Ariellah: A Nourishing Approach to a Strong Practice
$90 (registration required)
Get your body moving and feeling amazing while feeling calm and nourished using mind-body connection and mindfulness techniques. Mindfulness will be our guide through our practice of meditation, moving meditation, feel good stretching and conditioning exercises, ending with juicy fusion explorations that anyone can do. No advanced background required!
Alongside this physical practice; grounding techniques, mind body awareness exercises(mindfulness), a focused eye and more inward understanding, will be emphasized in order to approach movement AND life with more awareness, commitment, ease and authenticity. Meditation and moving meditations will be used to offer a more grounding, spacious, feel-good body movement practice. Join Ariellah in a class that offers much self-care, grounding, and tuning in to your body and mind.
This workshop is excellent for anyone who wants to get their body moving in ways that make them feel good from the inside out and leaves them feeling alive, wonderful and awake in their body. Come out of this workshop feeling calm, reinvigorated, accomplished and nourished in every part of your being! All set to the backdrop of dark ambient and gothique sounds…
Dark Movement with Ariellah
Shelly is a mover and a doer. always finding an artistic project or physical challenge to dedicate her energies to. An original member of dance and performance group UNMATA, creative director of fire and flow troupe Up In Smoke, and the lead of Burningman theme Camp Gotalotgoinon.
Ariellah is an international fusion dancer, performer and instructor with much passion in her heart for life, for music, for love… She has an extensive dance background that includes strict classical ballet training for 12 years with the Royal Academy of Dance from London. She has studied and performed belly dance since 2001, commencing her training with Janine Ryle of Danse Mahgreb and as a founding member of The Indigo with Rachel Brice.
In 2009, Ariellah began training in classical Indian Odissi dance, studying in India at the Shakti School of Dance and currently continues her studies of this dance form yearly with Colleena Shakti. Ariellah's style infuses many genres of dance, all with a modern dark flavour that is uniquely her own.
Her dance manifests what is deep in her heart and expresses her own experience and perceptions of this wondrous, beautiful and tragic thing called life. www.ariellah.com
Afternoon Workshop: 3p.m.-5:30p.m. Piecing It Together
$90 (registration required)
Let’s infuse intention, expression, presence, technique, dynamics, flow, and creativity into how we move. Using concepts and ideas Ariellah has brought to Sacramento in past years to really reinforce and bring those teachings to life. Using our background, skill, understandings, and self-expression to really move, dance and create, allowing for a more potent dance movement style!
Let’s move, dance and create together! Moreover, lets allow ourselves time to simply enjoy the movement of our bodies and allow our mind to relax and our entire being to reset!
Registration is NOW OPEN!
Workshops are available as singular sessions (prices listed below) or $175 for both workshops at time of Registration. Capacity is limited to 15 attendees in each session.
Please send payment to hold your spot in one or both workshops.
Paypal: order@ariellah.com
Venmo: @Ariellah-Aflalo
7pm: Community Hafla with open floor dancing. Bring a snack or beverage to share!
FITS! Flow Improv and Sigil Method with Shelly DeCant
Registration is now open!
Sunday, May 19
12pm-2pm
$40 (registration required)
Venmo: @Rashel-DeCant
What to expect
Learn the basics of Sigil Method then apply that system with fan flow vocabulary. Shelly is a certified Sigil Method instructor and creator of the FITS Flow Improv system! This workshop is focused on team spirit, movement language, group improv dynamics, and technique. Open to all movers.
If you would like more information on the Sigil Method please go to
http://www.sigilschool.com