" ..the awareness in our hands is alive and continuous. The feeling of our lives will be awake in our fingers. We befriend the clay. The...

"Sometimes our hands have something in mind that energes only when we stop giving directions , telling them what to do." (Bankson, 2004,...

Our closing circle This closing practice to the retreat involved the loving-kindness instructions from Salzburg (1995). Participants...

At the close of the retreat, participants were given the choice of what to with clay. If they felt attached to their pieces, they were...

While open awareness serves as a wonderful way to engage in meditation with clay, using clay as an extension of guided meditation can...

The third practice brought participants outside where they were invited to look at the clouds while kneading and shaping their clay. This...

The second practice explored interconnection and brought the group together in shared practice. We began by setting the tone of...

On July 16th, 2022 I held a clay retreat at the Rio Grande Nature Center State Park in Albuquerque, NM to fulfill the creative component...