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Founded by Katie Sarra

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Body Poem is a practice facilitating radical acceptance. This can be understood as c​entral to honouring and trusting the self-organising intelligence inherent in every human being. It is ​a skilled synthesis of Body Focusing*, Clean Language*, and Dream Form*, illuminating un​known and unspoken parts of the self in spontaneously emergin​g​ poetry.


The Dream Scribe trusts their creativity to read the exact words in spontaneously emergin​g poetry. This process is a dance of trust and creativity, where one person's world is received into t​he chords of the heart and voice of​ ​another.


A stance of radical acceptance offers the potential for receptivity to the emergence of ​a living, inspiring transformation. Like attuned caregivers transform and bridge an infant’s somatic​ally felt raw experiences into a shared reality, or like an artist transforms the mundane and rational​ised into shared beauty. Radical acceptance in the chords of another’s voice can soften our h​earts and welcome our authenticity into b​e​longing.


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“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

Katie Sarra - Founder of ​Body Poem

Katie Sarra is the founder of the Institute of Relational Harmony ​Studies, where she choreographs and teaches professional ​certification in Body Poem, Sexological Intimacy Coaching, ​Somatic Sex Educator and Sexological Bodywork Practitioner, ​training in the UK, Ireland, Europe & Kenya with an international ​team of leading-edge educators. She is a member of the Ethics ​Committee and Grievance Council and follows the Code of ​Ethics of the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers ​(ACSB).


Katie has developed her practice over 35 years of professional ​clinical practice and research. She specialises in facilitating ​radical acceptance and integration of exiled aspects of ourselves. ​She is an Art Psychotherapist, Founder of Body Poem, Artist, ​Bwiti Initiate, Certified Wheel of Consent and Right Use of Power ​facilitator, Certified Somatic Sex Educator, Certified Sexological ​Bodyworker, Playback Theatre Practitioner and member of the ​International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.


Katie believes that every human being has gifts to share, often ​grown from where we have suffered the most. She emphasizes ​that our self-acceptance, kindness and ease with ourselves, when ​we have felt acknowledged and witnessed, can have a profound ​ripple effect, supporting ease with others.


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“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

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Abi Denyer-Bewick

Abi is passionate about all humans returning to ​their cyclical nature, restoring right relationship ​with earth and the more than human realm. Abi ​loves engaging with people as they learn how to ​listen to and communicate their changing needs ​and desires with kindness and curiosity…


Becoming a Body Poet brought Abi back to the ​simplicity of her calling, to hold a space that is ​permission-giving and welcoming of whatever is ​present, even when what is present might feel full ​of paradox, confusion and fogginess. All is ​welcome. Abi designs personal programmes for ​people using the skills of Body Poem, Menstruality ​Medicine Circles, Functional Medicine, Conscious ​Kink and Eating Psychology.


Abi is an experienced, gifted body poet available ​for body poem sessions and as a mentor for your ​journey as a body poet.


Join Abi at Tree Sister's online Full Moon ​Gatherings monthly to experience Abi's ​inspirational Community Body Poems. ​www.treesisters.org



Contact Abi

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Julian Marcus

Julian Marcus - Body Poet, Relational Bodyworker & ​Embodiment Coach


Supporting you to live aligned with your deepest calling

through joyful creativity and service


"Great Therapist! I feely really comfortable expressing ​myself in the loving and calm precense of Julian!

It was liberating and a big step in my healing to connect ​to my inner voices trough this process Bodypoem ​facilitated by Julian. "

-Soraya Neves


Body Poem provides a clear structure that is the closest ​to pure person centred practice that i have found in 20+ ​years of study and practice as a bodyworker. I use it for ​intake, helping my client with somatic opening, to ​inform the quality and direction of therapeutic touch and ​for deeper integration. It is also my go to tool for group ​work for similar reasons. I have found nothing to be as ​clear and useful for structuring person centred sessions. ​If you are a practitioner or simply want to find a ​powerful tool for self-regulation and embodiment, I ​highly recommend you experience it!







Contact Julian

julian@feelandfollow.com


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Anca

My name is Anca, and I've been fortunate to spend ​several years in the healthcare industry, working ​closely with wonderful people who have taught me ​so much about themselves and about myself. ​Through these connections, I've discovered how ​often we carry unspoken words and hidden ​emotions within our bodies—sometimes without ​even realizing it. These can show up as physical ​pain, emotional stress, or even long-term health ​issues.


That's why Body Poem holds such a special place ​in my heart. It’s a gentle and powerful way to reach ​those parts of ourselves that we’ve kept locked ​away, often without meaning to. In my sessions, I ​strive to create a safe and welcoming space where ​you can freely express yourself, using metaphors ​that give shape, colour, and texture to what’s been ​left unspoken.


At the core of my work is a deep desire to help ​people take charge of their health and well-being. ​I’m here to support you as you explore the beautiful ​connection between your mind, body, and spirit, ​and to empower you on your journey toward ​wholeness.


Contact Anca

Tel: +44 7540571745


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“Body Poem provides a clear structure that is the closest to ​pure person-centred practice that I have found in 20+ years ​of study and practice as a bodyworker. I use it for intake, ​helping my client with somatic opening, to inform the quality ​and direction of therapeutic touch and for deeper integration. ​It is also my go to tool for group work for similar reasons. I ​have found nothing to be as clear and useful for structuring ​person centred sessions. If you are a practitioner or simple ​want to find a powerful tool for self regulation and ​embodiment I highly recommend you experience it!”


- Julian Marcus ~ Certified Body Poet

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“I've discovered how often we carry unspoken words and ​hidden emotions within our bodies—sometimes without ​even realizing it. These can show up as physical pain, ​emotional stress, or even long-term health issues.


That's why Body Poem holds such a special place in my ​heart. It’s a gentle and powerful way to reach those parts of ​ourselves that we’ve kept locked away, often without ​meaning to. In my sessions, I strive to create a safe and ​welcoming space where you can freely express yourself, ​using metaphors that give shape, colour, and texture to ​what’s been left unspoken.


- Anca ~ Certified Body Poet

About Body Poem


Body Poem is a practice that facilitates illuminating unthought unknowns and unspoken parts of ​the self into spontaneously emerging poetry that brings alive exiled aspects of the self which ​become somatised when not acknowledged through symbolic representation.

This process is relational, the world of one person being received into the chords of the heart and ​voice of another.


The structure of Body Poem has specific rules of engagement that facilitate the harvesting of ​projections into digestible poetry. In moments of gratitude, when exiled parts are resonated with ​and acknowledged, there is the potential for receptivity into the precipice of presence; rather like ​how attuned caregivers transform and bridge an infant’s somatically felt experiences into a ​shared reality. With a shared niche of attention, with symbols and metaphors, we learn to ​recognise; we are not on our own in the soup of undifferentiated realities that otherwise disable ​us from playing and co-creating relationship agreements to meet our needs.



In the practice of Body Poem, there are two roles. The Dreamer focuses on what they are ​noticing or thinking about, and the Dream Scribe transcribes these explorations. Body Poem ​sessions are easily facilitated online or in person. They can be useful for you on your own for ​discovering your unthought-knowns and fathoming the riddle of life. Body Poem sessions are ​invaluable for couples who want to have this opportunity to hear each other and be heard with ​the understanding of the many people in a ‘two-person’ relationship - especially with ‘I Want’ ​Body Poems. This practice can be used in everyday life to discover your map before you start ​each day.



When a person's exact words are read back, their unique metaphors come alive with enhanced ​viscerally felt granularity, offering recognition of aspects of the self that may have been ​rationalised out of awareness or out of the range of acceptance, harvesting projections that are ​passing on revenge.


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“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


A live recording of a Body Poem session

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TURTLE AS METAPHOR



Turtles swim gracefully in the oceans, symbolising our dreaming minds receiving the currents ​within.

The Turtle is a metaphor for exploring and diving into one's inner world and returning to the ​surface to reflect and integrate those experiences. Our ability to symbolically represent our feeling ​states influences our emotional fluency as we navigate, updating our understanding of ourselves ​and our place in the world. The imagery of turtles gracefully swimming in the ocean and returning ​to shore to lay their eggs mirrors this cycle of exploration and reflection. Turtles represent ​accepting and embracing the evolving versions of ourselves, in and out of the waters of ​experience.


