Before we enter back into the waters of Mother Animal, Chapter 5 (she’s just below, with a recording, scroll down!) I have some exciting announcements.
It seems, suddenly, to be a season of new births.
A swarm of bees arrived by miracle in my garden hive last week. I’ve been waiting for them for several years now. I didn’t know how lonely my heart had been without them.
The green mound beyond my bedroom windows is deepening toward summer and when I go up to talk to the oldest stones there, birds appear, and show me the story of where I am with fresh eyes.
And, in the midst of all this blossoming, it is my great pleasure and joy to announce that I have a new website!
A website that has been created with love and artistry and such thoughtful attention to detail by the wonderful duo at the Art of Euphoria, Linda Pappa and David Mourato, my dear friends in Crete. As a fresh home for my work and my writing, it too feels like something of a miracle. Go have a look around, and you’ll see what I mean!
I’m so thrilled.
In celebration of this fresh website, Nao Sims and I are launching our new collaboration— The Erato Sanctuary: House of Story and Sacred Dance.
The Erato Sanctuary is home to the joint work of dear friends Nao Sims (sacred dance teacher, mother, beekeeper, gardener) and Sylvia V. Linsteadt (writer, singer, scholar of story and the ancient world). Named for the ancient Greek muse of love poetry Erato, our House of Story & Sacred Dance is a sanctuary for our combined devotions.
Through the Erato Sanctuary, we offer in-person sacred dance & story immersions in Canada, California and the UK, as well as online workshops. All of our offerings combine the practices of movement and creative, myth-engaged writing. In them, we dance, we listen to poems and stories told aloud, we dance some more, we write about what we have danced and what we have heard inside our bodies and imaginations, and then we dance again. We enter the warp and weft of the creative process, where soul meets body meets living earth, and in so doing we learn, and heal, and dream while we are awake.
And for our inaugural Erato class, guess what our theme is….
With Nao’s guidance, we will dance our way deeper into some of the themes I’ve been exploring here since January, and even write our own fairytale retellings!
This online workshop will be offered in exactly a month today, on June 23rd, 2024, from 10:00 am- 1:00pm PST.
Follow here, or the links above, to register.
Stay tuned for announcements from The Erato Sanctuary about our upcoming two day immersion in October…
We are bringing “Swan Stories” to England!