Wholeness
Embodying Artistry
I love when life experiences align. This week I have been writing about support, as you know. On Monday we considered the external support network we can each take advantage of AND on Wednesday the internal support, bones, and soft tissue that allow us to move with precision and ease.
It’s Saturday so let’s bring these two facets together for wholeness!
I am inspired to write this because of a webinar I hosted with Betsy Polatin for the Association for Body Mapping Education on Wednesday evening. Betsy joined us to talk about her recent book, Humanual. The question-based session moved through Betsy’s insights at looking at the whole person and their life experience. She shared the idea that people hold trauma in their tissue and those experiences influence the way they navigate life including our art. The discussion reminded me of how closely physical and emotional experiences are intertwined.
Betsy reminded me that we need to honor our true feelings and emotions as we release into support from the earth and our breath, taking up our full space in the world. I invite you to combine the two supports we have explored and meet yourself where you are at, including all of the joy and the messiness.
Wholeness requires both vulnerability and mindfulness. Vulnerability to recognize and honor our personal experience. Mindfulness to experience the rich braid of emotions and sensations that are available in each moment. Experience these along with support from the ground, our skeleton, our breath, and our support network.
If this seems abstract to you, it is the best I can right now to invite you to explore your wholeness. Living life as a whole being, a human being, allows us to approach our art authentically with the self-compassion that is our right and our audience will then experience the full power of our unique artistic creation.
On this very somber day, I cannot help but think of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as someone who embodied wholeness and integrity in her work. R.I.P. Ruth