
Soul Moves
Sheila Ryan(Author)
Triarchy Press
Published on 20. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
98 pages
978-1-913743-97-0 (ISBN)
Description
Soul was everywhere in the 60s and 70s. Soul music, soul food, soul sister. I first knew soul in church, where it meant being damned, more or less. Soul music is more about getting on down than rising up to heaven... Soul is moving to the beat - of our hearts as well as to the rhythm of the music. Growing up with soul meant the inner landscape was out there in song. It made you feel known... alive... as if only soul music could see you, knew who you really were, recognised your deepest longings and... told you that you were OK.
Fifty years on I begin writing these Soul Moves essays during the five months in which we lived neither here nor there. We are in a camper van, the phone tuned to soul, new and old. It keeps our spirits up and our feet dancing. We are not homeless but between homes. It is an interruptive time. It is an uncertain time wherein doubts and fears could grow. And that most precious thing, a time without belonging, in which new discoveries could be made.
These essays follow the moving lines of change. From house moves to migration, from ageing and retiring to grieving and re-constellating relationships, changes which can be hard to navigate. What I discovered anew, in moving to Bexhill, is that when we make of change a soul move, resilience, hope, beauty, community and celebration come too.
Fifty years on I begin writing these Soul Moves essays during the five months in which we lived neither here nor there. We are in a camper van, the phone tuned to soul, new and old. It keeps our spirits up and our feet dancing. We are not homeless but between homes. It is an interruptive time. It is an uncertain time wherein doubts and fears could grow. And that most precious thing, a time without belonging, in which new discoveries could be made.
These essays follow the moving lines of change. From house moves to migration, from ageing and retiring to grieving and re-constellating relationships, changes which can be hard to navigate. What I discovered anew, in moving to Bexhill, is that when we make of change a soul move, resilience, hope, beauty, community and celebration come too.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bridport
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
166 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-913743-97-0 (9781913743970)
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Person
Sheila Ryan is an essayist, activist and life changes coach. She lives in Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex with her companion, Douglas and their two, old, terriers, Juno and Gloria.
Sheila wrote the groundbreaking book Vital Practice in support of helping and health practitioners, ''Volta Voices' to tell the stories of head-trading women and Causeway short stories inspired by living on causeway islands.
She has been a homeopathic practitioner, teacher and supervising consultant for forty years. Sheila is a Fellow of the Society of Homeopaths.
Sheila wrote the groundbreaking book Vital Practice in support of helping and health practitioners, ''Volta Voices' to tell the stories of head-trading women and Causeway short stories inspired by living on causeway islands.
She has been a homeopathic practitioner, teacher and supervising consultant for forty years. Sheila is a Fellow of the Society of Homeopaths.
Content
Retiring
Falling
Leaving
Work
Moving
to Bexhill
Longshore
Drift
Migrating
Marriage
Lines
Body
Moves
Soul
Moves
Ritual
Acts
Hagstone
Remembering
Re-membering
Moving
On
About
The Author
Falling
Leaving
Work
Moving
to Bexhill
Longshore
Drift
Migrating
Marriage
Lines
Body
Moves
Soul
Moves
Ritual
Acts
Hagstone
Remembering
Re-membering
Moving
On
About
The Author