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A Greater Wholeness
Affirm the wholeness of life and give yourself a boost of floral delight at the Mid-Summer Celebration. Live music and outdoor dancing! Free, pre-registration appreciated.
Making a Gutsy Dream a Reality
Culture is a map for community wellness. Let the dreams of one groups center for culture, wellness, and the arts inspire you to dream big.
Summer solstice meditation for balance and cultivating our dreams
Summer can be a season of vitality, creativity and growth. Yet before we master summer’s fire energy, it can look like rapid change, overheated situations, and high emotions. This simple four-part meditation helps you working with the energy of summer in a balanced way. The better we get at working at the seasons, the easier it is to deal with life boiling over.
4 Things That Help with Major Transition
Because no one is untouched by this time of major change, here are 4 ideas for coping, even thriving through transitions. It’s a tremendous opportunity to build the life and world you want. If you had all the support and clarity of vision you needed, what would you do?
Silent Water
Silent water is an example of simple, practical, and profound Grandmother wisdom from the Balkans and Greece. Here’s a story of drawing inspiration from this tradition and receiving a special healing for the spirit.
Please, spring
Winter doesn’t easily give way to spring, and our hardships generally don’t just melt away either. While the transition from winter to spring is volatile, if we learn to dance with it we increase our capacity to navigate difficulties in life.
It’s Mutual
Realizing our mutuality gives tremendous fuel to the movement of giving and receiving. It widens our generosity and receptivity. These past few months have given us all a glimpse of what living in greater mutuality could look like. And we could live into it even more.
Breath of Spring
Connecting with the waking spring energy in nature can help you find spring inside of yourself. The pulse of a dancing circle to beautiful music during the Earth Day Celebration is my favorite way to align deeply with the healing energy of spring.
Getting Unstuck
There are ancient embodied maps to guide us in harmonizing conflicting energy, restoring mutuality, and balancing energy. Refresh your soul and get your bearings by exploring this guiding wisdom at the coming Healing with Community session of Grandmothers’ Garden.
Contagious Kindness
The unexpected, contagious power of kindness gives new meaning to the idea that kindness is the best protection. Here are 4 questions to integrate the recent swelling of kindness in our communities.
Wild Potency
The kukeri are a winter dance tradition that can help people find the inner force to drive out the frozen energy of division and scarcity and activate blessing and prosperity.
Compassion
We must never lose compassion, our ability to see ourselves as relatives with all of life. It is especially important that we cultivate powerful roots in our interconnection while facing dehumanizing and harmful situations.
New Year Reset
What do you want your New Year Reset to feel like? Read about upcoming January events in Minneapolis in case any of them might help you reset things slowly and intentionally.
3 Key Ingredients for Sleep (and Sanity)
Three key ingredients for your sleep and sanity. Process and discharge extra energy, especially as we approach the darkest three months of the year.
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.