Saturday, April 25- The Core of Tribal Fusion Part One and Two
These 2 workshops will include Deb’s signature Core- Integration Yoga for Bellydance material, and then apply it to phenomenal tribal technique and new stylized fusion choreography inspired by the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area scene, which Deb has lived and danced in for 12 years. A necessary foundation for any dancer. Guaranteed to rock your core, refine your technique, and take your dancing to the next level.

Part One: Engaging the Core: Ooey-Gooey, Slow and Slinky (10:00am to noon)
Dive deep into that jar of molasses! In this workshop, we will radically deepen our slow, ooey-gooey moves to achieve that slinky, sultry, intoxicating look and feel of Tribal Fusion Bellydance. Drawing from yoga, pilates, feldenkrais, and Deb’s personal ‘stash”, this workshop will focus on core integration, spinal articulation, and building the foundational strength, flexibility, and awareness in the hips, spine, shoulders, and side body to directly support ridiculously slow, controlled, snake-like dancing; create ‘floating upper body’ dance posture for stage; and inspire articulated, fluid movements and shapes.  All this will be applied to belly dance technique, and juicy fusion combos.  She has often been coined the ‘Queen of slink”. Come learn  Deb’s unique tribal stylization.

Rocking the Core:  Isolations, Layering, Shimmies, &Up-tempo Dancing (1:00-3:00pm)
By initiating movement from your core, you can free up your hips, gluts, legs, and upper body to create jaw dropping, juicy, layering that will open up whole new worlds to your belly dancing.  In this 2 hr. workshop, we will do just that!  Focus will be on isolations, pop/lockin, layering,  and up-tempo dancing, inspired by the heart of the San Francisco Tribal scene. New tribal fusion combos will be offered to integrate the material.

*Attendance at both workshops strongly recommended.  Material in the second workshop will build on that in the first one, with the main core-integration yoga for bellydancer warm up happening in the first workshop.

Sunday, April 26- Dance Therapeutics: Saving Your Bellydance Body
10:00am-noon

A necessary foundation for any level dancer! Of any style of bellydance.
Drawing from Yoga therapy, Traditional Thai-Yoga Massage, Feldenkrais, Somatic education, partner yoga, and Deb’s personal “stash” of dance therapeutics, this workshop offers effective, therapeutic techniques and practices to radically shift bellydance posture, generously improve flexibility and mobility, and prevent dance injury and pain.  This workshop will deeply and safely help you increase spinal flexibility, release the low back, hips, gluts, and sacrum, and  dramatically increase flexibility in ribs, shoulder, spine, and sidebody to improve ability for bellydance isolations and layering; as well as give you lasting tools for your own personal practice and dancer self-care.  We will also go over healthy backbending to save your low back, as well as guaranteed therapeutic practices for injuries, muscle tightness, and ‘cool down.”  All of this will be applied to tribal fusion bellydance posture, technique, and stylization. Come prepared with any specific questions,injuries, or health concerns with which you'd like assistance.

Location, Location, Location!!
Holiday Inn-Elgin
495 Airport Rd. Elgin, IL 60623
Click here for the hotel's website.

There is a small block of rooms reserved for this event at the Holiday Inn.
Room rate is $89 for a regular room and $99 for a junior suite.
Call 847-488-9000 to make your reservation.
The room block name is "RaksChristina"
Room reservations must be made by March 24!!

And of course, pricing.....
$40 per workshop ($45 at the door)
$75 for all-day Saturday ($85 at the door)
$100 for all weekend ($115 at the door)
Register in the right margin of this page!

Private Lessons with Deb Rubin!
During her stay here, Deb will be available for private, semi-private, and small group lessons the evenings of Friday, April 24th, Saturday, April 25th, and Sunday April 26th. Whatever you want to work on, Deb is here for you! Troupes can even book time to run developing projects and have Deb tweak them a bit for you!

All private lessons will take place at:
Simple Balance Holistic Center
221 E. Chicago St. in Elgin, IL
To schedule a private lesson, please email Christina

Although Deb normally commands top dollar for her private lessons, she is offering special rates as a native Chicagoan to our area dancers. Prices below include studio rental and administrative fees.

Rates:
Private Lesson: $85
Semi-Private Lesson (2 students): $115
Small group lesson (3 students): $145
Additional students in small groups: $30 for 4th and 5th student, $25 for each additional after that.

Contact Christina to book your lesson with Deb Rubin today!

Who is Deb Rubin?

Debra Rubin, MA, CMT, RYT has been a life-long dancer and performer, trained and proficient in many styles, including Salsa, West African, Modern, Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop, 5-rhythms, Contact improvisation, 10+ yrs of competitive Gymnastics, and of course Tribal Fusion Belly Dance. She has been a 5+year member and performer with the ground-breaking, trend-setting Ultragypsy Belly Dance Theater, until Fall, 2007, and a regular sub for Jill Parker’s classes. She credits Jill Parker as being one of her main teachers. She has also studied from, performed with, and been creatively influenced by: Zoe Jakes, Mira Betz, Liz Strong, & Rose Harden, as well as much guidance and teachings by Mardi Love and Rachel Brice. Deb is also level 1 certified with Suhaila Salimpour School of Dance. Currently, she teaches and performs around the country. Most recently, she assisted Rachel Brice in her 5-day Tribal Massive intensive, performed with Heather Stants and Urban Tribal at Tribal Fest 2008, and produced the first SF Mecca Immersion Tribal Fusion Belly Dance retreat event in the heart of the San Francisco*. She is co-teaching a retreat with Sharon Kihara, in Hawaii, this coming Dec. 08.

A holistic health counselor, somatic educator, yoga teacher, and integrative bodyworker, Deb is also the founder of SattyaBodyHealingArts and Dance Collective. She teaches classes, workshops, and retreats all over the world fusing women’s health and empowerment with yoga, tribal bellydance, nature, and creative expression. Deb has taught at Kosmos world music and dance camp, at the Omega Institute in NY, at the Quest for Global Healing Conference, in Ubud, Bali, as well as other festivals and healing/sustainability conferences around the globe.

As a certified massage therapist and yoga therapist for past 9 years, she specializes in injury rehab and wellness for dancers. Some of her Bellydance clients have included: Ansuya, Jill Parker, Sharon Kihara, Rose Harden, Sarah White, Aubre, & Susan Frankowich. She is greatly influenced by her studies of Traditional Thai-Yoga Massage in the hill tribes of Northern Thailand under the lineage of Asokananda , and her Yoga teacher trainings and study with Integrative Yoga Therapy, Acroyoga, Darshana Weil, Shiva Rae, and Gary Kraftsow,

Deb has a B.A. in Pre-med and Psychology from Princeton University, and an M.A. in Holistic Health Education from JFK University. You can find her writings published in Yoga Journal Magazine, and her dancing leaking out in every step. and her dancing happening in every stFor more info, pls. visit: www.sfmeccaimmersion.com, or www.tribe.net/sattyabody.

Online registration has closed. We still have a few spots left in the workshops, but you'll have to come and register for them in person. Cash and checks are accepted.

All registrations are non-refundable and non-transferable!

Christina King : Christina@RaksChristina.com : 773-454-6498

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