Newsletter

Hello,

We hope you are well. Thanks for being you.

This is week four of Arlyn’s Money Freedom Group, (yay for the journeyers) and this week we’re talking about Showing Up. One technique that we’ve been using during the course is showing up by slowing down and paying attention. Noticing the money going in and out, noticing the physical sensations, noticing the beliefs and drivers.

Whatever you’re doing this week, I want to invite you to notice where you might need to show up by slowing down?

We hope to see you soon.

blessings,
Arlyn & David

p.s. If you didn’t get a chance yet to listen to our new album featuring local youth, “Young Creatives in Harmony” you can listen here.

–UPCOMING EVENTS–

 

Friday, November 15th, 5-7pm – Paonia – Women’s Full Moon Ceremony with Meghan Gilroy and Arlyn Alderdice guesting. Details for in person. Details for online. The first one’s free.

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Sunday, November 17th, 11-12:15pm – Hotchkiss – Sunday Solkattu Session – with David and Arlyn Alderdice. Please RSVP. Simple movements, vocalizations and clapping patterns to bring rhythm into our bodies. More info.

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Friday, November 22nd, 5:30-8:30pm -Paonia- Women’s Drum and Voice: Alchemy, with Arlyn Alderdice and Meghann McCormick. An evening of women’s creative musical exploration. We will come into rhythm together, we will invite our full voices. We will practice deep listening, and we will PLAY. No prior experience needed. We have drums (and you’re welcome to bring your own). Please join us! Full details and location.

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Live Music Movement as Medicine First Sunday of the month

December 1, 2024 with David Alderdice, Daniel Be, and Ben Bentele. Childcare with Miss James.  more info
11am-12:30p at the Hearth (10:45am arrival). Facilitated by Arlyn Alderdice.
Structured improvisational music from awesome musicians to dance to. Let’s embody together!

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ongoing Somatic Movement, 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 – more information

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Book Group: “The Way of Integrity” by Martha Beck
Online facilitated by Certified Martha Beck Wayfinder Life Coach Arlyn Alderdice

4 weeks, Thursdays 2pm mtn, January 16, 23, 30 & February 6th, 2025
Offered in the gift model. Reply to this email with inquiries and for registration.

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“Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”

~ Brené Brown

Dear Ones,

Here in Colorado, we’re starting to winterize. The days are growing shorter and the nights are longer. The air is cooler.

In some cultures this end of October/beginning of November is referred to as a time when the veil between the worlds is thin, meaning that we might have more access to the unseen. Is there any specific aspect of your life that you would like to connect with something larger than yourself?

We’re happy to release the “Young Creatives in Harmony” album directed and recorded by David and Arlyn Alderdice including over 100 students plus a few community members. Listen here.

blessings,
Arlyn & David

 

–UPCOMING EVENTS–

Sunday, October 27th 2-5pm -Paonia- Women’s Drum and Voice: Alchemy, with Arlyn Alderdice and Meghann McCormick. An afternoon of women’s creative musical exploration. We will come into rhythm together, we will invite our full voices. We will practice deep listening, and we will PLAY. No prior experience needed. We have drums (and you’re welcome to bring your own). Please join us! Full details and location.

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Live Music Movement as Medicine returns first Sunday of the month November 2024 through April 2025.

November 3, 2024 with David Alderdice, Daniel Be, Beth Quist and Aaron Jerad. Childcare with Miss James.  more info
11am-12:30p at the Hearth (10:45am arrival). Facilitated by Arlyn Alderdice.
Structured improvisational music from a stellar collection of musicians. Let’s embody together!

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5 Mornings of Dance in collaboration with the NFV Grief Summit – October 28-Nov. 1 (bring an altar item on Nov. 1)
9am – 10am at the Hearth (except Wednesday), with Arlyn Alderdice and / or Amber Van Cleave
more information
Come to one or all the morning dances. There will be a short experiential exercise on Monday and Tuesday mornings, but otherwise you are welcome to dance whatever is present for you, be it grief or not.

