Living and Dancing The Spiral 🌀 Network Newsletter, March 2022

Dear WTR Network Family and Friends,

This past weekend more than 200 members of the WTR Network community joined hand-in-virtual-hand to learn about and experience the Elm Dance. Individuals, couples, families with children and whole communities joined in and danced together. Some of us took to the floor of our offices and living rooms, and some of us joined in seated, swaying and moving to the beat in our own unique way. It was a joy to share the story of how the practice came to be, to dance it together in community, even as many of us danced by ourselves in our individual virtual spaces.

Here’s what some folks shared about the experience:

At the first sound of the song I welled up with tears. Still feeling it now….  I re-connected to the many times I have already danced this dance, and felt connected with ancestors and future beings….  I was moved to tears, and felt a portal open….  It was wonderfully awkward, I loved it….  I love learning this dance! It feels so familiar like it is in my DNA. My ancestors are from Latvia and this is the first time I have heard their voices. Brings me to tears….  Deeply moved. Brought me right to my center…. 

Many facilitators, feeling the continuing power of the dance in setting collective intention, have been offering the practice virtually and also within their local communities. Recordings of the events can be seen here. We invite you to join our Facebook group to find and share Elm Dance offerings in your community and virtually.  

We are delighted to share the next offering in the Webinar and Conversation Café Series, and hope you will join us on April 16 for Men in the Work That Reconnects. If you missed the Once You Know screenings and facilitated events last October and November, another round is starting up in April. Check our events listings for screenings. We’re noticing a lot of IN-PERSON gatherings! Perhaps there might be something in your local community.

This month we honor our beloved, Molly Brown. Molly will be taking a sabbatical and retiring from her role as Weaver of the Network. Molly is in the final stages of publishing the March edition of Deep Times Journal: Unraveling Patriarchy and Shifting the Paradigm, to be launched next week.  

With great thanks to each of you and the many ways you continue to show up in service of the Great Turning,
Frieda Nixdorf, on behalf of the WTR Network Weavers