Welcome to Deep Roots Dance



Deep Roots Dance offers ATS®-based tribal and tribal fusion instruction and performances in the Seattle area. Director Shay Moore has been joyfully teaching and performing bellydance in Seattle and around the nation for over ten years, and continues to train and inspire exceptional dancers everywhere with her passion and commitment to furthering the art of tribal bellydance.

Bellydance is great for your health!

Like other low-impact activities, dancing can help strengthen bones and muscles, improve your posture and balance, increase your stamina and flexibility, reduce stress and tension, build confidence, and ward off illnesses like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, osteoporosis, and depression. Not to mention provide opportunities to meet awesome people! So if you're tired of the treadmill and looking for a fun way to stay fit and healthy, it's time to join a class and see for yourself all the amazing benefits you can enjoy with bellydancing!

Locations:

Tuesdays & Wednesdays: m'illumino
6921 Roosevelt Way NE - Seattle, WA

Thursdays: Phinney Neighborhood Center
6532 Phinney Ave. N, Room 7 - Seattle, WA

Cost:

$75 per 6-week session
$135 for two classes a week

drop-ins available to continuing students, $15 per class

Bring a Friend Save Some $$


Current students, do you have a friend who you think would have a blast in class with you? This winter, bring them along and get a discount for both of you.
E-mail for more details!

LivingSocial or AmazonLocal Promo Recipients:


Students with AmazonLocal vouchers, save your spot in a class today! Visit the Classes Page to review the schedule, then contact us to register.


Join the Deep Roots Dance newsletter to be kept up to date on all the happenings, as well as receive tips and tutorials, playlist suggestions, and other tasty tidbits. Coming soon, when The Shop @ Deep Roots Dance opens, newsletter members will receive special discounts and promotions delivered right to their inbox. Don't worry, we respect the security of your personal information and will never share your contact info with others.

Finally, don't forget to visit our Facebook page and "Like" us, or hook up with us on Twitter to get the latest news from Deep Roots Dance.

 


Waiting on the Weight - holding ourselves back for "someday"

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Seems about 75% of the time when I am chatting women up about what I do, their first reaction is "Oh, I would love to do that!" followed by "Maybe when I lose a few pounds I'll join up..." It may be even more than 75% of the time, I am being generous. I always tell them that joining a dance class is a great way to either lose those pounds OR learn to love yourself without needing to lose any weight. I give a brief elevator spiel about how in my classes, bellydance is about strength, empowerment, and confidence. You don't necessarily walk in with it, but my job is to make sure you walk out with it!

My yoga friends are well familiar with the similar phenomenon of "I can't take yoga. I'm not flexible!" Why is this sentiment so prevalent? Why do we set so many plans on the "some day" shelf, placing barriers between what we're doing now or where we are now, and what we want to do and where we want to be?

Just this week a friend posted a link to this article on seibellaboudoir.com, which explores this idea from her experience as a boudoir photographer.

"Women have a habit of putting their lives on hold because of their weight.  If they’re a size 16, they want to be a size 12.  If they’re a size 12, they want to be a size 8.  They promise themselves that they’ll have the courage to approach a guy at a bar, or wear a bikini to the beach, or finally wear that skimpy red dress that “doesn’t fit quite right”."

What do we perceive the benefit of this delay to be? In fact, the delay is only going to make reaching your goals that much more difficult. After all, if you started playing guitar a year ago, this year you would have a year of experience playing guitar! But if you keep saying you'll start next week...

So what are you waiting for? Have you always wanted to try a bellydance class? Then start TODAY!  If you're in Seattle, then I hope you will come try a class with me at Deep Roots Dance. But if you live in another city, guaranteed there is a class somewhere near you. Find it, and for goodness sake, stop waiting and GO!

Mm Mm Monday - Nawar Troupe Slovenia

Monday, May 6, 2013

These ladies SELL the sass. So joyful, so committed to their movement, their energy was completely infectious. All the way from Slovenia, I present to you: Nawar and their Saidi and Iraqi folk dance.


Ze Frank - Thoughts on the Creative Career

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Ze Frank is some kinda genius, and you know I have linked up several of his videos on this blog in the past (um, even just this past Monday folks!). This video blog is about pursuing a creative career, and touches on some amazing points Ze says he wishes someone had said to him when he was starting out.

I love every little thing about this, but here were some particularly poignant parts I think students of the dance will appreciate and relate to, and hopefully Ze passes on to you (all of us!) that wisdom he so wished he had when he was at the start of his creative journey:

"(it helps) to realize that when I am in the beginning of learning something (and the beginning can last a couple years, by the way, not just a couple weeks or months), in that time you don't really have to worry about finding your own voice. In fact, that kind of gets in the way. You can copy people--sometimes that comes naturally when you just read someone, for example, you just start using their voice. Try reading Voorhees, for example, and not writing like him for the next two days.

Mm Mm Monday - Ze Frank

Monday, April 22, 2013

If you have not yet met Ze Frank, then let me introduce you and say "You are most welcome." He is equally skilled at delivering sidesplitting comedy as heart-wrenching truths. He is amazing.

If you have met him, I am sure you will enjoy this clip of him sharing wisdom that will bring a tear to your eye.

And if you have met him, and see this particular video already, I am sure the reminder is timely or needed or valuable someday...

Web site created by: Hey Shay Designs
aka 'She teaches, she dances, she designs!'