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ongoing Somatic Movement, 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 – more information

 

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David has 1:1 drum and music lessons as well as musical/rhythmic coaching spots available for youth and adults: 970-872-4238

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
-Margaret Mead

Hello Dear Ones,

I hope the summer has been treating you well. Do you happen to have extra grasshoppers around where you are too? Either way, hopefully you’re still able to relish in the harvest season and getting to eat some yummy garden/farm fresh food.

This summer we got to share some great backpacking adventures and enjoyed watching this year’s garden grow when home. A big thanks to Bernie for holding it down. We have been fond of the long days, though now the rhythms of school call us back to a more structured routine. It’s feeling like a good time for lessons and learning new skills. A good time for settling into a practice, whatever that might be for each of us.

Happy practicing, pickling, preserving, teaching, learning, working or whatever it is you do this time of year.

blessings,
Arlyn & David

 

–UPCOMING EVENTS–

TONIGHT – Friday, August 23, 6-9pm -Paonia- Women’s Drum and Voice: A Celebration, with Arlyn Alderdice and Meghann McCormick. An evening of women’s creative musical exploration. We will come into rhythm together, we will invite our full voices. We will practice deep listening, and we will PLAY. No prior experience needed. Bring your drum & seat, or use ours. Please join us! Full details and location.

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Friday, September 27th, 6pm – Poulos Park, Paonia – NFV Community and Parade Band at Mountain Harvest Festival. More info.

Saturday, September 28th, 4:30pm – Paonia Town Park Field- Mama Lingua at Mountain Harvest Festival. www.mamalinguamusic.com

full Harvest Fest Schedule

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ongoing Somatic Movement, 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 – more information

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David has 1:1 drum and music lessons as well as musical/rhythmic coaching spots available for youth and adults: 970-872-4238

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If you want help bringing your full self to your life, Arlyn has one 1:1 life-coaching spot available in-person or online, please reach out by replying to this email.

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The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

-Mary Oliver

Dear Ones,

We hope this season is treating you well. We’re enjoying the fresh nettle pesto and we had a sweet visit to the desert over spring break. The crabapple bloom here is just winding down, but it’s always a highlight of the spring because the bees love the blossoms so much. What have you been enjoying?

We’re busy getting everything ready for this wildly eventful weekend (and beyond). We hope to see you soon. Please see our list of upcoming offerings below.

Take care,
Arlyn & David

 

–Upcoming– view on website —

Saturday, May 4, 3pm -Paonia- Youth Music Showcase at the Hearth. info. Join us and our youth music ensembles for a live music showcase featuring tunes from the album we recorded this winter along with an art show and a dance piece, both inspired by the music we’ve been recording.

 

Sunday, May 5, 11am – 12:30pm – Live Music Movement as Medicine at the Hearth in Paonia, with responsive live music by David Alderdice, Daniel Be and Beth Quist. Free child-care available on-site. Let your dance set you free, this practice has potency if you need some support or release, please join us at the still point in the center of the fullness of this season. This will be our last Live Music Movement as Medicine for the cycle and we’ll begin again with this offering in the fall.

 

Saturday, May 4th, 7pm David Alderdice with the Community Choir at West Elk Church on the highway in Paonia.
Sunday, May 5th, 4pm David Alderdice with the Community Choir at Shadescapes in Hotchkiss.

 

Monday, May 6, 13, 20 – Cedaredge – The first three Mondays in May Arlyn is teaching a yoga + gentle movement class (8:45-9:45am) info as well as a Movement as Medicine class (10-11am) info. Let’s honor our bodies together and bring more health and vitality to our lives.

 

Saturday, May 11, 10:30-noon – Second Saturday Solkattu Session at the Drum Room, please RSVP by replying to this email. info. A rhythmic practice that is great for all types of artists.

