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Sarah Kowalski

Writer, artist, yoga teacher, parent. Obsessed with how things heal, grow, and change.

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My daughter was in the room with me while I made t

My daughter was in the room with me while I made the third one of these. "It's so strange to watch you paint, Mama," she said, "Because you're doing something that completely changes the painting but you're doing it so fast. Do you have it all planned out? Do you know what it's going to look like?"

I told her no.

With these lately there's not much planning. Just movement and instinct. Which tends to be not how I operate in the rest of my life, where I overthink many things. Which maybe is why I keep being grateful for painting, as a place to practice another way of being.

"Play is always a matter of context. It is not wha

"Play is always a matter of context. It is not what we do, but how we do it. Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine. The mood of play can be impish or supremely solemn. When the most challenging labors are undertaken from the joyous work spirit, they are play. In play we manifest fresh, interactive ways of relating with people, animals, things, ideas, images, ourselves. It flies in the face of social hierarchies. We toss together elements that were formerly separate. Our actions take on novel sequences. To play is to free ourselves from arbitrary restrictions and expand our field of action. Our play fosters richness of response and adaptive flexibility. This is the evolutionary value of play--play makes us flexible. By reinterpreting reality and begetting novelty, we keep from becoming rigid. Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforseen ways."

-- Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Playing with ink and watercolor and movement and time and ideas and identities.

Letting process be its own path.

Tonight's studio time.

Tonight's studio time.

Have you noticed that when your body hurts, everyt

Have you noticed that when your body hurts, everything feels harder? And that when you're holding a lot of stress, you're more likely to have those nagging pains crop up?

Bodies and minds are way more interconnected than we sometimes give them credit for.

Which is why an embodied mindfulness practice -- i.e., moving while also aiming at presence and some self-awareness -- so that you're not just berating yourself through it but cultivating a kind, curious inner witness, rather than a nasty inner drill sergeant? -- can be so powerful.

Come hang out for yoga. For your mind. For your body. For your whole self.

Slow Flow and Mindfulness
Tuesdays, 10-11:15am
$12 drop in
Live via ZOOM
and recorded (so you can still register if the time doesn't work)

Online @sweetfireyoga

Link in bio to register 🥰

equinox / watercolor and ink on paper, 11x14", 202

equinox / watercolor and ink on paper, 11x14", 2023

Mostly I paint to music, but sometimes to podcasts

Mostly I paint to music, but sometimes to podcasts. New favorite: This Jungian Life, for a backdrop of archetypes and myths and alchemy and dream interpretation I kinda half listen to and half just let fill the room as the brush moves.

Artist/creator friends, do you use music/podcasts in this way? Like a backdrop/setting to facilitate the process?

(Also if you wanna hang out and talk about process, Entering the Cave: Sacred Practice for Artists is launching soon. Message me for more info! It'll be online, a mix of practice and discussion, with yoga/meditation/deep themes, writing/sketching prompts, and more. I'm finalizing the schedule now.)

watercolor and ink on paper, 11x14", 2023

Happy birthday to one of the loves of my life, my

Happy birthday to one of the loves of my life, my dearest Erin @girlwithatail.

Here's to endless phone calls, healing together, calling each other on our stuff, cracking each other up, remembering each other's memories, and the realest love there is.

Here's to ripped jeans and seaglass and donuts and driving all the way to Ojai just to watch The Thing Called Love. Here's to breakfast sandwiches and breaking down in tears and concocting metaphors so unwieldy we forget how we got into them.

Here's to saying what's true even when it sucks. Here's to living the questions. Here's to rants and rage and confessions and tenderness.

I don't know who I'd be without you but it wouldn't be good.

Love from the bottom of my heart.

more of these blue things. and a reminder: I'm lau

more of these blue things. and a reminder: I'm launching another series of Entering the Cave: Sacred Practice for Artists soon.

I'm excited to dive deep with some of you -- we'll be exploring the relationship between self-awareness and creative work -- doing some excavation of personal loves and obsessions, integrating some of our inner demons, and meanwhile building that necessary (sometimes overlooked) ingredient of *community* and *exchange.*

we humans are social creatures, and our brains work better when we're in conversation with people who light us up.

I'd love to hang out and get into this together! series will likely either be Monday afternoons or Thursday mornings.

scheduling poll in my stories if you want to weigh in on which time is better and have first dibs on getting into the series.

lemme know if you have any questions!

a little mini-series.

a little mini-series.

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