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Dance as Healing – There Are No Words
16 Jul 2009

Dance as Healing – There Are No Words

by Shay | 0

Below is an article I wrote for the now-defunct Caravan Trails quarterly newsletter which used to be produced by Paulette Rees-Denis of Gypsy Caravan. I was author of a regular column called “Of the Tribe”, for which I wrote short … Read More

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