Wyoma has been teaching and performing the dances of Africa and the African diaspora for more than twenty years. She received a degree in dance from The Naropa Institute and has studied with Baba Olatunji, Rose Marie Guiraud, C.K. Ganyo, and many other experts in African, Caribbean, Brazilian, and healing dance. Wyoma has also performed jazz, Middle Eastern, East Indian, improvisational, and modern dance. Her first performance group, which she cofounded, was People of the Sun, a jazz theater workshop. She is currently the director of DAMBALLA, a dance company in Boulder, Colorado.

In Africa, dance is much more than physical movement - it is a direct way to celebrate life and create healing. African Healing Dance is a step-by-step course on the healing tradition and expressive movements that are unique to Africa's dance heritage. From the movements of nature and everyday life, the tribal people of Africa developed specific dances to summon the energy of the world around them into their bodies for connection and healing. Through dancing, they became the bird and the wind, the fire and the serpent.

Join Wyoma, the respected lead dancer and director of the Damballa dance troupe, as she teaches you the African way of moving your entire body with passion and joy - symbolic animal and elemental gestures - demonstrations of hip, torso, and shoulder articulations, and much more. Here's the instructional program you need to have a high-energy African dance class at home. Can anyone learn these dances? "If you can talk, you can sing," they say in Zimbabwe, "and if you can walk, you can dance." So get ready to move - and be moved - with African Healing Dance.

LEARN SIX AFRICAN DANCES:

Sowu - "The Dance of Life," from the Ewe of Ghana

Gbegbe - From the Ivory Coast, a call for vision and strength

Focodoba - A post-initiation basket dance from the Bambara of Guinea

Umoya - A South African dance to draw energy from heaven and earth

Nago - An Afro-Haitian warrior dance to claim your power and domain

Yonvalu - A voudouninvocation to Damballa, the serpent deity.