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Our Bodies are a Visual Resource
I just completed a series of classes with a group of young lovely woman. We worked with learning to see our bodies as an embodiment of presences that teem with life. The body is an endless resource of imaginative possibilities.…
Field of Gold
Preparing gleaming surfaces, their light such joy to the hungry eye… gold has been used for centuries with cinnabar and lapis to speak of awe.
Befriending the lack of Control
One remarkable thing about engaging with markmaking that includes water is that, when we add water to an initial water-soluble mark we have made, that mark begins to MOVE…it bleeds into adjacent marks…it sends a narrow stream down the page…it…
Ephipany
Here’s a beautiful and revelatory story from a member of our markmaking class: Marcia, the class participant, has a manual therapy/craniosacral healing practice. She has many years’ experience, and works both from her considerable medical knowledge and her intuitive…
Strength of presence
In yesterday’s art class, we were invited to drop into an inner, meditative world, and respond with art materials to what arose…immediately a dark blue stone arose in the inner mind…dark and maybe faceted, it was unclear, mysterious, numinous. …
Becoming Salt
We as humans enter the sea and found we were invisible, dissolved, as we became like salt. Reduced but not destroyed. Absorbed in pure fluidity. Great movement in the sea churns and spews us on this hard solid surface. We…
Yorro Yorro
Here’s from Yorro Yorro Everything Standing Up Alive. page 53 by David Mowaljarlai and Jutta Malnic Elder Mowaljarlai quote “You have a feeling in your heart that you’re going to feed your body this day, get more knowledge. You go out…
Our Hands Perception
Our hands have their own cognition. We hold our hand’s palm to palm. We sense the sensations that move in our hands and possibly send signals throughout us. Images may surface, or our hand may lead us because we focus…
Sinking and Falling
Children see magic because they look for it. Children use their bodies to explore the world. They learn to become sensitive by rolling down hills, jumping up and down, twirling, swinging. hanging upside down, laying on the ground and seeing…
Play and Celebrating the Relief
This week I spent time with each member of our experimental group. I gathered a key word or feeling from each member to put together this prompt. Here it is. The fool hands you a magic box. In the box…
Grounding and Expanding
In our art group we are experimenting with Embodied Imagination through the act of making art. We begin with body awareness. We take note of where we are before the prompt begins for the days exploration. This week we worked…
ASH
This is from one of our members. Meditating on Ash In our meditation we were asked to consider ash since we have been working with elements of fire, my first reaction was uhh? What will come up, meditating on ash.…
Fire and Ash
Die to old ways Sacrifice What was once life Smolders to nothingness Even in ashA flash of vibrance Signals the inevitable New growth The design of Life Flame and wings, one. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the…
Imaginal Weave
A severe restriction of passion, brooding, slow restraint. Smoldering heat, incubating the egg…one seeks cooling of watery mist. Awakening with slow heat in the crucible of life. Embers glow to the yoke and dissipate in my brain. Dancing in destruction, flowing…
Igniting Fire
In my meditation, blue energy, what seemed like was air pouring through my head into my solar plexus, while from the ground there was fiery red energy coming into my body. These two energies meeting caused a molten yellow fire…