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‘The Death Mother’ Toko-pa

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The Death Mother Click on the link for this interesting and profound book review from Toko-pa – containing several useful links – on the archetype and meanings of the Death Mother:- ‘If you were the child of a mother crippled by her own … Continue reading →

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Gabrielle Roth, 1941-2012: Disciple of the Deep Dark Divine – Eliezer Sobel

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-99th-monkey/201310/gabrielle-roth-1941-2012-disciple-the-deep-dark-divine ‘You didn’t really think this was about dancing, did you?’ This is the follow up to yesterday’s short film showing 5 Rhythms dance, a wonderful article by Eliezer about Gabrielle Roth, the movement’s founder. There is a lot in … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, actualizing tendency, anger, awakening, beauty, communication, compassion, conditions of worth, congruence, consciousness, core conditions, creativity, cultural questions, Dance, Disconnection, dying, embodiment, emotions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, fear, flow, friendship, Gabrielle Roth, genius, good, grief, growth, healing, human condition, humour, identity, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, love, meaning, meditation, metaphor & dream, mindfulness, movement meditation, music, natural world, non-conforming, organismic experiencing, perception, person centred, physical being, presence, reality, relationship, sadness & pain, self, self concept, sexual being, shadow, shame, spirituality, surrender, teaching, tears, therapeutic growth, transformation, trust, unconditional positive regard, vulnerability | Tagged 5 Rhythms, 5 Rhythms practice, 5 Rhythms wave, acceptance, adolescence, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, aliveness, anger, archetypes, Arica, authenticity, automatic behaviours, awareness, behavioural patterns, being, blame, body memory, breath work, catharsis, chaos, collaborative working, communication, community, compassion, conditioned behaviours, conditioning, configuration of self, connectedness, connection, connection to nature, connection to others, connection to self, conscious dance, consciousness, control, core essence, core teachings, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, courage, creativity, dance, death cycle, death process, disconnection, divinity, dogma, drama therapy, ecstatic dance, ego, ego characters, ego dramas, elation, Eliezer Sobel, embodied spirituality, embodiment, emotional landscape, emptiness, encounter, Enneagram, entropy, Esalen, essential being, exposure, false self, fear, flow, fragmentation, freedom, fundamental energies, Gabrielle Roth, God, grief, growth, habit, healing, heart and soul, hiding, Holy Actor, human potential, immediacy, inertia, inner world, interconnection, interdependence, intimacy, Jonathan Horan, joy, Kabir, language, language of dance, liberation, love, low cost counselling exeter, Lucia Rose Horan, Lyrical, Maps to Ecstasy, masking, maturity, medicine wheel, meditation, meditative practice, melancholy, memory, mental chatter, metaphors, mindfulness, Mirrors, movement as medicine, movement as prayer, movement as therapy, movement meditation, movement practice, moving meditation, mutuality, mystery, New Age, non directive, non judgemental, One Consciousness, orende, organismic, originality, Oscar Ichazo, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, personal narrative, personal story, personality, personality patterns, personality typing, presence, private self, prizing, psyche, puberty, recognition, recovering memory, relationship, restriction, risk, Robert Ansell, sacred space, safe relationship, safety, safety in relationship, self concept, self discipline, self exposure, self expression, self presentation, self protection, self-consciousness, social formalities, social persona, sorrow, soul, spirit, spiritual discipline, spiritual path, spiritual practice, spiritual teachers, spiritual truth, spirituality, Staccato, still center, still centre, stillness, surrender, thought patterns, transformation, trickster spirit, true seeing, true self, trust, truth, unconditional love, unconditional positive regard, unconditionality, unified field, UPR, urban shaman, vigil, visceral experience, vital life force, vulnerability, wild woman, wildness, witnessing, wounded heart, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Stephen Jenkinson – The Making of Humans

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Lovely short film from Ian MacKenzie, featuring Stephen Jenkinson’s work through his and Nathalie Jenkinson’s Orphan Wisdom School, which Stephen describes on his website as ‘a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. … Continue reading →

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The nature of our reality – My Dinner with Andre

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Riveting few minutes from this 1981 film directed by Louis Malle, and featuring Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn. The writer was 16 in 1981, and did not see this film. In any event, she did not have the experience … Continue reading →

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