Exploring Inner Space through the Four
Quadrants of the F&M Playground
The F&M Playground is the space for you to get to know yourself and tap into your Intuitive Intelligence.
Inspired and guided by the timeless wisdom of Internal Family Systems Therapy Model in modern therapy & the Five Phases Model 五星 in Classical Chinese Medicine, and C.G. Jung’s wisdom on the Active Imagination, this is a blueprint for peace and harmony within.
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Enter the spaceship of your psyche. Your psyche contains your mind, body, and spirit — which is why in this quadrant, we make sure the body can return to a regulated nervous system as a point of departure
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The nourishment of this quadrant comes from our relationship to Spirit and our capacities to imagine, create, and refine ourselves spiritually and mentally.
Here we access our guides of the wisdom of Internal Family Systems therapy, Active Imagination, Psychology of Eating, Archetypal Psychology, and Michael Meade’s Genius Myth.
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The F&M Academy is the inner planet related to this quadrant, which is the space where we observe our limiting beliefs, our complaints, comparisons, angers and frustrations. By entering this quadrant fully awake and equipped with appropriate wisdom and unlearning tools, we can clarify our vision and Exit the Matrix of the limited mind.
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Connection and intimacy are some of the juiciest ingredients in the F&M Universe. We love this quadrant because it is where we offer all the inner work we are doing of consciousness elevation, and offer it to our ancestors and to our planet with humility, non-attachment, and reverence.
“Por todas mis relaciones” is a phrase used in traditional Mexican ceremonies to remind us of the interconnected field we live in and give us a purpose beyond our limited self.
Your Soul’s Compass
The F&M Quadrants are here to give shape to your inner landscape, your inner experience.
Each Quadrant is anchored to one of the cardinal directions as well as a protector beast from the arts of Feng Shui, which acts as a mandala to your current state of being, feeling, and needs.
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In Feng Shui the symbol of the tiger is also used to promote intuition, vision, clairaudience, motherhood and unconditional love. Even so our tigress is powerful, self-willed and dangerous, everyone knows that it is gentle and caring to its babies. On the hunt she is very prudent, calm and focused. Her sixth sense may help us to recognize and take advantage of business opportunities others may easily overlook or miss.
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Like the phoenix, the vermilion bird is full of elegance and beauty and represents the five human qualities: virtue, duty, ritually correct behavior, humanity and reliability. It is regarded as a guarantee for favorable opportunities and financial success.
Simultaneously it stands for energy, fire, zest for action and public reputation. The bird evokes the feelings of joy and confidence. Like any winged creature it embodies freedom, overview, self-confidence, ease and spontaneity.
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He embodies strength, luck, fertility, vitality and power like no other being.
At the same time the dragon stands for spirituality, wisdom and the energy of transformation. He represents the forces of the yang, the positive, creative, masculine, virile principle.
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Ancestors, DNA, Flow, Water, WisdomIn Chinese thinking, the turtle is connected directly with the North, the element water, the winter and the night. The turtle was always considered as a mysterious and very symbolic creature. Its shell is compared with the celestial vault, the underside with the flat disc of the earth. It symbolizes happiness, stability, longevity, help in difficult phases of life, endurance and mental agility.
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The yellow dragon (sometimes referred to as yellow snake) is considered god and guardian of the element earth, the center, heaven and the sun. He’s the most powerful creature, master of all dragons and as such he is invincible – depending on his goodwill there will be a rich harvest or a poor crop, life or death.
the legendary emperor Huang Di attended immortality at the end of his reign and transformed into a yellow dragon, ascending to heaven. Since then, Chinese emperors are considered as the earthly representative of the Huànglóng (yellow dragon). The use of the figure was reserved to them alone.
