I feel such gratitude to Anna. She appeared in my life in 1976. I was 34 and her attitude, playfulness, and resilience has affected me the rest of my life.

She gave me the first push to create “Dance 💃 & Self-Healing with Clay“ and to create twelve year-long Performance 🎭 experiences on the full moon 🌕 called “Anti-Conceptual Pieces (Peaces)” as a reverse commentary on “conceptual art.”

For one I rented a public swimming pool in Berkeley, heated it up as a giant group hot tub for about 50… then we came back and chained- danced🕺🏻 💃 💃💃💃🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻💃💃💃🕺🏻💃🕺🏻❤️🌕 through the artist’s factory and onto the roof where I had my Studio!!

Anna Halprin gave me the confidence & permission to self-heal & to allow the creative juices to unfold!!!

YAHOO!

I met Anna in the pages of a contact quarterly in a story of her turning 80. I was in my late thirties and determined to dance. My mantra became, “If Anna can dance at eighty, I can dance!” I had the wild pleasure to dance with her in New York three times, learn the planetary dance, meet up with so many and travel out twice to dance with Anna among the red woods on that beautiful stage. Dance for me like many is the deep expression of my most honest, brave self. Thank you for day. It was beautiful and so confirming. I want to echo that it was always so apparent how deeply she loved her children and grandchildren. She is a blessing. Thank you all for your stories and sharing.❤️❤️❤️❤️

Anna,
You are unforgettable… you so deeply touched so many in such far-reaching soul-full ways… I remember your hands touching me from shoulder to elbow to fingertips bringing alive the curve from my heart-body traveling out to the fingertips… it was in the wisdom of your touch that you conveyed more than words ever could… and there were so many other moments when pearls dropped out of your every word with utter simplicity and grace… in your dance class your simple suggestions led to the unfolding of seemingly miraculous understanding and insight and human felt complicity… it was a great grace to study with you. Your sense of the comical was absolutely an elixir of life. So much, so distilled, such a gift to have experienced even such a small part of all you had to teach, so enormous. After you joined other stars up in the ether, I wrote a series of poems that I will share with you here in this space… know that if not the words, the vibrations with reach you again… as when I wrote them:

Never one to trail…

Anna,

You were never one to trail blazes…

You were ablaze!

A blaze blazing with other blazes

Aflame! Aglow!

Kindling a blazing trail

for so many more to blaze,

blaze brighter than ever before!

—LW

THIS IS YOUR MOON

for Anna—

This moon is yours, Anna.

Take a bow.

The rays of the moon are shining for you,

and you make them a little brighter tonight.

There will be five colors to the moon

before dawn

as you shift and flow through the sky.

You make your grand exit

on the full “super flower blood moon”

and complete eclipse.

You follow the fragrant path

of Spring blossoms

all the way home…

—LW

Our dance…

for Anna—

You a cloud

dancing

as you always have

on a grand scale.

I mirror your form

rolling and billowing

opening

and turning inward

tumbling out as I tumble in.

You showing me the grandness

of this endless dance

that grows as the universe does.

Folding and unfolding

embracing

holding it all…

The arms of the galaxies

are opening now…

Your arms are made of space

of ether

as they always have been

yet it’s so transparent now…

You are space dancing

just

as you always have.

—LW

And finally under the arc of the influence of this sacred time in which you stepped forward into a new dimension, this poem:

Step forward

Yes, even when you have forgotten yourself,

you are a mandala, you are a snowflake,

you are a prism, you are a fractal

shaping the light coming through you

like no other.

Step forward

into the shadows

or out of them

knowing that even the shadows

reveal the form of the light

that pours forth

from your life.

Step forward

following your bliss,

following your burning curiosity,

following your nose

as you seek out the fragrance

of the secret rose,

of the hidden treasure that you are.

Step forward

following your in-tuition,

the inward sense

where you find yourself

on the map of existence

dancing your wandering dance

twisting and turning

across mountains

through valleys

over plains

your toes pressing

into the moist sands of long beaches.

Step forward

and let the light move

through you.

Step forward.

You are

like no other.

—Lorena Wolfman

With love and the deepest admiration,

Lorena

The dancer and the dance are one.
I dreamed.
You said, “I will show you the secrets.”
I danced.
And the Universe opened up.

Thanks for being with us, Anna!

Flying memories, written in stone, sandy beach, gone with the wind…
Thanks Anna

Dear Anna, You always made everyone feel like they are a special friend and there’s room for many, many more. You made me feel like you see me from simple to complex and back, and invited me to see you the in same way. Art and life are one, which is also how I grew up. With all the experimenting and letting go, classes with you (and Tamalpa in general) were the safest space I have ever been in to go into those hidden places. And make art about it! And then, have a meal. I carry your wisdom and friendship with me in my heart for all of my time, and maybe we’ll meet as fractals of light in the future. Thank you.

THE WIND INVITED SPRIT TO
DANCE IN NATURE
WITHOUT GRAVITY

With her, I learned to land in this human body … Anna showed me the way to make it an exquisite place to be. She taught me to move and dance and celebrate the nature in me, the stillness in me, the life force in me.

Anna gave me a space in which to open myself at a sensory level to the elements of the natural world and let myself be molded by them, intimately, and in this way sink deeply into the knowledge that I belong to the web to the broader life … bodily experiecing the One.

I came to Tamalpa when I was 22 years old. After a childhood marked by death and orphanhood, a little piece of me always wandered in not feeling, non-presence … non-life.

My time with Anna and all the powerful beings at the Tamalpa Institute brought me to life again. Going home in my own body and letting myself be enveloped by the creative process, they created an energy similar to light, a spark … a ray that broke parliament and connected me with life.

Flower Blood Moon
Rising,
Yet a unique star
rejoicing
Her name is Anna

dearest anna

everyone who you’ve
ever touched will
never forget you.

those that have
heard your words
or held you will
never be the same.

Anna is the Mother tree in the forest at Sea Ranch. A tree rooted firmly in fertile soil. A tree that has withstood the test of time. She grew and extended her branches all over the world. I am proud to be a small limb on that tree. Thank you Anna for growing strong and creating a legacy that will persist for generations. Thank you for opening my eyes and drawing out my body. I owe you my heart and my every move.

I was fortunate enough to meet your work in ritual and movement in dance anthropology. It led me to an immersive weekend exploring the life/art process which has stayed with me all these years later. Life brings many twists and turns which I express in movement, art and poetry. Thank you for all that you were and will continue to be through your work as it dances on, with fondest love

When I walked into the big yurt at Esalen in the summer of 2013 and Anna invited us all to move, I came home.

She was teaching dance in a way that I always sought, but never thought possible.

Anna’s teachings opened doors to my source of creativity and a deep sense of connection to nature.

In 2014-2015 I did the life/art training at Tamalpa and enjoyed the wonderful Mountain Home Space.
Thank you Anna for setting a great example.

I am forever and grateful and promise to use and spread this beautiful legacy.

I am forever grateful to Anna for the extraordinary dance energy and creative inspiration she brought to the Tamalpa Trainings I undertook in 1983/4.
I especially remember the way that the mountain, the sky, the eagles, the Mountain Home Studio and our dances were constantly being interwoven. In this way the dances grew, we all grew and respect and love of the land were enhanced.

There are too many elements of those trainings to mention, all of which proved important as I moved into dance performance making and teaching. Perhaps I can summarise by reflecting on the way Anna encouraged us to both travel inwards without losing touch with our contexts, the wider world and the natural environment.

The trainings were a joy and the fat file we were encouraged to keep has indeed lasted a lifetime with little moments resurfacing as a reminder of a richly collaborative and wide ranging set of courses.

It was with huge pleasure that I met with Anna both at her home to interview her and to have a really fun trawl through her photos for a book. The photos brought back so many memories and lots of laughter. Meeting in Paris too for the performances there was inspiring. Typical Anna, new work being developed in the moment and older pieces refined and edited for a new place and people.

Huge thanks to Anna for all that she has brought to the dance world and I will miss her greatly. Libby

Hi Anna, There are no words to express the gratitude I have for you, your work, Daria and the whole Tamalpa experience. It was the hardest year of my life and the most rewarding. This training with you set a new course for my life. I wish I could have seen you again, especially as you aged, so I could tell you in person….just how amazing all that you brought to the world is. Thank you Anna…may you travel well! You will be missed!

Dearest inspiring amazing Anna,
You have always been – and will be – an inspiration to us all as you continue beam your glorious love and light to all. Deep heartfelt gratitude always. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE to you!!!

You and your priceless friendship and inspiring journey are in my heart as long as I dance upon his Earth, and beyond.

Dearest Anna,
Your life was such a beautiful dance. It was a dance of joy, despair, curiosity, compassion…All that can be felt in the human experience you DANCED it.

Happy 101st Birthday. I’m grateful to you for encouraging me to dance the dances that I needed to embody.

Dear Anna, thank you for a lifetime of inspiration, of breaking the rules, for our ‘duets’ at 1977 Association of Humanistic Psychology Association national conference, the Halprin & Halpern experience, and for the more than several folks who thought we were married, and your chuckle when I told you that. I’m sure you’re dancing with angel wings now, onward to the Light.

TWAMEVA MAATHA CHA PITHAA TWAMEVA, TWAMEVA BANDHUSCHA SAKAA TWAMEVA, TWAMEVA VIDHYA DHRAVINAM TWAMEVA,TWAMEVA SARVAM MAMADEVA DEVAA. MEANING OF THE SANSKRIT VERSE: THOU ART MY MOTHER, MY FATHER, YOU ARE MY RELATION, AND FRIEND. YOU ARE ALL KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM, YOU ARE ALL OMNIPRESENT. IBOW DOWN TO YOU. A LITTLE PRAYER OFFERED BEFORE LEARNING ANYTHING. NAMASTE.

