Body Poem™

Illuminating unthought knowns

Body Poem™ is a registered trademark of Katie Sarra

© Katie Sarra |  All rights reserved  |  2025

“It is gentle, intelligent, nature-based, and in alignment with indigenous teachings that have supported me in my desire to heal, learn, and accompany others. I find it comparable to soul retrieval while being grounded in sound nervous system theory and trauma awareness.”

Katie Sarra - Founder of Body Poem™

I am devoted to exploring and studying, through research and listening to people, what supports us in becoming indigenously integrated with exiled aspects of ourselves.

The Body Poem seems to magically bypass defences (often painful self-harm or harming others) and harvest the psychic drives for integration through ‘projection’ and ‘projective identification’. It is a skilled synthesis of Body-Focusing, Clean Language, and Dream Form, illuminating unknown and unspoken parts of the self in spontaneously emerging poetry.

I believe in the transformative power of self-acceptance and kindness. Every human being has gifts to share, often grown from where we have suffered the most. When we feel acknowledged and witnessed, our self-acceptance and kindness can create a ripple effect that supports ease with others.

Body Poem™ is a practice facilitating radical acceptance. This can be understood as central to honouring and trusting the self-organising intelligence inherent in every human being.

Here is an interview with Katie Sarra that describes and unpacks ways to understand Body Poem™ and how Body Poem enhances Bodywork & Somatic Intimacy Coaching.

Katie Sarra, as trademark holder and founder of the Body Poem™ modality, holds final authority over the standards, curriculum, and membership framework.

•     Practitioners may adapt Body Poem™ facilitation within their practice context, but adaptations that significantly alter the core Dreamer / Dream Scribe structure must be disclosed to RHI and approved before being offered publicly as 'Body Poem™'.

•     Unapproved variations must be described differently and may not carry the Body Poem™ trademark.

The name Body Poem™ and all associated methodologies, facilitation structures, and teaching materials are the intellectual property of Katie Sarra / Relational Harmony Institute. This includes, without limitation:

•     The Body Poem facilitation model (Dreamer and Dream Scribe roles)

•     Goldfish Bowl Body Poem and Community Body Poem facilitation formats

•     All written curricula, scripts, and training materials bearing the Body Poem™ name

•     The Body Poet™ professional title and associated membership designations

A Body Poem™ Documentary

A group of dedicated Body Poets came together to deepen practice after months of learning online.

We were joined by practitioners living in the mountains who were curious to discover what this is.

Pure Productions filmed this documentary in October 2022 during the first in-person Body Poem retreat held in the Esconhais retreat in the mountain town of Castanheira de Pera in Portugal.

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“Body Poem has been a crucial part of my journey, it came into my life at exactly the right time, as an act of grace.

It is gentle, intelligent, nature-based, and in alignment with indigenous teachings that have supported me in my desire to heal, learn, and accompany others. I find it comparable to soul retrieval while being grounded in sound nervous system theory and trauma awareness.”

- Karen Yendal ~ Certified Body Poet

Body Poem™ is a therapeutic tool designed to illuminate the unknown and unspoken aspects of the self through spoken words, which are received by a listener who then writes them down. 

Words are like bubbles and water droplets; they may look the same on the outside, but contain unique content that is often beyond conscious, reflective awareness, specific to the one self expressing and the listener. 

Another's self-expression might resonate with the listener's affective and conceptual symbolic representations in multiple ways, influenced by both implicit (unconscious and not consciously recognised) and explicit (consciously recognised) affective or conceptually mentalised memory associations. 

Or another's self-expression and words might also fall on deaf ears. The listener might not resonate if there is experiential blindness (i.e., no symbolic reference to the other's experiences), or if defences to recognition are activated that inhibit this. Either way, in the course of ordinary conversations, another's self-expression may or may not be recognised or attuned to.

