Exploring dance as a source of solace and spiritual energy, this book delves into its historical and cultural significance. It offers detailed exercises designed to help readers connect with their bodies, fostering trust and understanding of their physical and spiritual intentions. Through this journey, readers can find restoration and empowerment in the art of dance.
Exploring the intersection of personal experience and societal issues, the author reflects on the challenges of hearing voices and seeing visions. Emphasizing the importance of addressing fundamental human needs such as Love, Justice, and Freedom, she transforms her insights into a performance art that seeks to demystify dance, healing rituals, and communal peacemaking. Through this journey, she advocates for open expression and connection, urging others to embrace their voices in the pursuit of deeper understanding and societal change.
A story of hope, from Afghanistan to Wales. Herat, Afghanistan, 2000. A young mother makes a speech demanding freedom for Afghan women, angering local Taliban leaders who issue a warrant for her execution. With no choice but to run, the Amiri family embark on a long and terrifying journey out of Afghanistan and across Europe with the UK as their ultimate goal. Thrown into an unfamiliar world of fake passports and untrustworthy handlers, the Amiris must learn how to live with nothing and avoid capture at all costs. But with their eldest son Hussein's life-threatening heart condition growing steadily worse, the journey soon becomes a race against time. Will they beat the odds and reach the UK in time for Hussein to receive the surgery he so badly needs? The Boy with Two Hearts is the story of a family in danger and a love letter to the NHS. This extraordinary true story reveals the courage and humanity behind each refugee story, showing that hope and a sense of home can be found in the most unlikely places. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Wales Millennium Centre in 2021.
An off-beat romantic comedy in which a voyeuristic relationship between two lonely becomes an unlikely love story.
If you were to look for one place in the world to find a more embodied, playful and grace-filled life, the InterPlay people would tell you to go straight to the source! Your own body! This book introduces readers step-by-step into InterPlay, a practice for creative and spiritual development that reintegrates the body into all aspects of life. Interplay, which is practiced throughout the world, is a philosophy and technique developed by Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter in 1989 to foster health and transformation through community and creativity. Read this book as inspiration or as a guide to the practice of InterPlay. Most exercises can be done alone or with a partner. However, InterPlay is at its best as a communal practice. Included with the book is online access to the full-length Interplay album Like Breathing, which will help awaken your body wisdom.