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Hope you all enjoyed the long holiday weekend! For those of you interested in my Sacred Work (not always dance related), check out our latest newsletter! Blessings xoxo T & Bella Rene
*LABOR OF LOVE: Half Price Wellness Services in Honor of Labor Day (click here)*
Hey loves! We are on our way! Thank you again SO much for being in our lives and please consider supporting the cause! See you when we land - we can't wait to share with you all the new things we have in store for the business - including virtual/satellite options for wellness/social emotional arts services and products! Stay Tuned! Click here for our latest newsletter from the road! xoxo the dancer & the doggie <3
WE ARE ALL PACKED UP! Yes, it's true! Yes, we are! :D It has been an amaaaaazing summer here in SoCal and we are off to finish what we started up north! Spirit Dancer PhD - here I come! LOL. That's not exactly what my degree will be called, but I'm still excited! Please consider joining our satellite going away party - and don't forget to include your address! Oregon Here We Come! LOTS OF LOVE! xoxoxo the dancer and the doggie :)
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Enjoy our EXTRA Loyalty Bucks this summer before we skip town for a season! Thank you for your support of this business. It is with so much love and gratitude that we offer you this special perk for being a part of our purpose and bliss! Click Here for full newsletter with details.
It is with so much love and gratitude that I say thank you and farewell to a decade of full-time dance and bliss here in beautiful California! If you aren't subscribed to our newsletter, check it out here! I will still be dancing and doing gigs, but I will be relocating to Oregon seasonally. Hope to see you this summer if not the next! xoxo T.
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Our second Trade School LA community class is up and live for the community to enjoy! If you are interested in alternative and holistic healing and want to give it a try, this is the workshop for you. Visit the link here for more information Whole Harmonics Meditation and Energy Healing Class at TSLA with Tehani (click) or simply contact us directly on this site for full details. I love promoting inner and outer peace through meditation and community. Come join us if you feel called! Blessings & Love... xoxo Tehani
Greetings, Loves! Tehani here :) Ever want to learn how to fire dance? Great news! My Trade School LA class is up and live on their website. You can get more information and register directly here: TSLA Fire Dancing 101 with Tehani (click). I love teaching this class, it's a lot of fun and I'd love to see you there!
OK, maybe it's not quite the Solstice yet, but we are definitely in the throes of wedding season, summer educational programming and tons of entertainment ---- we have entered the high season! We haven't posted an update in some time; our social media on Instagram has finally kicked back in @_spiritdancer_ and my (Tehani's) personal account @dancingtehani but it's time to make sure we didn't forget about our online presence (though the majority of our interactions with you are voice to voice and face to face... we love it that way!).
Here's a sample of what's on tap for this summer and we can't wait! Please connect with us directly via our contact page for details on any of these and upcoming happenings. We've got fire dancers, go go dancers, models, actors, live mermaids, drum facilitators, world dance for wellness and so much more!
*Summer Entertainment (click)- some weekends still available in July and August. During the week is still much more open for your corporate events, private parties, community happenings, etc. Visit our About page for a brochure of full offerings.
*Trade School LA (click) - Whole Harmonics meditation and energy healing workshops available this Summer Solstice at HM157 on July 23! There will be a post on social media soon. This is not a Spirit Dance & Drum for wellness workshop, but updates on those are coming up! A fire dancing workshop is also available in July 2018. Keep an eye out for that or connect with us directly for full details and registration.
*A Place Called Home (click) - in addition to world dance educational programs during the year, Tehani is back doing fun world dance workshops at APCH this summer! Woohoo! We are hitting all the continents (except Antarctica lol) and it's going to be a blast! We love APCH and please support their 501c3. Worth every penny and it truly makes a difference.
*HollywoodHEART (click) - we are coming back for another art choice and performance for this amazing organization's summer. We'll also be doing some Social Emotional Arts programming during the year. Please support this amazing organization. They are fab!
*Senior programming - we have been at Atria senior living all over Orange County and smaller companies like Hacienda Grande in Long Beach for several years. We love our educational entertainment and can't wait to come back!
*Summer Educational Programs at museums, schools and libraries - primarily the SRPs for libraries in LA & OC are still going strong! Please visit our About page for a full brochure of offerings.
*Wellness Programming (click) and Movement Meditation lectures at wellness centers in LA/OC counties. Meditation, Energy Healing and other Offerings are also available year round. Contact us directly for these offerings.
*Artists for Action (AfA) productions - always free and open to the public - are also coming back this year (woohoo!). More details on that coming soon... expect a new link on this website over the next month. It's our 11th year and it's been an amazing journey producing these over the past decade.
