Process and practice — thoughts and feels on creative play and the power of a pause
Some years back I realised the issue I had with loving my work and being so excited to share was that I kept being REALLY busy, doing ace things in ace places with ace people and really lit up by it all…. And also not working at a sustainable pace.
The “one sexy thing a month” era was born:
I came up with a simple plan: keep my regular classes, and add one bigger share each month. It worked for a while. Gave me a shape to lean on.
Nowadays my ever more squiggly brain (TYSM perimenopause for another one of your beautiful gifts) found even that too rigid. Plus the projects got beefier and more time consuming in the last few years too. What was a 2 hour workshop is now sometimes a 4 days immersion away from home…. everything is ever evolving.
The next evolution has arrived: “ “:
Right now I’m craving more space - I am not even giving it a name - maybe the evolution FKA space (LOLZ) ....
“ “: more rest from which newness can arise and more time for practice for myself to bring things into being. Next year I am plotting more play with sound and need to create the space so that I see what else arises. I am hoping maybe praying that I have the capacity to hold my excitement with my work and be able to be with it more without the outwards sharing and see how and if it shapeshifts as I hold it a little longer.
So what is my work gonna look like? It will look from the outside like I am doing less… because I will be.
There will be more time to really “be”, rather than the plenty of sharing I’ve been doing the last few years. It’s not that I am stopping my work at all but being more intentional with I, and feeling it with the play that is the place from where it all rose from originally. Expect a more sparse calendar of immersions and retreats. Expect more on demand bits - that will be filmed in bulk rather than as they arise - which is how things move through me at the moment. Expect more intentional and thought and felt through offerings. Expect me to be a little more nourished by life outside of work and for my social life to be revived. Expect me to be Pip a bit more next year and less worky.
It is OFC in the ground of being that EVERYTHING else arises from.
Pause is where ideas land and practice integrates. It’s where the fun comes back (hi pals I am looking forward to seeing more of you). It’s the ground of being — and everything else grows from there. It’s the Madhya… that space in between, the formless, the changing, the transition, the unknown.