Dance Like Nobody's Watching

16/08/2021

Why not come and blow away the cobwebs and join in at my son's first live Scottish gig in Glasgow this Sunday 22nd.
Hes had great success headlining 2 gigs in Bristol where he's studying electronic music production at BIMM uni and thought it was time to do a live gig on his homeland of Scotland.
Early bird tickets £4
https://sonottoxyorke.brownpapertickets.com

See you there!
Gail x

PS Dancing and head banging runs in the family blood!!

22/03/2021

ooops guys!

Seems I gave you the wrong link for Eventbrite FREE TICKETS to the final
Here you go!

Thursday 25th March 7.00-8.30pm Event open to all This event will be virtual and live streamed.

21/03/2021

Hi All,
What I really love about free dance is the way it is 100% inclusive - everyone can do it, even those cultures that don't allow it publicly, people can still boogie on down in their homes.
Today's society is jam packed with so many different identities, groups, protocols, political ideologies, which on the one hand allows for the incredible diversity of this world and empowers individual voices, but on the other hand, it perpetuates separateness.
Deep down, as the 'French Freud' psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan said, we all 'desire a sense of wholeness'.
Our two BMeNow classes, Dance Like Nobody's Watching and this one W-D Boogie, are my antidote to a life where we are assaulted more and more each day (exacerbated by Covid-19) with left-brained activities and pressures. We need to redress this imbalance with ways that activate the right brain - your creative, fun-loving, emotionally creative, intuitive and feminine self...and why make it harder than just dancing around your living room or teaming up with like-minded people and dancing the streets!?
So, thought I might introduce my new team who have been working tirelessly to help me re-launch and get my 'vaccine for stress, available to you asap.
Madina Saitjonova and Effie Dimitriadi are both fellow University of Dundee students and we all came together as we are part of the university's Centre for Entrepreneurship competition, Enterprise Challenge. Their enthusiasm and dedication has meant we are right on track and ready to take on the other teams in a showdown this coming Thursday night at 7pm, showcasing all our ideas with 1-minute pitches.
Please join us if you can and see what we have to say for ourselves!
TICKETS are FREE but you need to book with Eventbrite 🙂
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/enterprise-challenge-final-2021-semester-2-tickets-142148011529

Keep a look out for more information on our launch dates on our two pages - this one and Dance Like Nobody's Watching
KEEP DANCING !! xx

10/03/2021

Hi guys,
Well it's only been about 3 1/2 years since the last class I held of DLNW!!
And a load of water under the bridge since then for us all!
At this precise moment I am a 2nd year art student at Dundee Uni and am just about to re-launch this fab class, but this time they'll be no excuses you can't get to wherever I'm holding a class, or you can't leave the kids to go out, because this new class is going to be ON-LINE!!!
SO excited to be launching this through the Centre for Entrepreneurship in Dundee
VERY soon!
!!! WATCH THIS SPACE!!
I'll be introducing my new team shortly and everyone will get a couple of FREE CLASSES as I navigate my way through my first virtual dance classes.
Look forward to be shaking my tail feathers with you all very soon!

PS check out this article by STRICTLY COME DANCING's very own DR. DANCE!?!

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/five-reasons-why-dancing-is-good-for-you/

PPSS! Check out our DANCE-ON-THE-STREETS class W-D Boogie ...
COMING SOON!!

Dr Dance tells us why strutting your stuff and shaking your tail feather is not only a great way to party, but also has some groovy effects on your mind and body.

26/11/2017

Hi Page visitor 😘!

At this precise moment I'm sitting in the sunshine in the Catalonian hills, not far from Alcover and Tarragona in Spain

I'm coming to the end of a roller coaster 2 weeks Ascension meditation retreat with The Bright Path Ishayas - my 2nd family of multi-national folks all experiencing a life free of self-judgement, limiting beliefs and fear and realising the still silent calm that every single one of us can enjoy.

We have all learned simple techniques that take us to this Silence anytime we choose it and release what the mind is insisting is real.
It is the most awesome tool I have come across in all my 25 years+ of following an alternative path and I am on month 2 of my self mastery journey and hope to teach and share this beautiful powerful teaching too one of these days.

My Dance Like Nobody's Watching class is always produced from this Silence.
I create my playlist from that space and always meditate before starting the class.
That way I know my ego is out of the way and I am more able to tune into you, the dancers, and slip suggestions into the class to play with, that will encourage you to experiment with new forms of expression, other than the go-to moves you normally pull out the bag when you start dancing.

I pick music that hopefully draws you in with its infectious beat, rhythm or melody and you will just go with the flow of it and not think too much about it all!

