Belly Dance ~ All Levels ~ All Ages ~ Saturdays 11:00-noon ~ Starting March 18th

Kathleen Ames (Kaleena Devi) has been belly dancing since 1993 and has been teaching belly dance since 2002. While living in San Francisco she studied the folkloric style of Raks Sharki with Janine Ryle of Hahbi'Ru. Under the direction of Janine Ryle, Kalina was in the troupe Danse Maghreb with the world renowned Ariellah. Also, while living in San Francisco, Kalina took Classical Egyptian belly dance classes from the legendary Magana Baptiste, director and founder of the San Francisco Royal Academy of Oriental Dance. Kalina has taken Tribal Fusion Belly Dance classes with Rachel Brice and Sera of New York. Kalina has also studied Temple Fusion Belly Dance her teachers include; Ayah Buonaugurio, Tinley Ireland and is certified  through Chantelle Devi of India to teach Temple Fusion Belly Dance (level one).  Also she has studied Temple Dance with Kalyani Marsh and the Charya Nritya Buddhist Dance of Neplal with Prajwal or Portland. She was the director and choreographer for Troupe Tryanga of New Jersey.

Kathleen is also a full time Yoga instructor and has taught over 7,000 hours of movement classes over the past 17 years . Whatever Kathleen teaches she does so with a warm heart and a sense of humor.