My first approach to dance, as many other people around the world, was those yearly school presentations, (which I loved by the way! I remember doing some Hawaiian at age 5, and also a failed attempt at ballet around that same age). Later on, when I was 15 years old, I discovered Flamenco in a local Arts and Culture Center in Mexico, and it became my dance amateur passion. 

I then started getting more seriously involved in gypsy. mediterranean, middle eastern, and oriental music and dance back in 1999, when invited to join a traditional Greek Music Ensemble in Mexico City, called The Argonauts, directed by Dimitri Yanisis and Rodrigo Santoyo, as the main dancer! In that case, it was specifically Greek traditional music and dances, but in some of their songs they would allow me to interpret freely as I learned.

Curiously enough, this invitation took place during a series of legendary open rehearsals the band used to hold from its beginnings, where they would invite their friends to their rehearsals, and start a party from there. So during those days, the band met my most spontaneous free dance, just from what their music inspired and woke up in me, and they somehow saw something I didn't even know of, and oficially invited me to work with them! Thus, teaching me all the different rythms and musical structures of their repertoire, teaching me how to play the zills (finger cymbals) and other hand percussions, as well as some traditional greek circle dances. I started joining all of the band's private rehearsals and learning the repertoire, and I was one more of them! I became their zills player and main dancer for about a year and learned a lot from them. I cherish these memories greatly and send them all big loads of love around the world wherever they all are now, since we all keep traveling!

I also started taking "belly-dance" lessons at first, and then learning and researching deeper into Middle Eastern and Gypsy Dances. So we later created an Egyptian Percussion Ensemble, with some members from that band, and here's the one picture that I have from those days...















Around that time, I also got to live in Malaysia for a few months with my parents, and I had the opportunity to study Odissi (a traditional Temple Dance form) in the Indian Fine Arts Temple of Kuala Lumpur for 4 months, as well as some native tribe's ceremonial dances from deep in the jungle in Borneo, as well as other places in South East Asia while I lived in the area, and these experiences opened up new level of devotion in my dance practice. 

In 2003 I started teaching my first Raqs Sharki lessons by demand! (groups of women would just organize themselves to host my workshops in different spots), and ever since then I always focused my practice and teaching on the therapeutic benefits of dance and moving meditation, more than on any particular dance style, and thus creating the concept of Dance for the Spirit, as an outlet to create and share special workshops about different ancestral dance styles and modern fusions, as well as timeless movement meditations and healing practices.

Dance is a powerful way of transmuting energy within you, and it also ripples to the outside, creating changes in the environment, and the people around us.

My workshops are now specialized in deep Reconnecting Movement Therapy, aiming to release personal blocks and stagnant energies, and free ourselves from limiting patterns and beliefs, by tuning back into our-own Free-flow Expression. They are not technically "dance" lessons, but rather a space for healing, reconnecting, and transmuting energy through movement.

 
 
 
 



 





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