Dondi Dahlin and Titanya Dahlin – Awaken the Five Elements Through Belly Dance and Ceremony
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Dondi Dahlin and Titanya Dahlin – Awaken the Five Elements Through Belly Dance and Ceremony
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Experience the healing, joy, and embodiment of belly dancing as energy medicine for your physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.
Awaken your true essence through sacred ceremony — tailored to balance your dominant elemental energy type.
It may surprise you that belly dance is actually a form of energy medicine…
… activating physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.
Through the gentle flow of movement, you bypass the mind and experience a truly somatic healing experience.
Suitable for all shapes, sizes, and ages, belly dancing allows you to embody your true essence quickly and easefully, as you activate the powerful energies of your root chakra…
… opening you to a freeing feeling in the body with greater comfort in your own skin, heightened creativity, and deeper joy.
Belly dancing can help you reclaim your body from objectification, cultural taboos, and the emotional weight of family stories. Physical weight loss can be a benefit as well. AND, it’s also a lot of fun!
This is NOT Las Vegas-style belly dancing, performed in scant, navel-exposing, see-through, and sequined costumes, and choreographed to be alluring to men — the incorrect perception many have of this ancient dance form.
Rather, it’s healing movements for YOU, with yourself as your own witness.
Traced back to the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Africa, the traditional, ancient form of belly dancing was created by women and performed by women, FOR women — during fertility and pre-marriage ceremonies, as well as to celebrate each other’s beauty, femininity, and stages of womanhood.
In Awaken the 5 Elements Through Belly Dance & Ceremony, sisters Dondi Dahlin and Titanya Monique Dahlin — both highly experienced energy medicine and dance teachers — will guide you through gentle belly dancing movements AND sacred ceremonies…
… and you’ll learn practical tips for self-care, self-empowering exercises, and strategies for creating your own altar — as powerful ways to work through your challenges and get back into balance to experience greater joy and wellbeing.
Reclaiming Balance Through the Chinese Five Elements
According to ancient Chinese medicine, we’re each born with an inner vibration that determines our personality and the way we approach life…
This wisdom is based on the Chinese Five Elements — Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal — and we generally exhibit the qualities (or energies) of one or two.
Determining which element most describes your personality type, and honoring and working with it as your unique energy type — can help you heal physically, emotionally, spiritually.
Living out of alignment with the energies of your element, or elements, can prolong and perpetuate painful old thought patterns and stuck emotions, causing depression, anxiety, fatigue, and even illness.
For example, if you’re predominantly Water — a deep feeler who navigates more slowly through life — when out of balance, you may retreat or suffer from depression. By learning ways to work with this element, you can bring yourself back into balance to experience more clarity, peace, and joy.
If, on the other hand, you’re element is Fire, an imbalanced state may find you distracted, lacking follow-through, and getting easily burned-out… astray from your passionate, positive, and energetic Self.
Knowing the element or elements you’re uniquely attuned to — and that you were born with — is the first step to healing…
… and empowering yourself to live a more balanced, healthy, and joyous life.
Aligning with your unique elemental energy heightens your sense of compassion for yourself and others, and sets you on a journey to discovering yourself in a deeply authentic way.
Viewing your personality characteristics — and those of others — through the Chinese Five Elements enables you to develop more compassion for yourself and the people in your life…
… because you understand not only what makes you tick, but what’s at the root of the words and actions of your family members, friends, co-workers, and community.
Learning the Five Elements provides a guidebook for your life… a new lens to find solutions to your problems, understand your story about the journey you’re on, and choose a more authentic, soul-led path for the future.
AND, when the world’s oldest personality typing system meets the ancient form of belly dance, you can more easily tune into the vibration of your element.
In this highly experiential 7-week video program, you’ll:
- Experience belly dancing as healing energy medicine for greater vitality, self-confidence, and sensual embodiment
- Perform sacred rituals and ceremonies for your unique elemental energy type to connect to your authentic Self
- Uncover your unique personality characteristics — through the Chinese Five Elements: Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal
- Master communicating and working with others’ personalities by meeting them where they are — rather than trying to change them
- Receive self-empowerment exercises to help you activate your creativity AND release negativity around you
- Awaken your true essence and dissipate fear, anger, panic, worry, and grief… through sacred ceremony tailored to balance your dominant elemental energy
- Use the power of the Five Elements to cultivate more joy, clarity, and peace of mind
- Build an altar to create a sacred space for your practices
- Discover how to connect with nature in ways that honor the Earth element within you
- And much more…
Dondi and Titanya discovered the power of the Five Elements from their mother, renowned energy medicine pioneer Donna Eden.
They learned to understand each other and live with greater ease in their relationship through what they describe as the “humbling” teachings of the elements…
… discovering their own elements and honoring each others’ without judgment. They’ve also used this powerful wisdom to help solve conflicts in relationships with friends, colleagues, and romantic partners.
