This year, we moved.
We moved for peace in the Middle East
We moved for Right Relationship with our Planet
We moved for Unity in the United States and Europe
As we moved through each portal, those moving with us felt deeply in their bodies the energies of the systems we were praying for: the emotions, the archetypal experiences, and their resolution.
We felt our hearts open to the grief of loss and the possibility of renewal. We felt fighting and tense, torn, wretched desire for a reunion and its tearful homecoming. We felt illness, incapacitation, and the liberation of being taken down to our knees to find our feet once again.
Here are some portals we ran and some frames of experience from each:
Portal: Planet Earth // We hosted a multi-day working session with movement practitioners in Santa Fe. We experienced moments of deep stillness, connection with the land, and wild torment as we tended to parts of the earth that were dying.
Portal: Peace in the Middle East // We held an intimate portal at Bridge Healing Arts Center. We moved through death, reluctant hands across aisles, all while tears were shed as divine motherly love flowed to the region.
Portal: Unity in the United States // We held a portal praying for unity just before the 2024 election. We felt poison in our bodies, we moved through rage, embodied strained reunion, and felt everything from liberty to confusion, to collapse.
A Word of Gratitude
At the heart of portals is a deep concept. Through our bodies, we can step into any system. And on behalf of that system, we can feel, process, and move through and bring healing to aspects of that system and ourselves.
This is not easy work, and it is not pretend theater. We have actually been transmuting these energies on behalf of our world. I am so grateful to all those who participated in this work this year for lending your bodies and spirits to shift the collective. And I am so grateful to those patrons who made this work possible. 🙏
But to that end… we need more people, bodies, intentions, and energies… we need more portals to create the reality we want to see 💙
Presenting, Portals Dance Company
This year taught us that we need trained bodies and nervous systems to handle this work. So we will be focusing on developing a dance company and body of movement practitioners able to handle the systems we intend to change.
The work of the company will be to:
Train movement practitioners to run energy + process collective system through shared movement
Transmit and create participatory spaces + rituals that invite larger and larger numbers of people to participate in collective intention and prayer for our world
Develop classes and training workshops that cultivate the capacity for anyone to move and channel this work for the systems they care about
Driving Change in Complex Systems Through Embodied Experience
In 2025, we will bring Portals to stakeholders driving change. By dropping from the intellectual knowledge of the mind into the somatic knowledge in our bodies, we move away from existing beliefs, allowing archetypal aspects of the systems they’re working in to express change.
Through participatory facilitation, we will bring transformative presence to what we hold in relationship to these systems to shift them through movement, expressive ritual, dialogue, and reflection that allows for the possibility of new resolutions, perspectives, and ways forward.
We look forward to connecting with interested partners to develop and apply this work including:
Social and Environmental change organizations looking to facilitate meaningful connection among stakeholders
Foundations and Funds looking to understand how to more effectively invest for systemic change
Communities looking for a way to heal and effectively drive change
If you work in social impact, I would love to share more about our process ❤️
Announcing our nonprofit partner, Dconstruction Arts, and our Close of Year Campaign
To do all of this work, we are looking to raise $10,000.
100% of these donations will go to paying our movement practitioners/dancers so your donation goes directly to supporting artists dedicated to changing our world.
(All operational costs will be covered by myself and other funding partners)
We are so happy and proud to be partnering with Dconstruction Arts as our nonprofit partner, making all donations 100% tax-deductible this season.
This holiday, I invite you to make a gift of $100, $400, $1,000, or more to support this invaluable work and to bring the possibility for movement and enlightened energy as collective prayer to the world.
Other ways to support
In these times, it takes all of us. Some of us can lend our bodies. Some us are versed at channeling. Some of us can lend the gift of financial capital. And some of us can lend other forms of capital as well - social, creative, or otherwise.
We welcome it all to shift the energies of our reality, together.
If this moves you, we’d love to find a time to talk
Thank you so much for your support of this work. Whether you moved with us, offered your patronage through Substack, or just rooted us on from afar, I am beyond grateful and hopeful that our work together can continue to do our part in moving our world. ✨🌎
Thank you. I hope to hear from you and keep evolving with you in the days, months, and years ahead.
With so much love,
Rei ✨
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