School of Movement Medicine - the embodiement and expression of the essential self

Issue: September 2008	All Articles
AP Day by Roland While lying in bed on Tuesday morning, en famille with Susanne and Hitchcock, our large slob of a ginger cat, enjoying a cup of tea and looking at the rain and comparing the colour of the muddy water in the leat with Hitchcock’s fur, I was startled by a very long ring of the door bell. I was only half-way downstairs and tying up my dressing gown when it rang again, this time for even longer. It was at this point that I felt a shade of paranoia – it must be something bad like the police. more>
Fellow Travellers by Susannah Dear fellow travellers, Well here we are, poised at the beginning of the next term, digesting that it is the end of our summer holidays. I must admit I still have that “end of school holidays” feeling about the end of august, and have to remind myself that what I am going back to is not months of sitting at desks, but dancing, singing and being with many of you, witnessing the power of the human heart blossoming in its many forms. more>
Ya'Acov's News by Ya'Acov No doubt about it, I’ve had to adjust my expectations a little to learn to love the sound of summer rain. I’ve been home for 8 weeks and spent a lot of time at the kitchen table doing what I’m doing right now, writing and listening to the rain falling and watching the trees in the forest dance in the wind. They dance so beautifully. I love watching them. And, it’s true, I missed a little more warmth and the summer light and the sight of the sun setting on the ocean. more>
The Long Dance This month's winner of £100 School of Movement Medicine workshop voucher by Jens Liedke The long dance ceremony is a major part of the workshop For all our Relations and part of the Ritual ongoing group. I was thinking a long time about why and what for are we doing this ceremony. What is the sense and the meaning of such a ritual. To describe my thoughts I’ve written the following fictitious interview. What means relation? Relation for me means both blood relationship and soul relationship. In other words, relationship and connections. more>
Resonance By Th. G Last year I attended Resonance with Susannah. It was really magic, I'll never forget what I felt was happening both outside of me and inside me during those four days. The air around us was vibrating full of love, warm. Just as if we were birthing ourselves again and in a different way, one after one, helping the others to "come to light" as we call birth in Italian and in French. more>
On bioculturalism and unlearning the creed of growth By Sian Sullivan, August 2008 *Explanatory note!* A slightly shorter version of this article is appearing online under the title ‘Bioculturalism, Shamanism and Economics’ in Resurgence, Issue 250, on ‘Indigenous Intelligence’, Sept./Oct. 2008. I teach environmental anthropology at Birkbeck College, University of London, but have danced all my life and with Ya’acov and Susannah since 2000. My academic work and writing draws much strength and inspiration from my dance practice. This article is reproduced here at Ya’acov and Susannah’s encouragement, for which I am grateful. I can be contacted on s.sullivan@bbk.ac.uk. *** ‘Bioculturalism’, a new approach in international environmental conservation, not only connects Nature and Culture; it also implies an animating of this relationship with spirit and appreciation… more>
Back home after Fundamentals module 2 by Hans Nusink After the Vision Quest last June in Dartmoor with around thirty wonderful fellow-travellers, Ya'Acov, Hege and Sue (see also Eline's article in the July Newsletter) I spent another 10 days in Devon, hiking in Dartmoor and on the Devon coast. After which I did Fundamentals of Movement Medicine module 2. I spent two more hiking days in Dartmoor after this, which was a lovely opportunity to say good bye. more>
Walrog - Part 8 By Susannah And in the days and months and years that followed they got to know the middle place that layer where sky joins sea It gave them a great wide dancing space A place to love and be free. He would carry her on cool misty flights close to the sea All weed swathed and dripping. And she would invite him for precious moments into the deep visiting the quiet of her water palace Where he could lie with her until the water into him began to seep. more>
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