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welcome

Welcome to our new Moving Breath website. Many wonderful new and unexpected projects are cooking and we will keep you updated as they " actualize". We welcome your feedback and comments in our guestbook, and hope to see you soon in one of our gatherings. Till then, enjoy clicking and scrolling and "tarry a while" when the spirit moves you.

A bientôt, (it's just around the corner)!

You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.IV.4.5.

upcoming workshop

2010

MOVING BREATH PRANA DHARANA SADHANA SHIVIR
with SHEELA RAJ
from 15-18 July in Italy

Let there be Light
Much light
Let there be Love
in abunDance
let there be laughter
till our ribs cry Merci
and let there be birdsong
for when birds sing
nature is happy and
hue-manes
Wiser
let there be Light and Love and Laughter and
Birdsong

She – la
1° Settembre 2003
In Ulm

News-Update

2008-04

April 6th 2008 - New Moon and spring in the air... - 5.30 a.m. birdsong -
for reasons beyond our control, the news feed came to a grinding halt in October...
sincere apologies to our friends worldwide who have logged on hoping to follow us on our journeys... here is an update...

Twyla Tharp's Torelli & the Dance Center Chicago

2008-03

Winter days were pulling into the core and preparation for a special project at the Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago , where Bonnie Brooks invited Sheela to re-stage and coach an old Twyla Tharp piece from 1971, Torelli with the dancers of the RPW (repertory performance workshop). This was a "blast from the past" for Sheela, who had left the Company and NYC in the early 70's.

watch video here

Accademia Nico Pepe

2007-12

the next stop was Udine where Sheela and Friedrich Glorian had their annual date with the diploma students of the Accademia Nico Pepe, directed by Claudio de Maglio. Claudio feels that this workshop creates a deep bond between the students and challenges them to communicate on a plane beyond words and intellectual concepts: to take responsibility for each other's well being and to dissolve the barriers of competition leading them to an awareness of emulation instead.
Our workshop ended with a master class in the 5 Elements, Earth, Water, Fire, Air and their application in the Moving Breathing Acting body/mind/soul.

Mayim Mayim

2007-11 Early Nov. Nadesh joined Sheela to prepare her 3 min solo for the Mayim project. Sheela was unfortunately not able to create a new choreography due to lack of time, so she chose to use elements of the Indian dance forms Nadesh already knew and weave them into a coherent fabric that could mesh with the "Folklore" section that opened the 2nd half of this 3 hour program.
Read more...

Totentanz

2007-11

Some days later, Pauline returned to Ulm for the Totentanz project with Sheela as artistic director and choreographic guide to the improvisational material/spacing/dynamics etc...
More under www.2av.de/totentanz

India & HH The Dalai Lama

2007-10-03

Soon after her return to Europe, Sheela left for India, where she had the enormous privilege of personally meeting HH. the Dalai Lama at his Dharamshala home. With blessings galore from HH for the project Mayim Mayim and the 33 young dancers who were due to participate , and for the extended Moving Breath family, she returned to Germany mid Oct.

While in Delhi, Sonali Mathur Prasad organized a mini workshop where Sheela shared the Moving Breath techniques with a young dance collective Gati.
More under video Gati (coming soon...)

Post Dakini's Vision in Israel

2007-09-08 The L.A.Y gathering featuring "Dakini's Vision" in Israel in Sept. 2007 was a deeply empowering moment for the 55 women who gathered under the protective branches of the 400 year old Alon (indigenous Oak) tree in Kerem Maharal to share magical moments in space time.
Read more...

Lunar Artz Yoga in Israel 7-9 September

2007-09

L.A.Y. (Lunar Artz Yoga) gathering will take place in Israel in an eco-friendly retreat center in the Mount Carmel nature reserve, on the week-end of 7-8-9 Sept. We will focus on practicing "Dakini's Vision," the moving yoga sequence I choreographed, and dedicate to the nurturing and healing power of the feminine spirit. Sheela will be assisted by Pauline Reibell for this gathering.
contact Irgun Morei Yoga Teachers Association