Dear Anna,
You touched me so deeply. I am forever grateful to you and your most beautiful essence. I thank you for your bountiful gifts. With gratitude and love, Adele

Dear Anna, Thank you for telling me that my dancing is stunning and excellent! And, thank you for permitting me to use that quote on my website! Your contribution to my life is beyond words.

Dear Anna, as I stepped through your kitchen doorway for our first meeting, you greeted me with open arms and called me by name, in an embrace infused with the scent of madrone trees and the warmth of sunlight. My footsteps brought with me a symphony of echoes from your dance deck, absorbed through my skin, into my spirit, echoes held deeply, eternally by the grain of the trees danced with and upon. On this day of days, you were 95, and with sparkling love, led me into explorations to nurture my personal practices, so that my giving could forever be an extension of yours, indefatigable. Your manna powers my self-love so that I may pass my learnings forward, ever sustainably. You invited my spirit to interweave with yours, and still you are with me as I wend my way in helping people with incurable diseases draw on personal memory to discern their voices and expressivity in their own movement language. Anna, your presence will never dim, as it lives on in continual life, growing and expanding, whispering from limb to limb amongst the trees, from limb to limb in oneself, and onwards amongst humanity. Thank you Anna for gifting the world with your living legacy.

I loved the way Anna inspired so many to dance! I have been a dancer for 60 yrs. and always learned something new in regards to moving my body safely, beautifully & creatively. She inspired me with how easy she helped students with her explicit wording & directions! Mostly, I will miss her friendship, her little girl smile and laughter, her love and her beauty! Anna, THANK YOU! Till we meet again, dancing amongst the stars…..

A love remembrance of working with dear Anna and her multi cultural group in early seventies at SF Dancer’s Workshop and Company.
Kaddosh Adonai, rituals and self portraits were so creative and powerful.
I wish all a brave mourning and the will to perpetuate the spirit of art in movement inspired by her great impulse.
http://www.dussoix.ch Geneva, Switzerland

I studied with Anna at four of her summer courses (1960, 1962, 1963, and 1967–when my last name was Markson). I also had contact with her later when she was a guest at Jacob’s Pillow and at locations in California. I consider her one of the most important influences on my life in dance–my understanding, my choreography, my teaching, and everything. I loved her and her work very much and appreciated what she had created and what I had learned from her. She is a continuing inspiration for me.

Short and sweet – your rebellious truth-making has led us into new domains of consciousness and connection. I am forever grateful. May we keep your many trajectories going with your name living on for an eternity.

Oh Anna I saw Breath Made Visible, signed up for your class, abandoned all that ballet had twisted into me, freed my body/soul and spent brilliant Thursday mornings in your marvelous company. And now your teaching new steps to the angels. Blowing kisses to you skyward!

Dearest Anna,
I wanted to come to meet you two years ago from Geneva. And then I did not because of life events.
I am a dancer. I discover your life, your way to teach, to be into the world, to dance, lately. I had to do a research for a project about the futur and about people that made a step beside one day and made things move forward. And immediately I choose you. I had to go deeper into your life, listening your interview, reading a lot about you. It was a way to meet you. Not the best, but it did something to me very important and very strong. I am transforming inside because of you.
Thank you with all my heart. Have a very nice trip wherever you are !

Dear Anna,
I had the honor of dancing with you and learning from you in your beautiful studio. I hold deep respect and admiration for you and the difference you made in the world through teaching others to dance.
With Love,
Barbara

Dear Anna Banana

What can I possible write that will even begin to express what an essential part of my life you have been for the past 48 years? There has been so much written about your work, mastery, personality, spirit, how you have influence so many dancers through the years, and your beauty both inside and out. How you have influenced, touched and changed people from all over the world and how so many of them have touched more people and on and on. I would be both stating the obvious and redundant. So i will share some of mine, and maybe yours as well, memories.

I remember so clearly in 1972 walking up the stairs at 321 Divisadero in San Francisco to meet you. At the time I had been teaching Yoga and taking dance classes but had no idea of who you were or how my life was about to make an unimaginable turn and never be the same. A mutual friend had arranged the meeting and one of the first things you said to me was “Are you a Yemenite Jew?” I had no idea what that was or meant but I laughed and you did too. You followed that with an invitation to do a two week summer workshop and I was off and running.

I became your student and after a year of working with you it evolved to you mentoring me. You brought me to all your classes and workshops for a year and had me take notes. It was then you told me something that would influence and shape my work for the rest of my days…”I want you to study and understand what I am teaching and my work but I don’t want you to copy me. I want you to integrate it in to what you know and what you will learn. And then for you to make it your work. I want you to create with what I give you.”

The third year you began allowing me to teach. Both at the San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop and quite to my amazement at the time, ( and still now when I think about it), you would periodically tell me you were tired or had something else to do and send me off to teach your class. I remember how when I would announce to the class that you couldn’t make it and I was going to teach the response would range from disappointment on people’s faces to “OH NO’s”, to “we came to work with Anna not you.” Later I realised you were giving me lessons in humility and developing confidence.

When San Francisco Dancers Workshop moved to Tamalpa, or Mountain Home Studio, you brought me with you and put me on the faculty of the training program. That was such an honour and privilege. Close to the same time you were invited to teach a series of workshops in Europe and didn’t want to go. You said you were going to send me. OMG! The bravado, trust, and confidence you had to think that I knew something and that it was a good idea for me to go teach in Europe and represent you and your work. I was totally shocked, afraid, felt privileged and couldn’t believe it…but I didn’t hesitate and thought maybe you knew something I didn’t and jumped at the opportunity.

The door you were slowly opening for me all of a sudden was flung wide open…a door, and doors, that completely shaped my life. Right now I am writing this sitting in a small town in the English Dartmoor National Park. I am quarantining as I am get ready to teach my 42nd year in Europe. How could I possibly express to you all you have done for me, meant to me, and helped shaped me?

I could go on and on with stories of our student/teacher relationship, your mentoring me, as friends, colleagues, and how you became (in my mind) my surrogate mother. But for now I will finish with two special memories,

1) of all the times sitting on your pack patio under the shade of the pine trees having lunch between classes. Talking, and most wonderfully hearing you laugh at my stories and jokes and me laughing at yours. Of sharing ideas and information about movement and teaching. And sharing memories of students who had passed through the studios of San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop and Tamalpa.

2) We were in Paris preparing for the huge performance of “Intensive Care” at the Centre Pompidou and you wanted to share some music that you thought could be used in “Enroute” a piece in the streets that was a tribute to one aspect of your work you were doing when I first met you. It took place in the streets on the way from the Hotel to the Pompidou each day before the performance.

You wanted me to listen to a Tom Waits song called “Big in Japan.” We were in your hotel room standing and listening to the song. I remember I was looking out the window, I heard a funny sound and looked over and you were lying on the bed not moving. I freaked out and thought you had a heart attack or some other unspeakable occurrence. I rushed over to the bed and you sat up and said “I was rehearsing for the death scene in Intensive Care.” I had almost crapped in my pants but when you looked at my face and burst out laughing I had no choice but to laugh too.

Now the reality is your presence has transitioned back into the Absolute. Your life was lived fully and in a way that is an example for all of us. You live on in all of us who were blessed, inspired and touched by you. I bring you into my meditations everyday and send positive thoughts that your transition back to the Absolute will be another one of your unique dances that only you can do!

I watch you dance
in the clouds that pass by
the wind moving through the trees
rivers flowing
waves rolling in
and receding back into the ocean

Oh God Anna I miss you.

I received so many blessings in life, and meeting you at the tender age of 24 was one of the most significant. I cherish the many memories of my time with you. Here is one: While sitting together at Sea Ranch many years ago, you shared with me that one of the reasons you started teaching was to have someone to dance with. Thank you, Anna, for dancing with me. It was a lot of fun and has shaped my life in profoundly meaningful ways.
Just look at all the tributes by the many people you have touched! May all this love and gratitude accompany you as you fold back into the Great Mystery. I honor you by sharing our dance with as much of the world as will have me. I love you to the moon and back!

FOR YOU ANNA

A teacher by nature. You loved your students. Every student was your friend.

A true beginners mind. You could teach a same class a 100 times, and a 100 times you would do it with the same passion and enthusiasm, as if it was the first time.

All bodies were welcome in your dance, everyone was celebrated in their uniqueness– all sizes, ages, types, and abilities– Your dance was a dance for All.

A true revolutionary, reclaiming life as a stage and breaking down the borders between dancers and no dancers, between audience and performers, between Life and Art.

A community builder, a bridge maker. Connecting people from all over the world. All human expressions found their home in your Mountain Home Studio– united, together, speaking one same language: the language of the arts.

A force of nature and a nature lover. You danced with nature and nature danced with you. Tree, Sky, Stone, Ocean, Mountain, Bird– your most intimate dance partners.

Fun, vital, curious. Brilliant woman.

Experimental, courageous, dedicated, unique. A true artist.

A dancer, an environmentalist, a teacher, a therapist…

It’s hard to define you, Anna Halprin.

I will never forget a conversation we had, some years ago during one of our lunches together at your Mountain Home. I asked you: Anna if you were to define yourself in one sentence what would you say? You thought for a while, and then said: I am a dancer and a teacher who is committed to life.

