Courting the Imaginal
Sweep Clean the chambers of the heart. We glimpse into the vastness of other realities by observing, our inner terrain to allow ourselves to be available for what the imaginal wishes to express. We listen and see the image and…
Category Embodied Imagination
Slowly Slowly
Esso Esso The times are urgent; let us slow down. African saying As we listen to our bodies, our inner life, and to process the world at large, we move into a quiet, hidden, protected space to allow our vulnerablities…
LONGING
Our Bodies are a Visual Resource
I just completed a series of classes with a group of young lovely woman. We worked with learning to see our bodies as an embodiment of presences that teem with life. The body is an endless resource of imaginative possibilities.…
Strength of presence
In yesterday’s art class, we were invited to drop into an inner, meditative world, and respond with art materials to what arose…immediately a dark blue stone arose in the inner mind…dark and maybe faceted, it was unclear, mysterious, numinous. …
Sinking and Falling
Children see magic because they look for it. Children use their bodies to explore the world. They learn to become sensitive by rolling down hills, jumping up and down, twirling, swinging. hanging upside down, laying on the ground and seeing…
Grounding and Expanding
In our art group we are experimenting with Embodied Imagination through the act of making art. We begin with body awareness. We take note of where we are before the prompt begins for the days exploration. This week we worked…
ASH
This is from one of our members. Meditating on Ash In our meditation we were asked to consider ash since we have been working with elements of fire, my first reaction was uhh? What will come up, meditating on ash.…
Fire and Ash
Die to old ways Sacrifice What was once life Smolders to nothingness Even in ashA flash of vibrance Signals the inevitable New growth The design of Life Flame and wings, one. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the…
Igniting Fire
In my meditation, blue energy, what seemed like was air pouring through my head into my solar plexus, while from the ground there was fiery red energy coming into my body. These two energies meeting caused a molten yellow fire…
Managing your Inner Fire
“If Alchemy is the art of fire, and Alchemists are “artists of fire,” then the alchemist must be able to know all kinds of fire, all degrees of fuel, sources of fire, fuels of fire. And the alchemist must be…
The Voice from within the image
The image has its own existence. It affects us and we affect it. Each image has a unique voice, that is ever-changing as we are. Below is the image speaking. The white zone wants to suck in the landmass, wants…