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The Dances of Universal Peace combine simple movements with
singing of sacred phrases from the world's spiritual traditions,
including Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Native American,
Goddess, and others. New arrivals and old hands weave a sacred circle.
With heart, body and voice, guitar and drum, we seek to evoke the
beauty and harmony that connect us to ourselves, to each other and to
the earth.
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Sharon Abercrombie
is a certified leader of the Dances of Universal Peace.
She first learned them in 1992 while studying for her master's degree at
Matthew Fox's Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy names
College in Oakland. She has taught the dances at several parochial schools
in the Oakland Catholic Diocese, as well as at the School of Applied
Theology at GTU, Holy Names College and at numerous women's spirituality and
ecological retreats throughout the Bay area. Last June she lead two dance
circles and a Sufi zikr at a five-day ecological spirituality retreat at
Mrcy Center in Burlingame, and at a women's retreat in Orange. In March of
2003 she will be leading them at the California regional Call to Action
meeting in San Jose.
Richard McMurtry, co-leader of the Sunday circle, is working on his dance
leader certification. He specializes in the Aramaic sayings of Jesus,
including the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes and the "I Am" statements.
Richard recently returned from a month-long dance retreat in Scotland lead
by Dr. Saadi Neil Douglas Klotz, creator of these Aramaic dances and the
author of "the Hidden Gospel, "Desert Wisdom" and "Prayers of the Cosmos."
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