This summer marks the ten year anniversary of Wisdom Dances. In 2012 I said yes to a leading I could no longer resist and quit my steady job in a hot mess of burnt-out exhaustion. Now I’m grateful to get...
Read moreThis Saturday is one of my favorite spring time traditions – the Wisdom Dances Earth Day Celebration. Our community of dancers will dance and sing throughout the Cities to participate in activating the energies of spring. We will be dancing...
Read moreI’ve been reflecting on the crucial, powerful mystery of joy lately. These are such difficult times, I know joy might feel impossible, frivolous, or inappropriate. But I believe joy is an essential ingredient for cultivating healing and transformation. Joy is...
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Dear one, It is amazing how quickly the world can feel completely different. The catastrophe in Ukraine didn’t come out of nowhere, but the rapid unfolding of these past few weeks is significantly shifting how we understand our global inter-relationship Read more…
Hello dear one, Your pursuit of healing, transformation, peace, and joy is a beautiful thing. Most precious is the voice that continues to long for compassion and liberation, even when it feels so far away. These are challenging times. Despite Read more…
Next to my computer is a beautiful amaryllis plant that is preparing to bloom. I’m delighted by its timing this year, emerging at roughly the Lunar New Year. The beginning of February also marks the end of the darkest three Read more…
Dear one, This is a great year for developing your creativity because, well, we are bring forced to. Thinking about living in 2022 as a creative project is a way to turn your focus away from griping and toward layers of Read more…
If 2020 was the year of disruption, 2021 has been a year of some integration. Things are starting to take the form of a new normal. I don’t think we collectively have words yet for all the ways we have Read more…
We are living in one of the greatest innovation opportunities in human history. The intersecting climate and justice crises are openings to fundamentally change how we collectively do almost everything, an opportunity Jonathan Foley compares to “Bill Gates time 1000.” Read more…
Are we letting our children down when their education about the climate includes no tools for climate grief? The myth of Demeter and Persephone can offer some guidance.