And it can help you too…
In each class session of Awaken the 5 Elements Through Belly Dance & Ceremony, Dondi and Titanya will take you on an in-depth journey through one of the elements, guiding you in balancing your unique energy type through simple belly dance movements, ritual, and other self-empowering exercises you can do on your own.
You’ll also engage in ceremony with Dondi, Titanya, and the other course participants.
Join us for this exciting new program and open yourself to the incredible healing shifts you can make in your life and your relationships through the discovery, understanding, and balancing of your elemental energies.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational intensive, Dondi and Titanya will guide you through an in-depth experience of each element, help you determine which element or elements match your personality, and teach you gentle belly dance movements and other self-empowering and self-caring exercises to help you align with your unique elemental energy.
The Power of Live Streaming Video
You’ll connect with Dondi and Titanya and experience their teachings through live streaming video. This connection will be easy to use and will enhance the impact of Dondi and Titanya’s wisdom and guidance. You can easily connect via audio only if you choose — through your phone, tablet, laptop, or computer.
Weekly Sessions Wednesdays at 10:00am Pacific
This course will feature seven interactive training sessions and experiential practices with Dondi and Titanya. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to be fully engaged with life and enjoy more happiness and self-love.
Module 1: Why Belly Dance & What Are the Five Elements? (January 8)
In this first class, Dondi and Titanya will share their vision for this powerful training so you’ll be grounded and prepared for the weeks to come…
Dondi and Titanya will guide you through the Chinese Five Elements, introducing one each week and enhancing it with fun and easy belly dance movements. You’ll then follow along with them as you combine the movements into brief yet powerful combinations.
You’ll also receive new self-care practices to connect you with the elements and make your journey even more profound.
Along the way, you’ll establish a deeper connection with yourself, other people in your life, and your own divine feminine…
Lesson 1: How It Works — Belly Dancing & the Chinese Five Elements
In this lesson, you’ll discover:
- The proven benefits of belly dance, the world’s oldest type of dance
- How belly dance and the Chinese Five Elements, the world’s oldest personality type system, complement each other perfectly
Lesson 2: The Power of the Chinese Five Elements
In this lesson, you’ll:
- Dive deeper into the Five Elements as a personality system, a health system — and a roadmap for navigating your life and relationships
- Use the power of the Five Elements to cultivate more joy, clarity, and peace of mind
- Master communicating and working with different personalities by meeting them where they are, instead of trying to change them
Lesson 3: Your Opening Ceremony
In your final session this week, Dondi and Titanya will walk you through:
- The importance of rituals and ceremonies in your journey — and how they connect you to your divine feminine and inner dancer
- How to re-enter a spiritual dialogue with your Inner Goddess, the inner divine light within you
- Self-empowerment homework to help you activate your creativity
Module 2: Discover the First Element — Water (January 15)
During your second class with Dondi and Titanya, you’ll come to deeply understand the beauty and mystery of Water, the first of the Five Elements.
Metaphorically, this is the beginning — nothing comes before Water in the Chinese Five Elements. As you’ll discover, those with Water signs are quite emotionally deep, taking in everything around them. Whether you or someone you love identifies with the Water sign, you’ll discover that one of Water’s gifts is the ability to slow down and not miss out on life’s little details…
Lesson 1: Characteristics of People Who Identify With the Water Sign
In this lesson, you’ll explore:
- The two distinctly different types of “Water people” — the playful baby and the wise philosopher
- Why fear is the ruling emotion of a Water type
- The two organs that govern a Water type
Lesson 2: Movement With Titanya
In this lesson, you’ll step outside your comfort zone and follow along with Titanya’s belly dance techniques that put the new insights you’ve learned into physical motion.
Even if you’ve never danced before, you’ll love this!
Lesson 3: Why Water Means Self-Empowerment
In this lesson, you’ll:
- Take the movement that you learned in the last lesson and put it into a simple combination — and see how it flows together
- Witness how the Water element calls forth the invitation to go within and take better care of yourself through Goddess Bathing and sacred gratitude
- Explore why the Water element is a Yin-type energy — and what that means for your journey
Module 3: Wood — Tap Into the Peaceful Power of the Wood Element (January 22)
Everyone sees the world in a different light — and this week, you’ll explore how the Wood personality type sees what’s wrong with the world…
And, as you’ll discover, they usually have a perfect solution for how to fix it.
Lesson 1: Understanding the Wood Type — Whether You Know One, or You Are One
In this lesson, you’ll discover:
- Wood’s archetypes: the Pioneer, the Soldier, the Visionary, and the Warrior — and how they show up in the world
- Three sanity-saving tips for a more balanced life if you’re a Wood type
- Three relationship-saving pieces of advice for communicating with a Wood type
Lesson 2: Movement With Dondi
After taking in powerful new information about the Wood type, in this lesson you’ll stand up, move, and regroup as you follow along with Dondi’s movement practice.
