EMBODY FEMININE CREATIVITY

A Wom(b)an's ability to create is not just limited to birthing Life through her body. It expands, includes, and extends to every aspect of embodied organic life. When this creative impulse is resourced, in-formed, and drawn consciously from the intuitive awareness of her changing cyclic Lunar Earth body, then everything that emerges from her is also, infused with the possibility of life woven within the ancient, cyclic, WIld rhythmic magic of Nature.  

In the old culture, Wom(b)en were more attuned to Nature. Her creative self-expression was in service of life, and Nature. Whenever members of families and tribes were met with forgetfulness, alienation and loneliness of the spirit, emotional locks and dams on the heart, deadness, numbness of the body, Wom(b)en as mothers, grandmothers, and elders re-informed healing through the remembrance of Home, Rest, and Nurturance. She navigated healing that involved the Body, the breath,  the Senses, and Ritual Enanctmeent in alignment with Nature. This form of Wild Intuitive Feminine Expression is almost absent and forgotten in Modern Culture. Its revival and remembrance are essential for our survival, and Wom(b)en have a key role to play in this Remembrance. When She Remembers, life around her remembers through her.

In my growing years, Art as I knew it did not allow stepping out of the line or making a mess, or use of dark colours. Art could not be provocative or triggering. Art was seen as not contributing to anything in life and meant for the rich or the useless, and the relevance of any Art was determined by the world outside. It was too stressful to engage in Art, and somewhere into adulthood, I completely gave it up. I lost my ability to creatively express the world around me just the way I  experienced it. Then in my late twenties, I re-covered the ability to express what I saw just the way I saw it without making myself wrong through a phenomenal California-based artist called Saki. In my late thirties at ITP, I discovered an even deeper layer of art-making that was raw, wild, vulnerable, intuitive, patterned, cyclic, and ritualistic. It was not standalone, one-dimension, static, or dead, but alive, dynamic, multidimensional, and interactive. It mirrored and communicated back. I was the authority on my Art. This form of Responsive interactive process-oriented Art Making was founded in Somatic Emotional Intelligence. The head had no role to play in it. Through my expressive Arts as Therapy certification, I also learned to further integrate movement, voice, story making, and improv into it. I discovered that Everything could be expressed, interacted with, and spoken to in a zillion different ways, and Creative Self-Expression was innate to the health and well being of Being Human,