Personal Stories

From time to time participants have written about their experiences in the Making Moves Newsletter. Here is a selection of personal stories. Click the title to access the story.

Being Prepared to Shine
"Ever since I can remember there were two things I thought I wanted to be: a princess and a movie star. I've also had a lifelong interest in the healing arts (around age 10 when I first started dabbling), and, originally from my studying days, a particular interest in archetypes...

Finding a Voice
"Like the flowing river making its way back to the sea, life had led me to enact the part of the farmer's wife in the African Folk Tale “The Woman from the Stars” at the point when she discovered that her husband had broken her only requirement of their relationship...

Finding Freedom
In the first session you asked us all to say what we wanted of the group. I remember saying I wanted the unexpected - and I got plenty of that...

Transforming the Past
"It started with the insight that I may have once been a twin, and that was why so many tiny details about my life that had always puzzled me were always on my mind. I was very concerned with the life of the unborn child, thought a lot about death and dying and was never happier than when I was with one other person engaged in deep intense conversation at an empathetic level...

The Joy of Performing
"I had a dream. My dream was to take centre stage in a performance and from there I would fly. Participating in the Performance Group enabled me to achieve this dream. When I was a little girl of about four I was in a park with my mother and brother with a crowd of other children watching an entertainer when the funny man asked ‘would anybody like to sing a song?' I believe I was up there within a flash. I can't remember what I sang but what I do remember is the way I felt after the performance. I felt really special and extremely loved. All eyes were upon me and when I sat down I felt this presence. I knew that all the children and their mothers were still staring at me. It felt good. It felt really good. It may have been just a few minutes but the feelings were gorgeous...

Taking the Plunge
"For more than ten years I have wanted to write and direct (and act in) my own films – I have known this for all that time, though it took me years to admit this to myself, let alone anyone else. So I followed various circular paths that took me nowhere (except in circles!) all the while repeating my mantra “someday I'm going to be a film director” – on and on and on...

Healing through Poison
When I went along to Claire's creativity group earlier in the year, I found a force to play with that was not what I was expecting. At the time I was feeling unsettled and stressed and overwhelmed looking for a new home. Claire read a Krishna story which contained a potentially very positive poison, though not obvious...

Emerging into the world
"When the princess was born she was taken and left at the entrance to a great maze.
It was winter and she crawled inside to get warm. She kept crawling as she could feel there was warmth at the heart of the maze. The maze was green and beautiful, she held the princess in her arms for many days and many nights. At night, the stars twinkled through and she was wrapped in luminous colours, the glowing patches of light from other worlds...