Celebrate World Peace Day with The Peace Dance Online Workshop. Sept 21, 10am to 2pm PT! "Dance Yourself Healed!" Celebrate World Peace Day in the Peace Dance Workshop, where faith meets movement, and grace fuses with art. Connect with like-minded women via Zoom in a sacred space dedicated to finding inner peace through the [...]
“ My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” ~ Desmond Tutu Do you ever get the itch to appreciate the whole human race in its widest variety? If the world is one big dance floor, we've all got upwards of eight billion other folks pulsating upon [...]
Join Fred Sugerman and the Medicine Dance team for "See/Hear/Love: As A Tree" Chatsworth, CA Oct 16-20! "I feel a certain kind of freedom and down-to-earthness in myself and my body. I’ve been out of touch with that part of myself for very many years, and I’m so happy to welcome it back in!" [...]
“ We do not remember days,we remember moments.” ~ Cesare Pavese Do you ever find yourself "outside of yourself"? Where exactly does the locus of your reality reside? Is it fixed or mutable and do you have some degree of agency as to it's position? It's an odd phenomenon to notice just how [...]
Join Ellen Watson with Vibrance Collective facilitators Ania Wijaya, Ashley Johnson, Catur Hari Wijaya, Klaus Schmitt & Novie Amalo at the fabulous Mimpi Menjangan Retreat for one, two, or three week-long modules April 5-26, 2025! "Let Your Heart Sing, Your Soul Move, and Your Spirit Dance" Are you ready for a life-changing experience? Journey [...]
“ There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.” ~ Yoko Ono Well, I had a whole ’nother subject worked up for today’s newsletter, but then I edited today’s Spotlight feature and shifted gears. I’m taking a detour [...]
Join Lucia for Connection & Compassion -- A 5Rhythms Heartbeat & Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Retreat, Oct 4-6 in Culver City, CA! "Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being." ~ Gabrielle Roth Connection and compassion are keys to finding peace and happiness in this difficult world. If one desires an ability [...]
“ Life itself is the proper binge.” ~ Julia Child When is a habit more than a habit? What makes an everyday activity rise above the daily routine? Why is presence such a big factor in creating the sublime? In other words, today's meditation on your daily dance of life is all about [...]
A Moving Journey for Teachers of Conscious Dance, October 4-6, at The Starhouse in Boulder! Join this once-in-a-lifetime gathering of seasoned and spirited teachers who have been guiding transformational dance experiences for many decades each. These early forerunners in the field of consciousness and dance have each developed seminal pathways for the exploration of [...]
“ Courage is knowing what not to fear.” ~ Plato "What’s the biggest life lesson you’ve learned so far in 2024" That was the pointed question posed to me and my sweetheart by her inquisitive Gen-Z daughter the other day. Kudos to her for having the courage to dig a little deeper in [...]
