This class is a fusion of yoga practice with Tribal Fusion Belly Dance standing dance practice -- designed to reconnect you to your BELLY: The seat of feminine power, your core, and your creative center. Beginning with yoga, we will open the hips, unlock the fluid spine, and ground into feminine power through core. We then take all of this Shakti Power cultivated and learn to move it through Tribal Fusion Belly dance - unlocking specific spiral movement pathways in the body. Through these practices, you’ll cultivate your full feminine power and grace, learn how to isolate and strengthen the different muscles of the belly, and get a fun, full-bodied, fluid core work out all at once!

Learn how to deeply, safely, and effectively unlock tight shoulders, and that pesky, traditionally stuck thoracic spine (upper back). Deb Rubin shares with you some of her favorite shoulder, side body, upper back and neck openers, and will introduce you to her new, signature somatic approach to unwinding the body. This is an all levels class, intended to be gentle yet deep, and very effective.

In this class, you will be guided through a therapeutic sequence to radically unlock and align the low back, hips, and legs to reduce pain and tightness, and increase your ease and fluidity of movement. Get out of pain, and learn Deb Rubin's approach to unlocking the body, combining the modern wisdom of fascia unwinding with the ancient wisdom of Yoga asana. You will experience deeper therapeutic benefits, more effective results, a pain-free body, and a relaxed mind.

In this class, we are going to move our yoga practice from the mat into the dance! Through the empowering, core-focused art-form of Tribal Fusion Belly Dance, we awaken Shakti and bring the Nataraj to life. We begin with vinyasa yoga on the mat to open the hips, energize the fluid spine, connect to the core, and prep the body for dancing. We then weave our yoga directly into the dance with an introduction to the earthy, serpentine movements and body positions of Tribal Fusion Belly Dance. Deeply invoke the divine feminine, and feel energized and inspired in your body! Let's dance!

Music for this class provided by: davidstarfire.com, and yakaruna.com


Deb recommends using the following playlist for this class: Playlist for Shakti Flow Yoga and Dance