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Fine Paintings & Sculpture - Skinner Auction 2581B
Fine Paintings & Sculpture - Skinner Auction 2581B
American & European Works of Art Fine Paintings & Sculpture
Sale 2581B February 3, 2012 Boston
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American & European Works of Art Fine Paintings & Sculpture
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auction 2581B Friday, February 3, 2012 at 4 p.m. Lots 300713, preceded by Fine Prints & Photography at 12 noon 63 Park Plaza Boston, Massachusetts preview
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Discovery Featuring Studio Paintings & Country Americana - Skinner Auction 2620M
Discovery Featuring Studio Paintings & Country Americana - Skinner Auction 2620M
Featuring Studio Paintings & Country Americana
Sale 2620M
November 14 & 15, 2012
Marlborough
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featuring Estate Silver & Jewelry, and Couture & Textiles
December 12 & 13, 2012
Sale #2625M
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Auction 2620M
Wednesday, November 14 2PM Thursday, November 15 10AM 274 Cedar Hill Street Marlborough, MA
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The benefits of fire dance
Like myself, so many women find this to be a proudly healing and empowering act.
We’re so often told not to feel, not to express… fitting ourselves into roles within patriarchal society that don’t adequately honour our natural cycles and the feminine.
I find it a wonderful way to destress, let off steam, connect with my femininity, my primal nature and go wild!
What a relief to take off the ‘good girl’ mask… oof!
Fire dance for me is a space where I can feel, fall in love with my body again, dance my ass off, and connect to what is sacred… to Mother Earth, to the elements, to fire as a sacred guide for transformation.
Our fire dance location is beautiful, surrounded by lush trees, often with a clear night sky, and at the moment, the sound of the gushing creek.
So many women (including myself) love to dance for the trees, with the trees, under the stars… remembering we are part of this universal weaving again.
So much of my stagnancy burns away and is purified in the holy fire, it is like we become the puja!
Art: Valery Kosorukov
Not to mention, the power of doing this in sisterhood. Witnessed by other women, in our primal beauty. Sometimes howling, sometimes sobbing. Sometimes dancing with wild abandon and elation.
As we’re dancing to our own rhythm, we tune in to our bodies. Guided by our own impulses, our body’s wishes, our desires. We find ourselves led by our hips, by our breasts and yonis and wombs. By our hearts. Our sensuality comes online again, we stoke the inner fire as much as the outer fire. Enriching our womanly beauty and our fertility.
Sometimes we dance with and for our ancestors, perhaps our recent mothers or grandmothers, tempered by patriarchy, who could not dance these ancient rites themselves. The soma remembers those grandmothers in our lineage who danced by the fire, whose lifeblood still flows in our veins.
When I enter trance in even .