The Embodied Vessel Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

For an Artist, our primary material is our inner world. From the material we engage with there, we blend our internal energy with the force of upward moving inspiration, connecting with material of expression...clay, dance, the voice, the body, rocks, gold, food, sound....the list is endless. If we are full of ideas about how we have to be, we're unavailable for the energy of our voice to move through us, and everybody's voice is unique, stemming from an internal impulse. 

Yet sometimes we might find we can't quite grab onto the feeling of Authentic Voice moving through us, because the current of authenticity is asking us to feel anger, ugliness, annoyance, desire, frustration, aggression, or anything else our sense of self has disassociated from. 

There is medicine in the courage required to be fully alive. 

Here are some ideas for how to create a short but potent deliberate experience of the very emotion we're hiding from, which brings relaxation and flow because it's energetically very expensive to hold ourselves in any shape other than what's natural. 

To create work that's vibrant to us and others, we want to be in the authenticity of the body.

May you be unafraid of the entirety of your inner experience, and alchemise it all in the cauldron of your practice.

An introduction to Butoh, you can look into other videos and here might be a jumping off point...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcn55T-jNE

The Aesthetics of Bhuto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcUuNF_o2gM

Beauty in the Grotesque...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f6R8Ry9qVo

I've been speaking recently with other artists about how we recognise when we need to improve, or how we know when we're stuck in a sort of numb comfort of our work. It's so difficult to assess our incompetence or the vibrancy of our own work, the illusive and non-existent objectivity of our work.

Within that, there are some parameters I use to scrutinise my own work and can be useful if you're wanting to deepen in really any area of applying complex skills. 

The true pleasure of life for me is being in the vibrant heart of learning and challenge within my passions. I don't want to create easy and pleasant work, I want my work to ask something of me, really ask something of me, that's where Beauty always lives, not in what's easy, automated and without effort. 

If effort is a given, the question then lies in what kind of effort and applied how and in what aspect of my life and skills.

I assess my work within these frameworks but you could apply this filter to anything and find a place to improve or seek coaching or the improving of skills.

Luck vs Skill (Annie Duke)

Skill (technique, tradition, manual repetition) + Soul/Spirit (emotional expression, creative improvisation, energy, personal courage within using the technique)

Freedom and constraint for artists, the paradox of limiting our options to make our work better, which requires discipline in the time of the tyranny of choice and seemingly unending possibility. 

I hope this is helpful in your practice and learning any complex skillset.

With love, 

Loren

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Like the metabolising of food, the creative process has phases, energetic properties we can support and cultivate, allowing us to embody the challenges, boundaries and explorations that characterise each phase. 

These are the stages I live through and by, and support people in recognising in their own experience so that we can genuinely move through these natural phases and express our contributions and gifts, without stalling and making an identity out of a phase we can't seem to move through.

Emptiness, Inspiration, Play, Articulation, Doing the Work, Cutting the Ties, Delivering the Work.

What's needed on one phase is counter productive in another. I've found this naming of the phases to be deeply helpful in maintaining a robust creative inner life, filled with passion, execution and the essential cutting of ties needed for us to deliver our work into the world.

People aren't laking creativity, insight or contribution, but most have not been given, or give themselves the space to embody and integrate each phase of the process. 

To dive into this deeper, join my explicit and soulful, juicy deep dive into these themes and many others on my private caching feed, The Embodied Vessel Secret Activations, where you can get daily audio on the somatics and permission on living a fully expressed creative life, that brings all of you, not just the juicy bits.

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Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

If we don't value the person to person transmission of skills, held in the human nervous system, cellular memory, deepest of kinaesthetic intelligence, we will think it's ok to hand over everything to AI. This cannot be an option in a future where we become  more deeply resourced in our humanity, our dexterity, sensitivity and unique communication style. 

The future is in our hands. WHEN WE WAKE UP OUR HANDS WE WAKE UP OUR PURPOSE. Any embodied skill we practice, will never be a waste of time. 

Not when we have this incredible electromagnetic human body that can store and accumulate skills and abilities that will keep going even if we lose our memory. the body keeps the score.

There are gifts in you that are waiting for your courage. They're packed and ready to be excavated, that must be sacred work.

Dr Roxanne partridge works and celebrates women in the waters that our culture seeks to deny, let alone venerate. 

 She says 'I’m here to show you how to alchemise psychic gold from the shit of your experiences, rapture found on the other side of rupture, and a Queen’s radiance sourced from depths of our encounters with all that seeks to diminish our life force. If you hear the call to more or other, you are more ready than you think you are to transform.

I’ve crossed the thresholds of initiation in countless forms: violations of the body and autonomy; ecstatic bliss of being fully alive and orgasmic, persona deaths, devotion to estuaries, dancefloors, soul retrievals, the full-body rocking held by many hands of women in sacred baths over cliffs beneath the moon, tantra, befriending the archetypal figures who show up in my dreams, mediations, and through my blood. I’ve learned to dance in the flames. Embodying the sacred numinosity of body-mind-heart-spirit-soul as the path through, up and out from the underworld, wings extended.

I mean, COME OOOOOONNNNN!!!!

Join us for this deep and juicy conversation.

Find out about the work Roxanne does here ..  https://embodyperiod.com/about/

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I'm floored by what happens when we hold a space for another or ourselves in the ritual container of our attention, and nourish the most potent and alive aspects of ourselves. 

