Friday May 7, 5:30 pm dinner to May 9, Sunday lunch
High Hope Ranch, Glen Rose Texas
Guided by Cynthia and Stephen Winton-Henry
with hosts Krystyna Jurzykowsi, Madeline Udashen and Hans York

Where we honor death at the sacred center of life in a magical place with beautiful hosts, great food, and good company. 

Come join the “Dying to Live” cabaret, a gathering place both solemn and celebratory where partners, family members, friends old and new, claim and share the biggest dance we do: Live and Die.

Stephen and Cynthia embrace Sister Death as holy companion and teacher to orient to and prepare for the improvisation of a lifetime: Living and Dying.

The rewards are rich: greater honesty, hope, joy, and body wisdom. But, death is hard to bring up, particularly our own or that of someone we love. For this we need dedicated space, time, ritual and companionship. This doesn’t have to be sad. Some of us are dying to live and want more than a class as we move from the misnomer of individual deaths to the truth of dying in community.

The Dying to Live Cabaret invites our arts, spirits, lessons, and questions. Cynthia and Stephen bring resources from Die Wise by Stephen Jenkinson, Ira Byock’s Four Things That Matter Most, Tina Cole Kreitz’s amazing resource– The Last Gift Box: A Present to Those Who Follow Me, Cynthia Winton-Henry’s Move: What the Body Wants, resources from Creative Aging and our decades of helping people get into and out of their bodies.

Schedule
Friday 6pm Dinner, introductions and orientation
Saturday
9-12      The Dance of Death
2-3:30   The Poetry of Life & Free Time
4-6         Happy Hour The Art of Legacy
7:30       The Cabaret of Community: Stories, Songs, Dances,Tellings

Sunday  
9-12 Song of the Soul
12:30 Lunch

High Hope Ranch is a beautiful oasis of love near Glen Rose Texas cared for by InterPlayer Krystyna Jurzykowski. Spring is one of the best times to visit. Don’t miss your chance to visit adjacent Fossil Rim Wildlife Center to receive blessings from the animal community. There is nothing like having your palm kissed by giraffe lips.

Stephen Winton-Henry, hospice chaplain, spiritual care manager, pastor, and grief educator since the 1990’s, it was losing a parent at a young age that initiated him in the need for spiritual companionship throughout life. A graduate from Foothill Theater Conservatory, an InterPlay leader, avid reader and amateur ukulele and guitar player, hanging out and playing is what he does best.

Cynthia Winton-Henry, cofounder of InterPlay, recovering serious person and host of the Hidden Monastery, a virtual community of playful prayerful mystics and artists. Having taught a generation of seminarians at Pacific School of Religion to dance and producing Unbelievable Beauty of Being Human concerts worldwide she currently teaches Changing the Race Dance Workshops and supports millennials to bring art and body wisdom back online. Her books include Move: What the Body Wants, Dance, the Sacred Art, and Chasing the Dance of Life.

Come to the cabaret, old chum?  Special arrangements provided for all people of color, millennials, and low income to honor limited resources.

Santa Fe Hidden Monastery Retreat
Embrace the Beauty Way 

November 8-12,  4 nights, 5 days.
Wed 6pm- Sun lunch

Imagine the beauty of New Mexico desert skies awaiting those who come to listen to and connect with the Divine in powerful ways.

If you embrace a Holy Wild Love, seek belovedness in body and soul, attune to earth, and hunger for a community that embraces the mystic creative path, Cynthia Winton-Henry guides this retreat in honor of spiritual intelligence, joy, and wisdom.

Listening to body wisdom we gather as a hidden monastery for four nights and five days to rest, InterPlay in movement, story, and song, dance on behalf of one another and the Earth, and make desert pilgrimages.  Body Wisdom tools, rituals, and art projects are woven through the

Whatever your art, questions, seen or unseen gifts, here is a place, a people, and a process that will delight in you.

Synergia Retreat Center, outside of Santa Fe, an hour from the Albaquerque Airport welcomes you to this earth sensitive sight, beautiful dance studio, excellent food, playful art, and restful accommodations.

Room for 15-20 people. Single rooms are limited. Reserve a room now with a $100 deposit.

• Singles with bathroom $600
• Singles with shared bathroom $500
• Shared room $400

Special arrangements provided for all people of color, millennials, and low income to honor limited resources.