The Loren Lewis Cole Jewellery Podcast: Recent Episodes
Loren Lewis Cole
‘Our sensuality is where our beauty comes from.’ Brand founder Loren Lewis Cole discusses creativity, sensuality and the Arts. Tune in for jewel sized chunks of inspiration, encouragement, and musings on the deep importance of the Arts for personal and spiritual well-being.
What is emotional health? How does it relate to the health of our tissues, our bodies, our hearts, and our entire lives, and of course, to our Artistic contributions?
I watch social media trends and self help reaching a cruscendo, everyone wanting to be on tip top form, look our best, feel our best all the time, and worry about what this says for authenticity? Do we want unending high vive? That seems pretty boring, inauthentic and uncourageous to me.
Frida Khalo wrote 'You deserve a lover who wants you disheveled, with everything and all the reasons that wake you up in a haste and the demons that won’t let you sleep. You deserve a lover who makes you feel safe, who can consume this world whole if he walks hand in hand with you; someone who believes that his embraces are a perfect match with your skin.
What this time needs is the courageous authenticity of the artist soul. Not another perfect morning routine, not another perfect passive income scheme or five ways to this and that. What this time needs is genuine authentic soulful human beings with a genuine perspective on things, a perspective that comes from the courage of our feeling being here, in our unique circumstances.
Watch the incredible Mariza sing Gente de Minha Terra live in Lisboa, a timeless vortex of restorative healing deeply human energy
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When I consider the people I meet and know who seem to have a radiance of activity, participation, contribution and generosity, these people have an astonishingly clear set of characteristics in common.
It's so important to ask ourselves what we're doing with our attention, what we're cultivating. We're in a culture saturated with distraction and entertainment, externally projected ideas of success, yet very few people seem to really be able to plunge into their gifts, nurture them, be on a learning path and develop robust and consistent self esteem.
Part of the many consequences of late stage capitalism is that so many people have this phenomena of 'low self esteem', this is a modern concept. We've been programmed to believe we gain 'self esteem' from beauty, a fashionable body, a large house and many luxuries around us, yet we actually gain self esteem from being in participation with our environment, and through learning.
What is learning? What is the learning zone?
What is play? How does this differ from entertainment?
Where does a sense of meaning and satisfaction, challenge and contribution really come from?
How can we bring ourselves back to the very centre and grit of our lives? So we experience a deep sense of creative control that doesn't seek to diminish challenges, or to retreat from life into a permanent zone of comfort and ease, essentially lobotomising ourselves, but to have a robust enough spirit to view challenges as the path itself, and to come alive in the real, raw, messy participation with the world.
Solo episode that explores how play, learning and creativity are evolutionary adaptations that feel good in order that we keep doing them, and how most adults are living on autopilot, without genuine learning environments since 'school'
How to get back into the learning zone, out of entertainment and distraction and take our very real power back, for the arts, for culture, for embodiment, for our lives.
Today is Halloween, or All Hallow's eve, day of the dead in Mexico, which is well known. The Romans also celebrated this thinning of the veils as an opportunity to honour their ancestors, as well as make offerings to what we might now call ‘ghosts’, unrested spirits of dead souls who still try to communicate with the living.
Many people I know in different spiritual traditions, Neo melange traditions as well as traditions of in tact lineage, mark this time of year, by taking pause from the busy goings on of worldly life in order to acknowledge, in ceremony, in thoughts, in deeds, those who have died.
In modernity, we see everything as what we can get from life, we look at life with an extractive view and want to squeeze everything we can for the sake of our own enrichment. Traditional cultures, of which we all come from, whatever our skin colour, whatever we’ve come from, coloniser or colonised, we come from small, local traditions that varied depending on landscape, customs, materials available, climate, food and so on… modern humans all thinking and believing similar things is a very recent occurrence, evolutionarily speaking.
Thousands of years ago, the sun was worshipped, the first glyphs of all culture, long before formalised writing, centred around the symbol for the sun, if that was impersonated into a god or goddess, or simply worshipped as the sun, respect was paid daily to simply being here.
Modernity has us in a choke hold of thinking if we get everything we want we will be happy, and I so rarely hear people, at the institutional level or the individual level, considering what we can in fact GIVE. Isn’t it the act of sharing our gifts , of plunging all we have of ourselves and offering it to this life, isn’t that the point?
Isn’t that what feels incredible, knits us into a wider geography of life, of the elements, of appreciation? The people I know who are the happiest are those who give daily from their gifts, who do what they do regardless of the money, and if it ends up with them being rich, great, but it was never what they taught.