The structure of Body Poem™

The structure of Body Poem has specific rules of engagement that facilitate the harvesting of projections into digestible poetry. In moments of gratitude, when previously repressed parts are resonated with and acknowledged, there is the potential for receptivity into the threshold of presence; much like how attuned caregivers transform and bridge an infant’s somatically felt experiences into a shared reality. With a shared niche of attention, through symbols and metaphors, we learn to recognise; we are not alone in the soup of undifferentiated realities that otherwise disable us from playing and co-creating relationship agreements to meet our needs.

Radical Acceptance with BODY POEM™

  • ~ and noticing your breathing massaging your heart and lungs like a jellyfish in water expanding and relaxing with the currents of the ocean …

  • Wave Two

    ~ and noticing your spine moving with each in and out breath like a snake shedding skins and inhabiting new ways of being …

  • I can be with you like a Jellyfish conduit attuned to the currents of your feeling states.

  • Wave Four

    ~ and swim again with your curiosity and dreams listening to ancestral wisdom from just beneath your skin held in the cells in your body and receiving the collective knowledge from the morphogenetic fields …

  • I can be a Turtle while you are swimming in deep waters and coming home to shore to harvest the eggs of your journey. I am the warm beach for welcoming you home.

  • I am with soft eyes holding space for you as you transform allowing you to do this with dignity and privacy and celebrating you as you emerge liberated from the skins that have held you safe but held you back from your naturalness.

  • ~ and practising radical acceptance with everything you are discovering and knowing that you can come back onto the beach and rest from your adventures …

  • ~ and imagining you have released ruptures and resentments that have shamed you away from your grace and you have shed the skins that have held you in and held you back from what you really want …

  • ~ and imagine with each in and out breath you are now unfurling your new strong, light, and colorful Parrot’s wings and entering into the multidimensional altered states of Sexological Bodywork.

  • I can be with you like a Parrot with Body Poem communications as you fly and experiment with multicolored feathers in multidimensional paradigms and I am the leafy branches of your tree to land softly in as you feel your roots again.

Training programs in Body Poem™

The Body Poem Training programs are structured to include a blend of theoretical instruction and practical research, culminating in a Supervised Practicum, as you develop your fluency as a Body Poet working with clients. This is where the training pays off as you incorporate Body Poem into your professional practice. To begin your training, join the Body Poets community to meet other Body Poets and Body Poets in Training and arrange to practice together.

You can enrol individually and join the thriving International Community of Body Poets.

Please book a discovery call with Katie Sarra to apply.

Arrange a meeting with Katie Sarra

The Body Poem™ Training programs -

The training materials are housed in a private community learning forum and constitute an ever-evolving library and process, including a comprehensive library of studies and research on the theory and practice of BODY POEM™.

Supervised Practicum - Throughout each of the mini Body Poem training programs, you are encouraged to practice recording your Body Poems to support your Dreamer’s integration.

To help your confidence as a Body Poet, you bring these to your private and confidential 1-1 Supervision sessions for reflective learning.

The number of sessions varies for each Body Poet, depending on the core competencies of Body Poem.

The Becoming a Body Poet™ Certification Training will equip you with the skills to integrate Body Poem into your practice, bringing creativity and playfulness in your sessions, supporting you in trusting your spontaneity and intuition as a practitioner.

"I am in awe of this practice and the way it is able to introduce us to and integrate the different parts of our deepest truths. I recently introduced Body Poem to a client I've been working with for four years. He said the session was in his top four we've done together that he's felt the greatest shifts from!" - Cat Stevens - Certified Body Poet.

Training in BODY POEM

  • Body Poem and Dream Poem

    Body Poem and Dream Poem are an alchemical synthesis of 3 elements: ~ Body Focusing - Symbolic representations of felt senses, Dream Form - Discovering communications projected into symbols using this Playback Theatre practice and the final ingredient is Clean Language - Coaching model for eliciting Symbolic and Metaphorical recognition

  • Clean Language skills

    Clean Language ~ David Grove, the originator of Clean Language, discovered the power of acceptance as he studied the transcripts of Carl Rogers. His genius is in asking very simple questions that open us to the life-saving treasures of our metaphorical life within. We can enrich low granularity by bringing alive the descriptive, imaginative parts of the mind by asking questions that are like spells, bringing our metaphorical life within to life.

