Embodied & Intuitive Art is a type of art practice where a person can explore memories, emotions, sensations, and subconscious information, and transform this into art as a way to access and express it.

Within Embodied & Intuitive Art practices, the focus is shifted from technical skill or intellectual planning, to prioritising sensation over perfection, process over outcome, and expression over aesthetics.

A session can start by exploring exploring breathwork, grounding, guided meditation, movement, music, visualisation, or journaling.

From there, the teacher will then guide you through a creative experience, metamorphosing your sensations into physical art through different materials and mediums. You are able to work freely and intuitively in order to depict your own personal journey into tangible creativity.

For most of human history, art was not separated from spirituality and a connection to something larger at work. Artwork was and is found through healing, storytelling, altered states, rituals, and can be conveyed through endless means of expression. 

The earliest artworks discovered dating back 40,000+ years ago can be found on Paleolithic cave paintings, where shapes and forms such as humans, animals, hand stencils, hunting scenes, abstract symbols, dots, spirals, and grids are depicted. Anthropologists believe many cave paintings were connected to ritual, trance states and shamanic practice, and shed insight into devotional practices and celestial awareness throughout time.

Petroglyphs & rock art markings such as those found in Sulawesi (45,000–51,000 years old), Indigenous Aboriginal Australian rock art (Murujuga) (30,000–50,000 years old), Chauvet cave (36,000 years old), and Newgrange (3200 BCE), show spirals, solar forms, animals, human figures and labyrinth patterns. 

Indigenous Aboriginal Australian songline paintings, Navajo sand mandalas, African ceremonial body painting and Amazonian visionary patterning are all art practices that were integrated into ritual, healing, dance, connection to nature and land, and oral storytelling.

Hindu yantras, Buddhist mandalas, Islamic geometric art and Celtic knotwork, some dating back as far as 2000 years old were forms were used as meditation tools, spiritual maps, energetic symbols and contemplative practices as a way of conveying devotion to source.

Over time and continents, through cultures and communities, art has moved and shaped its people, and our human connection to our inward and outer experiences. From Medieval Art, Alchemical manuscripts (1600s), Romanticism (1700s), Symbolism (1800s), Surrealism (1900s), Abstract (1900s), and today’s Contemporary Art movement, the evolution and transformation has been limitless.

Art has forever withheld the turning of the planet, and will forever be a means of conveying who, where and what we are, as souls experiencing one another upon this planet.

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