Being rich is the natural state of being alive, having a body is such a rich experience, like ghee, or cream, its alive, thick, responsive to its environment.
Happy all Hallow's eve, you beautiful soul.
With love,
Loren
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Beauty lifts us. Pleasure lifts us. Though this lifting isn't an up and out of, it's a simultaneous deepening and embodying. A growth in all directions, and perhaps most importantly, a growth downwards into our being rooted in this life.
To have the audacity in this day and age to be rooted in the unseen, and create from there, bringing our worlds and visions, gifts into this world.
We can get our behavioural reinforcement from the pleasure networks of the brain physiology and be less and less defined by the trauma networks.
Learning happens in the pleasure networks, understanding this, I believe, will change the future of mainstream healing.
The pleasure vortex is waiting for us. Pleasure doesn't mean only wild sexual abandon, it can be the complete sensual absorption of our focus networks, bringing all of our attention into a state of flow and presence.
I share my podcast episodes for The Embodied Vessel first with the community of women in Secret Activations Audio Coaching, two weeks before I release them to the public. This, and daily coaching to keep you in line with potency, artistic fire and passion, in a culture that profits from our depressed mediocrity and identification with being only a consumer 🔥🌹
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In this episode I sit with friend and teacher Nina Powell. In Nina's words, 'A little-known phenomenon called post-traumatic growth explains what happens when we fully heal. We don't just reset to who we were before the trauma — we expand beyond that previous state.You don't just return to your former self. You become the version of yourself that you've always known exists at your core. It's an expanded you coming into realisation. Some call this enlightenment. And it is.Every challenge on your path to your dreams is like a magical object in a video game. Each one reveals where your next pill of aliveness is hiding, saying, "Now is the time to awaken more of your magical gifts."This package may look and feel terrible. You may want to avoid it. But it arrives as a gift for you to alchemise like the Wild and powerful Queen that you are.Somatics became my spiritual path. Not just a healing modality, but a way to come home to myself completely. A way to turn life's challenges into awakening and sensational play. A path to live a magical, mystical life — not by transcending my human body, but through it.This is the foundation of Wild Queen. This is why I know in my heart that you will be free of what holds you back. That rather than past trauma pulling you away from your path, it is your path — leading you to remember the wild, sovereign being you truly are.The body knows. The body remembers. The body is the way home.When you're ready to walk this path of embodied awakening, Wild Queen awaits.' For more information about Nina's upcoming container Wild Queen you can see here
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Like the metabolising of food, the creative process has phases, energetic properties we can support and cultivate, allowing us to embody the challenges, boundaries and explorations that characterise each phase.
These are the stages I live through and by, and support people in recognising in their own experience so that we can genuinely move through these natural phases and express our contributions and gifts, without stalling and making an identity out of a phase we can't seem to move through.
Emptiness, Inspiration, Play, Articulation, Doing the Work, Cutting the Ties, Delivering the Work.
What's needed on one phase is counter productive in another. I've found this naming of the phases to be deeply helpful in maintaining a robust creative inner life, filled with passion, execution and the essential cutting of ties needed for us to deliver our work into the world.
People aren't laking creativity, insight or contribution, but most have not been given, or give themselves the space to embody and integrate each phase of the process.
To dive into this deeper, join my explicit and soulful, juicy deep dive into these themes and many others on my private caching feed, The Embodied Vessel Secret Activations, where you can get daily audio on the somatics and permission on living a fully expressed creative life, that brings all of you, not just the juicy bits.
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“There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.”Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
If we don't value the person to person transmission of skills, held in the human nervous system, cellular memory, deepest of kinaesthetic intelligence, we will think it's ok to hand over everything to AI. This cannot be an option in a future where we become more deeply resourced in our humanity, our dexterity, sensitivity and unique communication style.
The future is in our hands. WHEN WE WAKE UP OUR HANDS WE WAKE UP OUR PURPOSE. Any embodied skill we practice, will never be a waste of time.
Not when we have this incredible electromagnetic human body that can store and accumulate skills and abilities that will keep going even if we lose our memory. the body keeps the score.
There are gifts in you that are waiting for your courage. They're packed and ready to be excavated, that must be sacred work.
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Dr Roxanne partridge works and celebrates women in the waters that our culture seeks to deny, let alone venerate.
