Empowerment Through Dance
Stacey Clarfield Newman
Stacey Clarfield Newman is a Kripalu trained, certified Let Your Yoga Dance instructor. She has been practicing since 2007, after discovering it at a workshop at Kripalu Center for Wellness and Health. Stacey trained with Megha Nancy Buttenheim (President and founder of Let Your Yoga Dance) to become a certified instructor for Special Populations.
Stacey attended the 2013 World Parkinson’s Congress in Montreal as a presenter and diplomat, where she taught several classes each day for the attendees. She also led several classes each day as assistant faculty member at Kripalu for the Wellness Retreat for people newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s.
Stacey feels that her purpose is to share her art and love of yoga dance with the world by creating and teaching.
“Music gives rise to image-making, and music and image meld in paint. The dancer and painter, with soul and brush, turns her attention to her world of music and paint as she explores her infatuation with color and movement . Her work speaks of the colors of the countries she’s visited, cultures explored and her passion for experiential learning through world service and travel.”
“Teaching this movement practice allows me to dance their spirits and find (my) joy as both a teacher and infinite student of Life - it is yet another dimension of painting - painting with the body, heart, and soul.”
Life’s a dance
Stacey recently completed a tenure at the White Plains Hospital “Wellness Program” teaching their staff and volunteers Let Your Yoga Dance and a tenure dancing and volunteering with the Mark Morris Dance Company Dance for PD program. She is an assistant faculty member at Kripalu for Let Your Yoga Dance certification modules of teacher training, as well as a mentor for newly certified teachers.
Stacey conducts yoga dance workshops in Westchester and Fairfield County as well as globally. Most recently she created an Empowerment Through Dance program, teaching Let Your Yoga Dance to young women in Ghana. Stacey has lead classes for the staff of Soroka Hospital in Israel, helping the doctors and nurses find healing from PTSD through dance and she plans to continue her work using creativity as a means of self awareness and self esteem for children and adults. She is currently creating upcoming curriculum to empower the visually impaired through yoga dance for Camp Abilities around New York State.
She has also taught at:
-Dew Yoga, Stamford
-Yoga Shivaya, Tarrytown
-Gilda’s Club of Westchester
-White Plains Hospital Staff
Stacey is a former faculty member of :
“Young At Art”, in Westchester (the private art enrichment program for children )
Scarsdale Continuing Education Art Program.
“Changing the world one dance at a time.”