When we ask a Dreamer, ‘What are you noticing?’ we invite them into the oceans of their ​dreaming body into the waters of experiences. The Dream Scribe becomes a conduit resonating ​with these feeling states, supporting emotional regulation within this learning zone, where ​expansions of consciousness are explored.


When we ask a Dreamer, ‘ ... and what’s that like to notice?’ we invite them back to the shore to ​differentiate and recognise what they have been experiencing in this emergent process. ​Differentiation with acknowledged symbolic reference updates frames of reference and predicted ​identity maps. Sometimes, this can feel like a prawn that has been hidden safely, suddenly being ​cooked alive in the light of recognition. When we experience prediction errors with our ​preconceived maps, this immediately activates expansions of consciousness as the brain’s antenna ​reassesses safety. If our authenticity has jeopardised our safety in the past, this can sometimes ​activate fears of being accepted in shared socially created realities.

Body Poem offers a titrated way of going into the water to feel and returning to the beach to notice ​what that was like. This is where the left and right brains integrate the raw process of life in the ​emergence of a living, updating the territories of our belonging. Emotional fluency can be ​challenged by inhibiting fears and projecting adverse outcomes. The radical acceptance felt in the ​tones of the Dream Scribes' voice can be comforting with these new versions of self that are being ​recognised, and this, in turn, has the potential to co-create new social realities of acceptance.

Turtles bring what they have harvested from the ocean to the shore.


They lay their eggs and return to the ocean, accepting the self-organising intelligence of nature.

The Dream Scribe becomes an instrument, transforming communications that may ​have lost their belonging into poems that become part of the chorus of life again rather ​than pharmacologically or surgically removing the PANIC and RAGE of exile. These ​poems transform the nothingness and physical pain of alexithymia into embodied ​symbols that harmoniously bring life and PLAY with what was indigestible and ​projected into the body.


The role of artistic self-expression in all cultures is to transform rationalised, suppressed ​aspects of self into a shared experience of beauty. Meaningless symbols of nothingness ​can spontaneously become embodied, illuminating aspects of self calling for felt ​recognition.

This allows tension from pole positions of our heart’s chords to be simultaneously ​borne and transformed into something digestible and harmonious.

At this precipice, we might live or die, and the metaphor of a poem holds us safe, like ​the banks of a river, containing and allowing the flow of what might have been ​dammed, unresolved resentment, and making what might ordinarily be unbearable, ​bearable, even beautiful and harmonious; like a love song transforms the lament of loss ​into a song we can weep with together.


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How do we transcribe the language of the Body into explicit referencable memory?

Our bodies are in the timeless raw emergence of living, with our minds translating ​and interpreting solutions for our equilibrium in the reflections of living. A sense of ​emptiness, numbness or unexplained pain can occur when our maps are not ​viscerally attuned to their locations. Body Poem can transmute the emptiness of ​alexithymia and indigestion pain into vibrant embodied symbols updating our maps. ​Alongside treatment models that are life-saving and necessary when illness sets in, ​and the build-up of pain gets too much to bear, Body Poem has the potential to ​transform the raw sensory data, numbness and blame into embodied symbols, ​harmoniously breathing life into what was once indigestible and projected. Aspects of ​self, projected onto the body or environment, can find solace in symbols that ​harmoniously come to life in poetry, inviting playful interaction.




Body Poem is a transformative process that illuminates unthought knowns and ​breathes life into the dormant aspects of the self, often manifesting as physical ​discomfort when left unacknowledged. Poetry's symbolic representation acts as a ​catalyst for this transformation.

The structure of Body Poem has rules of engagement that facilitate the harvesting of ​projections into poetry.


As the literalised becomes poetry, this pattern interrupts out-of-date clarity that might ​limit self-acceptance and receptivity. Updates to versions of self are assimilated in this ​new form in ways that bypass the guards, simultaneously allowing privacy for somatic ​openings and integration within a person's sovereignty.


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The 2022 body poem retreat

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With special thanks to Nikita for her sensitivity and attuned kindness, and generosity in filming this documentary. Nikita is also the ​filmmaker who has created the films for the body poem recordings from live sessions.



“It’s a joy to be hidden but a disaster never to be ​found”


-donald winnicott

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Body Poem is a practice that facilitates illuminating unthought knowns, bringing alive exiled aspects of the self that become somatised when not acknowledged through symbolic representation.

