Exploring Creative Process, Meditation, and Dharma practice.
THESE SESSIONS HAVE CONCLUDED!
The core of each session will last one hour and 45 minutes, with a one-hour creative process session after.
These sessions are offered on a Dāna basis (meaning all are welcome to attend and pay the amount that they are able).
Subjects will include images & inspiration, participation of the body/energy body, and art making as mystical practice.
You do not need to be any particular kind of artist/writer/crafter/maker/performer to come – the only requirement is that you are interested in including your creative capacities within your idea of what it means to practice (meditation, dharma, spirituality). These explorations are focused on what comes to us from creative endeavor that can be liberating, nourishing, and expanding. We aren’t sharing our work within these sessions – it’s much more about the process itself.
These sessions will also continue to support those who took the “Opening What is Closed” course offered in spring & fall of 2023. So, more time to explore this beautiful, mysterious intersection between creative practice & dharma practice. It’s not necessary that you have attended the course to come – if you are a meditator who also is drawn to creative exploration in some way, you’ll feel at home. I will be sending some materials (short readings/talks) for those who sign up which will help set the context of these sessions if you are new.
Creative Process Sessions;
These meetings will also include an optional “creative process” hour which can be very supportive of beginning one’s creative practice. If you decide to sign up to receive notices about these sessions, you’ll be sent more information about what this part of the meeting involves (it’s optional, but most people find them enriching and fun). In these sessions we work on our own things while being together in the same zoom room – the group presence supports creative exploration in a way that is not unlike group mediation practice.
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Times & Meeting Details
Meetings will usually begin 8am PST (California) time which is 4pm UK time
(the session on March 16 will have different times due to the time change difference between Europe and the Americas – check the email notice you receive for the meeting for your time).
Dates for the sessions: Saturday, Jan. 13 • Saturday, Feb. 10 • Saturday, Mar. 16 • Sunday, Apr. 7 (session cancelled) • Sunday, May 5
Recordings of the talk and any guided practices will be made available to those who have signed up. That being said, there is no replacing the group experience for these kinds of offerings – and I don’t include participant sharing in recordings. So I encourage you to come for as much as you can – topics and teachings will be different each month.
About Me: Susy has practiced Buddhist meditation since 2001, and began practicing insight meditation five years later. In 2015 she began studying and training with Rob Burbea, and completed her teacher-training with him in 2020. She teaches meditation in Los Angeles, California, and is an artist and a parent.
Some particular biographical details related to this offering: I consider my first spiritual root to be art-making, and painted throughout my teens and early twenties. I studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, and Film Directing at UCLA. The one thing I did not learn at school (or maybe more accurate to say, I learned to forget) was how to keep my creative process alive and vibrant and fascinating. In time, through years of meditation practice and spiritually-oriented art making practice, I found my way to keeping those doors open – at times working as an artist and at times making art for no good reason at all…