B I O D A N Z A : Life in Movement
BIODANZA: vida en movimiento
Aula bilingüe en inglés y español
el 2, 9 y 16 de abril a las 19 horas
Póngase en contacto con Clara para más información e inscripción
(email y teléfono siguen al final)
Movement ~ Music ~ Community care ~ Restorative play ~ Rest ~ Revolution
B I O D A N Z A : life in movement
with Clara Rubin-Smith McKie
Certified Biodanza Facilitator
Facilitadora bilingüe en inglés y español
April open classes: Wednesdays, April 2nd, 9th & 16th, 2025, 7–9pm @ Venture Way Collaborative, 200 Venture Way, Hadley. Register below + spread the word!
Six-week series: May 7–June 25, 2025, 7–9pm (no class on 5/28) @ Venture Way Collaborative, 200 Venture Way, Hadley, MA
Early Pricing thru April 30th! $132-240 (save up to $60)
Sign up below, RSVP and invite friends here: https://tinyurl.com/SpringBiodanza
In May we’ll move into a committed group container through mid-June. This is an opportunity to build trust and a journey together that supports our personal and collective unfolding; a place of mutual care where you can come just as you are and leave with more energy, feeling more connected and resourced each week. Weekly group has an overall commitment, but missing a session within this is fine if needed. The group that’s been gathering so far has been really wonderful, and we would love for you to join us. Sign up below, come to the open class, or reach out to explore this possibility and we can talk more.
Let’s keep gathering, expanding space for collective care, and embracing the energy of spring that feeds our capacity to adapt and create anew. Come dance your heart out and stay grounded as we keep cultivating creativity, community and resilience, actively making space to breathe, feel, refuel, and find our ways forward together.
Aula bilingüe (inglés y español). All ages 18+. No experience needed – come as you are, with your curious heart and a desire to connect with yourself and others. Bring comfortable clothes for moving in, bare feet or indoor-only shoes, and a water bottle.
Biodanza is a gentle and powerful integrative system promoting human development both personal and collective, originally developed in Chile during the 1960’s and now a global movement. Each class journeys through life-affirming exercises that take the form of dances and other movements that connect with everyday life, paired with carefully-chosen, inspiring music from around the world. These are invitations into vivencia, experiences of feeling completely alive in the present moment, which build on each other to create a cascade of experiences opening up new ways of relating with ourselves, each other, and the world around us. In the process, we reclaim what’s most life-giving for each of us, discovering new ways of moving through life, learning how to live together as human beings, and celebrating and building on all the good. Connect with your inner strength and innate creativity, move to heal your emotional and physical body, grow personal and collective resilience and your capacity for being in the here and now. Come for two hours of restorative play and community care each week, of vividly lived present moments that return us to our most essential selves and ripple far beyond this time together.
Advance Registration Recommended
For April 16th open class: sliding scale $22-40 early bird thru Monday 4/14, $28-45 after that.
For May/June series: super early bird $120-200 thru 4/18, early bird $132-240 thru 4/30, or $170-300 after 4/30.
Thanks for signing up at the level you can afford – the higher end of this range makes it possible for folks who need a lower rate to participate. If the lower end is out of reach for you, please get in touch! Register through www.venmo.com/u/ClaraRSM or paypal.me/ClaraRubinSmith >> be sure to include which class/es you’re signing up for and your email for details and updates.
Preguntas? Questions?
Email cirubinsmith@gmail.com
Date
- May 21 2025
Time
- 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cost
- Sliding scale $170-$300
More Info
Location
- 200 Venture Way, Hadley, MA 01035
Organizer
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Clara Rubin-Smith McKie
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Email
cirubinsmith@gmail.com Clara is an interdisciplinary teacher and artist building individual and collective wellbeing working at the intersections of health and the arts. Her practice focuses on community facilitation and capacity-building, designing accessible participatory arts experiences that invite connection and embodied nervous system learning through play. Clara is a certified Biodanza facilitator with specializations in working with youth and families as well as organizations and teams. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology, Modern Languages and Dance, and has worked across diverse fields including nonprofits, education and health care, from pregnancy and early childhood to end of life. Clara is bilingual (English/Spanish) and creates circles and sanctuary spaces that help people who hold space for others -- especially caregivers, teachers and other leaders -- to tap into the wisdom of their bodies, find and use their voices, and step into greater connection, creativity and healing for themselves and this world we live in together.
Speaker
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Clara Rubin-Smith McKieCertified Biodanza FacilitatorClara is a lifelong dancer and music-maker, somatic movement educator, songleader, and mother raising her two greatest teachers. Now making home in western MA after many years living in San Francisco, CA. She has a B.A. in Anthropology, Modern Languages and Dance, and her thesis work centered on ways that womxn in Latin America have mobilized social change through dance and music. She is a certified MotherCircle Facilitator, and longtime Biodanza Facilitator, leading in English and Spanish with additional specializations in bringing this practice to youth, organizations and teams; her Biodanza monograph focused on co-creating conditions supportive of growth and wellbeing with families and individuals at any age.
Clara has worked across diverse fields including nonprofits, education and health care, from pregnancy and early childhood to end of life, with an emphasis on communication and community building. In many years as an interdisciplinary teacher and artist, she’s focused on building individual and organizational wellbeing working at the intersections of health and the arts, and has been an invited presenter to a wide range of groups and events including a statewide early education conference for teachers and parents. During pandemic times, she created a program called Lullabies for Grownups, bringing forward singing to ourselves and in community as a centering and regenerative practice, and pathway for evolving how we use our voices in relationship and out in the world.
As a facilitator, Clara creates circles and sanctuary spaces that help people who hold space for others — especially caregivers, teachers, and other leaders — to tap into the wisdom of their bodies, find and use their voices, and step into greater connection, creativity and healing for themselves and this world we live in together.
