About Alena
Alena has danced all her life. From a little girl, her early years of studying dance of different choreographies left her feeling empty.
What excited her most about dance was the pure exhilaration of just putting on music and dancing freely. What Alena valued most about this experience was the true freedom she experienced in doing this and the feeling of almost disappearing inside the dance unencumbered by shouting dance teachers about form and choreography.
This realization led Alena to pursue the study of dance and movement to enter altered states such as trance for healing and guidance.
Since then, Alena has traveled extensively (including the US, Europe and India) to experience processes and teachings of dance and movement for transformation and healing, in other parts of the world.
Bringing this work back to her home country Australia, Alena's focus is on assisting people to find their path to ecstasy, joy and surrender through dance and movement.
She feels very passionately about dance and believes that from ancient times the dance, song and drum acted like the 'glue' that brought community together. Tribal cultures acknowledged their ancestors, nature and earth’s rhythms as an important part of their life.
Alena’s vision for Organic Dance is to draw people togetherr, once again, to acknowledge and celebrate the earth’s rhythms; to use dance, song and drum for personal and collective healing. For Alena, this means practicing dance rituals to acknowledge the earth and its rhythms through celebration. Alena’s teachers include Gabrielle Roth (5 Rhythms) and faculty teachers, Osho Active Meditations of Pune, India and the work of Shamanic Teacher, Frank Natale who first introduced Trance Dance.
Alena is currently studying under Reinhard and Cornelia Flatischler who teach 'Taketina'. Taketina is about learning to play your body like a musical instrument (see www.taketina.com for further information).
She also travels to the US to participate in Fire Dances and is exploring Tantra as another ecstatic practice to weave into guided dance journeys and rites of passage.
If you would like to participate in a class or you have a group of people in your community that you would like to introduce this work to, then please contact Alena at info@organicdance.com.au. She currently runs dance and movement classes in Australia and the US and is open to sharing with your community.
