Tribal Bellydance Workshops with Paulette Rees-Denis and Gypsy Caravan
Dance Coaching and Workshops
with Paulette and the Gypsy Caravan Dance Company, Int.
Paulette has an always evolving fantastic series of very fun and groovin' workshops, master classes, and private classes available...plus a regular series of traditional 'old school' tribal workshops, important for every tribal bellydancer. Whether you are a beginning tribal dancer or a serious performer, there is something available for you!
And now, she is thrilled to be able to present several online options for classes...this modern technology is amazing, and you can have her right in your studio or dance space to workout with any day...go to this link to get hooked up!
http://paulettereesdenis.com/items.php?CID=11
Plus the Gypsy Caravan Tribal Bellydance Intensive Certification programs-Collective Soul and Teacher Training—are becoming more and more in demand.
Read more about theses intensives at http://paulettereesdenis.com/events.php?cid=2
NEW DATES
Join Paulette and Amanda Richardson for the outstanding Gypsy Caravan Tribal Intensives:
Collective Soul and Teacher Training Level One in Portland...
this Fall will be October 4th- 8th, 2013(click to tweet!)
More info coming at you soon about registration…
In the meantime you can read more about these courses and what they will do for you, on this site, here…
http://www.paulettereesdenis.com/soul.php
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Dance Coaching
Paulette is very excited about her newest coaching sessions—utilizing dance, writing, and business dreams! Discover what makes you want to dance and keeps you inspired. Write your dance dreams. Are you wanting to learn what to do next with your dance, your life, your work, your passion? Have an idea and needs some feedback or direction? Need some positive critique on your technique, your style, your troupe?
These sessions with Paulette are done over Skype, but we can utilize video also, and in person is possible!
Private classes and troupe specialty classes are a favorite...email Paulette to schedule time for help with your dance dreams... dance@gypsycaravan.us
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N.M. says about the coaching sessions:
Paulette and I are skypying every month….its a general discussion with its focus on my development as a workshop facilitator. Paulette has such a wealth of experience and knowledge inspiring my thoughts and writing like a brightly coloured flowering vine trailing ever higher. I always feel so positive and full of energy after our talks, this energy is slightly viral as it whirls all around me, bouncing off and being absorbed into the greater world.
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Lisa Viotti writes:
"Paulette brings years of experience, fortitude and grace to the table, watching her you will be enchanted by her dance and the mastering of every move with purpose and finesse. To her students she teaches an invigorating and transcendental experience know as Collective Soul, a course that reaches outside the box of teaching and taking you on journey of deep understanding and gratitude. Experiencing this unique teacher is must if you want to understand what dance means not only as a community of women, but as a dancer for yourself. You will discover why you dance and the special meaning it has for you.
Learning from Paulette allows you clarity in a safe setting to explore your strengths and weaknesses as you discover this dance.
From new dancers to the highly seasoned professional dancer will be challenged, uplifted, humbled, honored. You may laugh, cry, but you will come away from your experience forever changed.
Paulette is a vivacious force of nature, a truly wonderful lady and a phenomenal teacher. She cares about each of her students and will nurture you in your own path of learning. If you have the chance to study with Paulette I highly recommend it."
Jayne writes:
"Paulette, You have been an inspiration for me for many years!
I sold your instructional DVDs and GC CDs for several years when I had my studio in Nor Cal. I found your instruction to be one of the easiest to follow, and I have used your music in my classroom and for performances for many years as well."
Would you love to be a sponsor and bring Paulette and the Gypsy Caravan Dance Company to you?
Please email with questions, ideas and desires! Let us put together a successful, fun, and fabulous weekend or week of dance for you. We can send you a listing of workshop ideas plus the sponsorship information and pricing.
dance@gypsycaravan.us
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Upcoming Workshops and Certification Intensives with Paulette in 2013!
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The next session of this online E-Course, starting Sunday, June 16th
Tribal Bliss -- Dance and Vision
… a movement journey
What people are saying:
"This course is wild and amazing!! Everyone who is thinking about signing up...go do it!
Even as a very tentative dancer, it got me up moving. Plus, the meditations and music rock." S.B. (more comments below!)
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A four week e-course, With Paulette Rees-Denis and Lynea Gillen…
New session starts Sunday, June 16th, Registration will open Sunday June 2nd!
Register here: http://paulettereesdenis.com/item_description.php?IID=158
Lynea and I are so excited to share this, finally able to take it out of our dance studio and pass it on through the internet to you.
This is a course for you if you want to sparkle, move, dance, stretch, shake, write, shine, dig in, breathe, create, and move some more…
We want you to feel delicious in your body, to be vibrant and healthy and full of vitality. To have some time for yourself, to lavish yourself with empowerment, to experiment with your dance, to feel blissful in your body and to release your mind, soul, and body! By combining our backgrounds of Tribal Bellydance, African Dance, writing, yoga, healing, therapy, trance and meditation, we bring you this new course, first time online, to play with and enjoy over the next four weeks, and to continue on your journey, wherever that leads you. We have taught these ideas separately and together over the past 25 years, and we both just love teaching together. We have seen the need for this type of combined movement and writing classes as we have ventured on the path, the desire to get out of our head and into our bodies more, to write and move and enjoy and release—tension, aches, thoughts, emotions, whatever you need to let go of- then invite in desires and dreams, and to purely enjoy your body and the way you feel like moving.
