Mourning Surf

Because grief is human-shaped ❤️

Weaving with the threads of my life here in Sligo this week: three years studying Irish theatre and living and working in Dublin, learning to surf and embracing the healing waves while I grieve the death of my husband, dancing since I was a child and teaching movement to students, actors, grieves, kids- dancers and non- dancers, politicians and filmmakers…grief + surfing + dance IN IRELAND!! It’s a pinch me moment and I cannot wait for this retreat - to welcome the women who have traveled far and near to this beautiful place that is alive with nature’s wild beauty. Oh yes, and there was that date with Van Morrison!

Just a reminder that movement doesn’t always propel us in one direction. Our bodies move in many directions and our grief moves in multiple directions, sometimes all at once! Movement can go forward, but we also move in spirals and squares and diagonal lines - backwards and forwards and on the ground and on our toes, rolling, turning, jumping, falling, crawling, rising…the grammar of our bodies is movement and there is no proscribed path through grief - so we must all become the choreographer of our own grief.