| Issue: December 2011 |
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Terspsicore Muse
 By Roland
Every few
weeks I take a phone-call from a mother insisting that we start teaching her 8
year old daughter ballet. I am usually
half-way through an explanation about what we actually do when the mother will
interrupt with something like “I’ll bring Sophie over Thursday afternoon after
school. Can I have the directions
please.”
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Who is this Dancing Warrior anyway?
 By Ya'Acov
I am often asked why we use the word warrior in the context of The Way of the
Dancing Warrior workshop. Having
just spent the last week teaching that workshop in Israel, I wanted to share a
little of how I see the role of the warrior in the dance and in life. Early in
our shamanic studies, we were taught about a concept called the “warrior’s
freedom.”
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JoE 2011
 By Susannah and the Group
The Journey of Empowerment 2011 was quite a
Journey! I think, feel, and see that we who participated have all been changed
by this process. For me, the most stunning thing was to see what sharing a
real, lived experience of love and unconditional acceptance does in people.
Through seeing themselves and being seen in truth and love, we discover that
there is less and less need to hide. What arose from this is quite
extraordinary and magical to me. Each one blossomed in his or her own unique,
creative way, and we saw it and we heard it and it was unmistakable.
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Tul- Karem/Shufa. Meetings and dancing – hopes for a better future
 By Ben Yeger
In
May 2011 I had the privilege to assist Susannah Darling Khan on a weekend MM
workshop in Israel together with my fellow MM apprentice teacher Silvana.
Alongside this workshop I organsied for Susannah to lead a couple of MM
opportunities in Tul Karem and Shufa in the Palestinian occupied territories.
The first was a dance with a group of Palestinian Women in Tul-Karem and the
second with a group of Israeli and Palestinian representatives from the
Combatants for Peace Movement of which I am the UK represenative (www.combatantsforpeace.org)
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Beginners Mind, Awakened Heart and Body
 This month's winner of £100 School of Movement Medicine workshop voucher
By Miriam Platt
A small blue flyer came into my hand and its message resonated in my
being; I saw it said “The Poetry of Presence “ …and somewhere on it Movement ….. and it kept on
calling me. …My head had all kinds of reasons why not….but the call of it found
me heeding it, following it, and it took me, with some excitement to
an open evening one mild Friday evening , ….with no knowing of what I was coming to. more> |
Fulfillment of a Dream
 By David Mooney
I first landed on a dance floor with
Susannah and Ya'Acov in February 2004 for the ongoing group Zero Zone. During
the first dance the words 'this is home' came to me, this body, this heart, the
dancefloor. My heart opened, my body relaxed and my spirit danced a homecoming
after a very long journey. It has been with me ever since and I often send
gratitude back to that moment of opening and landing. more> |
Congratulations!!! !!!! !!!!! !!!!!!!!!
 By Ya'Acov
We are delighted to
tell you that we have completed our first teacher training and more
importantly, that now, where once there were stood three pathfinders, there now
stand three fully qualified and fully-fledged Movement Medicine Teachers. A
huge and hearty congratulations to Caroline Carey, Mark Boylan and Christian de
Sousa, who all passed through their assessment panel and initiation this past
week. We want to thank them for all their hard work as pathfinders for this
path and to welcome them as colleagues. For information about their work,
please check out this link: http://www.schoolofmovementmedicine.com/mm-teachers-facilitators.php more> |
Make Your Love Visible
 By Susannah & Ya'Acov
We want to
invite you to communicate your love for the earth, straight from the heart.
What would you say if you could be face to face with the climate change
politicians meeting at the Earth Summit in Rio next June? more> |
To Dance Is a Radical Act
Marold
Emmelkamp sent us a link to this article published in a recent edition
of Psychology today that we would like to share with you.
"The practice of dancing is vital to our survival as humans on earth.
To dance is a radical act. To think about dance, to study dance, or to practice dance in this 21st century is a radical act.
Why?"
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Shop
 We have lots more
music available as MP3s, and this will be increasing week by week, including
the new "Musical Mosaic" MP3s which is going to grow into a wonderful
collection of unusual music, with lots of wonderful new tracks from great musicians
some of which are not available elsewhere, so keep checking in http://www.movementmedicineshop.com/home.php! more> |
11.11.11 and all that
11.11.11-
Movement Medicine dancers singing and dancing on the street! http://youtu.be/_6vWOX3FCuM
Get up to speed on Durban climate change talks: http://oneworldgroup.org/durban
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/11/durban-questions-and-answers?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
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Monty Python and the Future of Life on Earth
As
first published in the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anuradha-vittachi/monty-python-and-the-futu_b_1100914.html
By Anuradha Vittachi
A happy coincidence! As the
ethical challenges to the church created by the Occupation's presence at St.
Paul's grew increasingly Pythonesque, the BBC screened a dramatised reconstruction
of the Pythons' own encounter with organized religion.
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The Angel in the Forest
By Julian Marshall
In November 2007 I
stumbled across the poetry and letters of Gertrud Kolmar.
Her work, the most
important of which was mostly written during the 1930s (she perished in
Auschwitz in 1943) is strikingly full of life – colour, vibrancy, deep
sensation – and her cycle Welten especially stood out to me as
presenting a remarkable group of poems to set to music. more> |
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