The Grace of Winter

Snow falls from the sky: dry, singular very cold flakes. The kind of flakes that don't stick, but blow, reddening cheeks and fingers, blinding vision temporarily. Creating white, creating squeaky walking sounds, clarifying landscapes, equalizing the visual fields. All becomes connected in a pristine beauty that is gorgeous yet challenging to contend with. Time stops for awhile as the snow commands our attention.

We are so fortunate to have this natural element organizing us: away from the everyday momentum into the rhythm of the elemental world, where the questions and the answers, the path to follow is consistently clear, sane, evident ,though mysterious. It is always with us. We are so fortunate.

I turn to nature again and again and always again for the wisdom and steadiness and perspective that she provides. I have developed a movement form I call "Movements for Our World" , which is a combination of Authentic Movement and Systemic Constellations. Recently, in this group, we spent two weeks moving a constellation for the Earth, opening to the mystery to move whatever she needed, or conversely, whatever she wanted to impart. One of the major unerstandings that came through was the vastness of her mystery, the endless possibilities and connections, interweavings, both understood and beyond compehension, along with an ancientness weaving into eternity as well as a weaving into the future with equal flow.

Enormous perspective, enormous presence and wisdom. With us all the time. All the time.

I am offering a Family Constellation Workshop on March 22 from 1-5 in Montpelier. Details can be found on my website under the Events section. You can RSVP through that or directly to me.

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As always, feel free to ask any questions, and to pass along the information to anyone you think might benefit. The work is a clear vehicle for opening the way for entanglements to shift and love to flow. jansandman@comcast.net  (802) 522-5032

Perhaps we will see each other soon.

Love,

Jan

Transitioning Light

October 19, 2024

Dear Friends,

Here we are: Autumn’s Center, deeply darkening skies both morning and night, punctuated by brilliant blue so clear, it feels weightless. Glistening remnants of leaves fall like nature’s glitter to reveal the structure of our trees, ever present.  The leaves that remain on trees at this point seem singular, fortified with the color and brilliance of all those trees that have come before them.  I am in awe and reverence to this turning of seasons.

As many of you have been experiencing, this seems to be the year and season of very deep changes and shifts , either in one’s personal life or in the lives around one and certainly on the world stage.  We are becoming more and more finely attuned in what it means to be in harmony and what the stakes are.  In many, it calls forward a radical aliveness.

I have had deep and rich summer and fall.  In  August, I travelled to the upper Peninsula of Michigan, to the region and land of Lake Superior and smaller but not lesser, Fire Lake, where I engaged in an expansive creative experience of  The Space Between, the film I created with Andreas John and Evan Premo last fall. We performed and presented it in three locations in Michigan.  Evan Premo, Andreas John, Laurel Premo and I.   Such an expansive and satisfying experience.  We hope that the film experience will be performed here in Vermont sometime in the months to come .  Here is a link to the trailer.

"The Space Between" Trailer

I have been quiet during summer and early fall, and am now resuming the Family Constellation workshops. I cannot adequately describe the magic, the numinous quality, the ancestral and spiritual threads that are reworked and rewoven and what it feels like for an ancient entanglement to be freed, what it feels like for dry aching heart to be suddenly washed in love. The first one of the new year is scheduled to happen on  Saturday, January 18, 2025, in Montpelier.  RSVP to the Event on my website or contact me directly to register.  

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Wishing you all a soft warmth as the season continues to turn,

love,

Jan  

Beyond the Eclipse

Painting by Jan Sandman 2024

And now...we are moving forward in a way that feels to me as though we have gathered into the core of our beings, something essential, light filled, sustaining, nourishing and real. The heavens showed us something , opened the curtain by closing it and reopening again. No one can really describe what has happened and yet, we all know something did. It is refreshing to be in the presence of a state of being that we cannot place words upon, cannot describe. It calls forward humility in the face of natural wonders.

We live in and with natural wonders. We are natural wonders living amongst each other. What if we could behold each other as such? Behold with wordlessness and reverence the wonder that we all are. And be beheld in such a way. I am holding this possibility like a gentle flame in my heart.

In March, a beautiful gathering of people came together for a Family Constellation workshop. I can describe the nuts and bolts of what happens in these gatherings but I cannot describe the magic, the numinous quality, the ancestral and spiritual threads that are reworked and rewoven and what it feels like for an ancient entanglement to be freed, what it feels like for dry aching heart to be suddenly washed in love. Although I cannot at this moment remember the source, I read a beautiful article about the generosity of being a representative, about how unique it is to truly step into the shoes, the field, the living situation of another human being who is unlike yourself. It creates a physical, emotional and spiritual understanding of a slice of life that one would otherwise not have. It creates understanding, compassion, resonance. It expands us.

I am offering another Family Constellation Workshop on Saturday May 25, 2024 from 1:00-5:00 in Montpelier. RSVP to the Event on my website or contact me directly to either participate as a representative or to present your constellation.

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Love in the deep complexity of this time,

Jan