Is the body the same on both sides? As we examine closely the effort involved in walking, notice the complexity engaging feet, legs, hips, pelvis, arms. There is raising, lifting, pushing, dropping, touching, pressing. The shifting of the weight, the balancing of the arms. Can we feel that the body is more assymetrical than symetrical? How…Read more Walking
Simple Wastelands
Waiting near a terrain vague in "the zone" (the liminal space between Paris and the suburbs); submerged by the noise of the the cars on the nearby Peripherique, the city's circular highway. Vague terrain? An empty lot. A temporary wasteland. Filled with overgrown things and castaway seeds. I wait, and so I sketch.
Forest Bath anyone?
Nature based ecotherapies such as horticultural therapy or forest bathing are perceived increasingly as good platforms for mindfulness interventions and attentional flexibility training. Restoration theory and evidence based research support the claims of various mood improvement benefits.
Circles and Paths
Let's explore this thing : walking. Can we be in walking while we walk? How does it feel? What does it take to remain there? How often and when do we escape the walking to do something else (thinking, planning, ruminating) besides putting one foot in front of the other? This walking...Where do you feel…Read more Circles and Paths
Radical Self Care?
Extreme caregivers and emotional labourers --professionals in the human and social services industries, but also wives, mothers, adult daughters, that's to say nearly always women-- should take better care of themselves. It's a platitude all too regularly ignored. In a society striated by leylines of power where certain tasks are deemed subaltern, and as corollary certain…Read more Radical Self Care?
Connections
A splendid occasion for discovering the underside of mushrooms, mycelium, the internet of the earth, where communication and connection occur deep in the soil between fungi and plant species. What can we humans learn from the experience of slowing down to "root growth" speed to reconnect to each Other?
La Rentrée? Épineuse.
Back to school can be a stress challenge as we go from the leisurely long summer holiday stroll to a quick sprint, accelerating more quickly than is reasonable or healthy. Sometimes we need reminding to slow down and to pay attention differently. Handling prickly cacti is an excellent mindfulness exercise. We quickly realise that attending…Read more La Rentrée? Épineuse.
Invitation to Wait
While we notice the shadow movement....The task was to be aware of our own constant coming and going of mind. To notice the restlessness, the eagerness for something. Simply asking, but where do we go when we are not present. The leaflets' shadows, for a moment, are the measure of our in/ability to do nothing.
River Votives
An opportunity to reflect on the nature of change and flux with a group of women artists. From sensory evocation to metaphors celebrating intent, from conscientisation to ritual, we journey through memory and material matters, offering wishes as omens.
Mandala Walking
A kind of walkabout, in the round. With attention to gravity and energy, standing and the soundscape of footsteps. To be continued....
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