Issue: October 2010 |
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Lui and Louis
By Roland
“The man in this photo is
much younger than you.” So said the hotel desk clerk as he looked up at me
after examining my driving licence. He laid a particular sneering
emphasis on the word ‘much’ which I took somewhat personally. more> |
Forthcoming Workshops
Please find below a list of the forthcoming workshops in November and December, followed by a list of the intensive workshops we are now taking bookings for. N.B. The Returning Home workshop is now full but it is possible to join the waiting list.
Forthcoming Workshops in November & December
November
5 - 7 Jersey Ya'Acov Move!
Maria +44 7797 832 400 barnytrouble@hotmail.com
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Small Acts of Kindness
By Susannah
A few weeks ago we
celebrated Ya’Acov’s mother’s 70th birthday. It was a beautiful celebration of
a wonderful woman. When Ya’Acov and I were first together it was not so easy.
Ya’Acov is from a Jewish family who took their duty to keep the tribe intact
seriously. I am from a Christian background and did not fit the bill! It was
hard for everyone. more> |
Tell Me Who You Are
 By Ya'Acov There are so many
threads from the past that conspire to wrap themselves like the cold light of
what folk like to call ‘the real world’ around the budding channels of our
freedom and squeeze the life out of them. So many ‘shoulds’ and ‘shouldn’ts’ and
fears and tensions that we hold that stop us simply being who we are. As
Susannah so beautifully puts it in the 12 minute video of the Long Dance ceremony
that’s gone up on You Tube recently: ‘there’s such a feeling that you could
really be yourself here, that you could be real here. And you wouldn’t be
rejected and you wouldn’t be laughed at…….nobody would demand that you should
be different than you are….and so the heart blossoms…’
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Groovy Grave Digging and other Deadly Virtues !
By Ali Young
A few weeks ago I took my 11
year old daughter shopping with me with the intention of going to try on a
dress I had fallen in love with. It had the Mexican Day of the Dead celebration
splashed over a tutu and a bodice. Skeletons partying till they dropped. I
loved it. I wanted it. more> |
Why I write
By Caroline Carey
Part of my work is to write.
I've been doing it since I was very small. One of the first Christmas presents
I ever asked for was a very large poetry book. I learned as many of the poems
as I could, off by heart and then began to write my own, I was five years old.
My mother had insisted I learned to read and write from the age of three! So I
have kept many journals of poetry and experiences and now this year my first
book 'Ms'Guided Angel' was published. more> |
Incantation into Action
This month's winner of £100
School of Movement Medicine workshop voucher
By V.K.V.
It
is nearly a week since I returned to London from my Initiation. The
week has been emotionally very full. While I get the sense that some fellow
initiates are riding the wave of love inwardly and outwardly, I have found
myself feeling much sadness, fear and anger. I’ve had to be really aware with
eyes wide open of how I’ve been interacting with others, while these emotions
move about in my body and my mind.
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Long Dance Film
 The film made of the 2010 Summer Long Dance made by Ben Cole is now available on YouTube
There are two versions of a film of the 2010 Summer Long
Dance
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A Mass on Party
By Alex Hanly
About 4 months ago I had
this beautiful vision and idea. That we could orchestrate a mass on
international dance, where all the Movement medicine community and further a
field could come to unity through the dance and celebrate our
interconnectivity. more> |
The Story of the Handless Maiden
By Eline Kieft
A very strong experience
during two workshops that I did much earlier this year, which I’m now ready to
share … Source (9-11 April) and Awakening (13-17 April) added new gemstones on
my necklace, helped me to reclaim lost soul parts, to work with understudies,
and was, in short, a deepening of an ever ongoing process. more> |
Letter from Survival International
 Dear Susannah, Ya'Acov and all the Dancers,
We are so grateful for your incredible fundraising efforts for Survival
at the Summer Long Dance.
What a wonderfully inspired way to raise money for tribes! more> |
The Angel in the Forest
By Julian Marshall
Dear Movement Medicine
friends,
I am a musician who has
worked with Susannah and Ya’Acov over many years, so you may know me! In the
last few years my musical journey has come to focus on setting the poetry of
Gertrud Kolmar to music. Gertrud Kolmar was a Jewish poet who died in the
holocaust and whose poetry bears witness in away which moves me very deeply.
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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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