DANCING IN NATURE WITH SOPHIE BOLTON
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ophie Bolton is an ecstatic dance facilitator and DJ based in Frome. She’s responsible for getting the town on its feet and dancing.
From her Sunday morning silent discos in the lush and beautiful Victoria Park, to her regular Tuesday night sessions in Selwood Academy, her classes are becoming popular with people of all ages and abilities wanting to exercise and have fun. Sophie is a former children’s special needs yoga teacher and passionate dancer, and has been facilitating ecstatic dance for the last eight years. Her classes offer a safe and light-hearted atmosphere, allowing participants to use dance as a meditation and offering a place to express feelings through movement, all with a banging soundtrack!
They would dance in a circle around a fire as a way of helping them to find solutions to problems.
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THE LIST FROME
He a lt h & We l l b e i n g
‘Dancing takes you out of the hamster wheel of your thinking mind to remember why it’s fun to be alive in the present moment. When I dance in nature, I notice trees and appreciate them all the more. I note their shapes and contours, and it seems to awaken something in the soul, something our ancestors were only too aware of. They would dance in a circle around a fire as a way of helping them to find solutions to problems. Movement to music is like a shamanic healing.’ For further information go to www.DancingInNature.com
