Benefits of Flow State

Benefits of Flow State

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...
Transformations with Jayne Podcast

Transformations with Jayne Podcast

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...

What color is love for you?

As an artist, I assign colors to all sort of things that don’t actually have color: emotions, thoughts, time, ideas…my inner world is very colorful, indeed. Matching color to concepts is a hallmark of many of our Drawing Meditation themes. Love is in the...
The Joys of Online Workshops

The Joys of Online Workshops

Most of us are well and truly exhausted by the number of online interactions we’ve had in the past 11 months and counting  – work meetings, online happy hours, first dates, classes, birthday parties, and beyond. As much as I love seeing my family and...

Diving into dreams with Feng Shui vision boards

Creating a vision board is a rewarding way to concretely visualise your dreams. But it can be quite intimidating to look at a blank piece of paper and think “What do I want and what are my dreams?”  So when I create vision boards, I use a structure I...
How to find calm with a pencil

How to find calm with a pencil

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been pulling out all my coping mechanisms the past few weeks. The news of an autumn surge of Covid-19 causing lockdowns and new rules, fraught elections in my homeland, literally darker days as we approach the winder...