The Contemplative Sciences Center presents Faith, Play, and Practice: Analog Hour: a chance for students and community members to engage in hands-on and screen free activities in the Contemplative Sciences Center. Step away from your daily grind and enjoy a mid-week contemplative practice that engages your childlike sense of play. Facilitators will guide participants through a new exercise each session that encourages deep reflection and presence. Learn more about the spiritual significance of mindful moments and share a meal with the Theological Horizons community.

Participants will engage in a contemplative practice grounded in a meaningful theological context. Before beginning the practice, participants will mingle and partake in a small catered meal. A short reading will ground the activity in its potential spiritual significance for faithful participants. The group will then be led in a hands-on, analog activity which encourages deep reflection. To conclude the practice, participants will have the chance to discuss the impact of the time they spent and will write on a small piece of paper what the secret significance of this practice was in their lives.

Join UVA’s Emily Wright (dance artist, educator, and Lecturer in Dance) on November 11th, 3:00-4:00pm as she will guide simple practices of embodied attention and gentle movement, inviting participants into a relationship with the body rooted in curiosity and care. Participants will explore how attending to the body as the ground of our lived experience can deepen our connection with ourselves and others. These accessible practices can be incorporated into everyday life. No dance experience needed.

Catered by Silk Thai. Free to the public. No reservation required.

Emily Wright is a dancer, educator, choreographer, and writer exploring how movement shapes the ways we connect, create meaning, and experience the world.

Rooted in modern dance, somatic practice, and Contact Improvisation, Emily’s work bridges performance, education, and community engagement.

She teaches modern dance, dance studies, eco-somatics, and community-based movement practices at the University of Virginia and leads workshops and collaborative projects for movers of all ages and experience levels.