Weekly Online Dance Chapels
A sacred space for the wisdom of the body, where we dance, sing, and share poetic guidance from diverse spiritual lineages.
The Dancing Monastery
Practicing the Joy and Wisdom of EnsoulmentFaq
F.A.Q
We light our candles, virtual or real.
We bring our intentions for family, community, and world.
We move, notice, and affirm our body wisdom.
We attune to inspired poetry and guidance.
We dance on behalf of others in the group.
We connect to global companions.
We renew our experience of grace and gratitude.
- Mondays 9:00 Am PST: Ruth Showalter–CPR for the Soul
- Mondays 4:30 Pm PST Cynthia Winton-Henry- Art of Ensoulment
- Tuesdays 4:30 Am PST with Judy Shook Dancing in Balance with Earth
- Wednesdays 9:00 Am PST with Marla Durden– Hip Hop Dance Chapels & Divine Love Rooted–body prayers for all our relations
- 1st & 3rd Weds, 7 pm PST/7:30 Am Thurs in India: Neesha Noronha– Returning Wild
- Thursdays 9:30 Am PST Nancy Pfaltzgraf & Jane Siarny– Sacred Ways
- 2nd & 4th Fridays 11 AM PT/ 2 Pm ET Carolyn Renee Morris– Gifts of the Soul.
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Sign up for weekly updates through the Hidden Monastery or email a leader for the schedule.
Email Cynthiawinton-henry@gmail.com for the link to try out any chapel.
Link here to find emails for Chapel leaders and to get on their list for regular updates and invitations.
All chapels are free. If you regularly attend, you may consider contributing $10-$25 per chapel or $40-$75/month if you are able.
Cynthia receives contributions here.
Marla Durden
Venmo @Ruth-Schowalter
Jane Siarny
judyshook@aol.com
CarolynRenee PayPal @WHOAHEALS
DANCE CHAPEL LEADERS
Cynthia Winton-Henry
leads Mondays at 4:30 pm PST
Dance is m ofounded InterPlay as a way to joyfully experience the freedom and integration of body, mind, heart, and soul. I’ve served as a professional dancer, clergy, professor of dance and religion, Sacred Dance Guild faculty, and as a mentor to educators, artists, spiritual leaders and helping professionals. I teach the Art of Ensoulment, a year-long course that maps 12 initiations to support body and soul to dance through all the complexities of life. Learn more about the dance chapel approach in my books: Dance: A Sacred Art: The Joy of Movement as a Spiritual Practice from Turner Publishing, Move: What the Body Wants, Woodlake Press and Chasing the Dance of Life, Apocryphal Press. Click here.
Ruth Schowalter
leads CPR for Body and Soul Mondays 9am PT
I’m an artist, educator, and certified InterPlay leader. I apply InterPlay when teaching advanced communication skills to both scientists and international scholars. In 2018, I co-founded Sustaining International Sisters (SIS) InterPlay and Potluck with Canan Arikan. In 2019, we began an online Global SIS: InterPlay in 2019 to reach international women worldwide. I’m a lifelong spiritual seeker, housing my faith under a very wide roof of beliefs. Meditative drawing and painting has been my daily spiritual practice for the past 30 years. Dancing my prayers with the online community of Cynthia’s Dance Chapel since its origin has transformed my connection with the divine – I trust in its simplicity and powerful gentleness. I live in Decatur, Georgia, with my husband Tony and two cats, Tao and Sapelo.
Marla Durden
leads Wednesday at 9:00 am PST
There is so much beauty, grace and power in the human Soul. My purpose is to help empower people to embody more of their innate wisdom and divinity. InterPlay helps us to somatize spiritual awareness and emergent wisdom through the power of play. I am honored to share this space of love and healing. Along with InterPlay, I bring my experience as an indigenous shaman, healer and leader. Within the chalice of the Dance Chapel, we will create and share a beautiful brew of sacred healing, gentle transformation and fun.” Learn more about Marla at ModernRootWoman.com
Nancy Pfaltzgraf
leads Thursdays at 9:30 am PST
I love both leading and participating in Dance Chapel because I have experienced and witnessed the way people open to the spirit and one another in powerful ways that bring healing, build community and allow peace to flow through the whole of one’s being. I love that we are each encouraged to come as we are and listen to the deep wisdom of our bodies. But perhaps most powerful, for me, is praying without words, praying with my whole self, praying with my dance!. My background includes coaching the FEBI four movement patterns, leading the InterPlay Life Practice Program, Dances of Universal Peace, and as an ordained pastor and chaplain. I live in Illinois and Florida.
Jane Siarny
Leads Thursdays at 9:30 AM PST
I’m dedicated to uplifting the human spirit through creativity, community building, and body-wise practices. For me, InterPlay opens the door to an integrated spiritual practice that allows for creativity, community, and growth. The Online Dance Chapel is the best way to consistently share the transformative power of InterPlay. I’m the InterPlay Life Practice Program Coordinator, having led Life Practice groups since 1999. Find my story is found MOVE: What the Body Wants by InterPlay co-creators Cynthia Winton-Henry with Phil Porter. I live in Chicago, Illinois.”
Neesha Noronha
India 7:30am Thursdays/ Wednesday's 7pm Pacific
I am a cross-pollinator who finds the sacred through the body and the earth. Living in different parts of the world, I’ve been blessed by various faith traditions and spiritual practices, including yoga and capoeira. I’ve been an educator, community organizer, activist, and caregiver and am currently balancing these sides and worlds through art and witnessing. I love sharing movement and sustainable living and see both as a journey to wholeness. Through the Returning Wild Dance Chapel, I welcome you to re-member parts of yourself and our world, to dance on behalf of whatever wants to show up.
Judy Shook
Judy is a longstanding shamanic ritualist drawing on Cherokee, Wyandotte, and Celtic ancestry and leadership in Creation Spirituality, InterPlay, ordained ministry, and Art of Ensoulment coaching.
Carolyn Renee Morris
2nd & 4th Fridays 9am PT, noon ET.
Carolyn Renee shares her original creative of soul from Womb Creations and The Mother Daughter Dialogues to welcome, celebrate and uplift our mothers, daughters, sisters and aunts in honor of them and of Women of the New Century. We pay homage to Precious Human Life and the Change we want to create in the world–as we dance in The Rainbow uplifting and honoring The Roots of Struggle in remembrance of our ancestors. I am Carolyn Renée, daughter of Priestess Iye Tahirah and mother of Christopher, Camara and Nona.
I am living my day with an awakened courageous resilience, an openhearted mind, an Awakening purpose. I invite my energy to flow into my soul’s purpose through movement, voice, storytelling, contact, and stillness. For myself and for all. -Bilha