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The Embodied Vessel Podcast
Podcast hosted by artist Loren Lewis Cole exploring themes around the vital necessity of artistic practice throughout the stages of our lives.
From the conversation on depression and the 'meaning crisis', to our desire to dance a dance that only we can dance, the importance of creativity, curiosity and play are more important than they've been for some time. As we approach an age of increasing technological enmeshment and disembodied information hoarding, craft and the dexterous skillsets allow us to glimpse an ancient kinaesthetic intelligence that can completely revitalise our lives.
Art is medicine. We create art to heal, we heal to create Art.
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Gorgeous cover image by @raynjermain , Ben Rayner
Episodes
32 episodes
32 - The Wingspan of Courage & The Rawness of the Path Home
Every time I connect back to the courage of my heart, life rewards me. My energy grows, my inspiration deepens and my world gets bigger, bigger, bigger. Wildly. The bigger it gets, somehow the smaller it gets. It gets big then the e...
31 - The gifts of women, a fragrant economy.
The etymology of 'economy' comes from the ancient greek 'oikos' which is the word for home. Economy is the sharing of gifts from the home. Let's reclaim the movement of trade as an exchange of gifts forged in the home, in small work...
30 - Remaining fully alive and responsive in the presence of doubt and fear.
Fear and doubt tend to make our experience and world smaller. We take less risks and play things safe and reasonable. There's no way we can live a life fully expressed without falling on our faces, feeling consumed with doubt and fe...
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29 - Life itself is the sharing circle
'To love anything, at any cost, is a bargain.' Wendell BerrySome recent reflections on my own confusion around spirituality and the artistic path. Because Art is not seen as a path in many circles, I didn't trust my own gifts when I was ...
28 - How PLEASURE and OBSESSION redirect and heal the distortion of 'people pleasing'.
How PLEASURE and OBSESSION redirect and heal the distortion of 'people pleasing'.OBSESSION WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE- RECLAIMING THE SACREDNESS AND NATURALNESS OB CREATIVE OBSESSION AND HOW WE ARE TAUGHT TO FEAR AND QUESTION IT, BE GOOD AND FI...
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27 - Where are you afraid of within yourself?
For an Artist, our primary material is our inner world. From the material we engage with there, we blend our internal energy with the force of upward moving inspiration, connecting with material of expression...clay, dance, the voice, the body,...
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26 - How Do We Improve and Deepen Our Artistic Work If We Don't Have a Mentor?
I've been speaking recently with other artists about how we recognise when we need to improve, or how we know when we're stuck in a sort of numb comfort of our work. It's so difficult to assess our incompetence or the vibrancy of our own work, ...
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25- How Therapy Culture can Distrust Artistic Experience
As an artist, our job is to pay attention to the imagery of our interior world, be it musical, kinaesthetic, poetic, based in painting, sculpture or anything at all. We live in a therapy culture that tells us everything we experience is some as...
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24- The Fractal Nature of Inspiration // ART, DOPAMINE and EFFORT
You know that feeling when you look at something, either literally or imaginatively, and as soon as you land on it you can see a thousand things flowering off of the main thing, then a thousand more flowering off of those fractal children ..? S...
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23- Conversation with Tallulah Rendall / Songstress, Ceremonialist, Facilitator sharing Qi Gong & Sound Meditation - Creative Practice as Medicine.
Tallulah Rendall is many things, a curious and explorative human being, blending her work as an artist with traditional Asian spiritual practices. Why aren't we talking about how essential creative practice is in wellbeing?In...
22- What is Emotional Health?
What is emotional health? How does it relate to the health of our tissues, our bodies, our hearts, and our entire lives, and of course, to our Artistic contributions?I watch social media trends and self help reaching a cruscendo, everyon...
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21- Learning, adaptation, vulnerability and meaning. How do we remain at the centre of our experience?
When I consider the people I meet and know who seem to have a radiance of activity, participation, contribution and generosity, these people have an astonishingly clear set of characteristics in common. It's so important to ask ours...
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20- Ancestors and Mutual Indebtedness
Today is Halloween, or All Hallow's eve, day of the dead in Mexico, which is well known. The Romans also celebrated this thinning of the veils as an opportunity to honour their ancestors, as well as make offerings to what we might now call ‘gho...
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19- The Lotus Grows in Mud / Pleasure and Stress in the Body
Beauty lifts us. Pleasure lifts us. Though this lifting isn't an up and out of, it's a simultaneous deepening and embodying. A growth in all directions, and perhaps most importantly, a growth downwards into our being rooted in this life....
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18- Conversation with Nina Powell. Somatics, Pleasure, Embodiment.
In this episode I sit with friend and teacher Nina Powell. In Nina's words, 'A little-known phenomenon called post-traumatic growth explains what happens when we fully heal. We don't just reset...
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17- The Embodied Stages of the Creative Process
Like the metabolising of food, the creative process has phases, energetic properties we can support and cultivate, allowing us to embody the challenges, boundaries and explorations that characterise each phase. These are the stages ...
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16- The Future of Craft is in OUR HANDS
If we don't value the person to person transmission of skills, held in the human nervous system, cellular memory, deepest of kinaesthetic intelligence, we will think it's ok to hand over everything to AI. This cannot be an option in a future wh...
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15 - Conversation with Dr Roxanne Partridge of Embody Period
Dr Roxanne partridge works and celebrates women in the waters that our culture seeks to deny, let alone venerate. She says 'I’m here to show you how to alchemise psychic gold from the shit of your experiences, rapture found on...
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14- Actively and with intense deliberateness FEEDING the POTENCY of our hearts 🖤✨
I'm floored by what happens when we hold a space for another or ourselves in the ritual container of our attention, and nourish the most potent and alive aspects of ourselves. Introducing a place I've been in for many years in conve...
13- Conversation with Artist Dòri Varga - Part 2
Dòri Varga is an interdisciplinary artist who is as deeply sensual as she is intelligent. She has a mind sharp as a razor and an appetite for the edge, which she explores with hunger and courage in her work through her instantly recognisable pa...
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12- Conversation with Artist Dòri Varga - Part 1
Dòri Varga is an interdisciplinary artist who is as deeply sensual as she is intelligent. She has a mind sharp as a razor and an appetite for the edge, which she explores with hunger and courage in her work through her instantly recognisable pa...
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11- The Human Body as A Guest House
Trigger warning, tender alert- this episode contains the mention of a woman I know losing her child.................This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival.A joy, a depression, a meanness,some ...
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10- ADHD Woman. It's safe and healing to be unhinged.
I'm not a medical person. I'm a woman who wants to live my life fully alive and have to work with the hand I've been dealt. This is a reflection on the notion of ADHD as 'Trauma' and the consistent narrative of ADHD being a disadvan...
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09- The Intelligent Body and Our Art.
THE INTELLIGENT BODY. The Embodied Vessel Membership - Rewilding our native creativityStay up to date with the Embodied Vessel, creative prompts and inspiration and permission to FUEL YOUR CREATIVE ENGINE!!!...
08- Beauty Sprouts from the Funeral Pyre of the Caveat.
Why do we feel the need to babysit the intellect and experience of those around us with the phrase 'this is going to sound very woo'. An invitation to not caveat our inner experience . We need people to speak up about the depths of their inner,...
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