  • The art of listening

    The art of listening ~ If each aspect of ourselves was allowed to emerge, express, and be witnessed, these expressions might eventually self-organise into harmony along with the other life and matter around us. Here is an invitation to explore the art of listening and opening receptivity while practising reducing evaluation habits. Listening pairs come from the co-counselling tradition. It is a practice that supports us in listening without fixing, changing, or doing anything with another's expression. It can be a profound experience to have undivided attention and space to express whatever is there to express without interruption.

  • Dream Form

    We can apply the elements of a sleeping dream to the waking dream we call reality. All the elements and relationships we are viscerally interacting with while we are awake can become a drama playing out before us like a dream. This brings us into the realms of Feng Shui Body Poem, which we will be exploring, where we bring alive and animate the world around us, remembered or happening now. When the different sentences are read back, new meanings can emerge from their transposition, which can be revelatory. This can take the dream out of a literal interpretation, elucidating and shedding light on metaphorical meanings. The Teller witnesses their internal world playing out in front of them.

  • Feng Shui Body Poem ~ A useful application of Dream Poem is harvesting projections from our physical environments which can be understood as our waking dream worlds. This practice can facilitate opening our senses through exteroception and finding words that come close to describing our somatic relationships with our environments. Aspects of our environments and our body's relationship with our environments experienced through exteroception can be brought alive through the process of projection of unconscious aspects of ourselves seeking recognition.

  • Representing Emotions

    Representing Emotions ~ Through using clean language we can enrich even the most barren voids of nothingness, allowing that nothingness to be accepted and these simple questions, asked within this structure, can potentially open a way of transforming that nothingness into something with presence. "... and what kind of nothingness is that nothingness?" "... and what is that nothingness like?" These questions invite giving qualities is nothingness or emptiness. Lisa Feldman Barrett refers to over-rationalised language as low granularity. The lower the granularity, the less available a person is to receiving communications from their body to know what they need or want which is a disability for intimacy and health.

  • I want Body Poem ~ The decisions that we have made in the past may not be the appropriate strategies to meet the current emerging aspects of the self. "I want" is an assessment tool. Assessment is in every session and can be understood as the evaluative parts of our minds making sense of the emergent experience. There are various methods of gleaning an understanding of a person's desires, wants, and needs to support them translating these into new strategies to meet these needs in their lives. I want, I need, I desire emerges from a soup of biochemical communications from our bodies, activated from memories and associations in service of our creativity, adventure, safety, belonging, and survival. In this soup are many parts of ourselves, each with needs, wants, and desires and sometimes with pre-determined strategies of how they want their needs to be met. It is our job as adults to manage this chorus that may be out of tune. You will be guided in facilitating “I want” Body Poems developed by Katie Sarra out of 35 years of practice. This practice inherently brings alive the Emotional Command System (Jaak Panksepp) drivers needing regulation into shared awareness illuminating outdated strategies that offer insight into discovering more effective ways of meeting needs.

  • Holding Space ~You will be guided to explore and experiment with increased granularity ways interoceptive, exteroceptive, proprioceptive, inner dialogue, and role power influence our availability to listen. This practice enhances your attunement skills and trust in the self-organising intelligence inherent in each human being when they are allowed to unfold without interruption

  • Repeating back what the other has said

    Repeating back what the other has said exactly in their words. You will be guided in developing your unique creative Clean Language interventions with what questions to ask and when to ask them, taking you as a practitioner to the precipice of presence.

  • Not sure I quite understand that?

  • CARE

  • Nurture

  • PLAY ~ Experimenting with self expression and understanding the difference between intention and impact

  • Maybe I was a bit too much?

  • What did you say?

  • ... and what are you noticing?

