• ✨Nourishing the Artist Day 6: DANCE✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ One thing I’ve learnt from taking voice lessons, is that tension in your body blocks your voice like nobody’s business. Just like your voice, creative energy needs space to run through you. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today’s prompt is about finding more space in your body and get your creative juices flowing. What better way to do this than dancing? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So put on your best pair of knickers, turn the music up and dance like nobody’s watching. Hopefully they’re not. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🎧 Today’s song: Dancing with myself by Nouvelle Vague (link in bio) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 📸 @theharperwatters - my number 1 source of inspiration when it comes to dance and general badassery #nourishingtheartist
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    ✨Nourishing the Artist Day 6: DANCE✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ One thing I’ve learnt from taking voice lessons, is that tension in your body blocks your voice like nobody’s business. Just like your voice, creative energy needs space to run through you. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today’s prompt is about finding more space in your body and get your creative juices flowing. What better way to do this than dancing? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So put on your best pair of knickers, turn the music up and dance like nobody’s watching. Hopefully they’re not. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🎧 Today’s song: Dancing with myself by Nouvelle Vague (link in bio) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 📸 @theharperwatters - my number 1 source of inspiration when it comes to dance and general badassery #nourishingtheartist
  • ✨Nourishing the artist Day 5: LET GO✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I had planned a different post for today’s prompt. But since I woke up (at 1 am...) I just haven’t been feeling it. Today’s been particularly trying and that’s how real life works. You can have the most meticulous plan and the best intentions, you can never predict what your body, emotions or circumstances will demand of you on any particular day. And I think it’s worth talking about when it comes to creativity. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We will very rarely have ideal conditions in which to create. Often our responsibilities and worries will take over. And it’s easy in those moments to be overly harsh on ourselves. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today’s prompt for you: check in with yourself. How are you feeling about where you are and how you’re doing creatively? Are you putting too much pressure on yourself? Are you comparing yourself? Judging yourself? Do you perhaps have unrealistic expectations? Write anything you feel is weighing you down on a piece of paper, and then get rid of it. Take a deep breath and simply let it go. You’re doing the best you can. You’ll see, it’s surprisingly cathartic. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And tonight’s a full moon, a wonderful time to reflect and release 🌝 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🎧 today’s song is “Let it go” from Frozen, because that song has been more freeing for me than I’d like to admit... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #nourishingtheartist
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    ✨Nourishing the artist Day 5: LET GO✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I had planned a different post for today’s prompt. But since I woke up (at 1 am...) I just haven’t been feeling it. Today’s been particularly trying and that’s how real life works. You can have the most meticulous plan and the best intentions, you can never predict what your body, emotions or circumstances will demand of you on any particular day. And I think it’s worth talking about when it comes to creativity. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We will very rarely have ideal conditions in which to create. Often our responsibilities and worries will take over. And it’s easy in those moments to be overly harsh on ourselves. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today’s prompt for you: check in with yourself. How are you feeling about where you are and how you’re doing creatively? Are you putting too much pressure on yourself? Are you comparing yourself? Judging yourself? Do you perhaps have unrealistic expectations? Write anything you feel is weighing you down on a piece of paper, and then get rid of it. Take a deep breath and simply let it go. You’re doing the best you can. You’ll see, it’s surprisingly cathartic. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And tonight’s a full moon, a wonderful time to reflect and release 🌝 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🎧 today’s song is “Let it go” from Frozen, because that song has been more freeing for me than I’d like to admit... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #nourishingtheartist
  • ✨Nourishing the Artist Day 4: PLAY✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.” Antoine de St Exupéry, The Little Prince ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Ever wondered why children have such a wild imagination? That's because under the age of 5, they spend most of their day in Alpha brain mode, a relaxed state of consciousness conducive to creativity. A great way to get into that mode is through play. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today’s prompt: play, play play! Do cartwheels, fly a kite, grab some play dough, find animals in the clouds, look at the world around you with wonder, innocence and wild imagination. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ What did you use to love doing as a child? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🎧 Today’s song: If I ever was a Child by Wilco (link to playlist in bio) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #nourishingtheartist
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    ✨Nourishing the Artist Day 4: PLAY✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.” Antoine de St Exupéry, The Little Prince ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Ever wondered why children have such a wild imagination? That's because under the age of 5, they spend most of their day in Alpha brain mode, a relaxed state of consciousness conducive to creativity. A great way to get into that mode is through play. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today’s prompt: play, play play! Do cartwheels, fly a kite, grab some play dough, find animals in the clouds, look at the world around you with wonder, innocence and wild imagination. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ What did you use to love doing as a child? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🎧 Today’s song: If I ever was a Child by Wilco (link to playlist in bio) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #nourishingtheartist
  • ✨Nourishing the Artist Day 3: MINDSET RESET✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “I always knew I was a star and now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.” Freddie Mercury ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Are you waiting for a permission slip / an accolade / another qualification / external validation / a number of followers before you recognise the badass artist within you? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ A lot of creative blockages and resistance come from not fully owning the fact that you are indeed an artist. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today’s prompt it simple: Say out loud “I am a (fill in the blank: writer / photographer / artist / singer / baker / semi-professional pancake flipper etc.) and I choose to leave my unique mark on this world” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Own it, write it, claim it, share it on this post! 👇🏼 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🎧Today’s soundtrack: Rise & Shine by the Cardigans (link in bio) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #nourishingtheartist
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    ✨Nourishing the Artist Day 3: MINDSET RESET✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “I always knew I was a star and now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.” Freddie Mercury ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Are you waiting for a permission slip / an accolade / another qualification / external validation / a number of followers before you recognise the badass artist within you? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ A lot of creative blockages and resistance come from not fully owning the fact that you are indeed an artist. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today’s prompt it simple: Say out loud “I am a (fill in the blank: writer / photographer / artist / singer / baker / semi-professional pancake flipper etc.) and I choose to leave my unique mark on this world” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Own it, write it, claim it, share it on this post! 👇🏼 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🎧Today’s soundtrack: Rise & Shine by the Cardigans (link in bio) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #nourishingtheartist