Sweep Clean the chambers of the heart. We glimpse into the vastness of other realities by observing, our inner terrain to allow ourselves to be available for what the imaginal wishes to express. We listen and see the image and…
Esso Esso The times are urgent; let us slow down. African saying As we listen to our bodies, our inner life, and to process the world at large, we move into a quiet, hidden, protected space to allow our vulnerablities…
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.…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
