Mariam gave me dancing lessons back in 2005! An astonishing teacher endowed with ‎patience and deep knowledge of the subject she teaches, full of creativity and ‎enthusiasm; she dances with unparalleled sensitivity, grace and elegance, while ‎femininity and female nature are praised in the female classes she has organized. ‎She accompanies every woman attending her classes in an inner journey of self-‎discovery and contact with the female power inside her. The outcome is the creation ‎of a superb fraternity of women joined in a praise of the female spirit! There is only ‎one quality that surpasses the magic of Mariam’s art and that is the light of her soul; ‎what distinguishes her is her rare social sensitivity, her active concern for human ‎beings, animas and the environment, and her support for all weak social groups. It has ‎been an honour for me to know her as an artist and as a human being.‎

Irida, Jurist and Pro-Dance ‎

Dance, in spite of my trials and experiments, was for me a tricky affair, because of ‎the necessary subordination to form and to team coordination and the prerequisite ‎dexterity of mimicry. Its magic, however, was a great bait. This magic found its ‎expression, from the first moment, in Mariam’s person and movement. Ethereal, ‎female, and flowing, she provoked you to tune to the rhythm of your nature, and hold ‎it in your arms; then to mould and shape yourself in order to gain substance and ‎impress it in space. This was a hitherto unknown experience of mixed joy and anger; ‎joy because of the beauty which forced you to unravel your inadequacies and your ‎potential, the false and the harmonic; anger, because every change is painful, ‎specially when it cannot be achieved solely through speech, but requires a primeval ‎and deep movement. What is more, communication within our group uncovered and ‎healed all female wounds. Mariam Prokou does not merely teach dance; she is a ‎healer who points us the way to discover, build ties and heal the fragments of our ‎female substance. With love and high esteem,‎

Zinovia Antoniadou‎, Qualified Hatha-Yoga teacher, Accupuncturist and Herb-therapist

Mariam, I feel very fortunate for having met you, but also unfortunate for being ‎unable to be with you, because of physical distance. As to your work, each time I ‎attended your class I was filled with joy and positive energy; even your classes which ‎are uploaded in the Web make me feel that I participate in the class group. ‎Congratulations for your work and for what you lovingly transmit!‎

Amerissa Makris, .

What an astonishing teacher and a superb person Mariam is! She takes your hand ‎tenderly and steers you to known and unknown places with motherly care, ‎experience and the knowledge of an exceptional instructor. Really unique, in ‎everything she does! I thank her with all my heart for everything we shared.‎

Roula Tsichlis, Physiotherapist

My experience with Mariam was more than just belly dancing classes. Apart from being a creative feminine dance, she channels an energetic, spiritual element through her teachings. Her focus is on engaging a woman power centre through conscious mindful womb centre activations, movement and flow. My personal experience was that I was able to activate kundalini energy and transcend into another state. Mariam was able to hold a safe space for me to experience this. I am forever grateful to her for the important feminine work that she is doing. A must for anyone wanting to connect with her femininity.

Kelly Kakulas, Kinesiologist

I was lucky and blessed to know Mariam Prokou. The first thing that impressed me ‎when I met her was her hands; unbelievable hands that danced! Then came her ‎glance, which portrayed the meaning of her dance. What is unique is not just her ‎talent, her dancing skills, and her knowledge of dance, but, above all, the gift of ‎transmitting these qualities! With Mariam, you do not simply learn to dance, but also to ‎love your body, youthful or mature, lean or plump, and to sway it with audacity and, ‎mainly, with ethos! If I could use one work to describe Mariam, this would be Quality. ‎

Penny Papaioannou, Private sector clerk

Mariam overflows with femininity in her every movement and she knows how to ‎transmit this openhandedly to her apprenticing dancers; she teaches them how to ‎enable the qualities of their female nature to resurface, qualities which have shrunk in ‎the daily routine of the western way of life. Her tuition is not the mere learning of ‎oriental dance movements; as accurately described in the title of her classes, it is a ‎broader learning of feminine harmonization; a lesson for life much needed by all ‎women, because we do not have to discard our female element, in order to reach ‎emancipation. On the contrary, it is essential that we activate it, to make it gush out of ‎our body, because “woman” signifies “serene power”.‎

