27/04/2023
We create magic ✨
Ashley .yang.ash and I have been curating ✨We have been so curious to explore our creative process, surrendering to the trust it takes to be in it. When everything feels unknown, when the pressure seems on to take some sort of action, what parts of ourselves can we make space for? What parts of us speak this sort of truth that makes space for the next right step? It can be an incredibly nuanced practice. What I recognize in my own process, is often I judge my truth. I want to create something that appears better than, from what is actually coming thru me. I realized that this judgement of my own truth is what keeps me from creating my life. It is a practice in first feeling for it and then giving “her” that part of me, a voice to express it. Life is weird that way, we feel something and first we judge it as good or bad and then put it to the side. Our brains say, thats not true, maybe if I am more compassionate, understanding, good, maybe if I pull a card or exercise more…I will let go of this part of me that feels out of line. So we do that, for a long time. We put things aside. Then we wonder why we feel like s**t. Why we feel depressed (as we press down our truest true). But the thing is that I recognize, when I express my truest true, even when it feels messy and comes out all jumbled around, when it looks like I’m crazy…I feel lighter! I feel better! The things that I want, to feel closer to my people, to myself, to trust myself….it actually happens! Just by expressing myself. Just by giving all of me a space to say the thing, create w/ the thing, to quit bypassing and spiritualizing, trying to ignore aka: “letting go” of the thing. My practice is to make some space for it, for me, to exist. All of me. And to notice what I notice. And to say, I feel, I know, I am.
We will step into our practice of expression. We will explore nuance, some somatic tools for giving our body a voice. We will invite in the lightness of this process + we will make space for what wants to be expressed, in the desert, on the summer solstice, we will howl under the starry sky.
Marfa Inspirational 2023. A women’s art + somatic experience. link in bio