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From the moment TeachStreet launched in San Francisco, I have revisited the site at least once a month to see genius at work. So, you ask, why have I included my resistence in the title of this article?
I had been a class taking junkie taking everything from 'how to teach yoga to kids' to feng shui when in September of 2008, I came up with a great idea...

We recently added a new feature to TeachStreet, making it easy to see all of the upcoming classes in your area.  You can find upcoming...

 
I use teaching as a learning tool. A new student is like an empty painter's canvas. Slowly, as time goes by, little details start  to appear concerning the way he or she learns .
My students become my teacher, showing...

Years ago, the term "martial artist" meant an individual who studied serious martial arts: arts whose purpose was totally self-protection, even to the exclusion of martial sports and martial ways.  Today, however, "martial artist" has come to include all who study anything "martial" including the 13-year old black belt from Karate-mart.  Because of this I no longer wished to identify myself a martial artist.  Then I came across Phil Elmore's web site, The...

About Me: Maria is an International Celebrity, the winner of the first Beauty Pageant in Russia.A spokes person, a businesswomen and a celebrity, Maria encountered the technique of Kundalini Yoga to help being successful in personal life, carrier and in life fulfillment in general. Her classes are filled with humor and deep understanding of the human psyche. 
Maria travels extensively with her Yoga Seminars around the World. Throughout 2009 she presents seminars in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Also she continues teaching in Los Angeles.She believes in Kundalini Yoga Technology!!
Activities: With the Yoga boom all over the World, Maria has discovered a huge interest in Kundalini practice in Russia and is...

 
1.  Tuning in with the Adi Mantra of while sitting in cross-legged position and hands in prayer pose--
Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo (3x) 
This Sanskrit chant/mantra can help any time inspiration is in order meaning:
I bow to the infinite Wisdom of the Universe; I call upon you. I bow to the Divine Wisdom within; I call upon you!
 
2.  Warm Up Exercises a series of exercises or postures to warm up the spine and loosen the body in...

It all started with the decision to run a marathon.  That's how I ended up in this exact position at 11:45am on this Monday morning.  Here's my story.
Before I ever decided to run a marathon, I had a passion for teaching.  When I was younger, I would go into the pantry of my house and pretend to teach invisible students about the food featured in various cookbooks.  Macaroni and cheese was my favorite food to teach because it was (and still is) my favorite food on earth.  Though this is just a random example, it shows how teaching has always been in my life.  My mom is a teacher; my dad is a...

 
ONCE WE BEGAN THIS EFFORT QUITE A FEW PEOPLE
CONSIDERED US DREAMERS.
SEVERAL YEARS LATER THE DREAM BECAME REALITY.
 
GADALA ORIENTAL BELLY DANCE
SPECIALIZED CENTRE OF TEACHING BELLY DANCE.
 
Member of M.E.D.W.OR.
(Middle Eastern Dance World Organization For Distinguishing The Cultural Heritage And Folk Art Of Egypt And Countries Of The Middle East.)
 
THE ONLY SPECIALISED CENTRE OF TEACHING MIDDLE EASTERN / ORIENTAL DANCE THAT, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN GREECE GIVES YOU THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE ACQUISITION OF A RECOGNIZED AMATEUR OR PROFESSIONAL TITLE OF STUDY WITH THE VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN DANCE WORLD ORGANIZATION M.E.D.W.OR.
 
GADALA ORIENTAL DANCE STUDIO
THE DEFINITION OF QUALITATIVE ORIENTAL DANCE
Enter site
 
 
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GADALA ORIENTAL DANCE STUDIO WAS FOUNDED IN SEPTEMBER 2005 AIMING AT THE PROMOTION OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN / ORIENTAL DANCE AND THE RICH EGYPTIAN CULTURE.
THE FOUNDER OF GADALA ORIENTAL DANCE STUDIO IS THE GREEK-EGYPTIAN CHOREOGRAPHER-DANCE TEACHER GADALA (EXAMINER AND AUTHOR OF THE ORIENTAL DANCE SYLABUS FOR PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR EXAMINATIONS, RECOGNIZED BY The Middle Eastern Dance World Organization M.E.D.W.OR.)
 
