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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

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 up every day and continue to learn and serve through Read more…

By emily, 1 weekMay 12, 2022 ago
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 at the crossroads. This is literal and figurative. Our inspiration Read more…

By emily, 4 weeksApril 22, 2022 ago
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 happiness for no reason. We are happy when positive things Read more…

By emily, 2 monthsApril 1, 2022 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
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

A gift from the grief puppies

Dear sweet one, I love connecting with you and sharing the process of navigating these times with love. I continue to write less frequently than usual because life is moving at a different pace right now. I am convinced we are all supposed to be moving a little more slowly Read more…

By emily, 7 monthsOctober 12, 2021 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

You are the ocean, not the wave

Hello beautiful soul! Happy Interdependence Day! Yes, let’s just re-brand Independence Day. Perhaps because July 4th is my parent’s wedding anniversary, July 4th has always been about being in relationship. I wonder what our communities would be like if we put as much energy into celebrating our interdependence as our Read more…

By emily, 11 monthsJuly 5, 2021 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

What will you do for love?

Wow, I cannot tell you how wonderful it has been to resume outdoor group classes. I love seeing people in the flesh! I’ve even seen some bare feet. I love the beauty and relative warmth of spring. It feels like a homecoming. The wholeness I feel when I am mindfully Read more…

By emily, 1 yearApril 29, 2021 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

How To Stop Polarization In Your Heart

Merry Monday dear one, I begin this week hoping it will be gentler and more balanced than last week. While we are feeling the extreme polarization in our country I want to share a minor miracle: the experience in my heart of unity. It feels like a gift. I don’t Read more…

By emily, 1 yearJanuary 11, 2021 ago
first image of slideshow: four dancers in water
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

2020 in Photos – Community & Connection

Dear one, What an extraordinary year! Thank you for being a part of it! I’m so glad to share the pursuit of deep transformation with you. Being in community with you as readers or participants in my classes has been such a powerful source of grounding and connection. We’ve seen Read more…

By emily, 1 yearDecember 29, 2020 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Are you really “at home” when you are home?

Recently I had the good fortune to spend a week near the Boundary Waters with my family. We could see the Milky Way at night and I saw shooting stars for the first time in years. Every morning we began our day with a quick plunge into the lake – Read more…

By emily, 2 yearsSeptember 1, 2020 ago

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