I'll be presenting a dance session at the Wild Roots Herbal Gathering in a few weeks. I'd love to see you there!
The second annual Wild Roots Herbal Gathering ~ July 2 - 4 ~ Produced for women, by women. A retreat weekend with outdoor classes about herbal plant medicines and their practical applications, the wisdom of plants, healing our bodies with natural remedies, and reconnecting with the earth in sustainable ways. Held at de Uelenspieghel in Uffelte. Workshops will be offered in English and Dutch. All levels of plant lovers are welcome. More information about registration, weekend schedule, teachers and details on the event page. Link to the event page:
Water is life
“Fluid movement holds the power to dissolve the familiar and dilute social conditioning. No dismantling required: we simply allow fluid waves to spread through tissue and soften our old thought forms and outmoded patterns of behavior. By utilizing embryological and biomorphic motifs, the power inherent in water can be received as a pulse of renewal.”
- Liz Koch, Stalking Wild Psoas
The freshest, most vital and clear waters flow with ease and freedom.
Stagnant waters quickly turn cloudy and putrid.
“Stuckness” is painful. It prevents communication, allows sludge to accumulate, and inhibits healing. It dampens joy and confidence. Putrid accumulation, cloudiness, dullness, and dis-ease will result.
Our dance is like the impetus of a bubbling spring; the “Qi,” or life force energy, that ebulliently motivates the sinuous fluidity of crystal clear waters gracefully, purposefully, through the forest, over and between stones, twigs, and plant life, without hesitation. The entire forest benefits from its aliveness.
The rhythm of our breath, our presence, and meditative movement are amazing tools for getting profoundly honest with ourselves, and for shifting from “stuckness” into a realm where renewal is inevitable. A divine practice of gently coaxing, motivating, and invigorating vital fluids to penetrate our tissues, infusing our entire being with “aliveness;” keeping warm and bright the glow from within that feeds beauty and nourishment back to the world…
Water is life.
Dance is the motive force of our bubbling spring.
The best medicine is innate medicine – it is alive within us.
Join me for a sacred dance practice Friday evenings at 7 p.m.
Registration: Email redtent@heartwombandsoul.com
Location: Dansstudio Laetana, Hoogstraat 105A Unit 7 5615 PB Eindhoven
View details and share on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/427389718222627/
Cost: 15 Euro per session
Payment: Cash or bank transfer
Make payments here: NL50 ABNA 0467 4196 71
Account name: BD MOILES CJ
*Email me to inquire about scholarships, sliding-scale pricing and barters for goods or services - no one will be turned away for concerns about payment.
In the Spirit of the Red Tent, Let's Dance
Heart, Womb and Soul Dance - Free Trial Sessions
Friday, August 21, 7-9 p.m
Wednesday, August 26, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Location: Studio Laetana, Hoogstraat 105A, Unit 7, 5615 PB Eindhoven, Netherlands“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”
- Martha Graham
“The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am.”
- Isadora Duncan
Heart, Womb, and Soul Dance sessions will be designed in the spirit of the Red Tent; an embodied devotion to earth, spirit, and our beautiful feminine bodies. Through healing movement, meditation, and dance, and based on the healing and performance arts of Odissi dance, Yoga, and Qi Gong, we will explore, breathe and dance to enliven our cells, organs, tissues, overall vitality, and spirit.
What to bring: A water bottle
What to wear: Something that makes you feel beautiful, easy to move in, with no loose edges near the feet and ankles. A bindi, if it pleases you to do so.
Registration: Email redtent@heartwombandsoul.com.
Read more about Odissi and Heart, Womb and Soul dance here: http://www.heartwombandsoul.com/news/2020/7/25/heart-womb-and-soul-dance-starting-this-fall
View the event on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/231758048033862
Watch videos by my teacher, Revital Carroll, that introduce foundational principles of Odissi Dance:
https://youtu.be/IdAnLklusfc
https://youtu.be/PW10ycvUnIg
It will be my absolute joy and pleasure to share this dance and this time with you!With love and admiration for your infinite beauty,
Jennifer
Conversations in the Red Tent: The Landscape of Our Breasts
Our community is amazing! Rich with experience, feminine radiance, fearlessness, outstanding leadership qualities, and stepping up like never before in 2020 to guide our community into a new era of health, connection and empowerment. Join us!
January 24, 2020, 7:30 p.m., Yogayuj Yoga Studio, Geldropseweg 84c Eindhoven
Read, RSVP, and share the event link on Facebook.
With the guidance of our community member, Daleep Kaur, we will dedicate the evening of the new moon this month to honor and give voice to one of our most tender body parts: our breasts. Pleasure, pain, nurturance, rejection, pride, shame, love, ignorance – each and all of these feelings may be familiar to our experiences with our breasts during the course of our lifetime. Our experiences as women are not separate or isolated; many of the stories are shared, familiar, felt across cultures, and handed down from generation to generation.
How do we process these feelings? How do we connect with and trust the inner instincts that sense that "I know what is good for me," while the outer world projects on us and seeks to influence our small and grand decisions in life? What kind of care, way of thinking or choices can we make to feel happier about our breasts?
This Red Tent will invite you to explore this tender feminine landscape through sharing, flower art and dancing.
Daleep is a teacher of Kundalini and Hatha yoga, specializing in women's well-being. She is an experienced birth doula, pre- and postnatal yoga and dance instructor and trainer, massage therapist, and mother of 2 sons. Originally from Moscow, Russia, she moved to Eindhoven in 2010. After several stories of women close to her suffering with breast cancer at quite early ages, she made the choice to deepen her knowledge in this aspect of women’s health. She discovered the Healthy Breast program founded by doctor of naturopathy and renowned Kundalini yoga teacher in Canada, Sat Dharam Kaur. She organizes special classes, workshops, circles and private sessions to educate and inspire women about breasts health in a holistic way. Find out more about Daleep and her work at http://www.daleep.org/.