Nathalie is a certified Expressive Arts Therapist and a certified hatha Yoga teacher along with her lifetime experience as a gifted dancer. Her repertoire is extensive with a lifetime of ballet, bellydancing, bollywood and flamenco dance training and performing inspired by masters from around the world as well as priceless street gypsies, her favorite natural teachers: the heart and soul of Flamenco. Nathalie is a mother of a gifted young man and always radiates this young contagious spirit. She is now in Vancouver Canada finishing her Thesis for her Masters on combining Psychology and Arts, with Egs University in Switzerland. On another continent she has been working with indigenus and deprived kids in the jungle while pursuing Surfing, her other passion. She also has combined the healing powers of water in nature with Expressive Arts Therapy wich has been received with infinite joy by the children, empowering them to a new level in their lives.

LA JOIE DE VIVRE workshop will be a vibrant combination of deep connecting with your essence while awakening your sensuality and zest for life.
Nathalie brings a rich cultural background from spain where she inherited the Resilience and Spontaneity that makes the Gypsies lifestyle so famous for. In History and from her lineage, along with the jews, the gypsies experienced humiliation, repression and incredible resistance and yet, they DANCED their suffering through. It was against this background that Flamenco evolved, it wasn't some sort of academic "copy a movement type of thing", it came from the guts and spirit.
Cultivating that resilience Nathalie encourages you in a warm and safe space to find, push and move against and through your shadow, the unconscious. Based on carl Jung's mystic sensibility philosopphy," it is only through acceptance of darkness that we access the light."
Copying a move in dance or in life can be meaningless if it's not coming from your own inner force. That is why Nathalie keeps the courage to live in a most spontaneous state along with heightened awareness sensitivity. This courage becomes inspiring for life.

This workshop is aimed to support you in this essential authentic opening and finding true inner joy that is your birthright. LA JOIE DE VIVRE DANCE comes from an inspiration from Nathalie Sanz ' culture and unique phenomenon. It is:
~ A magical surrendering process leading to a precious getaway to new thresholds.
~ An ancient Flamenco inspired art, a transformational energy that enables the entering of a previously unknown territory. A territory where surprises and insights emerge in everyday life and dreams.
~ A sacred space held with passion and heartfelt compassion.
~ A mystery in the way it has been passed on. A teaching with no teaching.
~ A loving presence- a transcendental experience with profound recognition.

This gift for improvisation with spirit is to be experienced not lectured upon. To capture the essence Nathalie doesn't give the technique away because the moment the technique is given the mind will startworking around the technique and the purity of essence will be lost. As a metaphor for life, it is not the apPEARance of the Dance that is so important but rather the meaning of the appearance.
Nathalie's most infinite joy is when she receives a rapport with 'DUENDE', in spanish 'the presence of spirit with no name'.
In this workshop, you'll allow yourself to be guided through the opening with Yoga wisdom where you will come to a breathing in a delicious visualization. Ensuite, Nathalie will create a safe space naturally, for you to open into your inner space to engage in an enhancing communication between conscious and unconscious, between mind and body. True communication with every part of our being is for the purpose of loving ourselves. By coming with a bold heart, confronting your resistance and embracing the gifts, you will be able to relax into the realisation of the deep joy you already posess. After the initial work witch is a satisfying, and often cathartic process, we will finally climax into the gypsy spirit: LA JOIE DE VIVRE DANCE! witch is translated by The Joy of Life. LA JOIE DE VIVRE actually means: "DANCE" in Sanskrit language!
Being in joy with yourself, being in love with your Dance is a liberating feeling.

by Nathalie Sanz
Certified Expressive Arts Therapist
Certified Hatha Yoga teacher
Dance master
contact: nathaliesoulsurfer@gmail.com
604-817-1069

Nathalie will be teaching the JOIE DE VIVRE workshop at the Sacred Dance Festival- Sat Nov 20th at 1 pm

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