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Story Time - The Handless Maiden
English (US)
Online anytime at your own pace
3
CEUs
Beginner
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USD 75.00
Welcome to Story Time
It's time for a story. In this special class, Esther tells a simple and age-old tale. It is a tale that, in many different versions, has been told for centuries around the world. Once the tale has been told, we explore its themes together to see what helpful signposts it might reveal to help us on our own life’s journey.
Sit with us, listen, and discover how this story is also your own.
Esther Veltheim
 | Esther is co-founder of the Interntional BodyTalk System (IBA). She is the developer of the BreakThrough System, a dynamic process of self-inquiry and one of the key programs taught under the umbrella of the IBA. Esther conducts advanced workshops in BreakThrough, both internationally and in the U.S.A. She also runs ongoing Instructor Training programs for BreakThrough. |
“The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.”
– W. H. Auden
About the Stories
Each Story Time has as its focus a different fairy tale or legend. They are ancient tales rich with archetypes, struggles, and odysseys to which we all can relate. Perhaps the best way to understand the potency of such tales is to share what others have said about the wisdom of fairy tales.
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
– Albert Einstein
“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
– C. S. Lewis
“Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.”
– Hans Christian Andersen
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
– Neil Gaiman
“The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale—as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source.”
– Joseph Campbell