Today marks the beginning of the springtime celebration season for Wisdom Dances. It is St. Lazarus Day today, and on this day in Bulgaria girls are dancing through their communities to bestow blessings. This is one of many traditions from the region of the Balkans, Greece, and Anatolia that take Read more…
Reflecting on the themes from the first ten years of Wisdom Dances has brought me a lot of joy. As this series of blog posts comes to a close, I want to share with you how the name Wisdom Dances itself has come to take on greater meaning for me. Read more…
We’ve reached the midpoint of summer, between the solstice and equinox. This is the time to celebrate the beginning of the harvest. There are many traditions in this spirit across Europe, including Lammas from England. Last night I hung bundles of herbs from every spare nail and knob in my Read more…
Holy darkness batman! There are parts of winter I really do like. Yet every year I find myself trying to figure out how to relate to the dark. Darkness is the absence of light but it is not the absence of the Divine. It is the fertile ground in which Read more…
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…
Hello dear compassionate hearts, How is your beautiful, creative spirit bearing the news these days? Many of my big hearted friends seem to be having an especially hard time with the violence happening in our city and around the world. Having an open heart means we also see a lot Read more…
Here comes the holiday season! With all the extra cooking, shopping, parties, and darkness I often find myself worn thin. The time around Winter Solstice is in fact a “thin time†in that the material and spiritual worlds are very close. It is a time to prepare ourselves for new Read more…
When Ed mentioned the recycling effort he is leading at church he sounded so heavy, he had the voice of Sisyphus, the Greek hero condemned to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, repeating this action for eternity. I could easily picture the Read more…
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…
My life changed in a 2009 healing with Spring Forest QiGong Master Chunyi Lin. I remember feeling like I had traveled to the deep center of the universe. This was the turning point in my healing from cancer, the moment when I tapped into the origin of life and accessed Read more…