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Eline Kieft - Dancing in the Muddy Temple, Inbunden

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Dancing in the Muddy Temple

A Moving Spirituality of Land and Body

Av Eline Kieft

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Drawing from nature experience, dance, anthropology, and shamanism, Dr. Eline Kieft explores improvised movement as a pathway to insight, healing, transformation, and direct interaction with source. Dancing in the Muddy Temple takes the reader on a journey through multiple layers of embodied spirituality based in movement and embedded in the land. Addressing existential questions outside of mainstream religions, the book seeks possibilities for a spirituality that dances with the sacred life force within and all around us. Starting within the body, and always using movement as a way of knowing, Kieft expands on further concrete and subtle layers of connection. A sensorial immersion in the land develops into an expansion of consciousness and meeting intangible aspects of nature. After exploring the role of ceremony in contemporary times, the book concludes with an unexpected chapter on healing, drawing together insights for a dynamic approach to health and wholeness as innate part of an embodied spirituality. Moving seamlessly between her personal, professional, and academic background, Kieft creates an unusual scholarship in which bodily and autobiographical narrative are neatly interwoven with interdisciplinary literature. Its uniqueness lies in a radical integration of theory and practice, which brings an aliveness to the material that stirs an inquisitive desire to move, rooted in language that inspires confidence for personal inquiry into a rich and complex territory. This inspiring book offers an intricate road map to explore and strengthen the interwovenness of various layers of self, surroundings and the sacred, distilling tools for a practical, moving spirituality of the everyday.
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Eline Kieft is an independent scholar, consultant and coach, combining her background as anthropologist, movement facilitator and shamanic practitioner.

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Here is something completely different and quite unexpected. (Unless you have met Eline Kieft in person!) Curiously compelling with its ineluctable invitation to attend to a new way of practising, honouring, and celebrating embodied existence in the world. More so even than this, Eline offers a profound recognition of the ways in which life itself performs its ceaseless dance, drawing together each of its myriad expressions into an ever-newly improvised articulation of its holy life-giving sacredness. Using her own experience of life’s twists and turns, Eline explores the connections and spaces between movement/dance; spirituality/embodied wisdom; landscape/wholeness; soul/soil; ritual/journey. The overarching and wonderfully transgressive and transformative idea of the ‘muddy temple’ both guards and proffers, enfolds and reveals, an ancient wisdom that finds sacredness right before us – shimmering at the heart of aliveness itself.I have read this book three times now and, on each occasion, I have found something new, different, challenging, and stimulating. At the end of the third reading, I was struck by the thought that this is exactly the kind of book the celebrated Rhineland mystic Hildegard of Bingen would have written had she lived in the 21st century. It’s a masterpiece, a gem, of embodied, integrative, and healing thought and action for the people and creatures of today’s world that this human will return to again and again for inspiration.

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