Nana Tomova

April has been about resting, enjoying sunshine, good food and beautiful light.
Amazing photos by Ollie Denney.

Spinning whilst telling stories has been happening for millennia. Each word, nestled in the spun fibre, worn on the body, after, like an amulet.

It was so lovely to welcome the 80+ people that joined us to welcome the Spring with stories and harp music.

We know that song, story & craft have the power to awaken ancient memory, and be a balm for our human challenges.
Join us: https://weaving-remembrance.mykajabi.com/a/2148063423/oDj8wLYm

On the first of March in Bulgaria and other surrounding countries, Grandmother March is honoured. People wear white and red amulets made of cotton or spun wool for health.
And so on this day, which signifies the start of Spring in many Slavic Countries, I wish you much health, happiness & hope.

A Damsel Not In Distress - Untamed Tales for International Women’s Day. Stories where women do not need to be rescued or told what to do. 50% of all proceeds will go to Women for Women International.
Tickets: www.nanatomova.com/events
📷 by Remedios Varo

Awaken the Weaver: Free Online Gathering Come share in story, song and blessing with 4 guest teachers on February 19th to honor & awaken the Weaver who lives in you.

We invite you to honour the weavers in your lineages and to rediscover the magic of these ways.

We will share in stories, teachings, and old lore to deepen our connection to the art of cloth-making and reawaken the power of these ancestral crafts in our hearts and hands.

Free gathering.

Haha, winter in Scotland 💙 It was still lots of fun.

The secret to many things - walking outdoors ❤️

Trailblazing Scottish Mountaineer and Poet Nan Shepherd on the Transcendent Rewards of Walking and What Makes for an Ideal Walking Companion “The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.”

I have done most of the writing in my life while walking – what happens later at the keyboard is just transcription.

Mountaineer and poet Nan Shepherd, born OTD in 1893, on the spiritual rewards of walking and the qualities of the ideal walking companion

Thank you dear Esther, it is so special. Maybe I need to do more of this, this year 🌿❤️

Telling stories under the dark skies about the northern lights, during national storytelling week & national astronomy week.

Women Holding Things: Artist Maira Kalman’s Tender and Quirky Ode to the Weight of the World and the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being “There can never be enough time. And you can never hold on to it.”

We hold still. We hold hopes. We hold our pain and the world’s pain. We hold each other. We hold up our values and hold down our tasks. We hold on, and this might be the single most defining feature of human life. We hold on.

Women Holding Things https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/10/26/women-ho…

I can confirm that this will be brilliant!

A Damsel Not In Distress - Untamed Tales for International Women’s Day | Nana Tomova Stories where women do not need to be rescued or told what to do. In these stories there is humour, in these stories there are no guarantees, in these stories there could be love, in these stories th...

Join me to celebrate the voices of women, to come together as we continue to wish for equality, to gather in community as we hope for freedom, for our choices that support our bodies and lives.

All genders welcome.

50% of all proceeds will go to Women for Women International

She was indeed!

I didn’t take a photo of the full moon for social media. I watched it instead, fully.

Beautiful, Sandra!

This is so beautiful and tender ❤️

A written down story is akin to a photograph. It is one moment in that story’s lifetime, in the way that a photo is one moment in the person’s life. It is not the whole life. Stories belong on lips, told from hearts. Writing them down has preserved many of them, telling them makes them come alive.

Heron flies silent
Through frozen air, free and wild
I sit, mouth agape

The child-like wonder that snow brings out. There is such beauty in this world.