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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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Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Dancing like our hips contain the universe

What is in the swish of the hip? To pulse my shoulders or throw my hips, I have to find a spiral within my body that allows me to twist. These shimmies and shakes are what makes Romani (Gypsy) dancing Read more…

By emily, 7 years7 years ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Confident, Passionate, Captivating

There is a scientific explanation for why we often leave the dance floor feeling confident, passionate, enthusiastic and captivating. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy’s research shows how “power posing” can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain which can affect Read more…

By emily, 7 years7 years ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

An Open-Hearted Winter Solstice Wish

Winter solstice is approaching with the promise that the dark and cold of winter will end. The turning of the seasons is our creative teacher. For me, winter always feels like a test of my resilience. Beyond winter, these are Read more…

By emily, 7 years ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Moving with Gratitude

How do you practice gratitude with your body? Sometimes I feel like my gratitude is a conscious practice, a skill I am developing.  It’s a list I make, or the blessing I say over my meal. Other times, gratitude feels Read more…

By emily, 7 years ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Thinking Like a Tree

Dancing heals us.  I know this with my whole body. This is a picture of me four years ago.  I’m connected to an IV awaiting the first phase of major surgery. My team of four top surgeons warned me that Read more…

By emily, 7 years7 years ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

We Are Creators

I love living near the Mississippi River. This river shapes our landscape, in some places creating beautiful bluffs and also bringing rich soil to places where it floods. Each spring and fall, I greet the birds that follow the river Read more…

By emily, 7 years7 years ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Finding home, finding freedom in Roma dance

The first time I stepped into a Roma dance, I felt a sense of home.  I was filled with heat.  I felt another pulse match and invigorate my pulse.  The dance stood out from the evening of diverse dances and Read more…

By emily, 7 years7 years ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Why Dancing Outside Matters

The deer, turned golden by the evening light, moved through the field of purple lupine at the far side of the meadow.  It stopped and watched us dance, then returned to grazing. If I were the sort to tell fish Read more…

By emily, 8 years7 years ago

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