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Archive for the ‘Aerial Silk Retreats’ Category
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Escape into paradise at Anamaya resort in Montezuma, Costa Rica, with a fusion of aerial arts, fire dancing, hula hooping, yoga, and performance skills and workshops in this weekly retreat.
This retreat includes all meals, three times per day, which are gourmet and organic food. Vegetarian, vegan, wheat-free, or other healthy food choices can be accommodated.
Other activities and adventures that you can add on to this retreat include massages at our spa, horseback riding on the beach, Tortuga Island tour, surf lessons, and much more.
A POSSIBLE DAY AT ANAMAYA CIRQUE FUSION… exact schedule to be worked out later!
6:00 am morning sunrise meditation / easy stretching
6:30 am yoga
8:00 am Back to bed!
9:30 am Breakfast – delicious and organic catered meal
12:00 pm Hoop Up with Kayti Bunny
1:30 pm Lunch
3:00 pm Open Level Cloud Swing
4:30 pm Open Level Silks
6:00 pm Rest and Relax
7:00 pm Dinner
9:30 pm FIRE – Fire Hooping, Eating, Poi, Fans, etc
AERIAL DANCE WITH SEANNA SHARPE
Seanna Sharpe Sample YouTube Video
Aerial Dance builds strength, grace, and flexibility through the beauty of flight!
Classes are open level, utilizing complex layers of vocabulary to challenge intermediate and advanced aerialists and dancers while offering easy building blocks for beginners stretching their wings. Most students will begin work on Silk Cloud Swing, which is similar to a double-point silk hammock, enabling twists, swings, rolls, flips, and cocoons with equal ease.
Students will also work on Silks and either Lyra or Triangle, building knowledge of Aerial Dance like a language – through physical immersion. Sequences are constructed like sentences, with emphasis on smooth transition and creative stylization, comfortable connection and aesthetic intention.
CLOUD SWING is perhaps the most versatile and pleasurable of all circus apparatus. Seanna Sharpe specializes in both Rope and Silk Cloud Swing, integrating doubles and triples work into her choreography on various cloud configurations. “The cloud moves with you,” she says of her sweetheart, a rope named Frederick. “It’s the ease of motion that allows you dance and flight – in one long, deep, heartfelt breath.”
SILKS have gained popularity since Cirque du Soleil, going on to become perhaps the most common Nouveau Cirque Apparatus. Building layer upon layer of muscle, mechanics, and grace, Sharpe’s silk classes offer the beginner basics to build upon and the experienced artist a refined vocabulary of sequences and choreography, helping dancers and performers develop their style.
LYRA / TRIANGLE Welded from steel, the Lyra is a single-point metal hoop with strap and the triangle a metal three-bar suspended from single or triple point. Private instruction & Aerial Dance available on one – please specify interest in e-mail to thecircustentialist@gmail.com.
AERIAL DANCE emphasizes the creativity inherent in flight, helping dancers, artists, and performers find their flow as aerialists. Exercises will include moving meditations, partner work, brainstorming & choreography, and performance craft.
SEANNA SHARPE has been teaching Aerial Dance for 7 years, and has worked with a diverse palette of bodies and places. Her open-level classes smoothly integrate students of various levels, who work together through her blend of dance, yoga, and aerial acrobatics in a creative Nouveau Cirque Fusion Immersion.
