A seed growing….

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Caroline Carey

A seed growing....

Ben & Caroline
We are soon to be on our way to Utrecht in Holland to share our workshops.

Three years ago Ben and I met on a plane traveling out to Colombia to take part in ceremony with Indigenous elders and members of the Kogi Tribe. I had raised money to donate to the Kogis to buy acres of rain forest and so was keen to meet with them and partake in the rituals and dances they offered. Ben was on his way with cameras and equipment to document what was happening for a new film.
Destiny had it that out of many other seats within that plane we just happened to be given seats together. After ten and a half hours chatting away it was very clear to us that we were falling in love. Two weeks in paradise clinched it.
As we talked about the things we were passionate about, me and my dancing, Ben and his film making, a seed began to grow between us that was to become the work we would  offer together in the world.

We have offered our workshops in Uk, Ireland and Holland so far and again we are going back to Holland to offer more of this wonderful work. We very much love to work with people from different cultures and document what we find there.
Eventually the In-Sight program will become a film of ‘ordinary people’s voices’ from around the world. We would love you to be one of those voices!

The In-Sight workshop is offered to 16 people at a time for in-depth work both on and off camera. Some say it is scary to be in front of this tool, but we find ways to help you overcome some of those fears and to see yourself as the beautiful human being that you are, with a strong message of passion for the rest of humanity.

The ending of my book Ms’Guided Angel tells the story of how Ben and I met, the journey we took and the ongoing healing relationship we have committed ourselves too. My second book goes into more detail about how relationship really can heal us from so much. More later ….

 

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Soul In Warsaw

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Caroline Carey

Ive just been to Warsaw, to teach Soul Action. I love the people there! Like so many other places I travel to and work within, I really want to get to know the community, a little of the history; and this was  not my strong point in any way at school!

Ben and I visited the war museum, photo exhibitions and monuments in our short time there. I was quite stunned at the depth to which I felt, amongst this culture.

I am learning a lot about the history of our world, what has happened in the minds of men and women. I am curious about how we have sometimes undergone terrible trauma to awaken us and sometimes have not learned how to awaken in any other way, how can we do this differently.

Dancing in Wasaw

Dancing is a great beginning for change. It creates community, togetherness, love and open hearts for each other.

If we are still acting out from places of having been wounded in our lives, then we can never really grow up. So the dance gives us an opportunity to do this de-toxing, cleansing and purifying, so that we begin to learn to communicate from a more empty place in ourselves. One that is not full of hatred for our fellow men.

Thank you Poland dancers, I was so touched by the beautiful tenderness that they connected to each other with.

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It’s Christmas eve, I feel like it’s not really the time to be writing a blog, yet one of the things I love doing is writing, so I decided to take a little time out from peeling vege’s and preparing the family feast to sit and write some words.

What would flow from me at this moment? Maybe a little apprehension as Ben and I bring our two families together for the day? No, not really, we seem to have jelled beautifully together, including our families as we journeyed on this relationship thing.

I’m a lover of the Solstice really, making that my New Year and dark mid-winter ceremony, setting my intentions, lighting my candles and praying deeply for the changes I feel I need to make in the coming months.

Christmas is for the family, a way to bring us together, to eat and to give to each other in a celebration of our friendship, comradeship and the ties that our blood gives us. I love my family, our histories and where we have come to in just being ourselves.  The connections that have changed over the years, yes, they have changed hugely, through growing up together, parting the waves and coming back closer than ever, bringing our extended families and friends to share in a closeness that only family can really have. Knowing who we were as children, sharing those stories and seeing each other grow with them is fascinating!

I am blessed with family, with friends and with many dancing communities. I wish all of those wonderful people so much love this Christmas and New Year and for many many years to come.

I pray that 2012 will be a big turning point for us and our societies and that we shall see many an awakening moment, shifts in consciousness and begin to give more focus and attention to the things that ‘really matter’ in our world.

