The Body as Portal: my 4 Ways in

Four collages I created at a recent workshop in Galway in soma + psyche.

Most times when I attend a craniosacral, bio energy or reiki session, I often go on a journey deep into my body and deep into my unconscious where so much emerges. My body is a portal - even if I keep forgetting this, but it really helps to be facilitated to drop in.

When I was at a craniosacral session last month the clarity emerged that there are four main ways that I connect with my deeper self: through 1. sensation, 2. colour, 3. symbol and 4. words. My body is a portal to these places so I have to inhabit it for the rest to follow. It was so helpful to get this clarity and I see these four ways as directly linked to how I work as an artist as well. Sensation, colour, symbols and words hugely inform my work. The body paints a picture, creates a collage. It shows me the way and opens me up to the vastness, the infinite. But I need to trust, listen and keep coming back, and back and back. Back to the body.