Services Offered

Grafton Senior Center, Lower Level: Starts January 19th 2025!

Sundays from 6-7pm

$90 Per Session

SGI or Synchronized Group Improvisation is taught in Kajira Djoumanhna’s BlackSheep Dance format. Students will learn a set vocabulary of belly dance movements, cues, chorus structure, and formations. This style allows for improvisational group dancing, is exciting, and fosters strength and connection with other dancers. Students will move together as one unit, inviting many possibilities for creative expression. Bring your finger cymbals! This is a mixed belly dance class geared towards absolute beginners through intermediate dancers.

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Germantown

Start Date & Time: TBA

$20 Drop In | $60 Pre-paid for 4 Weeks

DFTS or Dance For The Soul Style is taught in Stefanie's unique format, inspired by American Cabaret & Turkish styles of dance, with a focus on holistic breathing and movement. Paying close attention to correct posture, conscious breathing and focusing skills students will be given the tools necessary to express themselves whole-heartedly in the dance. The DFTS Masters Method incorporates Stefanie’s 10 Steps of Texturing that builds on basic technique. These texturing techniques allow even a beginner dancer with no previous experience to go home after their first class and move their bodies with confidence! The DFTS Method is rooted in Stefanie's personal philosophy of inspiring success through adjusted posture, breath, thought patterns, and body awareness through movement. Bring your finger cymbals! This is a mixed belly dance class geared towards absolute beginners through intermediate dancers.

All programs include yoga poses, breathwork, and meditation. These programs take into account individual needs on all levels, including time and environment. Students are gently guided through the process of understanding proper foundation, alignment, and breathwork while moving in and out of poses. These programs are designed using Viniyoga, Ashtanga, and Iyengar formats of Hatha Yoga.

Benefits

• Decreases stress levels taking you out of flight/fight response and into rest/repair mode

• Helps to reduce chronic pain cycles and physical illness

• Improves lung function and reduces high blood pressure

• Can ease arthritis symptoms and help reduce back pain

• Supplies your body with oxygen while removing toxins

• Improves sleep quality

• Improves athletic performance and protection from injuries

• Improves metabolism and can help with weight reduction

• Improves muscle strength, balance, flexibility, and tone

• Opens energy centers in the body, freeing restrictions

• Balances out emotions and promotes relaxation and mindfulness

• Improves cognitive performance and increases creativity levels

• Allows you to see the big picture of life so you can connect on a deeper level with your family and your community

Do you need to make a change? Not sure where to start? Or do you get started then lose your momentum and never seem to reach that ultimate vision you had for yourself? Programs are created for the individual and span all areas of life to get to the heart of the matter and uncover the real challenges. Then we meet them head on and take action, allowing you to reach your goal while at the same time creating lasting change. 

Integrative Health & Nutrition encompasses the whole person. We don’t just look at what’s happening on a physical level for you, we help you dig deeper to understand the connection between the physical and other major areas of your life. We help you make connections, create a plan, hold you accountable, and walk with you on a heart centered journey toward lasting change.

Integrative Health, Nutrition, & Lifestyle is based on the principals of Primary and Secondary Foods. Secondary Food is nutrition (the food you eat every day), while Primary Food is what nurtures you on a deeper level and includes 4 main areas: Career, Relationships, Physical Activity, and Spirituality. The more quality Primary Food we give ourselves the more fulfilling and magical our lives become, but when any of these areas (Primary Food) become “starved” we can feel stuck, not knowing what direction to take, or not knowing how to reach a specific goal we have set for ourselves, sometimes even feeling depressed, unhappy, or fearful. With the help of a coach, you identify what your real needs and challenges are, the “why”, and then build a plan and take action, so you can move forward with a deeper understanding of yourself and more importantly start achieving what is most important to you.

Stefanie is available for Specialized Workshops in Belly Dance to include:

• Veil

• Finger cymbals

• Drum solo

• Floor work

• Group improvisational dance in Kajira Djoumahna’s BSD Format

• DFTS Masters Method of Improvisation

• Choreography 

Stefanie is available for Private Lessons in Yoga, Meditation, Breathwork, & Belly Dance at her home studio to include:

• One on one instruction in Belly Dance techniques

• Creating choreography and music mapping

• Show preparation and final editing of choreography

• Yoga

• Meditation

• Breathwork 

Stefanie is available for Belly Dance Performances to include:

• Life celebrations

• Benefits

• Weddings

• Corporate events and fundraisers

• Staged performances

Do you want to become an experienced leader and educator in the Belly Dance and fitness industry? A positive and powerful force in your community? A role model for others? The DFTS Teacher Training program encompasses the DFTS Method of Improvisation, and The Masters Method of Health, Healing and Living™ and teaches how dance and movement connects us to all things!  

Dance helps to bring people of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds together. Dance in itself is a holistic form of healing community. Bring people together for a common purpose and great things happen! Dance is a rewarding way to move the body, exercise the mind and free the spirit! As dance instructors, our common purpose is to teach others the joy of moving their bodies in space. Feeling grounded and confident, belonging to something that promotes wellness from deep within. Exercising the body and mind to greater levels of awareness, invoking a feeling of overall peace and wellbeing that overflows to our families and our community! Teaching confidence and breeding success is what being a dance teacher is all about! 

Training Program Curriculum

• BDTT1 Introduction to The Masters Method for Health, Healing, & Living™ and the DFTS Format of Improvisational Belly Dance

• BDTT2 DFTS Philosophy, Ethics, History, and Evolution of Dance

• BDTT3 Beginning Belly Dance Technique and Building A Personal Practice

• BDTT4 Middle Eastern Rhythms, Music Theory, Finger Cymbals, and Drums

• BDTT5 Body-Mind Connection and Healing Through Dance

• BDTT6 Intermediate Belly Dance Technique, Special Populations, and Modifications

• BDTT7 Teaching Methodology, Class Design, Leadership, and Communication

• BDTT8 Advanced Belly Dance Technique and Props

• BDTT9 Anatomy, Physiology, and Fitness Basics For Dance Instructors

• BDTT10 Business, Advertising, Review, Practical and Final Evaluation 

The DFTS Belly Dance teacher training program is a very unique course, in that you will not only focus on the above curriculum but also on your own intense personal growth and healing from within. You will be working on all levels of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies, while using specific healing modalities, dance, and conscious thought to help facilitate your own personal growth. 

The DFTS philosophy encompasses the belief that through breath, posture and movement we can eliminate negative behaviors and thought patterns. Creating a sense of dignity in the body and mind leading to self-respect, self-love, confidence, acceptance, understanding your purpose, feeling connected to your family and community, and ultimately leading you to success in all things!

Being a teacher is so much more than understanding how to breakdown a movement or designing a class structure. A true teacher has the ability to inspire and motivate students to achieve their highest potential in life.