The Love of Thousands: Dancing with Angels, Saints & Ancestors – Video Release Party!
with Betsey Beckman, Soyinka Rahim, Sharie Bowman and Guest Artists
Saturday, May 31, 2025
6-7pm Ireland
1-2pm Eastern
10-11am Pacific
Program Description
Are you curious about the Prayer Dances included in our Love of Thousands Prayer Cycle? Join Betsey Beckman & friends for a celebration of Abbey of the Arts’ newest release of Dance Prayer Videos & Teachings. Betsey & guest choreographers will share some of the inspiration and backstories for their favorite dances in this 20-piece collection. Learn some simple choreography to dance along with and celebrate the joyous completion of our video collection. (That’s a lotta work!) Come dance with the us …. along with angels, saints & ancestors!
The program will be recorded for those who pre-register but are unable to attend at the scheduled time or who want to view again. You will be sent a notification when this is ready to view.
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Your Guides for the Journey
Betsey Beckman
Betsey Beckman, MM is nationally acclaimed as a spirited dancer, storyteller, teacher of SpiritPlay and dancing Spiritual Director. With her extensive repertory of sacred storydances, she is regularly featured as artist/presenter at national conventions as well as local churches. She earned her Masters in Ministry degree from Seattle University, her certificate in Movement Therapy from the Institute for Transformational Movement, and is a certified InterPlay leader. As dancer, choreographer, author, mother, wife, teacher and spiritual director, she is passionate about living life fully and fostering creativity in all those with whom she shares life and ministry. Betsey’s publications include books (she is co-author ofAwakening the Creative Spirit: Bringing the Expressive Arts to Spiritual Direction), recordings – including producing the Abbey of the Arts CD collections, and The Dancing Word series of DVDs on embodied prayer, many of which companion the Abbey CDs. She offers the gift of playful improvisation whenever possible.
Soyinka Rahim
Soyinka Rahim, gsp is a grassroots spiritual practitioner who is the founder and artistic director of BIBOLOVE – breathe in breathe out love. She was also the founder of OurThing Performing arts company, where she created the modern-day folk dance play An Altar Piece to Alter Peace, a multimedia, intergenerational performance piece for peace.
Her work BIBOLOVE taps into the power of sound, movement and visual art, raising the love vibration of peace, love, joy, happiness, health, grace and ease. BIBOLOVE supports our personal and collective life challenges by feeding the love frequencies for generational, cultural, racial, body and economic unity.
Soyinka has brought her wisdom as a spiritual director, conference weaver and workshop leader to InterPlay Certified Life practice, Facing Race, National Association for Independent Schools for teachers of color, Boys and Girl Clubs, Spiritual Directors International Conference, and the Parliament of World Religions.
Sharie Bowman
Sharie Bowman is a contemplative videographer whose work honors the sacred through the lens of the camera. With a deep appreciation for movement, ritual, and the arts as spiritual practice, Sharie brings a gentle attentiveness to filming that invites viewers into the soul of embodied prayer and expressive storytelling, offering a visual portal into the heart of the holy. She also practices witnessing the sacred in her work as a mental health counselor and InterPlay leader.
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