 

Saturday, May 11, 6-9pm -Paonia- Women’s Drum and Voice: An Invocation, with Arlyn Alderdice and Meghann McCormick. info. An evening of women’s creative musical exploration. We will come into rhythm together, we will invite our full voices. We will practice deep listening, and we will PLAY. No prior experience needed. Bring your drum & seat, or use ours. Please join us!

 

Tuesday, May 14th, 5pm -Paonia- NFV Community & Parade Band w/NFSIS 5th & 6th grade band, at Arbol Farmer’s Market.

 

Sunday, May 26, 2pm -Paonia- Mama Lingua at Folk N’ Roots Rendezvous, Big B’s. www.mamalinguamusic.com

 

Saturday, June 1, 6pm -Paonia River Park- Mama Lingua at Riverfest. www.mamalinguamusic.com

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ongoing Somatic Movement, 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 for youth and adults: 970-872-4238

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If you’re feeling stuck in your life or want some support bringing your values into action, Arlyn has one 1:1 life-coaching spot available in-person or online, please reach out by replying to this email.

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Arlyn recorded an audio-only movement and journaling practice, it’s a practice that can help you return to center if you’ve gotten thrown off balance.

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“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.”
― T.S. Eliot

Dear Ones,

Here at our home in Colorado it’s feeling like spring with the willows leafing, the apricots blossoming, and the daffodils blooming.

Thanks to all those who came out to the Embodying Rhythm with Mama Lingua concert at the Paradise Theatre on the 9th of March!

One of the coach mentors Arlyn loves, Natalie Miller, says that for a variety of reasons, this season is a good one to look at your values. Even more than the values that you say you hold dear, the ones that come through your daily actions. When you look at your life, what values are you displaying? . . . What would you like to live into a little more? . . . What teensy tiny daily actions/choices can help you shift yourself in that direction?

We’ve got Movement as Medicine with live music on Sunday, we have our monthly rhythm group on Saturday April 13th. We hope to see you soon.

Take care,
Arlyn & David

 

–Upcoming–

Live Music Movement as Medicine – Sunday, April 7  11am – 12:30pm at the Hearth in Paonia, with responsive live music by David Alderdice, Daniel Be and John Whooley. Free child-care available on-site. Let your dance set you free, this practice has potency if you need some support or release, please join us.

 

— Rhythm Group —

Second Saturday Solkattu Sessions for the next two months: April 13th & May 11th 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. 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. No prior experience required geared for adults.

 

— 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

 

— More Events at the End of April and Looking into May —

April 19, 12:30pm -Cedaredge- David and Arlyn bring some marimbas and music and skill toys for spring break kids camp ages 9-15 more info.

April 20, 9am -Montrose- Arlyn will guest teach some somatic movement and drumming at — Women’s Soul Care Day — more info.

May 4, 3pm -Paonia- youth music showcase at the Hearth

May 5, 11am -Paonia- Movement as Medicine with Responsive Live Music with David Alderdice, Daniel Be, and Beth Quist.

May 11, 6-9pm -Paonia- Women’s Drum and Voice: An Invocation, with Arlyn Alderdice and Meghann McCormick

Mondays in May -Cedearedge- Arlyn is teaching a yoga + gentle movement class (8:45-9:45am) info as well as a Movement as Medicine class (10-11am) info.

May 26, 2pm -Paonia- Mama Lingua at Folk N’ Roots Rendezvous, Big B’s.

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David has 1:1 drum and music lessons as well as musical/rhythmic coaching spots available for youth and adults: 970-872-4238

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If you’re feeling stuck in your life or want some support bringing your values into action, Arlyn has one 1:1 life-coaching spot available in-person or online, please reach out by replying to this email.

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Audio-only movement and journaling practice

 

“Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our common heritage. You don’t need to quit your job and move to Paris in order to lay claim to this heritage – all you have to do is clear some space in your life for whimsy, invention, sensory pleasure, and play. Most of all, you have to learn how to follow your curiosity more than your fear.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert

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.” ~ Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche