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Why I am dancing against violence on V-Day …and what V-Day has to do with storytelling…

The ‘One Billion Rising’ movement was initiated by Eve Ensler, author of the ‘Vagina Monologues’.The scale of the movement is breathtaking and exciting: currently 187 countries have signed up to join in. Authors, politicians, filmmakers and celebrities have recorded You Tubes about why they will ‘strike, dance, rise’ on Feb 14. The one billion rising orgContinue Reading

Written on February 5, 2013 at 1:21 pm, by storytree

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Categories: Stories of the feminine, Storytelling, Women's rights
Tags: 50 million missing, Baba Yaga, Baba Yaga and Vasalissa, break the chain, femicide, inanna, initiation, intuition, male feminists, myth, one billion rising, stories of the feminine, story, storytelling, uprising of Arab woman, V-Day, Vasalissa, violence against women

Brave Vasalissa and her wise doll

The folk tale ‘Brave Vasalissa and Baba Yaga’ is an ancient female initiation story (see previous post). Last Saturday I had the pleasure of leading a workshop for a group of women in which we explored this rich tale and made a doll as a talisman of the story. Some of the women knew eachContinue Reading

Written on December 12, 2010 at 11:19 pm, by storytree

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Tags: Baba Yaga, Cindarella, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, doll-making, Eastern European, Grimm's, intuition, Jung, Russian folktales, Vasalissa, witch, workshop