Lesson 3: Bringing Wood’s Health Boundaries Into YOUR Life
In this lesson, you’ll:
- Receive a self-empowerment exercise for the Wood element
- Discover why being comfortable with anger — the ruling emotion for Wood — is essential to building healthy boundaries
- Get to the root of your issues with anger — whether you avoid feeling angry or find yourself angry too often
Module 4: Explore the Passion of the Fire Element (January 29)
This week you’ll turn on the passion, the spark, and the vitality of the element of Fire!
After sharing the Fire element with you, Dondi and Titanya will give you self-care practices to balance your Fire element over the next week.
The Fire element personality is positive, optimistic, charismatic, funny, and energetic. Fires like to have fun and they like other people to have fun, too. They love to enjoy life and live big — do you?
Lesson 1: What Are Fire People Like?
In this lesson, you’ll discover:
- Why Fires are charismatic people — and the powerful ways they spread confidence and joy to whoever they meet
- How to make the most of your life as Fire — and optimize your relationships with them, too
- How, although most elements have two governing organs according to Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fires have four
Lesson 2: Movement With Dondi & Tityana
In the spirit of Fire, you’ll get into some sensual passionate dance techniques of the Zambra Mora, the forbidden dance of Spain.
Lesson 3: Your Fire Ceremony
In this lesson you’ll:
- Master high energy and celebratory combinations using the movements you just learned
- Experience a burning ceremony to release anything unnecessary in your life
- Become more conscious about negative energy
Module 5: Grounding Yourself in the Element of Earth (February 5)
This week you’ll explore the Earth element — a powerful force that makes everyone feel loved.
People who identify with the Earth element accept others for who they are and welcome their vulnerabilities without judgment. They truly believe love is all we need…
Lesson 1: Living as an “Earth” — Or Loving One
In this lesson, you’ll discover:
- The many loving, powerful, nurturing characteristics of the Earth element
- Sanity-saving tips for a more balanced life if you’re an Earth person
- Tips for being in relationship with an Earth — including being aware that their empathic nature often causes them to worry
Lesson 2: Movement With Titanya
Follow along with Titayna’s Earthy movements that flow together into a beautiful dance
Lesson 3: Your Earth Self-Care Empowerment Ceremony
In this lesson, you’ll:
- Illuminate your sacred altar by connecting with the different elements for grounding
- Go on a nature walk, honoring the Earth element within you
- Write down the ways you really want and need more time for yourself
Module 6: Unlocking the Mysteries of Metal (February 12)
This week you’ll discover the final element, Metal. People who identify with the Metal element don’t always seem present.
When they’re present, though, they’re interested in helping people reach their personal best. Because they don’t want to get entangled in issues and problems, they remain focused on what can be gleaned from the situation, and otherwise might seem uninterested in what’s happening. This makes them seem detached and aloof — but as you’ll discover, there’s much more beneath the surface…
Lesson 1: Uncovering Metal’s Many Layers
In this lesson, you’ll discover:
- Subtle ways Metals often move away — physically and emotionally — from relationships that don’t enhance their own journey
- Why Metals are often on solo spiritual journeys
- The archetypes of Metals: the Yogi, the ballerina, the queen, and the alchemist
Lesson 2: Movement With Dondi & Titanya
In this lesson, you’ll start to master five belly dance techniques representing the Metal element.
Lesson 3: Balancing the Metal in Your Life
In this lesson, you’ll dive into:
- A fun and easy self-empowerment project for balancing Metal
- The power of breathwork and other contemplative practices that usually resonate with the Metal type
- The reasons Buddha, Jesus Christ, and Mother Theresa likely had a lot of Metal traits
Module 7: Putting It All in Place for the Journey Ahead (February 19)
This week is all about integrating what you’ve learned — and celebrating how much you’ve grown.
Lesson 1: In this lesson, you’ll learn five Eden Energy Medicine techniques to balance the elements of Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal for a stronger immune system, more vitality, and greater joy. (This will include the full choreography from all five elements, led by Dondi and Titanya.)
Lesson 2: In this lesson, you’ll explore mysterious veil dancing techniques.
Lesson 3: Lastly, you’ll experience a closing ceremony and empowerment ritual with Titanya.
Module 7 will conclude with a blessing from Dondi and Titanya, where they’ll share their final thoughts and deepest wishes for you.
The Awaken the 5 Elements Bonus Collection
In addition to Dondi and Titanya’s transformative 7-week virtual course, you’ll receive these powerful training sessions with leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions complement the course and promise to take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Belly Dance: A Holistic Dance, A Unique Style of Self-Expression
Ebook From Sohaila
This simple and easy-to-read book will show you how movements of dance are tailored by the dancer to communicate their outlook and universal expressions of life. You’ll discover how dance can liberate you, revealing a rich and joyful experience.
