Current Classes and Workshops
Threads of Spring
Spring 2023
Dearest Dancers,
I am writing to you today with news of the upcoming session. This will be our last session before the summer break, when life on the land calls me into the gardens and beehives. There, I will spend my days until autumn’s return, when work on the land begins to subside.
Over the recent weeks, since the hellebore and daffodil have adorned the greening world with their colours, and the crocus has opened her saffron heart to the bees, an inspiration has risen from the deep, as if begging to be woven on the loom of spring.
The metaphor of weaving has, for many years, served me as a profound metaphor for the dance work we share: how together we weave the countless threads of the inner life—threads of life lived alongside threads of life unfolding; and as variegated patterns arise in our bodies and psyches, sometimes we look to find ourselves as the weavers, and at other times we find that we are the fabric being woven. And this paradox can only be upheld and made touchable by the container of a familiar form, a pattern of repetition that is built into our shared practice, which becomes the warp upon which the countless threads of the creative life can be woven into a profound tapestry.
So, in honor of this ancient art, I have named the next session Threads of Spring. Each class can be seen as a thread of Spring spun together with threads of poetry, prose and myth that celebrate this reawakening of life.
For 6 weeks, we will pursue these threads into the living body. Like the robins of spring, we will weave sheltered nests for the new life that is hatching. We will sit at the loom within, pulling on the spools of spring, and draw them through the warp of the dance—threads of blossom and light, of rain and seed, of pollen and nectar.
We will ask ourselves: what is budding in the fecund earth of the soul? What seeds am I planting? What nectar am I gathering? What warmth and light are calling me to rise and reach into the brightening skies? In what direction am I longing to grow? Into what am I rooting as I rise?
Threads Of Spring
Rain
Seed
Light
Blossom
Nectar
Pollen
Classes
Classes will commence the week of April 17th and run through the week of May 29th.
There will be no classes the week of May 22nd ( Victoria Day in Canada).
Zoom Or In Person
I will be offering one Zoom Class and one In-Person Class.
Zoom classes will be held on Monday evenings from 6:30 pm PST to 8:00 pm
In Person Classes will be held on Wednesday Evenings from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm at Sally’s Yurt in Courtenay, 1957 Arden Road.
Please Note: Space is very limited in the In-Person Class. I will be offering places to those women already participating before opening the doors to the general public, so do let me know as soon as you can if you will be returning.
Cost
In Person $150
Zoom $120
To Register
Please contact Nao: naoisobel@gmail.com
With Deep Gratitude,
Nao
I am writing to you today with news of the upcoming session. This will be our last session before the summer break, when life on the land calls me into the gardens and beehives. There, I will spend my days until autumn’s return, when work on the land begins to subside.
Over the recent weeks, since the hellebore and daffodil have adorned the greening world with their colours, and the crocus has opened her saffron heart to the bees, an inspiration has risen from the deep, as if begging to be woven on the loom of spring.
The metaphor of weaving has, for many years, served me as a profound metaphor for the dance work we share: how together we weave the countless threads of the inner life—threads of life lived alongside threads of life unfolding; and as variegated patterns arise in our bodies and psyches, sometimes we look to find ourselves as the weavers, and at other times we find that we are the fabric being woven. And this paradox can only be upheld and made touchable by the container of a familiar form, a pattern of repetition that is built into our shared practice, which becomes the warp upon which the countless threads of the creative life can be woven into a profound tapestry.
So, in honor of this ancient art, I have named the next session Threads of Spring. Each class can be seen as a thread of Spring spun together with threads of poetry, prose and myth that celebrate this reawakening of life.
For 6 weeks, we will pursue these threads into the living body. Like the robins of spring, we will weave sheltered nests for the new life that is hatching. We will sit at the loom within, pulling on the spools of spring, and draw them through the warp of the dance—threads of blossom and light, of rain and seed, of pollen and nectar.
We will ask ourselves: what is budding in the fecund earth of the soul? What seeds am I planting? What nectar am I gathering? What warmth and light are calling me to rise and reach into the brightening skies? In what direction am I longing to grow? Into what am I rooting as I rise?
Threads Of Spring
Rain
Seed
Light
Blossom
Nectar
Pollen
Classes
Classes will commence the week of April 17th and run through the week of May 29th.
There will be no classes the week of May 22nd ( Victoria Day in Canada).
Zoom Or In Person
I will be offering one Zoom Class and one In-Person Class.
Zoom classes will be held on Monday evenings from 6:30 pm PST to 8:00 pm
In Person Classes will be held on Wednesday Evenings from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm at Sally’s Yurt in Courtenay, 1957 Arden Road.
Please Note: Space is very limited in the In-Person Class. I will be offering places to those women already participating before opening the doors to the general public, so do let me know as soon as you can if you will be returning.
Cost
In Person $150
Zoom $120
To Register
Please contact Nao: naoisobel@gmail.com
With Deep Gratitude,
Nao
