SoulCollage Cuttings (Seena's Newsletter)- Vol 1. No. 1

COME, JOIN THE DANCE!

Seena B. Frost, author of SoulCollage™

We live in a time of awakening. All over the planet souls are yawning and stretching and rising up to join in a new dance. Soul ears are straining to hear the amazing music embedded in the universe, and are trying to dance to its rhythm, bowing, first to the selves within, and then to the many, diverse beings without. What was once the experience of a few, the mystics and poets, is now becoming the experience of the many. It is the experience that all life is Sacred, and all life is joined in dancing this One Dance.

The process of SoulCollage is a creative and fun tool to help you learn your particular steps in this dance. First, it is a tool for self-exploration and self-acceptance. Second, the images can serve as reminders of who your allies and teachers are. Third, ‘reading’ the cards can give you access to your deeper, less conscious, wisdom.

The ingredients of SoulCollage can be expressed in three words beginning with “I”: Image, Imagination and Intuition. A few weeks ago I led an introduction to SoulCollage in Helena, Montana. As people entered the workshop I asked them to sort through a pile of images, magazine pages I had thrown into a box. My only instruction was “pick out one image that speaks to you. Let your intuition choose. Don’t try to figure out why you are drawn to it.” As we did introductions a few minutes later, people showed their images, and then I asked each person to speak from the image. Say, I Am One Who… and go on. (See page 75 in the book, SoulCollage, for this exercise.) Nearly everyone could do this little role-playing exercise, and the experience was profound. Intuitive words bubbled up through the images, and something deeply important about each person’s soul was revealed. As the workshop progressed, several people pasted these images on one of their first cards.

This “surprised by image” experience can happen over and over with the same image for years. I lead an on-going group, one that has met weekly for ten years, where people ask their cards personal questions. A card came up recently that had not been drawn for some months (this person has a deck of about ninety cards), and the image told a truth it had never spoken before. This was astonishing…but it is not unusual.

Future columns

SoulCollage was a finalist for NAPRA's Nautilus Book Awards 2002

In this column, in the months to come, I will continue to share with you about SoulCollage, how it can be a creative tool for knowing and loving one’s inner self, and also a tool for discovering one’s link to the Larger Story and one’s unique gifts. I will describe ways people are using SoulCollage, and talk about new cards and ideas not mentioned in the book. I will talk more about using the cards individually and in groups.
Next month I expect to talk about the polarities of the One and the Many, of Essence and Soul.

Seena is available...

Please come back and visit again, and, if you wish to e-mail a question to me, I will try to answer or include the answer in a column. I also am available to travel to do workshops, time and energy permitting. Email Seena.