That says it all~

My heart is full of love and gratitude for you. You taught me to love my body. You reminded me about my right of expression and the joy of it. With you I became a dancer!

Your legacy is alive with all of us. Your dance will continue touching and transforming people’s life.

Fly free like a bird, in an eternal and joyful dance –May your soul rest in peace.

I will love you always dear friend.

Rosario

My time dancing in the woods, 2005-2010, cracked me open in the gentlest way. My body understands what my voice cannot express. Dear Anna you live through your students every day. Thank you for your vision, your compassion, your persistence.

Happy 100th birth-day dearest Anna Halprin Artist
! May your day be filled with the wisdom of the earth, the beauty of the light, the freshness of the night, the music of the water, the dance of the trees and the dilightfull feeling of beeing alive on this fullish day of your 100th birthday! I feel very blessed to have met you 20 years ago and that you have since then shaped my dance path like the river shapes it’s bed by flowing. Precisely it is your inspiration, freedom, sens of creation, perceiving the human potential, trusting its transformation potential, colorful sparks of an ever renewed inspiration, inventing new ways, confronting new ways, and never giving up… It’s precisely those color in your dance creativity that shaped me, that defined me with a every lasting desire of pursuing it. It’s more than you, and it’s you! And I loved it! “I still love it! Everyday as a teacher and a dancer and a creator, a leader or a follower, I call it!
Thank you to life that we meet!!!
And we are still today creating together 💗☀️🍀🦅
I love you Anna

Dear Anna,

Happy Birthday to you! You’ve been such an inspiration for me since I met you back in 1999 at the Body Wisdom Conference in CA. Thank you for accepting every invitation I could muster up for you to come teach for my students and colleagues over these many years since. Each time you awakened our earth bodies and creativity with so much passion and joy! Your vision of the vital role of dance and community in our lives is still so needed in these times. What an amazing 100 years so far. 🙂

Thank you for our friendship and all the movement memories that live in me still. May we each carry the torch of your inspiration into all we do, to move toward a more compassionate world.

Love, Susan

Happy 100th Birthday Anna Halprin!! Thank you for sharing your wisdom, passion, creativity, guidance, inspiration, healing, compassion, and skill through your lifelong pioneering work with the Life-Art Process. Wishing you many more years on this Gaia blessed with wellbeing, love, healing, and peace.

In addition to the birthday wishes, I left above I would like to state the dedication I would have made if I were able to dance yesterday. I dedicate my dance to my Aunt Phyllis, my mother’s sister, who died in 2018 at age 97. With her in mind I hope that all women are able to live and express themselves fully.

I dedicate this run to you Anna, who helped so many of us find dedication in running, dancing, being. With fond fond fond hugs.

Little did I know how much my life would change when I joined your Fall workshop 44 years ago. The year I spent studying with you was life altering and I’m so grateful and fortunate for the experience. Thank you for what you’ve given me and all that you’ve contributed to humanity. You will always hold a special place in my heart. Happy 100. Judy

Dear Anna,

although we met only once you have been and will be an inspiration for me – like you always have been for many people around the world. you are such an amazing person – a gift to the world. Please stay healthy and strong in these special times. Wolfgang from Germany

Dearest Anna, I was lucky enough to meet you 1995 in Berlin at the Summer University for Peace. What a wonderful experience to dance with you!! Blessings for you, not only on your birthday!!! I dedicate my run to my friend Angela who is a dancer but only is dancing with her eyes. Please have a look to the photos which will explain my last sentence as the article is in German: http://www.farah-lenser.de/files/pdf/ab40_2_06_Jansen.pdf

Dear Anna,
Happy 100th Birthday! There is no one like you! Thank you for being a trailblazer and seeking healing for our earth and her people. Forever grateful and honored to have learned from you at your Mountain Studio.
Blessings to you today and always!
xo, Gloria J Williams

Wondrous lady of the planet! Thank you for blessing the ground and making so much possible for so many on SO many levels. .

Dear Anna, so dear to so many, happy hundredth birthday!
The astounding gift of your presence on this planet for a whole century has sparked new paradigms of creativity, inspiration, power, artistry, joy, healing, support -to countless individual lives, diverse communities and whole platforms across society…. and will continue to affect the course of the arts, dance, psychology, community, society and the lives of those you have touched and their children and grandchildren for many more centuries to come.
THANK YOU for embodying the very essence of creative potential itself, for living life at its fullest in every breath, for shining your light as bright and bold and powerful and warm as sunshine yet as delightful, magical, mystical and intriguing as the stars. I see you as simultaneously offering your LifeArt through the playfulness, uplifting, spontaneous joy and wondrous sparkle of childlike, curious creativity whilst embodying the creative leadership, profound teaching and masterful artistry of the elder. Thank you for your insight, courage, trust, direction and dedication, your laughter, love, friendship and sparkling vitality that you have offered so openly and naturally to all whom have had the fortune to dance with you. I am immensely grateful to have danced a little of my life with you. (Tamalpa student with Claudia Cuentas 2005) You have moved the world and the world has been moved through you.
Blessings, thanks and birthday love!

Happy 100 years Anna!
Your life has been a gift to humanity.
You have made a difference in the world.
A difference for the better, that has evolved the
human race towards one of peace and justice.
I am grateful to know you and to have been
your student. You are a remarkable teacher
and role model.
I dance for healing and equality between women and men,
for my children, sisters, mothers and ancestors –
and all who have suffered from bullying and violence.
Lill Kocher

I dedicate my heart and soul to bring peace, joy and love to you, Dear Anna, for whatever is next for you, You have made a huge contribution to all those you have touched through your dance, your caring and your explorations in bringing out the best in people. I’m so happy you were able to watch the virtual Planetary Dance online. I send you much happiness in celebrating your 100th year on earth, the 40th Planetary Dance which has made such a huge global impact, and all that you opened in the world of dance. We are all with you and you are forever embedded in my heart. Much love, Barbara of the Beat

100 hugs and kisses for you on your hundredth birthday Anna to express my love and gratitude for all you have offered. I circle today, on your hundredth birthday, and dedicate my circling to you and all those who inspire and create change and transformation in relationship to self, other, the collective, the Earth and the Sacred. Thank you for your gifts and your way. I am forever grateful. XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
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I remember having a spiritual dance experience at Mountain Home Studio last August when you taught us. I am honored to have had this experience and thank you for your life’s work. I run for inner peace and healing for myself and all people on earth. Happy 100th birthday dear Anna!

Anna!

It’s such a pleasure to be writing to you on your 100th birthday, while listening to the drums of the Planetary Dance activated today full of so many dedications, and also full of international dedication to your body of work and contribution to so many fields. Great that this online format serves as a way to remind us how we can be connected despite distances.

Sending you a happy birthday from Paris, and wishing you a wonderful century lived and lived, and to thank you for all you have offered to us, I feel lucky that I could learn so much from you, and feel support from you over the years, and I carry you, your legacy and your ideas to share and discuss with the emerging generations of dancers I work with here and elsewhere.

With deep gratitude for our friendship, your mentorship, your artistry and your humanity, thank you for all you have generously shared.

Love Sherwood

I run for Betsy, and dancing, and Heath Care for All.
Betsy Rasumny Herbert was my first dance teacher when she was a student at Goddard College and I was 5 years old. First on the black and white tiled floor at Goddard and later, when she became part of our family, on the red octagonaled linoleum in our living room in Calais, VT.
Betsy danced with Anna back in the day and later for many years in Boulder Creek, CA. Betsy died there when she was 63 from breast cancer because she didn’t have health insurance and it went untreated until it was too late.
I run for all those without adequate health care especially those who are dying disproportionately from COVID-19. May this crisis bring us to provide real health care for ALL our citizens not just those that can afford it.
Many, many thanks to you, Anna, for your vision and commitment that created Tamalpa and the chance for me to dance my Self-Portrait with Daria. It was a life-changing time for me to dance every day, for it to be my work and my occupation for those weeks. Thank you, Daria, for your work and far-reaching sight. Thanks to all dancers. As Betsy used to say:
‘Dance or Die!’

I run for my cousin Mary Jane Eisenberg that she may persevere in her encounter with cancer and may all encountering cancer persevere.

Happy Birthday, Anna—taller than the tallest tree, more powerful than a locomotive, sprite, spirit, visionary. I dance for you and the global community you’ve created. Thank you for standing for justice and peace, thank you with all my heart!

I was Anna’s assistant twenty years ago. At age 80, she had more energy than five of me, and continually inspired me to find my ways to contribute to good in the world. I am so grateful to Anna, Daria, and all the people who keep the Life Art process alive. May we all continue to find our ways to dance for good in this realm and all others. Tor Carberry (the social artist formerly known as Munir 🙂

I dance so all children and their families may experience a life of health, hope, respect, opportunity, love and joy on this beautiful harmonious planet. May my neighbor, John, and all of the immigrant community in my small Minnesota town feel comfort and acceptance HERE.

Dear Anna,
In deep appreciation and gratitude for you. Your vision, spirit, courage, determination and wisdom have touched my soul. You have awakened the dance in me pass on by my dear Aunt who danced with Martha Graham. Thank you form the bottom of my heart for all that you have given to this world by your presence.I have danced at your studio and on your dancing deck , today in the midst of this upheaval I dance for all the people of this world, and my grandchildren and children not yet born to inherit an earth where all people are respected, loved and know justice and freedom.
Happy 100th birthday Anna with much love to you.
Trudi

I dance in honor of all the unarmed black Americans who have been lynched, executed, or murdered by vigilante mobs, white terrorists, and racist police over the last 150 years

Happy Birthday dear Anna and blessings on your day and year ahead!
Anna I will always remember you with huge Gratitude for:
the space and fluidity you taught me to find in my spine,
introducing me to the healing space of creative communal ritual,
opening up new pathways for me into nature,
and the belief and trust in the knowledge of body and
the creative process available to everyone.
I dance for all South Africans experiencing poverty.

