Hello there.
The calendar says 2021. It's time to greet you and bring you an update.
Time has been playing uncanny tricks this year. How, precisely, did it get to be January 2021?

The bendy voice of time has been calling me, singing strange songs to me all year. 
It has me convinced that January 2020 happened yesterday, 
and also that 2020 happened entirely in a previous age of Earth, or only in a wobbly dreamtime.

I'm feeling that this is a time to follow the strangeness and work faithfully within it.
For me, this is not a time to force anything into a previously-planned pace or shape.
When I read the signs, they all say: WORK IN PROGRESS.
So, what I have to offer is very simple for now, and subject to growth soon.
Details below in red.

In this time that's so hard to describe, 
above the roar of 7,836,859,451
of us talking amongst ourselves
(and more newborn souls every single second),
what do you notice is calling you, asking for your presence and your participation?

What activity? What halts? 
What connections? What dissolving of ties?
What inner constancy? What inner flux?
What wide-open wondering, and what solid discernment?
What grappling with challenges or complications?
What fortification via regrouping or simplification?

What do the senses say?
What says the awareness?
What parts of you or your life are properly engaged in listening?
What parts are speaking or ready to speak?
Acting or ready to act?
Stilling or ready to still?
Dancing or ready to dance?


If you are ready to dance, what I can offer is:

1.  A return to evening online 5Rhythms classes this Thursday, 6:45 p.m.
It's a joy to hold this piece strong, solid and open for those who come together
to maintain the thread of their own movement and our community of practice.
 

2.  I will continue to share musical soundscapes 
for your home or outdoor practice on Mixcloud.
There is a mounting collection of Waves there for your use,
going back to the beginning of the pandemic.


3.  In the next months, I will begin to offer outdoor practices,
both community classes and focussed workshops.
Please stay tuned for details, to be announced in good time. 
My mother will have a surgery soon, and then many weeks of recovery.
The timing of outdoor offerings, and possible indoor dances, will depend on how her healing proceeds and what use she and my father can make of me.


I hope you and all your loved ones are well and strong.
I also hope to see you in a dance very soon, and to hear from you if you'd like to talk.

With all well wishes,
Chantell


P.S. I think most of us are suffering TMND (Too Many Newsletters Disorder).
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