Roma teaches Chair Yoga, Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga, Aerial Yoga, Restorative and Yin Yoga. She began her Yoga journey as a teenager and studied yoga throughout college and has maintained a personal practice of yoga and vegetarianism for over 25 years. She is a 200 CYT teacher trained at Kripalu in 2014. Aerial Yoga certification from Twisted yoga studio in 2019. She has specialized in teaching older adults and those with injuries since 2016. Her chair yoga technique is compiled in a book and training program, coming soon.
Celebrating 20 years of Bellydance! She belonged to several troupes before starting Nomadic Magic Tribal Dance in 2007. She specializes in Tribal Style Bellydance and trained with Paulette Rees-Denis as a certified Gypsy Caravan instructor in 2009. She appeared on stage with Wine and Alchemy at the Maryland Renaissance Festival and Circa Paleo at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Festival 2010-2014.
She is a Henna artist available for weddings, festivals and at special events. Henna adornment for hands, feet, hair, heads, and bellies. She began doing henna in 2007 at small festivals and at the Maryland Renaissance Festival (Sept/Oct) full-time in 2016.
In 2016, Roma was Woven Body trained as a Thai bodyworker with integrated cultural Thai bodywork experience. Thai Bodywork adjustments currently available only by referral.
Roma's clothing made from scarves business, Romina Pashmina, was started in 2019. She is a featured vendor at Colorado Renaissance Festival Delaware Renaissance Festival (Oct/Nov) and Ocean Renaissance (April). RP also deals in sound healing and meditation tools. Hand-hammered 7-metal alloy Himalayan singing bowls and semi-precious gemstone malas fair-trade from Nepal.
Herbalist trained by Southwest Herbs in Mesa, AZ (2020). Roma began working with Hemp in the summer of 2020. She extracts CBD and infuses it into teas, tinctures, soaps, salves and smoking blends. She also makes vegan CBD brownies and cooking oil. Visit Occidental Herbs for more info. Her teas can be found locally at Blackwater Apothecary in Downtown Salisbury.
Her musical life began with dance, raves and drum circles in the late 1990's. She quickly picked up rhythm and hand drums. She met Hare Krishna's in 1998 and began incorporating chanting into her ecstatic dance spirituality. She picked up ukulele in 2015 and guitar in 2020. She now plays harmonium and chants mantras at home and in sangha with others at various spiritual centers across the country including ISKCON Tucson, Delaware and Denver, Delaware Bhakti House, Baba Neem Karoli Baba Taos Hanuman Ashram in NM; Divine Mother Temple in Crestone, CO; and recently, Meditate and Thrive Kriya Yoga Center in Salisbury, MD. Music is shared on Modest Sadhu Instagram.
Professional Degrees
Roma has an MBA degree from Salisbury University (2011-2013) She has started multiple businesses since getting her business degree and has been financially independent self-employed since 2017. She has a Biology degree from Arizona State University (2005), which allowed her to serve as an Environmental Educator for 7 years working at places like Phoenix Zoo, Assateague State Park, Ward Museum, and Salisbury Zoo. She is trained in Project WET, WILD, Flying WILD, and Wonders of Wetlands. She spent 2 years after graduating from Arizona State University as an Americorps volunteer. She has served on Salisbury City committees on Sustainability, bicycle and pedestrian awareness, and was a founding member of the 3rd Friday Arts district event. She is currently the Somerset County coordinator for the Old Growth Forest Network.
Celebrating 20 years of Bellydance! She belonged to several troupes before starting Nomadic Magic Tribal Dance in 2007. She specializes in Tribal Style Bellydance and trained with Paulette Rees-Denis as a certified Gypsy Caravan instructor in 2009. She appeared on stage with Wine and Alchemy at the Maryland Renaissance Festival and Circa Paleo at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Festival 2010-2014.
She is a Henna artist available for weddings, festivals and at special events. Henna adornment for hands, feet, hair, heads, and bellies. She began doing henna in 2007 at small festivals and at the Maryland Renaissance Festival (Sept/Oct) full-time in 2016.
In 2016, Roma was Woven Body trained as a Thai bodyworker with integrated cultural Thai bodywork experience. Thai Bodywork adjustments currently available only by referral.
Roma's clothing made from scarves business, Romina Pashmina, was started in 2019. She is a featured vendor at Colorado Renaissance Festival Delaware Renaissance Festival (Oct/Nov) and Ocean Renaissance (April). RP also deals in sound healing and meditation tools. Hand-hammered 7-metal alloy Himalayan singing bowls and semi-precious gemstone malas fair-trade from Nepal.
Herbalist trained by Southwest Herbs in Mesa, AZ (2020). Roma began working with Hemp in the summer of 2020. She extracts CBD and infuses it into teas, tinctures, soaps, salves and smoking blends. She also makes vegan CBD brownies and cooking oil. Visit Occidental Herbs for more info. Her teas can be found locally at Blackwater Apothecary in Downtown Salisbury.
