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    • PerformanceDance for joy.  Dance for healing.  Dance to connect with wisdom.  Emily leads dance workshops and also incorporates dance into rituals and events.  The Wisdom Dances Circle is a source of more in-depth study.  Read more about each offering in this section and make sure to check out the calendar page.  Contact Emily to invite her to lead a workshop with your group. Wisdom Dances Circle Make dance a vital part of your life: a joyful form of exercise,  sacred practice, community experience, and vehicle for transformation on many levels. Dance is our muse, our joy, our healer.  By paying attention to the integrity of the dances we will cultivate wisdom to guide us. Learn dances deeply, so that you can inhabit the dance fully. Study the music, culture, and wisdom that is connected with the dances Explore incorporating improvisation into the structure of the dances Share in an exploration of dancing into joyful, resilient diverse communities. Dance with a trust that these dances have more direct healing power than you can imagine. Participants are asked to make a 10 week commitment to the circle.  The end of each 10 week circle concludes with a public dancing celebration. Cost: Contribute…
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      • Mid-Summer Celebration
      • Dancing into the Dark Mysteries
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      • Winter Solstice Celebration
      • Introductory Workshop
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Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Celebrating Six Great Teachers who Have Inspired Wisdom Dances

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...

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Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Blessing the Crossroads

This 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...

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Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Why Joy is Essential

I’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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Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Creating Peace by Being Peace

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…

By emily, 2 monthsMarch 15, 2022 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

The World Needs You to Dream Big and Strive for Excellence

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…

By emily, 3 monthsFebruary 25, 2022 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

How to Access the Spiritual Gifts of February

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…

By emily, 4 monthsFebruary 3, 2022 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

What Do You Want to Create in 2022?

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…

By emily, 4 monthsJanuary 18, 2022 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

2021 Best Reads for Integration and Inspiration

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…

By emily, 5 monthsDecember 15, 2021 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Darkness as revolutionary act

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…

By emily, 6 monthsNovember 30, 2021 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Why we need sacred spaces

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.

By emily, 7 monthsOctober 28, 2021 ago

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