Dear Ones,
Here in the North Fork Valley, it’s feeling a lot like spring, but glad that it’s still snowy in the mountains.
We’re looking forward to another Live Music Movement as Medicine Practice on Sunday March 3. Connect to your deep wisdom while enjoying full body aliveness, it feels good to take time out of all the things on the list and tend the internal landscape.
March 9th we’re bringing The Embodying Rhythm Collective and Mama Lingua together for an intimate musical journey featuring traditional and modern music from around the world as well as original music from the North Fork Valley. All the musicians are well-versed multi-instrumentalists, so you will hear many different tone colors and musical textures throughout the evening. It’s got all the elements of magic – incredible musicians, a beloved local venue, community and puppets. Get tickets, we hope to see you there.
We’ve been thinking a lot about resiliency lately, both what it means to be resilient as an individual and as a community. As individuals, resiliency is served by our ability to be honest with ourselves, the ability to be flexible (strong like a tree with deep roots), to let emotions move through without getting stuck, and meeting the moment as it comes. As a community, our resilience is also served by our connections, and how well we’ve prepared – which requires thinking about many possible scenarios and potential future possibilities without dwelling or getting stuck in them. What tickles have you been getting lately about moving forward that you have been pushing away? Things like sharpening your skillset, having a bit of extra food, water and medical supplies stored for an emergency, the volunteering that you’ve been wanting to do, contacting the people that you’ve lost connection with that you would like to reconnect with, making family plans, estate planning, seed saving, a training you’d like to take. . . what internal truths have been trying to get your attention?
take care, and we hope to see you soon!
Arlyn & David
–Upcoming–
Live Music Movement as Medicine – Sunday, March 3 11am – 12:30pm at the Hearth in Paonia, with responsive live music by David Alderdice, Daniel Be and Ben Bentele. Free child-care available on-site.
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Embodying Rhythm Collective with Mama Lingua at the Paradise in Paonia – March 9, 2024
We had so much fun playing together in Cedaredge in November that we wanted to bring this exciting collaboration to Paonia! With special guests Singing Bone Medicine Show. Tickets
Listen to a few songs from the group and an interview about the concert with KVNF’s Taya Jae on Thursday and Saturday. Worldwide at www.kvnf.org/show/talkin-music
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Bock Fest – live polka and polka-adjacent music with Jon Hickam, David Alderdice, Jeannette Carey and John Whooly. Saturday March 2, 2pm at Paonia United Brewing
— Rhythm Group —
Second Sunday Solkattu Sessions, March 10th from 10:30 – noon at the drum room outside Hotchkiss. Please pre-register by replying to this email or by calling 970.872.4238. Sliding scale $10 – $20. full details
Embody the rhythm more thoroughly through repeating changing and rhythmic vocalizations over a simple stepping and hand pattern. Great for all musicians and dancers, and artists of all types, as well as all humans in general.
— Somatic Movement Ongoing —
ongoing: Fridays | 9:00 am – 10:00 am
movement practice with pre-recorded music facilitated by Arlyn Alderdice
TLC’s Hearth 138 Grand Ave, Paonia, CO – offered in the gift model
more information
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David has 1:1 drum and music lessons as well as musical/rhythmic coaching spots available. Let 2024 take your music to the next level: 970-872-4238
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Arlyn has one 1:1 life-coaching spot available this coming cycle in-person or online. Book a free “discovery call” to talk about what life coaching is and how it might be utilized in your situation. details.
If the questions about resilience at the beginning of the email made you feel like there was some work for you to do to be more in integrity with yourself and your internal guidance system, please reach out – our brains like to treat current reality as safe. So, even if it’s uncomfortable, there might be changes that you’d like to make, and external support can be the difference between making it happen and staying safely stuck.
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Audio-only movement and journaling practice
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Martha Beck Podcast on “How to Bounce”
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“People with varied social connections—not just individuals with a few close relationships, but those regular interactions with the larger communities in which they live—have a distinct survival advantage. Joining groups that allow you to form those weak bonds helps individuals in two ways. It promotes regular social contact with a diverse group of people, which we know is protective…In addition, weak bonds provide a source of helpful tidbits of information that strong bonds often don’t. The reason? We often share the same background and types of knowledge with our close friends and family members. People who are more distantly connected to us have access to different banks of information.” ~ Susan Pinker, The Village Effect
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“There’s so much more to who you are than you know right now. You are, indeed, something mysterious and someone magnificent. You hold within you — secreted for safekeeping in your heart — a great gift for this world. Although you might sometimes feel like a cog in a huge machine, that you don’t really matter in the great scheme of things, the truth is that you are fully eligible for a meaningful life, a mystical life, a life of the greatest fulfillment and service.” ~ Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche