Medicine Blog

I wasn’t raised in a church-going home. Most of my friends were. And on Sunday mornings, they’d put on their shiny shoes and head off to some grand building where the windows glowed in color...

As we prepare to gather for the deep prayer of the Summer Long Dance, we acknowledge the waves of grief and challenge moving through our hearts and through our collective field. Although there is much...

The team at the School of Movement Medicine is joyfully immersed in planning the Summer Long Dance 2025, weaving together ceremony, logistics, and community spirit.  Our excitement grows as each element takes shape from the sacred...

The power of the dance is enormous. It is in our nature to move, to connect to the depths each one of us carry.....

My Dancing Journey In 2011, I moved to Hamburg while pregnant, joining my husband there. That December, our first daughter was born. I was new to the city and, although I deeply cherished the time...

We are super proud to have Belén Páez with us once again this year for the 2025 Summer Long Dance. Belén is an extraordinary champion of indigenous rights, the rights of nature, sustainability, biodiversity and...

Initiation has always been essential to human life — a holy heartbeat time of forging a sense of belonging, recognising where we are on the road of life and opening the way to becoming who...

Welcome to May's newsletter! Two immediate things for your attention.  Tonight Tue 6 May, Ya’Acov and Susannah are offering a FREE online Fireside to share more about Initiation (apologies to those who believe it was schedule for Thu 8th- it...

It has been a real joy of joys for me to offer this soul enquiry space that is the Movement Medicine Apprenticeship program. The Movement Medicine Apprenticeship program is a training to embody and deepen...

Amongst the trials and tribulations of living life on earth, we are sure many of you sense the unknown pressing in at the edge of many of us may have taken for granted. Change and...

Our patterns and stories have a real habit of confirming themselves. Mine do anyway. Understanding these loops (we call this the "dance of the understudy") is a first step to liberating the hold they have...

We honour the life, beauty and strength of Mukutsawa Shanti Ashanga, who was the beloved mother of Manari Ushigua. We give thanks for how our lives were profoundly touched by hers. Mukutsawa left her body...