As Above, So Below: A Sacred Geometry Somatic Journey in Bali 2025

Kendra Boone
Oct 20
4 min read

Sacred Geometry, Embodiment & the Art of Play

“The physical universe is basically playful. There is no necessity for it whatsoever.” — Alan Watts

Recently, I spent a week in the Balinese jungle studying sacred geometry with Stephanie June Ellis at The Art of Process. My intention for the course wasn’t to learn more theory — I already live in the language of science, anatomy, and trauma physiology — but to return to play.

Stephanie spoke often about the still point — that pause within the pattern where everything aligns before it moves again. For me, that still point felt like making the unconscious conscious: resting into the quiet order beneath the chaos, letting lines and circles teach me something the intellect can’t.

The Pattern That Breathes

Each morning, I sat with my compass and pencil, swinging circles that unfolded into spirals, fractals, and Fibonacci curves — the same elegant proportions found in shells, sunflowers, and galaxies. As I moved through each line, I began to wonder: was I simply drawing patterns, or was I tracing the quiet intelligence of life itself?

“Creation is a revealing process—it mirrors our attachments, our need to control, our impatience, and all that’s still unfinished within.”

Those words stayed with me. In a time when the unravelling of our species and the weight of the climate crisis can feel unbearable, creating becomes a way of restoring order — not by fixing what’s broken, but by remembering the harmony that still exists beneath the chaos.

My hand became the bridge between nature and movement, between what is seen and what is felt. Each arc seemed to echo the living rhythms within my own body — breath expanding, releasing, returning.

There I was, rediscovering the art of playfulness that perhaps had been left behind in my early years of art — buried beneath the layers of formality, expectation, and the subtle pressure to do things “right.” Moving the compass across the page felt like stepping beyond the tendency to analyse and perfect, and into a more colourful, expressive connection with deeper creativity. It felt less like creating art and more like being in conversation with the pattern of life.

The Intersection of Art & Healing

For years, much of my professional focus has been scientific — grounded in nervous-system regulation, neuroplasticity, and evidence-based trauma recovery. That work matters deeply. But somewhere along the way, I began to miss the healing arts — the creative, nonlinear ways of knowing that remind us we are more than data points and diagnoses.

Drawing sacred geometry helps me reconnect to that. It reminded me that healing is also a creative act: the body reorganising itself, the psyche expressing what words cannot. In expressive arts and embodiment practices, we use movement, rhythm, sound, and symbol to bring awareness back into relationship — with self, others, and nature.

While the world is truly unravelling in many ways — I find myself leaning even more deeply into what is relational and life-giving: into art, nature, and the quiet geometry that reminds me we’re not separate from what’s breaking; we’re woven through it.

As Above, So Below — in the Body

In reflexology, every point on the hands, feet, and ears reflects the greater body — each a small echo of the whole. When tended with awareness, these points remind us that healing one place can ripple through the entire system.

When I touch the body with awareness, or move in mindful rhythm, I awaken the same coherence that geometric forms represent visually. Our body becomes its own mandala — a living field of lines, arcs, and spirals where energy, emotion, and meaning meet.

The body, like sacred geometry, holds memory, intelligence, and balance. It reminds us that the microcosm mirrors the macrocosm — that the patterns of healing we cultivate within ourselves echo through the wider world.

Remembering Connection

“We do not come into this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.” — Alan Watts

Healing ourselves isn’t separate from healing the world. Both begin with remembering connection.

I’m beginning to weave these insights into my practice — exploring the intersection of embodiment and expressive arts in private sessions, and soon, in group circles. In these spaces, art becomes a way of listening; movement becomes prayer. The compass and the body are both teachers.

To me, restoring the healing arts means coming home to the structure of nature — learning to pause at the still point, to feel the geometry of breath, and to let creativity become a gentle conversation with the sacred.

Sacred geometry becomes a way of remembering: the health of our inner patterns and the health of our ecosystems are inseparable.

I’m beginning to weave these insights into my practice — exploring the intersection of embodiment and expressive arts in private sessions. In these spaces, art becomes a way of listening; movement becomes somatic embodiment. The compass and the body are both teachers, reminding us that creativity is not a luxury — it’s how life restores balance.

If you’d like to experience this process personally, I invite you to book a private session with me through kendrahealingarts.com.Together, we’ll explore how sacred geometry, movement, and mindful creativity can support your own sense of coherence, connection, and calm.