Creative Rest

Creative School for Integration explores Embodied Mark Making & Journaling in relationship to the rhythm of the natural world — drawing inspiration the Macro and the Micro of the natural world,  dreams, movement and space.

This supports participants to connect with their parasympathetic nervous system which governs the nourishing Rest & Digest mode. As we down-regulate we let go of stress, stressors—and preconception as well as bias.

Thus, what we think we know about something dissipates and we are able to engage directly with our Creative HEART Space.

This allows for Creative Rest — an intrinsic flow between resting into our inner vision and trusting when expression needs to move through us to the outer page — and beyond. 

Rest & Digest mode is in contrast to Fight or Flight — a mode governed by the sympathetic nervous system which provides extra energy to face or run from danger. Many of us are often subtly or blatantly operating in Fight or Flight due to societal and environmental trauma, personal trauma or epigenetic trauma as well as just trying to keep up with the multi-tasking demands of overculture. This Fight or Flight state of heightened heart-rate and being on constant alert can be depleting and anxiety making. However, it’s not that Fight or Flight is bad. It's a primal instinct of survival and we need it sometimes. We just don’t need to be in Fight or Flight ALL the time. 

Our Creative Sessions offer integrative tools to engage the cumulative benefits of Creative Rest in a re-generative way. Imagine the world we would be living in if all those in leadership were accessing their Rest & Digest mode and making decisions from their Creative HEART Space?

Embodied Mark Making & Journaling can activate the Creative HEART Space in any part of the body and expand it large enough to encompass the whole body, the field around the body and beyond. This supports the expression of embodiment and the infinite in unison.

We can EACH choose to create and lead from our Creative HEART Space. This is a powerful way to self-nourish and re-define what is a valuable and creative life.