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Golden Apples of the Sun by Roland
I was swaying very gently at the top of a very long extension ladder with my head sticking out of the top of my favourite apple tree looking at my splendid crop of Cox’s Orange Pippin apples glowing in the October sun when I had a moment of déjà vu. As if trying to capture a dream, I stilled my mind and my body in order to find the moment in my life when I had had a similar experience to this. I did not have to wait for long as the incident had only happened the day before at the Rill Centre at the end of the Making Love course. more> |
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Fundamentals of Movement Medicine By Susannah When the Ongoing Group ‘Fundamentals of Movement Medicine’ was first announced, it was still unclear what Movement Medicine itself was. Thanks to the process of letting go, change and re-birth that we’ve been through the last few months, we’re excited to be able to share with you how Movement Medicine has evolved. For more about this, see Ya’Acov’s and my other articles in this newsletter, and our freshly updated website. more> |
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The Evolution of the School of Movement Medicine by Ya'Acov
One night in the summer of 2005, we were sat in ceremony in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon. It was the dark of the moon and yet even then, the forest seemed to glow from a deep and primal source at its roots. The gentle and insistent leafy sound of the Shaman’s shakapa (leaf rattle) and icaros (spirit songs) was hypnotic and the night-time melodies of the forest were all part of the symphony. I was deeply in trance. more> |
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The Birthing of Movement Medicine by Susannah
Hello everyone! I’m really grateful to Roland and Susanne for putting all the work they do into this newsletter, which gives us all the opportunity to communicate directly with each other. This is such an amazing time for us. As you know the School of Movement Medicine was born in January of this year. Ya’Acov and I had a beautiful night of ceremony, in which the weather went wild, the rain drove against the windows, and the winds whirled around the house. |
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Bringing the rhythms to my home…. by Mirjam van Hasselt
The way I see it is that going to a workshop is planting a seed in a greenhouse. On workshops there are usually safe and extremely nourishing conditions. The soil is fertile and it is warm. It’s a good place to grow first gentle roots, to explore the ground and to unfold some delicate leaves. Change definitely ignites here.
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The “Initiation” Journal: On Monsters & Mermaids This month's winner of £100 School of Movement Medicine workshop voucher
A Voyage to the Archipelago of Life Cycles
written by sailor Eline Kieft aboard the Hms “Initiation”, under Captains Y & S Darling Khan September, 20th, 2007
It’s now 24 hours before we set sail, like so many famous explorers before us, to discover unmapped territory. The waters will be unfamiliar, the weather unpredictable; hurricanes or lulls, who can tell…? more> |
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Bringing Back the Light by Robert Moore
Almost the darkest period of the year, the rest of the winter to go. Time for some light to sustain and nuture the spirit. Remember the dance parties at the Totnes Ariel Centre that happened over several years, early this century? If you came you know they were great dance events that went on into the early hours. |
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Fire Walks, Mud Huts, Integration. by Dawn Morgan
When I began dancing in 1991 with Susannah and Ya’Acov I felt the joy of awakening, though I didn’t call it that, I didn’t know what to call it I had no language for it except in my dance. ‘It’ kept happening every time I did a workshop with them, I became a bit of an addict! As I established my own movement practice I learnt how ‘do it for myself’ so to speak… and ‘fly’, alone as well as on workshops. |
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Makah Whale Hunt I just received a very fascinating letter from a friend of mine, a medicine woman who I met at the Grandmother's council this June. Sharon and her husband Viktor run a dance company and Viktor is also a master mask carver. We hope to bring them over to the Uk at some point. I found Sharon's letter poignant and moving and wanted to share it with you. I hope you find it as thought provoking as I did. Ya'Acov more> |
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Back home after Initiation by Hans Nusink
May I introduce myself. I live in the North-Western area of the Netherlands near the coast on a beautiful part of Mother Earth with my wife and eleven-year-old son. I have been dancing the 5 rhythms for maybe ten years, mainly in the Netherlands, with Sietske Venema, Gaby van Dillen, Willers de Dreu, Arjan Bouw, Mati Engwerda, Saryo van Lakerveld and Sahaja Kurashima. Last spring I decided, a little bit shaky, to join Initiation given by Susannah and Ya'Acov in England. more> |
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The Father’s Island by Julia Gilkes
I was a war baby. I was an unexpected gift for Jack, a handsome black haired young airman and Edith, his beautiful blonde girlfriend, his just in time wife. There were thousands of us born in 1941, entering the chaos of a world in great turmoil and armed conflict; some were accidents of a moment’s heated passion, others were conceived from a deep night of frantic or tender love making, on the last hopeless night of home leave, the men never to return or at least not for more than a few snatched hours, often not for a number of long, lonely years. more> |
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Sanctuary by Bea Alleyne
I started dancing the Rhythms in September 1997 when I attended a weekend workshop led by Susannah and held at Cecil Sharp House in London. I wasn’t immediately convinced this was my kind of dance community but I do remember feeling comfortable with the way the whole evening was managed. I was willing to return a few weeks’ later to another of her workshops, appropriately called ‘Diving Deeper’. more> |
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Letter to the Editor
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| The views expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of the School of Movement Medicine.
Roland Wilkinson, Nappers Crossing, Staverton, Devon TQ9 6PD, UK Tel & Fax +44 (0)1803 762255 http://www. schoolofmovementmedicine.com
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