Emerald Forest
belly dance, lyra, pole
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The visionary activist astrologer, Carolyn Casey, says, “In the ancient
world, healing and art are one.” As a child, art and expression were not
permitted, and academia and intellectual pursuit were the only valued
avenues of learning and growth. My circuitous unfolding into my own
wholeness has been a lifelong reclaiming of what originally was and
unfolding into what presently is—a vital dance between the liminal spaces
I find myself living within in both waking and dreaming states, an intimate
cultivation of the voice and landscape that is my Intuition—the Sixth
sense.
My love of movement and the healing power of kinesthetic practices has
most definitely saved my life. As a child I intuitively channeled my need for
movement into competitive sports and thrived in the hours of repetitive
practice and training in tennis and swimming. Dance simply was not
allowed. After college I moved on to begin a lifelong study of yoga and
flexibility training, becoming certified as a teacher in 1999 by Lex Gillan
and the Yoga Institute. But it was only in 2015 that I discovered fusion
belly dance, and developed an obsession with this form of movement,
discipline and expression. I spent the last seven years evolving myself into
a dancer and giving myself permission, finally, to follow my joy and to fully
express myself through movement arts. I have been fortunate to train with
some of the most influential fusion belly dancers in the world—Rachel
Brice, Zoe Jakes, Tiare Tashnick and Deb Rubin. I am certified in Rachel
Brice's Eight Elements of Belly Dance Level 1, and Deb Rubin's Dance
Therapeutics Level 1 and 2. I also completed a year long dance intensive
with Deb Rubin in 2021. Finally, I fell in love with aerial circus arts in 2020
beginning with Lyra and have been studying pole at Momentum in
Flagstaff for the last year. I am as inspired by creative possibility and
expression, as I am about the process of embodiment.
I also hold an MA in the Creative Process from Vermont College of Fine
Arts, and my work can be found at www.nicola-breuer.format.com,
@emeraldforestvisions and on YouTube @Emerald’s Dojo.
world, healing and art are one.” As a child, art and expression were not
permitted, and academia and intellectual pursuit were the only valued
avenues of learning and growth. My circuitous unfolding into my own
wholeness has been a lifelong reclaiming of what originally was and
unfolding into what presently is—a vital dance between the liminal spaces
I find myself living within in both waking and dreaming states, an intimate
cultivation of the voice and landscape that is my Intuition—the Sixth
sense.
My love of movement and the healing power of kinesthetic practices has
most definitely saved my life. As a child I intuitively channeled my need for
movement into competitive sports and thrived in the hours of repetitive
practice and training in tennis and swimming. Dance simply was not
allowed. After college I moved on to begin a lifelong study of yoga and
flexibility training, becoming certified as a teacher in 1999 by Lex Gillan
and the Yoga Institute. But it was only in 2015 that I discovered fusion
belly dance, and developed an obsession with this form of movement,
discipline and expression. I spent the last seven years evolving myself into
a dancer and giving myself permission, finally, to follow my joy and to fully
express myself through movement arts. I have been fortunate to train with
some of the most influential fusion belly dancers in the world—Rachel
Brice, Zoe Jakes, Tiare Tashnick and Deb Rubin. I am certified in Rachel
Brice's Eight Elements of Belly Dance Level 1, and Deb Rubin's Dance
Therapeutics Level 1 and 2. I also completed a year long dance intensive
with Deb Rubin in 2021. Finally, I fell in love with aerial circus arts in 2020
beginning with Lyra and have been studying pole at Momentum in
Flagstaff for the last year. I am as inspired by creative possibility and
expression, as I am about the process of embodiment.
I also hold an MA in the Creative Process from Vermont College of Fine
Arts, and my work can be found at www.nicola-breuer.format.com,
@emeraldforestvisions and on YouTube @Emerald’s Dojo.