A conversation with Katherine Skaggs.

Katherine and Jennifer start our day and our conversation in our gardens. And the creativity and intention that is unlocked by putting our hands in the dirt and starting something. When we connect to the earth, to each other we are led thru our creativity. That even selling mutual funds will reveal our path.

Other topics in this episode:

16:39 When life is a half inch off, are we willing to refocus in a big way?

30:00 Sacred destruction, not being afraid to restart opens up the possibility to be more open and aligned.

39:00 The creative comrade of social media and feeling safe to express ourselves.

Stepping out of the production line and trying to make things happen.

Jaguar and the energy of the nighttime, Patience and Presence, trusting the pause.

Listening, responding and storytelling

1:05:00 Healing and choices. We are creators soooo, where you put your focus, will expand.

1:22 Intentional creativity to heal.

Learn more about Katherine Skaggs and her work at https://katherineskaggs.com

Jennifer Carmack and Wild Spirit Colorado https://nocowildspirit.com

My conversation with Ashley Boriack. Ashley is a photographer, artist, yogi and fellow human walking the walk...somatically. We talked about 4 demential creativity versus embodied creativity and what both practices can offer us. We got into the art of collaboration and how coming out of the pandemic we feel somatically called to collaboration. What really has to happen for that to be a healthy and realized process within itself?

Ashley and I are aligning in intention to hold space for the gathering of creative souls in the West Texas Desert. Women's Yoga, Art + Somatic Experience Summer Solstice Marfa, Tx ....check it out its gonna be real good!

This episode is from a talk Jennifer gave at The Movement Apothecary March 26, 2023. In this lecture, Jennifer explains "the walking, talking nervous system" and how it is sensing out safety and belonging. We talk about charge in the nervous system, and how it moves like a wave. As we activate we are sensing what we need. By taking action to move towards or move away, expressing ourselves, setting boundaries etc we are meeting a need that creates safety in our system. Overwhelm is too much, too fast and how fight, flight, freeze, collapse, fawn are part of this wave and how we can sense safety by acknowledging our needs and begin to sense how it creates a down regulation in our bodies.

Welcome to Mr. Carmack and his creative process. Some of you may know him, some of you only know his legend...here he is talking with me about how he see the world and what he creates. He has got this way of creating that inspires me just to let the work come thru my hands, not to judge and not to get hung up on what people think or notice about your work. Garry is a stone mason, one of the oldest forms of artistry. He takes large pieces of stone and carves it by hand in his creations for peoples homes thru his business, High Mountain Relevators. He shares his process, what he cares about and how our art can be bigger than us.

This episode is a recording of the class Jennifer gave at Wild Spirit Yoga Texas August 29, 2022. We talk about our relationship to these energy centers and what it actually means for what we can learn about ourselves. Chakras as the cheat codes to the universe that can guide us to our truth and so we can listen and trust ourselves.  

Natalie and Jennifer talk about the process of feeling stuck and impatient to what to do next. We dive deep into our processes of trusting ourselves and listening to our bodies and following our yeses. Natalie is a dancer, artist and social activist. She recently graduated with a Peace and Conflict degree from Goucher College in 2021. Natalie has been a part of the Wild Spirit Community since 2018 and now teaches yoga  and is hosting an upcoming event July 6, 2022 to inspire creativity in movement and visual art thru our senses. In celebration of Frida Kahlo's work and her birthday on that day.