Life is a work in progress right now! Keep Dancing! Make sure and subscribe and follow along on social media for all the latest news and updates. Our storage container of over 2 years, with all our things will be getting moved to a new home any time soon. Do we know where that is? No idea. Am I, Carol, anywhere near our storage container? No, I am down in Dorset in England. If you follow along with the dances, you will know why. If not, I have been down here getting some rest-bite from my role as full time carer of Gemma. It has been a tough time with her diabetes management over the last couple of years. Anyway, we will eventually vlog about what has been going on, meanwhile, enjoy the updates as they come and watch this space!
1300 Days of DANCE 365 with the WCT!
July 23rd 2018 marks 1300 Days of consecutive Dances with the Wee Clan Torrance. Another 100 days! This dance we did a little something special, and we hope you enjoy. Should anyone wish to upload themselves dancing along, that would be great! We would love to see that. Use the tag #UptownFunkWCT and let us know. We might feature you on our channel!
We posted a Facebook LIVE video on and about DAY 1300!
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DANCE 1111! We Are Number One! DANCE EVERY DAY!
Celebrating 1111 Days of Dance 365! An auspicious day to be a super villain! We Are Number One. Come on in and Dance Along & Raise The Energy with the Wee Clan today!
Vlogmas CONFESSIONS!
Join us for a Special Confession on Vlogmas DAY 2! With Gemma and Bodhi away, we took the opportunity to let you know what has been going on behind the scenes for the last two and a half years. Growing stronger everyday!
1000 days of Dance with the Wee Clan Torrance
A wee while ago I blogged about my reasons for dancing every day. It's 1000 days, with a practice like dancing that I wilfully into my day that's a step-in challenge, I need reasons. Maybe you can relate to some degree.
On the morning of day 1000 I figured it would be a fair idea to turn on the camera and explore what the past thousand days has offered me, a reflection. If I were to have tried writing a blog it most likely wouldn't have been as clean - plus here's a chance to witness some of my top moves ;)
Why I dance everyday - Bruce
I get up, or more often come home from work and dance every day. As I write this we have completed 971 days, beginning the adventure on 1st January 2015. If you watch the videos you'll see my style has changed little yet the energy to move is there every day. Before January 2015 I had learned some Ceilidh dances at school for various events, and enough to get me through a wedding or two. As a kid my parents would put on old school rock n roll and dance with me - I credit all my footwork to those moments. That was it. I've had no training, but I have listened to music all my life, and, much like singing, I've had many secretive wee moments to myself pretending I can dance. I won't go as far as to say who I've tried to emulate.
Days before the bells chimed in the start of 2015 Carol asked me how I felt about dancing every day for a year, recording the dance and putting each one on YouTube. I had nothing. I couldn't think of one reasonable excuse for not doing it. I tried. Nothing actually got as far as an utterance, much less a dialogue. I found myself agreeing and the rest is documented online.
Why do I do it?
I turn up every day
Outside of acute enough illness or being away on business or retreat I have danced every day, even while Gemma was in ICU or straight after an 8 hour car drive to Maidenhead at 11 o'clock at night; it’s about engaging with the moment, the call, and being present in the dancing space. You can’t be there and not take part - some people do sit out of shot.
- It's about time together
There's always 5 minutes in every day that we come together as a family or larger group of friends and share in the energy of a dance. Don't get me wrong, there have been days that it's been chaos seconds before the camera switches on, or has descended quickly there moments after the camera has stopped. We are there, together, and in that moment that’s what counts. On days I’ve danced alone it's been the commitment to continuity and keeping the ticker turning. I also dance to something a little more niche.
- Makes me smile and happier
I think there have been a handful of times that I’ve been in pain or ill during a dance and I’ve come away from it looking un-smiley, inside though I am so glad I danced and that always makes me feel better.
My body loosens up
Some days dancing is a good opportunity to shake out stiffness, tension and physical (as well as emotional) resistance, loosen and enliven the muscles and nervous system, engage the pre-frontal cortex in a completely different activity. I very often feel more invigorated and refreshed. There are times my legs have been jelly from dancing and moving as hard as I can, the blood is pumping around my body and there's a surge of freshness throughout my body. It's great! Especially in the morning, an upbeat track and a few minutes of dance/movement moves the energy and the life around my body. A morning dance makes a difference to the energy I take into my day and ultimately it’s very refreshing. There's other days, more than I'd admit, when I watch my dance and think "Urgh! dad dancing!"
- I've overcome barriers
It was at the end of 2011 that I overcame my unwillingness to dance in a club or at an event without first having consumed alcohol. Carol and I went to a conscious club event and I danced for what felt like hours - sober - surrounded by sober, conscious dancing strangers - a good number with whom I since became friends. It was so much fun! Dancing everyday to a camera brought up the barrier to being seen, by almost anyone... open to whatever opinion they have. I used to care more about that than I do now. The quality of my dancing has improved very little, but the only way to dance everyday is to be there every day. I have still not fully appreciated the achievement of dancing for over 2 years to the camera, and for your viewing pleasure :)
I've discovered new music
I have danced to a lot of familiar tracks and a good number that I heard for the first time as I was dancing to them. If I ever thought I could only dance to certain music or artists… there are at least two Glee tracks.
I'm not sure that this list is exhausted but it covers the main bases. Something I recognised more keenly after 970 days is that this very essence is what I want to share with my tribe and wider community; the ease to move, flow, shimmy, sass, and really not hold back. The ease in my mind and body, that both are relaxed, neither demonstrating a sense of self-consciousness (the way that prevents good things from happening).
At the end of September we reach the 1000 day mark and we are in discussion about what happens next. We'll be 9 months through the year, do we finish 3 full years? Do we stop or are we the daily dancing clan for evermore. There is so much that I have learned from this project and I look forward to bringing these learnings to what I offer to everyone I meet and share with.
