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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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      • Spring Dance Events
      • Earth Day Dance Celebration
      • Mid-Summer Celebration
      • Dancing into the Dark Mysteries
      • Winter Rest
      • 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, 4 monthsJanuary 18, 2022 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

Beginning a Bittersweet Harvest Full of Change

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…

By emily, 10 monthsAugust 3, 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

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, 12 monthsJune 8, 2021 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

This is More Than a Beauty Break

Time for a beauty break! Every week I bring water blessed by the Healing Waters Qigong practice group to Lake Hiawatha. As I pause on the shore of the lake my senses come alive. I have felt awed so many times. Most weeks I remember to take a picture and Read more…

By emily, 1 yearDecember 7, 2020 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Make your self-care plan for this week

This will be a significant week for all of us. In the words of my daughter, “The great day of ugh” is Tuesday. In addition to making your voting plan, I hope that you are also putting together your self-care plan. All of us are going to have to bear Read more…

By emily, 2 yearsOctober 30, 2020 ago
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

Anticipation Without Anxiety: what I learned from preparing for major surgery is helping me stay sane with the election.

The mood surrounding the coming election is reminding me how it felt to anticipate major surgery. It was this time of year, eleven years ago that, team of top surgeons from the Mayo Clinic would be removing a tumor that surrounded nerves and arteries at the base of my neck. Read more…

By emily, 2 yearsOctober 2, 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
woman standing by lake at sunset
Blog: Awakening our Creative Power

The Wilderness of Quarantine

I’ve often found myself at a loss for words to express my prayers for this time. There is so much going on, how could I begin to think I could honor it all? In the past few weeks my prayer has boiled down to something simple: May all that is Read more…

By emily, 2 yearsMay 15, 2020 ago

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