Expression Coach

Even with all our smarts, we are a culture that is still struggling with poor self-esteem, exploding violence, massive addiction, and chronic stress. There are few, if any, outlets in our society to release the buildup of repressed emotions in healthy, creative ways. Most therapeutic intervention is often long and costly. Ranting and raving at sports events, watching violent movies, yelling at people we love, or taking addictive substances are not adequately doing the job.

My life’s passion is deepening embodiment
of total freedom of expression as our sacred birthright.

Going deeper than talk therapy – a sacred practice ground is created where any inhibiting barrier, frustrating predicament or inspiring vision may be played out, where apparent blockages to creativity are only challenges for continued growth and opportunity.

My art is being an emphatic mirror of body language – reflecting the complex range of protective/defensive holding patterns we all have been conditioned to play – and contrasting the ’social role’ with the inner beauty and expanding power of our inborn essential nature. This ‘expressive coaching’ in play is an enlivening means in shifting existing trauma, emotional buildup, and unsolvable conflict into the discovery of healthier, creative possibilities of expression.

Emotional Fitness: When emotions are lost in the mind of thought, the body becomes stressed out and rigid. Rolling on different size balls with a feeling vocabulary of emotional  expression is an empowering, instinctively directed self-massage. Bouncing on the Ball while exercising the breath, sound and movement of Seven Emotional Energies opens a floodgate of flowing adaptability, primal power, and unstudied grace.

This is truly a search for the origin of our primal roots, a quest into the field of life’s vitality –the embodiment of a youthfulness of spirit.

In this Expressive Arts process, the MASK is perceived as a sacred instrument of metamorphosis. Entering this magical playground on the Ball wearing a mask of a radically different character offers permission to explore and invent anew, different aspects of our nature that rarely can be expressed in daily life. The creation of brand new plot lines and a unique ways to sound and move, excites the nervous system, stimulates emotional response, and unleashes unlimited creative expression. Being multidimensional by nature, Mask Play is a powerful medium that provides permission to shift in or out of any limiting role or behavior at will.

Regaining the original resources of playful self-expression is what can strengthen awareness of the multidimensional nature of your essential self.

Live too far from the LA area? I offer private sessions on Skype! Look me up as Elisa Lodge.