HOOP DANCE AND FIRE WITH KAYTIBUNNY ROBERTS
KaytiBunny Sample YouTube Video
KaytiBunny is a one-of-a-kind character – an engaging hoopdancer, a dynamic teacher of the fire and circus arts, and most of all a driven entrepreneur in the fitness and performance world. Touring the US and the world, KaytiBunny is opening the world of fire and circus arts to people all over the globe. She strives to empower people of all ages to engage their bodies in a fun and effective workout using creativity. With her powerhouse personality and optimistic, positive approach to teaching, she is dedicated to transforming lives and making a positive difference in each individual’s mind, body and soul. In order to impact others on such a great level, KaytiBunny’s life is dedicated to modeling how a strong, creative individual can be happy and healthy in their 1) career 2) diet and nutrition 3) relationships 4) spirituality and 5) fitness and exercise…. all through creative exercise! KaytiBunny turns a belief into a passion, through her motivating classes, mesmerizing performances, and custom BunnyHoops, that passion holds the key to improving so many others’ lives! KaytiBunny specializes in multiple Hula Hoop, but combines poi, staff, fire fans, fire eating and breathing, bellydance, burlesque and various forms of movement (hiphop, ballet, middle eastern, tai chi, free form, cheerleading, etc) to create a unique form of dynamic dance that only this bubbly Bunny can do.
KaytiBunny is currently training to receive her certificate as a Health and Wellness Counselor at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, encouraging the integration of creative forms of fitness with a well-rounded, healthy and happy lifestyle. She is also obtaining her Primary Group Exercise Certification from the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America and teaches group classes in NYC that fill up in advance every week. With the uplifting energy of hooping class and her positive approach to teaching, the majority of her students are repeats and her classes have been praised in such places as Time Out New York, NY Post and The New York Times, as well as countless webisodes, local TV stations and newspapers. KaytiBunny has also appeared on ‘America’s Got Talent’ Season 5 and made it through several rounds, each time showing off the unique ability to do three different circus acts, simultaneously, while all on fire.
KaytiBunny is now touring the US and Costa Rica, teaching and performing Fire and Circus Arts for beginners and more advanced alike. You can follow The Bunny’s journey at www.BunnyHoops.com and see when she will be coming to your town!
PRICE INFORMATION
Retreat is Jan 15-22 (Saturday to Saturday):
$995 for multiple occupancy (shared rooms)
+13% Costa Rica Tax. (We pay the tax for you if you pay all $995 in advance via PayPal)
50% deposit required in advance to hold your space
Tags: aerial silk, Anamaya, circus retreat, cloud swing, costa rica, fire dancing, fire dancing retreat, lyra, spanish web, tissue, yoga retreat
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Anamaya Silk Dance Retreat, with yoga and pilates.
Come to paradise to play, relax, connect with nature and get in shape with aerial dancer, pilates and yoga instructor Ana Prada.
Get introduced to aerial dance or improve your technique, using yoga and pilates to prepare your body and fly!
The workshop will take place in the most beautiful setting: Anamaya Body Mind and Spirit Resort, located in Montezuma, Costa Rica.
This will be an active retreat in a relaxed, friendly environment focusing on discovering the silk, being in the air, and playing while getting a workout. You will leave inspired and energized!
Aerial silk is a beautiful dance and circus art that’s part trapeze, part dance, and part yoga. Requiring strength, balance, and fearlessness, the dancer climbs up and down a long piece of silk that’s hung from the ceiling, and uses this fabric in a variety of ways to create poses, spins, and various tricks of grace and strength.
Ana’s program uses yoga and pilates as a warmup and cool-down, with a focus on aerial silk skills for the bulk of the class.
The class is open to all levels: beginners, intermediates, and advanced. With time and practice, almost anyone can learn the basics, but beginners will get more out of the class if they have some yoga experience, rock climbing, or other skills/experience that develops hand strength and flexibility.
The workshop will have two parts, the morning session we will warming up the body(yoga warm up) and getting conditioned (with
pilates exercises ) follower by a technique class where we will learn how to climb and to do different figures. The afternoon class will be focus on using the fabric as a swing (Known as Aerial Yoga or Antigravity Yoga). Hanging in different yoga asanas, letting the gravity and support from the fabric release compression, opening joints and working flexibility in a not forceful way, allowing the body to connect and open.
For this workshop you will have a minimum level of fitness, a physical practice, ex: yoga, rock climbing, budokon, pilates will be helpful.