She says 'I’m here to show you how to alchemise psychic gold from the shit of your experiences, rapture found on the other side of rupture, and a Queen’s radiance sourced from depths of our encounters with all that seeks to diminish our life force. If you hear the call to more or other, you are more ready than you think you are to transform.
I’ve crossed the thresholds of initiation in countless forms: violations of the body and autonomy; ecstatic bliss of being fully alive and orgasmic, persona deaths, devotion to estuaries, dancefloors, soul retrievals, the full-body rocking held by many hands of women in sacred baths over cliffs beneath the moon, tantra, befriending the archetypal figures who show up in my dreams, mediations, and through my blood. I’ve learned to dance in the flames. Embodying the sacred numinosity of body-mind-heart-spirit-soul as the path through, up and out from the underworld, wings extended.
I mean, COME OOOOOONNNNN!!!!
Join us for this deep and juicy conversation.
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I'm floored by what happens when we hold a space for another or ourselves in the ritual container of our attention, and nourish the most potent and alive aspects of ourselves.
Introducing a place I've been in for many years in conversations globally with women I know and love, VOICE NOTE ACTIVATIONS!! I've had it reflected to me many times that my UNHINGED voice notes are inspiring and permission giving to women, and I feel the same with the ones I receive. It has taken me SO LONG to realise this is the thing, the place I've never been able to find - here it is. I am at home in the unhinged deeply honest and expressed spaces of being, and this audio coaching vortex is a place to explore themes that come up in my life and the life of women I connect to. This is a really juicy place- parental guidance warning, we're going to explore embodiment, somatics , healing and taking up space from the a full spectrum experience of sensuality. That means yes our aesthetic practice, and it includes our connection with our skin and bones, all of our bodies and their sexual experience.
This is the motivational, inspirational, unhinged, juicy and galvanising place I've never been able to find. I am deeply impatient by nature so you can guarantee I'm getting straight into the juice and bones of the subject in each episode, not wasting any time at all, I want to inspire the magical creative weird genius you already are, in all of your manifestations.
I am BEYOND EXCITED!
See you on the inside
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Dòri Varga is an interdisciplinary artist who is as deeply sensual as she is intelligent. She has a mind sharp as a razor and an appetite for the edge, which she explores with hunger and courage in her work through her instantly recognisable page Blood of Aurora as well as her work as a solo and collaborative artist.
Dòri truly has died many artistic and personal deaths in the time I've been following her work, which is about a decade. This woman is sharp and deep and sexy and funny and just has a MASSIVE aura that I know you're going to love. Throughout all of her themes and explorations, the nucleus has been exploring the often hidden experiences of women who birth, bleed, renew, create. Dòri has a distinct artistic signature that pervades everything she does from her exquisite writings and poetry to her sensual self portraits, her explorations of childbirth and sexuality. This woman is here to fully feel and that's expressed in everything she does.
Our conversation was 3.5 hours and goes far and wide. We discuss the courage of being an artist, how this is truly our time as society is crumbling, as it always does, mothering as an artist and getting deep into creative zones whilst being in a family and the challenges of switching states, sexual intimacy, getting into THE ZONE, authenticity, female relationships and so much more.
You can find Dòri's here https://www.instagram.com/dor.ottya/
Blood of Aurora https://www.instagram.com/bloodofaurora/
You can read the article she was working on at the time of this conversation here-
https://bloodofaurora.substack.com/p/m-othering-as-erotic-intelligence?r=3990r5&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=post-publish&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAadl_QCegjBtT_H9z9RvyKSD5vzYTSn5Oxc5brjrx1pEoZQrv-S8-UhvRu3J-w_aem_Cz5-Wy3PMv_wMf0PFNnr2w&triedRedirect=true
Dòri Varga is an interdisciplinary artist who is as deeply sensual as she is intelligent. She has a mind sharp as a razor and an appetite for the edge, which she explores with hunger and courage in her work through her instantly recognisable page Blood of Aurora as well as her work as a solo and collaborative artist.
Dòri truly has died many artistic and personal deaths in the time I've been following her work, which is about a decade. This woman is sharp and deep and sexy and funny and just has a MASSIVE aura that I know you're going to love. Throughout all of her themes and explorations, the nucleus has been exploring the often hidden experiences of women who birth, bleed, renew, create. Dòri has a distinct artistic signature that pervades everything she does from her exquisite writings and poetry to her sensual self portraits, her explorations of childbirth and sexuality. This woman is here to fully feel and that's expressed in everything she does.
