Belly Dance as Healing Dance

This is an important aspect in belly dance that is rarely addresssed. We hope you will take this opportunity to tune in to this weekend. Lorraine was one of the founders of "The Goddess Dancing" in Boston. She is a licensed therapist as well as a dancers and has worked extensively with the sub terrain of our dancing psyche.

DATE: Fri Night July 25th, A Salon Style Lecture & Performance
TIME: Lecture starts at 9:00pm, Doors open at 8:30pm
LOCATION: at Delilah's House 4115 Fremont Ave N. $10 (Cross street from Studio)
Cost: $10 donation

DATE: Sat July 26 Full day Workshop, No experience nesessary.
This was originally a 2 day workshop was moved from earlier in the month and the workshop details are being combined into one full day program.

Times: Doors open 9:30 Coffee and snacks, Workshop 10-6:00 (lunch 1:30-2:30 Pm)
Morning "Healing our Sexuality through Belly Dance"

Small Workshop format (limited to 15 participants)
This workshop is aimed at reconnecting women to their power,
strength and beauty using the movement vocabulary of belly dance.
Belly dance, in its oldest and purest form brings women together in
shared community to exchange knowledge about birthing, self love,
self adornment and sisterhood. The dance’s deepest intention is to
liberate the pelvis, free the belly and open the heart.
We as women experience significant cultural injury to our
sexual expression in a variety of ways. Using visualization, group
discussion and movement, we will reclaim our right to embodied,
empowered sexual expression. Working in safe space, we learn to
trust the power of our flesh, embrace our individual beauty and
become fully loving and present in our bodies

Afternoon "Pleasure Reclaimed".

Small Workshop format (limited to 15 participants)
In the “Charge of the Goddess,” Starhawk quotes Doreen
Valentine as saying, “All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.”
By reclaiming our right to take part in loving and pleasurable acts,
we fly in the face of our driven and deadening culture. We have
so many prohibitions against pleasure, and yet, we yearn to make
space for it in our lives. In this workshop we explore and expand
our relationship to food, fun, sensuality, shopping and all other
creative forms of self love. We learn to dance and live our lives
for our pleasure and in doing so we spread love and beauty into
every knock and cranny.

Cost: $100 Please sign up in advance please, limited to 15 dancers.

LOCATION: VDP Studio 4128 Fremont Ave North Sea Wa 98103

Registration form

More about Lorraine Lafata M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W.

Lorraine has been a therapist for 20 years. A founding member of “The
Goddess Dancing,” she is currently a collaborator in “Sacred Source
Belly dance.” Both are women’s dance collectives in Boston, dedicated to
furthering the empowerment of women through dance and ritual. Lorraine
has been working with women in class rooms, in private practice, and in
prisons and institutional situations. Her life is dedicated to helping women
heal their woundedness and celebrate their wholeness. For many years she
has combined the traditional practices of her professional training with the
personal relationship with her art. She has found that belly dance offers
us much more than fun, physical exercise and fantasy. In fact, women
everywhere report their interest and experience with the dance has
made a powerful difference in their lives for mental, physical, psychic and
spiritual healing.
Lorraine and Delilah have worked extensively together “Embracing
Aphrodite.” It was one of the most enlightening retreats Delilah has
ever hosted (and to mention the most attended by dancers). An hour
long documentary about the retreat experience can be found as an
extra feature on Delilah’s DVD (entitled Delilah & Sirocco; Live & Wild).
The documentary follows Lorraine, Delilah and a group of 40 women
ages 18-88, exploring beauty and self esteem issues using belly dance,
journaling, and movement therapy as a tool.