Integral Dance with Miriam Peretz

Integral Dance is a holistic practice that brings together core movement principles, heart-centered gesture, and deep somatic awareness. On the dance floor we experience gratitude, humility, moving like water, and embracing both subtlety and intensity with our movement expressions. This class embraces an integral “whole person” approach to dance practice with each session being a journey through the terrain of the body, mind, and heart. We open the practice with embodied rituals infused with intention and meaning, then progress to core movement essentials that explore healthy alignment, core strength, spinal fluidity, release, and focused breath practices. Dance sequences are interspersed with improvisational moments and play. Integral dances are inspired by the movement of circles, spirals, and the cycles that we find within the physical, energetic, and universal body.

The month of April will focus on the soul trait of Equanimity and how our embodiment practices can help support us in grounding our energy and finding greater sense of presence and deep peace.

$20- Drop-in

$65- Full Series (4 class series)

*Class is offered both live in person as well as via live zoom.

*Video footage for practice offered after each class for students who register for the full series!

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Miriam Peretz is an internationally celebrated dancer who has devoted her life to creating transformational experiences for her students and audiences worldwide. Miriam’s work is focused on the healing art of dance and empowering individuals through movement, ritual and community building. Over the course of her lifetime career, she has developed two signature dance format’s, Nava Dance and Integral Dance. Both formats embrace Miriam’s belief in the potential of movement and dance to facilitate physical, spiritual, and emotional healing. These formats weave together many years of training in traditional dance forms, as well as contemporary dance and somatic practices.

Miriam has traveled extensively teaching her formats at retreat centers, dance schools, and festivals throughout California, the Middle East and Europe. Miriam holds an MFA from Mills College of California and is a certified Pilates instructor. Regarded as a weekly ritual by her students, Miriam’s classes offer a fully integrated journey through the terrain of the body, heart, mind and spirit. Miriam sees dance as a uniquely powerful means of expressing deep emotion and spiritual yearning, and therefore the perfect embodiment of prayer.

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