How to turn bitter cold into cozy cold, especially on the winter solstice? Dance, move meditatively, and make meaningful connections. Join us for a winter solstice dance celebration in St Paul on Friday, Dec 19, 2025.

Three key ingredients for your sleep and sanity. Process and discharge extra energy, especially as we approach the darkest three months of the year.

The Black Madonna is an important and powerful face of the Sacred Mystery of love, healing, and transformation. Connect with the Black Madonna’s embrace and align with renewing dark of winter through the Early Winter session of Grandmothers’ Garden.

Claim your authority in a lineage of past and future ancestors in the Ancestor Celebration. Celebrate the family stories that are a blessing to you and stand firm in your role to honorably transform anything that doesn’t serve present or future generations.

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.

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.

You are missing these three things if you are feeling stuck in life: knowing how to work with life force energy, the grounding of wisdom teachings, and community. Stay tuned for a new class offering to help you grow stronger in all these areas.

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.

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.

What flower crowns symbolize and how they embolden us to be confident in our service to life.

How dancing is so effective for boosting our resilience and three things that can help you feel resilient and impactful in 2025.

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.

Culture traditions help us remember why are here. The Wisdom Dances Earth Day Dance Celebration begins with two dances to affirm our interconnection with all of life and our purpose to send love to future generations. Practicing a focused sense of purpose cultivates presence and sets the stage for joy.

What do you do after everything you’ve been working on falls apart? Do you dance? Zorba the Greek was able to dance with the full catastrophe of life – both literally and figuratively. If you embody resilience in dance you can access resilience in your whole life. 

Why is it so hard to be kind? The spiritual root of why it is hard to be kind points to why practicing kindness is a spiritual practice. Intentionally choosing to become more kind is to set out on a transformational adventure; it will bring you to the deep source of kindness and make you available to be a generous and fearless agent of good in the world.

How to mark the transition from winter to spring – with dance! The Winter Water Blessing honors the water for nurturing all the life for the growing season to come. We participate in making it happen by sharing our dancing energy.

The red bird and the flying woman are key images for working with the energy of 2025. Explore the meaning of the image of the red bird and flying woman, including the wisdom from the phoenix. Mastering working with the seasons and elements is a central part of learning how to have freedom and ease and prepare your spirit to fly free.