*And soooo much more! More news about REMO's generous partial sponsorship for our program instruments (yay!), our Arts Council partnership on a California Arts Council grant for veterans, our continued support of Veterans for Peace, educational presentations and published work on artivism and movement meditation... all coming soon! We actually were just awarded another grant the other week. It's an amazing time!
So good. So grateful. So happy. We've been so busy and I (Tehani) have been in the throes of organizing and facilitating it all ... so much so that I haven't had a chance to update this news page in awhile. We have missed you! Please come by and say hello at one of our local events or hire us for your next shindig! We would love to see you.
Have an amazing day wherever you are and sending you all our best!
:) Tehani, Bella Rene & Tech Team
Greetings Loves! Tehani here. It has been a LONG time since I've added to this news feed here on the website and I deeply apologize. I've been so busy working out in the world that I haven't had much time to work here at the office! Hehe. I am in the throes of wedding season and so that is always a good prep for the supercharged summer ahead. Before I share the amazing happenings currently in full swing and those coming up over the summer, I wanted to share my latest newsletter here on the website because I feel it is that important. It may be a good practice to share newsletters on this page sporadically so visitors to my site who aren't subscribed can see what it is that we do here at DT Entertainment, Spirit Dancer Wellness and Tehani just doing her thing hehe ;) Here is my latest post about an event this weekend that I hope you all consider attending if you are local (OC/LA counties). Have a beautiful day full of wonder, and I'll be posting another update here with our arts and wellness happenings very soon :)
BIG LOVE! <3 T.
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Reiki, Drum Journeys and the Alpha State:
Reiki is a non-invasive, alternative holistic healing modality that activates and balances the electromagnetic field (which science has proven to exist) around the body, which is also known as the aura. Meditation has been proven to positively affect gray matter in the brain in addition to reducing pain, anxiety and even insomnia according to many studies - including this (click here) study out of Harvard University. Drum journeying and sound meditations have proven to induce the alpha state much more quickly than simple meditation alone. Designed by Tehani to empower your personal wellness practice, this weekly workshop combines Reiki, meditation and auditory input for an effective all-around soul nourishing experience to reduce cortisol, tap into the parasympathetic system in the body, increase gray matter, activate the alpha state and (of course) create regular weekly safe space and supportive community for exploring various tools and methods for inner peace, happiness and fulfillment.
*Click here for our latest newsletter on weekly programming locally in Belmont Shore 90803*
Tehani's Restoration Drum & Movement Social Emotional Arts Program for the Veteran Community at the Michelle Obama Library was a hit! Special thanks to Librarian Shiloh Moore at the Michelle Obama Library, the City of Long Beach, the Arts Council for Long Beach, Veterans in the Arts, assistant facilitator Cadie and team DT for making this happen! Dancing Tehani (Jennifer Tehani Sarreal) has been made a partner for Veterans in the Arts with the Arts Council for Long Beach to serve the veteran community through the performance arts, social emotional arts, community building and empowering programming. We are very excited here at DT! Great job team! For this and other wellness programs, visit our wellness page here or join our mailing list on the contact page to get involved. More good to come...
MP3 Meditations are now available for your wellness rituals and routines! Affordable, instantly accessible and created with your sense of harmony in mind, they are now available straight from our website. Download MP3 meditations from our Store! Wishing you happiness, connection and fulfillment always.
:) Tehani & Team
There has been much access to articles about Tehani and her work (such as the articles below), but very little access to the articles written by her as both a columnist and contributing writer for newspapers and magazines. Check out our Published Work (click here) page on this site for a few full-length articles written by Jennifer Tehani Sarreal on art and activism available in PDF.
We are so pleased to announce for our THIRD consecutive year that Spirit Dancer Wellness (click) of Dancing Tehani and JenniferTehaniSarreal.com has received Top Pro status at service provider Thumbtack! Putting Tehani and her Spirit Dancer Wellness services in the top 3% of all service providers across industries! Top Pro status is something you cannot pay for and is based solely on hires and customer reviews - which are stellar! This is wonderful news and we can't wait to bring you many more years of high-quality, heart-centered and empowering services!
BIG LOVE!
Tehani & Team xo
RESTORATION Drum & Movement (click here for flyer) created by Tehani. For more information on this 2018 program sponsored by the Arts Council for Long Beach, Home Front Rising and Veterans in the Arts, click to view the event flyer in the link above or visit our Wellness page.
YES! It is happening! Read our latest newsletter for details on this course and many more coming to a town near you! First stop: Los Angeles. Next Stop: Long Beach, San Diego, then Sedona! I would love for you to join me!
