Ya'Acov's Blog

I wrote a piece with the same title nearly 20 years ago, just before my 40th. The very sweet guy who was putting up a party tent in our back garden, had a heart attack...

Happy New Year dear fellow human being. We wish you and your loved ones, good health, and soul-deep fulfilment in the year ahead. We understand how overwhelming life and its struggles can be. And the...

introduction Can it really be December already? Time seems to go by faster the older I get – my mum tells me that is not unusual. As we come to the end of the year,...

37 Years of Marriage and the Road to Peace Greetings dear Movement Medicine Tribe, I’ve been travelling and teaching in Paris and Zurich over the past two weeks. I am super grateful to have such...

I write this on the eve of our 13th Summer Long Dance in what has been a challenging time for us as a family. As any of you who have been following Susannah’s very deep sharings...

Strength, Sensitivity, and Overwhelm: Embracing the Ecstasy of Life We live in an era where our innate sensitivity, so long ignored and without a language for its expression, is beginning to emerge from its chrysalis...

A short offering from me this month. And a poem. Enjoy! I love my life. I genuinely do. It’s not that it’s easy. There are plenty of challenges in my day-to-day, as well as the...

Last year, after three years without a Long Dance, and after more than a decade of dreaming of the Long Dance happening on Dartmoor, 180 hardy souls gathered at the Hillyfield Woodland farm to prepare. Though not...

I remember the very first time I heard the words ‘Road Warrior.’  I was sat in a smoky, high-ceilinged room in a beautiful old country house called Highnam Court near Gloucester. My teacher, Batty Thunder Bear...

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....

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...

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...