Start healing your body, mind, and soul — and start creating a better life today! If something in your life is stopping you from being the person you want to be and living the life you want to live, let’s change that! This powerful book will get you on the path to a self-empowered approach to owning your true self-worth, bringing out your self-expression to the fullest, and being who you’re meant to be.
Sohaila is a world-renowned professional belly dance artist with over 35 years of performance and teaching experience. She’s an award-winning director and choreographer performing on major entertainment stages throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. Sohaila has published several widely referenced instructional DVDs and books on classical Egyptian dance and Folkloric dance styles and techniques. Along with being a world-class dance instructor, she has developed programs that empower women through the art of movement and self-awareness, including her NewVo Fitness program and her Sense-ual Woman program. For more information about Sohaila, please visit SohailaInternational.com.
The Five Elements for Our Modern Lives
Video Dialogue With Dondi Dahlin and Jean Haner
How can we integrate the Five Elements into our modern lives? In this interview, Dondi talks with international Five Element consultant Jean Haner, who has a 30-year background in ancient Chinese principles of balance and health.
Jean Haner, the author of The Wisdom of Your Face, The Wisdom of Your Child’s Face, and Your Hidden Symmetry teaches compassionate and affirming ways for people to understand their true nature and to feel love for everyone in their lives, including that reflection in the mirror. Jean married into a Chinese family when she was in her 20s, and began to learn about Chinese culture, philosophy, and medicine from her very traditional mother-in-law. She went on to study the deeper foundations of these ancient principles of balance and health with many teachers over the years, and learned that it has nothing to do with luck and everything to do with learning to be true to your nature. Jean is widely respected for providing fascinating and practical information, which people can put to immediate use.
Warm-Up & Cool-Down
Video Teaching From Titanya and Dondi
Warm up before you dance and cool down after you dance with Titanya and Dondi! These practices can help you increase flexibility, prevent injury, and center yourself mentally and physically before and after movement.
What People Are Saying About Dondi and Titanya…
“Dondi and Titanya make every woman feel seen, loved, and understood.”
I took Dondi and Titanya‘s class twice! [They are both] empowering, loving, and warm. Their years as professional dancers in the Middle East are entertaining and eye-opening. Their choreographies are the ultimate in feminine expression. I went on to take a workshop with their mom, Donna Eden, and used what l learned to help a family member overcome a long illness. Dondi and Titanya make every woman feel seen, loved, and understood. Their magic is infectious!
— Meret Piderman, textile arts and ceramics teacher
“I felt amazing!”
When I found myself in Dondi and Titanya’s class, I felt unfeminine with my insides hanging out from a uterine prolapse. Straight away, the movements and body carriage created a deep sense of feminine power and pride. Within weeks I came alive and my prolapse completely resolved in a few months. No more protruding parts or peeing my pants — and I felt amazing! My life has completely changed as a result, and my pelvic floor has never been so strong. Plus, I have fun doing it, not to mention the smile on my husband’s face.
— Effie Roberts, Eden Energy Medicine practitioner
“… gave me happiness, self-esteem, healing, and inspiration…”
This class gave me happiness, self-esteem, healing, and inspiration when I needed it most. I took it several times from Dondi and Titanya, and I still have my notes many years later. It’s fun, beautiful, and will bring out the best in you.
— Katy Meyrick, Librarian
“… I have a deeper understanding of myself and my stress responses, parenting style, and in general how I relate to the world…”
Dondi eloquently weaves interesting stories from her personal experiences while bringing to life an ancient system in modern-day language. In full disclosure, I know Dondi and am certified in Eden Energy Medicine. Before reading The Five Elements, I struggled to get a full grasp of the elements and how they manifest in people’s lives. I now feel I have a deeper understanding of myself and my stress responses, parenting style, and in general how I relate to the world in comparison with other elemental types. I also now bring this understanding more fully to my psychotherapy and energy medicine practices. The Five Elements is one more tool to bring all of us to a greater awareness and compassion for one another.
— Sharon Tawfilis, MA, LMFT
“… a beautiful way to honor our journeys.”
The beautiful rituals that Titanya led and created for us were amazing! They set the tone for not only our class in general but also for each of our regressions. In a time where sacredness isn’t always acknowledged, it was a beautiful way to honor our journeys. Thank you.
— Anonymous
“A MUST for your personal growth tool box.”
A MUST for your personal growth toolbox. [Dondi] has done a great job of providing insight and knowledge, which allows you to understand, relate, and connect to others in a more authentic and compassionate way. Having the knowledge to navigate relationships in a more pro