Our conversation was 3.5 hours and goes far and wide. We discuss the courage of being an artist, how this is truly our time as society is crumbling, as it always does, mothering as an artist and getting deep into creative zones whilst being in a family and the challenges of switching states, sexual intimacy, getting into THE ZONE, authenticity, female relationships and so much more.
You can find Dòri's here https://www.instagram.com/dor.ottya/
Blood of Aurora https://www.instagram.com/bloodofaurora/
You can read the article she was working on at the time of this conversation here-
https://bloodofaurora.substack.com/p/m-othering-as-erotic-intelligence?r=3990r5&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=post-publish&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAadl_QCegjBtT_H9z9RvyKSD5vzYTSn5Oxc5brjrx1pEoZQrv-S8-UhvRu3J-w_aem_Cz5-Wy3PMv_wMf0PFNnr2w&triedRedirect=true
Trigger warning, tender alert- this episode contains the mention of a woman I know losing her child.
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This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
Rumi
There is no emotional experience that can't be embodied. Desirable or undesirable, the deep embodiment of being here requires our flesh tingles with life during the places our intellect wants to avoid.
We are here to experience connection, with our pain, with our bruising, our elation, confusion, tingling ecstasy. There is no feeling that can't bring us deeper into an unselfconscious experience of embodiment. Plopped in the buzzing centre of our lives and our hearts.
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I'm not a medical person. I'm a woman who wants to live my life fully alive and have to work with the hand I've been dealt.
This is a reflection on the notion of ADHD as 'Trauma' and the consistent narrative of ADHD being a disadvantage that plugs into the existing feelings of shame neurodivergent people experience living a life feeling like we're 'not quite hitting the mark.'
What if we're absolutely on the mark, we've just been told the mark isn't where we are.
I decided a few years ago to let myself be unhinged, my creativity be unhinged and let me tell you, everything gets more authentic, juicier and simpler.
If you have ADHD or not, so many of us feel we need to regulate away our quirks, our drives and passion, intense emotions and eccentricities. Yet it is absolutely the energy of this unique cocktail that our world needs.
Our challenges are our gifts, and we are not broken, deficient or wrong.
ADHD can make us great is we harness the power of it and develop outlets and conscious ways of using the electricity of our being t spice up our lives.
If you're done with trying to be smaller, pretending you're satisfied with a mediocre emotional and artistic life, and want to live unapologetically alive, this is one for you.
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Why do we feel the need to babysit the intellect and experience of those around us with the phrase 'this is going to sound very woo'. An invitation to not caveat our inner experience . We need people to speak up about the depths of their inner, unique non-rational experience.
There is no caveat to beauty. Beauty is the medicine. Our art needs us not to caveat our experience through fear of how it's going to land.
Bravery is in being honest about who we are. Let them call us names, let them not like us. Our tribe will be our true tribe,
WITH LOVE,
LOREN
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I was scorching hot working inside my wooden cabin. Couldn't think so I went for a walk and recorded a spontaneous episode. I don't even know what to call it. Themes of our cultural obsession with the Self, with our highest self, our best self, our calling, our purpose, and that we need to break a bit more a bit more often.
I hope there's some food for though, or rather for feeling , in here.
With love,
Loren
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Sophie Bolton is a conscious dance facilitator who uses dance to unwind the stuckness in the body, create co-regulation rituals and soften into feeling. She's passionate about bringing dance into nature settings and inviting all people of all walks of life to look to dance as a way into the deep truth of the body, as well as community building experience.
She is magic,
she is deep,
she is playful,
she is true.
I hope you enjoy.
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Our focus and attention are our most cherished gifts. When we find our centre through the experience of focus, the space around us and our temporal experience changes.
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There's a place in us that remembers how to be free. There's a freedom in the flesh that exists even though there's trauma, even though culture has done its best to make us uniform.
There's freedom in curiosity, innocence in pleasure, and homecoming in creative rewilding.
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Some reflections on ancestral inheritance and blessings relating top creativity as medicine.
What even is healing?
We can only heal what's broken. Why are we so afraid to break?
We evolved in a deeper time, we evolved with the rhythms of the sun and the moon, of seasons, the hum of vistas of hot dusty rock, of the song of the wind on ice tundras. we evolved in and with the elements of this earth, and invention, ritual, craft, the evolution of culture in any sense, evolved in deep time.
Deep time is quite literally any time where the pedestrian experience of sequential, one thing following another time, dissolves.
Poetic time.
Art time.
Native time.
