Regina – Page 23 – Dreams and a Heart

25/07/201625/07/2016

Delton Tower Sheltered Housing, Kentish Town, London UK

On Wednesday 11th May I went for the first time to Delton Tower sheltered housing. I was invited by Karol, a puppeteer that I met in a D&D last year. Mary, Janice, Catherine, Lili, Reginald and Karol came, we put dreams and hearts into the dolls and we meditated connecting with our pulse.

We had an interesting conversation about the new Mayor of London with very different opinions – ‘here is not England anymore’, ‘ it is much better now’ and so on. They also shared lots of jokes during the entire morning.

We are going to meet again to make some more dolls, to finish some of them and to have more fun together.

Karol has donated her pillow full of dreams to the project, thank you!

See you all soon!

16/07/201625/03/2023

Angels signals

I had several signals in the last months. I didn’t know what to do with these signals. It took me a while to realise I was supposed to make angels.

I’ve been more and more aware of my shoulders blades since I started to swim more regularly for over a year. I want to photograph them and film my back and shoulder blades dancing like wings.

In February an ‘ Angel hand ‘ over my head. It was the sensation. I tried to capture it with some photos. I felt the same a couple of times later.

In April I saw the sculpture Winged Figure by Barbara Hepworth at John Lewis Oxford Street for the first time. I’ve been there many times and have never seen it before. I stayed in that corner just looking at it for a long time. I took some photos.

Beginning of June my dear friend Claudia told me about a book of angels she is reading. She decided to buy one and post it for me. I have never talked about angels with her before. She posted it on 8th July, it arrived yesterday 14th, she wrote ‘to remember that there is mystery and the light will shine stronger in the darkest moments’

In the end of June inspired by Pippa I volunteered for Deborah’s ‘Climate Guardians’, I was one of the 7 Angels with huge wings helping this amazing project during a weekend in London. I felt blessed for the opportunity to help Deborah and Pippa.

After the referendum results I thought ‘we are helpless, we keep making the same mistakes over and over again, even when we know they can lead us to undesirable consequences’. I thought ‘we need help, we need to ask for help’ and suddenly all the angels’ signals made total sense.

Yes, I was slow to get it but now I am pleased that the angels are present in my work.

I want to thanks the heavens that has been inspired me with this project since the very beginning and has been inspired generous friends to help me. However I want to ask please, with all my love and respect, please make me a bit quicker to realise what I need to do, thank you!

16/07/201617/07/2016

Barbican, London UK

Last Monday, 11th July, we went to another D&D event at Barbican ‘Shall we create an European Union of Artists?’

I called a session ‘Fear and anger are held between our shoulder blades so 700 Angels to bring peace to 7 billion people. Help me with the wings’

We sat in a gorgeous garden, at the Barbican garden room, in the spot called flowers.

Ruth, Francis, Shemine and Joe came to the session, we put around 30 wings on the dolls.

The meditation has changed – we held the dolls/angels on our hand with our fingers on their hearts and on their back (what we have been already doing before) but now we focused our attention in our pulse and in our upper back. This meditation including the focus on the back brought us the area between the heart and the opposite point in the back, we can feel the area inside our body, the volume of it, in a way we were not able to feel before when we meditated just with the heart.

The fact that we now have the front and the back to meditate with gives us a deeper/ wider dimension for the practice.

At a certain point three of us stayed more than half a hour meditating, it was the first time such a long period of time happened when we meditate with the dolls, it was a special moment we shared in that beautiful garden.

We had also a inspired conversation about babies and how the educational system can hurt our children and what we can do to minimise it.

Some comments

‘ this was an extremely calming experience and I realised how tired I am and how thankful I am for this opportunity to be peaceful’.

‘ I remarked how these angels and Regina’s ideas for an art installation brought to mind the Steiner schools where my children went as youngsters. I think perhaps there might be possibilities within the Steiner world for this sort of project to happen’

Thank you for all D&D staff – Sarah, Susie, Rachel, Phelim, Lee, Nick – who quickly organised this emergency D&D to give us support and hope, You Are the Artists Guardian Angels, you help us to be connected and have a voice in the middle of this chaos, I am once more immensely grateful, thank you!

23/06/2016

York Hall, Bethnal Green, London UK 2013

12/06/201612/06/2016

Rich Mix, Shoreditch, London UK

Yesterday we had a great D&D event ‘What are we (yes, we) going to do about Europe (and the rest of the world)?’ at Rich Mix. My favourite invitation so far, written by Tom.

Mayou and Sarah helped me to put dreams and hearts into six dolls.

Thanks to D&D team we had once more this precious opportunity to spend time together having inspiring conversations on how we (yes, we) are going to change the world into a better place to live.

Thank you!

09/06/2016

Thanks God we can swim!

11/04/201611/04/2016

Meditation pics at ENO this weekend

11/04/2016

English National Opera, London UK

This last weekend we were together in another great D&D event ‘How can we change opera for the better’ at English National Opera in London.

Bill, Malika, Delia, Suni, Germaine, Ruth, Norman and Blue came to my session and helped to put dreams and hearts into the dolls and we meditated connecting with our heartbeat. We made 13 dolls together.

We are now half way to complete the second community of 700 dolls!

Some interesting new thing happened at this time – the dolls were given names – we’ve got now a George, a Clive, an Emmer and an Odette.

‘George has one leg longer than the other – just like me!’

‘Emer has a beautiful heart’

‘Clive is funny and beautiful inside out.’

‘Odette is a very calming person’

and a comment about the process

‘Thank you! I found that more emotional then I expected and I needed to be alone for a few minutes afterwards’

On Sunday morning I told everybody that it took me three years to reach a thousand dolls. I am growing older and I don’t want to die before I reach at least the five communities of 700 dolls. I need more people to help me making them so we can reach 1000 in one year and meet the target in two years and a half time instead of 10 years!!!

Thank you so much everybody and a special thank you to D&D people who opened this space to talk and do what is essential for us so we can transform the world in a better place to live, Thank You!