Movement Medicine is Sweet 16 Today!

Ya’Acov Darling Khan
Dear Friends and Colleagues, human beings in bodies, learners and seekers, alchemists and fools, today, we celebrate the 16th Birthday of our School. And in so doing, we honour those whose shoulders we stand on....
10 January 2023
3 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
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The Never-Ending (& humbling) journey of learning

Ya’Acov Darling Khan
by Ya'Acov In this article, Ya’Acov shares the challenges and learnings that these past six months have been personally, relationally and professionally. As we approach the next ‘open gate period’ (October 26-30) for 21 Gratitudes...
14 October 2020
10 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

An Ancestor Speaks

Susannah Darling Khan
By Susannah DK and Dick S. Darlington Some time again my father gave me this piece of writing from my grandfather, his father: Dick Samuel Darlington, who died before I was born. Meeting him in...
14 June 2018
13 min read

Would the Girl that I was be Proud of the Woman I Have Become?

Susannah Darling Khan
One of the incredible assistants in the recent Apprenticeship ‘Immersion’ module wore a striking tee-shirt with these words on the back: “Est-ce le petit garçon que tu étais, fier de l'homme que tu es devenu?”:...
26 March 2018
6 min read

The Power of the Pause

Susannah Darling Khan
Here is Ivor – one of my two new teachers of love, patience and leadership from the heart. He is one of those flighty, extremely sensitive and easily defensive type of Exmoor ponies. Today I...
7 February 2018
3 min read