2025 Summer Message
Since Summer Solstice, I have been diving beneath the world’s turbulent events to ponder……
I reflect on the presence of a Still Point within each Solstice at the moment before the Earth tilts away from, or towards, the Sun.
Everything stops!
before Earth and Sun continue to move. While the Earth spins on Her axis and revolves around the Sun, they resume their intimate, infinite spiral dance.
This Still Point lives deeply within the embodied presence of all beings – a point of infinite potential. This moment is the source Love, and the Dance of Life.
In my body, this moment is the pause between my inhalation and exhalation, a moment of emergent joy…
T.S . Elliot describes this mystery:
“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.”
No matter what happens in your life, may you find nourishing rest in your Still Point –
then, continue your dancing…
Love,
Tannis
Ongoing Workshops
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Authentic Movement
In this introduction participants will learn the form of Authentic Movement. They will explore the roles of mover and witness to gain a deeper understanding and acceptance of their embodied experience in all areas of their lives.
Moving Prayer
Our need to pray is as ancient and central to life as our breath. In this workshop, we listen to the prayers moving in and through our bodies using guided visualization and structured movement improvisation. By joining body, mind and spirit to dance our prayers, we celebrate ourselves and the earth as miracles of Creation.
Ecstatic Body Postures and Moving Prayer
Learn to journey to the realms of Non-ordinary Reality using Ecstatic Body Postures and integrate the teachings of spirit into conscious awareness with Authentic Movement. Discovered by anthropologist Felicitas Goodman, Ecstatic Body Postures are a sacred technology used by our elders thousands of years ago to commune with the world of spirit for healing, divination, and ritual celebration. Now, to regain access to these realms, practitioners hold a posture from an early indigenous culture, accompanied by drum or rattle, and enter a visionary trance state. In this workshop, we will explore both practices to connect with our ancient roots and the guidance of spirit. Transformed by these gifts, we will feel our place in the web of life and a compassionate acceptance of all being.
Embodying the Roles We Play
This workshop begins by embodying our unconscious realms through Authentic Movement, inviting the emerging parts of ourselves to dance their roles. Then, using the playful tools of drama therapy, we will discover and enact the stories that wish to be revealed.