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Hope you can make it to a midsummer get-together and class with Charmaine Friday, July 30 at Studio 206 Downtown. Our summer hiatus will continue after that for August as well (Charmaine will be spending August once again looking after Roger, who has one more hip surgery “vacation” scheduled for Aug. 9).

After the August break, a new session of SynergyDance classes will start Sept. 10.

In the fall, the five-week series of classes at Studio 206 10 to 11:45 a.m. Fridays) will run Sept. 10, 17, 24, Oct. 1 and 8. The five-week session is $75.

If you have any questions or want to sign up, go to our Contact page or call us at 540.987.8696. Otherwise we’ll see you at 206 W. Market St., Charlottesville, for the one-time class July 30.

We’re late getting word about about the current series of Charlottesville SynergyDance classes with Charmaine Lee. It was to be a six-week session starting two weeks back, but we couldn’t get the notice onto the web site until today. So next Friday, May 14, is now the first of a four-week session of classes at Studio 206 Downtown.

Unless you’ve already signed up for the six-week session, the cost is $60.

Classes are 10 to 11:45 a.m. Fridays on May 14, 21, 28 and June 4.

After that, Roger will be headed back to the hospital June 7 and then home for recovery after his hip replacement is revised, this time we hope for good, so there will be no class on June 11. Then Charmaine will start a new session of classes on June 18.

If you have any questions or want to sign up, please be there at 206 W. Market St. before class starts at 10 a.m., or call us at 540-987-8696.

Hope to see you in class!

Continuing Monday and Thursday morning SynergyDance classes at Chevy Chase Ballroom resume after our winter holiday break — starting on Monday, Jan. 4, 2010, with Charmaine. Elyse will be back Thursday, Jan. 7.

Students of all levels are welcome to start the classes at any time. You can purchase a 10-class card for $200; the card is valid for three months. Single-class drop-ins are $24; for those trying out the classes who want to continue, the cost of the single class can be applied toward a 10-class card.

Classes at Chevy Chase Ballroom, 5207 Wisconsin Ave. NW, are 9:30 to 11 a.m. every Monday and Thursday. Monday’s classes are taught by Charmaine Lee; Thursdays are led by by Elyse Williams.

New year, new decade, and a new seven-week series of Charlottesville SynergyDance classes with Charmaine Lee that begins this coming Friday, Jan. 8 at Studio 206 Downtown with a complementary class!

If you have any questions, please be there at 206 W. Market St. before class starts at 10 a.m., or call us at 540-987-8696.

The seven-week session follows, and classes are 10 a.m. sharp to 11:45 a.m. Fridays on Jan 15, 22, 29, Feb. 5, 12, 19 and 26. The seven-week session fee is $105; drop-ins, $17; seniors, $12.

Hope to see you in class!

A new six-week series of Charlottesville SynergyDance classes with Charmaine Lee begins this Friday, Nov. 6 at Studio 206 Downtown! If you have any questions or want to sign up, please be there at 206 W. Market St. before class starts at 10 a.m., or call us at 540-987-8696.

A short three-week session of SynergyDance classes with Charmaine Lee at Charlottesville’s Studio 206 starts Sept. 11.

The series continues Sept. 18 and Sept. 25. Session fee is $45; drop-ins $17, seniors/students $10. Classes are 10 to 11:45 a.m.

The next Cville session will begin Oct. 2 and will run five weeks (Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30). Sign-up fee for that five-week October session is $75 — or you can sign up for both September and October sessions, eight weeks in all, for $110.

Continuing Monday and Thursday morning SynergyDance classes at Chevy Chase Ballroom resume after our late-summer break — starting on Thursday, Sept. 10 with Elyse; Charmaine will be back Monday, Sept. 14.

Students of all levels are welcome to start the classes at any time. You can purchase a 10-class card for $200; the card is valid for three months. Single-class drop-ins are $24; for those trying out the classes who want to continue, the cost of the single class can be applied toward a 10-class card.

Classes at Chevy Chase Ballroom, 5207 Wisconsin Ave. NW, are 9:30 to 11 a.m. every Monday and Thursday. Monday’s classes are taught by Charmaine Lee; Thursdays are led by by Elyse Williams.

