An evolution of body-mapping, Self-Landscaping is a six-part series of body/mind/soul exploration. Using the paper body as journal we will use words, images and collage to engage in a fresh dialogue with the body and journey into the story we live. The body holds the story, each emotion, memory, choice, laugh and tear. This process helps us identify where emotions and stresses are being held in the body; where we feel what and why. Discover exactly what you are holding, not only in the body, but the environment you are living in. Just how much are we being asked to hold at this time?
In this workshop you will:
- Draw the life-size body shape
- Engage the landscape around you
- Explore the story telling of your own body
- Discover the depth-psychological embodied dimension of the mind/body connection
- Increase awareness of the imaginal realm to discover the story you are living
- Engage in the process of identifying lived archetypes through embodied writing, collage and dream work
- Create a foundation of mind/body awareness as a vehicle for self-care.
- Discover a fresh narrative of your life
This offering will be held over the course of a six weeks for an hour and a half once a week. Due to COVID this class will be held online via zoom until further notice.
This course is for you if:
- You want to learn more about what your body is communicating to you.
- You are interested in the personal myth you are living
- You are ready to open up a fresh dialogue with the body.
You will complete this course:
- Being able to embody your personal story by integrating physical, archetypal, textural, and imaginative resources.
- Having cultivated the necessary self-awareness in the body to develop and harness new physical, emotional, psychological, and mental resources.
- Having cleared away fictional narratives you have created.
- Seeing what you need to see; feel into what is asking to be felt.