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Emily Jarrett Hughes of Wisdom Dances in Minneapolis writes regularly for Eye of the Heart’s newsletter and blog about qigong, dance, and other initiatives like Adventures in Kindness or a Solstice celebration.
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.
Qigong practices for releasing stress in the shoulders helps the whole body be at ease.
Feel more balance by opening your energy channels and connecting both sides of your brain in this special Qigong Tapping for Balance practice. Your balanced self is the source of your best ideas, most transformative conversations, and most healing moments.
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.
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.
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.
Qigong for blessing and protection. Explore how qigong practice can be a way of life through this qigong practice while folding laundry.
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.
Learn how to feel nature supporting you from within. This Creative Nature Qigong meditation will help you feel strong and ready for whatever comes your way.
How to wake up more quickly and feel more alert in the morning with qigong. Free up your spine.
Learn how to discharge tensions from the day, clear the head, and improve breast health. Learn the qigong breast massage technique with a special chanting for qigong massage to help you get even more healing benefit.
Learn tools to help you fall back to sleep. Play with how qigong can be free and spontaneous, and this can help you soothe your body for sleep. Find out what makes the difference between an ordinary movement and a qigong healing movement.