Her musical life began with dance, raves and drum circles in the late 1990's. She quickly picked up rhythm and hand drums. She met Hare Krishna's in 1998 and began incorporating chanting into her ecstatic dance spirituality. She picked up ukulele in 2015 and guitar in 2020. She now plays harmonium and chants mantras at home and in sangha with others at various spiritual centers across the country including ISKCON Tucson, Delaware and Denver, Delaware Bhakti House, Baba Neem Karoli Baba Taos Hanuman Ashram in NM; Divine Mother Temple in Crestone, CO; and recently, Meditate and Thrive Kriya Yoga Center in Salisbury, MD. Music is shared on Modest Sadhu Instagram.
Professional Degrees
Roma has an MBA degree from Salisbury University (2011-2013) She has started multiple businesses since getting her business degree and has been financially independent self-employed since 2017. She has a Biology degree from Arizona State University (2005), which allowed her to serve as an Environmental Educator for 7 years working at places like Phoenix Zoo, Assateague State Park, Ward Museum, and Salisbury Zoo. She is trained in Project WET, WILD, Flying WILD, and Wonders of Wetlands. She spent 2 years after graduating from Arizona State University as an Americorps volunteer. She has served on Salisbury City committees on Sustainability, bicycle and pedestrian awareness, and was a founding member of the 3rd Friday Arts district event. She is currently the Somerset County coordinator for the Old Growth Forest Network.
“For as long as I can remember, I have always been fascinated by world cultures, spirituality, and nature. My step-mother is from Puerto Rico and would offer guided meditations to soothe me as a child. She would concoct natural remedies for colds, aches, asthma, and all manner of beauty tricks for hair, skin, and face. She was superstitious and there was often an air of mysticism in daily life. She helped shape me into the calm, open-minded, creative, and spiritual individual I am today.”
Rose took the transformational plunge of becoming a Kripalu certified yoga instructor in the spring and summer of 2014. The program was 4 weeks of immersive training on yoga poses, bones, muscles, body functions and conditions, as well as philosophy and self-study. Kripalu’s core value is that of compassion; whose philosophy invites practitioners to develop and listen to their own inner wisdom, interpreting and expressing the eight limbs of yoga in an authentic and individual way.
Prior to Kripalu, Rose obtained a yoga certification through AFPA (American Fitness professionals Association). She taught yoga at Calliope Farm for two years in exchange for local organic vegetables. There, she developed a deeper understanding and appreciation for farm-to-table lifestyle and culture.
she teaches and performs Tribal Bellydance. This unique style of Bellydance is performed by a group of two or more dancers without the use of choreography, which is facilitated by a vocabulary of moves and cues. Bellydance is often stigmatized in both Western and Middle Eastern cultures. She uses the dance as a means to empower women and express the feminine divine. She has a product line of natural beauty products called Roma Therapy.
Rose took the transformational plunge of becoming a Kripalu certified yoga instructor in the spring and summer of 2014. The program was 4 weeks of immersive training on yoga poses, bones, muscles, body functions and conditions, as well as philosophy and self-study. Kripalu’s core value is that of compassion; whose philosophy invites practitioners to develop and listen to their own inner wisdom, interpreting and expressing the eight limbs of yoga in an authentic and individual way.
Prior to Kripalu, Rose obtained a yoga certification through AFPA (American Fitness professionals Association). She taught yoga at Calliope Farm for two years in exchange for local organic vegetables. There, she developed a deeper understanding and appreciation for farm-to-table lifestyle and culture.
she teaches and performs Tribal Bellydance. This unique style of Bellydance is performed by a group of two or more dancers without the use of choreography, which is facilitated by a vocabulary of moves and cues. Bellydance is often stigmatized in both Western and Middle Eastern cultures. She uses the dance as a means to empower women and express the feminine divine. She has a product line of natural beauty products called Roma Therapy.
Over TWO decades of professional bellydance experience.
Roma got her bellydancer start back in 2003 at Domba Studios in Tempe, AZ. After graduating Arizona State University with a degree in Biology she moved to Maryland to work at a State Park, Zoo and museum. She was a member of Damali Dance Company and Arabian Lights Dance Company (2006-2007). She started the first and only ALL tribal on the Eastern Shore troupe, Nomadic Magic Tribal Dance in (2007-2011). The troupe performed monthly at Namaste Indian Cuisine. She is a Certified Gypsy Caravan Dance Instructor (2009). Performed at festivals and events such as East Coast Tribal, Delmarva Pagan Pride festival, Salisbury Festival, Maryland Faery Festival, Spoutwood Farm Feary Festival, and Art of the Belly. Featured solo performer for stage act Wine & Alchemy Maryland Renaissance Festival (2010-2015).
Learned Thai Massage at Woven Body in Richmond, VA under teacher, Damion Bond.
Roma got her bellydancer start back in 2003 at Domba Studios in Tempe, AZ. After graduating Arizona State University with a degree in Biology she moved to Maryland to work at a State Park, Zoo and museum. She was a member of Damali Dance Company and Arabian Lights Dance Company (2006-2007). She started the first and only ALL tribal on the Eastern Shore troupe, Nomadic Magic Tribal Dance in (2007-2011). The troupe performed monthly at Namaste Indian Cuisine. She is a Certified Gypsy Caravan Dance Instructor (2009). Performed at festivals and events such as East Coast Tribal, Delmarva Pagan Pride festival, Salisbury Festival, Maryland Faery Festival, Spoutwood Farm Feary Festival, and Art of the Belly. Featured solo performer for stage act Wine & Alchemy Maryland Renaissance Festival (2010-2015).
