Ritual and symbolism are part of all our lives, whether we notice them or not. They shape how we mark beginnings and endings, process change, and create meaning. When we consciously engage with the symbolic and metaphorical dimensions of our inner world, something powerful happens: we activate a deeply human capacity for ritual, ceremony, and transformation; both within ourselves and in the world around us.
At its core, this capacity is embodied. Meaning is not something we only think our way into; it is something we feel, enact, and live through the body. Through gesture, rhythm, movement, and repetition, ritual allows...
Biography
Susannah Darling Khan is Co-Director of The School of Movement Medicine alongside husband Yaacov Darling Khan and co-author of Movement Medicine published by Hay House. Having taught movement as medicine internationally since 1989, Susannah is celebrated for her visionary weaving of scientific, psychotherapeutic and systemic/ecological paradigms and for creating a safe context for people to let go within and discover healing and transformation.
Passionate about being a life-long learner, Susannah counts some of her most powerful learning in relation to our sympathetic and para-sympathetic nervous systems as having stemmed from working with her four wild born Exmoor ponies or 'mirror masters' as she describes them, who live on the land she tends together with Yaacov.
Susannah's own deeply embodied knowledge of the creativity inherent in us all gives courage to her participants to dare to liberate themselves from fixed patterns, to explore, learn, experiment, evolving embodied awareness and the choicefulness which comes from it. She has worked as a consultant for the acclaimed King's Fund to bring movement medicine into the leadership awareness of some of the NHS' most senior female leaders.
It is my privilege to empower people and organisations to discover embodied being, enabling them to plug back into the joy stream of life. Through growing the capacity for presence, potency and partnership people discover new avenues for co-creation with each other and with life. - Susannah Darling Khan
Susannah Darling Khan
DARTINGTON, DEVON, GB
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Last weekend I was teaching a new workshop called Wild Honey in Aarau, Switzerland. This workshop focuses on the relationship between Yin and Yang and the inner marriage of these opposites, but also on what happens when we are able to play with innocence, trust and respect with Yin and Yang in dancing relationship with others.
As I travelled to the workshop, heartbroken for all those in Gaza suffering with famine and devastating loss, and those in Israel suffering so deeply too, I was questioning the crazy juxtaposition of the refined and privileged work I was about to offer with...