Anna Penenberg holds a BA in dance and psychology and an MA in dance therapy from UCLA. For thirty-five years, she has worked with adults, children, and infants, using her certifications in family psychotherapy, dance therapy, Body-Mind Centering®, and infant developmental movement education to facilitate her clients’ brain and body, psyche and spirit integration.

Anna’s practice is based in Topanga, California.

Dancing in the Narrows is her first book.

A mother’s love and persistence are put to the test when her teen daughter is stricken with a mysterious, debilitating illness. As time goes on, Dana’s condition drives everyone away; everyone, that is, except for her mother. Finally, desperate to improve Dana’s health, the two hit the road in search of a cure.

Dana’s chronic symptoms require endless supplements, pharmaceuticals, and dietary restrictions, evoking a heroine’s journey. Full of humor, blind hope and alternative medicine, Dancing in the Narrows is a poignant chronicle of Anna and Dana’s multiyear odyssey toward healing from trauma.