Transform Your Dance! Push Past Plateaus and Discover Your Fullest Technique and Dance Potential!
Discover Your Full Potential With This Amazing Mind-Body Experience for FCBD®Style
A FULL technique, mind AND body exploration with the goal of learning HOW , why and where in YOUR body you can make individual adjustments to feel more confident and dance with more ease, mindfulness and intention.
“A true balance of Art, Science and Eastern Yoga Philosophy in the context of FCBD® style, this 25 hours Intensive is next level training for anyone that takes personal technique seriously”. — Carolena Nericcio, Creator of FatChanceBellyDance®Style
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
FCBD®Style Picky Technique within your own body, anatomy, musculature, and structure.
How to FEEL and truly experience the movements in your body.
How to work with existing injuries or other range of motion inhibitors to improve technique based on your specific needs.
Gain new tools to find more strength and mobility for all FCBD®Style movements.
Specific breathing work (pranayama) to change and enhance the energy in your performances including managing performance anxiety.
Subtle body energy, chakras, koshas and vayus, and the impact they have on your dance.
Self-care techniques to restore and recover so you can continue to dance for years to come!
Course includes full printed manual with diagrams, notes, examples and daily activities to get the most out of your Alignment training.
A Unique 4 day - 25 Hour Course
This Course is developed as a holistic, mind-body-energy approach to FCBD®Style, working with the Elements:
Day One: Earth
Grounding, Presence, Lower Body Anatomy
Feel more grounded and present in your movements:
Anatomy and Kinesiology of the Feet, Knees and Legs
Identify, correct, and work with foot and knee imbalances and alignment to improve technique in the entire FCBD® movement vocabulary.
Balance and activate the muladhara (root) chakra through pranayama (breathwork), movements and meditation. Learn how tapping into this energy can create more depth to your dance.
Put these lessons into a special yoga-centric, grounding and conditioning class to help you get a deeper understanding of your unique alignment and apply this to your dance.
FEEL the effects in your technique with custom dance drills that incorporate everything you’ve learned in the day. You’ll receive personalized feedback and suggestions for both the physical and energetic body to help you find your own fullest expression of the movements.
Cool down and restore your feet and legs with a soothing yin-focused closing of the day.
Day Two: Water
Emotions, Creativity, Passion, Hips and Pelvis
Tune into your creativity through emotions and sensuality:
Anatomy and Kinesiology of the Hips, Glutes and Pelvic Floor
Identify, work with and correct glute and hip imbalances, improving low back pain, balancing tension in the pelvic floor and alignment to improve technique in the entire FCBD® movement vocabulary.
Learn the various planes of movement, how to identify the FCBD® movements associated with each and why this can greatly impact the muscle groups used to execute the proper technique.
Balance and activate the Svadhisthana (sacral) chakra through pranayama (breathwork), movements and meditation. Learn how tapping into this energy can create more depth to your dance.
Put these lessons into an inspirational, yoga-centric movement class to help you tap into your creative expression and learn to release stagnant energy we store in our bodies that will inhibit our fullest expression of movement.
FEEL the effects in your dance with custom dance drills that incorporate everything you’ve learned in the day. You’ll receive personalized feedback and suggestions for both the physical and energetic body to help you find your own fullest expression of the movements.
Cool down and restore your hips and glutes with a soothing yin-focused closing of the day.
Day Three: Fire
Strength, Power, Confidence, Spine and Core
Feel stronger, centered and more balanced.
Step into your power!
Anatomy and Kinesiology of the Spine and Core, including how prior days’ lessons can impact these areas.
Learn how to strengthen the core in all planes of movement to prevent injury, safely experience more range of motion and better balance in the entire FCBD® movement vocabulary.
Balance and activate the Manipura (solar plexus) chakra through pranayama (breathwork), movements and activities. Learn how tapping into this energy can give you more stamina, confidence and overall energy in your dance.
Put these lessons into a challenging, yoga-centric conditioning class designed to work your “edge”, build confidence and learn to balance control and release of the core as needed for our FCBD®Style vocabulary.
FEEL the effects in your dance with custom dance drills that incorporate everything you’ve learned in the day. You’ll receive personalized feedback and suggestions for both the physical and energetic body to help you find your own fullest expression of the movements.
Cool down and restore your core with a soothing restorative-focused closing of the day.
Day Four: Air
Connection, Expansion, Anatomy of the Upper Torso
Learn to let yourself feel open and FREE.
Connect deeper with others:
Anatomy and Kinesiology of the Back, Arms, Ribcage and Shoulders.
Learn how to find more isolation and range of motion in your rib cage and arm movements. Work safely through the shoulders to find more range of motion through strength for all planes of movement. Greatly improve your entire FCBD® movement vocabulary through the incorporation of isometrics.
