Saturday, August 1, 2009

would love comments on ways to get people in body

hey, folks.

let's play here.
how do you access feeling your body?
how do you open yourself to listen to your body?
how do help other?


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  1. FranAugust 2, 2009 at 12:51 PM

    Hi all! Sunday morning and I have a day to spend doing stuff I WANT to do, not HAVE to do. And I want to spend the day working on some needlework, and investigating "my space" and what that means. So hmmmmm - what to do ???

    I decided to pull out the cards and ask myself the first 2 questions from the workshop ...
    I am ....
    Who ....
    and see if I can get some guidance on my day.
    Here's what I got ...
    I am ... hands (card #4)
    Who .... bring forth flowers from a deep inner place (card #5)
    Ok I said, let's see what the day unfolds ...

    The first project I decie to work on is a knitted octopus that I've made as an "icon" of my women's circle - a group of 8 women who are busy, busy, busy. An octopus is a sooooo fitting image of us, all of us moving about the world in different directions but connected to each other at the center. I'm at the point where I need to connect the tentacles I've made to the core of the body, and so I spread out on the living room floor with the instructions, the tools and yarn, a cup of coffee and last night's popcorn.

    As I start to attach the tentacles, one by one, I am mindfully holding the group in my heart (in honor of the intention of the cards I drew!) and I think about how the octopus is such a perfect symbol for us, and then I remember how we used to be a circle of nine, but then Kat moved away. I have a moment of regret and sadness that I am making this symbol without her being represented.

    And then to my amazement and delight, I discover that in the making of the tentacles, I accidently (as if there was such a thing as accidents!) made 9 of them!!! How cool is that!

    So I'm making the octopus with 8 legs, as the group is at present, and I am stuffing the 9th leg into the heart of the body of the octopus, where Kat is with us now.

    And that is my story of how today, I - the hands - created a piece of needlework from a deep inner place of gratitude.

    Thank you Carolyn for this gift.
    Fran
    PS. the day isn't over ... maybe more later!

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