Remembrance - an evening of taste, memory and connection.
Gab and I have been scheming about this event for about a year now and we couldn’t have dreamt up a more divine constellation of humans and visions.
We got @bonnie_cmc on the kai, @joedaledickson on the bevs, @gabstoddard and I on the space and pace.
This is an opportunity to come together to re-collect and re-connect with past, present and possibility.
We are so looking forward to dining with you soon.
Thank you to @blue.tamaki for inviting us into your whare for the night.
Huge shout out to @mia_____walsh and @spamsitcher for the graphics ❤️‍🔥
Link in bio for tickets 🌞
SOUND WORKSHOP SATURDAY 10.30am-12.30pm @aesiummusichouse@gabstoddard and I are running our last iteration of Articulation workshops tomorrow with the help of some friends.
We will explore embodied listening, creativity, expression and connection.
No experience of working with sound necessary 🌞
Image: Waterbugs on a Rainy Day by Dennis Hlynsky
Articulation workshop 4/4 is SOUND — Saturday 15th of March 10.30-12.30 at @aesiummusichouse
The workshop involves:
Deep listening practice, meditative and simple listening prompts to grow relationship to sound.
A sound walk prompting tuning into the environment. We will play with field recordings and drawings ( sound scores of your experience listening )
Working with the drawings together we will invite a collaborative sound production merging sounds we have collected.
Invitation to bring Instruments, objects that makes interesting sound to be apart of the experimental sound layering.
Come experience what it’s like being in a music studio space.
Lastly, our workshops are created to collaboratively create resources through the senses that may aid and accompanying us through times of our lives where large, unknown, or powerful emotional live. We hope these workshops are a space for you to rest, feel, develop a knowing of these emotional and most importantly deepen your awareness of your senses as an incredible tool!
ARTICULATION WORKSHOP 03 SIGHT
Saturday 1st March 10am-12pm @studioone.toitu
Throughout this workshop we will be focusing in on our sense of sight as a means to process and map emotional experiences.
We will use somatic mindfulness practices to settle into the space before moving into an immersive making process, working with ink and paper.
No experience is necessary, everything is an invitation to meet yourself exactly as you are.
Link in bio to sign up x
CLAY//TOUCH WORKSHOP 🫶🏻
Where challenging emotions can often manifest as immobilisation and stagnancy, the experience of manipulating material into something new can offer a sense of mobilisation and empowerment.
At the start of last year I spent weeks with my body immersed in clay. After years of stifling my grief, the connectivity of clay allowed me to finally soften and be with the discomfort of loss. I’ve found in my experience it is true that allowing the tears invites in repair, and though not constant, a deeper joy than I’ve ever felt before.
Come together to gather and share tools to be with life.
Link in bio to sign up x
Workshop 02
Saturday 15th February 12-2pm @mapurastudios
We are so excited to spend 2 hours exploring clay with the help of our wonderful friend @avarastudio .
Using a mixture of somatic tools and meditation practice, we will support you into a creative process with the uku (clay). @avarastudio will kindly take what you make back to her home kiln 🥹 for you to collect and hold your creation in your own space.
No experience with somatics, meditation or clay are necessary. The invitation is to come and be in the mud together, take what resonates and leave the rest 🌞
Link to sign up in our bios.
Look forward to seeing you next weekend!
Milly & Gab
Shout out to @mia_____walsh and @thankgoodness__ for your beautiful design 🫶🏻
Workshop 01 - SCENT
Saturday february 1st at @eastwestyoga with @millytaylor__
12-2pm
Sliding scale/ koha spots register through the link in my bio.
Join us for a workshop that explores memory through the sense of scent. We will begin with meditation tools that will lead into a creative process using essential oils from Kereru, fabric and images. Take away a pocket of scent to use in your own space.
Articulation workshops are a series of workshops between @helpinghands.workshop and @bit.morbid / @millytaylor__ focusing on our senses and offering a space of gentle guidance through mediation, somatic processing tools and visual arts to offer new ways of encountering sensory and emotional experiences.
Hope to see you there đź–¤
Image: The Transparency of the Past, Meta Isæus-Berlin, 2004.
Articulation workshop #1 - February 1st 12-2pm at @eastwestyoga
Join us for 2 hours of connection and creation.
In this workshop we will use our sense of scent as the focal point to presence ourselves which will prompt art making explorations. We will be working with textile and scent alongside using yoga and somatic practises to drop in.
No art making or yoga experience is needed and the invitation is to take what resonates and leave the rest.
Sign up through the link in the bio and as always get in touch if you have any questions.
Thank you @mia_____walsh for the beautiful design.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Milly & Gab
Articulation workshop series
Over the past year @gabstoddard and I have been developing a series of workshops bringing together parts of our practices in yoga, somatics and therapeutic creative arts.
These workshops stemmed from noticing the lack of creative opportunities to express grief in supportive shared spaces. We have created these workshops with a focus on offering a space where we can share emotional experience through creativity, mindfulness and gesture.
This four part series offers four different modalities in the hopes that one, if not all, will resonate with your individual and innate artistic curiosity.
These workshops are for those interested in community based visual art explorations that might offer a therapeutic/ mindful encounter with creativity. No experience in art making or yoga is needed.
Check out the link in the bio, more specific details to come. We hope to see you there!
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I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
They’re immune to your consultations
They’re quite aware of what they’re going through ~ David Bowie, my queen
Earlier this year we connected with @millytaylor__ around the nuances of grief as she is on her journey to process and unpack her experience and the experience of others.
Have a read, check out @togethergrieving — and thank you Milly for your vulnerability.
