No Card Today. But I do have some random SoulCollage thoughts. I promise eventually I will stop obsessing and balance soon.....I just am very excited about this process! Believe me, I have done all kinds of workshops and inner work. Therapy, Tai Chi, Yoga, Reiki, Chi Gong, BioSpiritual Focusing, tarot reading, journaling, meditation and on and on, but I don't think any one thing has sparked me the way this has. And I think that statement is the reason. It's like Seena took all of those wonderful tools and placed them into one toolbox.
We were chatting last night at yoga about how hard it is to really make people understand what SoulCollage is. Sheree was saying that depending on the audience it is important that you hit their niche. Like to arty/crafty people you talk up the collage portion and to seekers/spiritualists you talk about the soul & mystic side of it. Trying to publicize the workshop has been a challenge--coming up with the right wording.
The way I understood it before I went to the training was that you were making your own deck of tarot cards. That was my spark of interest because that's something I understand. It turned out to be so much more. Seena sent me an email yesterday with a guideline on how to use the cards as prayer cards. Which is something else entirely and yet another "tool"....
"For people of faith, theology matters. Their orientation toward and relationship with the Mystery we call God shapes the way they see, experience, understand and speak about the activity of God in creation and in human life—both mysterious and personal. By offering SoulCollage in the practice and language of prayer, the mysterious interaction between image and maker with the Mystery we call God, is named and acknowledged.
From a SoulCollage Prayer Card point of view, selecting images, making cards, journaling, contemplating, sharing is all prayer. For example, images are selected and cards made in contemplative silence; "reading" becomes meditative prayer along with journaling; the "interpretive dimension" is the deep place in the human psyche/soul/body where dreams and wisdom come from, the place beneath our conscious knowing where the Mystery of God meets us in our interior and our human story for transformation and healing; contemplative prayer is entry into further depths (in God); sharing with another becomes both "Holy Listening and Holy Witnessing" to another’s lifestory. "
Marjorie Smith --Presbyterian Minister, Spiritual Director, BioSpiritual Focusing Facilitator
This is just fascinating me. I don't mind telling you. My path has crisscrossed some of these great women, we have shared some of the same healing tools and it just feels so.....I don't know the words.....right to have stumbled across this now. I've been at a point in my career where I feel like I'm just going nowhere and I've been trying to tell myself that I am where I wanted to be, to just accept my gifts and use them and not expect anything more. But I'm a grower--that's why I garden, that's why I teach, that's why I read. I cannot be stagnant--I love to learn, I love to explore and I love to share.....
Ooops, think I found my next card.
1 comment:
I love the idea of using them as prayer cards. Makes sense to me.
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