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P R O F E S S I O N A L T R A I N I N G & R E S E A R C H

Professional Training in Body Poem

-Online Study with access to a Library of lifetime study that gets regularly updated and enriched with live Research Explorations and Practice - followed by a Supervised Practicum for Certification.

You can enrol individually and join the thriving International Community of Body Poets.

Please book a discovery call with Katie Sarra to apply.

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BODY POEM DOCUMENTARY

Pure Productions filmed this documentary in October 2022 during the first in-person Body Poem retreat held in the Esconhais retreat in the mountain town of Castanheira de Pera in Portugal. A group of dedicated Body Poets came together to deepen practice after months of learning online. We were joined by practitioners living in the mountains who were curious to discover what this is.

The Professional Training in Body Poem

This comprehensive program, structured as an evergreen training that can be completed over six months. The training includes a blend of theoretical training and practical research with a Supervised Practicum as you develop your fluency as a Body Poet working with clients. This is where the training pays off as you use Body Poem as part of your professional practice. Upon completion, you will be certified as a Body Poet, equipped with knowledge, practical skills and emotional fluency. To start your training, join the community of Body Poets at any time that suits your schedule.

The Evergreen 6-Month Body Poem Training - The training materials are housed in a private community learning forum and are an ever-evolving library, and process, including

A comprehensive library of study and research on the theory and practice of BODY POEM.

The Evergreen Body Poem Training - includes

  • Six 1-1 supervision sessions

  • Six group supervision calls

  • Evergreen membership in a private forum and community group for arranging practice partners

Supervised Practicum - Throughout the training, you are encouraged to practice recording your Body Poems to support your Dreamer’s integration. To help your confidence as a Body Poet, you bring these to your private and confidential 1-1 Supervision sessions for reflective learning.

The number of sessions varies with each Body Poet inhabiting the core competencies of Body Poem.

“Body Poem has been a crucial part of my journey, it came into my life at exactly the right time, as an act of grace.

It is gentle, intelligent, nature-based, and in alignment with indigenous teachings that have supported me in my desire to heal, learn, and accompany others. I find it comparable to soul retrieval while being grounded in sound nervous system theory and trauma awareness.”

- Karen Yendal ~ Certified Body Poet

TREE SISTERS COMMUNITY BODY POEMS WITH ABI DENYER-BEWICK

This series of Full Moon Meditations celebrates our deep connection to nature's rhythms and cycles. As we gather in circle under the potent energy of the full moon, we are reminded that we are part of a greater cycle of life, moving through times of action and rest, growth and release, expansion and reflection. This series offers an opportunity to explore and embody these natural rhythms, allowing the unfolding energies of each cycle to guide you inward and outward.
These meditations and co-creative poetry practices invite you into community to connect more deeply with the natural world and the cyclical nature within us all.’ - www.TreeSisters.org

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Katie Sarra

I am devoted to exploring and studying, through research and listening to people, what supports us in becoming indigenously integrated with exiled aspects of ourselves.

The Body Poem seems to magically bypass defences (often painful self-harm or harming others) and harvest the psychic drives for integration through ‘projection’ and ‘projective identification’. It is a skilled synthesis of Body-Focusing, Clean Language, and Dream Form, illuminating unknown and unspoken parts of the self in spontaneously emerging poetry.

I believe in the transformative power of self-acceptance and kindness. Every human being has gifts to share, often grown from where we have suffered the most. When we feel acknowledged and witnessed, our self-acceptance and kindness can create a ripple effect that supports ease with others.

Body Poem is a practice facilitating radical acceptance. This can be understood as central to honouring and trusting the self-organising intelligence inherent in every human being.

  • The essential use of Symbols

    Our ability to come into a relationship with ourselves requires finding ways of connecting to, feeling and expressing what is happening inside our body. Embodiment can be understood to be this symbolic relationship with our feeling states, senses and how we create meaning from these experiences.

  • Symbol Formation

    Discovering, and gaining access to symbols and language can help us self-reflect, communicate and integrate the visceral responses from our bodies and embody these. This work guides us into an exploration of embodied states, enhancing our capacity to be intimate with ourselves and with each other. This supports co creating relationship agreements with conscious awareness and integrity.

“Body Poem has been a priceless resource for me. It has enabled me to access, accept, and integrate parts of myself that I didn’t know existed, through providing a safe container for that process. I have seen it do the same for my clients. It is truly an honour for me to guide others through this powerfully gentle process.”

