Return to Health

Anna Halprin offers the wisdom of her life experience as a dancer, teacher and facilitator for healing. She tells her own story as a cancer survivor, and the stories of others, with deep compassion and clarity. This is a guide to understanding the emotional processes of a health crisis, with clear guidelines for how to work with these insights.

Anna Halprin is a pioneer in the field of dance as a healing art and has been teaching and performing with people with cancer, AIDS, and other lifle threatening illnesses for the past fifteen years. She is co-founder of the Tamalpa Institute in Kentfield, California and the founder of the San Francisco Dancer's Workshop. Her numerous awards include the prestigious American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement in Modern Dance. She teaches in her Mountain Home Studio in Kentfield, California and tours the U.S.A. and abroad. She is the author of Moving Toward Life, Movement Ritual and the Circle the Earth Manual.