I never really played with art until l went through my depression treatment and learned the sweet gift of healing that comes from it. That is when I fell in love with with glitter! (Which is now mica glitter to keep the earth here and happy) And now I’m remembering watercolor love that appeared for me at treatment as well. As my therapist was checking in one day with my treatment team at Rogers, she said, “Jill needs to get messy.” A big big part of my treatment was around that I am good enough and that perfection is unattainable. So watercolor goes all over the place and blends colors and no perfect lines and then glitter, no explanation needed. So my photos today are from my yoga therapy school day here and how the art helped me get through my very tough day yesterday and how it helped me to absorb the breathing anatomy of todays work. This school of embodiment is really something else, like no other schooling I’ve experienced after 25 years of being in this field. It’s blowing my mind in amazing ways. Back to the photos here. The first one is my journal cover for this training, isn’t it awesome! The second one flowed out today after studying the bronchi of our incredible breathing system. The third one was done while listening to one of yesterdays lectures about meditation. I have a hard time listening after I’ve sat with some big anger and sadness in the morning and lots of tears. These trainings will take you in and in and in and let you release and release and release. I think I used about 40 different markers for those flowers and remember its not really about the outcome of the art as it is the process of healing that happens while you hold the marker and see the lines appear and what thoughts and feelings are present. Pull out your markers tonight and just start moving them on the paper and see what happens. Then share in my comments below. The final piece is what came out of me after a delightful somatic experience of being with the cellular make up of our body. By feeling into the soft lines, soft colors and soft words you’ll see what I experienced which was quite profound for me after yesterday’s place of darkness. So get our your colored pencils tonight and see what comes out for you and how does it feel in your body. Let me know below as we learn so much from each other. Sweet dreams.
