Previous Classes
The Many Faces of Mother~ Unearthing The Mother Archetype Through Fairy Tales.
January/February 2026
Together, through the dance practice, we will ask: how are the psychic energies of the Mother Archetype moving through us all? How do they affect our physical and emotional bodies? Where do we feel an absence or excess of Mother in our lives? Have we been affected by Negative Mother? By Too-Good Mother? Are parts of us being destroyed and devoured by Death Mother ? In short, we will meet Mother Goddess figures throughout the mythic tapestry of the world and find whether we have the courage to look into their many faces—human and animal, angelic and demonic—as we follow them into our own bodies through the dance.
Class 1: The Original Mother
Class 2: The Stepmother
Class 3: The Wild Crone Mother
Class 4: The Imprisoning Sorceress
Class 5: The Dreamweaver
Class 6: The Life-Giving Nature Mother
Mother Holle~ A Journey Down The Well
November/December 2025
For 4 weeks, I invite you to follow me down the well to meet Mother Holle. There, below the surface of daily life, we will move with the archetypes of both maiden and crone, as we explore the many themes of this story through the wisdom of the body/soul. We will ask ourselves questions about what is ripening within us, and what is ready to be harvested? We will consider where we have been pushing ourselves in outer-life, and what responsibilities we have to the inner sanctum of our beings? This session is an invitation to come in from the cold and to enter the place where the old crone dwells within. It is an invitation to sit by her fire, to help in her air her linens, and to hear what it is she has to say.
Class 1- Down The Well
Class 2- Apples and Bread
Class 3- Mother Holle
Class 4- Homeward
Beauty and The Beast~ Awakening To Love
September/ October 2025
For 6 classes we will explore the initiatory paths of both Beauty and the Beast, their individual journeys and the symbolism of their union. We will look into the wounded aspects of the masculine and feminine within the psyche/soul and tend to the tender and broken places within our own hearts. We will travel into this age-old story through the dance and beyond the overgrown paths that lead to the enchanted castle, below the surface of daily life. We will consider the role of instinct and intuition in our lives and the ways in which we may have suppressed those wilder aspects of our true nature. We will ask ourselves questions about love and passion and the unconscious longings that move us along the path of our human experience. Through the practice of movement, we will endeavor to listen to the wisdom that rises from our unconscious depths as we dance our way into the Beast's Castle and eventually into the territory of the awakening heart.
Class 1~ The Fall
Class 2- The Beast
Class 3- Beauty
Class 4- The Castle
Class 5- The Return
Class 6 -The Transformation
The Embodied Mystery Of Spring ~ How The Season Moves Within Us
April/May 2025
Each class represents a carefully crafted offering of music, philosophy and poetry arranged like petals before the threshold of the soul. You can think of them as bejewelled images of light and sound, embroidered with rich symbols of spring, inviting us to enter the dance of spring. Together, we will dance to Rain’s Song and Hare’s Song; together, we will surrender as the Seed and Blossom Songs wash over us—calling us into ourselves and into the spring unfurling within and without.
Class 1~ Rising
Class 2~ Rooting
Class 3~ Reaching
Class 4~ Tending
Class 5 ~Receiving
Class 6~ Unfurling
Psyche and Eros~ A Journey to Wholeness
For 7 weeks we will explore the Myth of Psyche and Eros through the practice of dance. Together, we will travel into ourselves, into the realm of Psyche herself–the realm of soul (for Psyche’s name means soul, breath, life). We will explore the masculine and feminine dynamics within through the mythic themes of sacrifice and surrender, victimhood and courage, separation and union.
Class 1- Sacrifice on the Mountain
Class 2 - The Valley Below
Class 3- Breaking the Rules
Class 4- Instinct and Awakening
Class 5- Grain and Wool
Class 6- Water and Oil
Class 7- The Sacred Marriage
Threads Of Winter~ Tending The Soul
November/December 2024
A 4 week mini-session, between Samhain and the Winter Solstice.Together, we will follow the metaphor of Weaving into the dance. For one moon cycle, we will gather threads of story, poetry and song and weave them into a blanket for the soul, through the dance.
