The Embodied Vessel Podcast

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I've been reading the work of mystic Simone Wiel this weekend. She writes profusely about the weight of attention on our spiritual experience.

I can't put down this idea of 'unmixed' attention.

As a person with an interest driven brain that our strange culture calls ADHD, I find myself battling with my multi layered attentional networks every moment. The only rest I experience is after I've done intense exercise, am in some kind of intensely stimulating, slightly dangerous experience, with my darling son, or making my work. Mostly, in the day to day, I have to will myself to stay with things that bore me. Most of what people call life bores me. 

I don't care what some person I've never met thinks about something I've never done, or politics, or anything that I can't actually feel in my body. I often feel the weight of my challenging brain and my inability not to do things I desire to do. It actually hurts my body not to do something I desire to do or create. It also feels painful to be bored and in any environment I find predictable and boring. It's a challenge, if you are on any spectrum you'll get me entirely.

Yet, I also have this incredible gift called hyper focus. it feels like a portal to another dimension where the holy lives, and I get to converse with this holy. 

The place I've most found myself in this pure state of attention my entire life is in creative play. Using my hands, working things out. it's a dimension that exists with different laws, I don't get tired even if I don't have sufficient sleep.

Last night I was observing my energy and lightness in my body at 10PM after a whole day in the studio, working on things that make me squeal with delight. 

It is focus that keeps the channel open. Diluted focus makes my brain hurt, and not being able to focus makes me feel dizzy, and bad about myself, fractured and disconnected, as if I can't catch the pulse I need to and organise my energy in my body.

In this way, I wholeheartedly agree with Wiel. Our undiluted attention is sacred, and it is prayer.

Art is prayer and it is gratitude. Prayer is not to get what we want, it's actually to give thanks for this life by praising being a human being. 

This undiluted attention redirects the energy of worry into beauty and hope, and it's what human beings have been doing for hundreds of thousands of years. 

I hope you can nurture the sacred place in you where your attention becomes prayer. That is the place to follow, to take seriously. We have been given clues in this life, and the place we naturally pay the deepest and most subtle, absorbing of attention, is the place where the holy lives in you. 

In this way, artistic practice is prayer.

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How do we make peace with the effort it takes to truly build beauty, meaning, a world we can actually live in with our senses, our bodies, our relationships, in a culture that seems to relentlessly insist on making our points more succinct, our paragraphs more reduced, and our results achieved by constant 'quantum leaping'?

My worldview is formed through craft, not through trends in internet thinking. My mind tends to follow my body, and the challenges I put to my dexterity. Through leaning complex skills over time. Metalwork, yoga practice, Brazilian Jui Jitsu, complex movement patterns, parenting, communication, articulation. All are a craft, none are achieved competence in through wanting to be an expert. The only path is to get involved, get sweaty, and to do the work. 

I'm so honoured to be able to call myself a craftswomen. Truly, craft has taught me most of what is valuable in this life, and has allowed me to extend being an open minded student into other disciplines I want to learn. 

We can put ourselves through study in our lives, we don't have to lament what we didn't get as children or in education. I continue to be a student of movement, craft and so many things that have no specific categorisation as the skills are so non impressive, but I love them. 

I hope you have things you're learning in your life that you can apply yourself to over time, always feel humbled by, and developing as a skilled human being, trying their best to create and contribute a beauty others might benefit from too. 

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Hot off the tension of the work, I'm coming to you here full of tension and emotions in my body, and I use it all for my work. This is a skill anyone can learn, like I've had to, to expand my capacity to hold discomfort and not leak it out of my body.

This conscious use of tension is the embodiment of the vessel and the nectar at the same time, the masculine and feminine. the go and the flow. 

This can take many forms, talking about our work before we actually get into it, doubting, procrastinating, doing anything OTHER than OUR WORK. 

This is something that feels like a superpower when you realise you don't need to be less emotional, or have less intensity in your body, that intensity simply needs a place to land. 

You can read more about the Embodied Artist Course here. We start on October 26th.

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The Embodied Artist is now available at earlybird price until the September full moon on the 26th. This is my life's work and I'm so excited to be journeying with you. 

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Dark here doesn't mean anything unnatural, bad or undesirable. It simply means that matter is 0.00000001 % of what is here. The rest is space. 

How do we perceive the sparks of light, then catch them? The nudges, the ideas, the whispers from places we cannot touch? 

My entire life changed when I remembered I'm an artist, and I source my vitality through being a servant to beauty. That is all. Yet it took me a lot of overcoming the idea that I was being indulgent and selfish to take the innocence of my imagination seriously. 

Yet it's still easy to miss the glowing orbs. 

Here's a poetic and invitational episode for you. 

Take notes,  and take your golden orbs seriously. Only you can see them at first. 

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Kitty Knorr is an artist, poet and preacher who is fascinated by the healing power of creativity. 