A new three-week Synergy Belly Dance series with Charmaine Lee begins Sept. 15 at Mountainside Physical Therapy, 12625 Lee Hwy. (opposite Rock Mills Road and Rappahannock High School). Classes are Sept. 15, 22 and 29, Tuesday evenings from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. All three classes are open to all levels and are $33 for the session, $13 for drop-ins, $9 students/seniors.

SynergyDance classes will continue through August 17 at Chevy Chase Ballroom, 5207 Wisconsin Ave. NW, in D.C. this summer. All classes run 9:30 to 11 a.m.

The schedule is:

• Thursday, July 30: Elyse Williams
• Monday, Aug. 3: Charmaine Lee
• Thursday, Aug. 6: Elyse Williams
• Monday, Aug. 10: Lauren Stempler/Dana Verkouteren
• Monday, Aug. 17: Charmaine Lee

We’ll be closed for the last two weeks of August, back to our normal Monday-Thursday schedule in September.

There are three drop-in dates for SynergyDance classes with Charmaine Lee at Charlottesville’s Studio 206 in late July and August, after which we will take a late-summer hiatus for two weeks before we return in September.

The drop-in fee is just $15 for each of these classes, which will run from 10 to 11:45 a.m. on July 31, August 14 and August 21. Studio 206 is located at 206 W. Market Street in Charlottesville, Va.

A new four-week session of Synergy Belly Dance classes with Charmaine Lee starts July 28 at Mountainside Physical Therapy, 12625 Lee Hwy. (opposite Rock Mills Road and the Rappahannock High School) in Washington, Va. The classes, open to all levels, run from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. on July 28, Aug. 4, 11 and 18.

The series costs $44, $13 for drop-ins, $9 students/seniors.

Things that are over: spring, apparently; false starts; health-related cancellations and schedule changes. Things that start anew: Synergy Belly Dance classes with Charmaine Lee at Mountainside Physical Therapy, 12625 Lee Hwy. (opposite Rock Mills Road and the Rappahannock High School).

The classes are now moving to Tuesday evenings — starting next week, June 30, and they run from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. This is a four-week session, with three more all-levels-welcome classes on July 7 (full moon), 14 and 21.

The series costs $44, $13 for drop-ins, $9 students/seniors. If you have any questions or would like to sign up, call us at 540.987.8696 or head to the News page over at synergydance.com.

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Roger Piantadosi
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The next five-week session of SynergyDance classes with Charmaine Lee at Charlottesville’s Studio 206 starts Friday, June 26.

This summer’s SynergyDance Intensive, 8 days of SynergyDance teacher training with founding director Charmaine Lee, has been scheduled for Aug. 17-24, 2009. The program begins and ends with a Monday morning SynergyDance class in Washington, D.C., and is otherwise a residential program (for out-of-town attendees) for the days between, at our rural retreat in Rappahannock County, 70 miles southwest of D.C. Transportation to and from D.C. or Dulles Aiport and close-quarters lodging is included for up to 8 participants.

Whoa! NPR’s “Morning Edition” used two tracks from Roger’s SynergyDance, Vol. 1 CD yesterday (Wednesday, April 29). So they only played about 14 seconds of the CD’s first track, “Charmaine,” coming out of a report from Israel on swine flu, but it was still a great surprise. And, though the local D.C. public radio station didn’t use it, the npr.org web site says they then used two minutes of the CD’s second track, “Breeze,” as a bed during the break that most local NPR stations use for local weather or news.

Feeling better now that spring is here at last? (Or summer, or whatever you call this late April heat wave?) Charmaine definitely is feeling much better after a long winter, and we both also want to apologize for the health-related cancellations and schedule changes of the last Synergy Belly Dance series — and invite you to join the next session of Wednesday evening classes, which starts May 20.

The start of The Link’s SynergyDance Spring series has been delayed to April 21 due to a succession of inhibiting factors. The classes will be 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays, April 21, 28, May 5, 12, 19, 26 with Virginie Audrain; the cost is $90 for the series, $17 drop-ins, $10 teens/students.

April 17 begins a new series of Friday morning classes at Studio 206 Downtown from 10 to 11:45 a.m. with Charmaine Lee and Virginie Audrain. This seven-week class session runs April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29.

The cost for this seven-week session is $105. Single classes are $17, students, $10.

