Mariam Prokou

Feminine Harmonization

Oriental Dance Research Workshop – Harmonization Of Your Feminine Energy

Through oriental dance moves and under the sounds of music and rhythm, a holistic awakening of the female body is attempted in our workshop. Main aim? Releasing inner inhibitions and awakening the Primitive Female, which all women have inside and we are called to activate.

Slowly by dancing, everything that impedes the free flow of feminine energy is eliminated and your femininity begins to flow through the release of emotional and physical tension and mental resistances. In this way, the participants managing to enter an area of acceptance and freedom, where the body expresses itself through a play of joy, harmony, and communication.

Only by entering in the realm of harmony someone could be led to universal love and love for himself, which is the basis of the claim of love from others.

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Our Workshop aims to

-The promotion of feminine expression through the paths and history of the female body with symbolic dance.

-The internal harmonization, as a source of awakening of femininity, a source of vitality energy and happiness. The achievement of inner harmonization is a path leading the woman to enter and embrace all her females qualities, to discover her senses, her power and to approach her body with care, love and compassion.

-The recovery of femininity, which is an opening of the senses leading to a world of peace, maturity and evolution.

-The cooperation with agencies and sites having as purpose the research, evolution, self-knowledge and encouragement of people.

The Oriental Dance

Oriental dance acts as a mean of enhancing joy, physical expression, mental relief, and emotional development. The symbolic movements of the dance help the body develop its kinesthetic intelligence, inner grace, and harmony.

Fertile dance, as a healing means, use the opening of the senses, the coordination of the body with rhythm and harmony and uniting them into one. It also uses eye contact to awaken the personal history of the body through the particular myth of each person.

The Spiritual Form Of Oriental Dance

In its spiritual form, oriental dance is an opening of love, tenderness, a special offer from the delicate nature of woman to life. The female body is the temple of the sacred dance of femininity. Through the gentle flow of the body's circular movements, we experience a form of meditation that calms the mind, the soul and the spirit, touching the senses of the spectators on a journey of inner peace.

Woman In Oriental Dance

Oriental dance is the closest to the female nature of dance and expression of female harmony. The female body with this dance is liberated from roles that have trapped and inactivated it and is trying out new, vibrant forms of evolution of its identity.

All women can allow themselves to connect with their bodies and feel the ancient forces of rocking their hips, pelvis and the whole body, provided that they put aside the inhibitions and obstacles to the expression of their femininity.

No certain age, height or weight is needed for a woman to unfold her sensuality through dancing. Oriental dance is not competitive but an expressive dance with meaning and depth. Each woman has her own interpretive role and thus reveals her personality.

Through the Oriental Dance, a woman discovers the source of her power which rests on her abdomen and her spine (sacred bone), i.e. the spot where the energy of equilibrium flows, uniting her with mother earth on which she dances, drawing a circle centered on her existence and her creative birth.

Mariam Prokou
Feminine Harmonization
Energy Dance Therapist

BIOGRAPFY

MARIAM PROKOU

She was born in Athens and grew up in a musical family translating music into movement and dance. She was educated in the art of Oriental Dance in Paris with various masters and with Sahrazante in Cologne. She studied at the Bollywood-Oriental London. In Egypt, she was trained by Mahmoud Reda and Farina Fahmi.

STUDIO

Oriental Dance Research Laboratory in the heart of the historic center of Athens and on the most famous Psyrri pedestrian street.

Seminars

The seminars at the Oriental Dance Workshop - Harmonizing Femininity aim to connect the woman with her authentic nature with safety and respect. We return to our bodies when thoughts and words are exhausted, to experience our femininity not as a tool or role but as love, nourishment, care, emotion, unity, acceptance, and completion of femininity here and now.

PARTNERSHIPS

Partnerships with institutions and studios are intended to stimulate and enhance individual feminine expression. At the same time, through the discovery of dance body movements, synchronization, coordination, and teamwork can be improved.

PROGRAMM

Oriental Dance Workshop - Feminine Harmonization for Wome.