To get ready : upper -body strength exercises will be great,
Examples:
-chin up bar, hanging for series of 5 seconds, starting with series of 3
-abs while hanging(leg lifts) , obliques leg lifts.
-stability ball exercises that will work deep abdominal muscles.
Ana’s Bio
Ana has worked with companies like Cirque du Soleil, in Spain, the show ‘Ulalena (Maui, Hawaii) as an acrobat, dancer, and aerial coach, and she has also worked with groups such as Antigravity, Caravan Stage Barge, and the duo project Madame Molotov with Edith Sauvé.
She has also done numerous special events for Cirque Eloize, Cirque Fantastic, and Samadhi Aerials in places like Thailand, Switzerland, Canada, and the USA.
As a yoga and Pilates certified instructor, she travels and teaches far and wide, combining her seasoned experience as a yoga and Pilates instructor with all her wonderful tools including aerial work, conditioning skills, and injury prevention. She has shared her talents at many different studios in Montreal and Bogota and also at several international workshops and festivals in places such as Hawaii, Miami, Costa Rica and Colombia.
Dates: Nov 27 through Dec 4, 2010 (Saturday to Saturday)
Price: $1195
Includes: Accommodation at Anamaya, in Montezuma, Costa Rica.
Food (3 meals per day, gourmet organic health food. Vegetarian, Vegan, or Gluten-Free is available.)
All Yoga and Aerial Silk classes taught by Ana Prada.
Friday night party and show.
This will be Ana’s third aerial dance program at Anamaya.
Videos of Ana Prada at Anamaya:
Ana Prada at Anamaya – Practice
Video from Ana’s last retreat, including a show with her students
Photo Gallery from the last retreat:
Tags: aerial dance retreat, aerial silk, aerial yoga, antigravity yoga, circus, circus retreat, costa rica, trapeze retreat, Yoga, yoga retreat
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Ana Prada came to Anamaya for a second time, this time to do a small retreat and series of classes teaching aerial silk acrobatics, also known simply as “tela” in Spanish, which simply means “fabric”.
Ana is Colombian, but lives in Montreal, Canada, and has strong ties to Costa Rica because she has family here. One of her friends works as Cafe Organico in Montezuma, which is how she found out about Anamaya. Once she saw our place, she was very excited to have some classes and events here, so after a day class last February, in which many of the owners and staff of Anamaya participated, she decided to hold a full retreat.
She had one or two classes per day, with a variety of student skill levels. Some were total beginners, and others, such as Francesca who lives in Malpais, are teachers of silk acrobatics themselves. Everyone had lots to learn from Ana.
Her classes started out with stretching and yoga, and included some pilates exercises to warm up the shoulders. Utilizing stretchy, rubbery fabric strips that Ana brought with her, we did repetitive small rotations and flexes, which at first seemed ridiculously easy, but after doing twenty of them in multiple directions, were very effective at warming up the insides of the joints, tendons, and ligaments. Of course this was to help prevent should injuries when practicing various moves and tricks on the silk.
In addition to the silk that we have hanging in the main hall at all times at Anamaya, we set up two others on the view/yoga deck and one by the pool, so we had plenty of silk for the students, who took turns and rested between sessions.
On Friday night, we had a big party and invited the community. Local Italian DJ, Ferdinando “Mr Black” set up on the balcony overlooking the main hall, since that night the master suite was unoccupied. We had Anamaya’s usual spectacular dinner, where we set a new record by serving 26 people at once. After that, the students each performed, with Ana performing last. That was followed immediately by the fire dancing. I started with fire eating in the main hall, and led the audience outside to where we had the show in the grass. Ileana was the only one who performed in both shows. The party went until 1:30am, and we were lucky because all the guests at Anamaya were in a festive mind-set and didn’t mind.
Overall, the retreat and silk classes went very well and everyone had a great time. Ana is already planning her next retreat, and has even greater interest after people saw the photos and aerial silk retreat video from this one.
Tags: aerial silk, circus, circus retreat, costa rica, hotels, tissue, tourism, travel
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