by Kristen | Aug 15, 2021 | News
In addition to teaching art & meditation, I lead a yoga class every morning. On the 3rd Sunday of the month, I combine Drawing Meditation and Satoyama Yoga. Today we created fanciful drawings based on our movement in Sun Salutations and Warrior Flow. Elephant...
by Kristen | Jun 2, 2021 | News
I have a special request for an upcoming private session and today I spent some time playing with the materials. My lovely student has watercolor pencils and wants to do a cosmos sky. I’ve created night skies in acrylic pant and in colored pencil but not in...
by Kristen | Apr 21, 2021 | News
“Greetings appropriate to time of day,” says a friend of mine when he connects on Zoom calls. I felt that myself in today’s class, which was a private Tangle Art session with a community group in Canada. For them, it was Tuesday evening; for me,...
by Kristen | Mar 8, 2021 | News
Where do you keep your art supplies? Neatly packed up on a shelf? Tucked away in a closet? Or are the in front of you everyday where you can reach for them? If you want to get benefit of something – art supplies or any other thing – you need to keep it...
by Kristen | Mar 2, 2021 | News
When you dive into an activity so deeply that your sense of time and place float away, that’s flow state. When you are in flow, your movement, thoughts, and output feel almost effortless. You experience a state of deep concentration where worries and stray...
by Kristen | Feb 25, 2021 | News
Jayne Nakata lives in Iwaki, Fukushima and I had a chance to meet her in person a couple years ago at a retreat a mutual friend hosted. I was delighted to have a conversation with her for her podcast, Transformations with Jayne. It was a delight to be a disembodied...