  • Song Poems

    Song Poems ~ Growing our creative self-expressive confidence with our voices. Ancient cultures all around the world have used songs and chants to communicate and remember complex multidimensional knowledge that is like dry moss when rationalised in speech without the waters of rhythm and melody. Without our spoken words being in rhythm in songs or poems, we are physically and intellectually less energised in learning something new about our reality and are more likely to be in slow thoughts maintaining old versions of reality which in turn disables us from being in the stream of living.

  • Song Poems

    This is perhaps, for some, the most challenging practice: trusting spontaneity with your voice as an instrument in service to enhance learning. You will be guided in practices step by step developing your confidence as a conduit for knowledge to become referenced memory for another. This practice supports enhancing capacities for learning more about ourselves as Dreamers and Dream Scribes co-creating intimate shared reality. You will be guided by teachings from voice coaches in exercising your abilities to play with your voice in service to this. This can also be a lot of fun, I might add!

  • Where people settled, they embodied/embedded/projected their knowledge into created objects, monuments, temples and shrines for prayer carried in songs and chants. Complex knowledge in this way can be remembered and recalled back from the physical into consciousness from the mind that stored them there receiving data from nature. This can be understood as the origins of projections as a central phenomenon for remembering knowledge for survival.

  • The language we use as part of our self-expression creates bridges of sound carrying meanings in more memorable ways when carried in melodic voices. Ancient indigenous nature cultures have known this for thousands of years in the oral traditions where knowledge is remembered and communicated in song lines. Knowledge was literally embodied in song lines embedded in aspects of nature brought alive and recalled in poetry and songs like moss expands with water. This is how people cared for each other sharing knowledge for community harmony and survival.

  • These ancient cultures created ways of living with rituals that utilise Pyramid-shaped receptors called "Place cells" in our hippocampus. These 'place cells' have been discovered to energise to around 100 Hz when receiving data carried in songs and rhythm which opens our sensory receptors to receive more of ourselves, and each other in our interactional relationships with nature. These cells are collections of neurones whose function is to receive data and remember it as recallable knowledge to inform future survival.

  • Activating the olfactory system enhances the pyramid "Place Cells" in the hippocampus enhancing our ability to remember knowledge. Knowledge enhances our wisdom and this is enhanced with opening our receptivity with songs, poems and prayers. This contributes to our personal power participating in life with recallable referenced knowledge to inform our decision making.

  • We explore and practice Body Focusing and what supports safety and relaxation to listen in to ourselves. This exploration is foundational for developing the micro-skills you will later integrate into Body and Dream Poems.

  • ... and noticing the mineral worlds of your body resonating with the mineral worlds of the planet that holds memories in the rocks and the stones, the sands and the soils, the gems and the jewels, the crystals and the mixed metal ores that are our foundations.

  • Dream Form was the original inspiration for Body Poem and comes from a Playback Theatre ritual form where the actors playback a Teller's dream in spontaneous improvised theatre choreographed by the Conductor. In Playback Theatre Dream From, the Teller describes their dream and then assigns a sentence to each element of their dream. The Teller then chooses an actor to physically represent and embody each element of the dream on stage. The Conductor then signals each element (actor) when to come forward to speak or sing and embody this sentence, creating new sequences of the repeated sentences. All the elements represent the inner life of the dreamer.

  • You will be guided into enhancing your creative spontaneity as a practitioner attuning the chords of your voice with the chords of your heart, like a musical instrument, to play back what might have been rationalised into a harmonious translation that offers radical acceptance. This practice brings alive repressed awareness memory channels and translates what has not been recognised and digested into poetic forms that are more easily received in the emergence of living updating conscious versions of the self.

  • Areas to focus on through guided meditation might be Noticing and simply naming what you are seeing in your environment without attributing meaning ... and feeling for the mood or atmosphere of what you are seeing Listening to the sounds in the distance, close by, from the body and memories of smells. Remembering and opening awareness to smells can viscerally change the state in the body.

