Private Online Coaching for Dancers of All Levels

There are many ways to learn Egyptian Dance and all of them can be fun, mind & heart opening paths.

You can join Joana Saahirah´s Online Dance School and become a part of our international dance community or you can subscribe to Joana Saahirah´s workshops around the world. Soon, you´ll also be able to take part in the Joana Saahirah´s Retreat (more info, soon).

These formats are created for groups. Although you take great value from them, the programs aren´t built around your specific character, needs, and goals. They´re thought for the collective.

If you want a PERSONALIZED TRAINING created around YOU and what you wish to manifest IN YOUR DANCE AND IN YOUR LIFE, the solution is Joana Saahirah´s Private Online Coaching.

The first Online Coaching Program we have for YOU is directed to students of every level - beginner, intermediate, or advanced.

Features offered in this personalized coaching:

  1. One on one, face to face, personalized training with Joana Saahirah following a program that´ll be designed according to YOUR character, needs, level of dance technique, weak and strong points, goals and dreams.
  2. A SECRET FACEBOOK GROUP where extra learning material, homework, class scheduling, questions, and inspirations will be shared between sessions/classes, is offered to students who subscribe to the 15-hours or the 20-hours class package.
  3. You´ll receive Joana Saahirah's EMBRACE YOUR UNIQUENESS (IN DANCE, AS IN LIFE) BOOKLET.
  4. You´ll have access to a BONUS VIDEO and QUESTIONNAIRE that'll set you on the right track and allow you to build a CLEAR and STRUCTURED action plan to achieve your goals.

Watch the Video below to learn more ⇩

 
FOR DANCERS OF ALL LEVELS
 

  • 1. You receive an EMAIL CONFIRMATION from Joana Saahirah confirming your subscription.

  • 2. You´ll be asked to send your AVAILABLE SCHEDULE for the booking of your sessions as well as your time zone.

  • 3. You'll receive Joana´s confirmation of the BOOKED CLASSES according to your available.

  • 4. You'll be provided with Joana´s Skype identity so you can add yourself (these sessions/classes happen via skype).

  • 5. You´ll receive a BONUS VIDEO and a QUESTIONNAIRE to launch your Learning Journey with a clear vision, goals, and a program that fits YOU, YOUR DANCE, and YOUR LIFE.

  • 6. Students who subscribe to a 15-hours or a 20-hours Class Package also receive, free of charge, a booklet called “Embrace your Uniqueness (in Dance, as in Life)” created by Joana Saahirah to help you take your evolution to a higher realm. 

  • 7. After you've watched the Video and answered the Questionnaire, you'll start your learning journey. You can read your bonus guide as you go through the classes. 

  • 8. Homework will be required and extra learning material will be provided from the moment you start your learning journey until its end.

  • 9. You'll have Joana´s orientation during the whole process. More than just a teacher who shares material with you – dance technique, choreographies, musicality, history, and more -, you´ll have a JOURNEY COMPANION holding your hand, side by side, making sure you feel safe, thriving, and safe whilst diving into unknown territory.


Private Online Coaching for Professional Dancers

Joana Saahirah´s Teaching Method is as peculiar as her Journey; her approach to Egyptian Dance and its multidimensional nature is unique. Her method is a result of almost twenty years of a high-profile career in Egypt and around the World, performing, teaching, lecturing, judging and inspiring dancers from all levels and walks of life.

She teaches from direct experience, and success, in the most demanding markets of Egyptian Dance.

If you´re a PROFESSIONAL DANCER who wants to take your dance and career to the next level, Joana´s Private Coaching for Professional Dancers  is FOR YOU.

Aside from receiving PERSONAL GUIDANCE related to THE ISSUES YOU NEED HELP WITH, you can have access to Career Management Tools, Preparation for Shows, Secrets for long-term Success in your dance, as in your life, Choreography Technique, Teaching Methods, and more.

