The Great Dance: A Mini-Retreat with Cynthia Winton-Henry
with Cynthia Winton-Henry
Friday, February 19, 2027
4-6pm Ireland
11am-1pm Eastern
8-10am Pacific
You are invited to offer yourself humbly to the Great Dance and the Love that inspires it.
Program Description
Are you seeking nourishment, encouragement, beauty, resourcing, something grounded in both the old and the new?
Join us for a heart-opening meditation centered on the awe-inspiring images and poetry in The Great Dance: An Intergenerational Children’s Book.
We will explore our ability to recenter, participate in, and celebrate the Living Movement of the Divine in our lives. Can we accept the invitation to open to the movements of breath and heartbeat and change? How do we dance with all that is in motion within and around us including the challenges of belonging, aging, disability, and grief?
Contemplate your dance with Mother Earth and the Divine Feminine through lectio divina, expressive arts, movement, sacred rest, and prayer.
Together we will listen for images and messages that support us and those we love to reverence all bodies and souls as sacred. You are invited to offer yourself humbly to the Great Dance and the Love that inspires it. Come join the Dance!
No dance experience necessary. Modifications and adaptations for creative movement will be offered. All bodies welcome!
We will turn on closed captioning during the live Zoom session (which you are able to turn off in your settings if you find distracting) as well as provide a video recording with closed captioning available and a text transcript of the session within 24 hours. You will be sent a notification when this is ready to view.
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Your Guide for the Journey
Cynthia Winton-Henry
Cynthia Winton-Henry, M.Div., is an artist, writer, partner, grandmother, and spiritual director living in co-housing in Northern California. As a formerly ordained minister, she honors and contends with the impacts of her Protestant Christian lineage alongside the wisdom of ancestors around the world. During decades of teaching at Pacific School of Religion, she co-founded InterPlay, an international community dedicated to actively and creatively unlocking the wisdom of the body. As a mentor to diverse leaders and playmates around the world, she discovered the power of playful movement, voice, storytelling, and creativity to consistently restore joy, peace, resilience, wholeness, and interconnection. Seeking to center the Great Dance in her spiritual practice, she created the Hidden Monastery, an online community of ensoulment coaches who offer Dance Chapels, classes, retreats, and 1:1 companionship.
Cynthia has served the Sophia Center at Holy Names College, Spiritual Directors International, Spiritual Wanderlust, The Embodiment Summit, The International Expressive Arts Therapy Conference, the Art, Religion, and Culture Conference, the National Equity Project, Out and Equal Workplace Advocates, Changing the Race Dance workshops, Dying to Live Workshops, the International Enneagram Conference, and the Sacred Dance Guild.
Her books include The Art of Ensoulment: A Playbook on How to Create From Body and Soul, Move: What the Body Wants, Dance: The Sacred Art: The Joy of Movement in Spiritual Practice, a memoir, Chasing the Dance of Life: A Faith Journey, and the intergenerational children’s book, The Great Dance. Timely essays and art can be found at The Dancing Center on Substack, where she explores current events through the lens of body and soul.
The Great Dance: TheGreatDanceBook.com
The Hidden Monastery: CynthiaWinton-Henry.com
The Dancing Center: CynthiaWintonHenry.substack.com
InterPlay: InterPlay.org
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