Hello Beautiful Souls,
How are you? Where are you? Who are you?
Who would have thought that asking such simple questions could bring up so much? In just eleven months, our beautiful world has undergone significant changes. Have you, too? In this breath, if you are reading this, if you’ve made it to this fifth question, it would be reasonable to expect you are better than some. Sheltered? Have the power to read these words on a device or computer? Yes. I’m grateful for your eyes, even for a moment of “just us.” As we connect, I’m going to tuck others into my heart for prayers that, if not now, they soon will also feel safe, sheltered, and loved as they are. Where two or more pray…
It wasn’t just the state of the world that had me leave our home last week. It was a dear friend reaching out to come dance. As I drove across the snaking river toward the airport, tears splashed down my face. My sweet daughter took my hand. She knows I love to travel. I love to love this world. I love to explore with friends and family, dance, and share, but this trip felt different. Did I really need to worry about what I’ve been posting in support of democracy and human rights? I was unusually unsettled. I’ve been packing my passport for years for domestic flights “just in case.”
Though I’d barely slept, I was two hours early. There were no lines. Reading my dark circles, the TSA agents were exceptionally kind. To say it felt a bit like jumping in with the Humpback Whales for the first time, really wasn’t an exaggeration. It wasn’t until I breathed in the blue skies that I could relax.
I refocused. I was slipping away from computers and the internet to tap into the Source of this gift of the Dancing Hands and the grounding power of the red rock vortexes. I’d come many times to Sedona before – first to wean my son, Kai, after my wasband and I did a ceremony in Boynton Canyon, then for work. I’d brought Braco here to gaze and met the wondrous musician and vocalist Ashana. Later, I brought Mas Sajady and Abdy each to do their work and finally danced here with our own Jane’s Dancing Hands Circles, too, all with the marvelous kindness of Monnie and Natesh’s help. I’d even seen a UFO fly over the highway as my old friend was driving me back to Phoenix in broad daylight! I love Sedona. Every experience has been magical. Fear vanished.
Elissa Shapiro, our dear friend and longtime facilitator of her own Body Vida soul dance practice and the Dancing Hands events in Texas, had just returned from Sedona and asked if I’d like to join her right away. “We might have three people. We might invite a few more. Think you can come?” There was no advertising, nor need to put it on our websites. We each asked a few people in our ongoing classes or circles, and the retreat immediately sold out with the most wonderful group of dear, loving, and game-for-the-adventure women.
Elissa found an incredible home to rent on the ley line of Bell Rock, one of many vortexes in the area, which has long been considered sacred by indigenous peoples, such as the Yavapai and Apache, who used it for ritual or ceremonies. We rose with the sun, and even though my inner GPS was spun, we made it to the red rocks and trails to BE with all of the glorious beauty and listen. We stepped through portals, scrambled up the rocks to explore, had silent disco, and not-so-silent circles, (oh, those oli’s have a hard time not turning the volume all the way up!), and we each reawakened the treasure trove of gifts that dancing with intentional women always brings, but times seven because we were in the amplification of this magnetic place.
To gather with intuitive women, compassionate women, healing-hearted women, and all committed to a greater community of kinder, more open-minded healers and helpers was just the balm and boon we all seem to need.
There is nothing like unplugging from the un-reality of this strange world and plugging into what brings us together to help me better help others. And I wasn’t alone. Beside the fire, we danced our prayers for ourselves and the world. Under the stars, we pledged to be better caretakers of this magnificent planet. Upon the sun-soaked land, we kissed many tear-stained cheeks, promising to love more than we’d loved before and avoid the stickers in the grass and the pricks in the field. So many lessons! To see 90 seconds of our retreat, click here on the @janesibbett Instagram.
Today, Elissa is wrangling some of the women together for a workshop in Austin, Texas. I’ll be there in spirit. Here’s her site for more info.
This coming Martes through Jueves, others are joining me online for our only Noviembre JANE’s Expanded Quanta Circle (in this month of giving thanks, also for Violet’s and my birthday), and you are invited to join us both! This three-night arc is one of my favorite ways to rebalance to every little thing’s gonna be all right.
And in Noon Miracle land, for the TV pilot Take My Husband, we are having a mini–Mad About You reunion with old friends and new—Lisa Kudrow, Richard Kind, Anne Ramsay, Theresa Rowley, and two more surprises we hope to announce this week for our Autumn Table Read Series, starting online on Sábado, Noviembre 22 at 10 AM Pacific via Zoom. Click here to join us AND benefit the Freedom to Read Foundation to support our First Amendment Rights and support libraries, as well.
Extra news for joy:
While many people are struggling, we wish to offer options for feeling better. If you can’t swing a Dancing Hands private session or Quanta Circle, please join our intimate women’s only workshop as we offer writing with inspired author, Amy Ferris. Her workshop begins again online, on Noviembre 18, for four weeks, our last course of 2025.
Also, do you recall my friend, Ashana? You very likely know her voice and her spectacular gift of music. She is a “global innovator in sound healing and the most listened-to crystal singing bowl artist on the planet. With over 120 million streams and counting, Ashana’s angelic voice and expressive multi-instrumental mastery have established an entirely new genre of music, inspiring profound healing, wellbeing, and spiritual awakening for millions globally. As a pioneer in the international sound healing movement, Ashana is widely recognized for introducing alchemy crystal singing bowls to humanity—not only as instruments that produce beautiful sounds and uplifting music—but also, and more importantly, as sacred tools for profound transformation.” More, she has a NEW ALBUM coming out, but in these times, it needs your support to complete it. Please join me in adding to her Kickstarter campaign to receive your own copy of her album and more. She is also currently giving daily meditations on Facebook. Find her on @ashanakawainui Click for more info on how to support her sound healing magnificence
Also, if you wish a little armchair traveling, this month’s OptiMYz Women’s Health and Wellness magazine has published both Violet’s and my articles. Travel to Budapest with me, and the South of France with Violet.
I am sending you ever-flowing hugs now and always.
Thank you for being here. Stay in love.
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