  • Opening the direct routes to presence through self touch ~ opening the sensory receptors of the hands and discovering textures, temperatures, cold and warm, freezing and hot, soft and hard, wet and dry, sharp and rounded, furry and smooth, fluffy and flat, curvy and straight ~finding words that come close to describing these sensations over writes projected knowns and enters us into the worlds of emergnce from the holograms of projections.

  • I want ~ activates powerful action motivating circuitry in the brain bringing alive the different aspects of self in need of allostasis, satiation and the life long quests for gratitude. We are all at the affect of hidden drivers of our decision-making about which strategy we employ to meet a need. We do not need to be experts in neurobiology. However, a basic understanding can help us see beyond our personal stories into the origins of our belonging needs on this planet. We all engage with trusting decisions to achieve gratitude in harmony and balance. Harmony and equilibrium between the drives for safety and belonging, and drives for exploration and expansion of consciousness with different parts of ourselves requiring different strategies to achieve gratitude and satiation.

  • Feng Shui Body Poem invites us to listen to the projected identification we imagine an object might be communicating to us. For example, a jug, chair, rug, pile of books, wall, window, tree, river, street, building, bus, truck, caravan, airplane, boat, car, bathroom sink, cup, toilet, mountain, fridge, table, spoon, the sky, the weather, a vase, door, kitchen sink, pair of shoes etc can inhabit an aspect of our selves finding voice through inhabiting an object or aspect of an environment. There may be times when a person is at a place where they want to make decisions about their life and want to make changes in their home and relationships. Exploring what is outside of us using Feng Shui Poem, can illuminate inner conversations. You will learn ways of harvesting the psychic function of projective identification as this psychic function indigenously intends. This shifts the focus from other people digesting our projections and interpreting them into self-digestible acceptance and integration with the other simply as a conduit for this. The metaphors and symbols contain the intensity of affect, rather like “transitional objects” (Playing and Reality - Winnicott) supporting enhanced practitioner resilience which in turn transforms what might have been historically too much for others into acceptance.

  • There are many categorisations of emotions from all over the world that attempt to symbolise collections of felt visceral feeling states in the body to support our shared empathetic reality with each other. Emotions can be understood as an expression of our inner state of being and a call to action from visceral felt sensations in the body, a biochemical nervous system response to a survival need. Emotions have different meaning associations and there are several categorizations of emotions from all over the world that attempt to symbolise collections of felt visceral feeling states in the body to support our shared empathetic reality with each other. We do this because it helps attuned communication and empathy with each other. "We are all the same under the skin" - Jaak Panksepp

  • It's all projections! Lisa Feldman Barrett understands emotions as being constructed predictions that come alive in different ways each time in response to our experiences, informed from what we have experienced before, with no predetermined circuitry or neural networks configured in emotion circuits."You aren't at the mercy of your emotions, your brain creates them" - Lisa Feldman Barrett. You will be guided in exploring emotional “affect” regulation through bridging our worlds with another in symbols and metaphors giving rise to your deeper attuned understanding of how and why this supports integration and acceptance.

  • We will explore understanding emotions broadly from essentialist and existentialist perspectives. However we all experience our emotions in our bodies regardless of what we name them as. When we can`t feel them, we are at the affect of defences like confusion or judgements. We and other animals all experience viscerally felt "Affect" and have defenses to remembering experiences of pain. Jaak Panksepp, who coined the term "Affective relational neuroscience" understands emotions as being inherently universally biologically predetermined and hard-wired in neural networks that we are at the "affect" of in universal ways. He categorised 7 Emotional command systems, that we share in common with other animals, defined as neural networks that have specific behavioral, hormonal, and nervous system responses when stimulated. "We are all the same under the skin" - Jaak Panksepp

At the end of each session, there is an option for recording the Dreamer’s Body Poem

This reading back serves a similar function to a caregiver attuning to and recognising the infant's affective communications and vocalising them back, co-creating a congruent shared reality.

This can be understood as harmony (many voices becoming one chorus). The inner voices from the dreamer's emotional and physical landscapes are sounded and embodied in the chords of the practitioner's voice, with the unique symbols and metaphors producing a poem.