Dearest Anna, Happy **100** Birthday wishes to you. I am sending you lots of love across the oceans from England all the way to your dance deck and Mountain Home studio, up the stairs to your home, through an open window, from my heart to yours. Thank you for all the amazing, precious moments shared, from learning by your side, from dancing in your classes, performing for you at the opening night of your life retrospective at the Lyon Museum of Art, what fun we had travelling across France. To the hundreds of conversations, laughter and naughty chocolate. Learning about you & meeting you in person changed my life. I feel blessed to have experienced many Planetary Dances in person with you, I can still feel each dance and the potency of each prayer in my body. Today I make my dedication for all those around the world facing life threatening illnesses, may they be free from fear. With love, upmost respect and a deep bow. Lian

Happy Birthday Anna.
You are always with me I have dreams of you guiding me. I believe your dedication will bring forth the guiding spirit and HEALING PRESENCE by all you have touched. Thank You

I woke up emotional, looking to the west.
100 years…
It seems to be a huge gift for us to have you here… a part of the human world.
Sometimes everything is falling appart. The society has hurts me so deeply the past few months.
I was blocked into my house, not even allowed to get out for hugging a tree… I put a sheet of paper on my wall and started to wrote the name of people I know fighting for a better world…
Your name was the first I wrote.
HANNA HALPRIN.

One day, Daria proposed me to wondering about the symbolic under my desire to meeting you.
But she has teachs me, as you do, the importance of symbols in our life. As I was thinking about it, not only one but a few answers emerged.
There had a story about fighting for our dreams and for what we think it’s right. There had a story about looking for our roots. There had something about the power of the physical body… Something that the mind connections can’t really remplace. The last story was about the water cleaning us from the past as my tears are rolling on my cheeks right now.
I wrote a dedication for you yesterday. I took the time to think about my words. Now, I’m just improvising this message and this is more the emotional than the mental who takes place. Please forgive my English if he is dancing in crazy directions.
My body and spirit are ready for your Planetary Dance.
I also have a surprise for you as I created a screendance this week. I recorded it surrounded by the tropically forest of my Caribbean island and all those symbols within. I wish you will be able to watch it today.
Dear Anna… I wish you a beautiful day, lovely times with your family and nourishing connection with your community.

With Love,
Aurore

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THE MOVIE RITUAL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enCv8GkZScs&feature=youtu.be

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Pour cette Planetary Dance 2020, je danserais pour tous ceux qui se sentent oppressés par la société dans laquelle ils vivent. Puissions-nous trouver la force rester vivants.

FROM; BUZZ YUDELL AND TINA BEEBE
Dear Anna, We celebrate your spirit- generous, loving, witty, warm, inspiring. We are in Carmel looking at the beauty of the ocean in its constant flux and renewal. This reminds us of our wonderful times with you and Larry at the Sea Ranch; living fully and at one with nature. Your life-force and your loving nature is always with us, wherever we travel. It is a gift you have given the world for a century and it will keep renewing the world for generations. With much love, Buzz and Tina/

I dedicate my dance today to Lloyd Littlebird and his passage through to the Milkyway. Peace and Justice and Love for my greatest friend and Mother-I run for Anna, oh my, 1920 was ah hell of a year, and 2020 is oh my, one hell of a year, I run for Peace and Justice

Dear Anna, I cannot tell you how happy I am in knowing you have arrived at this milestone of your life..100 years. Of all the things I am thinking to say, I can’t escape the thought that this year you will get a chance to cast your ballot in November to assure the person-not-to-be named is voted out of office finally. I think of you voting this year in part because the day after I had gone with you to vote in 2016 (for a woman to be president – the 1st time in your 96 years!), I had to break the news to you about the election results…I believe it may have been the only time I saw you cry, real, heartbroken tears.

Throughout your life and dances, current events and politics in the world have been a motivating force for your engagement that has asked us — the people, the audience, the dancers — to consider, to care, to create, to speak to the current events of the time, and to actively stand for Justice and Peace among People and with the Earth. This global dance ritual, this Planetary Dance, has become the body of bodies that will move beyond the limits of time for generations to come from the seeds planted some 40 years ago.

That 2016 election was significant but now, this year, we have the opportunity to reroute and reclaim that platform by supporting intelligent and good leaders who stand for nothing less than Justice and Peace and have No Tolerance for tyranny, hatred, and violence in this nation and in the world. And so, this year I run to set in motion and to be in solidarity with the voices and votes that will assure sweeping changes in the current US government administration.

Love Always, Sarah

I dance for my niece to feel safe in this country and to have the right and the freedom to live in the United States as a free person. I run for all the dreamers, for all the undocumented people in this country to feel safe, protected and to know that we all belong to this land we now call home.

i m running for blacklivesmatter and in honor of lorin smith and for anna halprin, who started this dance. deeply grateful! i love you anna, happy birthday xoxo

Dear Anna, Thank you for sharing your wisdom! Through your teachings, I connect dance, movement, life, and nature. I learn to slow down and become one with my surroundings. That I can heal myself. The universe listens, and to never doubt the power of dance & ritual. Happy 100th! I am grateful for you.

Happy 100th my dearest Anna, you have changed my life. May we continue the dance for always…

This year I run for all black mothers who have lost a child to police violence. May no mother have to mourn the death of her child to the hands of racism.

Dear Anna,
I did the Planetary Dance with you in San Diego in the mid-1980s, and you gave me a motto I’ve carried through my life—Stay in the Dance.

An exercise we were doing in a pre-workshop stirred up a lot of emotion for a woman in my “family.” She ran out of the gym where we were dancing. The rest of us found her and brought her back, and you came over and talked with her. You told her, “Whatever is happening, stay in the dance. Even if you need to curl up in a fetal position weeping, stay in the dance.”

Thank you for the beauty and healing you’ve given the world. Thank you for inspiring me to always stay in the dance.

Dear Anna – mother of conscious dancing in the world!
Inspired by you in my 20’s and in my 40’s, dancing with you had a big impact on my life. That’s the reason why I want to dedicate the rest of my life (and my earth run today!) in creating a dance resort with my loved one, surrounded by beautiful nature in Germany, where people can come in close contact with themselves, with others and with nature, to restore, heal and to honor.
Thank you for every little movement you made.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch (heartly Luckwish ; )
With Gratitude, melanie nowak

Dear Anna

Happy glorious 100th! I am grateful to you and your life’s efforts; to the steps you took throughout your life that made way for those of us following you, to feed ourselves on a soulful level and learn more about our individual selves than ever before in a creative space. Through your movement and ideas, I found myself again. I healed myself.

On my first Planetary Dance, I dance for all those across the Earth who need healing, to transform and release all old energy, which allows each of us to move past our limitations and reach our ultimate potential.
I also dance for those who need healing in relationships, as individuals and together, encouraging them to move and look past all that appear unsatisfactory, and to see and communicate with unconditional love.

Thank you Anna, for your fight for peace and understanding and for the example you are setting. Doing the training with you in 1984 changed my life, gave me a family and brought magic and magical friendships into my life. Today, for your 100th birthday I am dancing with you, with your and my friends, here in Boulder, CO.

Anna! You are foundational to me since The Twin Cities Halprin Dance Co-op in the Corte Madera Rec Center with the little lion statues outside. The individual and the collective, the joy and creativity of being embodied —– all to be seen in the photos of our young selves lost and found in this magic. Love and gratitude always, to you and the communities you were so instrumental in forming. My peace and justice dedication is to bringing my best self to the 2020 fall elections.

how does one describe the great influence that Anna had on my life. She came to lecture on her “dance as a healing art” to our ITP group and at the moment I knew I had found my teacher. Danced with Anna on Tuesdays, Remembering the Body, for over a decade. Anna’s simple instructions that moved us deeply. how we can together as a group, pairs. After being in Anna’s class never looked at movement the same. It has made me a more rounded human. Thank you Anna with love.

Anna, remembering you means ongoing inspiration to my body and mind. You made me physically understand the meaning of the word ‘mellow’.
Thank you

I run for the children who cannot run:
The differently abled, the oppressed,
the marginalized and the unheard. I dance for their freedom and uplifting.

Dearest Anna, I am sending you blessings of love on your 100th birthday. So grateful for your mentorship, guidance, support and inspiration, for this I give great thanks. You forever remain in my heart.

I run for Justice and Equality for People of African Descent and for all People of Color

Dearest Anna, thinking of you with love and courage, with gratitude and deepest respect of you and your work. Miranda in Luxembourg

Dear Anna,

I wish you all the best for your 100th birthday and feel honored that I have a chance to take part in the ceremony tonight as I have only started to train in Freiburg with Tamalpa Germany!
Thank you so much for your work and your life.
I run for the healing of the wounds that have been inflicted on the black community for centuries and for the healing of the reasons in each individual that cause racist feelings and acts.

Dear Anna, you and the dance have changed my life, enriched, always inspired me , lifted me, challenged the change, I am very very grateful !!!
My Love to you and happy Birthday, blessings for today and days to come!! And a Big Hug I send with the soft winds over the ocean to you.
May we meet again.
I will run / dance for all living creatures to be respected.

