What are the rituals, practices or habits that are nourishing your creative process?

Written By Lia Haraki

When we are working on a project or generally during the process of creation, our energy depends on our state of being and on our mind set. How do we bring ourselves to the state that serves our practice best?

Here is a set of questions that might inspire you to include habits in your daily life, to support you during your creative process and perhaps during your life in general too:

·      What practices do you use to take care of your physical body to keep it vibrant and energized? (Nutrition? Sleep? Exercise? Other?)

 ·      What practices do you use to take care of your mental health so that anxiety and worrying thoughts do not take over, and you think mostly creatively rather than destructively? (Thought self-guidance? Meditation? Other ways?)

 

·      What practices do you use to deal with stored emotions in your body? (Do you vocalize them? express them? embrace them till they are gone? Other ways?)

 

·      What practices do you use for rest?

 

·      What practices do you use for pleasure?

 

·      What practices do you use for inspiration, information and research?

 

With the new moon tonight, I strongly encourage you to create or plan or list a routine that includes the practices, habits and rituals that will support the version of yourself that you choose to be from now on, as a new beginning!

 

Enjoy !

Lia Haraki

Lia Haraki is an interdisciplinary performer, maker and practitioner working across performance, devised theatre, choreography, song, spoken word and what she calls repetitive poetry. As a creator, she is occupied with issues related to identity, community and value and she beleives in the power of art as a medium that can trigger shifts in perception towards a fairer world.

Lia usually works with the moving and sounding qualities of the human body, in order to speak about its sociopolitical position, by challenging notions of normality associated to it. Beginning from self-sarcasm and working with satire, she enjoys finding performative ways to crack socially constructed narratives and reveal the illusion we have of them as ‘real’. In her pieces vulnerability and empathy are celebrated as human super powers and act as threads that connect the performer with the audience.

Her work in general takes the shape of staged works, site-specific pieces, one on one experiences, sound installations, standup shows, music bands and performances in shops.

At the same time she is proud to have developed several practices through the collaborative artistic research of the past twenty years in the forms of workshops, coaching and artists’ mentoring. In general she considers inspiring others and triggering creativity awakenings especially in younger artists is her most sacred of services !

https://www.liaharaki.com/
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