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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

Healing River

Hello beautiful soul! Perhaps you are like me and go to the water to find some peace and calm. This week I want to share with you the story of my friend Michael Bischoff who made walking by the river his primary spiritual and healing practice. He died last week Read more…

By emily, 11 months11 months ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Why Water: A practical choice became a spiritual journey

One of my biggest weaknesses has been getting overwhelmed by the enormity and depth of our intersecting global crises. This weakness is the flip side of one of my super powers: the ability to see, synthesize, and transmit the big picture. As part of the effort to feel strong rather Read more…

By emily, 3 years3 years ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

The opportunity on the other side of overwhelm.

The Mississippi is very high right now and that’s how my life feels to me too. I can barely keep up with all the painful disasters both “natural” and “human-made.” When I get overwhelmed it helps me to go to the rushing waters and be brought back into the flow. Read more…

By emily, 3 years3 years ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Summer Blessings

My heart is still full from singing practice at Hidden Falls Park, with the gorgeous Mississippi River and bald eagles calling out in what felt like a response to our song. It was special because my life also requires that I spend a lot of time at my desk and Read more…

By emily, 5 years5 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 as their migration route.  The river designs our life.  It Read more…

By emily, 7 years7 years ago
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