Here is an example of a recorded Body Poem from a session. There are no recognisable aspects of the Dreamer and their privacy is preserved.

A gift that I have been experimenting with is collaborating with a filmmaker here in the remote mountains in Portugal, who intuitively takes this creative metaphorical process to another level by adding images and music to the poem. This further transforms unthought knowns into a mini film - in the language of video.

The listener, during pauses or after the self-expression has ended, reads back what they have written in spontaneously emerging poetry, beginning with the last words expressed and creatively moving attention between each passage of phrases or words.

As the listener reads back the words or phrases of the Dreamer, these may be carried in the chords of the listener's voice, with embodied (affective) or conceptual (flat) affect, in a dance between the listener's remembered, forgotten, or absent associations.

This is a process of differentiation of the raw ingredients of life experiences from the soup that renders them lost. Each ingredient that is symbolically referenced, witnessed, and validated empowers our ability to participate in a co-created shared reality and gain access to informed, referenced decision-making, which can support our liberation from the disability of being unconsciously driven by repeating prediction errors.

The discipline of writing down the exact words of the listener without paraphrasing or reframing offers an opportunity to limit the listener's bias.

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“I have deep gratitude towards myself for being able to be in connection with my body and being able to listen to parts of my body. It was such a relief to allow myself to sense and speak out the sensations I was noticing but most importantly that I did not have to do anything to change what I am noticing.

I had a deep relaxation and I felt grounded, present, and energised. I find the process so powerful, witnessing yourself and being witnessed without any judgment or expectation is healing and soothing.”

~ Armand Botha ~ Certified Body Poet

We can understand that the process of emerging from loneliness into a shared, congruent social reality involves our self-expression being witnessed with compassion, or at the very least, with acknowledgement. What is not symbolically referenced or recognised remains lost. 

At the very least, the Dreamer's symbolic references to their unique experiences are recognised, regardless of whether the listener is experientially blind or attuned to them.

Listening back to our own words being accurately validated can support us in coming out of hiding from ourselves, releasing us from the cloak of shame and inhibitory inner dialogue that once secured our belonging, but perhaps at the price of crippling our vulnerable or exuberant authenticity. 

Body Poem is a practice that facilitates illuminating unthought unknowns and unspoken parts of the self into spontaneously emerging poetry that brings alive exiled aspects of the self, which become somatised when not acknowledged through symbolic representation. 

This process is relational, the world of one person being received into the chords of the heart and voice of another. 

The simple act of reading the exact words and phrases back to a dreamer, with both non-hierarchical phenomenological and hierarchically creative choices of attention, is a dance that co-creates an authentically shared social reality and a sense of belonging in it, through a unique alchemy between both the Body Poet and the Dreamer. 

The Dreamer's unique metaphors may come alive with enhanced, viscerally felt granularity, offering recognition of aspects of the self that may have been rationalised out of awareness or out of the range of acceptance, harvesting projections that are passing on revenge for the loss of acknowledgement. 

The Body Poet becomes a human instrument, transforming these communications that may have lost their belonging into poems that serve the function as do works of art in re representing aspects of experiences into forms of beauty that can be shared. 

The role of artistic self-expression in all cultures is to transform rationalised, suppressed aspects of self into a shared experience of beauty. Meaningless symbols of nothingness can spontaneously become embodied, illuminating aspects of self, calling for felt recognition. 

This allows tension from the pole positions of our heart’s chords to be simultaneously borne and transformed into something digestible and harmonious.

At this precipice, we might live or die. The metaphor of a poem holds us safe, like the banks of a river, containing and allowing the flow of what might have been dammed, unresolved resentment, and making what might ordinarily be unbearable, bearable, even beautiful and harmonious; like a love song transforms the lament of loss into a song we can weep with together.

This powerful modality can be added to your professional practice, co-creating transformational shifts in a truly client-centred way.

