This video is a dance in honor to my new home, the San Francisco Bay Area. It was filmed in Treasure Island, a little island in front of San Francisco.
Music: “Unconditional” by Christen Lien. itsnotaviolin.com
Camera: Manuel Maqueda.
Alchemy Spinning in Treasure Island. from Raquel Boluda on Vimeo.
Join us in a consciousness-expanding, somatic workshop using breath work, dance, movement, yoga and chakra meditation, and building up to the unforgettable experience of Sufi-inspired Alchemy Spinning™.
Alchemy Spinning™ was created by dancer/healer Raquel Boluda, who found inspiration in the movements of energy around the chakras, the spinning of planets and the cosmos, and the hypnotic whirling of Sufi dervishes.
This introductory Alchemy Spinning™ workshop is geared towards connecting with basic human goodness through our fully embodied presence and dancing to transform and expand consciousness. Open to any person of any age and fitness level. No previous dance experience is necessary.
Date: Saturday June 28 , 2014
Time:1:00 pm-7:00pm
Venue: Destiny Arts Center, 970 Grace Avenue,Oakland, CA 94608
Price: $100 full rate. $85 early bird if you registered before June 18. Space limited.
Bio
Raquel Boluda
Founder of Alchemy Spinning
Raquel is an international dancer, dance activist, yogi, and transpersonal somatic therapist, originally from Barcelona, Spain, She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She is trained in contemporary dance, butoh, Middle Eastern, African, yoga and meditation. In addition to Alchemy Spinning™, she founded Crisalis™, a somatic therapy to treat eating disorders, sexual abuse, and trauma. Dubbed “the new Isadora Duncan of the Environment,” Raquel has danced for UNESCO, Shambhala, TEDx, and other venues and organizations.
More information at raquelboluda.com
On March 26 2014 the digital magazine Examiner.com published an article about Alchemy Spinning™ entitled “Cracking the Code of Healing Dance”. In this article, journalist Cintia Cavalcante describes her experience attending an AlchemySpinning™ workshop. The article says:
The body movement through dance has fascinated me from a young age and I have attended various modalities of this fascinating art all my life. One in particular caught my attention years ago. The transcendental Sufi dance. I have recently found in the Bay Area a phenomenal Spanish Sufi dance instructor, Raquel Boluda Santiago, and I attended one of her workshops. A true journey disguised as workshop. In Raquel’s words ” “My creative process relies on a deep listening of the body in a state of complete presence in the here and now, which allows for the emergence of an expanded consciousness, and of a channeling of creativity and healing.”
As an experienced dancer I deeply admire Raquel’s teaching style and content. Her techniques beautifully blend both raw and refined aspects of human existence. With great balance and sensitivity Raquel can “heal individual and/ or collective traumas. Releasing stress, fear and anxiety. Self knowledge, insights, unlocking of emotions and memories. Heightened state of consciousness, presence, sensorial awareness, joy, compassion towards self and others and inner peace.”
I cannot recommend this workshop and classes highly enough. Go as frequently as possible. Make it as a gift to yourself.
Click here to watch the article in Examiner.com.
Join us for an Alchemy Spinning workshop, deep into the heart of the foundational values that inspired Kumu.
Our world is full of compassionate people doing “good work,” and yet the destructive complexity of our society continues to spiral.
For compassionate action to be transformative it needs to be wise and free from any obfuscations of culture, mind, or ego.
This somatic workshop, led by Kumu Innovator Raquel Boluda, will take us on a journey from not-knowing, all the way to transformative action, as we discover our ability to tap directly into basic human goodness through our fully embodied presence.
This consciousness-expanding, somatic workshop uses breathwork, dance, movement, yoga and chakra meditation, building up to the unforgettable experience of Sufi-inspired Alchemy Spinning.
Date: February 16, 2014 9am – 1:30 pm
Venue: InterPlay, 22273 Telegraph Ave Oakland, CA 94612
Cost: Gift Economy. Kumu follows the Gift Economy principles and we are pleased to offer this workshop as a gift. Gifts back are accepted but not required.
Please RSVP -and honor your RSVP. Space is limited. RSVP as soon as possible. Do not forward. Per invitation only.
Bio
Raquel Boluda
Founder of Alchemy Spinning
Raquel is an international dancer, dance activist, yogi, and transpersonal somatic therapist, originally from Barcelona, Spain, She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She is trained in contemporary dance, butoh, Middle Eastern, African, yoga and meditation. In addition to Alchemy Spinning™, she founded Crisalis™, a somatic therapy to treat eating disorders, sexual abuse, and trauma. Dubbed “the new Isadora Duncan of the Environment,” Raquel has danced for UNESCO, Shambhala, TEDx, and other venues and organizations.
More information at raquelboluda.com