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Embodiment will mean different things to different people, based on their own experiences of being in a body. Which means we all get to explore what embodiment means for ourselves, honouring our [...]

Dawn. The last morning wild camping alone, high up on a hill in North Devon. In the distance, a howl. Perhaps a dog. More mouths howling. Wolves. Wolves, here? The pack yowled louder. Followed by [...]

A Creative Response to Quarantine from Valise Noire Storytelling Theatre In this fourth video in our series, we played with form, words and movement. In the first lockdown of 2020, everything was [...]

Things We Broke During Lockdown: #3 Two Metres/Broken Open A Creative Response to Quarantine from Valise Noire Storytelling Theatre In this third video in our series, our work takes on a more [...]

Things We Broke During Lockdown: #2 Zoom – Broken Communication A Creative Response to Quarantine from Valise Noire Storytelling Theatre In these times of change and challenge, we know art [...]

There is so much space within the ground of being, the joy of being, for all feelings. In this year of the unexpected, of loss and separation and the gaining of new insights and gifts, [...]

Earlier this year, Valise Noire Storytelling Theatre asked for details of the things you broke during lockdown. We heard from those who smashed and trashed objects, those who broke bones and [...]

I was not in the mood for funk music. I wanted to shut down. To busy myself with distraction. To avoid. I could feel the mental and emotional fug lowering like a cloak of clouds and my nervous [...]

Sometimes we all need a little space, a little time, for integration. Life moves through us as we grow and evolve. Our unfolding happens in its own unique way and time. Life can feel full, rich [...]

Be kind to your mind. Be kind to all the pieces of you that make up your wholeness. Be kind the parts of yourself that you might turn away from or not know how to be with. Let breath and silence [...]