JIM BEMENT

TEACHING STYLE
Deep Dance Meditation focuses on spirituality and inner emotional expression through movement, flow, and music, allowing healing, wellness, and empowerment of individual bodies, minds, and spirits to lead to communal healing of the world. This class provides a comfortable, safe, and welcoming space for all levels and especially parents, youth and people with medical conditions.

PHILOSOPHY
Jim did daily meditation in the monastic temples of Tengboche and Shyangboche, Nepal and with Vipassana practitioners in Thailand. Being meditatively mindful and present in the here and now of each musical phase adds greatly to these movement classes. Authentic inner movement and sharing with each other in heart-to-heart connectedness while saluting the divine activates the healing process.

CERTIFICATIONS/TRAINING
Jim holds Fellow of Life Management Institute (FLMI) and CPR certifications. He has made Dean’s List in classical/ballet/modern dance/ethnic music studies at the University of Florida, UCSB, and UCSD conservatories under Marion Anderson, Cherry Rhodes, Paul Jenkins, James Welch, Miriam Lafar, and Peter Robuffo. For years, he has been a dance and radio DJ, including the Public Radio show “Music for Health and Relaxation” and KCSB avante garde show “New Sounds Workshop”, and is a member of the American Guild of Organists.

Jim has taught throughout the US as well as in Hong Kong, Paris and in Thailand at the Banglamung Home for the Aged and Rayong AIDS Orphanage. Jim performs in nursing homes and works with the Family Services Agency mentoring program. He serves on the Board of Directors of Harmonic Solutions and the Dance Away Committee.
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OF INTEREST
Jim has traveled to 20 countries, climbed the summits of Kilimanjaro and Cotopaxi, hiked to the Everest Base Camp, played the organs at the Mormon Tabernacle and Sydney Opera House, and enjoys what his student Hanna Thost calls “a rich life”, dancing almost every day and walking his landlord’s dog Amigo near Barker Pass while enjoying the luscious beauty of our town and unique creativity and heart of its citizens.

CLASSES TAUGHT @ GTY  
Deep Dance Meditation (donation class)

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