Dearest Anna of the Highlands,
From our first encounter in 1985 at the community class for circle the mountain
when you chose Peter Edwards & me to be Warrior dancers to our last lunch together at the behest of your grandson Jahan just a few months ago in your studio, you have supported, encouraged & inspired me & so many others in ways you’ll never know. I am honored to know you and to have been included in so many dances, classes and runs with you. Your passion, creativity & service will always be remembered.
With love, G

I run for strength and inspiration to be felt by all people fighting for reparations and for our voices to be heard.

Happy radiant 100th to you, Anna!
Today I dance for you and and all threads of humanity from our ancient ancestors to the star seed souls of the present and future. I dance outside under the tree on my wooden deck in gratitude for your wisdom & heart-opening experiences in your studio. I dance today to perpetuate a ritual of continuing your legacy, Life/Art~ dancing for peace, justice and infinite aloha.

I run and dance for Ellen – who can’t pay her rent….and ALL people displaced and needing to sustain our homes and work during Covid times.
May all people live safely in places of health, harmony and equity.

Dearest Anna ~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY! We celebrate you and all that you have created during your lifetime today! You have made the world a better place than it was when you arrived 100 (!) years ago. You have offered the breath of life, literally and metaphorically, to so many people (me included!) through Movement Ritual, dancing, drawing, creative writing, and performance beyond the formal stage. May the “breath made visible” by your pioneering work continue to nourish you and the countless lives you’ve touched. My dedication for the Planetary Dance today is to dance for Abby and Elinor and all living beings – including the Earth herself – so that they all know the joy of breathing freely. With endless gratitude and wishes for on-going creativity ~ Elisabeth

Dear Anna,
I greet you on your 100th birthday and am grateful for opportunities I have had to learn about, write about, and experience your work. I treasure the note I received from you long ago after you read my master’s thesis. Thank you for your words that encouraged me and that I have carried with me all these years. Coming full circle, I have made my way through time and space to participate with you and others in the Planetary Dance. I treasure this moment and I wish to honor your century span of life that may best be seen and appreciated as a work of art.

Happy 100th Birthday Anna!
It was July of 2009, when we first met in person, at Esalen for your weeklong Exploration of Movement –a most magical time and we all celebrated your 89th Birthday! For many years prior, my friends had told me about you, your artistry as woman and teacher, and the healing power of movement and dance. And the first night when we all gathered together, you walked up to me and took my hand and told me that you were sure we had met before. In that moment, you helped me connect to a place inside that had longed to find expression in the world. Your warmth and beautiful smile and the twinkle in your eyes touched my soul. I continued to come to your classes at your Mountain Home on Tuesday mornings for several years. I am so thrilled to be celebrating your 100th Birthday with you! Dear Anna, may you have a most delightful and joyful birthday! Your beautiful smile and the many memories of dancing with you on your out door stage are imprinted in my heart forever! With Love and Gratitude, Susan Baron

Bon Anniversaire Anna from Paris, I’ll be dancing the hole day for you ! This morning at the Menagerie de Verre we talked about your dance and remember how great is to know you, Daria and the Tamalpa Institute. Merci pour ta poésie ! Merci d’aimer si fort ! Merci 🙏
Tonight I would run for my friend Michellle and for all the Michel, lle and llle to celebrate the peace and freedom.

Dearest Anna,

Wishing you a very happy birthday. Thank you for bringing this inspirational and transformative work to the world. Deeply grateful for your gifts and grace on this beautiful earth.

With love
Victoria

Happy Birthday, Dear Anna!
I woke this morning with bird song in the forest where I live. The river flows freely amongst the trees. It is here, I hear the voice of the Mother. Every morning, I walk with Her. Each step a prayer for healing and of gratitude. Today, I dance with family throughout the world in your honor. Thank you for gifting us with the Planetary Dance ritual. It matters.
Today, ….. I dance for the Black community of Union Hill. (We celebrate the death of the ACPipeline!) May POC communities be free from the exploitation of petro colonization! ….. May we learn to live in harmony with the abundant energy the Earth gifts to us all.

Dear Anna,
You are a singular inspiration to us all: you show us that one can continue to grow, to expand, one’s whole life. I will treasure childhood and more recent memories of exploring, full-body, your warm, Redwood dance deck, and you leading, responding. Thank you for these memories and teachings that sustain, and also, for indirectly bestowing my name!
Warmest wishes on your 100th birthday.
Love,
Daria

To the elders our most valuable resotce

I run to create a truly free and equal society where everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their dreams. For a society based on empathy, cooperation and social and enviromental justice. Thank you Anna and Happy 100th Birthday!

Dear Anna,
My participation in the full year training in 1985-86 has had a major impact on my personal and professional life. It was then the beginning of my doctoral studies and a 30-year career as teacher and qualitative researcher in the field of consciousness studies in education at Laval University in Québec city, Canada. Today on the occasion of the Planetary Dance on the theme of Justice and Peace, my attention/intention is on the wish of a better distribution of wealth in the world and within my own country.

Dear Anna, I feel so blessed to have fulfilled a life-dream of mine, touching down on your dance deck in 2018, learning from you and your extraordinary legacy. Thank you for your great spirit, and for creating, “Dances That Matter.”

I run and pray for all those struggling with mental health, for healing between mothers and daughters, and for our Mother Earth.

With love and gratitude,
Anouk

dear Anna, I was lucky enough to meet you in Berlin 1995 where you gave a workshop in a Summer University for Peace. That was an amazing experiment for me! Thank you so much for your wonderful being!! I will dedicate this dance for my dear friend Angela, who is also a dancer but can only move her eyes. Here you can see some wonderful pictures of her which will explain the last sentence though the article is in german. http://www.farah-lenser.de/files/pdf/ab40_2_06_Jansen.pdf
Glückauf! Farah

Happy Birthday Anna. Thank you for sharing your dance of life. We move in a birthday celebration dance with you; a circle dance with the hawk who flys around and aroundin above the deck. Thank you, soul sister! Love.

Happy 100th Birthday Anna! Thank you for opening so many possibilities to art and life. I am very glad to had the opportunity to meet you and to dance inspired by your teaching.
This year I run to all live beings in the planet, specially black people, that are still suffering with prejudice and injustice. I wish healing, lucidity and hope to all people around the world.

EARTH RUN DEDICATION:
I run for FOOD JUSTICE.
Food justice means everyone has enough to eat, and that the food we eat is good for people and good for the planet
I run for every family in my hometown, Oakland, to be able to participate in food justice every day.

I run for my children Agee, Daxton & Izzy that they may know freedom from race & have the wisdom & passion to always fight for justice.

Dear Anna, happy birthday to you- it is an honor and inspiration to have met you. Thank you for creating a container where so many can unleash their human potential and for helping soooo many people to return home. Thank you too for inviting me in your home at Sea Ranch and sharing yourself and your endless creativity and generosity with me. May you continue to be you and receive the love and creativity that you give to others.

I run for my son Nathan and all the children on earth that have experienced trauma early in life. May they heal, find peace and help us heal this world

Happy 100th Birthday, Anna!!!
Thank you so much for being my Sunshine.

My planetary dance dedication is “appreciation, transformation, love and peace for myself, my family and the universe.”

Much love from Brazil and Japan.
Nori  

My Dearest Anna,

Blessings to you on the wondrous occasion of your birthday. One hundred years. Wow. This world was given a fine, fine gift on the day of your birth. You have been a guiding light in my life for over 60 years. Every day in these troubled times in which we live, I am so very grateful for the many gifts I have been given. You, sweet friend, were and are a miraculous, mysterious gift that i cherish. Everyday I dance and your spirit moves with me. Walking with my delightful dog who shows me how to enjoy every moment. So often I think of you. Memories slip into my days. Just sayin’. You inspired me, charmed me, endured me. The buoyancy lifted me and continues the process. And now, thanks again for reminding us that to save out very planet, peace and justice must be the underpinning of day to day connections. Love you, dear one. May love teach us to practice peace and justice for our world.

Go well, stay well,
Lynne Van Dam

Dear Anna – It is an honour to be able to wish you Happy Birthday at 100! Thank you for the many hours of creative learning & movement experiences in the 1970’s. My time at the studio truly changed my life. I will always remember you with great appreciation and love.

Dearest Anna , your Training in 1986 changed my life. I moved to the US from Germany and devoted my work to your teachings.Happy happy Birthday , your Life has blessed us all. May you have a wonderful day, much love
Annette Guionnet

Happy Birthday, Anna. I met you once 50 years ago
when I was a student who participated in your dance at City Center, NYC. Your spirit has seeded throughout the world.

This year I run for all those who may not be able to walk or run, or see or speak, who the world may consider “limited” but whose spirits know no bounds.

Happy 100th Birthday Anna!

I treasure the class I took with you. The rain surrounded us, as we spiraled and drew on the floor in your inspiring presence. Thank you!

My son and I will dance to celebrate you, and for justice at Aquatic Park, in the morning before your wonderful annual event, when we will Zoom together, moving for justice and peace.

Thank you for always reminding us that we live together in and with the earth.

much love, Lynn

Dearest Anna, you are such a force of nature that could not be stopped! You have given your life to bringing humans back into our soma bodies, back into the very nature and essence of what movement is and how it brings to life expression in an authentic way, allowing all of nature, the environment, political issues & the spirit to come alive, be felt and seen. Your 100 years on this planet gifted generations of us to inquire deeply into understanding of how important Improvisation is to invite the organic interactive self into relationship without performative pretense. You have shown light onto so many issues of the day the continue to be relevant throughout the decades and stood by all the process and work in powerful art despite many criticisms to the contrary particularly in your early years. I will never forgot singing/ sounding in the performance you did on Aids. We have heard your strong voice, your incredible spirit leading us into the woods, into enormous human spirals which we will keep doing to call out who needs to be lifted up. And I will, we will never forget you. I deep honor to have worked with you, have you be one of my great teachers and long time friend. Sending you big love on your next big journey.