What you get with this course is a downloadable set of worksheets in PDF formats, weekly writing exercises and body prompts, some short video clips of dance and yoga warmups, podcasts of meditations and visualizations, and direction from both of us on the theme of the week. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?
Just some of the comments from the dancers who are taking Tribal Bliss this first go round:
"I've just done my first walking meditation, went in to it with lots of the weeks 'junk' following me as I tried to empty. My warm bubble growing in size, more and more powerful as it grew, with a warm smile which blew that last vision away, then awareness of the music and as it drew to the end a large smile and breath ... junk gone... back to where it belongs ! So freeing..."
" revisited the walkingmeditation. Lights dimmed, no one else at home. The pattern of backward and forward movement became the ebb and flow of ocean waves. Surging, surrendering. Lovely."
"Finished the session last evening. It was wonderful. I'll be revisiting as much as possible during the week. After working through the walking meditation and the movement exploration (so satisfying!), Linnea's guided mediation became so vivid for me! I've not had a lot of success with that kind of thing previously. I guess I wasn't properly prepped. Watching my sacred space created itself for me was such a joy!"
"For many reasons, beyond the classes that I teach, I have not danced for myself in almost 4 months. The section with Paulette leading us in moving our bodies actually had me in tears; I was so grateful to be moving again. I am very much looking forward to next week and continuing this journey."
In the meantime you can watch 2 of my Talking Tribal vlogs with Lynea, so go to Vimeo to watch some of Paulette and Gypsy Caravan’s Talking Tribal Vlogs with Paulette and Lynea:
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*Registration ENDS March 24th Don't wait!*
Join us for our 20th Annual Breitenbush Tribal Bellydance Retreat! April 26-28, 2013
Tribal Vision, a weekend of Tribal Bellydance, Flamenco Fusion, African Dance, Yoga, Meditation, writing, hot tubs, saunas, delicious vegetarian food, an amazing circle of women, more dancing, and more....Detroit Oregon, (2 1/2 hours south of Portland in the mountains!)
Are you ready?
Paulette teaches Tribal Grooves, Moves, and Trancey Bits, with some fabulous Writing for Dancers
Zizi Zabaneh from Florida -- Flamenco Fusion and more
Lynea Gillen from Oregon-- African Fusion and Yoga
Carol Vance from Oregon-- Tribal Technique
register right here...
http://paulettereesdenis.com/items.php?CID=11
Kate says about Breitenbush Retreat 2012:
One of the most beautiful experiences I have had to date!
Don't wait...
**Come for Breitenbush and stay for Collective Soul and Teacher Training in Portland! a whole week of Gypsy Caravan and friends~
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Gypsy Caravan Tribal Intensives May 2013 in Portland, OR!
Spend 3 intensive days dancing, talking, laughing, sweating, maybe even crying (tears of joy!), dancing, writing, and getting your tribal dance groove going!
Collective Soul and Teacher Training in Portland, OR
CS Level One, May 1, 2, 3 (Wednesday-Friday)
Teacher Training Level One May 4, 5, 6 (Saturday- Monday)
CS Level Two May 7, 8, 9 (Tuesday- Thursday)
email dance@gypsycaravan.us for applications...let me know ASAP what you are interested in attending as these are small and intimate classes!
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May 14-19, 2013, Paulette and GCDC, Int, at Tribal Fest in Sepastopol, CA,
teaching and performing
Tribal Fest 13: “Halfway to Halloween!
Registration now open!
Thursday, 12:15-2:15--Tribal Closeness--yummy, slow, gorgeous ...
Saturday, 2:30-4:30--Tribal Orbits--around and around we go, orbits make the world go round!
http://www.blacksheepbellydance.com/tf13/indexTF13new.html
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The Tribal Bliss Gatherings!
A Movement Salon for Women
To dance, workout, heal, release, and celebrate our creating, loving bodies and souls.
Join Lynea Gillen and Paulette Rees-Denis
for their summer series!
Let your body and spirit move with in depth dance release, writing, meditations, and discussions...
inlcuding Deep Yoga, Tribal Bellydance Grooves, and more...this is the place for you to find pleasure and peace and enjoyment within ourselves and our small intimate circle of fabulous dancing women.
Four Monday nights throughout the summer...6:00-7:30 pm
June 3-- Deep Yoga, dance and meditation, journaling and more...
July 8--Tribal Grooves--work it out gals! with journaling and more
August 12--Drumming and Toning, with dance, journaling and more!
