"In My Own Words"
Word Journeying is the term I use to describe a creative journey to explore a particular word, both to find a deeper understanding of the meaning of that word, and to increase a particular quality in our life.
The journey uses tarot, kabbalah and pathworking, numerology alongside visualisation, meditation, creative artwork and all our senses. It's an exciting, powerful and magickal inner journey, which is unique for each individual and for me started with Wholeness - wanting more of it in my life and wanting to get a deeper sense of what it means for me.
The journey has expanded over the years - a bit like setting out for a weekend away and finding myself on a year's round the world tour! The techniques can be used to help understand difficult situations in a variety of settings; to increase certain qualities in our life; to support us in significant decisions in life; to identify and befriend hidden and shadow parts of ourselves; and to enhance our own inner journey of personal and spiritual development.
It's a deep, powerful, creative, but also a fun and inclusive way of working. Come with me on the journey and find out for yourself!
For latest details of all workshops, groups and retreats etc Click Here
The journey uses tarot, kabbalah and pathworking, numerology alongside visualisation, meditation, creative artwork and all our senses. It's an exciting, powerful and magickal inner journey, which is unique for each individual and for me started with Wholeness - wanting more of it in my life and wanting to get a deeper sense of what it means for me.
The journey has expanded over the years - a bit like setting out for a weekend away and finding myself on a year's round the world tour! The techniques can be used to help understand difficult situations in a variety of settings; to increase certain qualities in our life; to support us in significant decisions in life; to identify and befriend hidden and shadow parts of ourselves; and to enhance our own inner journey of personal and spiritual development.
It's a deep, powerful, creative, but also a fun and inclusive way of working. Come with me on the journey and find out for yourself!
For latest details of all workshops, groups and retreats etc Click Here
The Circle, the Spiral, the Tree and the Square
These are the titles of the different exercise stages on the creative journey with words.
Each stage of the journey emerges from the previous stage to build up a whole creative journey in words, numbers, letters, pictures, senses, feelings, memories etc. Each journey with a particular word takes "as long as it takes" until you feel you have completed the work you need to do with that word. It is enriching, invigorating, revealing and engages our whole body, mind, feelings and spirit at differing levels.
The Circle is the initial exercise - first steps, if you like, in getting to know your chosen word, and in drawing it inside. The Circle uses creative visualisation and breathing exercises.
The Spiral, as the name suggests, goes deeper in the relationship with the word, its meaning and its quality. Again the exercise uses creative visualisation, but also engages all the senses, and can develop further with creative artwork, writing etc.
The Tree uses a mix of geomancy and numerology with the Kabbalah Tree of Life, working creatively with the correspondences for the spheres and pathways. Powerful images can be evoked with pathworking in this way, and deeper levels of meaning and relationship are opened to us.
The Square is the final section of exercises. Again using visualisation techniques, this time working with the tarot cards associated with the letters of the word and the spheres of the kabbalah tree. It "squares the circle", if you like, to complete our journey.
The joy of it all, is that there is no "right" or "wrong" way of doing the exercises. They work best when we find our own way with them. Different parts of the creative journey will hold a different emphasis for each individual. And we can build on the basic exercises with other creative activities of our own choosing.
The Result : Challenge, Excitement, Adventure and a whole new meaning to exploration!
Each stage of the journey emerges from the previous stage to build up a whole creative journey in words, numbers, letters, pictures, senses, feelings, memories etc. Each journey with a particular word takes "as long as it takes" until you feel you have completed the work you need to do with that word. It is enriching, invigorating, revealing and engages our whole body, mind, feelings and spirit at differing levels.
The Circle is the initial exercise - first steps, if you like, in getting to know your chosen word, and in drawing it inside. The Circle uses creative visualisation and breathing exercises.
The Spiral, as the name suggests, goes deeper in the relationship with the word, its meaning and its quality. Again the exercise uses creative visualisation, but also engages all the senses, and can develop further with creative artwork, writing etc.
The Tree uses a mix of geomancy and numerology with the Kabbalah Tree of Life, working creatively with the correspondences for the spheres and pathways. Powerful images can be evoked with pathworking in this way, and deeper levels of meaning and relationship are opened to us.
The Square is the final section of exercises. Again using visualisation techniques, this time working with the tarot cards associated with the letters of the word and the spheres of the kabbalah tree. It "squares the circle", if you like, to complete our journey.
The joy of it all, is that there is no "right" or "wrong" way of doing the exercises. They work best when we find our own way with them. Different parts of the creative journey will hold a different emphasis for each individual. And we can build on the basic exercises with other creative activities of our own choosing.
The Result : Challenge, Excitement, Adventure and a whole new meaning to exploration!
Creative Word Journeying Workshops
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