Connecting to the Earth whilst contributing to Her destruction

Yesterday I flew to Portugal for the first leg of my European tour. 

I can’t wait to take Movement Medicine and Ecstatic Dance on the road. But I’m conflicted...

Even before the pandemic I was trying to travel less, take fewer flights, offer my work more online. Then I saw the effect of Covid on our planet - the birds sang more brightly, the beaches were cleaner, the sea sparkled. And I wanted to do more to honour and protect that. Still do.

But I want to take the dance to new communities too.

Our world has opened up like never before. My experiences abroad have opened my mind and my heart to different people, places and ways of being. I am grateful I can be part of such richness of life. I am alive at these times of travel. I am young enough, free enough and solvent enough to take advantage of it. And I know I am better for it.

And yet I also feel a longing for a simpler way of life. To tend the land, to respect the planet, to look outside of myself (as well as inside of myself), to take more care.

How can my work be about connecting to the Earth when I contribute to its destruction? How can I travel and reduce my impact?

I don’t have any answers. Except maybe a continuing enquiry and bringing more consciousness to what I’m doing and why I’m doing it.

And just wondering, if anyone else can relate?