Click for full details here: Introduction to Spirit Dance at LA Trade School Open to ALL!
Greetings friends! Tehani here :) I apologize that the image is so small. I rarely get photos from these Spirit Dance Workshops and will make it a point to take more. I will be teaching an introduction to the Spirit Dance Method at the LA Trade School - yay! I love the communal movement and I thought it was a great introduction to roll out that is accessible to everyone before I announce the next three workshop events I have for the spring. Look me up at this free event here: http://www.tradeschool.coop/LosAngeles/ (scroll down to Spirit Dance!) . Hope to see you there and please share with anyone who may be interested in this free co-op based on community, sharing and the importance of in-person face-to-face gatherings! Love it.
Dance - literally - saved my life. 10 years ago (2008) marked a very dark time of trauma, internal struggle and external onslaughts of hardship... then, finally GROWTH that I wouldn't give up for anything in the world. Though, the journey was not always pleasant. From my physical health to my emotional/mental health to my spiritual health... I developed all of the textbook issues and challenges of those who experience violence and trauma and suppress its symptoms. After my father's death, I cleaned up my uncle's suicide (he shot himself, and I helped retrieve letters and belongings he left behind), I found myself mutually estranged from a family support system, isolating myself in my work and living alone for a decade... during that time I had no idea how much trauma I held in my body until I finally admitted something was off (though I'm as womanly as they come, I am such a guy when it comes to both dealing with stress and compartmentalizing information in my mind). I went to therapy, I went to support groups, I got lost in relationships I knew I didn't want (as I acquired the false belief that love was not worth it if it could leave me), I buried friends and then began self-destructive behavior. I'm a happy hedonist, but the fun I searched for at the beginning did not make me happy and I knew it (hence the destructive label). To this day it perplexes me that I never became a drug addict. I did other things that could have killed me (including testing fate and doing dangerous things that could have shattered all my bones and killed me). Grief is a real thing and those of us who do not recover from it for long periods of time (my father was my best friend) begin to push through and life half-lives until we feel "OK" enough to enjoy life. Dance... quite frankly... was my only joy. And sharing it with others was my wonderful workaholic place of living. Now, a decade later, recognizing so much growth and healing I have achieved through movement (figurative, too) I want to celebrate a decade of my father moving onto greater adventures. Subscribe to my email list or follow me on Facebook for information. I'll be teaching a free hula workshop in February when I come back from a project in Mexico (more news on that soon). I'm thinking the end of February or even the beginning of March 2018 (my father's birth month). Sending you all my love and thanking you for supporting a business that has not only helped empower others but... saved my life at the worst point of my self-destructive behavior a decade ago. It's my life's passion to share this joy that is dance with others. Sharing our stories and sharing art is so healing. Thank you for the beauty and experience that has become my life's work and joy. I can't wait to share a free hula workshop with you all! Sacred Dance is also coming to LA in early March, too! Stay tuned. BIG LOVE! xoxo T.
YES! That's right, LOTS brewing for 2018 and a BIG part of my new work rolling out for 2018 is in Comparative Sacred World Dance and the Spirit Dance Method TM! Woohoo!!! Stay tuned for more - much much more transcenDANCE! More soon. Happy holidays and see you on the dance floor! xoxoxo T.
Cheers, my friends! Tehani here :) I wanted to thank you all for an AMAZING year of laughter and love and dance and inspiration and healing and beauty and passion so many ineffable moments of GOODNESS!!! Pax et Bonum! Loving this work and loving you. As is my regular Tehani Birthday Week tradition, I am offering specials and discounts in both our award-winning wellness and entertainment programs/services created by yours truly. Many of you have received these notices already. If you aren't signed up to the newsletter, you're missing out! From December 20th to December 26th, book any service with me and my team (up to 7 months out into the next calendar year) for a 30-40% discount - yes, really! Being born on Boxing Day (read: Kwanzaa and the "Day After Christmas") I've always felt like the middle child when it came to birthdays (though I am the youngest in truth). It always feels good to gift people with more time, more bang for their buck and more VALUE in appreciation for support of this business that both inspires and sustains me year after year. I love showing my gratitude in this way and it just feels good! So join our email list and celebrate this good time of giving with us! And don't forget, that for every single live fire show I book, I donate 10% of it to Defenders of Wildlife! YES to paying it forward!!! Sending you all love and happiness this warm holiday season. Happy Yule! Happy Hanukkah! Merry Christmas! Happy Kwanzaa! Happy Birthday! Happy Everything.
BIG LOVE!
Tehani & Bella Rene xoxo
