“ A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” ~ Max Muller Here’s a conundrum for you. What is the one thing that is essential, yet we often seek to avoid? Why is this bad for us in excess, yet valuable in small quantities? The benefits can be replicated [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Lorca Simons & Live Wire! “I believe in the power of motion, the wisdom of gravity, the emptiness of true love, the fact that there is no way out but through the body, no way up unless we all go together, no way down unless we follow [...]
“ The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.” ~ Plato When do you get your best ideas? Have you ever paid attention to where or when good ideas appear? Conversely, have you ever noticed how hard it is to come up with a good idea on demand when you’re staring at a blank [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Moti Zemelman & Contact Improv! 9th annual Contact Improv Retreat in Costa Rica w/ Moti: Feb 11-18, 2023 @ The Goddess Garden Yoga Resort - Cahuita, Costa Rica. Contact Improvisation has continued to be an anchor for me during these challenging pandemic years. Having a regular practice that is [...]
“ Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.” ~ Kenneth Frazier If society is like the house we live in, what makes up the timber in the walls? While we are all going about our lives in the various rooms of our societal abode, doing things like making a living, [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Ellen Watson! Ellen Watson is celebrating her 40th year on the staff and faculty at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, where she studies, practices, and teaches various modalities of moving meditation practice. A licensed minister, Ellen believes that the core of all healing begins in the realm of [...]
“ Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” ~ George Herbert What are the tools for your trade? Whatever it is that you do, what [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Dr. Jamie Marich & Dancing Mindfulness! Dancing Mindfulness: 10th Anniversary Reflections Jamie Marich, Ph.D., LPCC-S, REAT, RYT-500 Dancing Mindfulness is a practice over which I never felt comfortable claiming ownership. Dance and mindfulness are two of the oldest healing practices that are inherent to the first peoples of our [...]
“ There is something particularly special and personal about the circle and how its curves comfortably rule every aspect of our lives.” ~ Kat Lahr Do you ever look at life like a set of circles? The moon orbits around the earth. The earth orbits around the sun. Take a look at your [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is from Melissa Michaels & Golden Bridge! Greetings friends ~ Have you ever been through some kind of an initiatory experience that did not feel complete? That certainly was my experience when I completed surgery and chemotherapy 5 years ago this September. As you may know, those treatments, along [...]