- Rosi Lalor ~ Certified Body Poet

PRACTITIONER LISTING

CERTIFIED BODY POETS & BODY POETS IN TRAINING

OUR BODY POET PRACTITIONER lISTING IS CURRENTLY BEING UPDATED

- THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE - Katie Sarra

“I have deep gratitude towards myself for being able to be in connection with my body and being able to listen to parts of my body. It was such a relief to allow myself to sense and speak out the sensations I was noticing but most importantly that I did not have to do anything to change what I am noticing.

I had a deep relaxation and I felt grounded, present, and energised. I find the process so powerful, witnessing yourself and being witnessed without any judgment or expectation is healing and soothing.”

~ Armand Botha ~ Certified Body Poet

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“As the dream scribe I was aware of my attunement to my partner. I found myself adjusting my tone of voice and speed I was speaking to accommodate them. I am always really taken by how this process is so quick and takes the dreamer straight to those places within that are calling for attention and acknowledgement. Its an honour to hold space for someone in this way and fully hand their process over to them, offering them a safe space to explore.'“

~ Kat Stevens ~ Certified Body Poet

At the end of each session, there is an option for recording the Dreamer’s Body Poem

This reading back serves similarly to how a caregiver attunes and recognises the affect communications of the infant and vocalises these back transforming upset into regular harmony. This can be understood to be an adult version of this transformational process of affect finding home through the chords of the heart and voice of the practitioner embodying the client’s unique symbols and metaphor.

Here is an example of a recorded Body Poem from a session. There are no recognisable aspects of this and the person’s privacy is preserved.

A gift that I have been experimenting with is collaborating with a filmmaker here in the remote mountains in Portugal who intuitively takes this creative metaphorical process to another level by adding images and music to the poem. This further transforms unthought knowns into a mini film - in the language of video.

Interview with Katie Sarra ~ by Julian Marcus sharing an introduction to Body Poem

Facilitating the basic Structure of Body Poem

  • ... and what are you noticing?

  • ... and what is the mood of ..... that you are noticing?

  • ... and if this ... had a voice and could speak, what might they say?

  • ... and what else are you noticing?

  • and what is the mood of .... that you are noticing?

  • ... and if .... had a voice and could speak, what might .... be saying?

  • ... and what is that like to notice?

Harvesting Projections in Feng Shui Body Poem

Here is an example of a recorded Feng Shui Body Poem from a session.

I held my tears reading back this “Feng Shui” poem recognising the significance of what the objects in her environment were representing. Feng Shui Body Poem facilitates our collective consciousness and the timeless unconscious to speak to us through our surroundings illuminating unthought knowns. 

The communications from this Dreamer’s environment brought alive her lost sister reuniting them together and embedding their togetherness back in her heart

  • What is Radical acceptance?

    To love is to accept, receive and digest. Humans are alchemical ecosystems in the process of digesting our life experiences in symbiotic union with the colonies of bacteria and viruses that live in us and around us.

  • Self Acceptance

    Radical acceptance begins with our own ecosystem. 

    Before we can integrate, we need to see the forms within us differentiated out of the blind soup of our beings.

  • Justice is being with the Just is

    Radical acceptance includes our rejections and the harm we have caused and the harm we have been impacted with. The pain of this acceptance is an understandable withdrawal from love and unity.

  • Self Expression

    Finding words that come close to describing these emotional, sensual, and physical multidimensional aspects of ourselves literally activates receptors of self-acceptance when we are witnessed with radical acceptance.

  • Kindness with our inner critics

    Radical includes acceptance with our internal self-referencing inner dialogue. For example to self-evaluating aspects of ourselves that are maintaining our adaptive belonging.

  • Easing the pain

    Reframes, advice and affirmations may feel comforting like a bandage for our wounds to feel protected and cared for but when the time is right to be freed from these, it is radical acceptance that will ease the pain

  • Courage to be seen

    Under the bandage, wounds from our dark nights of the soul remain unseen and these exiled aspects of ourselves are sent back into the unseen bowels of humanity to endure continued separation until we are supported with courage to be seen with radical acceptance

  • Repair

    Cycles of undigested exiled aspects of humanity are ultimately seeking to be seen from underneath the shame bandages that have been nursing them.

    Being seen requires acknowledgement and understanding so we can repair and allow our remorse to teach us to learn not to harm again. 

“memory channels from this lifetime and lifetimes that have gone before us - generations of unintegrated aspects of humanity emerge out of the soup of the collective conscious to be witnessed and accepted.”