Pomegranate SEEDs®
(Self-Esteem, Empowerment and Education through Dance)

Established by Founder/Director Myra Krien in 2000, Pomegranate SEEDs® was created to provide youth with the finest instruction in Middle Eastern Arts along with programming that promotes self-discovery and self-actualization, provides mentorship at a very high level and prepares young women for independence. 

2024/25 dates TBA

$200 a month. Scholarships are available--no one is turned away for inability to pay! 

Interested? Want more info? Contact us at pomegranatesfnm@yahoo.com - 505.501.2142.

The Mission

To mentor young women in order to create healthy and strong individuals who are socially and fiscally responsible to themselves and their community. This is accomplished through the vehicle of dance, talking circles, journal writing, and presentations.

The Program

The program accepts 25 teens (13 to 18 years old) for one academic year of after-school classes, two times per week. They are taught the elements of Pomegranate Improvisational Dance (PID), a rich, diverse, artistic, cultural dance form that spans the regions of India, the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain, and its expression through the varied and complex music of these same cultures.  The students also participate in talking circles and journal writing during which they discuss issues affecting them.  Each girl identifies a personal goal that she would like to achieve during the course of the program. Guest speakers cover a wide range of topics from nutrition and body awareness to financial education, etc. Many successful women of various fields that are of particular interest to the students come to the program to give presentations and answer questions. There are four Student Salons (student performances) each session.  Entrance into the program does not depend on demonstrated talent, standard beauty, or ability to pay the fees the program would require.

The Goals

For each girl –

  • To find her own voice and be able to listen to it.

  • To have better self-esteem and confidence.

  • To be able to plan and achieve goals, generate choices, create options,

  • resources and support.

  • To be ready to face financial independence.

  • To have respect, appreciation, and be able to care for her own body.

  • To respect, appreciate, and be able to care for others in community.

  • To respect and appreciate diversity and culture.

  • "There is a lot I can say about this program and how I feel about it, but if I had to sum it all up I would just say, that being able to be apart of this and being able to grow as “seeds” do into this community I have never felt more seen and comfortable. I am grateful for the boundless compassion and nature I’ve been able to experience in this community of people. Thank you."

    - Enivid, 2023

  • "SEEDs has changed me over these nine months in ways I could never have imagined. I have come to know an invaluable community and felt support on so many levels. This year I have struggled with my health and school and have always felt support here and gratitude for this wonderful dance. I am less stressed in general now and feel much more whole as a person after having done SEEDs."

    - Toreh, 2015

  • “In SEEDs I found a large family, bigger than my extended family. I found a place where we all accept each other’s differences. How we dance, mess up, say it’s “Ok,” get up and kick ass! My experience in SEEDs has been great and very beautiful. It’s like people who watch you fail in what you like doing but still appreciate you and it gives you more courage and determination. This program made me re-discover myself even what I thought I had lost it all. It taught me how to be a better person but still be who I really am.”

    - Andrea, 2017

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Pomegranate SEEDs® is made possible in part by support from New Mexico Arts.