These meditations were created for artists and makers as portals to deeper connection with our bodyminds, parts, hearts, and creativity. In these meditations, as with all my offerings, I pull from many channels of wisdom and grounding such as mindfulness practices, breathwork, accessible embodiment and somatic practices, parts work and IFS (internal family systems) frameworks and creative practices, all through an anti-racist, anti-ableist, anti-capitalist, and queer/trans positive lens. New meditations will be published periodically. Some of my meditations will also be available on the Insight Timer app.

Recognizing that more traditional meditation is not supportive to everyone, please tune into these in the ways that help you. You can use them as journaling or creative prompts. You can listen to them while walking, stimming, pacing, sitting, laying, taking a bath, or anything else you’d like. Listen to your own wisdom. Take what works for you, leave what doesn’t, and use your creative imagination to transform any prompts to best support your bodymind in this moment.

Tonglen for Creative Blocks (11:32 minutes)

This meditation guides us in practicing Tonglen for our creative blocks, connecting us with our compassion to what’s arising as we work on creative projects and reminding us that we aren’t alone in our creative blocks. Pema
Chödrön writes about Tonglen, “Breathe in for all of us and breathe out for all of us. Use what seems like poison as medicine. We can use our personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.” When a creative block arises, we can practice gently noticing the block, bringing presence, curiosity and compassion to the block to better understand what’s behind the blockage and what the blockage might need from us. Tonglen helps us tap into compassion for our creative blocks and offers the block a direct sense of how we’re listening to it and supporting it. We can expand our Tonglen practice to include all beings who might be experiencing similar suffering due to a blockage and offering them compassion – expanding our individual experience into connection with others.

Receiving and Offering Support Meditation: 21:09 minutes

This meditation is designed to help us tap into the support that’s available to us in any moment. As artists, this meditation might be particularly useful when we’re feeling disconnected from our art making and need to feel a sense of support to feel safe enough to make our art. This meditation may also be useful when we notice, during our art making practice, or at the end of our creative process, that we’re feeling overstimulated, triggered, overwhelmed, or any other intense emotions. This meditation guides us in noticing the support that’s already present, offering support to ourselves, and feeling into the interconnected nature of support in our lives.

“What will we make instead?” Meditation: 17:07 minutes

This meditation takes its inspiration from the final paragraph of Philip Metres’ book Shrapnel Maps. In this meditation, I offer invitations help us sit with our grief, rage, and fear about the many crises happening in our world at this moment. By connecting to our awake hearts that care for other beings and this planet, we may find that our grief, rage, and fear can be catalyzed to help us make art that resists, that offers support, that helps us dream a liberated, equitable, and just world into being.