Marie Tilbert

Most of us have had experiences that have taken our breath away. “You took my breath away” is a common expression to mean holding one’s breath in a moment of intensity when there is too much to take in all at once. Somehow holding one’s breath pauses the reality updating our identity and sense of […]

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

I believe that every human being needs to be in service. Being in service and having usefulness as a human is necessary for our survival. It is no accident therefore that the biology of our bodies: the logic of the biome, is designed for optimum health when we are in service. We are evolutionarily designed

My father used to call out at me when I was little “Hey Prawn!” if I was in the way of his vision watching television. He was telling me of course that I am not transparent! We are all oblivious of our affect on others until they tell us. As we mature, we can anticipate

Jesus is reported to have said “They know not what they are doing” Why would anyone harm themselves or another if they “knew” connected with compassion and care what they were doing. We have all betrayed ourselves and each other in acts that are in disconnection from care.  We have all been innocent and unconscious