Hoop Dance Life Line

on Nov 26, 2021

Nov 15, 2021 I feel like I’ve been a bit under water the last few days. Body, mind, and spirit. I’ve had a hard time pulling myself up out of the vortex of blue. Tonight, when I started to feel myself slipping deep down to that seemingly irretrievable place,  I decided to do something different.  I put on music, which led to an opening to a hoop desire, which led to me getting myself down to the studio below us, hoop in hand.  I made a promise to myself and my body to be gentle, but to see if I could find myself a bit with my hoop, feel myself again in the music and dance. I stretched.  I tested the waters.  No bleed or cough, so I went for it. Gentle, loving, but also a little defiant and taking the time I needed to let some of my emotion just move through my system. Tears and feels and swirls… and somewhere in between the tears and feels and swirls I found an...

Sounding as a practice…

on Apr 24, 2021

Sounding… The practice of using our voices to heal and engage goes back, well, probably as far as we do as a species. Through Continuum, I have deepened into my understanding of how I can use sound to meet myself in more and more subtle ways. I have also seen how this ability to explore and engage through sounding in particular has helped me to discover and know things that go well beyond this body. So today, I thought I would share some thoughts on sounding.   We are creatures of connection, sounding is one of the ways we can do this. It is one of the ways we touch the world, offering something of ourselves. It is one of the ways we exchange with life inside our own living system and each other- through voice, body sounds, or vibration. Whether we make any vocalization or not, our bodies are already sounding.  If a body is alive, that body is making sound. Whether that is in a...