Catherine Russell

Poetry

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My journey began with dance, opened in plant medicine, and then delved into relationship with myself through somatic practices, journeying deeper into my being, and meeting myself. Learning to be with, and hold what needed/ needs to come through. 

I am a human, a woman, and I share this on my journeying of meeting and discovering my inner realms, honoring aliveness, and wholeness. I hope it ripples where and how it needs to, touches where its meant to, here, and open in the world.

In school we were taught, in prose and metro, shapes and sizes, linear and directive. 

Often overwhelming my deeply somatic being. 

My poems and artwork are the raw expression of my felt experience, the words that long to ooze out of me, the sense-making of my inner world, feelings and emotions I didn’t know to make space for, experiences I didn’t know how to voice – that are now finding:

Images and words

Sounds and vibration

Movement and expression

Imagination and play 

For me, this is a beautiful way to make sense of my inner felt sense, and a way I can communicate, and also bring life, truth and realness to it all.