The first time I joined the Planetary Dance we all attended a mutli-day preparation workshop at Redwood High School. The morning of the Dance itself I was part of the runners that came up from Muir Beach. Since then I have had 3 children and brought them at various times… I still remember my oldest (now 23) making his dedication at age 6 or 7 – then joining the circle to run. I have sometimes come to the ceremonial sunrise on top of the moutain (complete with ceremonial hot chocolate afterwards) and last year I was at the Muir Beach sunrise ceremony in all its richness and vitality. The tradition is deeply etched in my psyche through the various years. I will deeply miss this ritual and am so glad to join again via online tomorrow.

Dear Anna (Grandmother and Guide to the Creative Expression coming forth from my Soul)~

I celebrate YOU on your 100th Birthday for the bright light that you are. For your inner vision and for seeing and guiding all those drawn to you to learn; more about themselves, their lives and how they can best cultivate their gifts and skills to serve and make a difference in the world.

You have been one of the GREATEST GIFTS of my life. Thank you!

This year, I run for ALL who are healing from family, social and cultural oppression. May they find their voice and their dance.

Dear Anna
My deepest gratetude for your pioniering and endless life/art inspiration to the word community of dance and the interdiciplinary arts.
Blessings from the depth of my heart for your 100th. birthday!
I`ll run for people of all colours who are in need of the real presence for one another in this challenging pandemic times.

dear anna, thank your for letting me find a home / heimat on your dancedeck, in nature and on the pomo reservation. i love you and i run for you, for lorin and for black lives matter. be well my friend, xoxox

Anna, Happy 100th!!! I was one of the children who delighted in dancing on your deck and in your studio (around 1960-64). I lived on Diablo Drive and would travel up Goodhill in my purple leotard to the dance lessons. You instilled a body awareness in that little body that remains with me even today at age 64. In my body, I can feel the trees swaying in the wind and the relaxation of a sleepy puppy. I remember you picking up my body to see how relaxed I was and telling me that puppy still could relax more. Oh, what valuable lessons!!! I returned to dance again with you when you were 90. So wonderful to return to the beautiful deck and studio and your inspiration. Thank you for your wonderful way of Being.

Hi Anna,
Happy 100th birthday to you from all of the Hediger Yap family. Your commitment to the creative force and courage to stand up against ignorance inspires me again and again.
I dedicate my run to the healing of our planet. Aho
Frank and family

Dear Anna, a wonderful, happy and marvellous 100th birthday to you. Congratulations! Your work has inspired me very much and has changed my life. It was a great pleasure to meet you and work with you and to carry the spirit of your planetary dance into the world.

“I run for the people who are lonely and left behind in the corona crisis, who are scared and afraid and who need a hug and hope and love in their hearts.”

Much Love, Brigitte (Munich, Germany)

Thank you Anna for sharing your wisdom, your ideas and for building such an amazing peace loving community. Thank you for teaching me so much about the creative process and sharing how you work. It was wonderful to see how you honored Lawrence Halprin with Spirit of Place, how the score responded to the values, visions and ideas embodied in his design for Stern Grove. Throughout your life you’ve been a force for understanding, health and the appreciation of Nature. Your generosity in giving to the community creates true spiritual wealth that we all share.

Happy birthday, Anna. You have inspired wonderful healing in me and our world. I run for the release of the body at a time that so many people are experiencing feeling stuck. Releasing with raised arms and a “Pow!”💥🕺🏻

Dear Anna! Happy 100th Birthday!!!
Thankyou for being such a strong beacon of creativity and hope in my life and for so many! I send you all my love!
I run for my pregnant daughter and my yet unborn grandchild. May they have the opportunity to live in an enviroment with healthy nurturing relations with the natural world and peace and social justive in human world.

Happy 100th, Anna Halprin. While I have never had the opportunity to meet you, you have been an inspirational voice in my Encore Career. I run for all my friends and acquaintances who have suffered from racial and/or social injustice. May our future witness brighter days.

Anna, I celebrate you and the blessing of your 100 years on earth! I am so honored to have danced with you at Mountain Studio and will remain forever grateful and inspired by our meeting.
I dedicate my Plantary Dance for you, the mother of my dear friend and sister, Daria, and my own Mother, for peace and transformation through the Divine Feminine.
I love you! Sue

I run for our Elders – may they be safe and protected and free from the burden of Social Injustice!

How blessed I am Anna, having danced in your sacred space. Thank you for recollecting the shattered bodies of our collective conscious ness. When I write about the human soul, as body, I am ever aware of your re-gifting of the body to each and all of us. Thank you

For dear Anna, Happy 100th birthday and a big thank you from one of your Tamalpa trainings graduates 1983-4. No question you have enriched my life in dance in so many ways, some of which I hope I have succeeded in passing on!
I remember doing the Planetary Dance with you on Mount Tamalpais 2002. For this year 2020, I dedicate my run to my colleagues and friends of black, indigenous and people of colour communties who are disproportionatle hit by Covid-19. I run for justice for them.
Much love as always to you Anna,
from Libby (Libby Worth)

Congratulations on 100 years of creativity and teaching, which has revealed to me and many thousands of others the possibility of dance.

This year I am dancing for this land that we live on and which has been assigned to me safe-guard and to treasure; and which has nurtured Melinda and me, and our tribe, during this crazy time of shelter-in-place;
and I am dancing for the safe-guarding of all nature on this planet, that it will nurture ALL people.

Nobody saw you in the picture
your finger on the shutter button
in that moment building a bucket for their love.
Clustered bodies wavered on extended tendrils, reflecting sunlight
under the circle of redwoods Larry left.

About to be sheltered in place, bent upside-down to the root,
socially distanced to flatten looming curves
you pinch yourself in gratitude
for the dancer she saw in you.

Anna who never quit,
Anna who never sold out her mission.
Anna who never gave up on you but kept on
putting you in the picture.

Now silence drifts down from there
where virtual hugs gather to surround her
for lifetimes of lessons on the Dance Deck.
For the dance

This year I run for Athena, granddaughter of a close friend, and all newly born Black children, may they grow up in a world where Black lives truly matter. Thank you, Anna, for all the inspiration, support, wisdom, and frienship you have given me and so many others.

Dear Anna , Thank you for your endless curiosity, your perseverance and your knowing that we ARE nature.
What comes to me is the phrase, “One heck of a life lived!”
I am so grateful for the life changing opportunity you gave me to live in the studio as I studied at Tamalpa all those years ago. I used to hear the boards creak in the silence of the night and imagined all the dancers over decades who had breathed in their inspiration there still dancing and I joined them.We shared the mountain with the bluejays, the deer, a skunk and some cheeky raccoons reminding us we were ‘among’ always.
I dance here in Findhorn in Scotland for you Anna and for all those before you and those after you now carrying forward the torch of the power of dance as a tool for understanding and giving value to all life on this planet and for our ability to change human experience especially now in ending discrimination and injustice.Le gra

Happy Birthday Anna! Thank you for the fresh, enthusiastic response you give to every new dance by every new person who comes to be guided by you. Thank you for seeing and hearing me and all of us. Today I dance for all the people who will carry on your spirit and your passion for planetary healing.

Dear Anna,
thank you so much for teaching, loving, being curious. Sending 100 blessings to you for each year of your life. With your work you gave a lot of people home. Me too. The home in my own body. Which is the most important home a human being can ever gonna get.

I run and dance for celebrating, appreciating and integrating female energies and qualities all over the planet. So girls and women and our Earth can live in peace and freedom and joy.

From Sea Ranch in the 80’s to Stern Grove in 2008, from Mt. Home Studio to Marin General Hospital working with cancer patients you have helped me find the epicenter of creativity and its usefulness in serving others. The tools I learned in the Tamalpa Training gave structure and freedom in creating dances, working with people in the hospital in ministry and scoring my own life process. I don’t even know how to begin to thank you and Daria, I guess the best thank you is to keep on creating and collaborating with others for a more embodied and just world. This year I dance for planting 1Billion trees with TreeSisters. Inspiration from you and back again…Rev. Katharine Harts

Happy 100th Birthday dearest Anna.
Thank you for all you do and for making the world a better place to live.

This year I run for all black children. May they feel safe, heard, seen, supported, and loved in their communities and around the world.

I run for spreading Anna’s vision to inspire and heal the person and her or his influence for a world in peace.

Dear Anna,
I write for the three of us – who are Tamalpa Germany: We stand in gratitude and celebrate you! Happy Incredible 100th Birthday!
You are for us the root and origin of our dance.
Your work gave birth to our branch.
Your roots have always given us support and food for what is our destiny.
To have these roots is a great honor and gives us the strength for our path.
We bow before you and thank you for all that you have given us and the world.
May your soul always feel freedom and love!

“I run for the old people who are alone in hospitals and nursing homes, waiting in vain for a hug.”

All our love to you
Petra for Tamalpa Germany
(Frank, Katrin, Petra)

Dearest Anna,

Five years ago, when I was fighting to defeat my cancer, a friend sent me links to your videos.