Children are in deep time up until 8 to ten or so. It’s when the only mode is now, there is no before or no later, everything sort of occurs simultaneously in a big bowl of ungraspable experience. there’s not a single person who doesn’t now this experience, it’s not mystical, it’s human. it’s the paradox of being here.
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Humans learn with our senses. Artistic practice is embodiment. We've been raised in a culture that teaches us 'about' the world rather than a kinaesthetic engagement 'with' the world.
Coming home to the body is the richest, wildest and most deliciously succulent journey a human can go on. It is just so exquisite to be alive as a human. Artistic practice is inherently feeling based and that's why people diminish it from the perspective of a disembodied society.
Come home baby, come home.
The Embodied Vessel is launching this week. I cannot wait to be with you - with women.
‘As women, we touch many people. We know our palm is a kind of sensor. Whether in a hug or a pat or just a touch on the shoulder, we take a reading of the persons we touch. If we are connected in any way to La Que Sabe, we know what another human feels by sensing them with our palms. For some, information in the form of images and even words comes to them, informing them of the feeling state of others. One might say there is a form of radar in the hands.
She goes on…
‘The predator of the psyche knows all about the deep mystery associated with hands. In too many parts of the world, an egregiously pathological way of demonstrating inhumanity is to kidnap an innocent person and cut off their hands; to dismember the human feeling, seeing, and healing function.’
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves, Extracted from The Handless Maiden.
For some weeks now I’ve been pondering the relationship between dexterity and despair. How does the ability to work ideas into being with our hands militate against the corrosive feeling of helplessness societally? We might be in interesting times right now. A quick glance at history from any time or region will show there have been many interesting times. Change is constant, systems are by nature impermanent. We struggle with that as humans. We want the good stuff to stay and the bad stuff to leave. each of us has opinions on what constitutes good and bad…discuss.
I was recently asked how I allow the ideas and images to flow without judgement. It got me thinking about the process of creation and the importance of letting go of concept and thought when the principle of our exploration is to allow the expression to happen, to play.
Part of what makes life so rich is the silent beauty of what we call 'Inanimate objects'. In ancient Greece, it was commonplace for Artists, Sculptors and other makers to get caught in a frenzy of aesthetic intoxication. They would not be expected to speak or rationalise what was causing them such relative fever, it was understood that objects, all of which were entirely hand crafted, had their own intelligence and influence on a space.
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Consciousness and matter interpenetrate in the vivid experience of the creative process. Beauty influences mind and mind influences beauty. Far from distinct fields of experience, the arts, as well as religious iconography show us how sentience pervades everything, and the communication is what we come to recognise as a work or creative endeavour. Musings on Art as Medicine, for anyone who wants the inspiration and permission to pursue Beauty.
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Music by Abhinav Saxena- find him on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/6DnllNEDcZEheXYPuDKM40
I speak with accomplished and inspirational visual artist Chantal Powell about her artistic journey. Chantal mines her inspiration from the realm of dreams, symbolism and instinct, expressing it out in the world using a wide array of ancient and contemporary materials. We discuss healing, deepening, letting go, courage, listening to the materials and other juicy topics. I hope you'll enjoy our conversation.
You can see Chantal's inviting work here...
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In this episode I interview accomplished ceramic artist Abigail Schama, we discuss courage, mothering as an artist, listening to your work, and more. Abigail is an astute and talented woman with a fierce and precise passion for her work and the Arts in general.
May this conversation inspire you in whatever way it will.
My intention with these conversations is to simply ignite, or reignite enthusiasm for creative practice, developing a sensual and kinaesthetic relationship with the world and forging a feeling of coming home through this path.
Inspiration is a muscle, and needs working, but also periods of rest. May yours be strong, supple and nourished.
You can see Abigails visceral work here
https://www.instagram.com/abigailschamaceramics/
"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. ” Action is the foundational key to all success.” All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ” Pablo Picasso
This episode is an invitation to ask ourselves if we're standing in the way of a calling.
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Music by Abhinav Saxena- find him on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/6DnllNEDcZEheXYPuDKM40
We can use our monthly cycle to deliberately harness the creative potency of our bodies, biologically and energetically. We're not linear beings, we're plurally dimensional, and different times of our lives are potent in differing ways- understanding this gives us an advantage and I believe is the meaning of personal power. Knowing ourselves and what we're capable of---- which is much, much more than we're conditioned to believe. Amplify your POTENCY, dear SISTER 🖤
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Music by Abhinav Saxena- find him on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/6DnllNEDcZEheXYPuDKM40
Tramp Art- once seen never forgotten. ! An art form that peaked during The Great Depression, practiced by itinerant workers and ranch nomads. This moving expression of beauty, craft practice and utilitarian value to me illustrates beautifully that human beings will always create, and beauty is always present- of course in challenging times.
