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#140 Embodied Mythology Series 09: Personal Myths with Paul Rebillot, part 1
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We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this episode, Paul is describing his approach to designing new structures from Personal Myths.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- Personal Myths
- How to create your own structure
- Trip to Epidavros (Greece)
- The sacred path of healing
- Illness means being out of harmony
- Healing process:
- Going to the temple, dream, meet the priest, get diagnosed
- Take care of the body
- Go to theatre – to experience catharsis, take care of the soul
- Go to a temple and re-integrate the God inside themselves
- The workshop structure
- The body is the temple of the soul. Fool’s dance – meditation on the myth in the body.
- Dramatizing the myth – playing the roles, with interaction
- An initiation
- The Minotaur story
- An initiation
- Brings it to here and now.
- Create your own structure
#139 Embodied Mythology Series 08: Death & Resurrection with Paul Rebillot, part 2
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We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this episode, Paul is describing the structure called Death & Resurrection.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- The Awakening
- Bathing with perfumed water, to awaken the senses
- Sensorium – different kinds of smells, senses, getting loose
- What actually dies is a role
- "Growth stops when we avoid pain" (Fritz Perls)
- Create your ideal parent to heal the part of you that was retarded (not developed)
- Reparenting process
- Story about a school teacher of problem kids
- Reincarnation Game
- What happens to people after the workshop
- A Sci-Fi Story
#138 Embodied Mythology Series 08: Death & Resurrection with Paul Rebillot, part 1
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We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this episode, Paul is describing the structure called Death & Resurrection.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- What does Death & Resurrection mean?
- A catapillar turns into a butterfly
- Christ
- Feeling of body falling apart to come back together again (martial arts)
- Total loss of control. When you confront death, there is nothing you can do except experience it
- Why would you want to experience Death & Resurrection?
- First, the willingness to give everything up
- Idea of Phoenix – letting go of everything
- Confront your death, and resurrection will take care of itself
- Stanislavsky approach
- Best actors put themselves into what they are doing
- "As if true" technique
- As if in four days I’m going to die
- What do you need to do to go into the death as an accomplishment
- The three centers – body
- Body – connecting to the physical world
- Meditation in nature – "Death is certain. It comes without warning. This body will be a corpse."
- "The Body Mass" – in the evening, touch every part of your body and say good buy to all the parts.
- Next morning, make up wills and give out their posessions.
- Relationships – saying good-bye to everyone
- Last day of life
- Give a gift to yourself
- Write your own funeral
- The 7 most important things in their life to say good-bye to, and 3 things they are glad to get rid of. Bring 10 symbols for those.
- Burning everything and watching the smoke rise to the next life
- Every day people have to be more and more silent – essential silence, only say what’s needed
- The last supper – lifting the silence
- The Last Breath process, the moment of Death. Taking turns.
#112 The Body of Wisdom, part 17 – Don’t Leave the Body Behind
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We are (finally!!) concluding our series of podcasts dedicated to the exploration of the body, the somatic disciplines and the underlying principles. Today, we are exploring the 15th generalized principle called "Don’t Leave the Body Behind". The complete series can be found on our website at http://www.radicalchangegroup.com/podcasts/series/body-of-wisdom/
- Don’t leave the body behind
- Prime example – the science community
- Dance
- Martial arts
#111 The Body of Wisdom, part 16 – Principle of No Paradoxes in the Body
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We are continuing our series of podcasts dedicated to the exploration of the body, the somatic disciplines and the underlying principles. Today, we are exploring the 14th generalized principle called "There Are No Paradoxes in the Body". The previous episodes from this series can be found on our website at http://www.radicalchangegroup.com/podcasts/series/body-of-wisdom/
- There Are No Paradoxes in the Body
- Definition of a paradox
- Martial arts
- Paratheatre
- Applications
- Relationships
- Organizations, political parties
- Personal development
#110 The Body of Wisdom, part 15 – Principle of Expressing Emotions
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We are continuing our series of podcasts dedicated to the exploration of the body, the somatic disciplines and the underlying principles. Today, we are exploring the 13th generalized principle called "Expressing Emotions". The previous episodes from this series can be found on our website at http://www.radicalchangegroup.com/podcasts/series/body-of-wisdom/
- Expression of emotions
- Emotions cannot be supressed, they can only be expressed
- Examples: dance, ritual work, spiritual work, martial arts
- Applications
- Relationships
- Emotion: energy in motion
- Business: Transmutation of fear into hope
- Personal growth: self-expression, arts, sciences
#109 The Body of Wisdom, part 14 – Principle of Exploring and Pushing Your Boundaries
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We are continuing our series of podcasts dedicated to the exploration of the body, the somatic disciplines and the underlying principles. Today, we are exploring the 12th generalized principle called "Boundaries". The previous episodes from this series can be found on our website at http://www.radicalchangegroup.com/podcasts/series/body-of-wisdom/
- Boundaries
- Discovering & respecting your boundaries
- Applications of Boundaries
#108 The Body of Wisdom, part 13 – Principle of Honoring Gestation Periods
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We are continuing our series of podcasts dedicated to the exploration of the body, the somatic disciplines and the underlying principles. Today, we are exploring the 11th generalized principle called "Gestation Periods". The previous episodes from this series can be found on our website at http://www.radicalchangegroup.com/podcasts/series/body-of-wisdom/
- Gestation periods
- It takes 20 years to become an overnight success
- Managing the shocks
- Session of Confessions
- Openness
#107 The Body of Wisdom, part 12 – Principle of All Movement towards Wholeness
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#107 The Body of Wisdom, part 12 – Movement to Wholeness
We are continuing our series of podcasts dedicated to the exploration of the body, the somatic disciplines and the underlying principles. Today, we are exploring the 10th generalized principle called "Movement to Wholeness". The previous episodes from this series can be found on our website at http://www.radicalchangegroup.com/podcasts/series/body-of-wisdom/
- Movement from Fragmentation to Wholeness
- Seeing wholeness as a child vs. as a wise man
- Applications of Wholeness
- NLP: Ecology check
- Business & organizations
- Personal Growth
- Relationships
#106 The Body of Wisdom, part 11 – Principle of Discovering and Working with Presence
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We are continuing our series of podcasts dedicated to the exploration of the body, the somatic disciplines and the underlying principles. Today, we are exploring the 9th generalized principle called "Presence". The previous episodes from this series can be found on our website at http://www.radicalchangegroup.com/podcasts/series/body-of-wisdom/
- Presence
- Commitment, integrity & discipline
- Applications of Presence
- In relationships
- In business, organizations & politics
- In personal development
- Presence defined again
- How can you be present while in doubt
- Presence is alchemical
- Commitment to what is, even boredom
- Why presence is important