Student Resources

Here, you will find student reading, including links to other resources, material written by our teachers, and links to lots of video clips!

Lisa Lumina

Mar 8, 20214 min read

Overcoming Over-Dancing: The Confidence to do Less

Over-dancing is something like that awkward stage of adolescence, a development stage that most intermediate dance students go through....

Lisa Lumina

Mar 8, 20212 min read

Dance as a Meditation

In Tibetan Buddhism, there is a ritual where monks spend weeks creating mandalas out of sand. Then the artwork is swept away and poured...

Lisa Lumina

Mar 8, 20215 min read

How Bellydance Improvisation Builds Bravery, Empowerment, and Agency

Not long after I started learning to bellydance, I developed intrusive thought OCD. Under the direction of a psychologist, I had to...

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