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...

How I’ve used a decade of theme words

I’m a believer in reflection and holding space for myself. One of the ways I have done that for the last decade is to seek a single word to guide my year. In 2009, fed up with my spending and with the consumer world we live in, I decided my theme for the year...
New Times for the US and Canada

New Times for the US and Canada

We have expanded our offerings to fit not only the morning-lovers in Japan, but also our friends in North America! (Times may shift due to daylight savings time.) Japan 9:30 am ThursdayNew York: 7:30 pm WednesdaySan Francisco: 4:30 pm Wednesday Japan 10:00 am...
More Intention than Action is the usual way

More Intention than Action is the usual way

I like to keep myself creatively active by drawing things that aren’t my own prompts. This month is Inktober and a group of Indian arts on Instagram have created Mindful Inktober (#mindfulinktoberchallenge) with a different set of prompts than the main...

What is insight, anyway?

View this post on Instagram All about Insight through Art. Plus a cat. #arttherapy #artmeditation #insighthroughart #drawingmeditation #drawingmeditations #catsofinstagram #studiocat #meditationclass #onlineartclasses #insight A post shared by Insight through art...
Intuitive art in action

Intuitive art in action

This is what I drew during last week’s Intuitive Art class. What is it, exactly? Happiness. That’s what I wrote in on the back of paper; the sankalpa of that day’s practice. And with Happiness in mind I followed my own instructions to start the...