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A shrill yelp of pain roused me from a dream: I have discovered another room in my house - a room for dancing, long with a polished floor and a roof open to the sky. I twirl round and round and the air swirls like wind around me, flowing in eddies about my arms, my legs, my face..
About Carolyn
Since a child growing up in Brooklyn, I have been a 'practical mystic.' This has led me to work as a midwife in India; a builder of strawbale houses; a classical musician and more recently, an improvisational singer for healing. For the last 50 years I have lived, with my...
Author's Publishing Notes
This book, the second in my quartet of books, has been the most popular over the years. It took a full seven years to write. It was first published in 1991, and is now back in print.
This book was my first attempt to use my own personal stories as a way of describing universal truths. In my work as a healer I evoke the subtle energies of a person's body, where only an intuitive perceiving of the whole person can help to reveal where the congestion lies in their body. After trying to write a scholarly book about this, I realized the only way to get to it was through story where the truth lies hidden in the weave of images and emotions and events. This book was the one that set the style of writing for all my work since then.