From a full heart! Warm greetings from beautiful Totnes, UK and the river Dart ~ The seal and the heron are here, flowers have exploded in Eros beauty and all trees are now with a 1000 greens... 
This is a well overdue Newsletter!  
https://mailchi.mp/f3db1b…/the-initiatory-dance-of-rebellion 

I don't know about you but it has been incredibly EPIC in my life and the ones around me since the start of last November ...#extinctionrebellion #strike4climate #culturedeclaresemergency #deepadaptation #earthprotectors   ...

SOULand has been engaged in the above adding threads to its active prayer:  Making the World of our Longing in small and steady ways

Below are some these  moments with links.

And few INVITATIONs to JOIN SOULand Programme
more details as youscroll down:
~ WOMEN INITIATION~ A yearlong Ensouling and Creative journey
~ GRIEF and SOUL APPRENTICESHIP~ A year long for men and women
~eARThONLINE SHOP~ Open
~ Earth Temples in Cities~ London first?
~ SOULand Grief Apprenticeship enFrancewith Pablo Servigne and Nans Thomassey

~ London Water Pilgrimagelaunches XR Actions on 15th April  

~ Extinction Rebellion April's Actions in London. Our Totnes community had a strong and wonderful presence on Waterloo Bridge that we occupied and transformed into a Garden Bridge for 7 days and nights.
The Black Tent was there as an Earth Temple for rest and mend our broken relationship to our Living World. It was a deeply transformational experience. We are now gathering the learning and soon will be preparing for the next Actions...

~ POLLY HIGGINS ~ R.I.P
When our dear Polly died on 21st April I fell on Waterloo Bridge while the police made a mass arrest and rebels sang love songs, Greta spoke at Marble Arch that day and it was Earth Day ~  The next day I felt moved to create a ritual of 40 days of mourning and Ancestralisingvigil for Polly Higgins~  Ways of honouring our dead ~ to accompany the ones we love to the shore of their ancestors. This will be made into a little book for her hubby Ian and team. Here is Day 27 of (40). If you want one booklet emailme with a bit about you and Polly  :[email protected]  

~ Culture Declares Emergency~
Arts and Culture organisations and individuals declare a Climate and Ecological Emergency
SOULand has declared Emergency and so have I as an Individual! 

Deep Adaptation proposed by Jem Bendell~ Learning each day about the 4 R's after our gathering last December with Jem and 35 others rebels. 
~ Resilience ~ Relinquishment ~ Restoration ~ Reconciliation
Who best but the bees to know these 4 R's ~ My latest flag of the Dark Matter and Anima Mundi Series: The Bees... They have been here for 120 million years... 


SOULand Programme and projects 
~ GRIEF and SOUL APPRENTICESHIP~ A year long for men and women in 2019 and 2020

~ Women Initiation~ A Yearlong EnSouling and Creative journey in 2020

~ Earth Temples in Cities~ wild and wonderful  dreams
To create one on the edges of Waterloo Bridge, near the River Isis/Thames where the IMAX cinema is at the moment. Working group happening in Totnes twice a month. 


EVENTSand PROGRAMME
the next few months
SOULand at FESTIVALS
19th to 21st July Hawkwood College, UK ~  Seeds Festival in Stroud
I will bring my eARTh, theEarth Temple in the CityVision, a Grief Composting  Ritualand a Water blessing ceremony 
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8th to 12th August, near Frome, UK~ WomanFest UK 
I will be there with the Black Tent and part of SOULand Programme
AZUL eARTh
New eARTh pieces: " Dark Matter and Anima Mundi"  and "Archetypal Daimons" now available to purchase as Cards, Print and Giclé on canvas. A Little Shop is now OPEN
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SOULand dans la Drome en FRANCE
~ SOULand Grief Apprenticeship enFrancewith Pablo Servigne and Nans Thomassey

15 Juin a Die~ Azul Valerie Thome en Conference avecPablo Servigneet Nans Thomassey
16 Juin pres de Die~ Azul Valerie Thome offreun Cercle de compostagede Deuil 
12 au15 Decembre 2019 pres de Die~ AprentisSAGE de l'Ame et du Deuil arrive enFrance 
Plusd'infos:[email protected]
ALSO...

an ONLINE Grief and Homecoming for XR
​a Grief Composting for the Rebellionin Totnes, UK ~  26th June
a Water Ceremony will happen in Oxford on 14th July by Isis River.
a WomBelt :Weaving Women back into Matter, Totnes, UK ~ 3rd August

A bientot dear all and stay connected in these troubled and extraordinary times...

Rest in Peace and in Love dear Polly xx
with Love,
Azul Valerie Thome
www.souland.org ​