The poetic body

Using gentle mindful movement to inspire poetry and transformation

Abstract

This paper will describe a workshop that I delivered at the inaugural European Biblio/ Therapy conference in Budapest and explore some of the ideas behind it. The session introduced the ways in which a combination of gentle mindful movement inspired by the Feldenkrais Method ® of somatic education and expressive writing and poetry has the potential to inspire creativity and self-exploration. As a Feldenkrais practitioner and therapeutic writing practitioner here I outline my thoughts on these two practices and how they might interlink and potentially enhance the therapeutic process.