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Events

Wed, Oct 8

WEEKLY: DANCE, PRAYER & TEA TIME

6pm

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9pm

Love Offering: $20 - 40 Venmo: @alivingtemple or cash next to front door

Event Details

Wed, Oct 8

WEEKLY: DANCE, PRAYER & TEA TIME

6:00pm: Doors Open & Gather / Settle In

6:30pm: Dance & Prayers

7:45pm: Circle & Tea Share


Please join us for an evening of dance, prayer and d...

Event Details

6pm

-

9pm

Love Offering: $20 - 40 Venmo: @alivingtemple or cash next to front door

Tue, Oct 14

FULLY AWAKE DOC FILM SCREENING

6:30pm

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9pm

SPECIAL LOCATION: Drummond Studio Gallery, 12 Line Street, Donations Appreciated!

Event Details

Tue, Oct 14

FULLY AWAKE DOC FILM SCREENING

WHAT: Fully Awake – Documentary Film Screening about Legendary Black Mountain College


WHEN: Tuesday, Oct 14 @ 6:30pm 


WHERE: Drummond Studio G...

Event Details

6:30pm

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9pm

SPECIAL LOCATION: Drummond Studio Gallery, 12 Line Street, Donations Appreciated!

Wed, Oct 15

WEEKLY: DANCE, PRAYER & TEA TIME

6pm

-

9pm

Love Offering: $20 - 40 Venmo: @alivingtemple or cash next to front door

Event Details

Wed, Oct 15

WEEKLY: DANCE, PRAYER & TEA TIME

6:00pm: Doors Open & Gather / Settle In

6:30pm: Dance & Prayers

7:45pm: Circle & Tea Share


Join us for an evening of dance, prayer and deepenin...

Event Details

6pm

-

9pm

Love Offering: $20 - 40 Venmo: @alivingtemple or cash next to front door

Wed, Oct 22

WEEKLY: DANCE, PRAYER & TEA TIME

6pm

-

9pm

Love Offering: $20 - 40 Venmo: @alivingtemple or cash next to front door

Event Details

Wed, Oct 22

WEEKLY: DANCE, PRAYER & TEA TIME

6:00pm: Doors Open & Gather / Settle In

6:30pm: Dance & Prayers

7:45pm: Circle & Tea Share


THERE WILL BE A SUBSTITUTE LEADER FOR THIS EVENING. ...

Event Details

6pm

-

9pm

Love Offering: $20 - 40 Venmo: @alivingtemple or cash next to front door

Sat, Dec 20

WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION

6pm

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11pm

Tix: $30 or 2 for $50 Venmo: @alivingtemple or cash next to front door

Event Details

Sat, Dec 20

WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION

SAVE THE DATE! A Living Temple will host our annual SOLSTICE celebration at our Temple. Potluck, dancing, and a special fire circle. Please ...

Event Details

6pm

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11pm

Tix: $30 or 2 for $50 Venmo: @alivingtemple or cash next to front door

WE HAVE COME TO BE DANCED.

We have come to be danced
Not the pretty dance
Not the pretty pretty, pick me, pick me dance
But the claw our way back into the belly
Of the sacred, sensual animal dance
The unhinged, unplugged, cat is out of its box dance
The holding the precious moment in the palms
Of our hands and feet dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the jiffy booby, shake your booty for him dance
But the wring the sadness from our skin dance
The blow the chip off our shoulder dance.
The slap the apology from our posture dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the monkey see, monkey do dance
One two dance like you
One two three, dance like me dance
but the grave robber, tomb stalker
Tearing scabs and scars open dance
The rub the rhythm raw against our soul dance.
We have come to be danced
Not the nice, invisible, self-conscious shuffle
But the matted hair flying, voodoo mama
Shaman shakin’ ancient bones dance
The strip us from our casings, return our wings
Sharpen our claws and tongues dance
The shed dead cells and slip into
The luminous skin of love dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the hold our breath and wallow in the shallow end of the floor dance
But the meeting of the trinity, the body breath and beat dance
The shout hallelujah from the top of our thighs dance
The mother may I?
Yes you may take 10 giant leaps dance
The olly olly oxen free free free dance
The everyone can come to our heaven dance.

We have come to be danced
Where the kingdom’s collide
In the cathedral of flesh
To burn back into the light
To unravel, to play, to fly, to pray
To root in skin sanctuary
We have come to be danced

WE HAVE COME.


BY JEWEL MATHIESON


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