It is through our feet that many of us find our most tangible connection to the earth but it is through the bones that we carry the signature of our earthly being.
This is such a great post thank you so much Beverley! I eagerly await your posts. And this is so timely as I have been teaching bone work in my writing group - getting in touch with our bones and marrow to find their stories, to find living architecture and 3D structure. So this is timely for that. But more than that it is food for myself. Bones. Rocks. Grounding. Themes i pull in lightly in Weathering and continue to work and explore for myself behind the scenes. Your words are a gift for me! Thank YOU. Thank you. Can't wait for the companion notes. Xx
Oh thank you so much, Ruth. I’m actually working my way through Grounded this month (and looking forward to Weathering), so I think we are chiming together at the moment! I love my bones a lot, marrow, periosteum too, and synovial is favourite fluid of mine. Companion Notes coming on Tuesday 🙏
Thank you, Janey. The clavicle has underrated beauty! I love it as part of my arm, winding in harmony with the shoulder complex and riding the breath 😍 and you’re right “lockdowns” were a global grounding of the restrictive kind for me too. If you’re getting back into somatic explorations, I think the bones are great for orientation. Enjoy.
Thanks for the pointer to the fun thriller! Have you come across the story of La Loba? Who collects the bones of lost and endangered things, especially wolves, and when she has them all, she sings over the bones which revivifies them in flesh and fur until the creature runs free again. X
Pink and wet! Such an evocative way to talk about the bones and so different from thinking of them as dry and dusty.
I am reading a fun thriller at the moment called The Skeleton Key. It is formed around the idea of a puzzle book where each page leads to a location where a tiny gold bone is found, which combine to form a tiny golden skeleton. The puzzle book is based in turn on a fictional folk song where a tragic heroine's bones are scattered and when they are reunited, the heroine is reborn. I kind of like the idea that if we can recover/reassemble our bones somehow we will be made whole again. There's something evocative in that, although I'm not sure of what!
Thanks for the pointer to the fun thriller! Have you come across the story of La Loba? Who collects the bones of lost and endangered things, especially wolves, and when she has them all, she sings over the bones which revivifies them in flesh and fur until the creature runs free again. X
ps i did reply before but I think i messed up how to use the comments section!!!!
This is such a great post thank you so much Beverley! I eagerly await your posts. And this is so timely as I have been teaching bone work in my writing group - getting in touch with our bones and marrow to find their stories, to find living architecture and 3D structure. So this is timely for that. But more than that it is food for myself. Bones. Rocks. Grounding. Themes i pull in lightly in Weathering and continue to work and explore for myself behind the scenes. Your words are a gift for me! Thank YOU. Thank you. Can't wait for the companion notes. Xx
Oh thank you so much, Ruth. I’m actually working my way through Grounded this month (and looking forward to Weathering), so I think we are chiming together at the moment! I love my bones a lot, marrow, periosteum too, and synovial is favourite fluid of mine. Companion Notes coming on Tuesday 🙏
Lovely challenging piece - I love bones and the skeleton, particularly feet (though my favourite bone of all, as you ask, has to be the clavicle!).
I've a little lost touch with my feet, since lockdown 'grounded' all somatic exploration - so maybe it's really time to get going again
Thank you, Janey. The clavicle has underrated beauty! I love it as part of my arm, winding in harmony with the shoulder complex and riding the breath 😍 and you’re right “lockdowns” were a global grounding of the restrictive kind for me too. If you’re getting back into somatic explorations, I think the bones are great for orientation. Enjoy.
Thanks for the pointer to the fun thriller! Have you come across the story of La Loba? Who collects the bones of lost and endangered things, especially wolves, and when she has them all, she sings over the bones which revivifies them in flesh and fur until the creature runs free again. X
Pink and wet! Such an evocative way to talk about the bones and so different from thinking of them as dry and dusty.
I am reading a fun thriller at the moment called The Skeleton Key. It is formed around the idea of a puzzle book where each page leads to a location where a tiny gold bone is found, which combine to form a tiny golden skeleton. The puzzle book is based in turn on a fictional folk song where a tragic heroine's bones are scattered and when they are reunited, the heroine is reborn. I kind of like the idea that if we can recover/reassemble our bones somehow we will be made whole again. There's something evocative in that, although I'm not sure of what!
Thanks for the pointer to the fun thriller! Have you come across the story of La Loba? Who collects the bones of lost and endangered things, especially wolves, and when she has them all, she sings over the bones which revivifies them in flesh and fur until the creature runs free again. X
ps i did reply before but I think i messed up how to use the comments section!!!!
Oh wow, I haven't come across La Loba before, no. How delightful!