Dance Meditation and Zen for the Black Cancer Patient

For American Blacks and People of Color, finding ways to address suffering organically is key. Cancer attacks people in these communities who often have few or little resources for dealing with it. In this book, the author provides access to Zen Buddhism and Dance Meditation as a relieving support for cancer treatment. This work provides unencumbered pathways to peace, which aid in changing internal and mental constructs that often keep individuals and communities in unwanted suffering. With historical aspects of poor health care and poverty circulating in the collective memory, people in these communities can be reluctant to seek care. This book provides alternative ways of approaching new thought patterns, and getting reasonable health care services for you and your loved ones. These practices promote better lives through attentive and skillful action in health and daily living.

Carla Stalling Walter is a professional facilitator with the Sacred Dance Guild and has led workshops and retreats on dance meditation across the United States, as well as a two-decade academic career. She received her doctoral degree in dance history and theory from the University of California.
 

Carla Stalling Walter
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages:
Bibliographic Info: ca. 5 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2025
pISBN: 978-1-4766-9734-5
eISBN: 978-1-4766-5591-8
Imprint: Toplight

• “Carla’s journey through life, shaped by cultural, personal, and spiritual experiences, has become a profound expression of the Zen path. She has transformed her struggles, insights, and wisdom into medicine for others, using her life as a vehicle to convey the essence of interconnectedness, compassion, and non-attachment. Through the lens of Zen teachings, she shows how every challenge and triumph, every joy and sorrow, can be turned into a lesson that heals and uplifts not just herself, but those around her.”—Eli Brown-Stevenson, Ordained Soto Zen Priest, director of Inclusion and Belonging, San Francisco Zen Center

• “This remarkable book…intimate, brave, practical, and beautiful …. opens a path of healing through dance that is sourced in the rich roots of the author’s identity as a Black woman and also the roots of Zen. It is about cancer and transformation. It is about life, death, and discovery.”—Roshi Joan Halifax, Abbot, Upaya Zen Center