MADE FOR THESE TIMES
Cultivating Fierce Love in Fraught Times
A Fall SoulDance Series
7 Tuesdays: October 1,8,15,22,29 ; November 5 & 12, 2024
St. Louis, MO
Can you feel it? This call to wake up and come alive as never before? In these times, many are wading through confusion, despair and anxiety about the state of the world and our future. At the very same time, many of us are feeling a new horizon of joy and hope. This multiplicity brings us to the heart of our wildness, the deep truths of this being human. It calls forth our embodied Soul in a powerful way. We are invited to dig deep and to remember who we are.
Times like this invite us to cultivate fierce love in fraught times– the embodied, dancing way! Our bodies know how to navigate these changing waters, particularly our animal bodies, our Wild bodies. In this series, we’ll use the 7 movements of the Evolve Ecstatic Arc to tap into our particular and collective flavors of Wild. We’ll tend the places of death and new life within us, so that we might fully equip ourselves for this awakening. We come home, again and again, to the strength of ourSelf, held in loving community. We learn, breath by breath, to trust this being human, fully alive and fully awake.
Details
We dance:
7 Tuesdays: October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; November 5 & 12
6:30-8 pm
First Unitarian Church of St. Louis
*No walk-ins please, pre-registration required
Investment:
$25 for one class
$22 if you bundle 2 or more
$140 for the whole series ($20 each)
Sliding scale & scholarships available— please ask!
Click below to save your spot— for one class or the Whole Series!
What’s SoulDance?
SoulDance is a style of free-form, conscious dance born from Erin’s 22+ years of moving in this way. In the safe, sacred container that is SoulDance, you get to move however you want to, however the music, energy and community move you. You cannot do it wrong. You will be held in loving, accepting space, and gently guided to drop into your own body’s wisdom. SoulDance engages the movement form of Evolve Ecstatic Dance (also developed by Erin). The Evolve Arc follows 7 organic movements that will open you more and more into the energies in motion— Enter, Explore, Engage, Expand, Evolve, Emerge and End. When we drop into the body’s inherent wisdom and joy in motion, so much can happen! We release, we process, we have fun, we gain clarity and insight, we connect, and we heal in ways that are beyond words. No prior dance experience of any kind is needed. Your body and your soul, held in loving community, know the Way!
“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times.
The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires … causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these – to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both — are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.”
-Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Do Not Lose Heart: We Were Made For These Times
Thanks for dancing with us! I’m Erin
I’m a movement minister, midwife of the Soul and priestess of the Divine Mother Love. My world opened expansively when I began dancing authentically over twenty years ago. Since then, I have pursued the dance in myself and all over the world, studying with teachers of the 5 Rhythms, Dancing Freedom, Open Floor, Soul Motion, Contemplative Dance and other modalities. Dance is by far my favorite way to pray and practice this being human. I especially love dancing in community and cultivating community of liberated beings, dancing into joy and healing. I’m also a spiritual innovator, doula, theAlogian and writer, exploring all the ways the Divine Feminine is coming into being in new ways now, in our time.