From the very moment I discovered the wonderful person you are, the fact that you defeated cancer yourself and the way you did it through your art, I had only one objective : to cure to be able to visit you at Tamalpa and be healed learning the Life Art Process. Because I was sure that that meeting would definitely heal my body and my mind. And it happened.

And I achieved my dream when, two years ago, I travelled from Madrid to Kentfield to take part in the Summer Workshop. After working and learning so much during the week from your daughter Daria, you shared the last day with us. That day, my dream had come true. And it was even more wonderful that all I had imagined before watching you coming down the stairs to join us on the deck.

You are such a blessing in my life, Anna. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

This year I planned to attend the Planetary Dance in California. I will be there with my heart and my spirit. I will run for you my dear Anne, wishing you a wonderful birthday and I will run for people being aware that we need to love each other, all of us, no matter our country, no matter our origin, no matter the colour of your skin. We are all Love.

Happy birthday to you, Anna!

Pascale-Lora Schyns

Dearest Anna, every Wednesday morning, I watched your come down to the studio from your home and then go up again like a ritual. You are the symbol of determination, sensitivity and artistic expression of awareness for me. Happy Birthday 🏵🌻🌸
I run for a world where all differences, colors are accepted and all lives are matter.

Dearest Anna, I run to celebrate you and all people who fight for social justice – thank you for being the light you are in this world.
Learning from you and dancing with you had changed my life. I am forever blessed to know you.
You are an inspiration and a source of joy and curiosity! I love you !

I would like to send you a big hug.
Always with love.

I walk for peace and global unity

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: July 13, 2020: Monday
To: Anna Halprin
• Happy 😃 💯 th Birthday 🎂,
• Happy 😃 Planetary 🌍 Peace ☮️ Dance 💃 🕺,
Love 💕,
Benito Santiago & Senior Dancing 💃 🕺 Crew: Benita Gonsalvez Aviles & Sir Phillip Corpuz

Happy Birthday dearest Anna!
How incredibly fortunate I am to have met you at the summer workshop in 2017 and danced with you – it was one of these deep deep dreams that wanted to be fulfilled. I am very grateful, that everything fell into place at my 60th birthday, the flight was booked and I was given the chance to dance on the magic deck with your wise, beautiful, inspiring presence full of humor and sparkling ideas.
You touched my heart deeply and I never ever will forget the soulful depth of your dance and your sharing! Thank you thank you thank you!
I will dance and run for all the elders of the world – may they be surrounded with love and respect, freedom and recognition. May their wisdom change the world.
Much love to you – Andrea from Switzerland

Dear Anna,
I wish you a happy birthday. As a dancer & Tamalpa student, I feel so much inspired by your artistical work connected with life, nature, society & care. Thank you for the light you bring to the world.
My dedication for the Planetary dance is “love, inner peace & transformation for myself, my family and communities”

Anna,
You are my shero, my mentor, my grandmother in-residence, my inspiration. Thank you for showing us all how to connect deeply with nature, each other, ourselves. The Universe became *extra* blessed the moment you were born. I honor your devotion to racial equity, radical creativity, environmental stewardship, embodied justice. I love you so, so much! love, deb cohan ps. Here’s to a new President during the year of your 100th birthday!

Dear Anna HAPPY BIRTHDAY!🌼
With all my heart I want to thank you for your work and inspiration for people. Thank you for giving people hope and happiness.
I wish you health, joy and energy! 💖
I am very happy that I found out about you and your works.
It is a pity that your books have not yet been translated into Russian. Fortunately words are not needed for dance.
Sorry my poore english.
With love from Russia.🌞

This year, I run for the Radical Reimagining of a society with economic and social justice and for the Tamalpa graduates around the globe to continue their work. They are essential.

I first knew you as Ann. That was when I was four and you were . . . what? A bunch of our moms organized the Marin Dance Co-op so you could teach us on Saturday mornings at the Larkspur Corte Madera Rec Center. Doris Dennison played the piano for us as you turned us into trees and flowers and wind and giraffes. Many of us from that long ago time will be with you for the Planetary Dance from all over the country. You gave us the gift of believing in ourselves and in believing in giraffes. Thank you, Anna, and may your 100th be as joyous as all the many others.

grateful for your teachings and for the gift of the Earth Run, a universal embrace that connects us with eachother and with nature for ever.Let’s keep dancing from the heart! A heart embrace Anna!

Happy Birthday Anna! 2 years ago I visited from the UK, attended your sessions at the Mountain studio and the events at de Young Museum. I am forever grateful for your all your teachings and everything you gifted to dance, art and life. I will run during the Planetary Dance for gratitude to all the practices that nurture connectedness, ecology and relationality; and in support of everyone who is fighting for human and planetary equality and justice. Hugs, Vanessa

I dance to open the hidden rooms we all have made to make ourselves smaller to fit in

Dear Anna,
Talking with you and Larry among the redwoods and later dancing on the deck was one of the memorable experiences of my career and a lesson in the power of serendipity It also helped me fall in love with California. Thank you and Happy Birthday from Ashley Falls Massachusetts.

May your dances continue to resonate on this living earth and inspire others to move from within… Infinite blessings and gratitude for your work. Happy New Beginning!

ANNA, I REMEMBER SEEING YOU DANCE THIS GREAT DANCE AT STERN GROVE IN THE LATE 40’S CONGRATULATION AND MUCH LOVE AD GRATITUDE FOR ALL YOU \’VE DEVELOPED AND GIVEN TO OUR DANCE COMMUNITY. ROBERTA, SANTA CRUZ

Dear Anna,
your inspiration keeps on living in the dances I dance, the songs i sing, in all the ways I am touching nature.
Thank you, Anna, and happy Birthday!!
Blessings and love,
Regina

When you were created they broke the mold! Keep dancin’ and know that we are carrying your spirit forth!
Many happy returns of the year!

Every good wish for your birthday and thanks for your work through Helen Poynor and Suprapto Suryodarmo

Many Happy Returns from the Himalayas of India. In early January 2002 I attended an all day workshop given at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco – you were magic!! Then six weeks of your classes allowed me to have the “Halprin Experience” – so grand. Thank you for your inspiring presence in my life. Anna Louisa in Kalimpong, West Bengal

Dearest Anna, We first met in 1979 when my mother Martha brought you, Daria and Rod to Topeka, Kansas to give a workshop at the Menninger Foundation, and we danced together many times through the 1980’s, culminating in a trip to Bali. It’s been many years since we connected, but I want you to know your impact on my life and creative expression has been enormous. Shortly before my mother Martha died of cancer in 2013, we watched the documentary “Breath Made Visible,” and felt such gratitude for the times we have shared with you. Bless you for being a beacon of truth in movement, a presence and force for healing in this world. Mazel Tov on sharing your light with us for 95 years! Many blessings, Colette

My Dear Friend Anna (since around 1963), you are a living magic wand! I cherish our visits together. See you this coming August! With love & light, from Jeff, in Paris

Dear Anna,
I will remember… all ways… 95 birthday celebration… 95 hoop revolutions around your hips ritual… and the more than 95 ways I love and appreciate you. Still celebrating YOU. xo, Cindy

Happy 95th Birthday, Anna—most remarkable and inspiring woman at any age!

Dear Anna,

Since finishing my Level 2 training in May, I have noticed the way I am living more artfully, as I draw upon the experiences I had learning your scores on the dance deck. The quality of my walk down a country road that I have taken many times is noticeably changed, deepened, and richer now. I am deeply grateful for the ways I feel a greater intimacy with life through my time with you.
Much love and wishing you continued wellness, light and inspiration.

Cassidy

Dear Anna,

I wish you a very happy ninety-fifth birthday, and many more to come. Currently I am sitting here in Zurich overlooking Lake Zurich and remembering the special movement exploration time I had with you.And one day you pointed out to me „…Peter watch your chest and your shoulders…“ and those words have accompanied my everyday movements, as our body’s posture is chaping our feelings and our feelings influence our body posture.

I am very grateful to your teachings and having witnessed your artistic work whilst transforming out of a gathering group of people the most beautiful choreographic creations and touching peoples body’s mind and soul, I still feel treasured being part of Tamalpas movement world.

To the birthday child you are, I convey my deep hearted wishes for your continuing creations, everlasting health and growing fulfillment:

…move,

…move,

a new dress will be woven…

with love,

Peter, Zurich, July 2015

Happy continuation today and tomorrow!

Happy 95 Anna!!!! Celebrating your wisdom, grace, creativity, innovation, movement, and nature integration. Wishing you joy, longevity, happiness, serenity, and light. Blessings, Amy I.

Happy Birthday, Anna! Thank you for being YOU! For inspiring me and so many others to be ourselves, express how we feel and what we know and what we don’t know and what might be possible. Thank you for bringing dancers outside into the wilds of nature and the city streets and our imaginations. May you continue to thrive!

Far away but could not miss such celebration! The seeds you planted are growing. By encouraging each and everyone of us to connect with the creative self, drop our inner barriers and dance our own dance freely, you are helping us become better human beings. Millions of thanks for who you are and what you give! And, of course, have a blast for your birthday!

Happy Birthday Anna. From 1975 to the present you have helped me be alive and moving! Your student, Joy Gottlieb

You and your work has touched me deeply. You came for one day to my Feldenkrais training in San Rafael nearly 25 years ago. You had us lay on our backs with eyes closed and dance with our hands. I wept from the pure beauty of how that felt inside. Happy birthday Anna and thank you from the bottom of my heart. I bless the day you were born.

