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  • Woodstock Belly Dance Lessons

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    Many, many years ago, (I mean many), I enjoyed the art of Belly Dancing and am so happy to be able to invite you to classes right here in Woodstock. What inspired me to look at this dance form was the fact that the music was inspirational and I could not just listen to it without becoming involved physically with the melodies. In addition, I considered that it raised my fitness level and concentrated on the inner body core, which now many years later, I am happy that I used dance as my fitness training (certainly for me more fun than the gym). Besides body awareness, it has helped me through the years with coordination and balance. It is truly one of the oldest and most beautiful dance forms.

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    We gather on the first and third Tuesday of the month from 5:30-6:30 with our wonderful teacher, Krista Sassani… Join us!
    BD teacher Krista
    Fondly,
    MOM

  • MAY POLE CELEBRATION

    MAY POLE CELEBRATION

    People have asked me…why a May Pole celebration?

    In 1958, I was the beloved queen of The Estrella Triangle Daughters of the Eastern Star (a female branch of Masons)..I had regalia..I even wore a gown one year. I have always been the queen! When I was in kindergarten, we had a spring celebration and I was supposed to be queen of the May…the maypole. But, I got the chicken pox and couldn’t go! So now I get to be queen of the May each and every year.

    May Day was initially a pagan right of fertility and spring…now, it’s just
    a fun thing. There’s music and laughter and joy. Most people have never seen
    a maypole, but it used to be done all the time when I was young.

    When we decided to host the first May Day Celebration on the lawn here at
    Woodstock Trading Company many years ago, we had to put things together
    to create a maypole. We went to the hardware store and bought some PVC,
    later we used a galvanized pole realizing this would become a permanent
    annual event. We needed an additional couple of feet to make it
    proper…tall enough for length of ribbon, that we screw on to the top to
    attach the ribbons to it.

    Everyone gets a ribbon…we dance to music and you interweave with one
    another to form designs on the pole with the ribbons. It is particularly fun
    for the kids …and it’s free. Just come on out and enjoy spring…period!
    No worries that it takes me 2 weeks to untangle all the ribbons when you’re
    gone. LOL!

    Come on out and celebrate spring!

    SUNDAY MAY 1ST FROM 12-4PM. LIVE MUSIC: THE JUGBAND www.thejugband.com