Festival of Middle Eastern Peace and Spirituality

Day Workshop:

Health, Well-being and Healing Through Spiritual Dance and Movement.

Anna Halprin's Planetary Dance

Saturday 13th March 2010

Venue: Meeting Room, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Time: Registration: 9.30am-10am. Workshop: 10am-4.30pm.

Event Description: Join us for a joyful day of sharing spiritual dance and movement for health, well-being, healing and peace. We will all be together throughout the day, building community and celebrating diversity through spiritual dance and movement.

11.40am-1pm: Anna Halprin's Planetary Dance. A community dance of planetary healing.
Facilitator: Audicia Lynne Morley.
Drummer: Derek Houghton

The Planetary Dance was conceived by Anna Halprin and community as a call to enact a ‘positive myth in dance’. It is a ritual of healing and community renewal which has now been celebrated and performed for over 30 years around the world.

At the heart of this dance is the ‘Earth Run’ - a simple dance that everyone can participate in through running, walking or standing and creating a moving mandala to the steady heartbeat of drums. Each step upon the ground/earth becomes a prayer for healing.

2010 marks Anna’s 90th birthday and the 30th anniversary of this powerful dance ritual. All are welcome. No experience necessary, just a willingness to participate with intention for the benefit of our planet.

Afterword:

This was the first Planetary Dance event I facilitated having previously supported and participated in many events run by Anna in the US.

Around 25 people had enrolled for this wonderful day of dance. A powerful beginning - we were inside the Quaker Meeting house with views over the Edinburgh skyline to the Pentland hills and during the introduction a CND peace march passed by below on the street outside the venue.

Special thanks to:

Kate Craik for supporting the dance and taking the photographs.
Neill Walker organiser of the festival
Maire Larson of the Planetary Dance team for all her on-line support.

Comments and feedback:

An incredible dance , so glad I could come and take part
Moving beyond words
I could have run for much longer. Would love to do it again
Thank you so much for bring this powerful dance to Scotland
Dancing for a purpose makes such a difference
Great drumming. I just could keep going. Don't know where the energy came from

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Cost: £20/£15 (Concessions).

For a Registration Form contact Neill Walker, mesp2010@hotmail.co.uk 0131 331 4469.