As Marion Woodman once said, “Metaphor is the language of the soul. Through a physical image, metaphor reveals a spiritual truth or condition… for soul is the meeting place of spirit and body, the eternal part of us that lives in body while we are on Earth.”
Let us then take this image of a soul blanket, lovingly woven with the threads of the dark season. Let us weave it together under starlight and moonlight, by the fireside and in the company of one another, so that we might wrap it around ourselves this winter, to rest and dream in its soft folds.
Class 1 Weaving The Earth
Class 2 Weaving The Flames
Class 3 Weaving The Rain
Class 4 Weaving The Wind
Catskin~ Awakening the Instinctual Soul
September/October 2024
A 6 week session based on the tale of Catskin, exploring themes of instinct and intuition, strategy and courage, cleansing and sorting. We will ask ourselves questions about the masculine and feminine dynamics within our own interior landscapes, and about the voices within that can repress or liberate, dull or awaken, soothe or terrify. We will move into the paradoxical and alchemical realm of the inner life through the feeling body, feeling what we must as the story guides us deeper and deeper inward.
And so, I invite you to plunge into the storied landscape of the body/soul, following the tale of Catskin to wherever it might lead us.
Class 1: Leaving the Father's House
Class 2: From Princess to Kitchen Maid
Class 3: Attending the Ball
Class 4: Strategy and Hidden Treasure
Class 5: Gowns of Moon and Stars
Class 6: Layers of Silk and Soot
Myth and Muse
April- June 2024
For 10 weeks we will travel into the territory of the body/soul through the practice of movement to meet the 9 muses who dwell within.
Six Swans~ Threads of Devotion
January/February 2024
A 6 week session based on the fairytale, The Six Swans. Together, through the dance, we will explore the themes of this old tale. We will ask ourselves questions about patience and devotion; faith and transformation; silence and promise; perseverance and courage. With each class we will unravel another thread of story, before weaving it back into the fabric of our own lived experience.
Class One: The Lost King
Class Two :The Swan Spell
Class Three: The Impossible Task
Class Four: The Young King
Class Five: The Pyre
Class Six: The Return
Nourishing Darkness~ Into the Arms of Mother Night
November/December 2023
For one moon cycle, I would like to invite you to come in from the cold and to sit by the hearth of your own fire deep within. Together we will explore themes of yielding and surrender, of hibernation and restoration, of healing and tending, of prayer and mending. Let there be nothing to hold, or make, or do, just letting go into the arms of Mother Night and the Nourishing Darkness that she is.
Class One: At The Well
Class Two: In The Cave
Class Three: By The Fire
Class Four : Beneath The Moon
The Bear Wife
September/October 2023
A six class series based on the fairytale King Valemon, The White Bear King. For six weeks, through the dance, we will explore themes of instinct and wilderness, civilization and domesticity, promises made and broken, and the alchemical union of opposites. We will look at what Jung called “the sacred or spiritual marriage" as we consider the masculine and feminine parts of our own beings and our human journey to unite them.
Class One: The Maiden Daughter
Class Two:The Bear King
Class Three: Leaving Home
Class Four: Breaking the Promise
Class Five: The Impossible Task
Class Six: The Instinctual Marriage
Threads of Spring
March/April 2023
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.
Threads of Spring is a six week series woven 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?
Class One: Rain
Class Two: Seed
Class Three: Light
Class Four: Blossom
Class Five: Nectar
The Forest Sanctuary~ Immortal Tales of Winter
January/February 2023
Together, for one moon-cycle, we will consider what it means to “take shelter from the storm,”and “to throw another log on the fire.” We will follow old Northern tales into the dance and worlds within—stories that are themselves a kind of sustenance— nourishment for the soul, so that it may endure the lonesome dark of winter, just as the turnips, cabbages, and potatoes in the cellar nourish the body so that it may survive winter's cold hunger.
Class One -The Forest Shelter
Class Two - The Hearth Fire
Class Three -The Medicine Woman
Class Four -The Deep Sleep
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