Of the folk medicines that all of our ancestors relied on to get through the challenges of life, 
dancing is at the top of the list!
Rhythm, drumming, singing and letting the body move as it knows to, are all the wisdom of the body that is imprinted in us from birth and through time.
Like the cooking classes that we have been holding for the past couple years, so many elements of healing community and our disconnected hearts is rooted in coming back together and reclaiming these innate healing practices, together.
Coming back into relationship with Mother Earth/Mama Tierra, and each other in community is also the vision behind our milpa (mesoamerican farm). So what better place to bring us back into ancestral rhythm than with Mama Tierra and our beautiful Corn Mother/Mama Maiz. She is a blessing to us and we can bring the blessing of our joy and reclamation to her.
And then there is the innate medicine of moviendo las caderas/shaking the hips! Just as is discussed in our Rewilding the Nervous System workshops, the practice of tremoring or releasing tension from the pelvis and psoas muscles where our trauma/tension are stored, is something many ancestral/indigenous cultures attune to. When we are connected and integrated with all of life/all our relations, we connect to our intuitive healing release patterns and learn from all of our mammal siblings.
As a child growing up in foster care, moving from home to home, I learned to navigate my depression by finding a small corner, often a bathroom, then playing music and dancing. I see that little girl with such tenderness and awe that she found a way to release and persevere drawing from that innate impulse of resilience, before ‘somatics’ was a common healing modality.
And now, as I lean into my menopausal years, after so many years of giving and tending, my soul wants to embrace lightness, playfulness and the ancestral magic of rhythm and music making that is healing, and to share this with those who are drawn to the same remembering.
In these shifting and uncertain times, it is a potent act of liberation to find ways to heal and remember joy and playful healing in community with the extremely brilliant rhythms of the many latin cultures of the americas.
Dancing, releasing, remembering and returning in the way of our ancestors.
When?
We hope you will join us in the Milpa from 6pm-7:30pm this Friday, April 17th
and every 3rd Friday throughout the season!
Donation of $10-20 requested and no one turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds go to support Milpa Mariposa and Papalocuahtla land sanctuary.
Please bring a water bottle and yoga mat or blanket and comfortable clothes/shoes
Schedule
6pm- Stretching and brief somatic/body wisdom talk
6:15-7:15 Dancing to latin rhythms/ritmo latino
7:15- Stretching or tremoring (if have taken the Rewilding workshop)
Where?
Milpa Mariposa is at 100 Eagle Mill Rd., Ashland
Park on the street and walk down through the small gate.
You will see and hear us :)
