Feeling in a safe accepting relationship is essential for a person to begin exploring new ways of being guided by new aspects of the self that body poem illuminates.A major part of feeling accepted as we are is having our unique language and metaphors shared without interpretation or presumptions. One of the key ways we …
Eros is the energetic charge that is in service of integrating all matter. Eros in the earliest texts is the Son of Chaos and represents the attractive force behind friendships, partnerships, marriages and the creation of projects, buildings, food, dance and works of art etc. Later, Eros is the Son of Aphrodite and embodies lust …
“What lies beyond our grasp remains unnamed” – Robin Wall Kimmerer “Puhpowee” is a Potawatomi (one of the three hundred and fifty indigenous languages of the Americas) word for “rising or emergence”.“The makers of this word understood a world of being, full of unseen energies that animate everything” – Robin Wall KimmererIn her book Braiding …
Body Poem harvests projections that might otherwise keep us in separation from ourselves and each other. It supports us accessing censored parts of ourselves that might otherwise unconsciously project into our environments and each other. Projections can be understood as the psychic mechanism whose original function is to separate out from ourselves what is painful …
