Creating from Body & Soul: The Art of Ensoulment with Cynthia Winton-Henry & Marla Durden – G24030401
The Art of Ensoulment: A Playful Retreat for Body & Soul
As retreat leaders, Cynthia and Marla are thrilled to host this reflective, creative retreat surrounded by the beauty of Ghost Ranch. Using their new resource, The Art of Ensoulment: A Playbook on How to Create From Body and Soul, they will introduce you to a spiritual playground where four great arts inspire and support us to remember that the soul loves the body. Day by day, we will explore ways to
- Artfully Honor Our Spirit Team and Receive Support
- Courageously Invoke Our Creative Birthrights
- Divine The Poetry of Our Purpose
- Dance with Suffering and Bow to Limits
Daily sessions combine easeful activities from the InterPlay Practice to invoke our sacred imagination using the birthrights of movement, voice, storytelling, art-making, writing, and poetry. In addition, Marla and Cynthia will offer presentations with seasoned wisdom from their respective indigenous, Christian, artistic, and healing lineages. Come away with a new appreciation for the art and craft of prayerful, daily living and support to grow a sacred practice that embraces body and soul.
Instructors
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Cynthia Winton-HenryCynthia Winton-Henry hosts the Online Hidden Monastery and Dance Chapels. As an artist, writer, former minister, and faculty at the Pacific School of Religion and similar theological centers, a spiritual director, she is best known as the co-founder of InterPlay/Body Wisdom, Inc., a leadership program that elevates each person’s improvisational genius. She has traveled widely, offering community-building experiences that help people link their inner and outer worlds through the creative birthrights of movement, voice, story, and stillness. She is the recipient of The Center for Art and Religion and Education’s Art Minister of the Year award and honored as a Distinguished Alumni by Pacific School of Religion for her contributions to the field of Art and Theology. Her books include a memoir Chasing the Dance of Life: A Faith Journey, a book of practices called Dance, The Sacred Art: The Joy of Movement as a Spiritual Practice, an exploration of the InterPlay practice in What the Body Wants/Move: From the Creators of InterPlay, and The Art of Ensoulment: A Playbook on How to Create from Body and Soul. Find her at cynthiawinton-henry.com
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Marla DurdenMarla Durden is a Dance Chaplain and Ensoulment Coach in Cynthia Winton-Henry’s Hidden Monastery, a certified InterPlay Leader, a member of InterPlay/ Body Wisdom’s Integrity and Innovation Wisdom Council, and an artist and medicine woman working in conscious co-creation with Nature.
A creative consultant, leadership coach and transformational facilitator, Marla is a highly sensitive empath with 30 years experience in the field of personal growth and development. A strategic and creative thinker, Marla helps people connect to their innate Divinity, and to share unique gifts.