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Reflections, insights, and stories from Ya’Acov’s life, work, and path as a teacher and practitioner. A place where Movement Medicine, relationship, creativity, and shamanic wisdom meet in the unfolding journey of being human.

Hope Matters

Ya’Acov Darling Khan
I am writing just after my 60th birthday. 60 feels different. Something deep down has changed and I can’t exactly say what. It’s visceral. I feel it like a lightness in my belly. A sense of...
1 May 2024
10 min read

The rebirth of hope

Ya’Acov Darling Khan
We’ve just completed the Spring Dream Dance which includes a 48-hour ceremony to welcome the change of season from Winter to Spring. In these challenging times, acknowledging the suffering in our world is important. And,...
3 April 2024
11 min read

Vicious Circles and Medicine Circles – Cycles of Life

Ya’Acov Darling Khan
In his latest blog, Ya'Acov brings our attention to the Vicious Circles that underly all conflict and the Medicine Circles that we can choose to dance instead.
13 March 2024
10 min read

Stop this massacre

Susannah & Ya'Acov Darling Khan
We honour the courage of those people in Israel and Palestine who stand up against violence. And those of us outside, individuals, politicians and governments must find the way to enforce International law. 
1 March 2024
18 min read

Life and Death on the doorstep

Ya’Acov Darling Khan
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...
20 February 2024
15 min read

NEW year reflections

Ya’Acov Darling Khan
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...
1 January 2024
11 min read

December

Ya’Acov Darling Khan
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,...
26 November 2023
11 min read

War & Peace

Ya’Acov Darling Khan
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...
20 October 2023
9 min read

Death is in the Room

Ya’Acov Darling Khan
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...
5 July 2023
13 min read

Ya'Acov's June Newsletter

Ya’Acov Darling Khan
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...
7 June 2023
6 min read

Every Now and Then

Ya’Acov Darling Khan
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...
3 May 2023
3 min read

The Circle is Open

Ya’Acov Darling Khan
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...
17 March 2023
6 min read
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