Transformation and Healing:
Dance, Movement, Music, Meditation, Angels, & Awareness
Shamsi: Transformation and Healing through Dance, Movement, Music, Awareness & Angels
LA
ph: 225.229.3755
shamsi
I am still offering readings and Reiki by distance while I seek a new location for my practice. I will do house-calls. Please email shamsi@shamsidances.com to inquire. Thank you.
~Shamsi
February 12 & 13, 2010 - Dancemeditation and "Uncovering the Shadow" bellydance with Shamsi. All part of Missihippy's Blackheart's Ball email missihippy@gmail.com for more info.
Feburary 27 & March 6, 2010 - Register for Shamsi's Anatomy of Bellydance 2 part series at Crescent Lotus in New Orleans.
Due to a fire that destroyed BayouShimmy's dance facility Shamsi is not currently teaching regularly scheduled classes. Other BayouShimmy teachers are teaching at other locations throughout the city.
http://sites.google.com/site/batonrougebellydance/
Life interacts, and so must we. Without detaching, without excuses, looking into the eyes of our own existence and becoming comfortable with what looks back allows for an embodied existence. Healing our lives in small, simple steps, moment to moment, day to day, new life is always possible; like butterflies from chrysalis, each of us has the power of complete transformation. By retreating into brief periods of self-containment we allow ourselves the chance of reflective understanding. Through awareness of movement, sound, silence, and breath we are able to reveal paths of personal transformation of which we, ourselves, are often unaware.
Acknowledging imperfection and striving for her own personal truths, Shamsi's path has led her through a series of meditative, movement-driven, musical and sound practices that allow her the unique ability to reach into the depths and find that which is most important in her own life. It is her desire to share these practices with the hope and intention to help others cast off images and perceptions, molds and stereotypes allowing every individual a chance at personal truth.
What to expect from Shamsi:
In teaching
- Honest, non-judgmental assessment of students' current skill level.
- Best course of action for personalized goals.
- Tough but caring work ethic to draw out the best, purest expressions of self.
- Fun
In performing
- Professionalism
- Courtesy
- Electricity
- Emotion
- Fun
In healing
- Professionalism
- Safe, comforting quality
- Confidentiality
- Compassion
Shamsi as "FIRE" November 1, 2008 "Bellementals"
What others are saying
"This rising star is destined to be the next Isadora Duncan of Oriental Dance!"
Elizabeth Artemis Mourat
"Shamsi is everything I was hoping for in a dance teacher. She is patient, encouraging, clear, and intuitive. She inspires me to be a better dancer with every word from her mouth and move of her body. She made me realize that I was a dancer even before I set foot in the studio. If you ever thought that dancing wasn't for you, think again. Shamsi can help you soar."
Cliff
Librarian, Valdosta, GA
"Shamsi is a world-class, award-winning dancer and a true asset to Baton Rouge's cultural community. In only a few years I've watched her studio, Bayou Shimmy, grow from two or three weekly classes to a jam-packed house featuring dozens of different dance styles and techniques for all ages and abilities. She has the ability to make all her students feel beautiful and successful at their craft. I am pleased to give Shamsi my highest recommendation."
Laura Larkin
Grants & Community Development Director
Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge
As an instructor, it has been said…"Very few individuals possess everything needed to be a great teacher, and Shamsi is one of them. She has the talent, patience, compassion, and humor needed to reach each and every one of her students. She is simply amazing!"
Bonnie McCoy
As a performer and entertainer, "Shamsi exudes a presence in her dance that is a force of nature—intense, seductive, and above all entertaining!—"
Dr. Richard Culbertson
"Many times I have been brought to tears by Shamsi's portrayal of emotion while dancing."
Sydney "Sidonia" Landry
Sisters of the Phoenix
"To say that Shamsi is 'an accomplished dancer' is a bit like saying that Einstein was 'bright' and Ghandi was 'a nice guy'. They would all be serious understatements. Shamsi channels the essence of the music through the core of her being and weaves an intricately beautiful, spiritually stirring tapestry of movement all around her. One feels a bit closer to the cosmic fabric of the divine wrapped in her dance."
Michelle "Shaia" Richert
Sisters of the Phoenix
Shamsi: Transformation and Healing through Dance, Movement, Music, Awareness & Angels
LA
ph: 225.229.3755
shamsi