Teacher Danielle Vierling, writing about the Empress on theBlueLightLady.com tarot blog, sheds light on how the Empress represents the embodiment of creative power — and how SynergyDance and its founder Charmaine Lee played this role in Danielle’s own creative life years ago. You can read the post here.

[This article is reprinted from PolarityTherapy.org, the online resource for polarity practitioners worldwide, created and maintained by Philip Young and Morag Campbell.]

As the pharmaceutical industry’s “one pill for every disease” concept loses credibility among medical professionals and researchers, author and researcher James L. Oschman writes, many of the most thoughtful clinicians are beginning to look at organisms and cells as physical/energetic systems rather than as “bags of chemicals.”

In this atmosphere, Oschman writes, Randolph Stone’s concepts of polarity — and the fundamental causes of inflammation and disease — take on primary significance. He explains why in this article, originally written for those who interested in his workshops on the same subject. (If you are, click on the link under his name to go to his web site.)

On March 3, weekly SynergyDance classes with Virginie Audrain resume at the Link community center in Sperryville, Va.

March 6 begins a new series of Friday morning classes at Studio 206 Downtown from 10 to 11:45 a.m. with Charmaine Lee and Virginie Audrain. This four-week class session runs March 6, 13, 20 and 27.

The cost for this four-week session is $60. Single classes are $17, teens, $12.

To make up for classes that were canceled last session due to a broad spectrum of health- and weather-related calamity, Charmaine Lee will be teaching a free Synergy Belly Dance class Wednesday evening, Feb. 18, 2009, at Mountainside Physical Therapy, on U.S. 211 between Washington, Va. and Sperryville, Va. The class is from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and both new and returning students are welcome.

Roger Piantadosi’s first SynergyDance compilation was released Dec. 16, 2008, and now “SynergyDance, Vol. 1,” which features music composed for or inspired by founding director Charmaine Lee’s SynergyDance classes, is available on iTunes.

SynergyDance classes with Danielle Vierling return to Ireland soon — on Sundays at Olive Tree Studio, off Camden Street in Dublin City.

Kick-Start 2009, the annual Celebration of Dance and Movement sponsored by Dublin’s Cultivate Living & Learning Centre, will feature a SynergyDance workshop session with longtime Ireland-based teacher Danielle Vierling.

Starting Wednesday evening, Jan. 14 (not Jan. 7, as previously announced), Synergy Belly Dance classes for all with SynergyDance founder Charmaine Lee and teacher Virginie Audrain begin again at Mountainside Physical Therapy, 12625 Lee Hwy. (the old Oasis CD building) in Washington, Va.

On Jan. 6, weekly SynergyDance classes with Virginie Audrain resume at the Link community center in Sperryville, Va. The classes are Tuesday nights, 5 to 6:30, in this series of 5 weeks, which runs through Feb. 3. The series rate is $75 ($15 each), drop-ins $17. Bring your mat or a blanket and wear comfortable, layered clothing. For more information call Virginie at 540/937-5609 or email her at storydancer AT earthlink DOT net.

January 9 begins a new series of Friday morning classes at Studio 206 Downtown from 10 to 11:45 a.m. with Charmaine Lee and Virginie Audrain. The class series runs Jan. 9, 16, 23, 30, Feb. 6, 13. The cost for this 6-week session is $90. Single classes, $17 Teens, $12.

Starting this spring (2008), all Monday and Thursday morning SynergyDance classes at Chevy Chase Ballroom are continuing classes — meaning there are no longer class series that begin or end on a specified date.

Experience the symbiotic relationship between the self-healing movement of Charmaine Lee’s SynergyDance process and the energetic and practical foundations of Dr. Randolph Stone’s Polarity Therapy model with this four-weekend training, starting December 13-14, 2008 and ending March 14-15, 2009, with the founding director of SynergyDance. The training takes place at our country retreat in the Blue Ridge foothills of Rappahannock County, Va.

A new series of morning classes at Studio 206, 206 W. Market St. on Fridays from 10 to 11:45 a.m. with Charmaine Lee and Virginie Audrain. The class series runs Oct. 31, Nov. 7, 14, 21, Dec. 5, 12, 19. The cost for this 7-week session is $136. Single classes, $20. Teens, $12. No class on Nov. 28, the day after Thanksgiving.