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Body Psychotherapy

Locality: Perth, Western Australia

Phone: +61 408 092 388

Address: 4 Neap Lane Mullaloo 6027 Perth, WA, Australia

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25.01.2022 THE SHADOW One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious. (C.G. Jung) Since the second Chakra produces the ...first major change of consciousness, the first experience of opposites and represents literally, the number two,it is associated with duality and polarity. Thus, one of the tasks of the second chakra adult development is to integrate previously polarised or one sided aspects of our personality into an indivisable whole. This is an essential step in our alchemical quest: the reclaiming of the shadow and the intergration of such polarities as masculine and feminine, mind and body, inner and outer experience. As it is with Jung's individuation process, we often have to move downward into the unconscious to pick up lost remnants of the lower chakras in order to become whole. In the second chakra, our work is to reclaim the shadow. The shadow represents repressed instinctual energies that are locked away in the realm of the unconscious. They do not die or cease to function, but they are no longer part of the conscious awareness, no longer directly expressed through our conscious activity. Consequently, they are enacted unconsciously, sometimes with great force. We may think we never get angry but enact a passive stubborness that infuriates others. We may deny our own neediness, but subtly manipulate ourselves into the centre of attention. Keeping the shadow in chains requires a great deal of energy and robs the whole of its grace and power. Furthermore, it does not work as the shadow chases us in our dreams, sabotages our work and relationships and gets sublimated in compulsive activities. When the shadow is repressed we are cut off from our wholeness and from our ground. As the instinctual energies are a large part of the child psyche, we are also removed from the innocence and spontaneity of the inner child. When the shadow remains unacknowledged, it is projected onto others. Like the hidden shape over which we shine our inflated light. the shadow is seen parading shamelessly in the behaviour of those around us, while we remain righteously untainted. (Eastern Body Western Mind - by Anodea Judith). I have been reluctant and undecided about what to put on my psychotherapy page.relating to the second chakra until an event this week that happened a few days ago that tore me to my core and even just writing this I am still so devastated, affected by it.. I have to ask, do we want to be right with that second chakra competitive side or do we, with an open heart want to be happy.....Because we may win the fight, the argument, feel self rightious and put ourselves above others, therefore keeping ourselves separate..............BUT DOES IT MAKE US HAPPY? PLEASE LOOK OUT FOR THIRD CHAKRA info coming soon. I hope.

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16.01.2022 Yoga is a practice of almost unlimited possibilities, benefiting our physical health, our sense of mental and emotional wellbeing, and feeding our soul on its s...earch for purpose and meaning. And because of all these things, yoga can help us get healthy, be healthy, and also help us deal with sadness and suffering when they inevitably show up in our lives. It has been my invaluable companion for almost 20 years, and I am looking forward to our discoveries together in the next 20! ~ Baxter Bell, M.D., Yoga Teacher & Medical Acupuncturist See more

10.01.2022 Next weekend our first year training is based upon the schizoid characterology. This can be a difficult characterology to detect as it can be "hiding" under ano...ther body structure. However classic physical signs are asymmetry in the body, (right/left, top/bottom), head to one side, can have thinness, wiry muscles, scoliosis in the spine, vacant, spacey or hostile expression in the eyes, skin cold to touch and many other symptoms. According to Lowen (Betrayal of the Body pg 30) "The schizoid character is often found on the fringes of society, where, with like kind he feels somewhat at home. Many schizoids are the sensitive persons who become the poets, the painters and the musicians. Others expolit the various eseoteric cults which flourish in the borderlands of our society. " John Conger wrote These clients have no skin. Every nerve is raw. Schizoid characters do not bond. They withdraw rather than attach. In marriage they are passive, allowing themselves to be coerced into shared activity while remaining partially aloof. In every situation they will find an escape route. They will not be accountable. They will not commit. Yet, they cannot tolerate rejection and loss. Conversely, he also says Some people with the schizoid character are visionary. Their freedom from being bound by the ties of the world opens their eyes and hearts to intellect, imagination, creativity, God. They work brilliantly and passionately. " John Pierrakos would say that imagination, creativity, connection to God are some higher self qualities of the Schizoid character. W. Ronald D. Fairburn (cited in Conger) said Contrary to common belief, schizoid individuals who have not regressed too far are capable of greater psychological insight than any other class of person, normal or abnormal a fact due, in part at least, to their being so introverted (ie preoccupied with inner reality) and so familiar with their own deeper psychological processes I look forward to a full and rich weekend teaching about this characterology. It is not too late to join our first year training. Learn new ways to be in the world and to help others. Come and join a great group of conscious people and be part of the profound healing and growth that evolves over the three year training program.

07.01.2022 Resilient strength is the opposite of helplessness. The tree is made strong and resilient by its grounded root system. These roots take nourishment from the gro...und and grow strong. Grounding also allows the tree to be resilient so that it can yield to the winds of change and not be uprooted. Springiness is the facility to ground and ‘unground’ in a rhythmical way. This buoyancy is a dynamic form of grounding. ~ Peter A Levine, PhD, Specialist in the treatment of Chonic Stress and PTSD See more