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What about when meditation doesn’t help with anxiety?

Posted on March 10, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.nondualtherapy.life/2018/01/28/q-what-about-when-meditation-doesnt-help-with-anxiety/ Click on the above link to visit http://www.nondualtherapy.life for this helpful response to a reader’s question. Our experience is that very often people’s understanding of what meditation or mindfulness offers, is distorted and misses the heart of the practice … Continue reading →

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Tomas Hunt on Navajo Dance

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link to visit Facebook for this lovely little film about finding aliveness in dance, moving through experiences of bullying and racism, and using dance to connect with people, ignite sparks of creativity and joy, and share … Continue reading →

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Sometimes – David Whyte

Posted on June 17, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Depth and beauty from David. Here’s the text, for those who have trouble seeing Facebook links. SOMETIMES Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest, breathing like the ones in the old stories, who could cross a shimmering bed of … Continue reading →

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Crystal Pite on Flight Pattern

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

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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Jerron Herman of Heidi Latsky Dance on human possibilities…

Posted on May 7, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link for this beautiful, moving and powerful film, about our soaring potential and how much greater, stranger and less predictable this is, than what others may tell us (or we may tell ourselves) about our limits…. … Continue reading →

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Feel the Beat: Dancing While Deaf – Antoine Hunter

Posted on September 3, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

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’

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

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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Anne Lamott on The New Year Diet

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Characteristic humour and depth from Anne, on a seasonally relevant theme…. This touches on personal experience for me. I have experienced similar battles to Anne’s. In my past life, I regularly embarked on diets. I have also found more of value in deeper connection … Continue reading →

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

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

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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Conscious Dance and 5 Rhythms

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘For the love of the dance… Its ability to turn our suffering into art Its power to connect us more deeply to our truth Its vastness that holds the spectrum of humanity from grief to ecstasy. 5 Rhythms is a … Continue reading →

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