Fill Your Cup and Drink Deep...


A Non-Residential Weekend Retreat to Enhance Your Dance Experience

With

Philip O'Donohoe

18th/19th July 2009

Rawtenstall

If you have experienced the Dances of Universal Peace you know how wonderful you can feel; the joy, the sweetness, the fullness of heart, the strength of connectedness. You may have wished for the opportunity to go even deeper into the dances to explore the many layers of one's being still to be known and understood. This weekend may be just such an opportunity.

In addition to their celebratory qualities Samuel Lewis taught the dances as a profoundly moving course in spiritual awakening and development. Perhaps all that is necessary to begin this deeper journey is the intention and the permission to allow oneself to listen more closely to the rhythm of the Divine Dance and to feel more fully its spiritual power and beauty. Let the energy of the dances flow through your being and connect you to the deep wellspring of spiritual experience.

This is a weekend of concentrated dance and will include other practices to help us get the most from the dance experience. However it is an open weekend and all are welcome no matter what their experience in this form of spiritual dance.

What is needed is an openness and willingness to soften the rigid places within to allow the healing energy of the Divine Dance to flow to us and through us. From this place of awareness we can gain a different perspective on how we see ourselves and our life process. Insights that may guide us to experience life in even more of its fullness. As always joyfulness with be the starting point and the thread that runs through the whole weekend.

Philip is a master of spiritual dance. He is a leading international exponent of the Dance of Universal Peace and as a senior mentor has been involved in the training of dance leaders for many years. He has studied Sufism since 1989, is a teacher of this form of Middle Eastern mysticism and has trained in various forms of meditation over the last 30 years. He lives in Dorset and travels extensively leading many workshops internationally. A significant focus of his work is using the dances as a spiritual tool to increase people's capacity for living life fully and successfully.

Dates and Times: Saturday arrivals and refreshments from 10. Sessions begin at 10.30am and end at 9.00pm (with appropriate breaks). Sunday from 10am to 4pm.  

Venue: Rawtenstall Unitarian Church, Bank St, Rawtenstall, Lancs. Easy access from motorways.

Price: £85. Inclusive of delicious vegetarian lunch and supper on Saturday and lunch on Sunday.

Bookings: For catering purposes please book by 10th July. Cheques payable to P. O'Donohoe to Mary Dowson, 1 Hindburn Cottage, Wray, Lancaster, LA2 8QB.  

Further Details: Contact Mary Rabia Dowson. Email: marydowson@talktalk.net. Tel. 015242 21147. Mary will be able to help with directions, local B & Bs and other opportunities for accommodation.