Introducing a place I've been in for many years in conversations globally with women I know and love, VOICE NOTE ACTIVATIONS!! I've had it reflected to me many times that my UNHINGED voice notes are inspiring and permission giving to women, and I feel the same with the ones I receive. It has taken me SO LONG to realise this is the thing, the place I've never been able to find - here it is. I am at home in the unhinged deeply honest and expressed spaces of being, and this audio coaching vortex is a place to explore themes that come up in my life and the life of women I connect to. This is a really juicy place- parental guidance warning, we're going to explore embodiment, somatics , healing and taking up space from the a full spectrum experience of sensuality. That means yes our aesthetic practice, and it includes our connection with our skin and bones, all of our bodies and their sexual experience. 

This is the motivational, inspirational, unhinged, juicy and galvanising place I've never been able to find. I am deeply impatient by nature so you can guarantee I'm getting straight into the juice and bones of the subject in each episode, not wasting any time at all, I want to inspire the magical creative weird genius you already are, in all of your manifestations. 

I am BEYOND EXCITED!

See you on the inside 

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Dòri Varga is an interdisciplinary artist who is as deeply sensual as she is intelligent. She has a mind sharp as a razor and an appetite for the edge, which she explores with hunger and courage in her work through her instantly recognisable page Blood of Aurora as well as her work as a solo and collaborative artist. 

Dòri truly has died many artistic and personal deaths in the time I've been following her work, which is about a decade. This woman is sharp and deep and sexy and funny and just has a MASSIVE aura that I know you're going to love. Throughout all of her themes and explorations, the nucleus has been exploring the often hidden experiences of women who birth, bleed, renew, create. Dòri has a distinct artistic signature that pervades everything she does from her exquisite writings and poetry to her sensual self portraits, her explorations of childbirth and sexuality. This woman is here to fully feel and that's expressed in everything she does.

Our conversation was 3.5 hours and goes far and wide. We discuss the courage of being an artist, how this is truly our time as society is crumbling, as it always does, mothering as an artist and getting deep into creative zones whilst being in a family and the challenges of switching states, sexual intimacy, getting into THE ZONE, authenticity, female relationships and so much more.

You can find Dòri's here https://www.instagram.com/dor.ottya/

Blood of Aurora https://www.instagram.com/bloodofaurora/

You can read the article she was working on at the time of this conversation here- 

 https://bloodofaurora.substack.com/p/m-othering-as-erotic-intelligence?r=3990r5&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=post-publish&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAadl_QCegjBtT_H9z9RvyKSD5vzYTSn5Oxc5brjrx1pEoZQrv-S8-UhvRu3J-w_aem_Cz5-Wy3PMv_wMf0PFNnr2w&triedRedirect=true

Dòri Varga is an interdisciplinary artist who is as deeply sensual as she is intelligent. She has a mind sharp as a razor and an appetite for the edge, which she explores with hunger and courage in her work through her instantly recognisable page Blood of Aurora as well as her work as a solo and collaborative artist. 

Dòri truly has died many artistic and personal deaths in the time I've been following her work, which is about a decade. This woman is sharp and deep and sexy and funny and just has a MASSIVE aura that I know you're going to love. Throughout all of her themes and explorations, the nucleus has been exploring the often hidden experiences of women who birth, bleed, renew, create. Dòri has a distinct artistic signature that pervades everything she does from her exquisite writings and poetry to her sensual self portraits, her explorations of childbirth and sexuality. This woman is here to fully feel and that's expressed in everything she does.

Our conversation was 3.5 hours and goes far and wide. We discuss the courage of being an artist, how this is truly our time as society is crumbling, as it always does, mothering as an artist and getting deep into creative zones whilst being in a family and the challenges of switching states, sexual intimacy, getting into THE ZONE, authenticity, female relationships and so much more.

You can find Dòri's here https://www.instagram.com/dor.ottya/

Blood of Aurora https://www.instagram.com/bloodofaurora/

You can read the article she was working on at the time of this conversation here- 

 https://bloodofaurora.substack.com/p/m-othering-as-erotic-intelligence?r=3990r5&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=post-publish&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAadl_QCegjBtT_H9z9RvyKSD5vzYTSn5Oxc5brjrx1pEoZQrv-S8-UhvRu3J-w_aem_Cz5-Wy3PMv_wMf0PFNnr2w&triedRedirect=true

Trigger warning, tender alert- this episode contains the mention of a woman I know losing her child.

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This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

Rumi

There is no emotional experience that can't be embodied. Desirable or undesirable, the deep embodiment of being here requires our flesh tingles with life during the places our intellect wants to avoid. 

We are here to experience connection, with our pain, with our bruising, our elation, confusion, tingling ecstasy.  There is no feeling that can't bring us deeper into an unselfconscious experience of embodiment. Plopped in the buzzing centre of our lives and our hearts.

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I'm not a medical person. I'm a woman who wants to live my life fully alive and have to work with the hand I've been dealt. 

This is a reflection on the notion of ADHD as 'Trauma' and the consistent narrative of ADHD being a disadvantage that plugs into the existing feelings of shame neurodivergent people experience living a life feeling like we're 'not quite hitting the mark.'

What if we're absolutely on the mark, we've just been told the mark isn't where we are.

I decided a few years ago to let myself be unhinged, my creativity be unhinged and let me tell you, everything gets more authentic, juicier and simpler. 

If you have ADHD or not, so many of us feel we need to regulate away our quirks, our drives and passion, intense emotions and eccentricities. Yet it is absolutely the energy of this unique cocktail that our world needs. 

Our challenges are our gifts, and we are not broken, deficient or wrong.

ADHD can make us great is we harness the power of it and develop outlets and conscious ways of using the electricity of our being t spice up our lives.

If you're done with trying to be smaller, pretending you're satisfied with a mediocre emotional and artistic life, and want to live unapologetically alive, this is one for you.

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The Embodied Vessel Membership for women who want to live from their creative authenticity and deep feeling is below 

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