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Dear Dancers, Drummers,
please join me in this transformational event:

EARTH PRAYERS ECSTATIC DANCE JOURNEY
Dance facilitation with Navaro
Power of live music rising from the moment:
Rhythms & Melodies with Robin Layne of Jarimba
Sat Nov 22, 230-530 pm

At the spacious and beautiful Yoga Studio at 1461 Venables near Clark

$23 Pre - registered and paid in advance, (contact me by email for how to make an easy & secure payment online to me)
$33 at the door (amazing deal for a 3 hour workshop with live music!)
PLEASE PRE-REGISTER! -don't leave it till last minute, as space is limited

EARTH PRAYERS invites you to dance your bliss in community, in a flowing journey of movement and living music:

~Dance to live rhythms to anchor and align body, mind, and spirit with oneself and with the Whole.
~Jump into the Ocean of the healing power of dancing ecstatically in 'tribe'
~Experience the healing power of sweat to cleanse and clarify the body's energy matrix
~Raise your energy, aim your intent, and dance to connect with Earth and Cosmos
~Feel the freedom of dancing from within in a safe and supportive, ecstatic, Deep Rhythm environment!
~Open your body to channel the Universal Life Force Energy that enlivens us and manifests our dreams, inspirations, and visions.

Pre-register and receive 30% off the at-the-door price.
Registration info above.

Register with Navaro
navaro@tribal-bliss.com
(778) 239-8444

RIVERS OF RHYTHM DRUM CLASSES with Navaro Franco
When: Tuesdays, 7-9pm Nov 4 - Dec 16
Where: 1461 Venables St, Vancouver BC (East of Clark Dr)

ENERGIZING, HEALING & UPLIFTING DRUM RHYTHMS! With a 27 year background in performing & teaching Traditional African Music & Community Music, Navaro's drum classes leave us feeling Connected and Whole. Technical instruction & traditional & original music learning in a safe & supportive community setting. Learn to play the drum, or hone your present skills, with technique & new rhythms. Increase & deepen your drumming experience. Material is drawn from Navaro's eclectic experience in West African, Afro-Latin, Japanese Taiko, & Zimbabwean music. Drums and percussion instruments provided if you need.

Come join us at 1461 Venables St, just East of Clark Drive 7-week session starting Nov 4 through to Dec 16, some drop-in possible. SIGN UP NOW! Pre-Register with Navaro, please. Email: navaro@tribal-bliss.com Tel: (778) 239-8444 Email or Call to reserve your spot and get directions. Please specify day.

 

"Drumming opens the spirit.Playing traditional rhythms from different cultures awakens our own memories of times when we & our ancestors lived in a more whole, tribal, earth, and cosmos connected way.

In my drum classes we will learn technical skills as well as journey into the realm of the sacred and celebratory, with traditional African & Tribal as well as non-traditional rhythm & song."

~Navaro

~Past Events~

THE UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB PRESENTS



HYCROFT HEALING HARMONIES:

a women's musical series that aspires to enhance

  • CONNECTION
  • COMMUNICATION
  • COMMUNITY

through

  • RHYTHM
  • SONG
  • DANCE

to create

  • HEALING
  • HARMONY
  • WHOLENESS

THEME FOR OUR FIRST SERIES:
AFRO RHYTHM, SONG & DANCE
Facilitated by Navaro Franco

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS:

This first Sunday's musical event will take off with simple, yet engaging and entrancing rhythmic harmonies fusing percussion instruments such as bells, shakers, mbira (thumb piano) and infusing these rhythms with our voices and gentle dance movements.

We will be focusing on the power of rhythm to re-connect with our inner selves, engage one another through playful communication with singing chants and songs. As well, we shall build a deeper sense of community within our Club as well as our invited guests and members of the public.

We will also explore weaving this power of music and movement to bring healing to our body and psyche & bring back balance and harmonise with our own as well as life's natural rhythms.

What better way to integrate wholeness in our often harried, busy lives than spending 3 hours on a Sunday afternoon of mystical music, transformative meditation through movement and sheer laughter, joy & fun?

Come Join Us! Be sure to pre-register with Rosie
REGISTRATION E-mail: rosie@uwcvancouver.ca or Tel Number: 604-731-4661

August 10, 2008, Sunday 1-3 pm

Location: Hycroft Manor, University Women's Club, 1498 McRae Ave (Granville & West 16th Ave)(Click for map)
Venue: The Ballroom and Rose Garden (weather permitting)

For more details, please email Program Chair & Convenor: Hazel Tan
E-mail: CityVancouverHomes@shaw.ca

Cost: Members: $26.25
Non-members, at the door: $31.50
Coffee/tea, light refreshments
To Register: Rosie
REGISTRATION E-mail: rosie@uwcvancouver.ca or Tel: 604-731-4661

Please Register Today or Really Early!...cuz' Places are Limited and we expect to sell out soon!

