January 24, 2010
Newsletter
I have been struggling to write a newsletter that would let you know what is happening in my world. For a long time I just didn’t seem to have words to describe my internal changes, then this morning I had a breakthrough… I asked myself “When have you experienced a change like this before, in your life?”
In my 20s I began to belly-dance. It was fun and also my body “remembered” it, so I wanted to become good at it again. It took years of learning individual moves, and to string them together to create a routine… and then the routine finally had to ‘live’ with the music and allow me to paint the full palette of emotions I was dancing.
It felt like quite an accomplishment when I was able to do this at last.
And then I realized, with horror, in the moment of feeling fulfilled, I needed to learn the finger cymbals, their language, and then add it to my dance. Impossible! But again, long hours of practice… like learning a foreign language, gradually paid off.
When I was finally adequate and pleased with my progress I realized something else! I needed to learn veil work… Are you kidding? Please Lord, no way, I can’t dance, play the cymbals, AND do work with veils simultaneously! This is asking TOO much.
Once again, long hours of practice went into the coordination of these elements, usually 5 hours a day, all in preparation to finally go out onto the stage and surrender myself to the dance. Lose myself to the dance. Allow myself to be danced.
This is where I am. I will show up and allow myself to be danced. I will surrender. My work this year will be done in circle… I have been doing this for 20 years… now I will trust, and let the dance move through me.
I hope this makes sense. It is the closest I can come to describing what is happening for me. Once again I find myself on the precipice, waiting to leap into the void.
I hope to see you this year. Perhaps we will have a chance to jump together. I am deeply grateful for all the support you have given me. May you be ever blessed.
My heart-felt thanks.
Warmly,
Dawn Eagle Woman
January 16, 2010
Hello Everyone,
Dawn will be giving Wisdom Circle and Sitting In Circle workshops in January and February, in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, as well as Private Sessions.
She'll also be returning to the Boston area in March... and to England and Holland at the end of March and through April; please see the Calendar Page for registration and details.