Change your Life, Change your World!
SIDE-BY-SIDE SECRETS OF INTERPLAY & UNTENSIVE
Cynthia Winton-Henry and
Phil Porter
Kalamazoo, MI
Thursday 7pm to Sunday noon 3 days Nov 13-16, 2008
Here is an opportunity to have a retreat with a difference! Come and play, have fun, listen to the wisdom of your body in the free and easy atmosphere of an UNTENSIVE OR, why not step into the SECRETS of INTERPLAY where you will play, enjoy, reflect and learn about the practice and philosophy of INTERPLAY so you can truly lead your own embodied life.
About Secrets: This 3-day event covers the techniques and body wisdom principles of InterPlay. Reclaim voice, movement, stillness, and stories as primary ways of knowing. Ground yourself in a communal ethic of play to replace stress with health, creativity, joy and purpose. Learn specific ways to deepen the practice of honoring body wisdom in you and in your community. Secrets of InterPlay is part of the core curriculum of the InterPlay Life Practice Program. It is also open to any one desiring an in-depth introduction to InterPlay.
About the Untensive: InterPlay Untensives offer a richly satisfying experience of play in an affirming, embodied community. A wonderful opportunity for refreshment and renewal in a beautiful retreat center 10 minutes from Kalamazoo. Life doesn’t have to be so hard! Play, rest, dance, tell stories, and enjoy the company of other committed bodies. Ahhhh!
Thursday Nov. 13 • 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. open to public: $25 /save $5 early registration by 10/23
About Secrets: This 3-day event covers the techniques and body wisdom principles of InterPlay. Reclaim voice, movement, stillness, and stories as primary ways of knowing. Ground yourself in a communal ethic of play to replace stress with health, creativity, joy and purpose. Learn specific ways to deepen the practice of honoring body wisdom in you and in your community. Secrets of InterPlay is part of the core curriculum of the InterPlay Life Practice Program. It is also open to any one desiring an in-depth introduction to InterPlay.
About the Untensive: InterPlay Untensives offer a richly satisfying experience of play in an affirming, embodied community. A wonderful opportunity for refreshment and renewal in a beautiful retreat center 10 minutes from Kalamazoo. Life doesn’t have to be so hard! Play, rest, dance, tell stories, and enjoy the company of other committed bodies. Ahhhh!
Thursday Nov. 13 • 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. open to public: $25 /save $5 early registration by 10/23
Cost: TUITION (meals included): Secrets One $475; Untensive $395. SAVE $50 on tuition if register by Oct. 23!! LODGING is additional: $90 (double) or $135 (single) for 3 nights.
Registration/Information: Contact the InterPlay office (510/465-2797 or info@interplay.org) to register with a $100 deposit.
Venue
Transformations Spirituality Center
3427 Gull Road
Kalamazoo, MI 49074
There are nice walking trails, an outdoor labyrinth, and many quiet, contemplative places inside and out.
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.
Phil Porter
Phil is one of the founders of InterPlay. He is a teacher, performer, writer, and organizer. With Cynthia Winton-Henry he is the co-founder of WING IT! Performance Ensemble, and has written several books, some in collaboration with Cynthia, including Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last and The Slightly Mad Rantings of a Body Intellectual Part One. Phil is particularly interested in the use of InterPlay in organizational life, and believes that InterPlay can be a powerful tool to create communities of diversity and peace.