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Dec 21, 20242 min read
Letting The Darkness In
By Becca This year, more than ever before, I have felt the pull of the Winter Solstice. Every part of my being has been wanting to keep...
Nov 1, 20243 min read
The Swan
Landscape and place help to make us - individuals and communities - what we are. The story that follows tells of something that...
Sep 24, 20242 min read
Breaking Apart
Words by Hannah What does it mean to break apart? Twelve years ago, this month, my world shattered open and I broke apart. I became...
Aug 28, 20242 min read
Returning From The Ceremony
Words by Ruth (scroll to the bottom to listen to Ruth reading this) No matter how many times this journey between worlds happens, there...
Aug 28, 20242 min read
A Personal Tribute by Hannah
It doesn’t feel like a time for words to make sense right now. Why should it? The world doesn’t make sense when shock and grief come to...
Aug 28, 20241 min read
Kharássō,“I scratch, engrave”
Words by Becca Curiosities surrounding the art of reinvention have fluttered their wings around the clockface in my house over the last...
Jun 6, 20243 min read
Scar Coat
Words by Pippa I’m alone in woodland, looking intently at an ancient hollow oak tree. I stay for hours, through to dusk. I walk around...
May 9, 20242 min read
Tending a Village
Words by Ruth How are we learning to love? It is a wonderful and expansive practise to find ways not to ‘need’ feelings and expressions...
Mar 28, 20243 min read
"By deeply rooting myself into fertile soils, my self discovery blossomed..."
Our family has chosen a call to duty, honor, and migratory moving cycles. Every few years we are called to uproot and adapt to a new...
Mar 21, 20242 min read
Dancing Our BluePrint
Words by Becca The statement ‘tell me who you are without telling me what you do’ has been swirling around my mind and stopping me in my...
Feb 14, 20242 min read
Spider Dreams The Dance
Words by Pippa West Stow: dusk. An orange glow across the sky revealing the swooping silhouettes of hunting bats. The rasping caw caw of...
Jan 10, 20242 min read
Dreamtime
Words & Artwork by Ruth We began our entry into this current passage by inviting the dreaming self to be heard. To dance beyond the usual...
Dec 6, 20234 min read
"I was able to be come back to myself though, I hadn't even been aware that I was gone..."
D*A*N*C*E Last summer I was invited to my very first dance/cacao ceremony. I didn't really know what to expect but I was excited to be...
Dec 6, 20233 min read
On The Wings Of Community
Words by Hannah "To suggest where a creation or community might have etched its beginning could be an endless search. It might have...
Nov 22, 20233 min read
"For the first time I was truly able to let go and feel safe..."
Words by Anna: As a new dancer to us this Autumn, Anna has been beautifully describing her experiences over the past few weeks in our...
Nov 22, 20237 min read
"If someone like me can fit in, so can you..."
Words by Sam: "Dance, not for someone like “me”? Many of us think of a dance group and feel fear, embarrassment at the very thought of...
Nov 22, 20231 min read
"This dance and the community around it is a safe haven..."
Words by Sylvia: So much of ourselves is muted or silenced, we continually produce an edit version for the world... we become shadows and...
Nov 20, 20231 min read
"We all agreed on how important the dance had become to us..."
Words by Paul: "After a few dance-free weeks, the Samhain dance proved to be a powerful reminder for our small but close-knit community...
Nov 20, 20232 min read
Witnessing Nature's Dance
Words by Becca "The unravelling seasonal changes are making themselves known to me - nature’s way of asking to be seen as it dances into...
Oct 4, 20232 min read
Dancing in, through and beyond time...
Words and artwork by Pippa "I arrived at dance last week a bit ‘beside myself’ – in the sense that my body was definitely there, but my...
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