If you wish to know more about what you´ll learn, continue reading; these are the areas you can cover when you enroll in this private online coaching format:

 

  • Advanced Dance Technique ↓
  • How to bring your Dance Technique, combinations, and phrases to a higher – artistic and sublime – level.  Dance vocabulary, musicality, creative exploration, sacred geometry, and more.

  • Preparation for shows ↓
  • > How to build a show from scratch to the presentation (what must be included in a successful performance, independently of its length)

    > How to present yourself and your dance to achieve the highest impact

    > How to use the stage, and the surrounding space, to optimize your performance

    > How to bring your Unique character and style to the stage

    > How to communicate and build an emotional connection with your audience

    > What to wear in each particular dance style – from the Oriental to the Folkloric styles
    > Secrets & Tips Joana has learned from her Musicians and Audiences – how to go from an “average” dancer to an “extraordinary” dancer audiences and students don´t forget.

  • Secrets for Success - in your career, as in your life ↓
  • The Secrets I´ve learned, working in Egypt and around the world, to enjoy long-term success in your career, as in your life.

    These are the tools professional dancers will not share with you – some because they don´t have them for themselves, others because they´re afraid you´ll become their competitors.

    I do have them and I do believe we´re all unique and, therefore, impossible to compete with.

  • How to create your own Blue Ocean ↓
  • Tools to create your own unique market niche – how to become the Unique Artist/Teacher/Choreographer you were born to be and turn your “regular” dance work into extraordinary, original, highly personal and impossible-to-compete-with work.

  • How to choreograph ↓
  • Choreographies for Teaching - How to build a choreography for teaching purposes; how to break it down and create efficient exercises from it.

    Choreographies for Shows – How to build a choreography that fits the demands of the stage and reaches audiences where they should be reached (in their hearts).

  • Personal Development for YOU and YOUR STUDENTS ↓
  • Technique, exercises, and mindset for Personal Development.

    Tools to bring the best of yourself, and your students, in your dance and in your life.  Personal Discovery and Empowerment Techniques.

  • How to improvise ↓
  • Techniques & mindset that will make you a superb, and unique, improviser in your classes/courses and on stage.

  • How to better navigate the field of Egyptian Dance ↓
  • Plus how to navigate the ethics of the business, and how to build a long-term successful career that serves you, your craft, and the world.

 
For Professional Dancers
 

  • 1. You receive an EMAIL CONFIRMATION from Joana Saahirah confirming your subscription.

  • 2. You´ll be asked to send your AVAILABLE SCHEDULE for the booking of your sessions as well as your time zone.

  • 3. You'll receive Joana´s confirmation of the BOOKED CLASSES according to your available.

  • 4. You'll be provided with Joana´s Skype identity so you can add yourself (these sessions/classes happen via skype).

  • 5. You´ll receive a BONUS VIDEO and a QUESTIONNAIRE to launch your Learning Journey with a clear vision, goals, and a program that fits YOU, YOUR DANCE, and YOUR LIFE.

  • 6. Dancers who subscribe to a 15-hours or a 20-hours Class Package also receive, free of charge, a booklet called “Embrace your Uniqueness (in Dance, as in Life)” created by Joana Saahirah to help you take your evolution to a higher realm. 

  • 7. Dancers who subscribe to a 15-hours or a 20-hours Class Package also receive a WRITTEN GUIDE – “PERFORMING EGYPTIAN DANCE PRINCIPLES” OR/AND “HOW TO TEACH EGYPTIAN DANCE”.  Receiving one or the other has to do with the goal of your training: if you wish to focus on your PERFORMANCES, you´ll receive the first guide; if you wish to focus on your TEACHING, you´ll receive the second. You may receive both guides when/if you subscribe to 2 different class packages – a 15-hour or a 20-hour Class Package.

  • 8. After you´ve watched the INTRODUCTION BONUS VIDEO and answered the Questionnaire, you´ll start your learning journey. You can read your bonus guide as you go through the classes.

