AMANDA PLAYER
born 1952 in south east England, now living in south devon. I am passionate about the wisdom of the body in revealing our human and spiritual being and work as a movement psychotherapist and somatic experiencing practitioner supporting individuals to explore their true nature.
In 2001, I left my known life in London and set off on a journey for what became a year and a day. My companion was a journal. On the journey, when I was particularly touched by an experience, I found myself writing in verse form and two of these poems are included here; Theatre of Magic and Wild Pear Bay. Since that time, I sometimes write a poem, either on retreat or in my daily life in response to what touches me. I don’t craft the poems, as you can see! They come, I write them down and occasionally change a word or two to help understanding but holding the essence. All the words are bound up for me with the sense of living in this landscape of awakening though I feel particularly this is true of the poems Grace and What is most precious which came to me as a feeling sense of a journey within this landscape.