Welcome!

Do you want to feel more sensual, voluptuous/virile, or sexy in your everyday life?

Do you want to be more comfortable expressing your sensuality, whether dancing by yourself, with another, or for your lover?

Join us for Voluptuous dance and add some va-va-voom to your life! Developed by M. Lisa Forner, V-dance is a philosophy and practice of movement, energy, and attitude that draws on the belly dance tradition and is informed by Kundalini yoga and sacred sexuality.

Classes will include warm-up, basic movement techniques, guided meditations, and other exercises, practices, and principles to help you connect with and express your sensual self—including “conceal/reveal” techniques. While much of V-dance is geared to women, there is an aspect for men as well (and not just as observers).
MEN ARE WELCOME TO JOIN THE CLASS THE LAST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH.

Clothing: Wear comfortable, yoga-type clothes, and something that makes you feel great about yourself, more feminine (masculine). This could be certain jewelry, scents, underwear (we won’t know but you will!), or clothing. Bring a hip scarf (lace shawls or some other fabric that can hang down a bit) and a sarong. All classes are clothed.

Workshops, special classes, and private instruction also available.

M. Lisa Forner, M.A. master dance teacher and performer, was a multifaceted professional in the Middle Eastern dance field (known as Michelle Forner) for more than a decade. In recent years she has studied sacred sexuality, Kundalini yoga, and gender differences/ relationships, which she folds into the philosophy and practice of Voluptuous dance.

During her dance training, she studied with numerous Middle Eastern dance masters in the US and Egypt. She earned her master’s degree in Dance Ethnology from UCLA and self-published her thesis, The Transmission of Oriental Dance in the United States: From Raqs Sharqi to Belly Dance, which sold more than 300 copies internationally. M. Lisa taught literally hundreds of women the art of belly dance, coached professional performers, taught dance teachers, and performed more than 800 times at a variety of venues. In addition, she was a dance archivist at the Library of Congress, wrote and lectured about the dance, and served as an expert to media and others.