Learned Thai Massage at Woven Body in Richmond, VA under teacher, Damion Bond.
Roma
Roma began bellydancing in 2003. She was immediately drawn to tribal style after seeing a duet performed in perfect synchronicity without any choreography. She took classes at Domba studios in Tempe, AZ.
When she moved to Maryland in 2005 she joined local troupes and began performing all over the Delmarva Peninsula. She continued to train with DVD's and workshops with other tribal dancers.
She began teaching tribal style bellydance in 2007 at the Art Institute & Gallery. The troupe, Nomadic Magic, was formed soon after classes began. In 2009, the group began performing monthly at Namaste Indian Cuisine in Salisbury, MD through 2011.
Roma is a Gypsy Caravan certified Collective Soul instructor (2009). She teaches tribal improv classes with 4 different levels according to the large vocabulary of moves, cues, layers, turns, combos, and variations. She also teaches themed workshops and drills classes.
Since 2011, Roma has performed primarily as a soloist to live music by Wine and Alchemy and Circa Paleo at Maryland and Pennsylvania Renaissance festivals. She describes her style as ecclectic, old world, sultry and original. Her style continues to grow and be defined.
In 2014 Roma obtained her Kripalu yoga certification and began teaching at Soul Yoga Studio.
When she moved to Maryland in 2005 she joined local troupes and began performing all over the Delmarva Peninsula. She continued to train with DVD's and workshops with other tribal dancers.
She began teaching tribal style bellydance in 2007 at the Art Institute & Gallery. The troupe, Nomadic Magic, was formed soon after classes began. In 2009, the group began performing monthly at Namaste Indian Cuisine in Salisbury, MD through 2011.
Roma is a Gypsy Caravan certified Collective Soul instructor (2009). She teaches tribal improv classes with 4 different levels according to the large vocabulary of moves, cues, layers, turns, combos, and variations. She also teaches themed workshops and drills classes.
Since 2011, Roma has performed primarily as a soloist to live music by Wine and Alchemy and Circa Paleo at Maryland and Pennsylvania Renaissance festivals. She describes her style as ecclectic, old world, sultry and original. Her style continues to grow and be defined.
In 2014 Roma obtained her Kripalu yoga certification and began teaching at Soul Yoga Studio.
Writing
Gothla Yoga Column - Online Bellydance magazine/blog. Articles on TANTRA
What is Tribal Bellydance- Over a decade of collected belly dance movement vocabulary, cues and formations to be performed by a group improvisationally i.e. without choreography. "Anything can be improv'd" The creator of the first and only all-tribal troupe on the Eastern Shore. Includes moves charts, practice sheets, combos and even choreographies.
Yoga Bodyworks I and II- training manual with charts and a database of moves by ailment, contraindications, area of the body and movement type. Organized by Standing, Seated, Balance, Twists, Supine and Prone.
Chair Yoga- Many poses with images and instruction. Great for all ages and abilities, especially beginners, aging and recovering bodies.
New Moon Circles- Monthly PDFS and Video discussions based on the seasons. Each month a topic that coincides with seasonal and cyclical tradition. Featuring local artists and guests. YouTube
2022 Magickal Calendar- 8 Sabbats, 26 Esbats, New Moons, Months, Astrology, Seasonal festivals, Hindu Holy Days,
13 Death Days- Explores the afterlife and in between, the Bardo states. From the moment before death and for 13 days following Death the deities and illusions one experiences according to the Tibetan Book of the Dead and Garuda Purana. Texts that describe what one sees on the other side. Meanwhile, how to help loved ones pass and move on with them in peace and happiness.
What is Tribal Bellydance- Over a decade of collected belly dance movement vocabulary, cues and formations to be performed by a group improvisationally i.e. without choreography. "Anything can be improv'd" The creator of the first and only all-tribal troupe on the Eastern Shore. Includes moves charts, practice sheets, combos and even choreographies.
Yoga Bodyworks I and II- training manual with charts and a database of moves by ailment, contraindications, area of the body and movement type. Organized by Standing, Seated, Balance, Twists, Supine and Prone.
Chair Yoga- Many poses with images and instruction. Great for all ages and abilities, especially beginners, aging and recovering bodies.
New Moon Circles- Monthly PDFS and Video discussions based on the seasons. Each month a topic that coincides with seasonal and cyclical tradition. Featuring local artists and guests. YouTube
2022 Magickal Calendar- 8 Sabbats, 26 Esbats, New Moons, Months, Astrology, Seasonal festivals, Hindu Holy Days,
13 Death Days- Explores the afterlife and in between, the Bardo states. From the moment before death and for 13 days following Death the deities and illusions one experiences according to the Tibetan Book of the Dead and Garuda Purana. Texts that describe what one sees on the other side. Meanwhile, how to help loved ones pass and move on with them in peace and happiness.
