Kimonos and Foxes

[rachelmanija]

Yesterday we got a wonderful presentation by the same Japanese Jungian analyst and psychiatrist who did the presentation on Japanese psychotherapy. This one was on sandtray, a form of psychotherapy in which the client puts little figurines in a box of sand to create landscapes, scenes, representations of their feelings and psyche, etc.

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[sartorias]

Sounds so awesome!

If any of those jackets are LONG, I will take one! (My body type is all wrong for short jackets.)

[swan_tower]

Haori are usually thigh-length, I think, though my sampling of them is limited.

[rachelmanija]

I'll see if I can find one that you like.

[rachelmanija]

Kimono jacket photos are up!

I will be sorting out orders for a while, but you get first dibs. And can try them on to see if any of them actually fit. I think the pine tree one would, even if the rest are too short.

[jinian]

Fushimi Inari is wonderful. Did you go all the way to the top?

I can just imagine your clients choosing their Naruto figurines carefully to represent aspects of their inner landscapes.

[rachelmanija]

No, I didn't have time. Some day!

I now want to set up a Naruto diorama representing MY inner feelings.

[patty1943]

Sand tray therapy is really helpful with PTSD too. Someone who is now one of my friends presented on it at the ISTSS (istss.org). She used it in the combat vets group for an ambush which one guy survived. I'm not giving all the details. The important moment was when he placed all the figures, she asked him what would it have taken for the ambush to have been stopped. When he added jets and tanks and stuff, he realized it was not his fault that he couldn't stop it.
He saw it for himself. Much more healing than someone pointing it out. It is one of the things all VA's should use but don't since they are all little feifdoms and they do what they want.
I would love to go to the fox place. I have a Japanese print of a fox with a (cabbage?) big curly leaf on his head. It was in my bedroom when I was a kid.

[rachelmanija]

Thank you! That was very interesting.

By the way, I read your book right before I left for Japan. Thank you very much! It was really helpful - definitely something I'd recommend.

[kateelliott]

[lnhammer]

Have you read/seen the chapter/episode of Aria about visiting an Inari shrine*? If not, I can link to a *cough*.

* On Mars!

---L.