I had the honour to become acquainted with Mariam Prokou in the 35th world dance ‎conference of the International Dance Council (CID), which took place in Athens, in July ‎‎2013. She taught us oriental dancing in the experiential workshops, in which took part ‎renowned dancers from all over the world. Mariam, a person of high ethos, natural nobility ‎and sweetness of character, made an immediate impression. The primeval fertility dance ‎which she taught, technically impeccable, stirred everyone with its mystagogical, revolving ‎movements of hands and body, a reference to the revolving motions of the universe. The ‎dance of the belly, where the great miracle of life is given birth and the human being is ‎incarnated, becomes, through dancing, a sacred centre of diffusion of harmony and ‎equilibrium in the entire body and soul of the dancer. Mariam’s deep culture, her ‎psychotherapeutic knowledge, and her respect for the human being turn dancing lessons ‎into therapy. The emergence of femininity from the wavelike motions of the body liberates ‎the power of love and Eros, which is diffused in the universe. Learning from Mariam ‎oriental dancing is not mere entertainment; one enters into a world of light, where harmony ‎and unity dominate. Carry on my dear friend.‎

Sotiria Demopoulou, Culturist – Dance researher

I met Mariam after an invitation for a seminar entitled “Femininity Harmonization”, without ‎knowing what this could mean for a provincial region. The venue where the seminar was ‎held was the Folklore Dancing Group ‘Karagouna’ in the town of Karditsa. It was an ‎invitation to an acquaintance with oriental dancing. In an environment of ‘between then and ‎now’, surrounded by traditional costumes some of which have not been worn for over a ‎century, Mariam brought a fresh breath! More seminars followed and through them we ‎learned symbolisms which reveal memories of the female body, which remain asleep and ‎wait for the time of awakening! We discovered how to communicate with the hidden world ‎of inner woman, we learned to liberate the defenceless woman and all the natural bodily ‎motions, long forgotten in the passage of time. Mariam helped us to communicate through ‎oriental dancing, full of respect for ourselves and the others. The female body remembers! ‎The women of Karditsa always stayed close to the land, almost ploughing with their bare ‎hands, but forgot what it means to be a woman! Mariam, we thank you for everything.‎

Andromache Hakka, Midwife and Vice-President of the Folklore Dancing Group “Karagouna” of Karditsa

I remember, some years ago, how, when I arrived to EN POI, a dancing school in the ‎suburb of Maroussi for my physical exercise, it was announced to us that oriental dancing ‎classes were to begin, with Ms Mariam Prokou as teacher. I expressed my interest with ‎pleasure. My acquaintance with our new teacher was particularly pleasant, because her ‎appearance betrayed a kindly person. Her gifts as a teacher became clear in the course of ‎the teaching classes. Through them, a new and totally different world opened for me, ‎because of the culture that lay behind the dance. Every movement had its own significance ‎and a distinct place in the role of women as mothers! I will never forget the “serpent” ‎exercise, especially difficult, for me at any rate. Watching it performed by Ms Mariam it ‎seemed the simplest thing in the world! Now, a few words regarding Ms Mariam as ‎teacher. What can one say: Especially gifted, enormously patient, with exceptional ‎communication powers. As to her dancing: sheer magic! Unfortunately, my personal ‎delightful engagement ended soon, causing me great sorrow, but the experience is ‎embedded in my memory as something most interesting and pleasant. I wish to all ‎Mariam’s disciples, female and, why not, male, every success, and to her personally both ‎individual and professional achievements.‎

Irene Broussali, Retired

Through my precious and long professional life-course as a holistic physiotherapist I came ‎to believe that our body is simultaneously Form and Energy. The first contact of a human ‎being is with his/her body and its functions. Cold, heat, music, rhythm and dance are stimuli ‎which provide the sense of well-being. I love my body when it dances. My mind is allayed ‎of thoughts and intellectual resistances, my body speaks and takes a new form, it is ‎liberated, its energy changes, acquires a new shape, finds new expressions of joy, ‎sensitivity, love, gratitude to life. Five years ago, I encountered, and made contact with, ‎oriental dancing and Mariam. Her approach to oriental dance impressed me and stimulated ‎my interest. She spoke of the “harmonization of femininity through oriental dancing”. Soon ‎after, I became her disciple. I experienced the energy and strength at the epicentre of my ‎body, in the navel, in the Hara area of my belly, source, in Japanese tradition, of sexual ‎energy and of my femininity. Performing this dance, under the persistent guidance of ‎Mariam, I experienced the incredible power concealed in the swaying of the hips, in ‎combination with the movement of the spinal column and the sacrum bone. A warm liquid ‎runs through my spine up to the neck, and hence emerge a clarity of mind, feelings of love, ‎joy, harmony, a novel communication leading me to a space of acceptance and freedom. ‎It is time for women to be cured through the process of harmonization of femininity, to be ‎reconciled with their sex, to contemplate their beauty, to accept their power, to feel the ‎embrace of love, to become tender mothers. Mariam, your affection for oriental dancing ‎has showed us a new path of joy and freedom. Thank you so much!‎

