Category Archives: music

Leonard Cohen – Dance Me To The End Of Love

The late, much missed Leonard Cohen, doing what only he could do. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994

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Duet – Amy Yakima & Travis Wall

  Click on the above link to visit Worldwidedance on Facebook, for this beautiful, expressive pair dance by Amy and Travis, about connection and sexual relationship. Travis also did the choreography for this piece. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling … Continue reading

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Sun/Solstice Gong – Matt Nolan

It’s been a while since we posted music. Click on the link to hear Matt Nolan sound his mind-blowing custom-made sun gong on You Tube. A very gifted man. Some extraordinary aural beauty for your Solstice…. Palace Gate Counselling Service, … Continue reading

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Crystal Pite on Flight Pattern

  This looks heartbreaking and wonderful…. Art as protest and activism. It was on stage in March this year. Choreographer, Crystal Pite, is the first woman to have created a new work for the Royal Ballet in almost two decades. … Continue reading

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‘The Poet and the Shepherd’ by Joshua Boettiger

https://parabola.org/2017/01/31/the-poet-and-the-shepherd-by-joshua-boettiger/ Click on the link to visit Parabola Magazine for this astonishing article by Joshua Boettiger:- ‘We could say the search for meaning – which is a holy search – becomes imperiled whenever the poet-self and the shepherd-self are out … Continue reading

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Leonard Cohen on what a saint is

“What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy … Continue reading

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Feel the Beat: Dancing While Deaf – Antoine Hunter

Click on the link for this You Tube clip, about Antoine’s work in dance. Really interesting on how he found his expression and his art in dance; how he and his students engage with music through vibration; and how his … Continue reading

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Susannah Darling Khan ‘Your dance does not depend on the music’

Susannah and Ya’Acov Darling Khan founded the School of Movement Medicine, near to us in Devon, and teach this conscious dance form all over the world. Here’s how they describe their work:- ‘Movement Medicine is a creative, embodied meditation practice for our times. It … Continue reading

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The Golden Key – Jonathan Quintin Art

  Interesting short film on the theme of what is often called Sacred Geometry – how our living world repeats the same shapes and dimensions at differing fractals (including our own bodies). Lovely music too. With thanks to Jamie Janover … Continue reading

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Gabrielle Roth, 1941-2012: Disciple of the Deep Dark Divine – Eliezer Sobel

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-99th-monkey/201310/gabrielle-roth-1941-2012-disciple-the-deep-dark-divine ‘You didn’t really think this was about dancing, did you?’ This is the follow up to yesterday’s short film showing 5 Rhythms dance, a wonderful article by Eliezer about Gabrielle Roth, the movement’s founder. There is a lot in … Continue reading

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