  • The essential use of Symbols

    Our ability to come into a relationship with ourselves requires finding ways of connecting to, feeling and expressing what is happening inside our body. Embodiment can be understood to be this symbolic relationship with our feeling states, senses and how we create meaning from these experiences.

  • Symbol Formation

    Discovering, and gaining access to symbols and language can help us self-reflect, communicate and integrate the visceral responses from our bodies and embody these. This work guides us into an exploration of embodied states, enhancing our capacity to be intimate with ourselves and with each other. This supports co creating relationship agreements with conscious awareness and integrity.

TREE SISTERS COMMUNITY BODY POEMS WITH CERTIFIED BODY POET - ABI DENYER-BEWICK

This series of Full Moon Meditations celebrates our deep connection to nature's rhythms and cycles. As we gather in circle under the potent energy of the full moon, we are reminded that we are part of a greater cycle of life, moving through times of action and rest, growth and release, expansion and reflection. This series offers an opportunity to explore and embody these natural rhythms, allowing the unfolding energies of each cycle to guide you inward and outward.


These meditations and co-creative poetry practices invite you into community to connect more deeply with the natural world and the cyclical nature within us all.’‍ ‍

www.TreeSisters.org

Tree Sisters You Tube Channel to listen to the collection of Community Body Poems

  • What is Radical acceptance?

    To love is to accept, receive and digest. Humans are alchemical ecosystems in the process of digesting our life experiences in symbiotic union with the colonies of bacteria and viruses that live in us and around us.

  • Self Acceptance

    Radical acceptance begins with our own ecosystem. 

    Before we can integrate, we need to see the forms within us differentiated out of the blind soup of our beings.

  • Justice is being with the Just is

    Radical acceptance includes our rejections and the harm we have caused and the harm we have been impacted with. The pain of this acceptance is an understandable withdrawal from love and unity.

  • Self Expression

    Finding words that come close to describing these emotional, sensual, and physical multidimensional aspects of ourselves literally activates receptors of self-acceptance when we are witnessed with radical acceptance.

  • Kindness with our inner critics

    Radical includes acceptance with our internal self-referencing inner dialogue. For example to self-evaluating aspects of ourselves that are maintaining our adaptive belonging.

  • Easing the pain

    Reframes, advice and affirmations may feel comforting like a bandage for our wounds to feel protected and cared for but when the time is right to be freed from these, it is radical acceptance that will ease the pain

  • Courage to be seen

    Under the bandage, wounds from our dark nights of the soul remain unseen and these exiled aspects of ourselves are sent back into the unseen bowels of humanity to endure continued separation until we are supported with courage to be seen with radical acceptance

  • Repair

    Cycles of undigested exiled aspects of humanity are ultimately seeking to be seen from underneath the shame bandages that have been nursing them.

    Being seen requires acknowledgement and understanding so we can repair and allow our remorse to teach us to learn not to harm again. 

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“Body Poem has been a priceless resource for me. It has enabled me to access, accept, and integrate parts of myself that I didn’t know existed, through providing a safe container for that process. I have seen it do the same for my clients. It is truly an honour for me to guide others through this powerfully gentle process.”

- Rosi Lalor ~ Certified Body Poet

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“As the dream scribe, I was aware of my attunement to my partner. I found myself adjusting my tone of voice and the speed at which I was speaking to accommodate them. I am always really taken by how this process is so quick and takes the dreamer straight to those places within that are calling for attention and acknowledgement. It’s an honour to hold space for someone in this way and fully hand their process over to them, offering them a safe space to explore.'“

~ Cat Stevens ~ Certified Body Poet

Harvesting Projections in Feng Shui Body Poem

Here is an example of a recorded Feng Shui Body Poem from a session.

I held my tears reading back this “Feng Shui” poem recognising the significance of what the objects in her environment were representing. Feng Shui Body Poem facilitates our collective consciousness and the timeless unconscious to speak to us through our surroundings illuminating unthought knowns. 

The communications from this Dreamer’s environment brought alive her lost sister reuniting them together and embedding their togetherness back in her heart