Imogen Ragone

Psychotherapy Without Words

Originally posted on May 24, 2012 by Miriam Grace When the tissues and structures of the body are engaged and held in stillness… In that stillness there is opportunity for change and enhanced self-awareness.  Phil Greenfield I attended Phil Greenfield’s http://www.corealignment.co.uk/ talk on Zero Balancing nine years ago. I know that I have learned and developed so much […]

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Here and Now: the timeless, powerful and effective Gestalt teaching

Often reframed  as mindfulness, acceptance, focussing or compassion focused therapy, and having borrowed from buddhism, Zen, Reichian therapy, the Gestalt practice of starting where we are has retained its power for nearly 60 years, for centuries if we acknowledge that this is pre-psychoanalytic. Basic counselling training teaches counsellors how to provide a safe space: on

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I have the body of Wonder Woman!

Do you remember the pose? Hands on hips, legs firmly planted a couple of feet apart, spine straight and head held high? Last Saturday, Dr. David Hamilton had us hold this position for two whole minutes, in his seminar on the Science of Self Love at the Tree of Life in Birmingham. Blood tests and

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Mind Magic

Take a class in magic this term… In exploring the Body-Mind link on our workshop last month, Imogen and I used some exercises to show how the thoughts we have, create different bodily responses, regardless of the truth of the thought. We simply asked the particpants of the workshop to think a phrase and say

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Pause Gently: Hold Lightly

Do you have your dreams, or do your dreams have you? Do you have your feelings or do your feelings have you? Do you have your job or does your job have you? Hold it lightly, then you can put it down when you have had enough. I wrote this sentence last week. I’m aware

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