I call to you to bring your dance out, in whatever way you can. It doesn't have to be recorded and put onto YouTube, although that action does help to overcome some deeply embedded blocks (for me). It's fun, everyone can find a way into the spirit of joy and sharing that dance, and ultimately we aren't dancing for anyone other than our own Self. How beautiful we do look in our dance, tuned to the music, free to express the sound through our bodies, and free of judgement and doubt. A moment of real pleasure and connection.
❤ Dance like no one is watching ❤
End of July 2017! End of Business!
Today is Sunday the 30th of July. It is 9:30am and everyone is still sleeping. We have been staying in Edinburgh for two weeks and we are leaving for our next destination in Fife today. I have started getting things ready to move along. 4 homes this month! Quite impressive.
As of Friday just past, Bruce and I no longer own Molly Maid Edinburgh. Bruce will continue to work with them until the end of August and from September, we will be Molly Maid free, for the first time in our 21 year journey together. Quite a momentous time in our lives! Did you know that Bruce picked me up for our first date in a Molly Maid car? It didn't end the way we hoped or planned, but it has definitely ended, and Bruce and I, like so many others, find ourselves starting again, with a fresh slate and two beautiful children.
My dream is my village. A community of healers and teachers. I see the community all around and I long to build the village and walk out my door each day to find myself in their company. To eat together and share the knowledge we are all carrying and holding. To expand the magic I can feel and help create more of this better world I dance for every day.
We have nothing and yet everything. I am rich and yet poor. I feel incredible joy but have met with despair many times on the path here. I am stronger than I have ever been, forged in the fires of my own personal hell, my shadow world and through staying present to greet each moment, eventually. This is my time, and it is so much more than that, it is our Time.
I have no doubt I will get my dream. It has been with me since I remember, in various guises, always the same feeling and outcome. Oneness. Harmony. Peace. Healing. Love. I will not shake this dream until the foundations are strong and the wheels are in motion.
And so to now, this moment. Creating a Better Reality through our intentions and dance. Day 942 of what has become an epic journey of stubborn perseverance and absolute commitment to the intention of manifesting this reality that I see in the dream world. I was certainly not strong enough when we started this project, I had lost my voice and was unable to take the rejection or loss of my dream being tangible. The last 941 days have stripped me bare of everything I had, hoped, expected, desired and forced my complete surrender to the joy of each moment of now. It is a whole different way of being than before. I have my voice now. There is nothing left to be taken that hasn't been challenged and been let go. There is me and my dream, my love, my happiness and my absolute knowing that I am exactly where I am meant to be and always have been. I am looked after and supported in ways I could not perceive before, until I jumped from the cliff at the end of the line and held my arms out to fly and found wings. Not before scuffing myself along the ground I may add, and in truth we are still there, bumping along but I have my wings and feel them and I can sense we are started the ascent to soar. This is definitely the most exciting part of living so far. Building on my 40 years and having no fear of failure of losing anything. Knowing I have so much.
I may have things I want to do, like taking my kids to Disneyland, owning my own home, travelling Scotland and the world, but what is yearning in me is to build my village and apart from that, I am walking open handed to the sky, bare feet to the Earth and in awe of the magnificent cosmos present in our every molecule, existence and moment. The path used to be straight and now it is blind. Holding faith, or perhaps I should say, the faith holds me as I move forward each day in time.
Thank you for being present with us as we share this journey with you, unseeing and yet sensing and knowing. Dancing in faith every day, creating the dream, with you.
Time to move along, 10:10am. Seems like a great number!
Thank you for listening. I hope August 2017 brings us all closer to our dreams in wonderful ways.
Carol.
2nd July 2017! All Go! The Caravan of Tantric Love
As of the 14th of July 2017, the Wee Clan Torrance will be on the road! Destination unknown.
Life has taken us to this point where we will have no place to call home for a while. Anyone want to share a #dance365 with us, as we approach the #magic1000! :D Less than 100 days left! Now would be a great time to catch up and dance with everyone <3
We are calling it The Caravan of Tantric Love <3 A Wee Clan family journey of discovery, adventure and community. (Thank you Alasdair McHaggi)
We can share with you a #dance, a whole lot of Real Love, Energy and Passion for Creating A Better World. We can open a safe group, personal and family space for Deeper Connection to Self and Other. We are happy to cook and share meals with you. Bruce and I are vegetarian, the girls still eat some meat, we are fairly flexible and skilled in the kitchen. We are happy to Raise the Energy everywhere we go.
We would like to find a home in Edinburgh, one where we can host and hold transformational #wct space. We are not there yet and we are building the bridge between.
If you want to be part of this magical summer adventure, let us know :D
Free Family to Good, Kind, Loving and perhaps a Crazy home <3 Shorter and longer stays available. Does travel with medical kits and lots of insulin needles <3
Woooeeee! Let's do this _/\_ <3
1st of June 2017! BIG NEWS!
Hello and welcome to our Website! We are developing it all the time as our world expands and grows.
Right now we are very much looking forward to hosting Monique Darling and Peter Petersen for a week of Tantra & Connection workshops! Be sure to check that out if your are near Scotland. It is set to be a truly loving and inspirational week.
In other news, the Wee Clan are off! We have handed in our notice for our house and are embarking on a completely unknown adventure. We are starting from scratch again. No home, no income but a dancing family with lots of stuff! We have a lot of work to do. Our aim is to travel Scotland this summer and move to Edinburgh by Autumn, or as soon as we can and create a working space where we can set up regular workshops and connection containers.
We have a dream, and it is connected with our overall dream as laid out on the webpage The Dream http://www.thewct.com/about/
Wish us luck on this journey! We appreciate your support and love.
Carol
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