 
About us:
 
OUR AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE THE PROMOTION OF THE RICH EGYPTIAN CULTURE AND FOLK ART, AS WELL AS THE VALID, SUBSTANTIAL, AND QUALITATIVE STRUCTURE OF MIDDLE EASTERN / ORIENTAL DANCE, THOROUGH LEARNING AND TEACHING.
 
THE ORIGIN, THE RICH METHODICAL EXPERIENCE AND TEACHING OF THE FOUNDER OF GADALA ORIENTAL DANCE STUDIO Mrs. GADALA FOTINI, AFTER HER LONG LASTING, AND CONTINIUS RESEARCH AND HER SUCCESSFUL ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE EDUCATIONAL SECTOR AND THE TECHNICAL TEACHING OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN / ORIENTAL DANCE, AS WELL AS THE PERCENTAGE OF SUCCESS OF HER STUDENTS, RENDERS GADALA ORIENTAL DANCE STUDIO AS THE MOST COMPETENT AND SPECIALIZED CENTRE OF TEACHING MIDDLE EASTERN/ORIENTAL DANCE IN GREECE.
 
OUR MAIN VISION AND CONCERN IS THE CORRECT PERCEPTION AND COMPREHENSION OF THE MISINTERPRETED MIDDLE EASTERN / ORIENTAL DANCE, AS IT IS BELIEVED AND REFLECTED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
 
 
 
 
 
 
Belly Dance:
 
GADALA ORIENTAL DANCE STUDIO STIPULATES THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE AUTHENTIC MIDDLE EASTERN/ ORIENTAL DANCE THROUGH THE TECHNIQUES OF TEACHING AND CONTAGIOUSNESS THAT USES, AVOIDING COMMON GUESSES AND HISTORICAL INACCURACIES THAT HAVE NO RELATION WITH THE RICH ARABIC PHILOSOPHY, TRADITION AND FOLK ART.
 
 
BELLY DANCE AS...

Teaching Technique - Legacy
BY DEFINITION: Something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past
How do you want your students to remember you?
If you are walking in a local mall and one of your former students sees you then runs to give you a hug and a thank you, would that make you happy.If you overheard one of your students saying “she is the best teacher I ever had”, How would that make you feel?
What if they did not remember your name? What if they did not even remember who you were at all?
DO YOU CARE?
 Are you concerned about the concept of legacy at all? My guess is you haven’t really thought very much about it.
THINK ABOUT IT.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be remembered fondly?Wouldn’t it be nice to be some student’s favorite teacher?
My first day of school...

I come from a teaching family. Mom taught middle schoolers and their teachers, and my sisters, Diane and Linda, are university professors teaching classics and spider biology respectively. Okay, it is an odd family. When I was seven, I was grading mom’s quizes for her middle schoolers. At ten, I was reading the Psychology Today magazines laying around the house. Somehow despite or because of this, I love to teach!
Although I teach voice lessons, the following five tips can be applied with success to teaching various skills and subjects. The following have helped my students get lead roles in school musicals, stop losing their voices, feel confident, and win early admission to university music departments. Nice.
 
1) Do it wrong!
 
If you don’t know how to do it wrong, you cannot with awareness do it right. Once I get a student clear on breathing or focusing their voice correctly, I have them go back and forth between doing it correctly and doing it incorrectly. This builds independence and inner knowing.
 
This translates easily to any physical skill, but can also be applied to tricky foreign language conventions. Why wait for a test to learn from your mistakes. Consciousness drills in knowledge and skill.
 
2) Exaggerate the habit. . .then release.
 
People usually have bad habits and goofy ideas of how to perform a skill. With voice, they have often been practicing some odd tensions for all of...