Kaaren Schimana
Mullum’s salsa goddess Kaaren has been teaching Yoga and Dance nationally for 25 years. Recently returned from 2 trips to Cuba, her Salsa for Yogis session at the BSF has been custom-created to infuse yoga principles into the passionate practice of latin dance. Read More
The Barefoot Gypsies
The Barefoot Gypsies are the Northern River’s very own professional tribal belly dance troupe, founded in February 2010 by director, Danielle Sansom. Tribal belly dance is a movement language of fluid, undulating shapes that incorporate sacred geometry – resulting in a mesmerizing art form described as ‘women’s yoga’. It has an earthy, potent, feminine aesthetic and fuses Middle Eastern dance with stylistic influences... Read More
Tamsin Murray
The Sufi meditative movement is a source of healing and beauty. Merging the breath with movement, chanting, and moving with music that is deeply connected to spirit shifts our consciousness from a state of separation and contraction to unity and expansion. In the expansion healing takes place and many people experience positive changes in their physical, mental and emotional well-being. Sufism extracts from the moment the life force and... Read More
Maha
Maha, of Palestinian/Lebanese origin and a long time Byron Bay resident. She is a mother of three and founder and facilitator of Bellydance For Birth since 1997. Her first love is of sensual dance as a bridge to the Divine and to express the many stories that are interwoven into our life journeys. She uses the bellydance as a platform to discover, unearth and reveal these chapters through improvsation and freedom encouraging heartfelt emotional... Read More
Iolani Grace
Ka Lele & Oli Hawaiian Shamanic Breath and Movement & Chant. Join ʻIolani Grace in sacred space for a heart opening, energizing and inspiring experience in the Spirit of Aloha. Ka Lele is a joyful shamanic breath, movement and awareness expanding practice. It clears, opens, aligns, energizes and harmonizes your body and being, shifting frequencies and patterns. The benefits of this shamanic kāhuna practice are unlimited. The magical Ka lele... Read More
The Future Sound of Yoga
The Future Sound of Yoga is a sensory experience involving music and movement. The movements are a combination of traditional yoga poses and freeform dance. A live DJ creates the soundtrack, which is drawn from electronic dance music (e.g. Ambient, Trip Hop, Progressive, Tech House) and atmospheric band/artist albums (e.g. Bjork, Sigur Ros, Radiohead). The album covers below show some of the music we have used in past events. Rather than strict instruction... Read More
Daisy
Daisy’s Dancing Alchemy presents “A Bum Dance for Abundance“, A deep joyous journey into Self. Daisy’s conscious dance work and five elements exploration is a culmination of over 20 years experiences in many aspects of the healing field, from sacred dance,massage ,tantra to herbalism and nutrition. Daisy is both a Taoist practitioner and a Yogini. a beautiful gift,sharing her deep passion playfully of bringing people together... Read More
Geash Bowler
5Rhythms® is a movement meditation practice designed to release the dancer thats lives inside us all, regardless of beliefs, shape, age, or experience. To find and embody our dance is to plug ourselves directly into our most deliciously fluid and creatively free selves. Therefore freeing up our juicy source of inspiration where we have boundless potential and possibilities. Read More
Deva Nandan – 5 Rhythms dance
The 5Rhythms is a physical, spiritual dance practice that offers a lifetime of discovery. Always beginning with the body in motion, we engage the work of freeing the body, opening the heart and emptying the mind. In this practice we connect to our natural state of being; a fluid body in motion. Through this dance we reclaim our own instinctual nature, and practice being fully alive and present human beings. “Teaching this work has been a fantastic... Read More
Liat Lev-Sokal
HEART DANCE – An Ecstatic Dance Journey – with Liat Lev-Sokal Beginning from where we are right now, we dive into our Authentic Movement-Meditation Practice. Engaging the breath, beat, heart and feet… You are invited to let go the mind and surrender to this dance in this present moment. Heart Dance is a dance journey held in the spirit of healing of and transformation set to global, soulful, tribal beats in sacred space. About... Read More
Amber Gray – Mother of the Ceremonial Space
Continuum Movement The Fluid Origins of Movement with Amber Gray – Mother of the Ceremonial Space The Oroboros- the snake eating it’s own tail symbolises that which exists before any beginning; before stories and patterns…it represents our spine, the messenger between the external and the internal, heaven and earth. It is kundalini. It is the yin of the yang, the yang of the yin. Embracing our divine opposite. Feminine and Masculine. Continuum... Read More
Nia Dance
Nia is a dance/martial arts/healing arts movement practice that leads to health, fitness and wellbeing. It empowers people of all shapes and sizes by connecting the body, mind, emotions and spirit. Every class offers a unique combination of 52 moves that correspond with the main areas of the body: the base, the core and the upper extremities. Soul stirring eclectic music creates a joyful journey suitable for all fitness levels. Nia is a Sensation... Read More
Sainttina De Moleay
With a professional background in shamanic circus, a side effect of the teacher training she undertook with Gabriell Roth, Sainttina has created elemental and magical events and lead ceremonies at major festivals internationally. She celebrates story, it’s poetry, it’s archetypes and the wisdom in it’s divine foolishness. Read More
