You´re a great inspiration, my life and my dance changed the moment I came in contact with your art, Joana, and when I subscribed to this course, knowing Mr. Mahmoud Reda and his legacy; in just a few days, my life and dance have been transformed and my heart, touched.

There are many kinds of teachers and then, there are special teachers, like Joana Saahirah, who carry the power of transformation on their skin, and that shows, it passes on to all her students; because the best teaching we can offer someone is the love for what we do. 

To study with this prestigious dancer and teacher is to embark on a beautiful journey without end; without return; a very intimate and deep trip. Her classes are unmatched! Her world is magical, she´s magical.

I am one of those super lucky and happy person = Joana's student, and I can't thank her enough for all that she's shared with me, taught me, for her huge help to find my difficulties not only in dance but also in life.

I´m so excited to continue our path and see what comes next, because I never know what to expect but I am completely sure it will be a magic discovery, a precious experience, a light that will guide me in my way called Life. I can't recommend Joana enough.

You just ought to try her classes, and it is not what I am saying, but what comes from the deepest part of my heart.

Thank you so much for the class, it´s just amazing!

So much information, motivation, authentic  feeling, space for personal creativity, individuality, and at the same time your professional leading! I love it!

In last few months I have a problem with motivation, I wanted to end up with dance, but your videos and your new attitude to dance gave me new motivation to continue, go deeper and search for my own style and attitude which was quite scary for me in the past.

I´m so happy I have heard about you and now be a student of your online dance school, though only recorded, as it´s quite hard for me to have time to dance when your lessons are online. But I hope and trust once to see you face to face on Skype (at least) or live.

Thank you once more and I am looking forward to the second baladi lesson.

Once again, simply the best: Joana doesn't just teach dance or movement.

She provides the cultural context and social aspects of the dance that inform the student much more richly than most teachers can - her personal experience as a dancer in Cairo brings with it amazing depth.

Simply the BEST.

She pours out so much love, passion, light through the screen to all students and it inspires me so much.

There had been doubts, confusions in my head but she is the one saying exactly what I need to hear to awaken myself. Now I feel my heart is more open for every movement.

Her classes change the landscape of my dance basically. She is such a blessing  to the education of Egyptian Dance today.

I´d recommend this course because it was a great combination of dance lessons and personal development.

This course shifted my mind to be more focused on dance practice and it really helped me mentally and physically during the quarantine/state of emergency period.

Joana introduced beautiful dance sequences from each dance style, and it brought me a lot of joy to practice them.

She also prepared the personal skill sheet along with each lesson, which was a door to find more about myself and be conscious during the crisis.

Thank you so much for creating this wonderful course. This is already a cornerstone in my life.

 I´m very happy to have met Joana on my Oriental Dance path.

In her courses and method I´ve found answers to several needs and questions.

For instante, I´ve learned about the essence of Egyptian Dance, what´s essential and what makes it magical.

Everything Joana shares in her courses fascinates me: the concepts she introduces, the exercises she proposes find, recognize and build the unique dancer each of us carries within.

In all of her courses, I find an integrated and permanent way to develop self-empowerment, Egyptian Dance technique, and the essence of each style, all of it backed-up by the great richness of Joana´s experience in Egypt and her studies with the greatest musicians and Egyptian Dance masters. Furthermore, she does it all in a fun and vibrant way.

I´m deeply thankful for her generosity and for her willingness to create work that brings real evolution in her students.

Each course at Joana Saahirah´s Online Dance School is a meeting with myself, with my personal powers and unrecognized gifts.

Basically, I´m witnessing major growth in my dance and, above all, I feel happier and able to express who I am.

This course was absolutely great. In each fully packed, rich lesson I learned more about egyptian Dance movement and context than in my past 20 years of oriental dance!

So many insights on a theoretical and personal level touch me everytime I participate. Thank you for your loving energy!

"Before starting to study with Joana I first fell in love and felt inspired by her dancing, wherein I found something "mystical" that makes me always think that Federico Fellini would have put her inside one of its magical movies.

Joana, as a teacher, is truly a gift.
She teaches without any reservation and she never stops giving, I'm always impressed about the amount of amazing contents she manages to give!

She conceived a peculiar "format" for her courses, that makes the process of learning fun, enjoyable and stimulating, because she gives, in addiction to the dance classes, many things to discover, little by little. I always have the feeling I am a child with a box full of colorful toys to play with.
What I'd like to underline among everything is that Joana has the will to give her students fundamental tools for a more autonomous development of the dance. That it also means that she teaches at a "multilevel" way, always entering the field of self development.

I personally feel I have, with her, the chance to make order among everything, not only among the huge world that concerns "oriental dance", because Joana spreads a direct knowledge of the Egyptian culture, not only studied, but truly lived and absorbed beneath the skin, so she can put, and she wisely does, the dance teaching into contextualization; but also, I feel I'm developing a deeper understanding of what  dance technique is made of.
I personally realized that Joana let´s you "return" to the dance technique, as kind of something your body belong to, something it deserves and it should explore, to feel more. 

Definitely huge and well beyond expectation."