Singing Again

I didn’t sing for 20 plus years. I am a trained singer. My first degree was a Bachelor in Music and Special Ed with voice as my major instrument. But then I got married.
Why I put my voice and other creative talents virtually away in a box I may never know. All I know, and [...]

Embodied Presencing Practice

I had heard of Arawana Hayashi and the Social Presencing Theater she does in collaboration with Otto Scharmer and Theory U. Everyone raved about the experience. Yesterday I finally got the chance to spend a day with Arawana in her intro class that she presented here in Boston.
I was fascinated by the simplicity of Arawana’s [...]

16 Ways – The Exploration of Opposities with Dylan in NYC

Ken Wilber is perhaps the most prolific thinker of our time around consciousness. I could get through his earlier works but as the theories became more complicated, reading about them became more difficult for me. I find I learn better through experiencing something in my body. That is why the work of Dylan Newcomb blows [...]

“You Are the Chalice!”

During a visionary art workshop, I saw, in my mind’s eye, a healing image of a chalice being held up by two hands. I was struggling. My mind went to work, playing with line and color, trying to bring that image into form on the paper. The hands I drew were stiff, the chalice lifeless. [...]

The Woman Under the Shroud

In 2000, a disturbing petition was going around the internet. It explained graphically how women were being beaten, stoned, silenced and mistreated in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. The e-mail was a call to sign a petition stating that it was unacceptable for women, anywhere in the world, to be treated as subhuman and calling for [...]

Creative Expression – Avenue to God

It has been my life long passion to dance, draw, sing, move, play and be in the joy of the moment. But I didn’t know that for soooooo long.
I put my creativity away, behind a curtain, to fit in and be like all the other moms and wives in my corporate circles. When I participated [...]

Lightening up with improv

Last night I went to my improvisational acting class. The depth of stuff that gets revealed as my classmates and I tell our stories is pretty amazing.  Without much preparation, we allow solo pieces to emerge from our memories and sub-conscious. This can be quite surprising, even to ourselves.
That is the beauty of improv. It [...]

Art and Collective Creativity

January 2009 rolled around. It was a whole new year for me. A whole new life. I get to claim ME, not worrying about what anyone else thinks and hopefully not stopping myself anymore.
I feel like journaling, painting, pulling out all those supplies I have collected all these years. But wait… maybe I should get [...]

Soul Painting

Immersed in an intuitive painting class led by Julie Claire in El Rito, New Mexico, I stopped thinking and allowed my paint and paintbrush to take over. I was amazed and more than delighted to discover how  the paint came on the canvas like an explosion of fireworks, or how globs of paint that looked [...]