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WHY BLUE TURTLE
Blue Turtle Craniosacral Therapy
Postgraduate Trainings
Unfolding the Story - Archaeology of the Soul's Journey
Monica Anthony
About the Course
A Transpersonal Perspective for Craniosacral Therapists
In this workshop we will look at the multi-layered story which clients bring to their sessions: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Working with a transpersonal perspective, and using creative visualisation, spot imaging and Gestalt work, participants will have the opportunity to explore both their own inner and outer journeys as an unfolding story and also how to work with their clients in this way, integrating the insights with practical work in a small group. During the day a real quality of spaciousness will allow the inner process to emerge, both for the individual and within the group.
What emerges is a kind of archaeology of the soul's journey, revealing layers, both conscious and unconscious, in which treasures lie waiting to be discovered. Unfolding that story and opening up the space for it to continue in a new and developing shape, according to the wisdom inherent in the system, is a fascinating and deeply rewarding aspect of the therapeutic process.
Monica Anthony
Looking back on my choices of trainings in Psychotherapy, Craniosacral Therapy, Hypnotherapy and Healing, it has become clear to me that they grew out of my immersion in music from a young age, a persistent curiosity about the inner workings of life and an interest in people and the natural world around me.
Increasingly aware of the existence of subtle energies, I went on to study oboe and compositional the Royal Academy of Music, London, and in Germany and then worked for several years as a freelance orchestral player and teacher. During that time, I developed further my engagement with the relationship between mind, body and our own connection with something more than our everyday consciousness, finding a language for that sense particularly after key encounters with esoteric teachings, Transpersonal Psychology and Craniosacral Work in themid-1970s.
Significant teachers have been Ian Gordon-Brown and Barbara Somers (Transpersonal Psychology) and Lily Cornford (Colour Healing and a particularly profound and subtle form of Hypnotherapy). Other important influences are the Tao Te Ching (see quote below), Andrew Taylor Still, and Hugh Milne ('The Heart of Listening').
So, having been consistently drawn by the transformational power of healing as a way of looking at the world, I offer through my work an opportunity to explore (self-) healing as a perspective and as a way of being.
Using imaging, creative visualization, reflection, meditation, subtle body work, storytelling and discussion as rewarding ways of developing our innate intuitive connection with the healing process, I am particularly interested in the creative experience as a path to our own inner wisdom.
With my background as a musician, I have found that the concepts of vibration, resonance, harmonics, space and silence inherent in music have led me to a greater understanding of the vibration and resonance of the different aspects of our being: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual, and of their relationship to each other as a whole, in a coherent and grounded way.
I live near Canada Water, South East London, and have two grown-up children and three grandchildren. One of my pastimes is creating Japanese-style gardens.
