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One Woman's Journey (Part 1)

  One Woman’s Journey      I would like to share with you a journey of the heart which has been unfolding since September 11th, 2001 - its origins began years before that world-changing day.  In my work in movement therapy, I have always felt most connected and fulfilled in working with those healing from sexual and violent abuse.  At the same time, I have for years felt a powerful affinity for women as the carriers of healing energy, as the containers of embodied spirituality, as they who hold the suffering and joyous hearts of families, communities, and nations.  I have been contemplating and cultivating embodied presence through Buddhist practice and our shared somatic work and play.         On 9/11, I felt grateful that, living outside of New York, I was relatively safe.  On the other hand, I wanted to be right there, at "Ground Zero", immediately.  And so I immediately sought a way to be a part of the relief...