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What If the Hokey Pokey Is What It Is All About? If you were to look one place in the world to find a more embodied, playful and grace-filled life, the InterPlay people would tell you to go straight to the source! Your own body! Move: What the Body Wants introduces readers step by step into InterPlay, a practice for creative and spiritual development that reintegrates the body into all aspects of life. Interplay, which is practiced throughout the world, is a philosophy and technique developed by Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter in 1989 to foster health and transformation through community and creativity. Read this book as inspiration or as a guide to the practice of InterPlay. Most exercises can be done alone or with a partner. However, InterPlay is at its best as a communual a practice. Included with the book is online access to full-length Interplay album Like Breathing, which will help awaken your body wisdom.

This small book embraces interruptions, small and large, as sites for the sacred. It teaches a small sacramental way of living by revisiting and reimagining the seven sacraments Roman Catholics enjoy. These ritualized way of looking at transitions enable a sacramental kind of life, while normalizing trouble and transitions. They ritualize and resacralize what has been desacralized and blown apart. When we embrace change and stop looking for or at the past with fear; instead of worrying what big bad will be next - another 9 - 11 or Sandy or Sandy Hook - or worrying about climate change''s nearly guaranteed enforcement of a new way of life - we enter these interruptions with hope. Instead of worrying what small event - traffic, lost passwords, mental congestion, overwork, family difficulties - will make 4 p.m. look too hard without a drink - we enter these interruptions with hope. The book is small because I was moved by former Eerdman''s publisher Jon Pott who said he wanted "fewer words," which articulate more, allowing St. Augustine to engage Brene Braun. (Christian Century, October 2015) Structured sacramentally in baptism, Eucharist and confirmation (the sacraments of initiation) and penance and anointing the sick (sacraments of healing) and ordination and marriage (sacraments of service), it imagines sacramental living as a kind of parabolic Pentecost. There we learn to find a way where there is no way and to allow ourselves to experience the wind as it blows, rather than the ground as it rigidifies. In addition to the sacramental structure and Pentecostal parabolic reliance, in which religious themes will emerge rather than be forced, the readers will find themselves plopped into ordinary life in the early 21st century. A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible grace. This book is a guide to living towards the holy while drenched in difficulty.

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Lee Simpson may seem like an unlikely candidate to don the mantel of anti-consumerist prophet. She is, after all, the former publisher of Canada''s most successful women''s lifestyles magazine, Chatelaine. But that is just the first of many surprising things about her new book My Year of Buying Nothing. In My Year of Buying Nothing, Simpson invites readers into her world to witness first hand the struggles she faced, the decisions and compromises she had to make, and the epiphanies and wisdom she won during her year-long attempt to shed her "consumer" skin and live a more sustainable, more authentic, In the 1980s and ''90s, Lee Simpson oversaw the heady days of women''s magazine publishing. Although proud of the excellent journalism featured in her magazines, and of the pioneering work of the editors she worked with, her primary role as senior executive was to ensure that a maximum number of advertising pages got sold. "I was part of the data analysis and market research conglomerate that helped consumer predators know your weaknesses and exploit them mercilessly." Who better to choose as a guide to a post-consumer lifestyle than someone who is intimately familiar with the pitfalls and dangers of the starting place, and the challenges of the way forward?

Creative Aging is a powerful new social and cultural movement that is stirring the imaginations of communities and people everywhere. Often called Sage-ing, it takes many forms: academic, social and personal. It includes festivals, conferences, classes, group sessions and individual creative pursuits. The Journal Sage-ing With Creative Spirit, Grace and Gratitude was founded by the Okanagan Institute in 2010 to honour the transformational power of creativity. Intended as an initiative for collaboration and sharing, the Journal presents the opportunity for the free exchange of wisdom gleaned from creative engagement. Sage-ing is about seeking - satisfying inner gnawing and transforming it to knowing and action. Aging can be alchemy when one allows the realisation that to Know Thyself and contribute that knowing to our culture is indeed one of life''s highest purposes. That knowing brings the gratitude, grace and integrity that a life deserves. The creative journey into self is a strong aid to health and wellbeing for the individual and to our culture. Creative Aging brings together more than 50 essays and galleries of images that showcase the power of the imagination expressed and enjoyed.