Hilde Kaiser

This page is my space for sharing all of my professional interests, information about classes, and articles relevant to creativity and embodiment.

So it seems only apt to tell you about my writing teacher, Holly, who is offering a free 5-day mini writing challenge delivered to your email inbox. Whether you consider yourself a poet or not, give yourself the gift of writing a bit more in the dog days of August. "See" you there!

Poetry Mini Challenge With Poetry Forge Just in time  a FREE five-day daily writing challenge for poets, secret poets, & anyone else who wants to read and write more poemsYEEEEES! The FREE mini poetry challenge offers the opportunity for you to explore what it feels like to have an ally in your process; an approach to spark new wor...

My experience is that summer, especially, puts a lot of demands on mothers. Take heart. I am “in it” with you, and I am rooting for all of us. Fight for the time to keep doing what is meaningful to you ❤️

A woman's greatest enemy? A lack of time to themselves | Brigid Schulte If what it takes to create are long stretches of time alone, that’s something women have never had the luxury to expect

This excerpt from Andrew Solomon's book on depression, The Noonday Demon, hit me like a lightning bolt when I first read it. It changed the trajectory of the types of therapists, teachers, and communities I sought to find and build!

The Rwandan prescription for Depression: Sun, drum, dance, community. “We had a lot of trouble with western mental health workers who came here immediately after the genocide and we had to ask some of them to leave. They came and their practice... From The Moth podcast, Notes on an Exorcism.

I am ready for Day 1 of Greenbelt training!

PSA offered with love!

Its our right. Toxic systems have scammed us all. Rest is not something you need to earn. It is our right as divine human beings.

There are things we used to do
That we forgot we used to do

This is me at age 4. Like many little girls, I used to take all kinds of dance classes - ballet, jazz and tap - at Bonnie Siscoe School of Dance.

In Middle School, dance parties were alive and well, and my classmates and I rocked out to every genre from the Beastie Boys to Yaz, Erasure, Depeche Mode, and Duran Duran.

In college, I went out dancing once a week at "Sundance" -- the club attached to the Hilton Hotel in our small college town. I also went to hear live music shows (an excuse to dance) at least once a week at Annam Teahouse.

In my twenties I took dance classes early in my relationship with Bill - the foxtrot for our wedding, followed by a year or two of tango. We never made it to salsa lessons, even though it is still something I'd love to do!

In my thirties, I took bellydance for a few years with two friends at The Old Town School of Folk Music, followed by about a year of classes at Jasmin Jahal School of Bellydance, all the way up until I gave birth to Karl at 10 months pregnant. Oh my goodness, bellydance is awesome for the pregnant and birthing body.

In my forties, I discovered at my local gym, after trying Zumba, Yoga, and other workouts. I have tried a few African Dance as well as Bollywood dance classes, but I love Nia the most because, as a sustainable movement system by design, it doesn't hurt my body to do it. This summer, by my count, I'll be taking my 7th and 8th Nia trainings!

I never considered myself a dancer because I was "never one of those girls" on dance teams, obsessed with dance, particularly thin, particularly graceful, or particularly "talented."

I just want you to know, dance belongs to everybody, to every culture. You probably have a dance story if you think about it. I'd love to hear it!

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