Stefi Basiakou, Dance-therapist

Mariam Prokou is a colleague whom I value more than any other; I value her as an ‎oriental dance teacher, because her teaching comes out of her heart, with love and ‎respect for her female disciples and for dancing. She is close to them, and they jointly ‎create a happy company and lay the foundations for new friendships. Mariam, a ‎restless artistic spirit, is always in search of new ways of teaching and knowledge. ‎She organizes fine performances and takes care to make her disciples feel ‎comfortable on stage, while performing a choreography which brings out their skills. ‎Having engaged for years in a variety of dances, her approach to oriental dances is ‎creative, escapes from stereotypes and is based on her personal research and on ‎individual development through movement.‎

Alexandra Foteinou, Dancer and dance teacher

My acquaintance with Mariam Prokou and my apprenticeship in her workshop have ‎been for me a most touching experience of contact with my female substance.‎

Nana Boutou, Educationalist and drama-therapist

I used to think of oriental dancing as something alien and distant. Until I met Mariam, ‎a lace-embroidered and fine-woven, like cobweb, person, who showed me that ‎everything is inside us, provided we want to discover it.‎

Katerina, Clerk

While sensing my bond with the mother-womb, I heard a voice … “You are daughter, ‎mother, grand-mother”, the rope that binds you with all your roles … But are you a ‎lover? Yes, you are! The role of lover ties together all the others, it is the one that ‎seeks to explain the rest … Virgin and Whore, I am not ashamed for what I discover, ‎this is the Woman. This was the sperm I planted in the intercourse within the ‎workshop on the “harmonization of femininity”.‎

Panayota Rangou , Painter and holistic therapist

Mariam Prokou, my so dear teacher, taught me to love movement, through the ‎Harmonization of Femininity and self-concentration. Mariam possesses a quality out ‎of the ordinary: When teaching, she shows that she is in love what she is doing and ‎tries always with her fine character and her patience to help us learn, to cherish what ‎we are doing and to create. She really is exceptional and I love her dearly.‎

Sophia Koulaxizeli, Accountant

I wish to thank you be because with your dancing classes in you School you made ‎me love dancing; you are superb as a human being and an excellent dance instructor!‎

Eleni Katsari, Laboratory Technician

Mariam is a very pedagogue teacher. She has a long experience and she transmit it with a lot of kindness. She takes time for each person to explain how to progress. She s a sweet person, who work with her heart. It s a real pleasure to learn with her.

Safia Dely, Art therapist and Dancer

Every woman is a unique expression of the godly-holy Female. To reach equilibrium ‎we need to make contact with all the qualities which correspond with our female ‎nature inside us. With some we may have already a balanced and healthy ‎relationship, with some others not. Through the movements of oriental dancing and ‎the class on feminine harmonization, with Mariam’s assistance, I acquired the ability ‎to express even my more intractable feelings. In my daily work as a psychologist I ‎had experienced situations of emotional stress and great pressure, the result being ‎that I frequently felt rigid, as if wearing an armour. Yet, the moment I started dancing I ‎relaxed, I came in touch with emerging sensations and I was transformed into a ‎strong, beautiful and seductive woman, in full control of herself and with indescribable ‎self-confidence. I learned to dance first for myself and then for others. I thank the ‎opportunity which was given to me to be part of an action linking body and soul.‎

Efi Voura, Psychologist

I met Mariam Prokou in an unconscious need, which took shape as a search to return ‎to my authentic self and allow it to find expression in the movements of dance and in ‎the beauty of femininity as a source of vital energy. Mariam Prokou is a Priestess of ‎the art of oriental dance. She can initiate us, in the sense of an introduction through ‎teaching; to guide us so as to make contact with all our female qualities, to embrace ‎them and to allow them to find expression in our own distinctive way. Once we ‎achieve that as women, we can then connect with our male qualities and harmonize ‎them with the female ones, so that care, love and compassion become equal to ‎strength and action. The full internalization of the gifts of both actions and the chance ‎to make possible their unity in and out of ourselves contribute to a world of peace, ‎maturity and evolution. ‎

Foteini Makaratzi, Theatre specialist