What a Session Looks Like

WHAT A SESSION LOOKS LIKE Journalist and somatics expert, Jae Greunke, wrote about Dunya’s class for NYSpirit Magazine. It beautifully captures the first brush with Dancemeditation. The Sense of Moving: The Feeling of Me by Jae Greunke, NYSpirit Magazine We begin the class nearly reclining, timing our inhalations and exhalations to the quiet, rhythmic music. [...]

Finding My Mysticism

FINDING MY MYSTICISM FINDING MY MYSTICISM The following is an excerpt from the Introduction to Sojourn the Inner Heaven, Dunya's guidebook to Dancemeditation. After immersing herself fully in Modern Dance and ballet, a serious injury forced her to explore other possibilities, leading her to the mysticism of Shattari Sufism. by Dunya Dianne McPherson, from Sojourn [...]

Meditation: Bone Watching

Meditation: Bone Watching MEDITATIONClose your eyes. Move any way you feel... In a little while, bring your attention to your bones. Watch your bones as you move. Let your soft tissues carry your bones. Let your bones ride along. Thoughts on Bone Watching Bones possess a strong personality, rich with imagery and an innate magnificence. [...]

Skin of Glass: Finding Spirit in the Flesh – Book

Reviews        Contents        Take a Look Inside “Profound ideas, expressed in startlingly evocative language.” Dunya’s intense passion for dance took her from a small seaside New England town in 1972 to the Juilliard School in the heart of NYC’s vibrant, edgy art scene. A decade later, healing from a serious [...]

Dunya at Ravenrock ~ painting by C. Ryder

by Dunya Dianne McPherson Last summer at Movement Monastery in New Mexico, when I am no longer a young pretty dancer, when the ground and sky, the weather, ideals, and my bones have the temerity to shift—Catherine Ryder does a sketch of me. She does many sketches: sunset, the road, people dancing in the studio, [...]