I wish you a wonderful birthday dear Anna. I’m so touched by your work and the beautiful woman you are. I was very inspired by you and I feel love since the first time I met you.
Lots of happiness for you dear Anna!
Warm thoughts from France where we danced the planetary dance near the atlantic ocean.
with lots of love for your birthday

Dear Anna,

Thank you for sharing your wisdom and soul with us over these many decades. I am continually amazed and inspired by your work and see the world differently because of you!

Have the best birthday!

xo

Dear Anna, happy happy birthday to you.Dance and love and inspirations to you.Im so grateful that I could meet you.All the best,warm and magical wishes.Sibylla

Happy Birthday Anna,
Thank you for embodying nature, knowledge,creativity and joy in such a beautiful dance.
All my best wishes for you.
I love you.

Anna, I have a real live card for you which I will bring on Sunday and place somewhere so you can actually touch it – the old fashioned greeting. I am so grateful for you, for all the inspiration and mostly for the generosity you have shared with me and others. You never stop giving your dance. With love, Adriana

Dear Anna, all the best for you, dear teacher-dancer-naturleoving spirit! In Germany we have a children’s birthday song that carries a spark of the wonder of us being here: “Wie schön, dass Du geboren bist, wir hätten Dich sonst sehr vermisst” So beautiful, that you are born. We would have missed you otherwise! So grateful for having met in Zürich and then again at the Mt Tamalpais last June – May your grace, your sunshine, your heartbeat always feel like part of the universe – May life treat you with loving care, ANNA

Kerstin (Cologne)

lovely ANNA! what a wonderful being you are…thank you deeply for all you gave to me, in your workshop….WONDERFILLED LIFE , WITH YOU YOUR BELOVEDS AND THE WHOLE UNIVERSE…INSIDE ..OUTSIDE….LOVE SUNA

ANNA! You are such an isnpiration and fountain of life giving bodily movements, movements that have been ingarined into music and the resultant has been a transformative wave that has swept the entire universe! You will never cease to inspire and amaze me!!
Gwatirera

Happy Birthday Anna! It pains me to miss your birthday celebration on Sunday for I will be teaching the life/art work in South Korea. I feel blessed, as so many have, to have learned to live life as a dance. May we get to celebrate your birthday with you for many more years to come!

Dear Anna!!!! GRACIAS means thank u and i feel so thankfull to have been so blessed by learning from you! Such and amazing and vital example of a dancing woman wich loves life nature and humans. Such a big heart and awsome talent!!! May your lhere and now be always full of love!

Big hug and blessings
Carla Nivedita a student of yours

Hi Anna,
I really admire you for creating such a unique vision for dance and sharing it with the rest of the world.
I really enjoyed seeing you at the Planetary Dance event on Mt. Tamalpais. Even though I’ve haven’t yet met you, I feel as though as I know you (from a heart perspective).
Thanks for introducing your dance technique to my wife, Margaret. Here’s to an Awesome, Healthy & Happy 95th Birthday!
Love, Jeremiah Anderson

Happy 95th birthday Anna! I’m grateful for you and your family. Your positive influence and teachings to delve into the inner life as a source of artistic expression will carry on in so many of us. With love, Abe

I feel extremely lucky. You are to me a mentor, a creative master, that works with land, birds sky and earth and dirt. I feel extreme recognition and profound respect bringing your work back to Venice, in Italy. We are channel of change.

Grazie.

AUGURI!

Anna, during the last 41 years I’ve been honored to be your student, colleague and friend. You’ve inspired my body, my life, and my teaching. What a joy to watch you grow over these many years, to watch your impact spread through the world culture in response to your dancing wisdom. You are a light in my life. I love you, Suki

Dear Anna, Thank you and Tamalpa for being my beyond words guides. How different my timescape looks and feels since I have begun traveling with you. With love and appreciation on your birth and every day!

Dear Anna, I am many years away now from you but my longing ist coming back and thanking you for those unforgettable days in your tree-home-dance-floor. Many years of good health and dancing to you and a lot of love floating around you in all the creativity you made possible – a big contribution to heal a little bit of this unconscious, fighting mankind. Rose

Dear Anna, With love and a sandy ocean dance from down here in the corner of England on our magic Cornish isle. Happy new year! Hope to meet in October at Daria’s weekend. luvluvluv Carole oxoxox

God bless you on 95 years younger! The Lord is faithful!

I remember fondly our years sharing the building at 321 Divisadero and the many iinteractions with you, A.A., John and Lynn. Happy memories, all! And wishing you a happy dance into the triple digits, 100 years and beyond!

Anna, you are such an inspiration of vitality and love! Your love for body expression has been inspiring me through out my life. I have learned to listen to my body when it wants to move and let it talk its language. I am grateful for the opportunity I had to meet you and be part of your workshop here in San Diego!!!
love and light!!!

Happy Birthday Anna! Thank you. You are a wonderful teacher.

Dearest Anna,
A very happy birthday to you. You have countless lives who you have deeply touched, including mine. I am the one who attended the 2015 Santa Barbara workshops at UCSB all 3 days. I have loved your work over the years at Esalen and in Santa Cruz with so much respect, care, and adoration for you and your work. Thank you for living so deeply and truthfully from your heart and for showing us all how dance is our teacher. You have been my greatest teacher who embodies dance and heart in one. A very happy birthday to you.
Love,
Wendy Fox

Happy Birthday Anna. Its a good thing i decided to go to Arcosanti 40 years ago where I met you. THAT was the turning point. Much love on your big birthday, and every day.

Happy Birthday Anna, You came to Arcosanti and gave a workshop for the 1978 Summer Solstice. It was Amazing, as are you.

Dear Anna HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you! I have done Tamalpa Immersion program and would like to thank you very much for your amazing work and legend you have left to the world. I hope, I will still have the chance to meet with you in person some time. With love, Gabrielle Eggstein

Dear Anna,

Betsy Polatin here.

Happy, Happy, Birthday!!
I met you at Connecticut College in the early 70’s. I was Frances Cott’s assistant. I loved learning from you and talking about life and Art with you, and Sir, and Patrick.
The freedom you gave me has inspired me to pioneer my own work related to movement and habitual patterns. My book is called “The Actor’s Secret.”
One other thanks I owe you. You used to talk about your daughter, Daria. I, as a young dancer thought, what a beautiful name for a girl. So I named my first girl, Daria.
Much Love
Betsy

Happy 95th birthday Anna, you magic woman, shaman, able to raise big energies in groups and let them flow with no constraints. I saw you the first time in 1981 with Mitzuko, who was one of your teachers, it was a social event in your school and I didn’t even talk to you, but that night you came into my dream. That is how I saw right away how mighty special you are.
I remember vividly the first event with you and Lawrence: Creating new myths and rituals for the community; and then Circle the mountain , Circle the Earth, Theatre improv, learning to make scores, and on and on,so many memories, so many people you touched. I appreciate your genius, courage, power, and your generous heart. I love you and wish you to continue blessing us with
your gifts.

Happy birthday, may you long continue dancing and inspiring

Happy Birthday Anna! I was a partner and dear friend of Nikko. In fact, he got me to participate in Circle the Earth! He has passed away but if he was able, I know he would tell you how much he loved you and how much you changed his life.

Thank you for all the extraordinary gifts and inspiration. With love and gratitude, Joanna

Love to you dear one. Love and life!

happy birthday, Anna!
all love and deep admiration and respect. in solidarity always, Anne

Thank you for your gifts to Dance

Dearest Anna
My life changer. My mentor. My sister. Your light goes to the universe and beyond. How lucky for me I bumped into in NY 36 years ago. I learned to live fully in this world.

Dear Anna,
I´ll play the horn for you on your special day and pass on your dances in nature.
greetings to you and your enlightening studio!
iris

Happy Dance Birthday and thanks a lot for the inspiration and all that you have shown us through dance.

Yes we dance for you in Berlin
Tanztheater Piccolino and
Hanne Franziska Bender Tanz&Regie

Thank you for being born. Thank you for dancing. Thank you for being you. Happy Birthday

Dearest Person of The World, I recall your 90th B’Day as if it were yesterday! I Danced For Life @ Esalen w/you and have been ever since… Have A Happy andd I hope I do get yo see you on your B’day
Bash this year ~ I’m healthier than ever and wish to share that joy that YOU as your were such a catalyst ~ Love and so many happy returns to you ~ Joni xo

Very Dear Anna augurissimi the art life dance never stopped always in a flow happy happy celebration for you!!! bless and love 🙂

Anna, you have had such a huge influence on my life and work. The times at your workshops are some of my most treasured memories. Thanks for all you do for all of us and for the world. Happy birthday xo

Happy Birthday Anna…. Dancing with you way back in 1984 or therabouts was one of the highlights of my life. Bless you!

Happy CosmicDance Birthday. I felt the kindred dancer spirit once at a lecture of Deepak,,you smiled at me as we were eternally dancing thru this planet. I hope to dance with you again. Spirit Alive…….and Loved
Jill

Jill

Have a wonderful birthday

Love and dancing are you–thank you for surviving and sharing–Jackie I’ll always remember your class and advice–love

Dearest Anna who I started dancing with in SF in the 70’s. Especially remembering the TRANCE DANCES on Friday Nights. The drummiing. THe Running. THe processing… the wonder of those times. So happy you listened to your heart and have shared the beauty of dance to so very many.

Another Happy Birthday to you and may you continue to be in beauty’s arms. LOVE , Patricia Bulitt

Wishing you oceans of joy ! Happy memories of dancing Circle the Earth with you many years ago in Philadelphia.The gifts you give to us keep multiplying!

Happy Birthday to one of the most inspirational women in my entire life!