Céline GRAND

I met drawing and dance when I was a teenager and something circulated.

I began by studying fine arts. Interested in surrealism, I saw creativity and imagination as a way of connecting with the unconscious, exploring the dream world, expressing the reality of thoughts without censorship, in the hope of reconnecting with an inner self. I wondered about the meaning of art. I saw it as a therapeutic tool. I realised in the same time, the limits of the imagination, a disconnection with reality, an absorption through the refuge of a deep imaginary.

I then moved into the health sector. I also wanted to understand how the human psyche works, in particular psychosis and modified state of consciousness. As a nurse, I've been working in mental health, in psychiatry, for over 10 years. Intrigued by dissociative phenomena, I then specialised in psychotrauma and trained in EMDR and partly in EFT.

In addition to emotions, cognitive aspects, sensations, the nervous system, the somatic and relational dimension, I became aware of the importance of body reconnection. With Movement Medicine and Les Neuf Souffles, I see the possibility of a dialogue between body, emotions and thoughts, which then become the imprints of new resources. Imagination, imaginal world would be the gateway, the bridge and I rediscover this creative and transformative power, this link with the non-conscious, with the Self. Movement medicine brings us back to the anchoring, concentration, awareness and an embodied connection with the world. Touching the imagination without losing ourselves in the depths of the imaginary. From dissolution, scission and split to the realms of the sensibility, intelligibility and imaginal, to revelation, insight, awareness, and finally to integration and connection with reality.

Today, alongside my work in hospital, I'm starting an EMDR practice that includes the Emotional Freedom Technique and Movement Medicine.