2024 Summer Solstice Message
We passed through Summer Solstice a week ago. Our earth and sun once again drew close in their yearly dance of love.
My garden flourishes magnificently and magically thanks to rain forest inundation and the blessings of sunlight. I happily crawl around, hands in the dirt. I reflect on my ancestors, the origin of my joyful satisfaction. I am sure it is they who guide me to listen and tend lovingly to the world of plants. These ancient ones, who tilled the soil – live in my blood, bones and heart.
As I stand and stretch my hands and arms to the sky, while rooting my feet and legs into the soil, I imagine my forebears doing the same. I inhale, receiving the same air they did, and feel a harmonious balance travel through my entire being – a balance that enhances my relationship to the plant and animal world I live with.
I invite you to take a moment and breathe in your own connection between heaven and earth. And, to experience the presence of your ancestors guiding you through this practice. I invite you to notice how this may change your experience of yourself and the world you live with.
I send love and blessings for a richly nourishing summer,
Tannis
I am grateful for the opportunity to live, work, play, and learn on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil Waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples.
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.