Embrace slowing down, being still, and whatever waits for us there.
InterPlay Solstice Retreat: The Fruitful Dark
Includes the candle and pine branch labyrinth with harp by Jessica Schaeffer
Cynthia Winton-Henry
Oakland, CA
Friday, Dec 20, 7-9 pm and Saturday, Dec 21, 9:30 am-7:30 pm
A wonderful time to lean into silence, mystery, and the fruitful dark with InterPlay practices, led by InterPlay co-founder Cynthia Winton-Henry.
Playfully consider your relationship to the riches of darkness. Gentle support will be offered to embody needed shifts from movement to stillness and from song to silence. Includes space to create, make art, and journal in silence alongside others in community.
We conclude with the annual pine branch spiral dance, dancing candle light into the center to the strains of Jessica Schaeffer on harp and the voices of those gathered.
Cost: $85
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.
Click here for a map.
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.