Lately, I've been moving slower.

Marc Igbinadolor

"We ourselves have to lift the level of our community to a higher level, make our society beautiful so that we will be satisfied ... we've got to change our own minds about each other. We have to see each other with new eyes ... we have to come together with warmth" 

---- Malcolm X

*a gentle reminder to breathe deeper, calmer, slower*

Lately, I've been moving slower. 

Lighter. 

I’m experimenting in my process of creation. 

More receiving, less efforting.

 Ideas, thoughts, and feelings are calling to me from my intuition and I’m letting my mind relax as the feeling manifests first. I’m leaning more into the joy of the process rather than its by-product. I still care about the work, and what it represents, but I’m using new vehicles to arrive at them. 

*close your eyes, take another deeply relaxing breath and imagine a light washing over you*

Soft. Warm. Love. 

Joy is redefining my practice for myself. It’s transforming work into play. Labor into freedom. 

Daydreams haven’t been this vivid since childhood and honestly, I’m moving by faith in terms of expectations and outcomes. I’m emotionally feeling my way through the darkness of the mind as I create. I truly believe each of us belong to a larger aspect that flows through us all if we allow it. In my stillness I’m co-creating a language with it and witnessing what’s created through me. 

*take a moment to feel into your body*

I find that stillness through my practice of soundbaths which grounds me and brings a healing quietness to my being. I’m also meditating on the scents I make through my apothecary, translating scent into sounds or images. It’s with these practices that I am receiving my next body of work and a new chapter of my life and grateful for the journey as it comes. Moment by moment.

Amen. Ase.