The Creativity Play and Possibilities Retreat is done and I loved every second of it. We gathered in my studio on Butterstone Farm for 2 1/2 days of artful and soulful ceremony. We were dancers, writers, artists, healers, musicians and sacred storytellers. We laughed, loved, learned, let go and leapt into joyful exploration. We…
Category Archives: dance
what a difference a choice makes
Today is a child full of wonder radiating light colour it reaches out to you with love asks for your hand a kiss on its forehead clings to the hem of your heart and expects you will be there over and over despite the hours you already played read, danced in the garden…
If the red patent shoes fit…
Feeling into this present. A sadness. I burned my left foot this week. Poured a kettle of boiling water into a glass that broke in two. Now it is healing, pain-free. Bandaged so I am having to be extra careful how I step, walk, do downward dog and child’s pose. Because of where the blisters…
life unlike we have known it
As I sit here and work on this new blog post, I hear the rain drip drip outside the windows of my studio. A pang (actually a raw ache) in my heart pulls me back to the email I read from avaaz.org earlier this morning about the Syrian government’s crackdown on the Arab Spring and the…
be a dancing fool
Dance the dance of a fool Become what you become without a thought of what you could have been Be the fool, dancing your body the present unfolding before your eyes a moving picture of a paradise your body the paint as you explore your many colours on canvas Breathe, and your image changes each moment a new…
with gratitude for the dance
This morning I danced in my studio with the lights off. So much light enters through the windows and I am full of light inside. /// I remember dancing with my dad, stepping my little-girl feet onto his big-man toes and letting him lead me around the living room carpet. Then learning to dance on…
opening to the gift
It is up to the writer to recognize everything that happens to her as gift, to love each thing that comes under the eye’s contemplation, inner and outer. (Jane Hirshfield, 1997, p. 212) I choose an angel card out of a beautiful tan basket, brought home over 20 years ago after a 3-month arts &…
temporary shelters
A morning meeting with my writing sisters–two women with whom I am writing a book about the communal act of journal writing, called “Writing Alone Together: Journaling for Creativity, Compassion and Connection within a Circle of Women”. After our delicious conversation, I felt inspired to share the following entry from an old journal. I so…
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