Navigating Change

Late April in Vermont brings us trout lilies and daffodils, lively birds, a still bare landscape, cold rushing waters, a blush of green. We can still see the structure of the earth that will soon be dressed fully in vegetation. We are navigating this change, a familiar one, often a very welcome one. We meet it with the newness in ourselves that has gestated through the long winter and birthed as the season turns. Just now, as the green blush colors our world, we begin to sense the flow of the new energy. Can you feel and sense your structure, your inner support, your compass?

Where is it landing in you? Where are your thoughts taking you these days? What landscape is your heart traveling? How are you extending your energy? There is a newness afoot, a never before now afoot and it feels to me that the quality of our presence, attention and choices are more important than ever. Keeping a wide vision to allow the influx of light along with staying with the inner flame to keep the direction you want to be headed in steady.

In the accelerated and massive change we are experiencing, some things remain as markers. The earth around us continues to blossom. Love is a felt presence, nourishment and life force, unrivaled potent available river. What else? What else is a steady beacon for you? Let's go this way, not out of naïveté, but out of choice for what leads with love.

I am offering a Family Constellation workshop on May 30 from 1:00-5:00 in Montpelier. You can find more information on my website. It is a powerful experience of connection, change and love. Here is a link to this workshop.

Family Constellation Registration Link

I am also offering an Authentic Movement workshop for beginners, those who are interested in this form and have not yet experienced it or would like more grounding in the basics. The workshop will happen in Montpelier on Saturday, May 23rd at 1:00-5:00 Here is a link to register.

Authentic Movement Registration Link

For more information go to my website.

So good to connect with you all,

love,

Jan

Absorbing Light

January 23, 2026

In these January days, as the sun’s angle brings us a clear uncomplicated light, illuminating a primarily white landscape, I recognize the importance of maintaining that capacity for light. The sun is so welcomed, so promising, so hopeful. To simply sit, stand, lie, move in it, brings about a completion, a fullness. And with this absorption, comes the capacity to go forward .

Our world right now is in such a time of unparalleled energy and change. The inner state must always remain anchored in Love. Above all else, that is the pathway.

Many of you know, but some may not, that my beloved husband died in April on my birthday. I have been navigating the landscape that this has brought about: the expected and surprising changes that have arisen in the aftermath.

I journeyed to Mexico in October/November with dear friends.The place, the company, the culture, the holiness, the love, the painting workshop I was engaged in, the Day of the Dead ceremonies allowed something to settle and complete and something to arise. I am beyond grateful.

I am resuming offering Family Constellation workshops now. Just about exactly one year later from the last constellation workshop just before the final chapter of my husband took hold.

I am offering a Family Constellation workshop on Saturday March 14 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 who you feel would 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

May our paths cross soon.

Love,

Jan

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.

Click here for Workshop Details

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