A Woman's Book of Days

by Donna Sinclair

Overview

If you were to look 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! What the Body Wants 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 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 the full-length InterPlay CD Like Breathing,* which will help re-awaken your body wisdom. *The eBook download includes mp3 files of the InterPlay CD, Like Breathing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781770642638
Publisher:	Wood Lake Publishing
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Series:	A Woman's Book of Days , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

A journalist for more than 30 years, Donna Sinclair is an award-winning writer who has traveled widely in Canada, Africa, Central America, Britain, and Eastern Europe. She is the author of The Spirituality of Bread, The Spirituality of Gardening, A Woman's Book of Days, A Woman's Book of Days 2, The Long View and numerous other titles. Donna lives with her husband Jim in North Bay, Ontario.

Read an Excerpt

On Healers: Some people, I am told, have a natural capacity to heal others with touch or prayer. And others, maybe all of us, have healing power we could develop. The important ingredient is 'loving intentionality.' This explains why I hover day after day over my seedlings and why even those that have to spend a good part of their young lives in a north window in March still grow up strong. We shouldn't discount the power of our love.

On Sadness: There are times when we are simply sad. Something dark has swum up through the fissures of our soul. It often happens in middle age. We grow strong enough to be sad. The soul waits until we have friends and the strength of maturity to suggest we do our inner work. Inexplicable sadness is just calling us to grow up whole at last.

On Mothering: Mothering might be easier if we knew that the vision we served, the hope we have for our households, was one of the Shalom -- the peaceable kingdom of God, the gentle womb of creation -- not of the courtroom. Of God as the loving friend, not the bringer of punishment. God loves us whether or not we are thin, or successful, or smart, or rich or productive. It's a thought for a spring day: what is my picture of the household of God?