Video poem: ‘Rain in the Marrow’

Fluidity, somatic awareness, expressive arts, practices of embodiment, aesthetic response and wonder all inform the ground from which my poetry arises through deep listening. The connection to the fluid aspects of the inner landscape experienced through the soma is at the heart of my video poem ‘Rain in the Marrow’; it is also a poem celebrating the resilience of my feminine lineage at a personal and collective level. It is this fluid feminine resilience found in water that, in turn, expresses and may inform our relationship with the Earth and the web of life. I have had many teachers who have pointed the way, including Emily Conrad D’Oud, founder of Continuum Movement®; Anna and Daria Halprin, founders of the Tamalpa Institute and Life/Art Process®; Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of Body–Mind Centering®; Paolo Knill, one of the founders of Expressive Arts Therapy®.