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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

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

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

Keep falling in love despite the ache of it

Dear one, I bow to your precious, unique soul. I bow in wonder that our lives are profoundly woven together with the fabric of the universe. I wonder what the world would be like if we lived with this reverence to each other. This morning I’m keenly aware of the Read more…

By emily, 1 yearApril 12, 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

How to Create an Ancestor Altar

A threshold that connects the past and future Ancestor altars have long captures my imagination. At first it was just a gut resonance. Something about the beauty and aliveness of the candles and array of photos pulled me in. I have always felt that the lives of my ancestors were Read more…

By emily, 2 yearsOctober 20, 2020 ago
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, 2 yearsFebruary 19, 2020 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

Yes, I am willing.

“Who is the next walker? We need someone right now!” I was on the Cannon River Water Walk last week, and there was a group of water walkers coming towards us carrying the vessel of water we had gathered at the headwaters. The water is not supposed to stop moving Read more…

By emily, 3 yearsJuly 23, 2019 ago

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