Jo Carson's Blog (4)

The thing that's occupying my mind now is a conversation with an older friend who is severely ill in a hospital. We agreed that it would be ideal if what is really going is that when one dies, one is able to join into the larger consciousness of all that is, without losing awareness of the individuality of each being - including one's own. This ties into a visionary experience I once had of "the laughter of the gods", which occurred briefly one night in my mid-twenties, when I should have been s… Continue

It was great - the show sold out a week ahead, and the crowd was enthusiastic. People stayed for a question and answer period with the filmmaker and several of the speakers from the film - Richard Feather Anderson, Cerridwen Fallingstar and Leila Castle. In the audience were many folks who worked on the film: music composer Martin Gregory, still photographer Cindy Pavlinac, belly dancer Irena Nickels, associate producers John Reed and Dr. Pete Livingston, graphic artist Scott Valentino, poetry r… Continue

Here is a great note I got from Ruth, the woman demonstrating aikido in "Dancing With Gaia".... Jo "I want to share an aikido story I think you'll appreciate. Three weeks ago I went to San Diego for a three day aikido seminar with Patrick Cassidy. It was an awesome seminar and the whole thing was done to music! I had an experience training there with one man that was in the realm of magic, both of us connecting so harmoniously, in sync with the music, and just glowing. I've never had such a… Continue

Here is the Press release that we just sent out to the local papers... "Dancing With Gaia" Could Shape Your World: How Labyrinths, Henges, Sacred Sex and Landscape Dancing Connect You With The Earth Fairfax filmmaker Jo Carson's new documentary Dancing With Gaia makes the connection between earth energy, sacred sexuality, and the earth seen as the Goddess, or "Gaia". It will premiere Sunday afternoon as part of the Fairfax Documentary Film Festival on April 5th at 2pm, at the Fairfax Theater.… Continue