  • 9. Homework will be required and extra learning material will be provided from the moment you start your learning journey until its end.

  • 10. You'll have Joana´s orientation during the whole process. More than just a teacher who shares material with you – dance technique, choreographies, musicality, history, and more -, you´ll have a JOURNEY COMPANION holding your hand, side by side, making sure you feel safe, thriving, and safe whilst diving into unknown territory.


TESTIMONIALS
on JS´s Private Online Coaching

Professionalism, quality, originality, and enthusiasm are some of the “ingredients” I´ve found in my private online classes with Joana Saahirah. It´s been a very enriching experience on a dance level as well as on a personal level.

Fátima Enes

 

Fátima Enes

 

Taking online classes with Joana Saahirah has allowed me to fall even more in love with Oriental dance than I thought possible. As a teacher, Joana doesn't teach steps, she cultivates artists. She expects nothing less than your authentic self in every move, and she is a living example of that integrity. Don't get me wrong, she can break down a shimmy with the best of them, but connecting you to the purpose behind that shimmy is where Joana truly shines as a teacher. Whether in class or on stage, she is unapologetically creative and alive. Not only does she dance outside of the box, but she respects the hell out of that box, too! From our first class, Joana has pinpointed exactly what I needed and laid out exercises and inspirations to get me there. I truly look forward to my practice these days, which is often self-discovery. Learning from Joana is the most serious kind of fun. Thank you, Joana!

Heather Henna Louise

 

Heather Henna Louise

 

She is a really *magical* dancer and teacher, my understanding of Egyptian dance (and my dance) has been trans-formative, deepened, since taking ONLY her online classes! She develops each class personal based on your needs that are visible (and invisible) to you. What you think you know, you really have no idea! I don't even know how to begin without writing a novel. I can only imagine what her live classes/workshops are like! Not only does she develop your dance, but your understanding of Egyptian history, the people and their culture, and learning the heart of it all... the great secrets to this dance you don't hear about in your normal classes. Time is spent in EACH class developing not only your dance, but your understanding of the magic behind it all. Sometimes in very unusual but exciting, and interesting ways.

Yara Sultan

 

Yara Sultan

 

Learning with Joana through her Online classes was an experience that challenged me on many levels as a dancer and a researcher of oriental dance. Don’t expect “I show you, you repeat” type of class. You may expect questions that will make you rethink your way of seeing oriental dance, useful feedback that is concentrated on your dance technique and expression, expect homework and hard work but also fun, joy and transformation. In our few lessons I got connected to many various inspiring sources -it is never just about dance, in her words, and I agree. The most valuable thing that I got was this wide perspective that she offered to me as a teacher, it encouraged me to look for my own connections and meanings. I am grateful for that.

Sonja Antanasijevic

 

Sonja Antanasijevic

 

To study Egyptian dance with Joana Saahirah is to embark on an incredible personal journey — a journey of self-discovery, re-education and expansive growth. This is not a course of study for those who are game to join the “belly dance bandwagon” or those simply looking to spice up their exercise regimen. It is not for the weakhearted, you will find yourself nudged (gently, thoughtfully) outside comfort zones in order to ensure your progress. Warning: boldness and courage may be required!

Aimed at achieving a fundamental change in our understanding of and relationship to Oriental dance, Joana’s coursework is extensive, holistic. Her courses include (but are certainly not limited to) re-learning/re-thinking the basics of Oriental dance, understanding the soul of Egypt and its people, knowing the role(s) of Egyptian dance within cultural and spiritual contexts (both modern and historical), finding the relationships between movement, stillness and geometry, exploring sensualism, musicality and the relationship(s) between dance, other art forms and life.

At their core, Joanna’s private lessons are about the very personal process of unfoldment; an alchemical journey toward an artful embodiment of dance — a journey back to self, back to the artist within. Along the way you may rediscover the tender balance between expansive motion and quiet calm. Throughout you will find an atmosphere of authenticity. Joana’s teaching is about discovering your own answers, taking your own path of discovery to the heart of Oriental dance that resides within yourself and then having the audacity to embrace it, nourish it, share it.

