No - this is not a
fantasy
thriller story of witches and sorcerers, although I would not blame you
if you
had that expectation when you read the title.
It is a
confession - I
absolutely love cutting down trees. I love first notching the tree on
one
side with my chain-saw and then cutting from the other and then
experiencing the
thrill of several tons of wood crashing to the ground in the exact path
that I
had planned for it so that not only it doesn’t fall on me but it also
misses
the other trees that are standing near it.more>
Initiation By Ya'Acov
“Africans in
general view the initiation process as a ritual process to ground the
person
with nature and iminyanya (ancestors). The initiate undergoes a process
of
transformation from the time she accepts the calling. It is therefore a
journey
of self-discovery on a spiritual plane, the results of which transpire
into
maturity…..”
Lily-Rose
Nomfundo Mlisa. Traditional Xhosa Amagqirha (Traditional Healer) more>
Being Taught
By Susannah
Ya’Acov and I are
sitting on
the train coming home together (hooray!) after many adventures on our
own over
the last few weeks. I went up to London yesterday to support him in his London
Move!
evening. It was held in the beautiful church in Vauxhall that Christian
de
Sousa has made such an icon of the London ecstatic dance scene. more>
The music is alive and lives inside me.
By Giulia
The music is alive and lives inside me.
It is dying to dance itself through me.
It is wanting to move me in ways I still don’t
know.
As the music plays, it takes me on journeys to
people and places I once
knew,
but they have been asleep for a thousand years.more>
Sharing Movement Medicine By Caroline Carey
I have been
dancing with Susannah and Ya'Acov since 1996 and been on workshops with
them
every year since then. Some times an on-going group, sometimes a variety
of
weekends, five day workshops and intense life altering programs, I think
to
date I have experienced most.
Celebrating my Aliveness By Ilana Slomowitz Up until the age
of 24 from the age of 4, I danced every day of my life, filling my being
with
the pure joy of moving and expressing my essence through dance. Ballet
was the
first stage, then my tits got too big for a tutu and I switched to
Spanish
flamenco which suited both my developing figure and my flamboyant
personality.more>
Describing Movement Medicine
By Susannah & Ya'Acov
A request for your help
Dear Movement
Medicine
dancer,
We are working on
our
updating our website so that it more accurately reflects the nature of
Movement
Medicine as it evolves.We want to help
the people who would benefit from and resonate with this work to find
us!more>
Homework
by Birgit
I just received the April issue of the
Movement Medicine
newsletter, saw the articles about the Phoenix Retreat, the first Ritual
module
and the announcement of the Summer Long Dance – and my heart was
yearning: Ah,
how much I would have loved to be there with you as I really love the
Movement
Medicine work. Thank you, Susannah and Ya’Acov! However, financial and
time
reasons avoid my participation – and, thus, opened the space to do my
homework
and to harvest the fruits of my personal work I have been doing for
about ten
years now.more>
Synthesis at Source By Robert Hider
Soft, gentle, cleansing
tears rippled effortlessly into joy-filled laughter - a flowing arc of
delightedness and compassion as I danced. This seamlessness was a new
experience and it awed me. more>
Surrender to the Divine By Jan Lee
"let him that
would
move the world, first move himself " (Seneca Indian)
A year ago, I
prepared an
article for this newsletter. I didn’t submit it at the time, but I saved
it.
I wrote;
"When we return
to ourselves, to our inner Rhythm, our total connection to body, blood
and breath; we surrender ourselves to the Divine. We wring ourselves out
in
sweaty offerings, in our pleas, our prayers, our thanks, our despair,
our
ecstasy, our giving back, our giving away "more>
…still resonating….
November last year this story began- or
was it ages ago,
when I decided to better keep my voice in that little secret golden box
in my
heart ?
When I
found Susannah`sRESONANCE-
Flyer under that pile of papers on my desk I thought:“
ah yes- singing…that might be something….“ and I put the paper on top of
another pile of other papers without thinking o fit anymore. This
happened
several times. more>
Lord of the Dance
By
Sarah Bullen
Think a night
dancing is just about having fun? It can be so much more, says modern
shaman
Ya’Acov Darling Khan. He is in Cape Town to teach us how to find our
groove, and
use dance as medicine. more>
The Empathic Civilisation
Dear all,
We received this link from
Alex Hanley our London organiser and we agree with Alex:
“This is so wonderful that I
felt the need to share it...”
Avatar, African Shamanism, Robert Mugabe and Alice By Richard Pantlin
(we have run this article before but put the text in the wrong order - apologies to Richard)
Is it a sign of the
times
that the world’s greatest grossing film extols the virtues of an
indigenous
people shamanically in touch with the forces of nature and defeating the
invading agents of machine culture? Someone
who knows more about that than
well-meaning “Avatar” director James Cameron is Malidoma Some.He is a teacher and healer who offers
his
African spirituality as a counter-weight to the de-personalising forces
of our
consumerist society. more>
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