Sarah works in collaboration with women, and other artists to co-create sacred ceremonies and ritual. Her work often focuses on creating mytho- poetic and embodied stories of women’s rites of passage. She seeks to deepen peoples relationships with their own bodies and the earth body. Movement, story and drumming are woven into the spaces, and participants are encouraged to create personal and shared rituals and performance.
Seasonal Ritual And Dance
To honour the seasonal moments- the dynamic spiraling of the earth & moon around the sun, Sarah offers ritual and Dance. We explore our embodied wisdom, following the impulses of our moving bodies, and the currents alive in the earth. Currently these sessions are all via zoom.. Through the ritual and dance you will be offered ways to deepen your connection to the earth body, and your own sacred body.
This is a safe and sacred space to explore and awaken “quiet wild” feminine in you. There are no steps to learn, rather we follow the delights, longings and knowing of our bodies, and the seasonal energy . Together we co create a seasonal altar, and offer our gifts to the moment. Music, poetry and the innate cyclical rhythms are used to inspire and as points of departure. Join us via Zoom! Bookings via the Shop
Shoreline Vigil for Westernport
The Shoreline Vigil for Westernport Bay, Warn Marrin was a deeply personal ritual. This is the site of sarah’s childhood home, where her wonder, curiosity and love of the natural world was born. The ritual was a local community event created in response to the devastating proposal by AGL to create a gas import terminal, a 290-metre long floating gas terminal, and all the shipping and infrastructure associated with it. The proposed project will be disastrous for this unique and internationally recognized wetlands, for the 630 animals that call the bay home which include critically endangered species such as the Orange Bellied Parrot and the Eastern Curlew. It will contribute to global warming and thus further the devastation of our natural world. This project is and has been fiercely opposed by the local community for more than two years.
Many hundreds of people gathered along the shoreline, together but apart, standing for Westernport. Specifically the Shoreline Vigil for Westernport Bay was designed as an opportunity for locals to:
- Show your love of Westernport Bay
- Show you stand for and will protect Westernport Bay
- Listen to the living waters of Warn Marring, in quiet contemplation, in the spirit of Nyernila (to listen continuously, or deep listening)
- Demonstrate to AGL and the Premier of Victoria that this Bay is too precious to lose.
A Simple Plan for our Shoreline Vigil
The community was invited to show up on their most loved Westernport – Warn marring shoreline at 4 pm and stay until sunset. The format for the vigil was about connecting to Ancestors- the traditional custodians, the BoonWurrung, and peoples own ancestors. It was a way to connect to the place, to be in silent contemplation (Nyernila) of this place, this Country. Participants were invited to send their love in whatever way feel true for them, singing, drumming, standing, or in silence. A simple powerful offering and a commitment to stand for the War marrin, for Westernport Bay.
And show up they did. The response to the event was beautiful. The Insta posts keep rolling in showing how much love and connection people have to and for Westernport Bay, warn marrin. This campaign is important as it nourishes the activists who can get disheartened by the powers that be. And gathering on the beach we knew we had a more significant power on our side. A huge rainbow arced from Phillip Island across to Crib point, reflecting the love and light from and to this beautiful place. She is with us and we with her.
Ritual Spaces
Sarah loves helping people foster a deep connection to their own living loving bodies, to the mystery and wonder of the universe within. She offers dance, ceremony and ritual as ways into the body, and into the earth.
Women and the Drum
Sarah has a passion for returning women to the drum. The frame drum is a pan cultural instrument, sacred to ancient women and used in ceremony and ritual. Sarah weaves the drum into many of her sacred rituals today and in the making of frame drums.
Sarah acknowledged her teachers, Jane Hardewick Collings and Jane Elworthy for inspiring her to work with the drum. Layne Redmond, whose book When the Drummers Were Women shows how important this instrument has been to women through time.
Sarah’s passion for movement and dance is lifelong. She encourages all women to find their inner dance, to move with freedom and joy, and to honour the creative story telling inherent in their movements.
