Whats goin on?

Hello, I hope this day is finding you well, no matter when you are reading this

I’ve been sitting here thinking about what I Say, and turns out I have a lot to say, but when I go to focus on what it might be for this blog post, my thoughts feel unfocusable.

That’s because there are 1 million things spinning around in my mind right now and trying to hone in on one beautiful creative moment seems very challenging.   

Since this is the beginning of my blog journey at least on this website anyway, I just want to allow it to de develop  as it will.

I’m not sure where it’s going just yet if I’m honest.  

Most likely, it will have several points of focus at any given time given the nature of my website.    

I have decided, after a lot of tossing, and turning to combine both my yoga practice and my art practice/teaching into one website.  

This makes the most sense to me, and it’s the most accurate representation of who I am, and in today’s vernacular my brand, because I am a person who has equal energy within these practices.  

Each of them, my painting, practice, my yoga practice, and my teaching practice for me is all a part of a bigger creative process, and each one of them informs and feeds the whole.

I have found through my life that if I’m simply making art, it goes flat if I’m not moving my body and traveling through the layers of my body and exploring, and likewise, I am only using my body as a means of exploration that false flat over time.

Yoga has helped me gap with this creative process and how I moved through space travel through my body through my mind and finally, most certainly most important  my spirit.  

All of these disciplines help me to tap in to the deeper intangible aspect of myself so that I can regroup from the external circumstances which sometimes leave me feeling very scattered and disconnected

When I open this blog, I said that I had a hard time focusing at this moment in time, which is accurate, and when I can’t focus, and when I can’t feel grounded, I tend to fall into fear, which leaves me physically emotionally, and mentally depleted.    
If I go on too long in a state like that, I’m not the best version of myself at all, so I pay great respect to all of the disciplines that I have been able to enter into and explore  

Quite honestly, I believe these practices have helped me from falling into a massive fear trap, where I’m stuck in my mind and my perceptions, which in a state of crisis are never accurate, and are always exaggerated and to the extreme in many cases.     

My art practice, my yoga practice and my teaching practice, give me a sense of purpose and direction and help me to hone in on the places that need attention and care, working with others helps me to see that we all suffer from varying aspects of utter distraction.  

We are bombarded with influences and some of the things that we are influenced by. We don’t even realize, we just absorb, and it is vital, it has been vital at least in my experience to do things that help me come to a place of quiet, so that I can, find the spirit within me and connect to the spirit around me that is in all things and find some equilibrium once again

It’s easier said than done to find that still quiet place that allows wisdom and love to be at the forefront and guide our actions

It’s my greatest intention to allow,, into my whole being, this wisdom, intelligence love, which I have come to know is the divine essence that we all have available to us, so that whatever I want to express and however, I I need to express it comes from a place that is genuine, pure.   

I would love nothing more than for what I put out into the world creatively, and in general, beneficial to everyone who comes into contact with it

I recognize that that is a lofty goal, but it is my intention and my aspiration.   

With this blog, I will share a part of the thought process that happens with me and how I navigate through my creative world.   

Sometimes I’ll talk about art more sometimes I’ll talk about yoga, but no matter what I think about it Will-Will have a common thread and I hope that whoever reads my words can take something away, that they relate to and can use.    

Thank you for being here and I will see you next time, until then many blessings

NAMASTE
Love, Arline