Great fun, learning, and lunch, too!
Eat Drink & Be Merry: Food Wisdom and Body Wisdom
Food deals? Why not play with them? Join LydiaRose and
Cynthia Winton-Henry

Oakland, CA
Saturday, September 21, 10am-3pm
Come move, notice, and enjoy new wisdom about eating and cooking. Play with kraut, share a great lunch and InterPlay with the cofounder of InterPlay and Lydia Rose Sifferlen who Cynthia calls "a foodplay goddess of Brothy health who knows the scoop on what happens when food goes really really wrong. I can't wait to partake in a new way of being with food/me in yummy ways!!!!
Come ready to explore your body/food story and listen to your body as your measuring cup to health– how your HANDS tell you how much protein you need, how much a pinch or smidgen is. Play with the palate in your eyes, nose, skin and heart and imagine cooking as radical soil-soul tending to our inner homestead: the community in our immunity!
LydiaRose Sifferlenmillennial InterPlayer got a B.A. in Cultural Studies, Cinema and Media Studies before a health crises revealed how much of it was due to food. Since then she’s served as a pioneering Conference Kitchen Manager and Healing Foods Chef Consultant, worked with Harvest the Source Cooking and Consulting as a Culinary Folk Arts Teacher, Food Therapist, and Brothsmith offering Personal Kitchen Therapy for chronically and acutely ill patients to set up home kitchens with non-allergenic, highly nutrient-dense, and healing focused systems. She has taught food self-care for addicts, alcoholics, eating disordered individuals, and survivors of trauma, as a Food Justice Volunteer at Bay Area Non-Violent Communication and with San Francisco General Hospitals groundbreaking program to teach patients the power of real food from local farms.
Come ready to explore your body/food story and listen to your body as your measuring cup to health– how your HANDS tell you how much protein you need, how much a pinch or smidgen is. Play with the palate in your eyes, nose, skin and heart and imagine cooking as radical soil-soul tending to our inner homestead: the community in our immunity!
LydiaRose Sifferlenmillennial InterPlayer got a B.A. in Cultural Studies, Cinema and Media Studies before a health crises revealed how much of it was due to food. Since then she’s served as a pioneering Conference Kitchen Manager and Healing Foods Chef Consultant, worked with Harvest the Source Cooking and Consulting as a Culinary Folk Arts Teacher, Food Therapist, and Brothsmith offering Personal Kitchen Therapy for chronically and acutely ill patients to set up home kitchens with non-allergenic, highly nutrient-dense, and healing focused systems. She has taught food self-care for addicts, alcoholics, eating disordered individuals, and survivors of trauma, as a Food Justice Volunteer at Bay Area Non-Violent Communication and with San Francisco General Hospitals groundbreaking program to teach patients the power of real food from local farms.
Cost: $49 SUGGESTED DONATION
Registration/Information: Call the Body Wisdom Office at 510/465-2797 to register
Venue
InterPlayce
2273 Telegraph Avenue (at 23rd St.)
Oakland, CA 94612
InterPlayce is the center of the InterPlay universe. The offices for Body Wisdom, Inc. are also located here. The building is at the corner of 23rd and Telegraph, one block north of West Grand. It is just a few blocks from the 19th Street Downtown Oakland BART station, and on several convenient bus lines. On-street parking is always available at night and metered during the day. It is also easily accessible by several of the major freeways.
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Leaders
Cynthia Winton-Henry
Cynthia Winton-Henry, co-founder of InterPlay with Phil Porter, has researched "what the body wants" in the arts, in jails, shelters, slums, hospitals, churches, businesses, classrooms, doctoral programs in theology and the arts, and in multicultural education. She develops somatic curriculums to address racism, leadership for the Earth, and spiritual intelligence with an eye to supporting millennials. A featured speaker on the Body Intelligence Summit and a keynoter at conferences, Cynthia is the author of What the Body Wants, Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last; Dance - A Sacred Art: Discovering the Joy of Movement as Spiritual Practice, Chasing the Dance of Life: A Faith Journey, and The Art of Ensoulment: A Playbook on How to Create From Body and Soul.. Check out her writing, The Dancing Center, on Substack, her Hidden Monastery Online Dance Chapels and courses for those seeking spiritual intelligence for our time at cynthiawinton-henry.com.