Deb Rubin, Founder, SattyaBody:
Deb Rubin, MA, CMT, RYT has been a life-long dancer and performer, trained and proficient in many styles, including Salsa, West African, Modern, Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop, 5-rhythms, Contact Improv, Gymnastics, and of course Tribal Fusion Belly Dance. She has been a 5+year core member, and co-choreographer with the ground-breaking, trend-setting Ultragypsy Bellydance Theater, until Fall, 2007, and a regular sub for Jill Parker’s classes, who is known by many as the founder of tribal fusion. Deb has also studied extensively from, and been creatively influenced by Rachel Brice and Mardi Love, as well as Zoe Jakes, Mira Betz, and Heather Stants. She also holds a level 1 certification from Suhaila Salimpour School of Dance. A sponge for learning, and a seeker of continually deepening her repetoire and relationship to the dance, Deb is well versed within the tribal fusion genre, having also studied with Kami Liddle, Frederique, Amy Sigil, FCBD, Cera Byer, and others. Currently, Deb teaches and performs nationally and internationally, offering her yogic approach and unique stylization of Tribal Fusion Bellydance. Most recently, she assisted Rachel Brice in her 5-day Tribal Massive intensive 2008, performed with Heather Stants and Urban Tribal at Tribal Fest 2008, and co-taught a retreat with Sharon Kihara in Hawaii, Dec. 08. She also produces SF Mecca Immersion, the first Tribal Fusion Belly Dance retreat/immersion event in the heart of the San Francisco.
As a performer, Deb is honored to have collaborated and shared the stage with amazing artists such as: Balkan Beat Box, Beats Antique, Brass Menazerie Balkan Brass Band, EOTO, Vibesquad, Hamsa Lila, Goddess Alchemy Project, Lynx&Janover, UltraGypsy Bellydance Theater, members of the Yard Dogs Road Show, Urban Tribal Dance Company, Mira Betz, Gaudi, DJ DragonFly, Lucia Comnes Band, Knowa Knowones, ANA SIA, Rose Harden, Mystic Family Circus, Sofiah Thom, and more----in studios, speakeasies, theaters, and festivals throughout this hemisphere.
A holistic health counselor, somatic educator, yoga teacher, and integrative bodyworker, Deb is also the founder of SattyaBodyHealingArts and Dance Collective. She teaches classes, workshops, and retreats fusing women’s health and empowerment with yoga, tribal belly dance, nature, and creative expression. Deb has taught at Kosmos world music and dance camp, at the Omega Institute in NY, at the Quest for Global Healing Conference, in Ubud, Bali, as well as other festivals and healing/sustainability conferences around the globe. She is a founding member of CAST (Creating a Societal Truth).
As a massage therapist and yoga therapist for past 9 years, she specializes in injury rehab for dancers, and women’s health. Some of her Bellydance clients have included: Ansuya, Jill Parker, Sharon Kihara, Aubre Hill, Rose Harden, Sarah White, & Susan Frankowich. She is greatly influenced by her studies of Traditional Thai-Yoga Massage in the hill tribes of Northern Thailand under the lineage of Asokananda, her vision quest experiences in the Northern California Desert, and her Yoga teacher trainings and study with Integrative Yoga Therapy, Acroyoga, Darshana Weil, Shiva Rae, and Gary Kraftsow. She is currently working on a upcoming DVD of her unique dance therapeutics material.
Deb has a B.A. in Pre-med and Psychology from Princeton University, and an M.A. in Holistic Health Education from JFK, with an emphasis on mind-body medicine and somatic psychology. You can find her writings published in Yoga Journal Magazine. Currently, she is continuing her Yoga studies in the Viniyoga Tradition with Gary Kraftsow and with Rachel Brice; immersing in her belly dance studies with Rachel Brice, Suhaila Salimpour, Zoe Jakes; and continuing to study modern, hip hop, folkloric, and contact improvisation dance forms in the vibrant dance community of the San Francisco Bay Area in which she lives.
As a performer, Deb is honored to have collaborated and shared the stage with amazing artists such as: Balkan Beat Box, Beats Antique, Brass Menazerie Balkan Brass Band, EOTO, Vibesquad, Hamsa Lila, Goddess Alchemy Project, Lynx&Janover, UltraGypsy Bellydance Theater, members of the Yard Dogs Road Show, Urban Tribal Dance Company, Mira Betz, Gaudi, DJ DragonFly, Lucia Comnes Band, Knowa Knowones, ANA SIA, Rose Harden, Mystic Family Circus, Sofiah Thom, and more----in studios, speakeasies, theaters, and festivals throughout this hemisphere.
A holistic health counselor, somatic educator, yoga teacher, and integrative bodyworker, Deb is also the founder of SattyaBodyHealingArts and Dance Collective. She teaches classes, workshops, and retreats fusing women’s health and empowerment with yoga, tribal belly dance, nature, and creative expression. Deb has taught at Kosmos world music and dance camp, at the Omega Institute in NY, at the Quest for Global Healing Conference, in Ubud, Bali, as well as other festivals and healing/sustainability conferences around the globe. She is a founding member of CAST (Creating a Societal Truth).
As a massage therapist and yoga therapist for past 9 years, she specializes in injury rehab for dancers, and women’s health. Some of her Bellydance clients have included: Ansuya, Jill Parker, Sharon Kihara, Aubre Hill, Rose Harden, Sarah White, & Susan Frankowich. She is greatly influenced by her studies of Traditional Thai-Yoga Massage in the hill tribes of Northern Thailand under the lineage of Asokananda, her vision quest experiences in the Northern California Desert, and her Yoga teacher trainings and study with Integrative Yoga Therapy, Acroyoga, Darshana Weil, Shiva Rae, and Gary Kraftsow. She is currently working on a upcoming DVD of her unique dance therapeutics material.
Deb has a B.A. in Pre-med and Psychology from Princeton University, and an M.A. in Holistic Health Education from JFK, with an emphasis on mind-body medicine and somatic psychology. You can find her writings published in Yoga Journal Magazine. Currently, she is continuing her Yoga studies in the Viniyoga Tradition with Gary Kraftsow and with Rachel Brice; immersing in her belly dance studies with Rachel Brice, Suhaila Salimpour, Zoe Jakes; and continuing to study modern, hip hop, folkloric, and contact improvisation dance forms in the vibrant dance community of the San Francisco Bay Area in which she lives.
- To read Deb’s publications in Yoga Journal Magazine, click here.
- For more information on SF Mecca Immersion Retreat, click here.
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