Blessings to all, with love, peacefulness and joy, may your dreams unfold in the most beautiful ways. May the dances of 2012 be rich, fruitful and deeply satisfying, after all, it costs nothing to dance, it is always with you and is as rewarding and pleasurable as any gift you could give yourself. Fill your heart  with music, breath and wonderment at your own exquisite beauty, lift your arms and fly…….with your feet on the ground!

Happy Mid-Winter, blissful dreaming, deep peace and love,

Caroline x

 

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Poetry

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Caroline Carey

I felt the sun on my back

Warming the crystal close to my heart

My fathers love

And deep sense of knowing

Who his daughter is.

 

From inside the darkness

The intelligence within

A small voice

A song

Distant in it’s charm and eloquence

But close enough to move the darkest shadows

It will speak the truth.

 

The fierce warrior

and humble martyr sit in the hands of unrequited love with

hungry yearning, yet softly manipulate the clay of knowledge

Through it’s fingers

 

The ancestors call into the void

As the void is no more the mystery,

where the crow sheds it wings and lays broken

but gifting it’s medicine,

 

No longer the oasis but a wild orchard,

a garden of wonder

Blossoming with the fruits of many life times

And from one small corner

A song and a drum beat is heard.

Caroline Carey

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Across the Waves

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Caroline Carey

I am going to spend the Solstice this year traveling over the sea to France with my darling man, Ben. We will be waking the next morning on my birthday to celebrate the day of my 51st.  Just a day and a half, a very small adventure to taste the sea air and to feel those currents and waves lapping around us. Journeying on the sea feels like a wonderful symbol of how we are bridging our work across the lands and meeting with so many other new nationalities. I never really traveled through my life, apart from within England and Ireland and was never called to be a ‘tourist’

Yet I journeyed into many mysteries and traveled a very untrodden road of my own through life, into many dark places where I witnessed visions I would never have found on any map! Had I wandered around the world; my life would have been very different of course, yet I feel as if I have I have been on a huge adventure into so many areas and landscapes that my body and mind has taken me on, I feel incredibly ‘well traveled’ and sometimes a little worn out from it all!

My desire to meet people now from other lands is very strong in me. It is not so much about the places we go to but the people that we meet and the souls who reside there. We are sharing quite a lot of our work abroad in 2012, as well as in Uk but I feel the time is very right to start creating those bridges. Of course Ben has been traveling for years documenting and filming all kinds of lives, tribes and ways of living. It’s quite new for me but knowing so many people now around the world now, it makes that part of my journey much more enjoyable and also feels very supported. A phone call from some one asking me to bring my work to Europe feels great! AND its an excuse to get me stepping forward and being part of that bigger world.

My life, as my children grow up means I am stepping into a different kind of freedom. I’ve been a Mum since I was 16, so always had a lot of responsibility at a very early age. Now as my youngest daughter reaches 18 I am curious to feel what it might be like to not have it any more after 34 years. Of course there is always a responsibility of some sort what with colleges and career’s to advise on and the support that is needed there; but I am not ‘needed’ as I was and I can feel that level of freedom seeping into my life.

Who knows how that will be in the coming years, but for now I am feeling ‘cosied up’ here at home writing the Ms’G script and planning the Christmas treats for the girls and family. The script is exciting me! It’s a whole new adventure. I’ve never written anything for theatre or film and all my experience in that world has been improvisation, which has always been my preference. So deciding on scenes and text up front is a very different approach.

Still the first draft of the script is coming together very well, I shall ponder with it as we cross the sea’s tomorrow and see what inspires. It’s the solstice on Thursday morning, my birthday. A very good time to be dreaming in the new!

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Writing the storms

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Caroline Carey
  1. Yesterday we had thunder and lightning for hours on end and into the night. Its been quite startling really, blue flashes arriving into the kitchen, thunder crackling over head, the four cats have been hiding in corners and our little dog, Muffin, having a bark at each opportunity. I  am feeling quiet and yet this storm breaks all around me.There was not much sleeping to be had as I felt the energy rising and falling amidst the sound of the waves on the sea in the distance. Night time is a good time for me to write, with the help of the dream time it provokes in me strong imagery and a sense of the thinning veils between light and dark.

