Helena recognizes that every dancer is unique. Some fabulas dancers she has studied with include Karen Custer-Thurston, Faten Munger and Judy Hanna, Tina Keevers, Charmaine, Marta Schill, and Za-Beth. She recenty attended a worshops with Artemus to study Gypsy and Tukish style.
Helena states women have danced from the dawn of history to celebrate marriage, fertitlty and childbirth. The mothers of modern daunce, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Dennis and Martha Graham used ancient dance to envoke the female archetype. Helena's dance background include aerobic, latin, tap, jazz, ballet, folk, flemingo, hula, county, ballroom and epressive, sacred and liturgical dance, and Dances of Universal Peace.
Helena has had certification by I.D.E.A. as an aerobic instructor, has degree in Addiction Sciences, Gestalt Training, and practices Dances of Universal Peace. Helena has studied the impact of spirituality, meditation and movement on helping women focus on their inner feelings an better cope with life is a hectic era. Halena has taugh classes for OASIS, Free University, All MY Relations, Red Brick Studio, Northwood Christian Church , Clarian Health, Citizen's Healthcare, Fall Creek Counseling,
Greenwood Brownie Troupes, Rehabs, Julie Bandy Performing Arts, Sacred Spage Yoga, and NOHSE. She is currently a member of ISAMETD (Indiana State Association of Middle-Eastern Teachers and Dancers.) and MEDSOK (Middle Eastern Dance Society of Kentuckyiana.)
Helena is the director of Troupe Jamileh Malika. This group has exploried oriental, tradtional arabic, tribal fusion. We have danced at at Pagan Pride Day, Penrod, the Fisher's Reniassiance Faire, Howe Academy, and the International Festival. Helena teaches students to sew and to use art in creatrivlty in costuming. We welcome women of all ages and abilites to celebrate the Goddess Spirit.
Helena has performers with the original Desert Winds, Flowers of Saville, Zbiede's Harem Dancers, and Zahara's Navel Academy, and was and officer of Indiana's Middle-East Dance Club.
Troupe Jamileh Milka has perfomed at the Fisher's Renaisannce Fesival 2006 and 2007 as the 7th Caravan of Zott: Rom for the 14th century. They do creatve psychic readings for events and gypsy tea parties.
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Helena brought her creativety to L.S. Ayres, and Blocks working as a make up artist for many years through Images and Act One.
She brings this knowlege of stage presence, photograpy, and make up, and skin care to her dance students. These are helpful tools for women to radiate confidence and beauty.
Helena has worked as a counselor for 16 years. She has facilitated dance therapy groups at Larue Carter Hospitial. There is and increased awareness of the need for abused women to learn to be present in their bodies and develop more self love and love for thier bodies. Helena has also been involved in some litergical dance and folk dace with aldolescent females in corrections and Girl Scouts at Camp Delwood.
Oriental dance is recomended as great tool to aide in healing body and soul. Many people who have been abused find healing in oriental dance. Oriental dance s recommeded for for pre-natal exercise to strengthen the pelvic floor.
Helena Zahara has been studying Oriental Danse or Raks Sharki in her Lebanese family tradition of dance since 1974. Three generations of dancers from her family of fame currently include Zbeide, Nanoura, Sofelia, and Jetalia. This blessed her with the opportunity to have danced at a young age with some of the wold's greatest musicians including George Abdo, Eddie Kochak, Mike and Buddy Sarkissian, Il Troubadore, Salaam Band , and Frederick Elias.
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