September 9- Celebration-oh yea, the global US!
at Still Moving Yoga in SE Portland...
Pre-Sign ups requested as class size is limited. $20.00 each night, or all four prepaid for $72.00.
Please contact Lynea at lynea@yogacalm.org or Paulette at
dance@gypsycaravan.us
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Paulette, Carol, and Amanda from the Gypsy Caravan at the Las Vegas Bellydance Intensive!
September 6, 7, 8, 2013!
the Wrokshop: Tribal Shawls on Sunday, 1:30-3:00! hope to see you there...
the 2013 Las Vegas Bellydance Intensive™ & Festival, taking place at the Flamingo Hotel & Casino, http://www.tinyurl.com/2013GrandSchedule
https://www.bellydanceintensive.com
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September 21 and Sunday, the 22nd, 2013. in Toronto , Canada...
Traditional Gypsy Caravan Tribal Technique for Beginning to intermediate Tribal dancers, and Tribal Grooves-Funky Bits
http://www.serpentinatribal.com/events.html
Laura at morbidoutlook@hotmail.com
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NEW DATES
Collective Soul and Teacher Training Level One in Portland
this Fall will be October 4th- 8th, 2013
More info coming at you soon about registration…
In the meantime you can read more about these courses and what they will do for you, on this site, here…
http://www.paulettereesdenis.com/soul.php
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2014, yes, 2014!
Paulette and Jeff at Tribal Con, February 21-23, 2014, in Georgia!
and we are soooo excited to be there teaching and performing together for you!
Registration NOW OPEN! http://www.tribalcon.com/registration-2014
http://www.tribalcon.com/
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Paulette at the Majma Festival!
March 7-9, 2014, Glastonbury England, more TBA!
AND
Cues and Tattoos Festival in Seattle, WA!
March 28-30, 2014
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The 21st year... something a little different...Tribal Bliss at Breitenbush Hot Srpings
Just wait.......
Apr 25-27, 2014.
TBA!!!!!
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Visiting Portland and want to take a class?
Carol and her crew teach weekly Tribal classes based on the Gypsy Caravan format, in Portland on Tuesdays and Wednesdays...
contact dance@gypsycaravan.us for info
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Testimonials
Deirdre M (Scotland) writes:
Tribal bellydance feeds my energy and is my connection between my body and soul, my yin and yang. It allows me to move, to challenge myself, my muscle memory, to be the best I can be. It's a channel for my creativity, my ups, my downs, my creativity and fitness. An on-going journey of self-discovery and life-long learning.
It means fun, making new friends, joining and creating communities.
It is who I am.
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Richelle Spencer wrote after our full on weekend of my dance workshops:
A weekend with Paulette!
Even in the searing tropical heat of summer, the magic of dancing with Paulette and our tribal sisters in our tribal dance circle couldn't be dampened.
We had four fantastic workshops delving deeper into the wonderful, delicious world of Gypsy Caravan format.
Paulette has this innate sense of teaching this inspiring, innovative dance: that you just "get it".
Her creative juices were flowing, the sweat was pouring off us as we all became physically immersed in some exciting combos and wild formations that she just kept throwing at us.
Inspiring us, celebrating the pure feminine quality, the enticing array of combos, moves and juicy steps of this beautiful improvised dance form.
The bringing together of many dancers, a caring and harmonious community of women connecting with each other through this beautiful dance, speaking the same language without any words.
The clarification of so many of the moves, resulting in those wonderful "ah ha" moments, and then the realization that I still have a long way to go on this amazing dance journey.
With muscles stretched, spirits nourished and bursting full of inspiration, I can’t wait to join my tribal sisters in our sacred dance circle.
Thank you, Paulette, for sharing your blessed gifts of teaching, dancing, and friendship.
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Bring Paulette and the Gypsy Caravan to you!
Would you love to be a sponsor and bring Paulette and the Gypsy Caravan Dance Company to you? Please email with questions, ideas and desires! Let us put together a successful, fun, and fabulous weekend or week of dance for you. We can send you a listing of workshop ideas plus the sponsorship information and pricing.
dance@gypsycaravan.us
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Just a few of Paulette's Past Workshops
Workshops around the globe: Taking Tribal Glboal!
Festivals:
JamBallah, Portland, OR 2012
World of Orient, Germany 2012
Cues and Tattoos, Seattle, WA--2009, 2011, 2014
TribOriginal-N.C. 2010
Majma— Glastonbury, England, 2009 and 2014
WOMAD—Seattle, WA 2002
Vibe Tribe—England and Scotland, 2007, 2009
Tribal Quest NorthWest—Portland, OR 2001-2007
Tribal Fest—CA, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
Rakassah—CA, 1999, 2000, 2001
Spirit of the Tribes—FL, 1999, 2000
Spain, UK, Germany, Canada, Austria, Taiwan, around the United States!
MORE PAST WORKSHOPS
Linz, Austria, April 2013
Milan, Itlay, April 2013
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