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Spiritual Places
- Sacred Circle Dance Classes are starting Tuesday, Feb. 19 and running through April 1 (no class during March break)
5:00-7:00 pm, Andreola Room, Willits Hallowell
To Register email Gayle Higgins at ghiggins@mtholyoke.edu. Include your name, email and phone number.
Please try to attend all classes. Limited to the first 20 students who sign up.
“We dance with reverence and respect for those dances we remember. The ancient dance forms, thus renewed by our creative attention and participation, nourish our understanding of the body as sacred.” Bernard Wosien, Founder of Sacred Circle Dance
Introduction to Sacred Circle Dance:
Ellen Kennedy, Sacred Circle Dance Facilitator:
Sacred Circle Dance offers an integrative approach to healing, relaxation and for some, a deeply, moving spiritual experience. It differs from folk dance through the sacred intention that is held for each dance. In circles, lines and spirals we join hands to learn simple village dances to music from around the world. Through our dancing energy is activated. This “dancing energy” is offered as intercessory prayers to heal ourselves, one another, our planet earth and the people, places and situations throughout the world in need of healing grace. Each dance offers its individual blessing and we open to receive it. Ellen believes that the impulse to dance is encoded in our DNA. When we dance in Sacred Circles the encoded message is activated, we remember.
Thoughts from Sacred Circle Dance Participants:
“...the amazing thing...is the simplicity of these dances...There is no one too clumsy to partake of their grace”.
“Community dancing is quite simply one of the most beautiful ways for people to be together in a spirit of joy and laughter”.
"“Moving with rhythm in harmony is inspiring and cleansing to heart and mind”.
“When I circle dance, it is like something that had been locked inside me is released.”
“Dance brings people together, it heals, it includes, it unifies, it touches, it transcends...it can change the world”.
Cathedral of Saint John of the Divine, NYC
NIGHTWATCH COLLEGE SCHEDULE - Feb. 22 to 23 Overnight trip.
Join Rev. Sherry Tucker and Advisor Leslie Fraser on a trip to NYC to the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine for an overnight in the Cathedral itself. This is a program will be Christian based but it open to college students of all faiths. Go to http://www.columbia.dioceseny.org/ for more info. Registration forms are in the main office of Eliot House.
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