Of loss and love and going home #3

Susannah Darling Khan
As the tiny plane takes off from the airstrip and soars over the forest, leaving behind the last roads and pipeline, tears spring from my eyes, and there is, simultaneously, a feeling of entering the...
2 February 2023
6 min read

Shaking on the way #2

Susannah Darling Khan
We walked into the airport and looked at each other with some alarm. We both had the same feeling that the floor was moving and we’d both come to the same conclusion that there was...
1 February 2023
3 min read

It has begun #1

Susannah Darling Khan
In that quiet pause after Christmas and before New Year, we went slowly enough to recognise what, perhaps, deep down, we already knew. We realised that it just did not feel right for me to...
1 February 2023
4 min read

Sliding into Walls and Kettle Bells!

Susannah Darling Khan
As we come to the end of this challenging year, I've been reflecting on the experiences, the learning, the growth and the gratitude that I can find for 2022. And there is so much. At...
13 January 2023
4 min read

Lost & Found in the Menopausal Dance

Susannah Darling Khan
I LOVE this magnificent beech tree which grows out of a wall close to where we live. I was so happy to catch this moment of early sun touching her red tinged branches. I was...
10 January 2023
1 min read

Remembering Anna Halprin

Susannah Darling Khan
Anna Halprin, dancer, teacher and activist, has just died at the age of 100. She is one of the extra-ordinary grandmothers who have inspired our work and touched our lives with such beauty, wisdom and...
9 June 2021
0 min read

30th Wedding Anniversary

Susannah Darling Khan
We recently celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary. Here are some extracts from our posts on Facebook about it. Thanks for all the support and love we’ve received over this anniversary. We feel it, appreciate it...
29 October 2019
2 min read

Thank You, Uncle Arthur

Susannah Darling Khan
By Susannah Darling KhanI was supremely lucky to have an Uncle and Aunt who were some of the first organic farmers of the modern era. Uncle Arthur and Aunty Liz’s small, 35 acre farm was...
23 September 2019
8 min read

Brexit and the Vagus Nerve

Susannah Darling Khan
By Susannah Darling Khan I’m in Copenhagen. I’ve been teaching “Embodied Leadership and Co-creation” with a wonderful group, in which I have been learning so much about the power of feeling safe to empower people...
10 April 2019
8 min read

Me, Earth and the Horses Who Have Led me Home

Susannah Darling Khan
By Susannah Darling Khan I was an unusual mix of a child. Energetic and full of beans, but at the same time shy, ethereal and not quite here. I needed ground and I knew it....
19 February 2019
11 min read

the menopause - what a bend!

Susannah Darling Khan
I am driving confidently along a mountain side, the road was good, clear and I am happily bowling along. But suddenly the road ahead darkens and I realise that I am coming up to a...
29 September 2018
7 min read

An Exquisite Day

Susannah Darling Khan
This was written the day after supporting the ‘send-off’ for the Vision Questers as they left home base, to go on their Vision Quest under Ya’Acov’s guidance. Yesterday was an exquisite day for me. In...
1 July 2018
8 min read