The Root of Story, Wildness and Being Human with Stasha Ginsberg
ep. #17
Stasha Ginsberg is a lover of depth and discovery. She is a published author and poet. She is also a storyteller, teacher, mother, dancer, musician, performer, tarot reader and facilitator of soulful writes of passage programs for youth and adults.
Stasha is a midwife of story journeys. She perceives each human to be a wild matryoshka, or nesting doll, full of stories. She loves the creative process and its capacity to crack open a story and lead one on a rite of passage, mythic journey through the landscape of body, soul, place, longing, memory & imagination.
Mallika and Stasha sat down to talk about the role the story can play in healing and creating wellness. Stasha shares about her personal initiation into healing work using story and we also dive deep into the layers of medicine that are available within the story of Vasilisa and Baba Yaga.
Topics we touch one:
- Story is the fabric of our humaness
- "Spiritual enlightenment" ca actually be a bypass for doing the dark and deep work
- The story that came knocking for Stasha
- Connecting the personal and the mythic
- Story activates parts of ourselves and a wholeness of self can emerge
- The stories in our heads
- Five Rhythms dance
- Disney versions of old fairytales
- Longterm work with one story
- Vasilisa the Brave (meeting Baba Yaga)
- Working for the elixir of life
- This is a time to journey into the dark with Vasilisa and others
- The time to do the work and the time to set that work down
- The Individual call Into the forest
- How grounding simple work is in times of great fear
"How do we go to sleep and trust?"
"Ultimately story just wants us to make sense out of what it means to be human."
"Those stories speak louder from the heart than from how we see them or pick them apart"
Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America
Stasha wanted to make sure to add a piece about how to embody the work you do with a story. After letting a story live in you, finding a way to be witnessed in the embodiment of that story is a culmination or crescendo of that process.
Listen to me reading Vasilisa's story (as written by Clarissa Pinkola Estes)
In Episode 2
And I dive into it again in Ep. 12
Here is a link to Stasha's performance/monologue, the end piece of her work with Kirsten Wilson in Boulder, Co. ( Letting the Body Speak )
Kirsten's website
Stasha's website: stockingstories.wordpress.com
Stasha on Facebook: The Wild Matryoshka
Stasha on Instagram: The Wild Matryoshka
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