Come to the Bazaar!

20 Feb

Catering to both of our favourite dance forms and more – the Ottawa Dancer’s Bazaar is going to have loads of goodies to accessorize, as well as outfit us for future dance events!!

You can also come chat with me at my booth – TAV Creations/Halyma’s Belly Dance! It gets too logn when i include Bellywood with Halyma too :-) !

Hope to see you Feb 26!

Still room and time to join!

18 Jan

Here’s the scoop:

Tuesday’s 7:30 to 8:30 class is running and rockin’ it at Old Ottawa South – and there’s still room to join in!  Come by next week if Tuesdays are good for you and give it a try at 260 Sunnyside.

Wednesday’s class at Dovercourtis gonna give it one more try tonight – if we can get one more sign up, the book keepers are happy,the small group gets some serious focus and the class will run.  So if you are thinking about it and just want to try a class to see if you like it – please come on by tonight for the 7:45 p.m. class at 411 Dovercourt!

UPDATE : Yes, both Tuesday and Wednesday classes will run this session – so come on by!!

Otherwise, I hope you are all dancing and having fun this cold blustery January!!

Happy New Year! Classes starting soon…

4 Jan

Hope you all had an amazing holiday season – I know I ate too much :-0 but that’s not news.

So I am very much looking forward to starting to dance again in another week if the Dovercourt classes run, and the week after at Routhier and Old Ottawa South!  Check the schedule here!

What’s on our plate for Bellywood with Halyma this winter session?

TECHNIQUE!

We’ll be stretching those fingers and arms to get those really cool mudras, arm positions and combination more accurately executed.  For new folks, this is great as I will help you that focus on each move and how it’s actually supposed to happen.  For return dancers, it means reviewing what you may have felt you were grasping on the surface but glossing over in order to get right into the  Fall choreography – which was GREAT, BTW !

We’ll also be bending those knees, and getting deeper into the full body technique, playing with the silhouettes we can create as we pose and then move into new poses!

POSTURE!

Continuing the thought on full body technique, we’ll explore being conscious of our posture as we dance from toes to the tip of your head and out to your finger tips!

COMBOS!

Some fun combos that we’ve used in the past will be explored and played with,using the routines we’ve done in the past as reference and sharpening up the moves we have played with.  And NEW ONES!

So, welcome to 2012, and I look forward to seeing many of you at class  in the next couple of weeks!

As the classes wind down…

30 Nov

The holiday season approaches and along with it comes end of year recitals!  A few of my Belly wood ladies were able to come out last Friday to help celebrate the end of the session for my good friend, Siddiqah, of FatCatBellydance

And we had a blast!  Next up with be my own semi private OCCP – the Ottawa Centre Class Party where almost 300 of my closest Ottawa Belly dance and Bollywood friends, teachers, students and colleagues will converge on a local theatre to join me in sharing our love of dance! We are in a limited space so I cannot really open it up to the public – but if you ever want to join a class, you’ll get the chance to come play with us for sure!

Classes resume in January, so if you have a love of colourful costumes, fun music and wanna have some fun moving – even if you don’t think you would ever dance in public – check out the 2012 Class Info here!

Registration has already begun!

Halyma

“One of”Bellywood classes…yes, I’ll teach your group!

4 Nov

I had a lovely time yesterday teaching a small group at Algonquin College for their Wellness week.  First, thanks to Shakira from Kemptville for recommending me to teach the class – a supportive community is a great one to be a part of!

2nd thanks to Valerie, for welcoming me to teach Bellywood there and I think she got some fun photos – but I may not see them, small private group :-)  But she gave me a lovely thank you gift as I was packing up…
Bellywood class "thank you" giftAnd all of this to say, that yes, you too can have me come and teach your group for a private lesson – birthday parties, work incentive days, showers, anytime you want to get a gang moving and laughing in a multicultural setting!

Check out my pricing and packages here, and feel free to message me for more details!

 

 

Classes at Dovercourt to help Heart and Stroke Foundation!

21 Oct

Fall Specialty classes at Dovercourt are underway and the last day of the session is Monday, December 19, 2011 . Any participants to re-register once registration opens on Monday, October 24th as all early registration for the January session will result in a donation to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

How cool is that?

January’s classes at Dovercourt will begin Wednesday, January 11, 2012 and run for 14 weeks.  Timeslot is 7:45 to 8:45 p.m.

Keep dancing!!

 

PS – DIWALI is being celebrated over the next week – check out here for details on events you can check out: Ottawa Bollywood News!

Getting back into the swing and sway!

2 Sep

Time flew by and August was amazing, but it’s gone now and all I have are my memories and a pile of digital pics to sort and put online!

September brings my new dance class schedule too and organizing, promoting, postering a bit and mainly reminding folk online that in another week or two, we can get moving to those fun rhythms and learning some new moves and choreos!

So, if you’ve got that itch to dance, check out the class schedule here and join in the fun this fall!

Meanwhile – here’s me and Barbara Eden – how cool is that! { sorry it’s so fuzzy – it’s a pic of a pic!}

Taking some me time for August!

29 Jul

Classes will resume in the fall, so be sure to check out http://bellywood.ca/classes/ for the details.

I wish you all happy shimmies and perky eared deer { inside joke}  for the rest of the summer!

See you in September!

T/H

SUMMER mini Session at Dovercourt!

24 Jun

Running each Wednesdsay in July, 7 p.m. to 7:55 p.m., you can come play in the studio at Dovercourt Rec Centre, 411 Dovercourt.
GO HERE and USE THE BARCODE #72542 to sign up – only $43 for the 4 classes!

COME DANCING!!

 

 

Congrats to Janet for a great event!

15 May

Bellywood with Halyma

Bellywood with Halyma

featuring: Ameenah, Sadira, Renuka, Suhani, Esmerelda, Eurika and Halyma { forgot to take off mah glasses!}

We were totally honoured to participate in Janet Seabrooke’s fundraiser May 14th.  Great evening – great job – hopefully lot of money was raised for Breast Cancer!

Once more pics are available, I’ll update!


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