Expressing Gratitude with InterPlay & Celebrating Obama's Victory November 28, 2008

Please forward to your Family, Friends and Colleagues who may be Interested in this weekend Retreat!! Thank you!!

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Wheatley

Friday, November 28 - 1 to 6pm - Oakland, California -- 2273 Telegraph avenue, Oakland, CA 94612

Saturday, November 29 -- 1 to 6pm - Sacramento, California -- 2724 24th street, Sacramento, CA 95818

Sunday, November 30 -- 1 to 6pm - Los Angeles, California -- TBA

Join International InterPlay Leader and Healing Artist Masankho for this afternoon of expressing your gratitude for life’s gifts with InterPlay, African Dance and Ritual. After spending Thanksgiving Day with your family and loved ones come and play and be in ritual with Masankho. Gratitude is one of the most powerful forms of outward expression that we have. Using InterPlay which is a creative practice for unlocking the Wisdom of the Body through Movement, Music, Story and Stillness and ancient African rituals and chants we will spend the afternoon reflecting on and playing with all that we are grateful for. The afternoon will include but not be limited to:

· Songs, dances and stories of gratitude (InterPlay)

· Drumming our rhythms of thanksgiving

· Dances of gratitude to the ancestors and the four directions

· Making a gratitude collage

• Making your wish for the coming year

We will create an alter so please feel free to bring pictures of people you are grateful for, objects that express gratitude to you or that you are grateful for and rhythm instruments to play with.

Suggested Donation: $45 (no one turned away)

Registration: Please call and/or e-mail if you are planning to come!

Brief Biography: Masankho is a healer, performing artist, InterPlay Leader and peace builder originally from Malawi, Central Africa, now living in Oakland, California. From the time he could walk everything about Masankho's life has groomed him to become the healer & leader he is today. Masankho has led healing rituals & InterPlay retreats in California, Hawaii, Mexico, Australia, Nashville, Los Angeles and many more cities around the world. Masankho brings a gentleness and passion to his work that puts people at ease and allows them to access their deepest healing and most ecstatic celebrations. In 2001 Masankho was awarded the Unsung Hero of Compassion Award by his Holiness the Dalai Lama.

For more information about Masankho please visit http://www.ucandanc.org and for more information about InterPlay please visit http://www.interplay.org. Masankho can also be reached on his cell: 510 773 7328

Please forward to your Family, Friends and Colleagues who may be Interested in this weekend Retreat!! Thank you!!

Official Website: http://www.ucandanc.org