There are people that say they'd be way too self-conscious to dance without a drink inside them, but when you dance in your kitchen on your own, you ( usually!?) haven't had a drink and this class is about just you dancing your dance, along side others who love music and dance too.
It's a very safe space and all those who have been brave enough to give it go, have loved it, felt more alive yet relaxed after the class and some have said they've had the best nigh's sleep too.

Looking forward to a class before Christmas - think we might all dress up in party clothes 🎉💃💋🎩👠🎉

Thursday classes will resume in January, at a new venue if not at Aytoun Hall.... and if you'd like to have a class brought to a venue near you, just get in contact with me
❤️🙏 Gail xx
Mob 07703-262722
E-mail [email protected]
www.gailneckel.com

Other FB pages:
Gail Neckel
W-D Boogie
BMe
Bright Path Ishayas Scottish FB Forum

listen - smell - touch - heal

08/11/2017

The new me!!
Feeling years younger - just love being a woman at times like this 😍🙏❤️!!

NO CLASS TOMORROW !!
and most likely until end of the year now.

It seems most people have gone into hibernation for winter all ready, so there's a chance I'll hold a Christmas dance in December and hopefully start again in Januaty if demand is there

Take care everyone and if you'd like me to start a class near you, just contact me and I'll see what I can do
Gail ###

01/11/2017

Calling Gillian Latto,Sarah Ramsay,Jill Campbell !! read post below Gx

01/11/2017

Hi Guys :)
Its Thursday night again tomorrow! and just wondering who will be definitely coming to dance?! Can you let me know because I will cancel the class unless I can cover the cost of the hall ( 3 people).
I'm of to Spain for a 2 week meditation retreat on the 16th of November and as it seems everyone HAS started to hibernate for the winter, I will probably start the class again in January if the demand is there.
Let me know below if you're coming
Many thanks, Gailxx

18/10/2017

SO WHO's COMING DANCING TOMORROW NIGHT???!!!!
I know the nights are drawing in fast and it's so easy to just hunker down at night after your day and not want to take yourself out again
But you're not a squirrel and don't actually need to hibernate just because it's approaching winter!
So just get yourself off the sofa and up to the Girnal room tomorrow night bout 7.45ish, for an 8pm start.
The playlist is fab and I feel in the same boat as you, but I know what a difference to tired me, a good dance makes ..... to my day, my nights sleep and how I feel as I go into the w/e
Just get off your ....ses and
come and join me!
£5 tomorrow night if you do!!
Gail ###

17/10/2017

Hi all,

So in my 'other life' I just started a contract with House of Bruar.
Having worked up there for the last 5 months in all departments, I've just joined the Foodhall team - love it and all the folks that walk in and ask where the loo is!!😘

Anyway, just finished my first day as a fully fledged employee and home at a friends in Dunkeld,
glass of rose in hand ,
I've just completed the playlist for Thursday night
at Aytoun Hall, Auchterarder.

We're upstairs this week in the Girnall Room as WRI are having their 100th birthday celebrations in the big hall.

Be great to see some of you
there,
8-9pm

Come at a bit earlier at 7.45 to make sure you get a good sniff withdraw oils and choose your card for the evening.

Any questions call me on
07703-262722
Cheers, Gail ###

28/09/2017

"WHAT IS THE STRUCTURE OF THIS CLASS?" someone asked today

First we do a 'Kundalini shake' - even if you arrive tired and stiff, this wakes the whole body up, ready for action.

Then we go dead slow - going through all the body parts to see where you're stiff, tight, less mobile, more mobile.
This helps when you start dancing as you c=are more aware which bits need more care and attention or maybe where you can stretch
out the body more.

then we do two waves of music which takes you from an easy beat to a much faster one - the music tempo guides you and so do I if I feel the group need it.

In between the two waves there's a breather.

Then we get gentle, slow down and lastly stretches.

This is a brand new class and its not about bullying your body in shape - its the complete opposite. its about going with the flow for a change
You can go at it all as fast or as slow as you like, but overall you'll have had a workout and feel happy and relaxed at the end of it and people say they leave all their worries behind and usually slep better that night.

I was two sizes more than I am right now and forcing myself into restricted eating or excercise worked while I did it, but never let it stay off.
Always when I attended a dance class called 5 rhythmns ( similar to this but n Pop music), I also slept like a log and by the morning seemed to have changed body shape by the morning.

In my book, we DO TOO much and don't incorporate the opposite enough.
Lots of 'shoulds' and forcing, rather than allowing and being more spontaneous.

So the only way to know if you like this class is to just come and do it- everyone that has loves it....thats all I can say :)

Hope to see you there Gailx

PS everyone is doing their own thing and in their zone so even the self-conscious ones aren't after a few songs. If you love music and dancing, you'll love this!

27/09/2017

Come of FB friends!!! GXX

Gary Glitter · Touch Me · Song · 1973