More about ........SACRED CIRCLES
DRUM AND DANCE
With Dr Elizabeth Torres
TAO CENTRE
April, Sunday the 7th 10.00 AM TO 5. PM
A Unique experience in Aztec Dance culture. During this weekend Dr Torres will share with us her extraordinary knowledge gathered from her lifes work in studying the dance and medicine cultures of the indigenous communities of Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Chile.
Her immense experience gives us the opportunity to dance in the footsteps of our ancestors and the rhythms of the Universal beat, which is at the core of our being.
This dance workshop gives us a chance to re learn the art of giving to and communication with the Earth, not with our intellect but with the incredible energy temples gifted to us by nature (our bodies). Through the unity that is the dance circled we can re synchronise with the pulse of creation and re connect with the natural rhythms of nature.
These Deeply empowering and transforming circle dances were the shamans medicine.
Dr Torres will guide us through each dance spiral and explain how the ancients used this medicine for protection and for physical, Emotional and spiritual well being.
In the Sacred circle we can collectively root and connect to the greater natural reality healing the Earth in the universal language of movement. When dancing the circle we celebrate the spirit of community re create the healing power of humility and re merge into oneness.
Dr. Patricia Elizabeth Torres Specialised in symbolic psychology and estrogenic exercise Field work in Zen Monasteries in Japan, China, Tibet Ashrams in India, Ritual dance in Thailand, Indonesia, Hawaii.
Dance and Medicine indigenous communities in Mexico, Peru, Brazil Chile, Africa.
Details and Registration: Kindly confirm your interest and participation by telephone 24 652968 or email. Return your details to Marina Demetriou The Living Tao Centre 2 Dimonicou Street 6016 Larnaca or mail to livintao@logosnet.cy.net
This workshop has been created for those with a special interest in dance culture. Advise wear comfortable loose clothes. Bring a bottle of mineral water, Packed lunch, a towel.
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I wish to attend the seminar/workshop on Aztec dance and culture with Dr Torres On:
Sunday the 7th of April. To secure my place (Please circle) I enclose a deposit of £15,
I will settle the amount of £25 at start of the workshop.
Patricia Elizabeth Torres Villanueva, Mexican nationality,
studied psychology, sociology, philosophy at the UNAM, Mexican National
Autonomous University Linguistics at El Colegio de Mexico.
She speaks Chinese, English,
French, German, Italian, Russian, Swedish and Spanish. She started her
research career as a post doctoral MRC Research Fellow at the
Interdisciplinary Anthropological Research Institute in 1976, and has
been primarily concerned on experimental investigation of intergroup
relations, working collaboratively with people in their community
contexts to focus psychological aspects of dance and rituals as a form
of therapy and life enhancement in contemporary society. She has been
active in presenting her research at professional meetings worldwide.
She teaches undergraduate and doctoral courses. Her vision for the
future includes an aspiration that her international students at large
have a clear understanding of psychology both as an academic research
discipline and as an applied practice which has influence on public
policy in> > matters relating to education, health, the individual, the
family and the community. Her research areas include neuropsychological
approaches to cognition, the interplay of feeling and thinking, the role
of reasoning and the communicative underpinnings of self-reports of
attitudes and behaviours. Brain enhancement thru neuronal stimulation of
both hemispheres, estrogenic exercise, gerontology and stress
management.
Interest of cross cultural psychology she learned ritual and healing
dances from communities in New Zealand, Africa, Australia, Fiji,
Rarotonga, Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil, Peru, Chile and Colombia.
Visited ashrams in India and Nepal, Zen
and Tibetan Monasteries in Bhutan, Tibet, China and Japan, She began a
longstanding interest in neuropsychological effects on neurotransmitters
and their chemical reaction to specific rhythmical dances applied to
reduce stress, depression, insomnia, migraine, anxiety and remarkable
improvement of bone density as well as better performance of activities
in the brain. She is invited by Museums to lecture on the interpretation
of symbols in the ancient pictographic codexs concerning pre-Columbian
philosophy. Has received grants and awards from Karl Ruprecht
Universities in Heidelberg, Germany Doctoral research on Goethe
Schiller, Lessing. University de Paris, la Sorbonne, France Culture and
French Civilisation Societal Dante Alighieri, Roma, Italy History of
Art Schumacher College, Devon, England Ecology and Psychology Findhorn
Foundation, Scotland Healing thru Art University of Dornach,
Switzerland Eurythmia She is the President of Huei Tlahtolli
Interdisciplinary Anthropological Research Institute in Guadalajara,
Jalisco Mexico.
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Dance of The Aztec Culture
Presentation American Academy
April, Friday the 5th
3.30 to 5.30
The Four Stages in the life of women
Myths and realities of
menopause
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April, Friday the 5th 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm
Women of the 21st Century
Women of Wisdom Women of Power
Sun Hall Hotel
April, Saturday the 5th 5 pm to 9.00 pm
The Sacred Circle
DRUM AND DANCE ONE DAY WORKSHOP
The Living Tao Centre
April, Sunday the 7th 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
