Come Healing: A creative movement activity

Based on Leonard Cohen’s “Come Healing”

This activity has a three-stage process and takes 15 minutes:

1. MOVE
2. EXPLORE
3. REFLECT

1. MOVE

Find a place where you can move freely and without interruption.

Go here and press play (headphones is good if it doesn’t impede your movement).

Move as you feel to with the 5 minute track.

2. EXPLORE

Watch this 5 minute video.

3. REFLECT

Reflect on the themes of movement and healing in your life.

You’re invited to share any reflections on this collective mood board. This can be in any form including images. It doesn’t need to be complete or tidy. Stories and vingettes welcome.

(All contributions are anonymous).

Thank you for participating

Come Healing

O gather up the brokenness
And bring it to me now
The fragrance of those promises
You never dared to vow

The splinters that you carry
The cross you left behind
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind

And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb

Behold the gates of mercy
In arbitrary space
And none of us deserving
The cruelty or the grace

O solitude of longing
Where love has been confined
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind

O see the darkness yielding
That tore the light apart
Come healing of the reason
Come healing of the heart

O troubled dust concealing
An undivided love
The heart beneath is teaching
To the broken heart above

Let the heavens falter
Let the earth proclaim
Come healing of the altar
Come healing of the name

O longing of the branches
To lift the little bud
O longing of the arteries
To purify the blood

And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb

O let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb

Writer: Leonard Cohen
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC