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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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      • Earth Day Dance Celebration
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      • Dancing into the Dark Mysteries
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      • Winter Solstice Celebration
      • Introductory Workshop
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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 opportunity for transformation. Earlier this month I gave a talk Read more…

By emily, 5 monthsJanuary 18, 2022 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

How to make friends with the overwhelm

Hello dear one, Just about everyone I speak with right now is some form of exhausted and overwhelmed. While this can feel like an individual struggle with your particular circumstances, I invite you to be gentle and also see it as a collective experience. That overwhelmed feeling we get from Read more…

By emily, 1 yearJune 8, 2021 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Teenage perspective on regenerative metamorphosis

This is my current paradox – perhaps you feel it too? I’m needing vast amounts of rest and I am also growing by leaps and bounds. Sometimes these two impulses feel at cross purposes. It’s very strange to be napping when there is so much to do. Some days I Read more…

By emily, 1 yearJanuary 26, 2021 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Surfing 2020

Happy New Year! January always feels like a fresh beginning to me. I spend a little time setting goals for things I’d like to do in the coming year. But more importantly, I find myself thinking about how I want to be in the coming year. This year one of Read more…

By emily, 2 yearsJanuary 3, 2020 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Pleasure and Desire

Sometimes the lowest point in my day is when I’m trying to convince my daughter to make her first attempt at a new and challenging song. While a little difficulty keeps things interesting sometimes things feel impossibly hard. While we might escalate into a dramatic showdown on the piano bench, Read more…

By emily, 5 years ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

How do we frame these times?

It’s so difficult to hold all the danger and uncertainties around us and stay active, engaged, and creative! In a single day I cycle through a bunch of different frames of mind, each with its own level of adrenaline, fear, anger, courage, and hope. Fortunately I know what shuts me Read more…

By emily, 5 yearsJanuary 29, 2017 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Did someone stop the music?

Things haven’t been going as expected. All sorts of stuff, big and small, is going down. Most notably, earlier this month while I was in Greece my mother-in-law died and I needed to cut my trip short to return for her funeral. Sometimes it feels like someone stopped the music. Read more…

By emily, 6 yearsMay 16, 2016 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

What Does it Take to Move with the Flow of Life?

You have the capacity for a creative, vital life because you are part of one beautiful, loving interconnected universe. This is how I see it (thanks to insight from many wisdom traditions): We are all part of one interconnected flow that is in constant creative evolution. We suffer, life suffers, Read more…

By emily, 7 yearsSeptember 30, 2015 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Overcoming the Undertow

Do you ever collapse into bed at the end of the day feeling just completely drained and disconnected? Ugh, I hate the feeling that something has drawn so much of my attention and energy that I’ve ended up not just tired but depleted. I’m being sucked into the undertow and Read more…

By emily, 7 yearsApril 23, 2015 ago
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