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Body Poem can transmute the emptiness of ​alexithymia and indigestion pain into vibrant ​embodied symbols and bring life to dormant ​aspects of the self, which, when left ​unacknowledged, often manifest as physical ​discomfort. Alongside treatment model ​interventions, when illness sets in, and the ​build-up of pain gets too much to bear, Body ​Poem can be a catalyst to transform the raw ​visceral data, recognised as numbness, pain ​or blame, into embodied symbols, ​harmoniously breathing life into what was ​once indigestible and projected.


The Dream Scribe is a conduit for the ​Dreamer's experience, transmuting ​communications that may have lost their ​sense of belonging into poems that bring ​solace and reinstate them into the chorus of ​life.


A stance of radical acceptance offers ​potential for receptivity into the emergence ​of a living like attuned caregivers transform ​and bridge an infant’s somatically felt raw ​experiences into a shared reality. In a shared ​niche of attention, with symbols and ​metaphors, we learn to recognise that we are ​not alone in the soup of undifferentiated ​realities. This recognition enables us to play ​and co-create relationship agreements to ​meet our needs, fostering a sense of ​community and shared experience.



In many cultures, artistic self-expression transforms the pain of being human into a shared experience of beauty. Even the most seemingly meaningless symbols can spontaneously become embodied, shedding light on aspects of the self that have long yearned for recognition. This transformative power of artistic self-expression is at the heart of Body Poem.


Poems can harmoniously hold the dischord of impossible opposites, like the resilient tension between two ends of a harp string.


In this tension, we might live or die at the precipice of presence in a humbling surrender of holy cows and energy-consuming defences maintaining this separation.


The metaphor and melody of the poem hold us safe, like the banks of a river, containing and allowing the flow of unresolved resentments that might have been dammed before. This can make what might ordinarily be unbearable, bearable, even beautiful and harmonious, like a love song transforms the lament of loss into a song we can weep with together.


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In the practice of Body Poem, there are two roles: the Dreamer, who focuses on their observations or a specific area, and the Dream Scribe, who transcribes these explorations. The Dream Scribe's role is (to be a quick writer!) and trust their creativity to read the exact words back in spontaneously emerging poetry. This process is a dance of trusting spontaneity, where one person's world is received into the chords of the heart and voice of another.


The structure of a Body Poem has rules of engagement that facilitate harvesting projections into poetry. As the literalised becomes poetry, this pattern interrupts out-of-date predictive clarity that might limit self-acceptance and receptivity.


Updates to versions of self are assimilated in this new form in ways that bypass the guards, simultaneously allowing privacy for somatic openings and integration within a person's sovereignty.


When a person's exact words are read back, their unique metaphors come alive with enhanced viscerally felt granularity. This offers somatic recognition of aspects of the self that may have been rationalised out of awareness or the acceptance range

inviting the potential for playful interaction.



WHEN THE BODY SPEAKS:

EXPLORING CONVERSION ​DISORDER AND BEYOND


‘The complex issue of consciousness challenges ​us to understand how physical processes ​translate into personal experiences. In ​conversion disorder (formerly known as 'hysteria' ​and now referred to as functional neurological ​disorder or 'FND'), we ask the opposite question: ​how do personal experiences manifest as ​physical conditions? This significant conference ​aims to bring together psychoanalysts, ​psychotherapists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and ​other experts involved in the study and treatment ​of this disorder to discuss the impact of ​emotional well-being on its development and ​healing. By presenting clinical cases, research ​data, and innovative approaches, we strive to ​gain a holistic understanding of this intricate ​mind-body relationship.’



Body Poem is an innovative way of bypassing ​rationalised defences and illuminating ​unconscious drivers. Body Poem harvests these ​unthought-knowns through a process of ​differentiation that promotes integration, which is ​a crucial aspect of my research. I invite you to ​anonymously share your insights on Body Poems ​for my project. Your input could be very helpful, ​and if you agree to participate anonymously, I ​will share with you the context of your ​contributions, and you will have editorial control ​over what might be published. This research has ​the potential to significantly contribute to the ​literature in the realms of psychoanalysis and ​neuroscience. I want you to know that your ​privacy is highly respected, and your information ​will only be used with your enthusiastic consent ​for this research endeavour.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct ​your life, and you will call it fate”


-C.G. jung

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Katie Sarra

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