Knorr believes self acceptance is self liberation, there is purpose in your presence and being human is trippy. Through Knorr's writings and teachings, she aims to help unravel shame-based social conditioning through personal empowerment. Knorr lives in service to the artists, the witches and the alchemists of this world. Knorr creates resources for those who are committed to their own personal evolution, their own magick.

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I've been feeling a real sense of soul sickness recently, tears, overwhelm, a longing to return to my deepest knowing and to find myself back in a sense of awe and mystery. I've been yearning for surrender into the unknown, to be held by forces outside of my mind, I've been longing for the serenity and fire of artistic embodiment. 

This isn't about results, about competence, skill or anything externally validated, this is about returning to our deepest intelligence in a world that wants us so disembodied and distracted. 

Art is medicine, Beauty is MEDICINE. A felt sense of inner resource and beauty, not an externally validated idea of externalised and normalised beauty that ingrain western beauty standards. This beauty is the deepest truth of our authenticity and the courage to embody everything the body can feel without seeing some emotional experiences as good and some as bad. that is courage, that is beauty, and our Art can take it all, and asks for more. 

I have been feeling soul sick, I needed a space to deeply feel everything. Then, the last week, I created space to return home. I set up some materials in a low key way and I went into the most amazing portal of remembering. Art is medicine. There's no shame in forgetting, it simply makes the remembrance sweeter. 

Join me and a community of deep feeling women for the month of August, to create space to re-centre our fire and creativity, giving feelings somewhere to go, to express, to be alchemised into pleasure and wisdom. 

This is without a doubt the place I've yearned for my entire life and I cannot wait to see what unfolds here.

Please share this episode and challenge with anyone who would benefit from this medicine.

With love, 

Loren

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Competence, one of the most deeply fulfilling experiences a person can have. But how do we develop genuine competence, and how can we sustain our hearts on its nectar?

Many people are well paid and competent for things they don't actually care about. Competence is its own reward, and forms the platform to spring into excellence, once that language has become familiar enough not to have to think, it's become muscle memory.

 I cancelled a trip to Malta 36 hours before flying out — a women's wrestling camp I'd paid for and was excited about — because some deeper part of me knew I needed a staycation instead. That choice opened up a few days of real flow, and in that space I noticed three experiences that all shared the same quality: real competence, where you can take the material — or the person, or your own body — wherever you want to go.

First, I finally sat down and carved a tiny gold goat in wax, something I'd been afraid to start because it mattered so much to me. After two hours in flow, I got the wax to say exactly what I meant, and it undid me a bit — that's what competence built from years of failing in this craft feels like.

Second, a jiu-jitsu sparring class two years into training, where for the first time it felt less like survival and more like a conversation — I could read an attack, turn it into a defense, and have it flip back into an attack, over and over, with total flow.

Third, a conversation with a client in London that went everywhere — astrology, craniosacral therapy, anthroposophy, jiu-jitsu — and neither of us dropped the thread. We led each other in turns, and it felt like travelling.

All three reminded me that competence isn't about avoiding mistakes — it's what's left after you've made enough of them that you can finally lead, or be led, without losing your footing. That's the whole idea behind the episode title: the feeling of the ground moving with your feet.

How to find your own zone of competence- Look for an area you're already skilled in and ask how you could go deeper, rather than spreading thin across everything you're not yet good at. Competence requires real interest — you can't force your way into excellence in something you don't care about.

Competence is the feeling of the ground moving with your feet — full presence, in the body, reading the room of your materials (paint, weather, a face, a partner's tension) and being met there. Find the practice you're already rooted in, and let that be where you access flow.

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Your obsessions are not arbitrary. They're not an accident. You've been given things that only you can be interested in. Take them seriously — because only you can say what you can say in the unique way you say it  with your body, senses, artistic whimsy and play ❤️

In this episode, we explore why obsession isn't something to fear or suppress — it's a devotional energy and one of the most direct routes to creative fulfilment and self-actualisation.

We trace the arc from interest → passion → obsession, and why interest alone isn't enough: when life circumstances intensify, casual interest fades, but obsession endures. True obsession feels like "the hands of the universe knocking on every cell of your body" — it takes you beyond discipline into a place where rest, effort, and creativity all find their natural rhythm.

The episode also explores the premenstrual portal as a powerful window for creative discernment — a time of heightened clarity, uncompromising standards, and direct access to what's truly alive in your work. Rather than suppressing this energy, we're invited to lean into it.

Other themes explored:

• Why "playing it cool" is the death of creative work — and why emotional responsiveness is a feature, not a flaw
• The two options when you're stuck doing something you're not obsessed with: let it go with courage, or find a way to increase your obsession
• How to recognise your obsessions — the things you'd read about anywhere, just for pleasure, even if they're not fashionable or profitable
• Why unexpressed obsession can invert into depression
• The difference between fear-based perfectionism and the kind of 110% that comes from knowing you have more in you
• How your obsession is what people are actually connecting to when they're drawn to your work — not your credentials or how long you've been doing it
• Living from the inside out: when you lose your way, obsession is the thread that leads you back .