calm me into a quietness that heals
and listens,
give me strength to tear away all bindings,
to loosen the standards and rules and mores that impose upon me this form of
uprightness.
inspire me to safely release the ideas of holding it together
allow me to laugh with a soft belly,
to drop to the solid ground with joy,
to stretch and reach with every cell
to the Sun, to the sky, to the blessed trees, to you, my friend.
May we dance.
- Aletheia Sayer
Be a part of the Mandala Community Movement Project.
Victoria invites you to join her on this glorious late summer evening to individually and collectively take time to Pause, to Listen, to Allow, to Move and BE Moved.
Our common intention for this gathering is to celebrate the Harvest. We will be moving with the energies of what we have sown in this season and what we are now harvesting for the benefit of our Selves and our communities.
To prepare, consider: What have you sown that you are harvesting in your life right now? What are you harvesting now that will nourish you when times turn cold and icy?
This is an event of Community-created Experience, of Art in Motion.
It is a ritual.
“All acts of love and pleasure are my ritual.”
What you can expect?
In the first 60 - 90 minutes we will join together to find our ease, and then to create ritual movement and music honoring the Harvest. If people want, we will then have time to play together free-form until sunset.
All movers all welcome - seated, standing, on-the-ground, in deep stillness, in wild abandon!
Drummers, musicians, and chanters who desire to create music together in support of dancers moving with this specific intention ALSO WELCOME!
Donations will be accepted in support of the ongoing offering of this type of event.
More details forthcoming as the events draws nearer.
The location of this event is directly west of the Stephens Park Reichmann Pavilion on E Walnut. We will meet near the western most waterfall. You can reach us by parking at Reichman and walking west on the perimeter trail. You could also park on Brenda Lane, take the sidewalk and then turn right onto the perimeter trail or park on Anita Lane and bushwack over the grass directly toward the lake.