Darshan

Instructor of Yoga at 8:15-9:15pm and Fusion Integration: 9:15-10:15 at Solstice Studio, every Tuesday.

Darshan (Cammi Vance) is one of the pioneers of tribal fusion on the east coast. Back in Portland, Oregon, she began bellydancing cabaret style in 1991, tribal style in 1992. She was a proud member of renowned tribal company Gypsy Caravan for 9 years, performing at Peter Gabriel's WOMAD and the New Orleans Lazarus project to name a few. In 2003 she relocated to NYC to join the Dalia Carella Dance Collective, an ethnic contemporary dance theater company, in several off-Broadway productions and continuing work. Meanwhile, she has continued to develop her dance, creating several DVDs, traveling nationally and internationally to teach and perform, and co-founding dance activism network PURE. Darshan is a personal trainer as well as a dance coach, and is known for her articulate, lively and encouraging teaching as well as her dynamic and powerful stage presence.

Darshan is a certified Bikram Yoga teacher since 2009, and a multi-yoga practitioner for many years. She teaches privately including several sessions with Lady Gaga, as well as corporate yoga and regular hot Bikram Yoga classes throughout the city and elsewhere. Also a massage therapist and personal trainer, she has a deep sense of the variety of bodies and characters and what they might need to achieve through their practice.