What the Body Wants: From the Creators of Interplay [With Full-Length CD, Like Breathing]

The book was in fine condition. It had a place where a CD came with it and this was not included, but that was okay as I purchased it as a book only.Although the book kept referring to parts of the CD. As a person who is involved withInterplay, I wanted to learn more about it. This book served the purpose.

This book is what I have been waiting for: a way to explain to everyone and anyone why InterPlay(R) is so much fun and why I keep running around the country to do more of it. Thank you Cynthia for taking the time to put your wisdom about MOVEMENT and stillness... stories and playfulness...ease, fun and affirmation... into words - you have DONE it: WHAT THE BODY WANTS sings and moves!

Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter, the creators of InterPlay, and "body intellectuals" from Oakland have done amazing work for 25 years in formulating a set of principles and philosophies to support people in integrating body, mind, and spirit with EASE! This book contains the beautiful "Like Breathing" CD, and the stories from dozens of people sharing the many ways that the forms of InterPlay are being used in 40 cities and many countries to create grace-full, diverse and mutually supportive communities. I've been using InterPlay to build community in Nashville and doing a leadership training program here for 3 years. Our motto is "Life Doesn't Hafta Be So Hard!" Using the InterPlay practices of simple story, voice and movement activities as described in the book, we have discovered community, connection, artfulness and joy. This book is an "Artists Way" for discovering your creativity and your capacity to connect with others as you create dance, stories and songs out of the issues that come out up in your life! This book will help you exform and inform yourself and gain insights and tools for accessing your creativity, releasing fear & stress and living with more ease & spontaneity. Also, I know the authors and dozens of the InterPlay practitioners personally, and they are all GREAT people! You can learn more about the whole system they have developed by seeing their website. If you know in your body that there is a relationship between art, spirit, creativity and personal/political change, then this is a "cookbook" of ideas and practices that will support you in changing yourself and changing the world!!