OUR WONDERFUL SPONSORS:

ROYAL LEPAGE WESTSIDE
5970 East Boulevard, Vancouver V6M 3V4 BC Canada Tel: 604-261-9311
http://www.royallepage-vancouver.com

BODA HEALTH
302-1245 West Broadway, Vancouver, Canada 604-733-BODA (2632) http://www.bodahealth.ca

ADVANCED DESIGN MORTGAGES INC./THE MORTGAGE GROUP
Sunny Kang and Han Kang, MBA, AMP
(B)604-221-2322 (F)604-221-2323 (C)604-789-2166 Email: sunnykang@shaw.ca

OUR SPECIAL THANKS TO:

HAZEL TAN, Royal LePage Westside for web hosting & sponsoring flyers
http://www.HazelTan.ca & http://www.CityVancouverHomes.com Tel: (604) 261-9311

HAPPY PLANET FOODS for sponsoring their yummy fruit juices
http://www.HappyPlanet.com Tel: (604) 253-7550

PACIFIC DRUM CENTRE for sponsoring the loan of percussion instruments
http://www.PacificDrumCentre.com Tel: (604) 730-9493

Hazel Tan, the organiser and member of the University Women's Club, Vancouver introduces me and Hycroft Healing Harmonies, an event that was well received by all participants.

 

 

 

 

 

Our Drum Class Performance in the Dome on Car-Free Drive Day 2008 resonated with the crowd...& we all had such a great time too! Kudos to All!

Commercial Drive Car Free Day was SUNDAY JUNE 15.
Sonic Temple: Navaro Franco
Drum Class & Earth Prayers Ecstatic Dance Class Demo
Navaro (accompanied by students) will share in the sacred aspect of the work I teach and perform.

LIVE DRUMMING BY THE DIVA DRUM!
DANCE FACILITATED BY JACKY ESSOMBE

This is an experience that truly nurture your soul...

This 3-hour healing workshop takes us on a journey into Africa and into ourselves. We use it as a metaphor for life, and we take this opportunity to let go of what does not serve us and embrace life more fully.

Date : SATURDAY, JUNE 7TH 2008 - ***Followed by a girlfriends' potluck!!!***

Location : Victoria Drive Community Hall, 2026 E. 43rd Ave. at Victoria dr.
(free street parking available)

Time : 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm followed by a potluck!

Cost: Regular: $79 per person

EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT: • $59/person, OR • $49 /person when you register a group of 3 or more

• $79/person after June 2nd

OR please contact Laurie Robson
Phone: (604) 408 8582
Email: ldrobson@shaw.ca

~Past Events ~

Wednesday Night Earth Dances
Classes in North Vancouver facilitated by Navaro
7:30pm - 9pm

I'm super happy to be facilitating a weekly practice space for ecstatic dance. I leave each week feeling so alive, inspired, and connected, to myself and to the whole.Heal and energize your body with your spontaneous dance. Clarify and clear issues thru your dancing in your body, mind, soul & life. Enjoy being part of a Moving Whole. Awaken your Joy and Aliveness. We dance weekly on themes of Earth, Breath, Light, Space, Cosmos, Belonging, Tribe, Awakening. Gentle facilitation to guide your dancing, and beautiful dance grooves from traditional based music inspired by tribal cultures.

730-9pm, Ann MacDonald Hall beside Presentation House Theatre
333 Chesterfield at 3rd ave.
drop in welcome $15 or 6 classes for $60 (to be used by end of June).
Try your first class for $10

April 25, 26, 27th

This is My Schedule at The Festival:

DivaDrum 4/26/08 04:15 Center House Main Floor
Earth Prayers Journey 4/26/08 10:00 Center House 4th Floor Room H (Black Box)
Dancing Shekere 4/27/08 11:00 Center House 3th Floor Room B

Put Seattle World Rhythm Festival on your calendars! April 25, 26, 27th. The yearly annual migration essential for rhythm and dance lovers!

Click on Pix for more info

Sacred Fire ~ Sacred Waters
A Community Movement Ritual

February 2, 2008
7:30 - 10 pm
Forufera Studio
505 Hamilton at Pender
$20 donation

The light grows, igniting life in the waters of creation. The dance of fire and water spirals through the cosmos. Join Navaro & Tannis to dance and vision the union of Sacred Fire and Water, uniting us with the elemental love and harmony of all being. Live music with DivaDrum! Dance in ecstasy & healing energies in this community movement ritual!

