Cynthia Winton-Henry is a playful artist, writer, body intellectual, theokinetic wisdom teacher, and lover of life. Cynthia navigates high sensitivity, meaning she feels and notices more than average. This includes hearing voices and sensing things. One day she heard a voice say, "These are your three directives, Clarity of Vision, Efficiency of Energy, and Courage to Love. She lives along Cum Mayo, Roundhouse River, (the American River, in Fair Oaks near Sacramento in a thirty household Eco-housing neighborhood. It's a grand experiment in what it means to share life, meals, labor, and resources. She financially supports the Nisenan, whose land is unceded. As a white woman and descendant of banished Puritans in early Boston, she understands the cost of freedom and takes her whiteness upon herself as a condition of her liberation.

Cynthia co-founded the international arts-based community practice, InterPlay, an active, creative approach to the wisdom of the body. A dancer, celebrated teacher, artist, and life-long mentor in somatic spirituality, she curates The Hidden Monastery Online Dance Chapels and Art of Ensoulment Course. Her quest to hold dance and religion together, starting with Body and Soul Dance Company led her to ordination in the Protestant church, a most unlikely dancing venue. Thanks to her mentors, Cynthia was invited to teach at the Pacific School of Religion, the Graduate Theological Union, and the Sophia Center in California. With Phil Porter, she directed the improvisational Wing It! Performance Ensemble and co-produced Unbelievable Beauty of Being Human concerts around the world.