“ Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre Everyone has them. Not everyone likes them. You can’t escape them. You may as well make the best of them. What might I be talking about? Responsibilities, of course! But what does that actually mean? Let’s unpack that word [...]
This week's Dance First Spotlight is on Karin Conn & the Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival! 65th Annual Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival To be held Sept 17 & 18 The longest running West Coast juried art festival of the country’s 130 top fine artists (Mill Valley, California) The 65th Annual Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival will take [...]
“ So many books, so little time.” ~ Frank Zappa I’ll bet you like to think of yourself as intelligent, right? Well, sure, I would imagine that everyone does. So let’s break that word down a little bit, what does intelligence really mean? To begin with, in our linear left-brain-oriented Western way of thinking, [...]
This week's Dance First Spotlight is on Adam barley & ZeroOne! Movement, Honesty, and Psychedelics What a wild ride we’re on. I’m so grateful that I learnt how to let go of everything on a thousand dance floors with Gabrielle Roth in the 1990s. I remember her saying back then, “If you’re not scared, [...]
“ Where words leave off, music begins.” ~ Heinrich Heine Are you by any chance the type of person who works with clients? And if not you, maybe you know someone who does? Or perhaps you sometimes spend one-on-one time with a counselor or a coach or a therapist or a body worker [...]
This week's Dance First Spotlight is on Tamalpa - with a special insight from Sophia Ali on completing Level 1 Training! My level 1 journey made me dive into the work that Tamalpa offers. Learning from highly experienced professionals and enthusiastic batchmates out here, helped me open my horizons. I was aware of my [...]
“ The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” ~ Alan Watts Some things never change, right? Then again, conventional wisdom says that the only thing constant is change. So which is it? What’s the difference? How do we draw [...]
This week's Dance First Spotlight is on Sofiah Thom and the Temple Body Arts Mystery School - Happening Virtually TOMORROW! We are dancing along an evolutionary path of remembrance as the world around us continues to shift and change, calling us to rise. So many of us have found ourselves in recent years, no [...]
“ A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” ~ John Lennon What’s more important? Audience size, or engagement? I know a lot of you on this list are self-promoters or entrepreneurs of some sort or another. You’ve got something to offer, be it a [...]
This week's Dance First Insight is on the Conscious Dance Festival, this October in Berlin! The CONSCIOUS DANCE FESTIVAL® was born from the desire to use movement as a way of reaching into the very centre of our being. It’s an opportunity to get to know and to experience different movement practices that help you [...]
