"Sue-Claire and Zoe are engaged in pioneering work to bring arts and environment together. I am a great admirer of their educational programme. They have a great vision to serve the Earth through arts, their commitment, their dedication and hard work are truly inspiring." By Satish Kumar Founder and Chief Editor of Resurgence & Ecology Magazine Satish is a leading figure in environmental issues, giving talks globally and locally, based at The Schumacher College, Devon.
Sue Claire Morris is a highly intuitive and deeply expressive artist and educator. She brings dance in to the realm of wisdom that awakens us to remember our connection to the primeval world,of the elements,the forces that move through us and that structure embodied form on the earth. Her commitment to creative expression and to her expanding relationship with all beings led her to travel and to work with me in Canada. I had the opportunity to take her to sites of significant energy and history in Nova Scotia that could support her intention to enlarge her inner landscape and to be open to the energies of Turtle Island. She has intergrated this journey in order to weave the roots of her birth and her childhood with her present connection to Devon and its ancient beginnings. As a daughter of the Earth and a Mother of community, she has gathered and woven her gifts effectivly with others. Extensive work with the Labyrinth at Seaton, some of which was part of a long distance course that I designed for students in alignment with Mandala Dance Project training, has given her room to remember and express the Universal principles of the Mandala inherent in everyone of us . I see the results of her work-I feel she has mastered a new level of connection and expression. She makes her dance look effortless, a result of many years of intention and experience .
Zoe Hudson comes to dance with memorable freshness and openess. The purity of her intention carries her to the unknown, with surrender to her inner artist, which is the heart of creativity. She travelled with me in Ireland to its ancient centre, the Hill of Uisneach:there, at the navel of the Irish world, an acknowledgement of Zoe's path and her beauty of being was articulated by the response of both the visible and invisible realms:the birds, weather and guardian spirits were in cooperation connection with us.
The form that this kind of connection takes for Zoe in the world is an ability to be in touch with that kind of deep communication on the inner and to express it on the outer with movement, sound/dance and poetry. Witnesses and recipients get to see creation happen spontaneously and organically as she dances and speaks the light, that "glue"of the universe that comes from the ground of all being. When Zoe communicates with us, she reminds us that we are all one. Zoe was in my long distance course for advanced students, The Mandala Dance Project, and chose to practice part of that at the Seaton Labyrinth. That decision served to ground the inner mandala principle in practice, at a very powerful site. Her love and relationship with the land have led her to create proffesional services to benefit both people and landscape. My own experience of her dance and poetry is that in harmony with her vision of service and with the dream of peace on Earth. I have enjoyed being one of the midwives to Zoe's intentions and assisting in facilitating her contribution to the well being of others.
By Nancy Dancing Light Sherwood Educator and founder of Travellersjoy.ca and Moving Mandala. Written August 2009.
'The Healing Power of The Labyrinth' was a remarkable journey. Through the support and compassionate facilitators, I was safely immersed in my own journey of cleansing and renewal. Being provided the opportunity to reconnect with my authentic self, I was then able to reconnect with the world around me and to enhance my relationship between the living planet and my living self. This has opened new path ways to a rich and vibrant future. By Geoffery Unkovich Dance Movement Psychotherapist.