In two months of study with Joanna I have experienced as much growth as I have in the last two years of studio classes. More importantly however, is the unique synthesis, context and connections I now understand by learning in this special way. My very personal journey has purposefully, artfully meandered as easily from Bauhaus to Glenn Gould to the Dionysian Mysteries as it has from Baladi to Tarab to Mawal. As Joanna repeats like a mantra, “It’s all connected.” What an incredible ride… what an incredible gift.

Justine Riekena

 

Justine Riekena

 

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.

Mariana Artaza

 

Mariana Artaza

 

I´m one of those super lucky and happy people = 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 am 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.

"Tamara Pravica (Canada) "I´ve reaped so many benefits from Joana Saahirah´s Private Coaching Programs: Addressing my personal goals - and actually being able to talk about them. Diving deep into the problems, concerns, issues surrounding these goals - what holds me back. Understanding that I´m an unique dancer and expressing that uniqueness. Summarizing it in a practical way: 1) I became able to communicate and work on my goals 2) I identified and started to work on my personal issues, with my own personal dance background and issues 3) I identified specific areas where I need to work on technique, so I can see improvement quickly, almost immediately 4) It affected all aspects of my life, not just dance. I've learnt a lot about myself, and am integrating what I am learning, improving on, in all areas of my life 5) Joana is really focused on the student - the prep, the class, the homework. It's impossible not to improve, grow. As a consequence, I feel confident and empowered. My dance is flowing, I'm connected with the music more - I´ve become very present when dancing, which has made me a better dancer. I'm more present in the world. Much more assertive. And loving, living, my uniqueness. I definitely recommend Joana Saahirah´s Private Coaching Programs to other dancers. She understands all aspects of the complex, and wonderful, world of dance. Including how it is part of one's life. She understands the dancer from the inside, not from simply how they look on the outside. She understands the music, technique, expression, as well as the fears, excitement, insecurities, as well as the history, culture of the dance...all aspects. For me, a dancer who has danced for many years but always felt like something was missing, she´s helped me find what was missing. I think there are many dancers who are stuck. Joana has unstuck me!""

Tamara Pravica (Canada)
Testimonial from one of our Private Coaching students

" The biggest benefits I´ve witnessed after subscribing to Joana Saahirah´s Private Coaching Programs were my personal development and dance technique. I´m much more grounded and authentically myself, able to approach the way I run my life in a more analytical, detached way, instead of taking everything personally. I recommend Joana´s Private Coaching and I´ve done so to my friend, referring to it as an intense, personalized, focused acceleration that is both challenging and rewarding. "

Jill Shireen (Canada)
Testimonial from one of our Private Coaching students

"She´s a really *magical* dancer and teacher, my understanding of Egyptian dance (and my dance) has been trans-formative, deepened, since taking ONLY her online classes! She develops each class personally based on your needs that are visible (and invisible) to you. What you think you know, you really have no idea! I don't even know how to begin without writing a novel. I can only imagine what her live classes/workshops are like! Not only does she develop your dance, but your understanding of Egyptian history, the people and their culture, and learning the heart of it all... the great secrets to this dance you don't hear about in your normal classes. Time is spent in EACH class developing not only your dance but your understanding of the magic behind it all. Sometimes, in very unusual but exciting, and interesting ways."

Yara Sultan (USA)
Testimonial from one of our Private Coaching students

"There are many types of Teachers, and then there are special Master Teachers like Joana Saahirah who take the transformational power of what they do in their skin, and that exhales, it passes on to all of the students who receive her Teachings because the best teaching is to love what we do. To study with this prestigious dancer & master is like embarking on an endless adventure, a trip with no return, a very intimate and deep journey. Her classes are unmatched. Her world is magic; she´s magical."

Mariana Artaza (Argentina)
Testimonial from one of our Private Coaching students
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