Classes Offered Classes run in five week segments with the sixth week off. Group classes are 75 minutes and privates are 60 minutes. If you are new to the art form, it is generally best to start with private lessons to build up basic technique before joining group classes. Once booked, classes must be used within 2 months of purchase. No refunds after purchase and no refunds on missed classes/privates once scheduled. Once booked if a date needs to shift, 24 hours advanced notice is needed otherwise class is considered a missed class.
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How to schedule classes Pay for classes and use contact form to schedule classes
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Flow Arts Classes Flow arts classes are a fabulous way to connect with your body, develop a better relationship with the space around and within you, as well as a great way to learn to discover rhythm. A moving meditation designed to integrate the whole being through geometrical movements.
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Yoga Cultivate internal fire Transform your life with yoga, movement, and the breath. Classes may include meditation, pranayama, ecstatic movement, strength building, deep relaxation, healing sounds, and Reiki energy balancing. Learn to cultivate the inner fire. This is the seed from where our fire dance emerges.
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Poi Awakening to natures patterns Poi are weights on tethers that are rhythmically spun around the body in a conscious dance. Used by the Maori culture of New Zealand, learning to work with poi is a geometrical adventure through the world of timing, direction, and space. Poi Dance is a moving meditation that improves coordination, balance, flexibility, and strength, is a great way to tune into the body, exercise the brain, and develop refined motor skills.
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Fan Dance Learning to fly Fans are beautiful, wing like, hand held dance tool that accents many cultural dances, or can be a dance on their own. Fan dancing is a fun and beautiful way to express ourselves. This class teaches basic movements that build up to a group choreographed routine and is a perfect introduction to fire dancing. Learning to dance with fans is learning to let our internal dance expand outward from the heart.
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Staff Aligning with truth Staff is a long stick with two weights on each end. With this dance we learn to embrace strength, integrity, and alignment with source as the structure of our dance. The class includes Modern and other forms of dance, along with yoga, creative movement, and basic technique.
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Fire Dance Classes Learn how to work with the element fire as it exists within our own personal experience as well as externally as it relates to our environment and those around us. Fire Dance classes are as much about our own personal journey as it is our collective journey. Fire dancing is a culmination of flow art technique, fire safety, and a dance or movement ability. Fire Dance Classes are offered once a student can demonstrate proficiency in three Flow Arts techniques, a movement form, along with having all necessary equipment. The first step is to sign up for Flow Classes and take the Fire Safety Training.
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Fire Safety Training (30 hours)
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Level 1 5 Hours Lecture based class that covers the basic information about fire safety, local codes, what a fire safety does, and the importance of fire safety. Fire Safety training is a requisite for fire dance and is specific to the Sacred Fire Dance Company Fire Safety protocol. The Fire Safety training is in accordance with the North American Fire Arts Association (NAFAA) and consists of three levels. Level one introduces the basics of fire safety from rules to fuels, fire extinguishers, and first aid. Class meets for 4 weeks for 1 hour 30 minutes per week.
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Level 2 5 Hours Level two is hands on practicing fire safety in a class setting. Student provides fire safety for students learning fire. Class meets for 5 weeks, 1 hour 15 minutes per week. May be repeated 1 time for another 5 hours.
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Level 3 20 Hours Level three is hands on practicing at live fire shows. This level of fire safety training does not cost and is where the fire safety is given plenty of opportunity to practice fire safety skills and learn the needs of different shows. Provides a well rounded training for a variety of environments that fire shows happen in. Students who complete the full 30 hours will be offered paid fire safety opportunities. .
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