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=================== In this Issue --->Quote of the Month
--->Seminar: SENSUAL ALCHEMY * Santa Fe, NM * Nov 18-20
--->Course: NYC FALL INTENSIVE * Oct 25 – Dec 7
--->Retreat: WINTER MOVEMENT MONASTERY * TX * Dec 29 - Jan 4
--->Concerning Sufi Whirling
--->Music Recommendation
--->Writings from Retreat
======================= Quote of the Month \"When the great swing has taken an individual into the world of symbolic mysteries, nothing comes of it, nothing can come of it, unless it has been associated with the earth, unless it has happened when that individual was in the body... And so individuation can only take place if you first return to the body, to your earth, only then does it become true.\"
-- C.G. Jung ======================= Seminar: SENSUAL ALCHEMY Body of Santa Fe
November 18 - 20
Registration: 505-986-0362
www.bodyofsantafe.com ======================= Course: NYC FALL INTENSIVE
October 25 - December 7
Mary Abrams Movement Resources
10 East 18th St., 4th Floor, NY, NY This course continues with Dunya on Tuesday through early December. It is a closed course but if you have done Intensive work with Dunya before, call to see if there is space for you to participate.
Info: 212 226 2114 ======================= Retreat: WINTER MOVEMENT MONASTERY
Chappell Hill, TX * Dec 29 - Jan 4 Fluid Yoga, Dancemeditation, Spiritual Bellydance, Sufi Healing, Writing from the body Registration:
$740 seven days by 12/1
$810 seven days after 12/1
$130 single day (thru 1/1)
$350 New Year\'s Special: 3 days Fr 30th, Sa 31st & Su 1st
By Credit Card: through website www.dancemeditation.com
By Check: made to: ‘Dervish Society of America’
& mail to Dunya, 250 Elizabeth St. #7, NY NY 10012
Please include your name, address, phone and email.
Info: 212 226 2114 ================================== Concerning Sufi Whirling
--- Dunya Dianne McPherson, (excerpted from her upcoming memoir, Skin of Glass) I whirl and my students whirl around me. I feel the endless streaming of my life and work. I pivot on Earth that is an orange, peeled, just the way I am a being, opened, with my seeds floating away. I whirl and my students whirl around me, and I feel blood whirling through my arteries and veins, and in the blood, the Milky Way full of colors and temperatures I can never, no matter what dream I place myself into, in any other way conjure or touch, and in all this, the yearning of every seeking human who has ever looked into the moonless night sky toward the twinkling stars with an uncanny yet insane urgency of being there, now, flying, knowing. And I remember, as a child, mounting the golf course’s wide flank of hill on dark nights where I would spin, spin, spin until falling down in damp grass, laughing at the strange effervescence in my soft young flesh as the stars whirled down and down, or were they pulling me up? ================================== Music Recommendations The Brazilian singer Bebel Gilberto is warm, soulful and full of motion. Here is Amazon.com’s review of Tanto Tempo. ”Daughter of the famed Brazilian pop and bossa nova singer João Gilberto, Bebel recalls her father\'s own classic recordings on Tanto Tempo, with a sure sense of pitch. Bebel Gilberto is hardly less charming for that, though, and the album entices with hushed passion. Relying mostly on acoustic instruments and some muted orchestrations, Tanto Tempo is nonetheless smartly paced to allow for some tasteful dance-club electronics to augment a few tracks, and ends on a celebratory note with \"Close Your Eyes\"--all but an invitation to Carnival.” ================================== “My Experience at the 10-day Winter Movement Monastery This retreat has provided me with the opportunity to recognize that the healing process is not only about understanding but release, understanding is the easy part; release is where I want to run away. This experience taught me to just sit and wait with my understanding. It provided me the space to explore that understanding until it brought me to the place of release. This retreat intoxicated me with the divine wine and love. I’ve been able to recognize and name metaphors, images, and symbols in my dreams, in both my waking state and dream state. It’s given me a state of the mystery of the divine; Spirituality is so sensual. Spirituality and sexuality are no different. Spirituality can’t be taught only caught. This space provides safety, challenge and unconditional disciplined love. I’ve gotten in touch with parts of my being I didn’t even know existed. The retreat has opened my heart and made my hips pretty sore. What is difficult is only bringing me closer to my goal. Rest, I need to honor that more over-extended get me nowhere. In all this chaos, my path to the divine is the best I can do. Gentle is a good approach to everything in life. Gentleness doesn’t exist without patience Split pear soup is really good! I have an entire new out look on connective tissue I am surprised at how much I learned here. There is so much information I can pass on, incorporate in my massage practice. What a blessing Gratitude is! I get that now, and not just gratitude for everything that is groovy, but gratitude for everything on both sides of the coin Thanks, Dunya, for showing up in your life and teaching us how to show up in ours. One more thing -- now I know where Amy gets those cool moves!” Kacy Curtis
massage therapist, Arcata, CA
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