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Ancestor Season
The transition of gradually becoming the oldest living generation is like a slow initiation. You will be the one who remembers the ancestors most clearly. You will be the one transmitting the family and cultural linages. Taking time to remember and orient yourself among past and future generations connects you with meaning, support, and purpose. Two special upcoming events help you tend your place in a linage of ancestors.
Joy of Aliveness
Aligning with the intelligence of life has these three benefits. That’s why it is so powerful to learn from the wisdom of each season. Seasonal teachings are the topic areas for the five units of Grandmothers’ Garden.
Circles Transforming the World
Gathering in Circles with kindred spirits is keeping me sane, feeding my spirit, and helping me thrive. Magic happens when together we are able to cry with ease, laugh until it hurts, and hold each other in warm relationship
Ready for Anything
Learn how to develop a Ready for Anything attitude that reduces the shock and stress from the unexpected. This qigong practice integrated body and mind around three key messages that help you feel ready for anything.
Feel better, faster
Freedom and healing begin simply with a moment of ease. When we taste ease, our qi can start flowing again. We are liberated to flow with life, to live a guided, healing, and abundant life.
Yes, it was Magic
Why do we like to describe dancing as magic? To draw on Robert Moss’s definition of magic – dance is magical because it is an art of reaching into a deeper reality and bringing gifts from it into the ordinary world.
Unexpected Shocks
Help your body recover from the shock of scary news by learning how to bring the energy down in your body and release tension in the head.
Mid-Summer Healing
When I attended the Mid-Summer Celebration in the midst of grief, I learned about the healing power of seasonal celebrations to give us a sense of wholeness. Its magic lies in being able to hold lament and joy together at the same time.
One of my favorite miracles
What flower crowns symbolize and how they embolden us to be confident in our service to life.
Take out the drudgery
Qigong for blessing and protection. Explore how qigong practice can be a way of life through this qigong practice while folding laundry.
It was a big deal
The power of a coming-of-age ceremony comes from affirming not just the individual but also their place in community. There are four signs that the balance between self and community needs improvement in your life.
It’s All Inside of You
What answers do you seek? What are you hoping for, worried about? Read this blog post when you need a reminder that all you seek is inside of yourself.
Web of Life
You are not separate from the web of life. This qigong meditation is an embodied interpretation of the Web of Life meditation found in the Work the Reconnects by Joanna Macy. As you kindle your awareness of the web of life, it creates a structure in which to relate to the sufferings in the world around us.
I didn’t see it coming
How dancing is so effective for boosting our resilience and three things that can help you feel resilient and impactful in 2025.
Power Play
What’s more powerful than spring? Springtime dance traditions can teach us about power. This is how Wisdom Dances cultivates resilience, compassion and joy through dance on Earth Day.