Balance and activate the Anahata (heart) chakra through pranayama (breathwork), movements and meditation. Learn how tapping into this higher vibration subtle body energy can enhance the connection between you and your fellow dancers as well as the audience. In addition, you’ll learn how to incorporate this dance form into emotional healing and the impact this has on your technique.
Put these lessons into a heart expanding, yoga-centric conditioning class designed to find greater connection to your deeper self and others as needed our FCBD®Style movements and performance.
FEEL the effects in your dance with custom dance drills that incorporate everything you’ve learned in the day and throughout the course. You’ll receive personalized feedback and suggestions for both the physical and energetic body to help you find your own fullest expression of the movements.
Close out your Alignment experience with a very special restorative-focused cool down and closing ceremony
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What Dancers Are Saying
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Carolena Nericcio - Founder of FCBD®Style
This course is outstanding and I highly recommend it! I am impressed with the content, presentation and care that DeAnna has integrated into the course.
Her knowledge of anatomy and movement, coupled with her skills as a high level ATS® instructor creates the perfect combination to teach you exactly what is happening in the ATS® vocabulary and how to find the picky technique in each move. Seamlessly linking muscles to movement, DeAnna shows you how to get more strength and flexibility in every move.
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Anne Hanenburg
I've been fortunate to attend countless workshops, Reunion, and classes over the past 10-years studying ATS / FCBDU.
DeAnna's Alignment course is by far the most intensive and thorough course I've taken. She breaks movements and technique down from an anatomical perspective, but she doesn't stop there -- she includes the all-important mind-body connection as well.
The limited class size also leaves great opportunities for one-on-one feedback, questions, critique and correction.
I cannot speak highly enough of DeAnna, or her passion for teaching. Her approach allows and encourages students to achieve their best selves.
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Cindy Moon Bear
I so value teachers that can blend the profound with the profane, or the esoteric with the exoteric.
DeAnna does this exquisitely in Alignment for ATS/FCBD. From the physical anatomy of a movement, to its energetic components, then enhanced with breath work and yoga asanas to strengthen and stretch our muscles, everything is covered.
I would eagerly sign up for it again!
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Natalie Elzbeth
Alignment is a must do for anyone who moves their body. I am a belly dancer. But I am also a martial arts instructor and competitor , a weightlifter, a runner, a ballroom dancer and competitor , a personal trainer and flexibility coach and a yogi.
I was able to use the knowledge from this workshop across all my disciplines. From bending over to tie your shoes to calibrated spins, there is so much knowledge to be gained.
And DeAnna is a masterful teacher with a very deep and real level of caring for her students making this experience both beautiful and supremely educational.
This workshop isn’t just for the dancer in you, it is for the whole of your being!
Designed, curated and taught by DeAnna Freeman
An FCBD®Style Continuing Education Instructor (FCCE), registered Yoga Alliance Teacher and Educator, (among many other movement certifications) DeAnna is a life-long learner who has studied and taught FatChanceBellyDance® Style, belly dance and yoga for over 18 years.
With a passion for the artistic qualities as well as the scientific and structural elements of movement, DeAnna has spent years exploring how these relate to holistic and artist components of dance and yoga.
She believes in the power of these practices to align the mind and the body.
Her love of dance, movement and anatomy also led her to immerse herself in yoga study, becoming a registered Yoga Alliance Teacher (200hr and then 500hr RYT) and gaining a number of specialty certifications.
She is a YACEP (Yoga Alliance Certified Education Provider) and is currently taking her second 500hr training to become a Yoga Therapeutic Specialist through Yoga Medicine.
DeAnna strongly believes in continuing education and currently holds the following certifications:
ATS® General Skills
ATS® Teacher Certification (Inaugural Class)
ATS® Advanced Teacher Certification (Inaugural Class)
FCBD®Style (formerly ATS®) Continuing Education Instructor
Certified Integrated Dance Instructor (Inaugural Class)
500 hour Registered Yoga Teacher
Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider
Restorative Yoga Teacher Training
Anatomy and Physiology
Core Strength Vinyasa and Anatomy
Chakras with Rolf Gates
Yin Yoga with Life Power Yoga
8 Elements™ Phase I: Initiate
Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Core Power Yoga
DeAnna’s classes empower her students to align their mind and body through dance and yoga.
Through gaining an awareness of the scientific and structural elements of movement, together with an appreciation for the holistic and artist components, students unlock the hidden potential that is already within themselves. She prides herself on a relaxed and professional teaching style that allows students to elevate their skills in a safe, positive and fun learning environment.