    The moon has been full and now wanes, slipping silently back into its darker side. A good companion for me as I listen to the wind and write my words, never really knowing what is going to emerge, through my hands onto a key board or into a journal.

    Words as mysterious to me as each wave is to the mighty ocean. They pass through and slip into sentences creating more waves of imagination and inspiring me to write and to keep writing, to simply see what is coming next. I’ve no idea and yet some how it flows, like a river rambling along with its undercurrents, turning rocks and stones and washing away old forgotten memories as they float off into the distance, never to return except for those moments when I happen to pass an old stone wall or dangling branch that caught them in their hurry to be free.

    I have a particular way of writing usually. Immersing myself within the ‘story’ what ever that may be wether its a piece of my history or writing about a meeting in nature, I find myself ‘inside’ it, seeing into its colors and shapes, feeling its boundaries its edges and listening to its sounds. My being withdraws into the mystery of it and I become part of it. This is where the words flow from.

    Sometimes, especially if it is a piece of history this can be challenging as it may awaken all manner of feelings, but it makes the writing come to life and ‘be’ what ever it is I am writing about.
    Ms’Guided Angel was written mostly in this way. I’ve heard people say they felt completely transported into my life, well that is where it was written from, deep in its depths of memory.

    Now writing the film script for Ms’G, I am not only transporting myself in to history but looking at how that can be directed into a film and played over a screen. How will it catch the eye, depict the essence of some of what was happening? How will it be understood visually and also not just be entertaining and intriguing, but be a useful source of information about life?

    Of course it will not be exactly as it was, there will be all sorts of changes, else we’ll have a rather long film and some impossible scenarios to depict, but its a start and an exciting and very inspiring project. Having Ben to help me with this is such a blessing, his talent for cinematography means that we can picture these scenes together and play with ideas, story board them and bring them to life. I am so amazed at what you can do with CGI!

    Follow these pages I shall let you know how it unfolds………

    To see Ms’Guided Angel you can visit this page on my website http://www.alchemyinmovement.com/book.html

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Hello world!

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Caroline Carey

I decided to get serious about blogging, after all I do write a lot having had my first book published last year and nearly having finished editing my second one. I had thought I did enough writing but then decided it would be a helpful way to keep updating where I was at and even how I was getting on with my next book.

Well now I am also writing a film script based on Ms’Guided Angel, so between my dancing practice, taking care of home and family and taking my work to various countries around the world I guess I could be seen as being quite a busy person.

There are such quiet moments in my life though. I like these times where I can simply be and ponder the meaning of life. These moments can be deeply pleasurable until I become bored and my skin starts itching for some excitement and my curiosity and fascination for where the dance can take me, literally takes over and I’m off.

I used to ‘practice’ leaving home when I was a little girl. Taking an old black suitcase and filling it with hats, (dont ask why it was hats) I would leave and walk up the road away from home. Of course I always came back again but it seemed to mark a trait in me, how to perfect this art. I ran away from home as a teenager, left home at 16 (full story in Ms’G) Ive moved home about 26 times, lived in all manor of buildings, caravans, tents, vehicles, cottages, flats, even a stately manor house at one stage of my life, which has enabled me to pretty much fit in anywhere I go. But the suit case does sit awaiting more often than not and I wonder if I will ever remain in one place that i can really call home.

I guess for me my body and therefore my dance is my home, where there’s a new adventure to be had, my case and my collection of hats will transport themselves there.

The story of leaving home is a big part of my work, it can show us patterns about ourselves that remain with us for a life time. I just graduated from the school of movement medicine, it was a kind of leaving home as I stept into a new dimension of my work, through a gateway and some where into the unknown.

I am looking at my hats, which one shall I wear today?

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