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Ensouled: InterPlay, Art and Contemplation Retreat

Wisdom for Body and Soul
Connors John McConville and Cynthia Winton-Henry

San Rafael, CA

May 15-18, (3 nights, 4 days) Thurs 6pm dinner–Sun lunch

Soak in silence, beauty, and spirit • Return to the flow of your mystic and creative impusles • Honor body and soul.


Ready to deepen? Are you sensitive, creative, tired of holding your own? Join this Hidden Monastery of Playful Mystics where your muse awaits. Santa Sabina Retreat center in Santa Rafael, California offers a perfect venue for three full days of art, movement, trees and meditation. The gentle, joyful, daily rhythm includes

Morning: Art and Wisdom Meditations: Movement, Sitting Meditation, Chants
Afternoon: Solo & Small Group Art Space, Rest, Walks, Excursions, Optional 1 on 1 sessions
Evening: ritual improvisations and prayers

ABOUT THE FACILITY Santa Sabina at Dominican College in San Rafael California is nestled against wooded hills in Marin County. Designed as a monastic novitiate with inner courtyard, gardens, and spaces for prayer, contemplative roots permeate this sacred space. In the basement is an art studio and space for art and meditation. Link to directions.

Cynthia and Connors met while dancing in Body and Soul Dance Company and were founding members of Wing It! Performance Ensemble. Their spiritual paths have intersected in profound ways through workshops they've led and shared.

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Accommodation/food for 3 nights 9 meals
Singles with shared bathroom $ 425
Shared room, shared bath $350
Commuter rate $240

Cost: $100 deposit to reserve space. Tuition $325 Register before March 15 for $25 discount/plus your choice of room & board

Registration/Information: 510-814-9584 or cynthia@interplay.org

Venue

Santa Sabina Retreat Center

25 Magnolia Avenue, San Rafael, CA 94901
San Rafael, CA 94901
www.interplay.org
Leaders
Connors John McConville
MDiv, MA, LMFT, Certified InterPlay Leader, Connors is a long time Interplayer and WING IT! member and co-teaches with John Diller the Interplay Men's Class that meets every Thursday evening at Interplayce. He has worked as a dance teacher, dance-maker and performer internationally and taught at the International School Bangkok and at Chulalongkorn University. He is a somatic psychotherapist (MFC 47398), and a spiritual director and is currently in a PhD program in East West Psychology at CIIS. As a young Jesuit missionary in Thailand 1974 – 1978 he formally studied Buddhism and Vipassana (meditation) at Wat Suan Dok in Chiangmai and Wat Bowonniwet Vihara in Bangkok and was certified in Thai Massage Therapy (Nuat Boran) with over 500 hours of training.
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Cynthia Winton-Henry
Cynthia Winton-Henry, M.Div., co-founded InterPlay and Body Wisdom, Inc., with Phil Porter. Her interest in supporting body and soul led her to curate the Hidden Monastery Online Dance Chapels and courses for those seeking the spiritual intelligence needed for our time at cynthiawinton-henry.com.. As an artist, auhtor and mentor, she can be found on Substack at The Dancing Center where her research into "what the body wants" in community arts, shelters, churches, businesses, classrooms, and everyday life led her to create the somatic curricula she needs to address racism, leadership for the Earth, and the Arts of Ensoulment. Featured on the Body Intelligence Summit, Spiritual Directors International, and as a credential facilitator for the Sacred Dance, her publications include What the Body Wants; 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: How to Create From Body and Soul..
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