International Women’s Day 2020
How can we honor International Women's Day with the Afghani women? I can say to the Bosnian, Serb, Croat women, ‘Ma sretna ti zena’, as well as to the Eastern European women. How can we honor International Women's Day to the Syrian, Iranian, Turkish, Arab and African women that [...read more]
The Kolo: WCCC Trauma Care and Healing
The Kolo: WCCC cultivates capacities to employ those individual, survivors, organizations, and professionals on front-lines of trauma, including children and adults to become responders and healers of themselves and to others. Our work includes fieldwork trauma trainings, social collective building, research and conferences. Our programs evolve the response to [...read more]
Thaumaturgy
The Kolo, the Slavic folk round dance and to be in a circle is light manifesting. Note the oak tree and burning of oak- Badjnak in Serbo-Croatian. Oak Tree ─ Slavic Secret Language in harmony with Mother Nature. Powered oak bark mixed with honey heals menstrual problems. A blend [...read more]
The Yard – Memory
Research from mathematic scientist Alexander Thom’s finding of the “Megalithic Yard” form of measurement can be added to the plethora of South Slavic memory practices, the round dances (kolos), with its ethnochoreological implications of beat and rhythm movements. Thom’s study of Megalithic stone circles as observatories and astronomical [...read more]
Oral Memory Traditions- Mega Library of Memory
The explicit distinguishing of social memory or oral memory traditions of the South Slavs are actualized in a multiplicity (plastic property) of social collective communal events not separated from their love of the Moist Mother Earth. Their female bodies represented in the archeological zoomorphic Bird, Snake and Bear Goddesses [...read more]
Shoulder to Shoulder: The Poly Vagal Nervous System
The Poly Vagal nervous system is found in the trunk of bodies, U-shaped with branches. The Kolo (circle or folk round dance) has this tacit knowledge of how the ventral nerve branch is about equilibrium, peace and true safety found in social engagement and collectives. According to Porges, he [...read more]