How to Nurture & Sustain the Abundant Ecosystem of Your Creative Practice is a collaborative creative meditation workshop from JACCC, Sustainable Little Tokyo, and Yumi Sakugawa.

WORKSHOP DATES:
August 24, 2024, Saturday 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
September 7, 2024, Saturday 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
September 21, 2024, Saturday 10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Please note that the same workshop is offered on three different dates.

Description:
Your creative practice is an ecosystem that seeps into all aspects of your life, and vice versa: all aspects of your life are an ecosystem that seeps into your creative practice. Nothing exists in solitude in nature as everything is relationally connected to everything else and influences one another. As in nature, we are all constantly in flux and ever-changing, transforming and transmuting and growing and shedding and releasing in simultaneous multiple cycles and seasons that unfold within and outside of ourselves as well as with each other.

What if we were to see ourselves as gardeners of our own creative gardens, or responsible stewards of our own sacred inner wilderness? What if we were to all become stewards of not only our own inner nature, but each other's and the collective and we can all support one another, grow in abundance, and share resources freely?

In this workshop, we will dig deeper into the many ways that we can be conscious about growing, nurturing, maintaining, stewarding, sustaining, and harvesting the fruits of our creative ideas. What needs planting? What needs weeding out? What needs more attention and care? What old cycles are ending and what new ones are you calling in? What new elements will nourish your life as well as your creative work? If you feel that your own creative life has been feeling uninspired or stagnant, then this workshop is most definitely for you.

No matter what experience level or creative medium, workshop participants are invited to reflect on the current state of their own personal creative practice and through meditation, visualization, journal prompts, and somatic exercises, invite in all the different ways their own creative ecosystem can be nurtured and nourished with seeds of new ideas, new rituals, new paradigms, new relationships, new networks of support, and new ways of being. In the spirit of nature's inherent co-creative spirit, participants are also invited to share their own experiences, resources, and wisdom so that we may abundantly share our collective wisdom with one another. Let us all bloom and fruit our own ideas into existence together.

Details
Please come prepared to the workshop with writing utensils, a reusable water bottle, and wear comfortable loose clothing for potential somatic exercises.

To apply for a free ticket, please fill out this application form.
To purchase a ticket and for more information, click here.

Questions? Contact Emi Osaki at eosaki@jaccc.org