The Community Movement Rituals provide an opportunity to step out of the pressures of speed and sound that surround us so we may commune with ourselves and each other in a sacred space, reflecting deeply on the experiences of our lives, and savoring the creative wisdom of our bodies. Surrounded by challenge and opportunity, community ritual is crucial for our survival and transformation. All ages welcome from teens to honored elders. No dance experience needed.

Pre-registration requested so we may prepare for your presence

Contact Tannis at tannisis@shaw.ca/604-267-9951 or me.
http://www.awakeningbodywisdom.com

Join us at Just Dance's Intentional Dance :
~ JOURNEYS ~
www.justdance.ca/journeys.php
Fri Dec 7, 9pm-12
The Russian Hall: 4th Ave at Arbutus
$10 at the door, $5 students

~ EARTH PRAYERS THEME ~
~ Invoke & Honor With Your Dance: Living Gaia's Wind, Water, Fire, Earth, & Spirit

Dance Floor Activation by Navaro


& 4 Lovely Prayerformance Dancers: Spirit (Christine),Water (Steph),Fire (Zarah),Air (Ivy), Earth (Navaro)(left to right)

~ EARTH PRAYERS ECSTATIC DANCE JOURNEY: NOVEMBER 2007~
At beautiful Indigo Yoga Studio, 1707 Grant St. at Commercial
Dance Facilitation with Navaro
Live Rhythm & Soundscapes with Pepe, to power our Journey.

When: Sun, Nov 25, 6:00pm - 8:30pm

Where: Indigo Yoga Studio, Commercial Drive Area

Cost: $20 advance, $25 at the door. Please RSVP and pre-register to ensure your spot. Space is limited!

Description: Facilitated by Navaro. Changing monthly themes & explorations.

November's Theme: Hawaii: Mana Dance

November's journey will be inspired by Hawaiian Huna teachings on raising Mana (life force energy / Spirit) for healing and manifestation. According to ancient Hawaiian custom, prayers were first charged by raising Mana with breath and intent. We will dance tribal movements to open breath, raise Mana, connect to earth and cosmos, and charge our healing prayers, empowering them for self and planet.

  • ~ Dance to honour the Earth and yourself as one with Earth
  • ~ Deepen into body consciousness and resonate sacred body and community space.
  • ~ Awaken your body's vital forces and collectively send healing joy and prayers to living Gaia (Earth).
  • ~ Dance intentionally to break out of limiting trance and open into harmony with the beauty, power, and grace of your true Nature.
  • ~ Pray with your dance, and be collectively at One in rhythm and healing intent. Earth Prayers draws upon tribal earth-based traditions of rhythm, chant, &; dance...and ancient to modern healing ecstatic dance practices.

This work welcomes people from all walks of life and all ages, from teens to adults to elders. Come join us!

~ EARTH PRAYERS OCTOBER ~
next journey: Sunday, Oct. 28, 3-530 pm,
Indigo Yoga
* RSVP required *
$20

Space is limited so please ensure your spot asap!

The ancestors are alive now in the land. They are alive in us. They left no monuments, here, but they are not erased.....We can hear their voices in the wind and water, in the soil and trees, in the voices of the animals....in our own bodies and spirits. When we slow down and come into resonance with the longer, deeper rhythms of Earth, we have access to all knowledge, all memory, all Knowing. Gaia's (Earth's) body is strengthened by our physical joy, and by our awareness of her as a living, conscious being. Her strength is our strength. Her health is our children's legacy.

Earth Prayers Ecstatic Dance Journey
*Next Vancouver Earth Prayers: Fri, Sept 21, 8-1030pm *
Changing Monthly Themes

This work is inspired by Tribal earth based traditions of rhythm, chant, dance, and ceremony, as well as by many other healing ecstatic dance practices…with the specific focus of honoring the Earth and ourselves as One With Earth. This month we dance at Equinox, the time of The Great Balance.

Our ancestors expected to be instructed by the Earth and the natural world. When we slow down and come into resonance with the longer, deeper rhythms of Earth, we have access to all knowledge, all memory, all knowing. We will dance to deepen into body consciousness and resonate into these spaces. We will dance to awaken our bodies and honour earth, sending our joy and prayers to living Gaia. We will dance intentionally to break out of limiting trance and open into harmony with the beauty, power, and grace of our true Natures.

~ To be Fully Embodied is Sacred ~

"It is always my goal in classes to create connection to spirit, body & soul.....earth & cosmos.....each other as community......to the rhythm that is inherent in us all....so that as we experience that, we own that, and we are that..." ~Navaro


CONTACT INFORMATION

Email : navaro@tribal-bliss.com
Address : Vancouver Canada

Cell: (778) 239-8444


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