Dance Medicine: Good for You!
Come stretch, twirl. Shimmy your shoulders and shake your hips to rhythmic and soulful world music. Come to release all your aches, your worries, tension and stress. This is the ‘medicine’ in dancing. The heart beats faster. Emotions settle down and your spirit feels refreshed. You look radiant and youthful. You feel like a brand new person! Each […]
Agnihotra and Homa Therapy
The sight and the wonderful smell of a Homa fire is now increasingly familiar to many across the globe, as people search for natural ways to relieve stress and to diminish pollution. Homa is a Vedic science of purifying and nourishing the atmosphere through the agency of fire, prepared specifically in a small inverted copper […]
Weddings and Special Ceremonies
Lovely Unique Weddings Many couples want non-tradtional wedding ceremonies that include beautiful words and rituals from different cultures. Many want their marriages to begin with blessings from the ‘village’ (the people attending the wedding) or they want to incorporate and honor the ancestors or elements of nature. It is my pleasure to help create meaningful […]
Performances for schools, libraries, camps, festivals, conferences and retreats
Ever colorful, Miss Maria… the StoryDancer, brings her stories to tell or to read, story poems and story dances, each one filling every listening ear with love. All of her delightful positive ‘lessons’ are interactive, simple and uplifting for children, teachers and families. They’re also perfect as a creative touch for your conferences and staff retreats. […]
The Village Bully
The Village Bully In one African village, when a person does something truly hurtful, work stops as everyone, young and old, circles around the accused. Each one tells all the good things they remember about the person. Every positive incident, strength and kindness is recited in detail. The ceremony can often last several days and ends in celebration. The ‘circle of love’ […]
Black History Month Spotlight: Maria Broom
Maria Broom talks about her career in Baltimore, starting as a reporter at WJZ-TV, as a teacher at Baltimore School for the Arts, a storyteller and a world-renowned dancer and theater and television actress. Broom talks about the state of the arts community in Baltimore. Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work […]
How Sixty Feels
Woke up feeling glad glad, good. Sixty and not sad. Nor sorry. An infant elder at last with the accrued freedom to speak wisdom, admire generously and bless others by simple intention. Lived through six decades and still feel as innocently safe as the first couple of decades. Maybe it should have come in the […]
From Slingshots to Drones… Who Will Abdicate the Blow
In your leisure moments, when you dwell on major problems we humans need to solve, can you fathom the immense creativity it took to come up with the mechanics of a gun? Slingshots. From long ago deadly slingshots, small and large, came the problem… how to kill, more efficiently. The human mind created a gun. […]
Gently Guided Meditation With Maria Broom
Many people want to get still and meditate but are not sure how to get started. Maria Broom (teacher, dancer, actor, author) offers this gently guided meditation as a way of clearing and resting your mind anytime and anywhere.
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Maria Broom is one the most widely respected creative talents of our time. As an actor, dancer, and author, she has dedicated her very existence to living a creative life. ArtLife/LifeArt sit down with her and gives us a look into her thinking — offering her perspective on art, life, and spirit. Many thanks to […]