DRAWINGS WITH SOMA

"When drawing a face, any face, it is as if curtain after curtain, mask after mask, falls away...
until a final mask remains, one that can no longer be removed, reduced.
By the time the drawing is finished, I know a great deal about that face, for no face can hide itself for long...
although nothing escapes the eye, all is forgiven beforehand.
The eye does not judge, moralize and criticize.
It accepts the masks in gratitude as it does the long bamboo being long, the goldenrod being yellow."
Frederick Franck "The Zen of Seeing"

BEFORE	AFTER
BEFORE	AFTER
BEFORE	AFTER

The interpretation of spontaneous drawing is an integral part of the psychological component of the SOMA sessions. The drawing, done by the client before the first session and after the last session allows the client the visual input to see their internal view of the changes that occurred.

This piece allows the client to see the change as drawn by them. The drawing gives the SOMA practitioner a great deal of information about the internal experience of the client. This information can be assistive in framing questions of support, in individualizing and structuring the session.

Picture interpretation is a rich tool to bring foreground the interplay of information often kept repressed about somatic aliments either physically or psychologically. With awareness, these somatic fears can be confronted and ideally resolved.