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I wanted to talk about something I hold close to my heart, something I think we can use as a tool for the most gruelling and heartbreaking of times. Artistic practice when you're grieving is something the Jungians talk about a lot, as does the Mythological traditions of the ancient world. Grief is an initiation, a sea of disorientation. Art making can provide a compass of meaning in this sea.
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Pleasure seems to be a loaded word. It might even make some people blush.
In a hedonistic culture, few are those who really feel the pleasure in their lives.... Let's let it in- it's free and it's healing. Pleasure is always happening, it's whether we face it and feel it, or numb it that makes the difference.
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Sometimes when we attempt to explain how and who we are to other humans, using our words, we can leave feeling misunderstood and like words are only a minute aspect of what's going on. Come to the planes before and after words, where you can express who you are in your entirety, your Art form will always take you, just as you are.
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An informative episode today- the title says it all really. I talk honestly about my Instagram being hacked so you can learn from my mistakes so it doesn't happen to you or those you love.
Raising awareness, that's all., this isn't about spreading fear, it's simply accepting that these things happen and we should understand how.
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What is memory? What are we 'remembering'? How creative practice helps us 'remember' who we really are- even before we knew we were.
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There are deeper currents of influence and support than we imagine there to be...
We are supported by the creative pulse of the universe, if we get out of the way.
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If you're a parent, it's so easy to feel that starting a business or a creative project would be easier if you could rewind ten years. guess what? You can't! You're the person you are right now and with that you carry all the wisdom and decision making experience of being a parent - which you can use to power your creative idea, mission or dream career. Start today. Your time is valuable and therefore you can accomplish more than people who have more time to dream and get things done as they like. Having a busy schedule is your advantage! You can get so much done in a year, and a year will turn into two, then ten, then before you know it you're experienced in what you do. You can't start yesterday, you can start now.
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I interview my dear friend and professional musician Abhinav Saxena on the place for the Arts in finding answers, living in chaos, listening to the world and much much more. I hope you enjoy this heartfelt conversation, and feel inspired because of it.
I always want to know your thoughts! Send me a DM on Instagram with any feedback or reflections 🖤
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In our contemporary culture, more than ever people think they're either 'creative' or not. In the world's pre-industrial cultures, what we know as Folk Art is simply the decorative lifestyle practices that human beings do wherever they are. Folk Art is taught through the family and community, and stands outside of institutions. The wonderful institution of Fine Art is a different path, and the confusion between them I believe leads to people feeling threatened and intimidated by the whole so called 'Art world'. The 'Art world' isn't out there, it's right here, inside of you.
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What is play? Play is when we meet a state of unknown and disorder with a sense of curiosity and intrigue. Having space where we can cultivate this personal and magical relationship makes for a happier, more connected and deeply meaningful life- because life is unknown by definition so let's be at home in the madness instead of trying to work it all out ! ✨🖤✨
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Our potential in unlimited, though it comes at a cost- we have to go to where we fear to go. Fear of the discomfort of our own feelings, our own being- stops us from turning all our magic the hell on !!!
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I live for the moments in life where I have no words, where beauty wells up from the depths of experience and all we can do is feel. We need this medicine, regularly!!
These times are not unique. As humans we always feel we're in the most important time history has ever known- but history is a rich tapestry of challenges, opportunities to overcome environmental adversaries, and the invitation for personal growth. The times are never optimal, so let's create something powerful today.
The creative impulse isn't separate from spirituality- the desire to work with energy and matter, the seen and the unseen is unique for each of us. Living a creative life is about being open to instincts and messages, to cues from the environment around us. Diving deep into anything we do will always lead to majesty.
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Having an abundance mindset with creativity and artistic contributions means that even when a fiend is saturated, even when everyone wants to do something, the expression is unlimited and ideas are inexhaustible- creativity is everywhere and will never run out ...!
I discuss the importance of intentionally cultivating time and space for beauty is an essential part of the wellness conversation, for joy, pleasure and meaning...
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The objects in our lives hold meaningful narratives on who we are, and who we want to become. Objects contain confluences from all the places and people they've encountered, from their inception to when they end up in your hands. Objects touch us in a way we can't quite articulate, and often become personally totemic, symbolising personal triumphs. solace and inspiration.
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An introduction to the show ✨
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