In Knots: Cultivating Peace with Macramé and Yoga Healing Arts

Soul Love Healing Arts is excited to partner with teaching fiber artist and holistic psychotherapist, Jada Willard, for this community healing arts event. Our own Sarah Rose, RYT and RMT, will co-facilitate the experience. This collaborative event will explore intersectional awareness, identity, and healing through the art of macramé knotting and embodied yoga practice. All levels of experience are welcome.

We offer this event just in time for the chaotic holiday season, which for many can be rife with stress, tension, and difficult reminders of loss and disconnection. The event is designed to cultivate self-acceptance, compassion, and openheartedness of our own “knots” (or personal and cultural dilemmas), ultimately allowing for greater inner peace and peaceful connections within our community and larger world.

Event will include:
Grounding: Establishing safety and Loving-Kindness meditation
Exploration and Embodied Intention Setting with stretching
Macramé instruction of plant hanger
Restorative yoga
Optional Reiki assists

Together, we will ground ourselves in loving-kindness, building self compassion as we mindfully engage with focused awareness of our own complex identities and experiences of power, privilege, and oppression. In mindful meditation, we will internally explore our own composition of these many threads and set intentions for our practice and lives thereafter.

The art of macramé knotting can serve as a contemplative practice of externalizing and integrating these threads of awareness, as well as an invitation to experience greater connection with one’s self, culture(s), and community and leave with a completed art piece—a visual reminder of this healing arts event.

The yoga sequence will be restorative in nature and will feature gentle postures that reflect the weaving of macramé cords, and symbolized intersectional awareness. In this practice, participants will engage in the process of intentionally putting our bodies into knots, while maintaining breath, balance, and nonjudgment.

These practices can help us to find peace amidst the distress that may be present within our bodies, minds, hearts, and external world.

Benefits:
- Increased self-compassion practice of non-judgment while art-making and during yoga practice
- Increased intersectional awareness through contemplative exploration and externalized art
- Increased neuroplasticity through bilateral brain integration activated in the creative learning
- Reduced stress and Alpha brain wave state achievement to support mindfulness and the regeneration of the body and mind
- Improved hand-eye coordination by stimulating neurological pathways from the brain to the hands during art-making and yoga practice
- Increased confidence by experiencing feelings of achievement and completion of art
- Increased sense of connection by creating art in community with others, with permission to work silently or collaboratively

This program is supported by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, and is being offered FREE of cost to all participants, with all materials included. Space is limited, however, so we ask you to please register in advance using the above Eventbrite link. We look forward to sharing space with you on the 7th!

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