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Ishtar
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground”. Rumi 

 
Belly Dancer Performer/teacher
Fun, inclusive, authentic, professional.
Ishtar loves to dance ,entertain and share the sensuous and fragrant art of belly dance .

 For over a decade Ishtar has performed and taught nationally and internationally and has had many TV and media appearances. She has also featured  in national magazines including Cosmopolitan, Spirit and Destiny ,Kindred Spirit  Women’s own. She has her own successful  instructional DVD ,which  has sold internationally .

Ishtar has been taught by a variety of international  Middle Eastern teachers. Although she is interested in practisng at tradition Middle Eastern forms. of dance She also  practises 'creative belly dance, and a variety of fusions.

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Ishtar has combined her knowledge of sacred and healing dance with her degree in psychology and professional qualifications in holistic therapies and counselling, to provide team building workshops, based on cooperation and creativity.
Past Clients
Regular dance for empowerment session at St Helens women’s aid, Dance . Team building and dance sessions for RSPCA, Sure start, Mnistry of defence , various hospitals,Liverpool Masons,sky Tv, BBC3,Army officers, Wirral Multi Cultural organisation. Culture days/weeks in schools. including Holly Lodge, Wallasey School and Capenhurst Grange. Indian and Arabic community events.  Wirral Hindu association. Also events in many prestigous venues for a variety of events such as Weddings ,corporate events and cultural events.female Arabic communities in the North West,childrens parties hen events and more.

 

  Ishtar first attended a dance class at age five. She has trained in a variety of dance forms . She has been a yoga practitioner for fifteen years. Ishtar has been taught by a variety of international teachers . Her grandparents were professional international dancers and had their own school. Ishtar was taught her first dance steps by her grandmother.(Little Supple.)

Ishtar has done many shows and workshops for the corporate sector, schools,  various community events. hospitals and many other settings.Ishtar has frequently  given performances for the West.
Ishtar performs cabaret, Egyptian and Turkish. She can also perform Bollywood style dance.
Drummers and an additional dancer/ dance group can be provided on request.

Ishtar holds a 2-1 BA degree in Psychology/Women's Studies and has professional qualifications in holistic healing and stress management. She also hold s a teaching certificate. She is insured to teach belly dance and also holds  a CRB cert.

Ishtar Goddess Pose
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'Ishtar teaches over a hundred students a week and has taught workshops in various  aspects of bellydance, personal growth and goddess philosophy in Britain and abroad.

'In all my work I am influenced by the spiritual aspects of Goddess worship. My philosophy is, you have the power to be yourself. Your body and all material phenomena is sacred and an aspect of spirit. '

    

Little Supple, Ishtar's Grandmother

Ishtar's Grandmother and first dance teacher  'Little Supple', was a very petite professional dancer  of North African descent. She, owned her own dance school and was responsible for many developments in dance. She was famous for her unique innovation of jumping onto a glass stage and her agile, graceful and flexible body. ''


Ishtar regularly put on shows where  students get a chance to perform. The shows are an eclectic mix of dance, music and poetry. The night is a mixture of community dance and professional performance.


Club Orientation Poster 

 Ishtar  have been teaching Psychology and Metaphysics for local education authorities for a number of years.

Ishtar sings, writes songs and plays guitar in Arabic and English and has performed internationally; working with musicians from a wide range of cultures.

Ishtar 's writing on dance health and metaphysical subjects have been published internationally. including courses for the BSY, Prediction Magazine, American archeology review and a variety of dance and holistic specialist magazines.

"For me, bellydance is a celebration of the universal cycles condensed in the figure of the divine feminine archetype. With practice life changing events can and do occur.''

For more about Ishtar including interviews please view Ishtar articles

 

Ishtar School Performance

 

 Writing and features
Ishtar's writing on dance health and metaphysical subjects have been published internationally. including courses for the BSY, Prediction Magazine, American Archeology Review and a variety of dance and holistic specialist magazines.Courses published internationally with BSY on Psychology and Sociology.   Features have appeared in Spirit and Destiny, Cosmopolitan, Women’s Own, Prediction and various trade and alternative journals.
Various dance articles published in Uk and abroad in specialist journals. (Most are also published on my site)
Abroad.Lecture in Cincinnati on Goddess religions in the Neolithic times. Other Universities in UK on similar subjects.
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