About the session
- To Nourish the Root System, Not the External Image — Learn to stop worrying about how your creative work appears to others or whether it "makes sense" as a cohesive identity.
- How to Drop Below the Thinking Mind to Access Infinite Possibilities — Discover how to move from the problem-solving, worrying brain into the body's wisdom through breath, sensation, and somatic awareness.
- How to Follow Desire as Your Guiding Star — Desire (including the body's physical yearning) can be a pure, valid, and beautiful compass for your creative practice.
- Art as Refuge and Spiritual Practice — Understand your creative practice as a sacred refuge where you can process life's challenges and contribute to collective healing. Reframe your artmaking as spiritual practice: dedicating the merit of nourishing your own creative life so it ripples outward to nourish others in ways you can't even imagine.
- Trust the Discomfort: It's Full of Information! — Learn to recognize moments of creative discomfort not as blocks but as portals and invitations. That feeling of not knowing what to do in the studio, or sensing a project isn't happy in its current form, contains the exact friction needed to invite something new to arrive.
You'll be guided by Rachel in a 10-minute embodiment practice that guides you down through the center line of your body—from the eyes, throat, and heart, through the solar plexus and into the pelvic bowl—to discover where in your body you already know your connection to the great generative principle of all life. Informed by that connection, you'll bring that insight into form through drawing, writing, painting, or movement accompanied by music. This practice bypasses the thinking mind to access the body's innate creative intelligence and infinite possibilities.
About the speaker
Rachel Blackman is a holder of vibrant spaces. She guides people towards what brings them alive and into connection, though an interweave of coaching, somatics, creative practices & ritual arts. She is a Feldenkrais practitioner, a trainer of coaches and founder of Integrative Somatic Feedback (ISF) where she trains coaches and space holders to work with ritual arts rooted in nervous system care. She is a theatre maker and has created five full length, award-winning plays and is currently writing her first novel. Rachel lives in Brighton UK with her husband and bonus son, beside the Big Wild Mama Sea.
