Jaya Narayan Expressive Arts Practice

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Jaya Narayan Expressive Arts Practice

Reflection of my psychotherapy practice. Its intermodal somatically inclined creative arts therapy. Most services are currently online. Visit my website.

https://www.jaya-narayan.com/ to book a 20-minute free consultation with me.

20/12/2025

It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela

I never thought I would figure out how to recreate a trending reel to meet my practice. This is in response to the many questions I receive about my work and how I integrate what I know. I learn so much each moment I am with my clients; they teach me about reverence and listening to the body. I know that our neurobiology is developed with connection in mind; we are always seeking another to see and be seen. Thank you for the love you have offered me, in visible and invisible ways.

17/12/2025

Found Words Poem from a poster I found

Creative
Connection
Share dream
Relax
Fill your own
Brave
Self
Learn from
Community

13/12/2025

Today

13/12/2025

"Before there are words, there is the wordless communication of the body."— Michael Changaris

When something is absent, our body reconstitutes fluidly with what is. If space is missing, our skin contracts, responding by becoming small and invisible. The bodily imprint holds multiple contexts, mirroring what is perceived across time and culture. In this experiential, I notice that even when space is available, and I am constrained, I lean into what is known and comforting. The sense of internal subjective experiencing rather than the objective reality on the outside. I see it all the time in the way we occupy chairs and recline on support. It's imperceptible yet so momentous when we allow the shift to occur, and expansion is available. Here I am going beyond the body as an entity in itself and leaning into relational entanglement.

09/12/2025

pre-decided imprints
imposing constraints
marks that are already made
adverse environment
conditions
out of my control
meanwhile
adjusting, adapting, responding
somehow ....even now
passing time, vigilance
I wonder
is what happened limiting?
my trajectory
up hill
I crave normalcy
the sense-full ordinary

05/12/2025

“The real advance in trauma treatment is the knowledge that the irrational, organic responses of the body cannot be changed except by becoming deeply involved in noticing the internal world, by becoming deeply involved in interoception. This means spending time turning inward, listening to messages from the body, and noticing how the body is engaging life. ~ Aline LaPierre”

There is a way I learn to listen. It is all about trust, waiting and pausing. I perceive the world through my skin; I notice the muscles and bones, and how they allow me to shift my body in space. I play with attending to what I need. I check if this choice feels right. I move between inner and outer knowing. I re-inhabit my body - my body knows how to interact with the world and keep me safe, it shows me how to turn away, shifting, allowing time, finding comfort, ease....

03/12/2025

you say come as you are
flooding me with frames of perfection
sounds of proficiency
I feel sooooo far away it ALL
intimidated by what I see/ SENSE
flooding unhelpful associations
memories of criticism
I cope
you specify what to do - I attend to the expectations
I want you to like me
I shudder to get it wrong
the desire for perfection
learning to stay far FAR away from real feelings
messy or spontaneous
you think I am responding to you
while I am disappearing

28/11/2025

“To ask 'What's good?' was to move, right away, to joy. It was pushing aside what was inevitable to reach the exceptional. Not great or well or wonderful, but simply good. Because good was more often enough, it was a precious spark we sought and harvested of and for one another.”
― Ocean Vuong

How do we arrive at this place of good, when coping mechanisms have been about getting it right, with no scope for errors? The cost of making mistakes has felt like life & death. In this context, I learn to find balance in what is impossible. To the extent that I forget what stability feels like, my feet wobble when nothing is happening, and I have an impulse to find the familiar. In this exploration, I work with fragile material that moves around, caves in and is in a shape that I cannot grip. I've been trying for a long time, and I could keep going. Instead of changing what is happening, how might I appreciate that my responses make sense?

27/11/2025

Folks looking at therapeutic support in 2026, please set up a zoom consultation to sense if we are good fit. I am now opening a new in person venue in Fairfield, 3078, extending my practice to all genders.

25/11/2025

growth
occurs in stages
little by little
a tiny seed in the soil
sprouting into a shoot
Erupting into a tiny leaf
moving in connection to the sun
inhabiting space and dimensions
A cell at a time
resting at Dawn
waiting
until the next day
never hustling
not competing with scarcity as a paradigm
not too much, too fast or two steps where one is enough
trusting time and readiness

21/11/2025

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
Conrad Hall

Making mistakes and being imperfect can be challenging in life, and it's even harder in therapy. It is here that lies the frailty of being human. I don't mean ethical mix-ups and invalidation. Owning up, being gracious when being corrected, acknowledging a misstep, or forgetting something. Someone I respect in the field mirrored my humanity, expressing what mattered with tenderness. They let their guard down and showed me that I could do it. I made space when a client asked me to tell them about you at the end of the session. I realised they have a right to know too, and I cannot hide behind the guise of professionalism. I cannot make something up for the sake of it. I need to find my way through the chaos. In this exploration, I move with the mess; I make it larger. I let it interact with my body. I notice having fun and being less rigid. We may have to reframe what relational spaces in therapy look like from an ecological paradigm.

18/11/2025

The field of Perception
is most likely shaped
by the spaces between
in the gaps
away from rigid Expectations
accepting the dis- continuity
interruptions, knot and entanglement
when pausing to take them all in
Dwelling in the textures
noticing feelings that matters
dismantling familiar conception
of what is meant to be
and how it flow next
by cultivating spontaneity
a willingness to be surprised

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Eve Studio
Melbourne, VIC
3072

Website

http://jaya-narayan.com/

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