Voula Xyke‎, Holistic Physiotherapist

Mariam Prokou is an excellent dancer and teacher. Her dancing is elevating and ‎contagious. When you see her dance, it is as if she embraces the whole Earth and makes ‎you keen to dance with her. She generously shares with you the knowledge of the body; ‎she has developed the semantics of dancing motions and is sensitive to your need for help, ‎when you wish to learn. She is prepared to listen and give you the necessary assistance to ‎move forward. She is a sweet person, always thirsty for personal and professional ‎improvement. Her classes are the most integrated example of their kind in our country, to ‎initiate us in the art and significance of belly-dancing. Thank you, Mariam, for everything I ‎lived and shared with you. I wish you to be always well to your old age, to dance and ‎transmit to us the beauty of your art. I love you deeply.‎

Christina Liogare, Actress, Story-teller, Animator

To dance with Mariam is to travel in a web of relations, with your body, your soul, the ‎others, the team. Always selecting an organized and disciplined approach, Mariam guides ‎each individual to turn into a ”body” that dances, makes contacts, enchants, struggles, ‎relishes. Mariam demands precision and introduces new techniques in a way that gives you ‎room and time for discovery. She has the wisdom and ability to envelop and guide you, ‎while allowing you to remain the protagonist of your own history; a history you realize that ‎you are not fully aware of; this is the magic of dance; the dance with Mariam.‎

Sophia Papaconstantinou, Psychologist

With Mariam I discovered the spirituality of dance, its ritual and semantic function. I was ‎initiated to a mode of expression, which starts where words cease to exist. I followed an ‎innate path toward the various ingredients of femininity, which are all segments of myself, ‎manifested or not. I continue on this road in her company, with love and faith in her and in ‎what she stands for.‎

Elli Karamoschou, Biochemist

Learning with Mariam is at the same time an historical journey and an energy therapy. She ‎teaches you that every movement in belly-dancing has a specific symbolism. She ‎manages to make you realize, and be reconciled with, your female nature. Mariam teaches ‎technique, joy and balance. Thank you, Mariam!‎

Ioanna Remvikou‎, Anthropologist‎

Mariam Prokou is creative, inexhaustible, full of passion for dancing. This is what I ‎experienced from my first lesson till today, eleven years later. She is always – and I really ‎mean that – drawing inspiration from the team in her class and shows us something new, a ‎quality which makes me to admire her and to steadily increase my love for dancing. There ‎is a magic in it which drives me in my mind-travels and in my enjoyment of every lesson.‎

Georgia Stoumpou, Private sector clerk

Mariam Prokou is an artist and an instructor of dance, but her work has a spiritual dimension. She is a student of Social Anthropology and studies the myths and rituals that underlie the religious elements of music and dance. Her work is an exploration of the spirit as well as an expression of aesthetic prowess. She is an instructor with depth, experience, and understanding.

Peter Fetner, Self employed

What an aristocratic lady! Mariam’s personality and her dance are examples of nostalgic ‎and aristocratic nobleness. Her authentic noble demeanour is matched by her brimming, ‎prolific and equally refined femininity. I personally adore her capacity to share generously ‎her passion for dancing, her knowledge, but also her principles. Her choices, always of high ‎quality and accuracy, distinguish her as a unique teacher of dance and a dancer of great ‎prestige and interpretation prowess in the field of oriental dance in the Greek stage.‎

Μira Balkis, Oriental Dance Artists

mariam is a dancer whom I had the joy of meeting and working alongside artistically. I was deeply touched by the delicacy and subtlety of his dance. It emanates from his dance a refinement I have rarely met. she is an artist who knows how to work with seriousness and love. thank you for all these beautiful moments of dance

Rachida Jorf, Psychologist and Dancer

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